A Short Introduction to Roger Scruton: Roger Scruton’s “Confessions of a Heretic”
Roger Scruton. Confessions of a Heretic. Kendal, UK: Notting Hill, 2021. “Heretic might seem like a strong word to describe Roger Scruton,” writes Douglas Murray in…
Roger Scruton. Confessions of a Heretic. Kendal, UK: Notting Hill, 2021. “Heretic might seem like a strong word to describe Roger Scruton,” writes Douglas Murray in…
Indian Political Theory: Laying the Groundwork for Svaraj. Aakash Singh Rathore. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Aakash Sing Rathore’s Indian Political Theory promises nothing less…
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine shouldn’t cause us to lose sight of another battle: the gifts of Russia are not exclusive to that country and a dark…
There is a well-known way to prevent transcendent reality from becoming a living truth, and to keep uncertainties about the ground of reality (and existential shakenness) at…
Lately, I’ve been reading You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston, edited with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Genevieve…
Prior to his death Smith had most of his papers and manuscripts burnt. Apart from his two seminal works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Wealth…
The choice is as judicious as it is provocative in a time when all of us are threatened in our humanity, if not in our physical existence,…
Men have evolved to be disposable protectors of women. Little boys will instinctively pick up sticks and use them as swords and rifles. They will even practice…
Tomson Highway. Permanent Astonishment. Toronto: Doubleday Canada. 2021. The political and social landscape in Canada was knocked sideways in the spring of 2021 with the locating…
Back in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, a superstition developed in the classical music world that prophesied the Ninth would be a composer’s last symphony. Arnold Schoenberg…
Those committed to inherent human dignity and rights may, or may not, focus attention on the transcendence of the “absolute” that validates them. If they do, they…
On the whole, I don’t hold a grudge. If I’ve been injured in some way, but the wound is either cured – or else not the kind…
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. —Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” These famous lines…
Carl Müller Frøland holds an MA in Intellectual History from the University of Oslo and is working on a PhD dealing with religious and secular aspects of…
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is considered a passionate love story, a “tale of love that is stronger than death,” centering around the generational story of Catherine Earnshaw,…