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Saturday, July 23, 2005

ROGER SCRUTON
COMING TO PRINCETON

UD’s a Scruton fan. His book The Aesthetics of Music is spectacular. Here’s a bit from a piece about him in The Independent:


At 62, Scruton appears to be happy now, with his books, his young wife and his children. Across the Atlantic there's a new house in Virginia, which will serve as a base during his visiting professorship at Princeton next year, and near which Roger and Sophie will be able to hunt without their collars being felt by the law. He has created a haven from the "absolute will-lessness, fed on drink and sex and drugs" that he fears is our future.



Couple of things. Virginia to Princeton is a big commute. And - assuming Scruton’s moving to the Middleburg horse-country area - I’m not sure I’d call that a haven from drink and sex and drugs…
Posted at: 7/23/2005 10:36:00 AM