Product Description: 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 thought, and refined those ideas over the decades that followed...read more

Book Description: “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...read more

Product Description: Denouncing the contemporary tendency towards superficial and biased criticism in art, Kimball analyzes recent studies of famous works by artists like Courbet, Rothko, Rubens, Velázquez, Van Gogh and Gauguin, which pursue the readers sympathy by addressing current topics and ideas...read more

Product Description: 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 thought, and refined those ideas over the decades that followed...read more

Product Description: There are books, wrote the philosopher George Santayana, in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin are more interesting than the text. In Much Ado About Noting, the distinguished cultural critic Roger Kimball shows that Santayana was right...read more

Product Description: 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 almost impossible for the two groups to communicate...read more

Product Description: 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 passes for serious academic pursuit in too many circles...read more

Product Description: Drawn from twenty-five years of the magazine, this abundant collection contains a generous sampling of the very best writing from The New Criterion, featuring the judgments of our generation's most astute and entertaining observers.

Product Description: "The New Criterion operates as a refuge for a civilizing element in short supply in contemporary America: honest criticism."—Wall Street Journal. Since its founding in 1982 by the art critic Hilton Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman, The New Criterion has waged a brisk and articulate campaign against facile and often politically motivated assaults on art and greatness...read more

A passionate and incendiary investigation of what the author believes to be the breakdown of higher education argues that today's universities are increasingly embracing anti-American philosophies and breaking away from intellectual and educational traditions, in an account that cites the examples of such figures as Ward Churchill while proposing solutions for parents, alumni, and trustees.

Product Description: Whatever your opinion of ‘Intelligent Design,’ you’ll find Stove’s criticism of what he calls ‘Darwinism’ difficult to stop reading. Stove’s blistering attack on Richard Dawkins’ ‘selfish genes’ and ‘memes’ is unparalleled and unrelenting...read more

Product Description: The history of art from the early nineteenth century onward is commonly viewed as a succession of confl icts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the formalism and aesthetic autonomy of high modernism. In Art in Crisis, fi rst published in 1948, Hans Sedlmayr argues that the aesthetic disjunctures of modern art signify more than matters of style and point to much deeper processes of cultural and religious disintegration...read more

Product Description: Whatever your opinion of ‘Intelligent Design,’ you’ll find Stove’s criticism of what he calls ‘Darwinism’ difficult to stop reading. Stove’s blistering attack on Richard Dawkins’ ‘selfish genes’ and ‘memes’ is unparalleled and unrelenting...read more

In The Long March, Roger Kimball shows how the "cultural revolution" of the 1960s and 70s took hold in America, lodging in our hearts and minds, and in 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 and drugs, and manners and morality. Believing that this dramatic change "cannot be understood apart from the seductive personalities who articulated its goals", he intersperses his argument with incisive portraits of the life and thought of Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Timothy Leary, Susan Sontag, Eldridge Cleaver and other "cultural revolutionaries" who made their mark.For all that has been written about the counterculture, until now there has not been a chronicle of how this revolutionary movement succeeded and how its ideas helped provoke todays "culture wars". The Long March fills this gap with a compelling and well-informed narrative that is sure to provoke discussion and debate.

Product Description: 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 rape...read more

Product Description: This volume contains nearly all the criticism that Alexander Coleman wrote for The New Criterion between 1994 and 2003. A specialist in Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American literature, Coleman was also a superb essayist on music, and his wide erudition, as revealed in these writings, demonstrates an easy mastery of the entire modernist tradition...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Presents a series of essays on the future direction of American culture is such areas as the law, the armed forces, higher education, religion, music, and the visual arts in a post-9/11 world.

Product Description: Ten distinguished observers confront the pervasive attack on the moral and cultural achievements of European civilization, and reflect on the fate of Europe's legacy. Caustic and convincing...a thought-provoking collection of essays. —Norman Davies, Wall Street Journal

Product Description: “In the faculty of writing nonsense,” the English critic Walter Bagehot once observed, “stupidity is no match for genius.” In Lives of the Mind, Roger 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...read more

Product Description: Most of the really invigorating action in the art world today is a quiet affair, Mr. Kimball observes. It usually involves not the latest thing but permaneZnt things—they can be new or old, but their relevance is measured not by the buzz they create but by the silences they inspire...read more