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Category: Roger Scruton

Beauty: Not in the Eye of the Beholder

H.L. Mencken wrote exactly 100 years ago: “The female body, even at its best, is very defective in form; it…

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2022: There’s Good News and Bad News

Francis X. Maier: Assume the best in others. Critique issues and behaviors, not persons. Spoken words can be forgotten; not so written words.

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Scruton, Wagner, and the Path to Agape

The world lost a tremendously important voice on January 12, 2020, when Sir Roger Scruton passed away. Like all great artists and critics, his spirit lives on, and it is fitting that the great aesthetician and music scholar has bequeathed to the world a final—and fitting—contribution of cultural analysis, music criticism, and Wagnerian scholarship. In Wagner’s […]

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Making the Public Square Beautiful Again

The White House recently released a draft of a proposed executive order, titled Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again. This unexpected proposal sounded a clarion call to restore “classical and traditional architecture styles” in the future construction of Federal Government buildings in the capital and throughout the nation’s heartland, and discourage the post-1950s Corbusian trends of […]

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