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  • The Long March

    How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America

    by Roger Kimball ...
    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 the good life. Kimball believes that the counterculture transformed high culture as well as our everyday life in terms of attitudes toward self and country, sex ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Rape of the Masters

    How Political Correctness Sabotages Art

    by Roger Kimball ...
    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 likely to learn about the aesthetics of masterworks than to be told, for instance, that Peter Paul Rubens' great painting Drunken Silenus is an allegory about anal ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ideas Have Consequences

    A foundational text of the modern conservative movement, this 1948 philosophical treatise argues the decline of Western civilization and offers a remedy.Originally published in 1948, at the height of post–World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses "words hard as cannonballs" to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read ... Read more

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  • The Fortunes of Permanence

    Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia

    by Roger Kimball ...
    “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 the bugs away but proximity to another sort makes bad things happen. Young shoots might need stakes, and watch out for beetles, weeds, and unseasonable frosts. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Treason of the Intellectuals

    Julien Benda's classic study of 1920s Europe resonates today. The "treason of the intellectuals" is a phrase that evokes much but is inherently ambiguous. The book bearing this title is well known but little understood. This edition is introduced by Roger Kimball.From the time of the pre-Socratics, intellectuals were a breed apart. They were non-materialistic knowledge-seekers who believed in a ... Read more

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  • Where Next?

    Western Civilization at the Crossroads

    Edited by Roger Kimball ...
    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 fraught turning point. It was with this cargo of significance in mind that The New Criterion published a special series of essays on “Western Civilization at the Crossroads” during its fortieth-anniversary season. Featuring contributions by Conrad Black, Victor ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Who Rules?

    Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Fate of Freedom in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Roger Kimball ...
    The populist phenomenon is often identified with the election of Donald Trump in November 2016. But the political, moral, and social realities for which Trump was a symbol both predated his candidacy and achieved independent fulfillment in countries as disparate as the United Kingdom, Hungary, and Brazil.At the center of the populist challenge, this volume proposes, are two questions. The first ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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    Art’s Prospect

    The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity

    by Roger Kimball ...
    Narrated by Christopher Lane ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 37 min

    In this series of essays, Roger Kimball, managing editor of the New Criterion and an art critic for the London Spectator, illuminates some of the chief spiritual itineraries of modern art. His wide range of subjects includes Vincent van Gogh, Clement Greenberg, the Barnes Foundation, Matthew Barney, Mark Rothko, and the Whitney Biennial, as well as the way in which Gilbert and George demonstrate ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Long March

    How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America

    by Roger Kimball ...
    Narrated by Raymond Todd ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    The architects of America’s cultural revolution of the 1960s were Beat authors like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and celebrated figures like Norman Mailer, Timothy Leary, Eldridge Cleaver and Susan Sontag. In examining the lives and works of those who spoke for the 1960s, Roger Kimball conceives a series of cautionary tales, an annotated guidebook of wrong turns, dead-ends, and blind alleys ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Questions to All Your Answers

    The Journey from Folk Religion to Examined Faith

    Many Christians’ faith exists as a loose collection of unexamined clichés and slogans borrowed from songs, devotional books, sermon illustrations, and even the internet. Too often this belief system (if it can be called a “system”) lacks coherence and intelligibility; it can hardly be expressed, let alone defended, to others. The problem with folk religion is that it too easily withers under the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Critical Temper

    Interventions from The New Criterion at 40

    Edited by Roger Kimball ...
    On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, The New Criterion has brought together a plump chrestomathy of essays demonstrating its range and acuity as America’s foremost review of culture and the arts. With contributions by Bruce Bawer, Anthony Daniels, Denis Donoghue, Joseph Epstein, John Steele Gordon, Victor Davis Hanson, Charles Hill, Donald Kagan, Roger Kimball, Heather Mac Donald, Myron ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Vox Populi

    The Perils and Promises of Populism

    Edited by Roger Kimball ...
    The rise of populist movements across the political spectrum poses a vital question: what role should populism play in modern democracy? In ten trenchant essays, the writers of The New Criterion examine the perils and promises of populism in Vox Populi, a new collection that marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of this critical journal.Beginning with a reflection on the problems of populism for ... Read more

    $17.29 USD