Roger Scruton is not a Catholic. But he might have been. “I’ve always been drawn to the Catholic Church because of its respect for tradition, for the apostolic continuity it represents and for its attempts to imbue ordinary life with sacraments,” he told me when we spoke last week. “All of this came across very strongly to me with the Church as I came to know it in the south of France and Italy when I was a young man. It’s not quite the same now, I know.”
Professor Scruton is 71. His voice and phrasing have an elegiac quality, well suited to these kinds of reflections. And yet books continue to pour out of him at a rate of knots. He was speaking to me on the eve of the publication of his latest, Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left.
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