Roger Scruton

Sir Roger Scruton was an English philosopher and social critic who wrote on aesthetics, political philosophy and conservatism, and he was founding editor of The Salisbury Review. His books include The Meaning of Conservatism, The Aesthetics of Music and How to Be a Conservative, and he wrote more than fifty books on architecture, art, religion and politics. He was a professor at Birkbeck College, London, and was knighted in 2016 for services to philosophy and public education. Scruton died in January 2020.