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		<title>My plans and thoughts, Summer 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comment on Recent Events. After a six-year spell in the United States, I and my family have returned to England, where we will be resident as before in rural Wiltshire, outside Malmesbury. During the last year I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington and I have been fortunate in having been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rogerscruton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5375354&amp;post=253&amp;subd=rogerscruton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soul Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How we describe pop music proves that we find moral significance in music. How do we tell what music we should and should not encourage? &#8220;The ways of poetry and music are not changed anywhere without change in the most important laws of the city.” So wrote Plato in The Republic (4.424c). And Plato is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rogerscruton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5375354&amp;post=242&amp;subd=rogerscruton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A little about my philosophy of everyday life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;On Beauty and Consolation&#8217; an interview with Wim Kayser for Dutch TV This film says a little about my philosophy of everyday life, in the form of an interview, made for a series which first appeared on Dutch television in 1995.              All the best for the new year,             Roger<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rogerscruton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5375354&amp;post=228&amp;subd=rogerscruton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Why Beauty Matters&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is just to thank all the many people who have contacted me, either here or by e-mail, to comment on the film, Why Beauty Matters, which I wrote and presented and which was shown last Saturday on BBC2. Most of the comments have been favourable, and I have been very touched by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rogerscruton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5375354&amp;post=225&amp;subd=rogerscruton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The flame that was snuffed out by freedom &#124;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The flame that was snuffed out by freedom &#124; Roger Scruton &#8211; Times Online. November 7, 2009. 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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rogerscruton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5375354&amp;post=208&amp;subd=rogerscruton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks to everyone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very interesting comments, and I apologize for being out of touch for so long &#8211; a lot has been happening which has taken my attention away from the discussions on this site. But I now have a new position, at the American Enterprise Institute, and some help with the secretarial side of things. So I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rogerscruton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5375354&amp;post=204&amp;subd=rogerscruton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Islam and the West: Lines of Demarcation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Azure Winter Issue, 5769 /2009, No. 35 The West today is involved in a protracted and violent struggle with the forces of radical Islam. This conflict is intensely difficult, both because of our enemy’s dedication to his cause, and also, perhaps most of all, because of the enormous cultural shift that has occurred in Europe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rogerscruton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5375354&amp;post=152&amp;subd=rogerscruton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why can&#8217;t we clean up our act?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why can&#8217;t we clean up our act? Sunday Times&#160; Magazine, Sunday, 1st March, 2009. The problems of the environment seem so far beyond our reach that we lurch from opinion to opinion and policy to policy with nothing to cling to save the thread of our shared concern. We believe the scaremongers, since nobody can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rogerscruton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5375354&amp;post=145&amp;subd=rogerscruton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forgiveness and Irony Wherever the Western vision of political order has gained a foothold, we find freedom of expression: not merely the freedom to disagree with others publicly about matters of faith and morality but also the freedom to satirize solemnity and to ridicule nonsense, including solemnity and nonsense of the sacred kind. This freedom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rogerscruton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5375354&amp;post=119&amp;subd=rogerscruton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Flight from Beauty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, provocations and transgressions of borders are celebrated as aestetic ideals. Early modernists like T S Eliot, Matisse and Schönberg, however, did not try to destroy tradition &#8211; but to reconquer it. The disruptive, the transgressive and the disturbing are celebrated by the art of our time, with beauty often downgraded as something too sweet, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rogerscruton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5375354&amp;post=114&amp;subd=rogerscruton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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