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- John O’Sullivan

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Roger Kimball

Roger Kimball

 

Roger Kimball is co-Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books. He is an art critic for National Review and writes a regular column for Pajamas Media at Roger's Rules. Mr. Kimball lectures widely and has appeared on national radio and television programs as well as the BBC. He is represented by Writers' Representatives, who can provide details about booking him.

 

Mr. Kimball's latest books include

The Rape of the Masters

(Encounter)

, Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse

(Ivan R. Dee), and

Art's Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity

(Ivan R. Dee). Other books by Mr. Kimball include

The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America

(Encounter) and

Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age

(Ivan R. Dee). Mr. Kimball is also the author of

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education

(HarperCollins). A

new edition of Tenured Radicals

, revised and expanded, was published by Ivan R. Dee in 2008.

 

Mr. Kimball is a frequent contributor to many publications here and in England, including The New Criterion, The Times Literary Supplement, Modern Painters, Literary Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Public Interest, Commentary, The Spectator, The New York Times Book Review, The Sunday Telegraph, The American Spectator, The Weekly Standard, National Review, and The National Interest.

 

Mr. Kimball is also a contributor to and co-editor, with Hilton Kramer, of

Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century

,

The Future of the European Past: Essays from The New Criterion

,

The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control

,

The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a Virtual Age

,

Lengthened Shadows: America and Its Institutions in the Twenty-First Century,

and

Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts

all of which are published by Ivan R. Dee. In addition, Mr. Kimball edited and provided introductions to an edition of Walter Bagehot's

Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "Natural Selection" and "Inheritance" to Political Society

(Ivan R. Dee) and

Against the Idols of the Age

(Transaction), an anthology of writings by the Australian philosopher David Stove.

Mr. Kimball has served on the Board of Advisors of the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History, the Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's College, Annapolis and Santa Fe, and Transaction Publishers.

article archive

Introduction: democratic despotism comes of age | January 2010

An Introduction to “The New Statism and the Assault on Individual Liberty,” a symposium organized jointly by The New Criterion and London’s Social Affairs Unit.


Exhibition note | December 2009

On "The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting & Sculpture 1600–1700" at The National Gallery, London.


Tyranny set in stone | November 2009

Why we must not forget the lessons of the Berlin.


Introduction: The dictatorship of relativism | January 2009

An introduction our symposium "The Dictatorship of Relativism: Who Will Stand Up for Western Values Now?”


Introduction: What was a liberal education? | May 2008

An introduction to our special issue on education.

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Elucidations & Corrections: Arts Criticism

The Goldring Arts Journalism Program S. I. New House School of Public Communications at Syracuse University honors "The New Criterion."

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Swallow Anthology Reading at The Grolier

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New Criterion-Social Affairs Unit Conference: Part 4

"The Criminalization of Making Money" by Lionel Shriver, Recorded 9/25/09

Posted on: 10/26/2009

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Jeremy Black, Roger Kimball, Andrew C. McCarthy, Mark SteynJeremy Black, Tim Congdon, Daniel Johnson, Herb London, Michael Mosbacher, Lionel Shriver

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New Criterion-Social Affairs Unit Conference: Part 3

"The State and the Threat to Democracy" by Jeremy Black and "The Paradox of the Intellectual and the Future of Capitalism" by Tim Congdon, Recorded on 9/25/2009

Posted on: 10/26/2009

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Roger Kimball, Andrew C. McCarthy, Mark SteynJeremy Black, Tim Congdon, Daniel Johnson, Herb London, David Pryce-Jones

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New Criterion-Social Affairs Unit Conference: Part 2

"Nice 'N' Easy: The Age of Micro Tyranny" by Mark Steyn, Recorded on 9/25/2009

Posted on: 10/23/2009

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Roger Kimball, Andrew C. McCarthy, Mark SteynJeremy Black, Michael Mosbacher, Tim Congdon

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New Criterion-Social Affairs Unit Conference: Part 1

"The New Statism or Democratic Despotism Comes of Age" by Roger Kimball and "The Islamist Left Versus the Constitution" by Andrew McCarthy, Recorded on 9/25/09

Posted on: 10/23/2009

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Roger Kimball, Andrew C. McCarthy, Mark SteynMichael Mosbacher, Jeremy Black, Tim Congdon

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