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Mr. Kimball, one of the best of our cultural critics, offers a lively and penetrating study of genius—and pseudo-genius—at work, and investigates the use and abuse of intelligence. Drawing on figures as various as Plutarch and Hegel, Kier… more

Although it has been a global phenomenon for decades before recent acts of massive violence, anti-Americanism has prompted few serious studies in English. This collection of original reports and observations seeks to explain its impact in a… more

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 taught and studied at American universities. Trenchant and witty, it lays bare the sham of what now… more

Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this witty and provocative book, the student is less likel… more

In 1959 C.P. Snow delivered the annual Rede Lecture in Cambridge under the title of ‘The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution’. Snow warned of a gap that had opened up between scientists and the ‘literary intellectuals’ that made it a… more

For most of the last century, William F. Buckley Jr. was the leading figure in the conservative movement in America. The magazine he founded in 1955, National Review, brought together writers representing every strand of conservative though… more

Through fresh readings of texts ranging from Homer’s Iliad, Swift’s Tale of a Tub, and Austen’s Emma through the United States Constitution and McCulloch v. Maryland, James Boyd White examines the relationship between an individual mind and… more

In The Long March, Roger Kimball, the author of Tenured Radicals, shows how the “cultural revolution” of the 1960s and ‘70s took hold in America, lodging in our hearts and minds, and affecting our innermost assumptions about what counts as … more

“Cultural instructions.” Everyone who has handled a package of seedlings has encountered that enigmatic advisory. This much water and that much sun, certain tips about fertilizer, soil, and drainage. Planting one sort of flower nearby keeps… more