Against the Tide

Sir Roger Scruton was a philosopher and polymath who wrote over fifty books. He was Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London; University Professor at Boston University, and a visiting professor at Oxford University.Mark Dooley is an Irish author, philosopher and journalist who has taught at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and at University College Dublin. Dooley is Sir Roger Scruton's Literary Executor.

• Preface: The Work That Must Be DonePart One: Who Am I?My Life Beyond the Pale Roger Scruton Says ‘Put a Cork in It’My Week: July 2005 My Week: January 2006 My Week: April 2006 The Flame That Was Snuffed Out by FreedomFinding Scrutopia in the Czech Republic Diary – August 2016Part Two: Who Are We?The Conservative ConscienceThe Blair LegacyA Question of TemperamentThe Meaning of Margaret ThatcherIdentity, Marriage, Family: Our Core Conservative Values Have Been Betrayed What Trump Doesn’t Get About ConservatismPart Three: Why The Left Is Never RightThe Ideology of Human RightsWho is a Fascist?In Praise of PrivilegeA Hominist HomilyIn Loco ParentisMcCarthy Was Right on the Red MenaceA Focus of Loyalty Higher than the StateThe Art of Taking OffencePart Four: Intimations of InfinityDe Anima A Matter of Life and DeathlessnessDawkins Is Wrong about GodAltruism and Selfishness Memo to Hawking: There’s Still Room for GodHumans Hunger for the Sacred: Why Can’t the New Atheists Understand That?Part Five: The End of EducationThe Virtue of IrrelevanceThe Open University and the Closed MindThe End of EducationThe Plague of SociologyKnow Your PlaceUniversities’ War against the TruthPart Six: Fraudulent PhilosophyA Note on FoucaultThe Triumph of NothingnessFreud and FraudIf Only Chomsky Had Stuck to SyntaxPart Seven: The West and the RestIn Memory of IranThe Lesson of LebanonDecent Debate Mustn’t Be the VictimThe Wrong Way to Treat President PutinWhy Iraq Is a Write-OffPart Eight: Cultural CorruptionThe Art of Motor-Cycle MaintenanceTemples of AnxietyThe Modern Cult of UglinessHigh Culture Is Being Corrupted by a Culture of FakesPart Nine: Animal Rights, Pulpit Politics and SexMale Domination The Pestilence of Pulpit Politics On the Eating of Fish Obligations of the Flesh Eat Animals! It’s for Their Own GoodSextants and Sexting Tally Ho! Let the Hunt Remind Us of Who We ArePart Ten: Annus Horribilis and Last WordsDiary After My Own Dark Night My 2019 Index

Every piece is a masterclass in prose style and a reminder of how he earned such widespread popular affection…His moral courage shines through from the start.