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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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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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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Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 14, 2021 | Confession of a heretic, News, Roger Scruton, The Dispatch, Western culture | 0 |
Reading Roger Scruton (1944-2020) leaves one with the feeling that we are too often underserved by less erudite and more superficial writers nowadays. The collection of essays in Confessions of a Heretic provide learned, robust, […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 24, 2020 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Richard Wagner, Roger Scruton, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
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 […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 28, 2020 | architecture, Art & Culture, Donald J. Trump, Duncan G. Stroik, Featured, News, Roger Scruton, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
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 […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 20, 2020 | 1968, Essay, Features, Kant, News, philosphy, Roger Scruton, Wittgenstein | 0 |
To those who knew him, Roger Scruton was a philosopher. Philosophy for him had little to do with that modern, tenured, and professorial guild that trades in logicism and dismisses wisdom as mere “folk psychology.” […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 20, 2020 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Roger Scruton, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
The Catholic Church lost a great ally on January 12 when conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton died at the age of 75 from cancer. Scruton was not Catholic but Anglican—the author of Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England. Yet he was a friend of Rome, telling the Catholic Herald in 2015, […]
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