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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rogerscruton.wordpress.com&blog=5375354&post=208&subd=rogerscruton&ref=&feed=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&blog=5375354&post=204&subd=rogerscruton&ref=&feed=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 and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rogerscruton.wordpress.com&blog=5375354&post=152&subd=rogerscruton&ref=&feed=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>
		<dc:creator>Roger Scruton</dc:creator>
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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 be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rogerscruton.wordpress.com&blog=5375354&post=145&subd=rogerscruton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roger Scruton</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Scruton</dc:creator>
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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 of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rogerscruton.wordpress.com&blog=5375354&post=119&subd=rogerscruton&ref=&feed=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, too [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rogerscruton.wordpress.com&blog=5375354&post=114&subd=rogerscruton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How society lost its voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Scruton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Singing is one of the few proven ways in which people can be “of one voice”. In singing together our differences dissolve . . .<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rogerscruton.wordpress.com&blog=5375354&post=87&subd=rogerscruton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can virtual life take over from real life?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Scruton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The medium is the message, Marshall McLuhan famously said. And by changing the message we change ourselves. Never has this observation been so relevant as it is today, when many people spend their days at the computer, conducting friendships through Facebook and MySpace, posting videos on their websites, going into real society shielded by an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rogerscruton.wordpress.com&blog=5375354&post=54&subd=rogerscruton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Thank you for visiting my new site. I hope you find the information you are looking for. Please post general comments here.
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		<title>Recent Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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