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

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education

Education & Teaching

Kimball, Roger

Higher & Continuing Education

Harpercollins

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education

Arts Prospect: Library Edition

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. With reviews and essays composed over the last twenty years and revised for this book, Art's Prospect illuminates some of the chief spiritual itineraries of modern art. There is much to be learned and enjoyed in these stimulating, provocative, and elegant essays. ―Paul Johnson

Arts & Photography

Blackstone Pub

Thomas Hargrove s <Long March to Freedom> is a record of Hargrove s eleven months as a hostage of Colombian guerrillas and was the basis for the recent movie hit <Proof of Life> that starred Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, and David Morse. While the movie invented a fictitious romantic angle, <Long March to Freedom> is the actual journal Hargrove kept in captivity, and the listener gets a sense of the intense emotions and the tension caused by bouts of monotony broken by sudden brutality as well as the strength, wit, and personality through which Hargrove kept himself alive.

The Long March: Library Edition

History

Americas

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

Blackstone Publishing

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

Business & Money

Blackstone Audiobooks

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 the psychopathology of current cultural influences. Kimball observes that most of the really invigorating action in the art world today is a quiet affair. It takes place not at the Tate Modern in London or at the Museum of Modern Art in New York but off to one side, out of the limelight. It usually involves not the latest thing but permanent things, measured not by the buzz they create but by silences they inspire. These provocative, stimulating essays will open your eyes to the fascinating world of art.

History & Criticism

Book by Chicago, Judy, Kimball, Roger, Lucie-Smith, Edward

USA Art Unleashed (Index on Censorship - The International Magazine for Free Speech , Vol 25, No 3)

Politics & Social Sciences

Chicago, Judy

LUCIE-SMITH, Edward

Politics & Government

UNKNO

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 universal humanism and represented a cornerstone of civilized society. According to Benda, this all began to change in the early twentieth century. In Europe in the 1920s, intellectuals began abandoning their attachment to traditional philosophical and scholarly ideals, and instead glorified particularisms and moral relativism. The "treason" of which Benda writes is the betrayal by the intellectuals of their unique vocation. He criticizes European intellectuals for allowing political commitment to insinuate itself into their understanding of the intellectual vocation, ushering the world into "the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds." From the savage flowering of ethnic and religious hatreds in the Middle East and throughout Europe today to the mendacious demand for political correctness and multiculturalism on college campuses everywhere in the West, the treason of the intellectuals continues to play out its unedifying drama.

Benda, Julien

Sociology

Routledge

Philosophy

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