Douglas Murray at his scintillating best. How blessed England is to have this brilliant intellect in our midst. Cherish this man especially now.

Douglas on absolutely top form here. I love this man for all he is and all he stands for. He is our beacon in an increasingly crazy and dystopian world.

I'm not a conservative but Murray's words drew tears. What a wonderful friend that man is.

Bloody hell, this was soo beautiful, and very educative too. Makes you feel human in a way you were searching for.Thank you ever so much 💖💖💖💖

Douglas voice of today. How we need him in this dark time.

This was absolutely wonderful. Murray's words were so perfectly apt, and Spacey was, as ever, shockingly good. Gave me hope in the face of the Woke Plague. Thanks to all of you - very much - for this.

The meeting of Roger Scruton and Douglas Murray was a blessing. It shows how much we miss integrity and clarity of thought, and dignity and respect in our usual relationships with each other.

I'm really glad something called the "Roger Scruton Memorial Lectures" has been created, and I'm glad Douglas Murray's talk about Roger Scruton came up as a KZfaq suggestion.

I was excommunicated from a study group because I wanted to read Scruton. Total madness.

so good to see Spacey back.

Sir Roger Scruton....greatly missed!

This is enhanting. This is why western civilization is important and why we need to defend and protect it against all.

Just finished The Madness of Crowds today and had already read his book The War on the West. But I've never seen Douglas Murray like this. Heartfelt to the near breaking point at the end. He could barely read the words on the page. And to choose Kevin Spacey to read that scene, that was brilliant. Both the choice and, of course, the performance. Outstanding! And deeply moving.

Wow! Loyalty in true friendship is Douglas Murray.

A video pops up on my YT feed of Douglas Murray talking about Sir Roger Scruton and I instantly assume he will be talking about beauty. I was not disappointed. 🤌

Sir Roger Scruton was a beacon of hope in communist Czechoslovakia.

Man, this guy Douglas is something else! I don’t think I’ve ever heard him speak of anything where I wasn’t absolutely captivated.

Hello, Douglas and team! I have just watched the speech and I heard you mentioning the portuguese subtitles of “Why Beauty Matter”. It is true, Roger’s documentary is a HUGE sucess here in Brazil. Actually, you are either, given that your Books are now translated into brazilian portuguese. I have spread Roger’s work since 2011 and yours as well since 2017! My best wishes! I am either a distant and anonymous pupil of Scruton. If Belgium is strange, let’s imagine Brazil! 😅

I am so unbelievably grateful for this man

Douglas Murray is the saviour of western civilization ❤ listening to his erudite, insightful speeches is a balm for the soul. I miss Christopher Hitchens, but Douglas more than makes up for it.

Can we honestly do anything of worth, if people kicking their feet in the shallows continue to drown everyone else in their puddles? Douglas Murray

I'd like to take this opportunity to say thank you to Douglas. Douglas Murray is one of those Gentlemen that brings about greatness in others. I respect and admire him a great deal. Thank You.

How is Douglas Murray so brilliant?

Douglas is one of the most important, intelligent, boldly honest voices of our day. I’ve not seen him read a speech like this, as he is always so brilliant as he seemingly speaks extemporaneously, while all listening know how much preparation lie behind the seeming improv. But for Roger, every word, every sentence, every paragraph, and the order of delivery was supremely sought in esteem of the great one.

One of the best ever from Murray

Roger Scruton's spirit lives on through Douglas.

If you had a liberal arts education curriculum comprised solely of reading and discussing Scruton/Sowell/Murray you’d have received a very fine education indeed.

Douglas Murry is a genuine gent x

Perhaps the greatest speech of our age…it is like a symphony

Delightfully eloquent. A joy to listen to. 😀

A very fine Thinker/Speaker eulogizes the Great Sir Roger Scruton. BRAVO !!

Thank you Douglas...so necessary and so beautifully expressed.

"Roger was bigger than the age..." Yes. Very much bigger.

It's especially good that such a great thinker as Douglas is able to cite Benjamin Britten and Gabriel Fauré along with Holderlin Kant and Rilke. Fabulous.

Problem is being intelligent, factual, honest and well intentioned doesn’t gel well with todays muddled world. 😢

This is mental!!! What a convoluted way of speaking. I'm quite frankly shocked by Kevin - something is off I'm telling you!!!

RIP Roger Scruton.

Israel, look into our eyes, You are the ALL MIGHTY❤❤💛💚💙💜 We stand by you forever. You are the reason why we are great. Jesus is great. God is great. Douglas Murray, you are a gem of all gems.

Kevin Spacey! The man!!!

Very moving speech!

really enjoyed being there that day - superb

What a great talk and a surprise guest ♥️ Thank you all 🕊🙏🏻🕊

Oh how desperately I needed this soul food. So glad I saved it.

Wow. Was not expecting Kevin Spacey to suddenly show up

Such an extraordinary experience! The beautiful lecture of Douglas Murray and powerful performance of Kevin Spacey left me feeling the words of Roger Scruton quoted by Murray come to life, as if the computer screen I was watching this on became THAT window - "....we suddenly come across a window through which we catch sight of another brighter world, a world to which we belong but cannot enter".

I cried! It was just. And so was I!

I adore you Douglas Murray! ❤❤❤

What an incredible speaker he is

Very interesting and partly challenging conversation! Bravo

Alone in my kitchen, I stood and gave Kevin Spacey applause! Wow.

I want Douglas Murray to read bedtime stories so I can fall asleep to his voice. The small shots of poetry he does for The Free Press are too short!

“Short of revelation, the beautiful is the best chance we have to approach the Devine.” …Yes. Dear Mr. Murray, God has revealed Himself. His most personal revelation was His own son-his son’s life and character, as sons often do reveal their fathers. Don’t cheat yourself of the most personal and indeed most beautiful revelation.

Wonderful!

Just learning about Sir Scruton, and the Spectator - look forward to consuming all their works.

What a great line of thought. Scruton to Sacks and then onto Murray. Turns out that we need only one thinker per generation to keep a crack evident. Where the light gets in, to quote yet another prophet and wise seeker. Only wish Murray would get brave and shaft the green, covid agendas...time to expand to the massive elephants of evil that hes not addressed yet. We need him.

I have 2 versions of 'Why Beauty Matters", Roger Scruton's 2009 BBC documentary on my channel. I have other BBC content on my channel which the BBC know is there and make a copyright claim for, but they do not block it. They do however block Roger's film, so KZfaq will not let you see it. I can see it but you can't. The blocking is clearly political activism because no one has managed to get a copy to stay on KZfaq, though there is a vast quantity of BBC programming successfully uploaded, over which they make a copyright claim but allow to stay up. "Why Beauty Matters" is never shown on the BBC player either - Never.

..a world of which we belong but cannot enter..

Perfect speech for Radio 4 Christmas lecture.

Speechless.

Scruton, a true legend

well done, man

I did not come to awareness of Mr. Scrutin untill the last couple of years of his life but was immediately attentive.

Excellent video, bracing. Thanks for posting. The leftish philosopher in the post-lecture discussion relates when he first met Roger Scruton they had urgent questions for each other and his to Scruton was: “How can you be a conservative and not have any critical words about capitalism?” Oh my goodness! What if I were asked? Where to start… How about: A capitalist knows there is no free lunch - but with capitalism LOVE is free! When people are free, capitalism is what people do. And when they are free an exchange between two people will not happen unless both feel they both benefit. They both say Thank you! at the end of the transaction. That is the fundamental premise why it works. The fundamental premise of other systems, - Socialism, Communism - which require taking away peoples freedom - is that all exchanges involve necessarily a winner and a loser and it is the purpose of the state to flatten this out. In a socialist system there is no need to say Thank you - and so people don’t; you thank the State. Socialism flattens out life. In capitalism where both sides benefit, in the end, the material good exchanged is secondary, the least important aspect of the interaction in fact. The human interaction - where both sides are pleased they have found each other and made an exchange - is the most important thing, what actually matters. In this way capitalism’s center is an immaterial reality at heart, whereas Socialism’s is entirely an material center. This is why religion and other transcendental aspirations flourish in capitalist societies, and it is why state Socialism requires the mandate of atheism. Capitalism’s central nature is spiritual and human which is conservatism; socialisms central nature is material and mechanistic which is progressivism. This profound difference all follows quite logically from the differing economic premises of both. That’s something how I might answer the good philosopher’s question were I asked: In capitalism love is free.

13:10 This was my first approach to Plato. I remember reading 'The Last Days Of Socrates ' in the sunny backyard somewhere in Niagara region, Southern Ontario in 2001.

Je pleure, Roger Scruton toujours dans mon coeur

'Who the deepest has thought loves what is most alive Wide experience may well turn to what's best in youth And the wise in the end will often bow to the beautiful.' ~ Friedrich Hölderlin

The men in the arena vs. the shallows, the critics, the mob in groupthink made visible in sharp relief.

32:55 Such power. So true. Yes.

Wow didn't expect Kevin Spacey, undoubtedly magnetic actor - media doesn't care that he was exonerated.

Thank you.

24:30 "Why don't we just do more of this" Couldn't agree more, been saying this to my family too. It's one of those things where, once you've said it, it seems so obvious.

Beautiful

Thank you

Amongst his gifts Douglas Murray is a master of just invective and denunciation. Januszczak is usually better than his mean spirited and rather stupid attack on Sir Roger but Andrew Gwyne (who he?) richly merits this account of his shortcomings; one hopes kind friends will draw it to his attention.

Brilliant.

I know that the most common and crude labourer is quite capable of appreciating the ineffable and transcendent aspects of life. Many highly educated people seem totally unaware of this fact.

I just want to cry.

I like the way gay British men speak better than American gay men.

This was a feast.

Douglas Murray let a " Lot Slip " with his Council Estate anecdote ! ! ! Sometimes they show us, how far removed they are from ' Ordinary ' People. And I do usually ( but not always ) enjoy Douglas Murray's stuff.

The word for Murray’s performance here is portentous, most especially in his Eton schoolboy straining for philosophical weightiness. Leaning on Kant (a la Scruton, of course) to make grand points about art is particularly open to challenge as Kant in his Critique of Judgement (1790) is speaking overwhelmingly of natural beauty, very little does Kant make of artistic beauty-though, yes, of course there is a huge literature in the history of aesthetics which attempts to explicate from the Critique an expansive theory of art. Much more profound about art is Hegel, but that is another story. For those interested in hearing Scruton’s rather simplistic conception of art and culture challenged-or, make up your own mind-watch on KZfaq Scruton’s discussion with Terry Eagleton from an Intelligence Squared ‘debate’.

O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

31:15 there's laughing, but obeying a cancel mob is the greatest threat to democracy.

worthy of Emerson

Even the word 'understanding' implies transcendentalism, and may well refer to standing under the starry sky.

Restore the honors of Sir Sidney Watson!!!!!

when is the Thiel lecture going to be uploaded?

Talking about age when was this actually filmed?

I just got a warning from KZfaq Don’t criticize scrutin He must be a fkn angelic in our mist

Does anyone know the art critic that slandered Roger and the "snake" interviewer Douglas is referring to?

Arent we supposed to be bashing Murray, and ignoring him, because we are close minded homophobic bigots. Love his diction, of course his reasoning ability and way with words.

And dear Douglas appears to have a cold....and still over delivers.

Kate Bush sings to you England my Lion heart ❤️

He sounds slightly like Snape

He tarnishes Scrutons memory by bringing that well known letch into his speech.

Keat's Ode to a Grecian Urn

Skip intro, but good stuff.

I commented about scrutin and KZfaq violated every right known too humanity

KZfaq called me out for saying scrutin is a human being

Murray sponsored by MI6😂