Philosopher on Dover Beach

"It is a great pity that we in the United States do not have our own Roger Scruton. As his new collection of essays reminds us, he is an accomplished philosopher who writes trenchantly about many important political, social and religious issues, who cares passionately about art and culture and who is also a brilliant conservative polemicist." – Roger Kimball, New York Times Book Review
"Scruton writes eloquently of the way in which social bonds, if refashioned in contractual form, ‘become profane, a system of façade, a Disneyland version of what was formerly dignified and monumental.'" – Peter Clarke, London Review of Books
"Each essay has been constructed with considerable care, and the positions taken are clearly stated and soundly argued. . . . He shows . . . that the philosopher-critic is alive and well. . . . Recommended for all academic libraries." – Library Journal