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Ideas Have Consequences

Product Description: An exploration of the realities behind the stereotypes of reclusiveness that have obscured understanding of Emily Dickinson and her poetry. Lease demonstrates that her poems are eloquent and rebellious responses to questions about human existence which remain as vital now as they were in her time...read more

By Roger Kimball (foreword by)

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9780312036508, titled "Emily Dickinson's Readings of Men and Books: Sacred Soundings" | Palgrave Macmillan, October 1, 1990, cover price $39.95 | also contains Emily Dickinson''s Readings of Men and Books: Sacred Soundings | About this edition: An exploration of the realities behind the stereotypes of reclusiveness that have obscured understanding of Emily Dickinson and her poetry.

On Enlightenment

By Roger Kimball (foreword by)

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9781412851862 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, September 5, 2013), cover price $29.95

Future Tense: The Lessons of Culture in an Age of Upheaval

By Roger Kimball (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781594036347 | Encounter Books, October 16, 2012, cover price $23.99

Paperback:

9780256171723, titled "Microeconomics" | 4 sub edition (Richard d Irwin, October 1, 1995), cover price $44.90 | also contains Microeconomics

The New Leviathan: The State Versus the Individual in the 21st Century

Product Description: The ideas and policies that are percolating down from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol HillÂincreased government intervention, calls to Âspread the wealth around,â onerous regulations, and bailouts for allÂare not new. Weâve been down this road before...read more

By Roger Kimball (editor)

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9781594036323 | Encounter Books, August 21, 2012, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: The ideas and policies that are percolating down from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol HillÂincreased government intervention, calls to Âspread the wealth around,â onerous regulations, and bailouts for allÂare not new.

The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia

By Roger Kimball

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Hardcover:

9781587312564 | St Augustine Pr Inc, June 30, 2012, cover price $35.00

La profanacion del arte / The profanation of art: De Como La Correccion Politica Sabotea El Arte / of How Political Correctness Sabotages Art

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, VelÃÂ¡zquez, Van Gogh and Gauguin, which pursue the readers sympathy by addressing current topics and ideas...read more

By Roger Kimball

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9786071606303 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, July 13, 2011, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Denouncing the contemporary tendency towards superficial and biased criticism in art, Kimball analyzes recent studies of famous works by artists like Courbet, Rothko, Rubens, VelÃÂ¡zquez, Van Gogh and Gauguin, which pursue the readers sympathy by addressing current topics and ideas.

Athwart History - Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus

By Linda Bridges (editor) and Roger Kimball (editor)

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9781594033797, titled "Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations : A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus" | Encounter Books, July 27, 2010, cover price $29.95

Much Ado About Noting: A Pedpgraphophiliac Crestomathy of Sly, Admonitory, Informative, Scurrilous, and Amusing Observations from the Bottom of the Page

By Roger Kimball

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Hardcover:

9781566638548 | Ivan R Dee, May 16, 2011, cover price $18.95

Encounter Books 10th Anniversary Boxed Set

By Victor Davis Hanson, Roger Kimball, Melanie Phillips, Thomas Sowell and Roy W. Spencer

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9781594032561 | Box edition (Encounter Books, February 23, 2010), cover price $99.95

From Two Cultures to No Culture: C. P. Snow's 'Two Cultures' Lecture Fifty Years On

By Frank Furedi, Roger Kimball, Raymond Tallis and Robert Whelan (editor)

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9781906837044 | Civitas/Inst for the Study of, December 29, 2009, cover price $22.50

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education

In this substantially revised edition of his now-classic critique of contemporary academic life, Mr. Kimball shows how politics has corrupted our higher education. Mr. Kimball names his enemies precisely....This book will breed fistfights. âRoger Rosenblatt, New York Times Book Review. A withering critique. âJonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World

By Roger Kimball

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9781566637961 | 3 edition (Ivan R Dee, October 1, 2008), cover price $16.95

9781566631952 | Revised edition (Ivan R Dee, June 1, 1998), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In this substantially revised edition of his now-classic critique of contemporary academic life, Mr.

9780060920494 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, April 1, 1991), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Kimball takes educators and institutions to task for what he sees as their complicity in today's educational disarray and their desire to expand the canon of literature to include a wider cultural array

Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts

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.

By Roger Kimball (editor) and Hilton Kramer (editor)

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9781566637060 | Reprint edition (Ivan R Dee, May 1, 2007), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: 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.

Counterpoints: Twenty-Five Years of the New Criterion on Culture and the Arts

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

By Roger Kimball (editor) and Hilton Kramer (editor)

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9781566638050 | Ivan R Dee, September 1, 2008, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: "The New Criterion operates as a refuge for a civilizing element in short supply in contemporary America: honest criticism.

Retaking the University: A Battle Plan

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.

By Roger Kimball

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9781594031526 | Encounter Books, October 1, 2008, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: 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.

Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity, and Other Fables of Evolution

By Roger Kimball (introduced by) and David C. Stove

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9781594032004 | Reprint edition (Encounter Books, April 1, 2007), cover price $18.95

Art in Crisis: The Lost Center

Product Description: The history of art from the early nineteenth century on- ward is commonly viewed as a succession of conflicts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the formalism and aesthetic autonomy of high modernism. In Art and Crisis, first 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

By Brian Battershaw (trans), Roger Kimball (introduced by) and Hans Sedlmayr

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9781412806077 | Transaction Pub, September 1, 2006, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The history of art from the early nineteenth century on- ward is commonly viewed as a succession of conflicts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the formalism and aesthetic autonomy of high modernism.

Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity, and Other Fables of Evolution

Product Description: Whatever your opinion of ÂIntelligent Design,â youâll find Stoveâs criticism of what he calls ÂDarwinismâ difficult to stop reading. Stoveâs blistering attack on Richard Dawkinsâ Âselfish genesâ and Âmemesâ is unparalleled and unrelenting...read more

By Roger Kimball (introduced by) and D. C. Stove

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9781594031403 | Reprint edition (Encounter Books, February 1, 2006), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Whatever your opinion of ÂIntelligent Design,â youâll find Stoveâs criticism of what he calls ÂDarwinismâ difficult to stop reading.

The Long March: Library Edition

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

By Roger Kimball and Raymond Todd (narrator)

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9780786136865 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2005), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: 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.

The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of The 1960s Changed America: Library Edition

By Roger Kimball and Raymond Todd (narrator)

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9780786176472 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 30, 2005), cover price $72.00

The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art

Exposes the charlatanry that fuels much academic art history today and leaks into the art world generally.

By Roger Kimball

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9781893554863 | Encounter Books, April 1, 2004, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Exposes the charlatanry that fuels much academic art history today and leaks into the art world generally.

Paperback:

9781594031212 | Encounter Books, October 5, 2005, cover price $17.95

Diversions & Animadversions: Essays from the New Criterion

By Alexander Coleman, Denis Donoghue (introduced by) and Roger Kimball

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9780765803054 | Transaction Pub, September 1, 2005, cover price $45.95

The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America

Product Description: 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

By Roger Kimball

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9781893554092 | Encounter Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $23.95

Paperback:

9781893554306 | Reprint edition (Encounter Books, July 1, 2001), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: 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.

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9780786179114 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2005), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: 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.

Lengthened Shadows: America and Its Institutions in the Twenty-First Century

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.

By Roger Kimball (editor) and Hilton Kramer (editor)

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9781594030543 | Encounter Books, November 1, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: 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.

The Future of the European Past

Presents ten essays analyzing current views of the achievements of European civilization by commentators including David Pryce-Jones, Roger Scruton, and Ferdinand Mount

By Roger Kimball (editor) and Hilton Kramer (editor)

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9781566631785 | Ivan R Dee, October 1, 1997, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Presents ten essays analyzing current views of the achievements of European civilization by commentators including David Pryce-Jones, Roger Scruton, and Ferdinand Mount

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9781566635813 | Ivan R Dee, January 21, 2004, cover price $19.95

Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse

Product Description: âIn the faculty of writing nonsense,â the English critic Walter Bagehot once observed, âstupidity is no match for genius.â In Lives of the Mind, Roger Kimball, one of the best of our cultural critics, offers a lively and penetrating study of geniusâand pseudo-geniusâat work and investigates the use and abuse of intelligence...read more

By Roger Kimball

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9781566634793 | Ivan R Dee, October 1, 2002, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Offers a critical view of the use and abuse of intelligence, looking at such figures as Plutarch, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Descartes and their constructive use of intelligence.

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9781566635240 | Reprint edition (Ivan R Dee, December 1, 2003), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: âIn the faculty of writing nonsense,â the English critic Walter Bagehot once observed, âstupidity is no match for genius.

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