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George Washington Forum | On Being a Conservative Today, Oct. 19

The George Washington Forum on American Ideas, Politics and Institutions presents Roger Scruton discussing “On Being a Conservative Today” on Monday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Galbreath Chapel.

The talk is free and open to the public, and all are welcome to attend.

Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton

Scruton, a Fellow of the British Academy, is a professor of philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and a fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. For 20 years, he was a professor of aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London, and he also held positions at Cambridge and Oxford. In 2010, he gave the Gifford Lectures in St. Andrews, while in 2011 he gave the Stanton Lectures in the Divinity School at the University of Cambridge.

George Washington ForumThe author of more than 30 books, he has published recently The Soul of the World (Princeton, 2014), The Face of God (Continuum, 2012), The Uses of Pessimism (Oxford, 2009) and Beauty (Oxford, 2010). His most recent novel is The Disappeared (Bloomsbury, 2015).

 

 

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