Roger Kimball

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Roger Kimball (1953-) is a conservative U.S. art critic and social commentator. He is noteworthy as the author of Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education. Additionally, he is a co-editor and co-publisher of The New Criterion magazine and the publisher of Encounter Books. Kimball has also contributed to several journals of opinion in the United States and Great Britain.

As a writer, Kimball's work has endeavored to preserve and resurrect interest in many authors and ideas of earlier times that Kimball feels have been neglected in contemporary scholarship. In the essays he writes for The New Criterion, Kimball explores the works of thinkers such as Robert Musil, Walter Pater, Raymond Aron, and Walter Bagehot. Other topics of Kimball's writing have included the aphorisms of G.C. Lichtenberg and the thought of David Stove. Stove in particular was the subject of Against the Idols of the Age, an anthology edited by Kimball. In The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America, Kimball critically examined many of the accepted notions about that decade and its influential figures. Notably, his assessments of Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Timothy Leary are largely unfavorable. Kimball's most recent book is The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 As author 1.2 As editor and contributor 1.3 As editor 1.4 External links

[edit] Works

[edit] As author

• The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art, Encounter Books: San Francisco, 2004.
• Art's Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity, Ivan R. Dee: Chicago, 2003.
• Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse, Ivan R. Dee: Chicago 2002.
• Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age , Ivan R. Dee: Chicago 2000.
• The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America, Encounter Books: San Francisco, 2000.
• Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education, HarperCollins, New York, 1990; revised edition, Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 1998.

[edit] As editor and contributor

• Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Art and Culture, co-edited by Roger Kimball & Hilton Kramer, Ivan R. Dee: Chicago, 2007.
• Lengthened Shadows: America and Its Institutions in the Twenty-first Century, co-edited by Roger Kimball & Hilton Kramer, Encounter Books: San Francisco, 2004.
• The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a Virtual Age co-edited by Roger Kimball & Hilton Kramer, Ivan R. Dee: Chicago 2002.
• The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control, co-edited by Roger Kimball & Hilton Kramer, Ivan R. Dee: Chicago, 2000
• The Future of the European Past co-edited by Roger Kimball & Hilton Kramer Ivan R. Dee: Chicago 1997.
• Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect in the Twentieth Century co-edited by Roger Kimball & Hilton Kramer, Ivan R. Dee: Chicago 1994.

[edit] As editor

• The Treason of the Intellectuals, by Julien Benda, introduction by Roger Kimball, Transaction Publishers: New Brunswick, 2006.
• Art in Crisis, by Hans Sedlmayr, introduction by Roger Kimball, Transaction Publishers: New Brunswick, 2006.
• Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity, and Other Fables of Evolution,by David Stove, edited and with an Introduction by Roger Kimball, Encounter Books: New York, 2006.
• Diversions And Animadversions: Essays from the New Criterion,by Alexander Coleman, edited with a preface by Roger Kimball, introduction by Denis Donoghue, Transaction Publishers: New Brunswick, 2005.
• Physics and Politics: Or: Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of 'Natural Selection' and 'Inheritance' to Political Society, by Walter Bagehot, edited and with an introduction by Roger Kimball, Ivan R. Dee: Chicago, 1999.
• Against the Idols of the Age, by David Stove, edited and with an introduction by Roger Kimball, Transaction Publishers: New Brunswick, 1999.

[edit] External links

• Carl E. Olson The Life of the Mind: An interview with cultural critic Roger Kimball Ignatius Insight, August 2005
• Interview with Roger Kimball Defending the Sublime The Intellectual Conservative Jun 2004
• Interview with Roger Kimball Alternative Answers Right Reason Sep 2006