Roger Scruton

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Nous ne comprendrons l’élection de Donald Trump que si nous la considérons dans le contexte d’une rupture croissante, aux Etats-Unis, entre l’élite libérale et les gens du cru et ordinaires. La même rupture est apparue en Europe. On peut observer ses effets en Grande-Bretagne, dans le vote pour le Brexit, et en France, dans l’effondrement de l’establishment politique et l’ascension progressive de Marine Le Pen. C’est une rupture que les médias ne font qu’exacerber. Aux mains de gens instruits et cosmopolites, pour une très large part, les médias n’ont pas de sympathie, dans l’ensemble, pour ceux qui paient le coût réel des politiques libérales – ceux qui « perdent leur pays » face à des forces mondiales qui dépendent de la protection d’Etats centralisés.…  Seguir leyendo »

For ten years before 1989 I was in the habit of visiting Eastern Europe to support the fragile underground educational networks there. I would meet my contacts on street corners at prearranged times, to be taken by tram to some smoke-filled room in an outlying apartment, where a group of whispering “students” had gathered to meet me.

Every knock on the door was followed by a frozen silence and, from time to time, someone would lift a corner of the curtain and peer anxiously into the street. Books in many languages lined the walls and as often as not, a crucifix would be fastened to the wall above the shelves.…  Seguir leyendo »

When the study of beauty first attracted the attention of modern philosophers, it was at the beginning of the 18th century and during the height of the scientific revolution. For philosophers of the Enlightenment nature was not the plaything of an unknowable God, but an open book, whose meaning can be clearly read by science. Nature had been demystified, to become the home of mankind, and it is thus that the great 18th-century painters portrayed it. Art could be beautiful, as nature was beautiful. But it was beautiful because it imitated nature, which was the source of beauty in all its forms.…  Seguir leyendo »