Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball is editor and publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. He is the author or editor of many books, most recently, “Who Rules: Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Fate of Freedom in the Twenty-First Century” (Encounter Books, 2020).
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Does the Constitution Still Matter?
Our Constitution is brilliant on paper, but betrayed in practice by the very guardians meant to defend it.
Against the Purity Spiral
To understand the rise of the destructive Left, we must understand the social mechanism that gives such a tiny minority such power.
Forced to Be Free
The modern idea of perpetual progress and the modern reality of brutal state control are two sides of the same coin.
The End of History, the End of Truth
Academic fads seep out of the ivory tower and into the broader war on reality, on nature, and on our way of life.
On Name-calling
Naming has long been recognized as something more than an epistemic activity. It is also a political force.
Democracy in America: What Is It?
For the political Left, the new threat to "our democracy" is not President Trump but the Constitution itself.
The Guilt of Intellectuals
Fredric Jameson, the Marxist critic who died last weekend, is key to understanding the Left Eclecticism that rules our universities.
What the Right Gets Wrong About Art
If "beauty is the battlefield on which God and the devil war for man’s soul," who is winning?…