Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.

Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.