Roger Kimball

Mr. Kimball is publisher of Encounter Books, and co-editor and publisher of The New Criterion.

Mr. Kimball is publisher of Encounter Books, and co-editor and publisher of The New Criterion.

Politics & Policy

Professor of Contempt

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 With Howard Zinn, contemporary American academia found its court historian. Zinn, who died January 27 at 87, was like a gigantic echo chamber, accurately reproducing — and actively reinforcing — ...
Politics & Policy

Degrees of Honor

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece appears in the June 6, 2005, issue of National Review. Most colleges that grant honorary degrees would endorse the sentiment, expressed by a Cambridge University spokesman, that ...
Politics & Policy

Death of a Liberal God

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece appears in the March 14, 2005, issue of National Review. Attention must be paid to the attention that’s been paid to Arthur Miller, playwright, darling of the ...
Politics & Policy

W. & Fukuyama

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As a rule, differences among inaugural addresses are like genetic differences among mammals: small but telling. We share 99-point-something percent of our genes with chimps. Nevertheless, the differences between us ...
Politics & Policy

A Sad Falling Off

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This article appears in the July 26, 2004, issue of National Review. In 1891, Henry James meditated on some of the difficulties newspapers and magazines faced in attempting to ...