![]() I know that these honors meant a great deal to Roger, as one can immediately tell by looking at the photographs of him as he was about to address the Czech Senate in the fall. That story is best told in Chapter Five of Conversations with Roger Scruton (2016), discourses ably initiated and conducted by the Irish philosopher Mark Dooley. He had been honored throughout the fall of 2019 by the Czech, Polish, and Hungarian governments, respectively, in a welcome display of gratitude for his courageous efforts to aid the intellectual underground in each of those countries in the decade before the revolutions of 1989 that felled European Communism, seemingly once and for all. ![]() We had been intermittently in touch by email in recent months, and I admired his spirit and his continuing vigor and alertness. I knew he was fighting a terrible battle with cancer, but I was under the misimpression that he had turned a corner for the better. T he death of Roger Scruton on January 12, 2020, came as a surprise, even a blow, to me. ![]()
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