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Jan 22, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Mark Dooley |Daniel Mahoney |Ilya Shapiro |Reuven Brenner
January 22, 2025 Roger Scruton’s philosophical work is nothing if not spiritual. I still recall how Roger Scruton poignantly smiled at me as I left his fabled Sunday Hill Farm a few weeks before he died. We often met there but, on that occasion, I had a particular mission in traveling to Wiltshire. As his literary executor, we were to discuss his legacy in light of his illness.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
europeanconservative.com | Mark Dooley
We have just celebrated the sacred feast of Christmas and are embarking upon yet another new year. But why talk about Christmas when, as many may remark, it is over and done with? This question reveals a profound misunderstanding about the nature and meaning of the birth of Christ. The fact is that we do not so much celebrate Christmas as become it. The wonder of this divine intervention in human history, is that the separation between man and God was bridged through the Incarnation of Christ.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Mark Dooley |Daniel Mahoney |Rebecca Burgess |Zachary Yost
The republication by Bloomsbury of the Irish philosopher and journalist Mark Dooley’s superb 2009 intellectual biography of Roger Scruton, Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach, should be warmly welcomed by all serious students and admirers of the late English philosopher and man of letters (the latter appellation was, Dooley tells us, Scruton’s preferred self-designation).
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May 15, 2024 | 
thepublicdiscourse.com | Mark Dooley
Editors’ Note: This week, we are running a four-part series on the necessity of beauty across contexts: art, homemaking, architecture, and education. This series critically examines the role of beauty in renewing culture. This is the third essay, in which Mark Dooley explains how beauty in architecture is a call to transcendence, permanence, and belonging. What does the way we build tell us about the type of people we are?
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
europeanconservative.com | Mark Dooley
In September of 1985, Roger Scruton wrote a column for The Times entitled “The Lesson of Lebanon.” I had many reasons for republishing it in Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton’s Columns, Commentaries and Criticism (Bloomsbury, 2022), not least of which was that it was a virtuoso display of Scruton’s ability to treat any subject with deep insight and powerful prose.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
europeanconservative.com | Mark Dooley
The biggest mistake we make is in believing that we are in a so-called ‘culture war.’ The phrase ‘culture war’ assumes that both sides have rival cultures they are battling to defend and promote. However, the enemies of civilisation, of life, and love, have no culture. If anything, their aim is not only to destroy the great cultural and spiritual achievements of the West, but to lay waste to anything that transcends the diabolical and obscene. Culture presupposes beauty, order, and tranquillity.
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Oct 1, 2023 | 
europeanconservative.com | Mark Dooley
As we approach the so-called Synod on Synodality in Rome (4th-29th of October, 2023), I would like to offer a modest suggestion as to how we might survive it. The firestorm surrounding this global gathering threatens not only to aggrieve faithful Catholics further, who have borne the brunt of Pope Francis’s innumerable figaries, but it has the real potential to end in schism. The latest decree from the Papal guesthouse is that there will be a media blackout on discussions inside the synod.
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Jul 30, 2023 | 
arkansasonline.com | Mark Dooley
SEATTLE -- In 2016, hospitals in New York state identified a rare and dangerous fungal infection never before found in the United States. Research laboratories quickly mobilized to review historical specimens and found the fungus had been present in the country since at least 2013. In the years since, New York City has emerged as ground zero for Candida auris infections.
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Jul 30, 2023 | 
arkansasonline.com | Mark Dooley
TOKYO -- Japan's population declined in all of its 47 prefectures for the first time in a record drop, while its number of foreign residents hit a new high, reaching almost 3 million people, according to government data released Wednesday, highlighting the increasing role that non-Japanese people play in the shrinking and aging country.
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Jul 30, 2023 | 
arkansasonline.com | Mark Dooley
A shortage of penicillin to treat a skyrocketing number of syphilis cases is so dire that U.S. health officials are debating the need to declare a public health emergency, according to people familiar with the matter. Major U.S. medical centers are rationing the recommended treatment for the deadly sexually transmitted disease because of a supply crunch.
