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Remembering Sir Roger

Jonathan Price

Or is there some complaint,Some little shred of “I” you meant To leave with us as ours? -Roger Scruton, “The Half-Loved Ones” (Be Attitudes, 1997) In his poem “On Decency,”...

Culture By Subtraction

Jonathan Price

Could I get some mayonnaise with these fries?” I asked the garçon in my broken French, imagining I was being a bit chic in eschewing ketchup. “Impossible!” he replied....