Overview :At least since Oedipus met King Laius on the road from Delphi to Thebes, the image of a crossroads has signaled a dramatic and morally fraug... Read More
Overview :Most of the really invigorating action in the art world today is a quiet affair, Mr. Kimball observes. It usually involves not the latest th... Read More
Overview :"Cultural instructions." Everyone who has handled a package of seedlings has encountered that enigmatic advisory. This much water and that m... Read More
Overview :On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, The New Criterion has brought together a plump chrestomathy of essays demonstrating its range a... Read More
Overview :"The New Criterion operates as a refuge for a civilizing element in short supply in contemporary America: honest criticism."--Wall Street Jo... Read More
Overview :Confronting the dilemmas of modernist and postmodernist thought, Roger Kimball in this new collection of his work explores the literary and ... Read More
Overview :Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic herit... Read More
Overview :The ideas and policies that are percolating down from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol Hill--increased government intervention, calls to... Read More
Overview :"In the faculty of writing nonsense," the English critic Walter Bagehot once observed, "stupidity is no match for genius." In Lives of the M... Read More
Overview :In The Long March, Roger Kimball, the author of Tenured Radicals, shows how the cultural revolution of the 1960s and '70s took hold in Ameri... Read More
Overview :In a series of penetrating reflections on the United States and its institutions in the post-9/11 world, this book offers some answers to qu... Read More
Overview :Since Tenured Radicals first appeared in 1990, it has achieved a stature as the leading critique of the ways in which the humanities are now... Read More
Overview :The populist phenomenon is often identified with the election of Donald Trump in November 2016. But the political, moral, and social realiti... Read More
Overview :Collector's lifetime edition bound in leather with gold lettering and illustrations. Edges are gilt and book contains a blue ribbon bookmark... Read More