Why Israel Was Right to Go Slowly into Gaza
And the meaning of Hassan Nasrallah’s speech.
November 6, 2023
Politics, aesthetics, and tradition.
The late English philosopher Roger Scruton devoted much of his career to probing the links between tradition and the moral life. Another abiding concern of his work was beauty, a philosophical subject about which he published major studies, covering music, architecture, and the visual arts. Reviewing a new book by Ferenc Hörcher on the role of aesthetics in Scruton’s thought, Ronen Shoval writes:
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Login or SubscribeAnd the meaning of Hassan Nasrallah’s speech.
A sponsor of terror that will respond to American leverage.
A destructive pedagogical creed.
The remnants of Prague’s once-great Jewish library.
Politics, aesthetics, and tradition.