Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball
is 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
PJ Media at Roger’s
Rules. Roger
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.
His latest books include
The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art (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 titles by Roger 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). Roger 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.
Roger 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.
He 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, he
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.
Roger 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.
He currently serves on the board of the Manhattan
Institute for Policy Research.
Listen to
Roger Kimball on 30 Years of the New Criterion.
Read
The Life of the Mind: An Interview With Cultural Critic Roger
Kimball,
Defending the Sublime: An Interview with Roger Kimball, and
The Highest Criterion: An Interview with Roger Kimball.
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