About the Author Roger Scruton is a freelance writer and philosopher, who rescued himself from the academy twenty years ago.
He currently lives in rural Wiltshire, England.
He has held posts in the American Enterprise Institute, and in the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
He is married with two children.
He is the author of 40 books, including five works of fiction, and composed two operas.
He is widely known on both sides of the Atlantic as a public intellectual with a.