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Roger Kimball (born 1953) is a conservative U.S. art critic and social commentator. He was educated at Cheverus High School, a Jesuit institution in South Portland, Maine, and then at Bennington College, where he took a BA in philosophy and classical Greek, and Yale University. He first gained prominence in the early 1990s with the publication of his book, Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education. Additionally, he is editor and publisher of The New Criterion magazine and the publisher of Encounter Books. He currently serves on the board of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, the board of Transaction Publishers and as a Visitor of Ralston College, a start-up liberal arts college based in Savannah, Georgia. He also served on the Board of Visitors of St. John's College (Annapolis and Santa Fe). His forthcoming book, The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia, will be published by St. Augustine's Press in the Spring of 2012.
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(2004)
Lengthened Shadows: America and Its Institutions in the Twenty-First Century
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(2000)
The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America (Unabridged)
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(2000)
Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age
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(1999)
The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control
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(1995)
Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century
