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Another City

A Journal of Orthodox Culture

Sir Roger Scruton

One of our most influential public philosophers, Sir Roger Scruton also holds academic Chairs at Oxford University and the University of St Andrews, as well as the Ethics and Public Policy Center in the United States. He was instrumental in establishing underground academic networks in Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe, for which he was awarded the Czech Republic’s Medal of Merit by President Vaclav Havel. Although his work is wide-ranging, he specializes in aesthetics and political philosophy. He was knighted in 2016 for “services to philosophy, teaching and public education.”

Why Beauty Matters

January 18, 2020 / Sir Roger Scruton

Sir Roger Scruton

The world lost one of its finest, most original, and most independent thinkers with the repose of Sir Roger Scruton last weekend. Sir Roger was also a friend of "Another City;" we featured several of his articles, and we were proud to have him as an early subscriber to this journal. In his memory, we offer a video presentation in which he discusses what was perhaps his most … [Read more...] about Why Beauty Matters

The Virtue of Irrelevance: An Essay on Education

August 11, 2019 / Sir Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton: The Virtue of Irrelevance

In a world where it is becoming increasingly unwise to entrust the education of our children to teachers who promote trendy, “relevant” curricula, the question arises “What, then, should we teach them?” British philosopher and public intellectual St Roger Scruton argues eloquently that the supposedly “irrelevant” traditional curriculum of … [Read more...] about The Virtue of Irrelevance: An Essay on Education

How Western Urban Planning Fueled War in the Middle East

February 1, 2019 / Sir Roger Scruton

Allepo, Syria

The Ottoman Empire, Roger Scruton writes, was not composed of nation-states but of creed communities. Peace between the sects could not be ensured by borders, as in Europe, but only by custom. Peace is precarious and requires constant work and architecture is part of that work. When France was given the madate to govern Syria in 1923, the character of the ancient cities of the … [Read more...] about How Western Urban Planning Fueled War in the Middle East

Beauty and Desecration: We must rescue art from the modern intoxication with ugliness

February 15, 2018 / Sir Roger Scruton

Source: City Journal By Roger Scruton At any time between 1750 and 1930, if you had asked an educated person to describe the goal of poetry, art, or music, “beauty” would have been the answer. And if you had asked what the point of that was, you would have learned that beauty is a value, as important in its way as truth and goodness, and indeed hardly … [Read more...] about Beauty and Desecration: We must rescue art from the modern intoxication with ugliness

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