Why Beauty Matters

Roger Scruton, "Beauty and Desecration," in City Journal 19.2 (Spring 2009).

Roger Scruton on The Loss of Beauty (Dec 17, 2009). [scroll down to the section titled "The Loss of Beauty"]

Roger Scruton, "Beauty and its corruptions," excerpted from Beauty (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Roger Scruton, "Music and Morality"

In a word: Beauty is not Kitsch

View the Jacques Maritain Center Art Gallery

Roger Scruton on "Hiding Behind the Screen":
"In its normal occurrence, the Facebook encounter is still an encounter — however attenuated — between real people. But increasingly, the screen is taking over — ceasing to be a medium of communication between real people who exist elsewhere, and becoming the place where people finally achieve reality, the only place where they relate in any coherent way to others."
(Roger Scruton, "Hiding Behind the Screen," The New Atlantis, Number 28, Summer 2010, pp. 48-60)

Roger Scruton on "Why I became a conservative"

Roger Scruton on The Post-Modern Ear:
"Towards the end of the 19th century, and in the wake of Wagner's achievement in Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal, the musical language which had been common property of Western composers since the Renaissance, underwent a crisis. What we now know as tonality, which is the system of keys and scales, and the harmonic progressions, which had been accepted by audiences since at least the end of the Middle Ages, entered a kind of flux."

Roger Scruton on Soul Music

The Space of Music (work in progress, January 2012)

Roger Scruton on The Sacred and the Human