Is Beauty Dead?

A Response to the Super Bowl Halftime Show

Our culture is addicted to naked self-expression.

These acts gouge at the very heart of Beauty itself. The late Oxford writer and philosopher Roger Scruton said, “Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.” He called the loss of Beauty in our culture, the “postmodern desecration.”

Scruton chooses his word “desecratio…