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Scrutopia Summer School 2021

Scrutopia Summer School 2021 Gala dinner. A wonderful week of studying and socialising with friends old and new. Thank you to everyone involved, we hope to see you again soon.

The Future of Conservatism: Ed Husain at the Universidad de Verano 2021

Don't miss the presentation Ed Husain at the Summer University organized by Civismo and European Reform

"Remembering Sir Roger Scruton"

See here: https://youtu.be/6_BpxLqZ5nI

News from Scrutopia - 27th July 2021

Read all the latest news from Scrutopia HERE.

Hungarian Coffee Shop, The Times - 15 June 21

 

When the philosopher Sir Roger Scruton died last year Boris Johnson called him “the greatest modern conservative thinker”.

It seems that he had an even greater admirer in Viktor Orban, the right-wing prime minister of Hungary, whose allies have poured £1.5 million into a chain of coffee shops in Scruton’s memory. The first opened in November in Budapest and is filled with Scruton memorabilia donated by his widow, Sophie.

More cafés will follow, says John O’Sullivan, a former speechwriter fo...

Fellowship Announcement

We are pleased to announce that Fellowships to the Roger Scruton Philosophy Symposium have been awarded to four fantastic students.
 
Here are the announcements posted on project related websites: 
 
https://cee.ianramseycentre.info/blog/scruton_awards
 
https://www.humanephilosophy.com/single-post/prize-fellowships-awarded
 
We are incredibly grateful to the New Generations Research Exchange organised by the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford in collaborati...

View from your table, The American Conservative - April 2021

I’m drinking my morning coffee at home from a paper cup I swiped from Scruton, the Budapest coffeeshop dedicated to the memory of Sir Roger. Scruton is a great space, and I can hardly wait for it to open up fully (for now, you can only get take-out coffee from there, because of Covid). Wouldn’t it be great if American university towns had a Scruton, as a hangout for conservatives, and a place to debate and discuss? Read the full article HERE.

The Secret University, The Critic - May 2021

The secret university. Roger Scruton’s work with dissident intellectuals in the Eastern Bloc was risky but crucial. The full feature by Jessica Douglas-Home is taken from May 2021 issue of The Critic, it is available to read here.

Letter from Budapest, The Critic - May 2021

Tibor Fischer discovers the first of many Roger Scruton cafés

After their deaths, Julius Caesar and Augustus were honoured with deification (and indeed the late Duke of Edinburgh got that rank in the South Pacific during his lifetime). It’s not quite the same as apotheosis, but I imagine Roger Scruton would be touched that a café has opened in Budapest giving him a powerful launch into posterity. The café bears his name, offers allegiance to his ideas, and indeed boasts many of his possession...

News from Scrutopia - 30th April 2021

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David Matthews - Thoughts from a Life: Opera as an Art

Music was an essential part of Roger Scruton’s life. He learned the piano as a boy, and as an adult acquired the profound technical knowledge that enabled him to write The Aesthetics of Music, widely recognized as the most important book in its field. He also wrote two books of essays on music, and three magisterial books on Wagner – Death Devoted Heart (on Tristan und Isolde), The Ring of Truth, and his final book, Wagner’s Parsifal: The Music of Redemption. He taught himself to compose (with a...