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Roger Kimball is Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books.

He writes regular columns for American Greatness and The Spectator, US edition. Mr. Kimball lectures widely and has appeared on national radio and television programs as well as the BBC. He is represented by Beck & Stone for booking and other media inquiries.

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Mr. Kimball is the author of seven books, including Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education, which was published in 1990 by HarperCollins and for which a revised and expanded edition was published in 2008.

His writings explore the cultural roots of decline in politics, education, and media. He has also edited and contributed to over a dozen essay collections, anthologies, and omnibus, including volumes by William F. Buckley, Walter Bagehot, and David Stove.

Mr. Kimball has also contributed to periodicals such as 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 Telegraph, The American Spectator, The Weekly Standard, National Review, Quadrant, The National Interest, and Weltwoche.

Achievements & Awards

Mr. Kimball 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 boards of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, a Chairman of The Buckley Institute at Yale, and is a Distinguished Fellow at Hillsdale College. He is the recipient of a Bradley Prize from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the Thomas L. Phillips Career Achievement Award from the Fund for American Studies, both in 2019.

plaudits for Roger’s writing

“A scathing critic but one whose tirades are usually justified….His intellectual rigor is refreshing.”

― New York Times Book Review

“One of the most candid and perceptive critics of American culture.”

― Gertrude Himmelfarb, Times Literary Supplement

“Roger Kimball is one of the few critics writing in art today who combines an acute visual sense of beauty with historical knowledge, a coherent philosophy of art, and an ability to write clean, vigorous, and accurate English. To these virtues he adds refreshing common sense.”

― Paul Johnson

“Posing as merely a collection of witty and penetrating essays, this book in fact contains the secret to nothing less than the regeneration of America, indeed of the English-speaking culture as a whole. With this work, Roger Kimball can no longer simply be thought of as an insightful and compelling commentator of the social, political and cultural scene, but must now be regarded as an important modern prophet, a philosopher for the future.”

– Lord Andrew Roberts

“Roger Kimball is among our most intelligent, thoughtful, and provocative cultural critics. He also is uncommon in that he writes lucidly and persuasively.”

― Irving Kristol

“Roger Kimball believes that art is too important to be left to the academic barbarians, philistines, ideologues, and self-advertisers who currently rule the art world. The clarity of his prose is in stark contrast to the murkiness of their purposes.”

― Theodore Dalrymple

“One of the ablest and most philosophically skilled critics on the current scene.”

― Frederick Morgan

“Roger Kimball is a trenchant and courageous critic of contemporary culture, although his positive values and hip whimsical grasp make him far more than a mere polemicist.”

― John Gross

“Deftly and with memorable wit, Roger Kimball shows how banal and derivative, how intellectually trivial cherished Sixties icons like Susan Sontag, Norman O. Brown, Allen Ginsberg, and all the rest of them really are. Kimball is as astute as he is amusing.”

― John Ellis

“Roger Kimball is without doubt one of the best cultural observers of our day. The scope of his knowledge and the depth of his insight are alike breathtaking. To read him is to step away from the noise of post-modern bedlam into a place of enduring sense and wisdom.

― Andrew Klavan

“Roger Kimball’s essays . . . are as wise as they are elegantly written.”

― Martin Gardner

“Roger Kimball’s mind is uniquely qualified to deal with literary and philosophical matters alike, able to see things from both a critical and a scholarly point of view. His position is conservative but not reactionary, humanistic but not populist, fresh but never trendy.”

― John Simon

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