Roger Scruton, Masks, and the Face of God

Roger Scruton, the great British defender of traditionalism and classical beauty, died just as our great new era of ‘health’ was commencing, at the beginning of 2020.

Perhaps this was a mercy.

Scruton would have been appalled by what has followed.

Always a critic of the modern world’s brutal functionalism, the extent of the ugliness, of the plastic, of the…