Roger Scruton passed away on Sunday, January 12, 2020.  Scruton was among the most original and perceptive conservative thinkers of our time.  In over forty books and countless articles and posts, he worked to defend the ideas of national sovereignty, individual privacy, religious culture, and human freedom.  His death is a great loss to conservatism and to the cause of freedom in general. Among Scruton's best known books are An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture; The West and the Rest; and Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life.  In these and so many other books, he presented a coherent vision of what life ought to be: a modest endeavor to achieve "accommodation," as he called it, with his neighbors and to go about things rewardingly and productively.  In Gentle Regrets, perhaps his most appealing book, he reviewed many heartfelt moments in his long struggle on the side of a humane and restrained ideal of life.  His religious...(Read Full Article)