Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton is a philosopher, writer, political activist and businessman. He is a professor in the department of philosophy at St Andrews University and a scholar at the American Entreprise Institute. His home on the web is http://www.roger-scruton.com/.

Landscape: the view of the hunters and the farmers

Click for bigger image In her evocative description of the Saxon district of Romania, Jessica Douglas Home shows how habits of farming have shaped and been shaped by a landscape,

By Roger Scruton

/ 25 Jun 2002

Landscape and identity in a globalised world

The attachment to landscape is part of the identity of every individual and every culture. The familiar streets, squares, parks, canals, fields and hills of childhood are an integral part

By Roger Scruton and Ken Worpole

/ 4 Jun 2002

Robert Nozick, anarcho-capitalist

During many years of teaching philosophy at Harvard University, Robert Nozick (1938-2002) wrote a series of rich and varied works, including Philosophical Explanations (1981), The Examined Life (1989), The Nature

By Roger Scruton

/ 15 May 2002

Viktor Orbán's triumph

The general election that has now begun in Hungary has received little attention in the media outside the country. Yet it is highly significant not merely for the Hungarians but

By Roger Scruton

/ 10 Apr 2002

Response to Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu claims that globalisation (the effect of which he deplores) is the precise result, not of economic inevitability, but of a politics, conscious and calculated, which has led.. governments.

By Roger Scruton

/ 7 Mar 2002

From walking to railways

Our discussion of transport has focused on walking, since it is the most vivid illustration of the maxim put forward by Ken Worpole in our last editorial contribution: how you

By Roger Scruton

/ 17 Jan 2002

After planning: movement within settlement

The aesthetics of planning We hope that we have opened up the debate over planning a debate that has been either prematurely closed or strategically avoided by those charged with

By Roger Scruton and Ken Worpole

/ 24 Oct 2001

Terror and globalisation: Islam outside the state

Wise things have been said in openDemocracy about the meaning of the recent terrible events. But something needs to be added, it seems to me, about the role of globalisation

By Roger Scruton

/ 14 Sep 2001

The future is classical

The current crisis over planning has been caused less by the shortage of space or an increase in the need for it, than by the disaster of modern architecture and

By Roger Scruton and Sophie Jeffreys

/ 7 Aug 2001

After the white papers: green dreams, brown sites, blue sky

In the dying days of last year, just before the foot-and-mouth crisis blew all plans and predictions apart, the British government published its Urban and Rural White Papers. Despite appearing

By Roger Scruton and Ken Worpole

/ 24 May 2001