Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence ... Conserving our Culture.: I am ecstatic to inform you of the noble presence of Roger Kimball. This man, the Managing Editor of The New Criterion, had made his career a tenacious crusade to save our history and to publicize the great minds and ideas that [... more]
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Postmodern Pooh silly academics: Literary Criticism so long ago slipped over the edge into self parody that when I first found an old dog-eared copy of The Pooh Perplex at a book sale many years ago it took me more than a few pages to figure out whether it was meant to [... more]
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Postmodern Pooh silly academics: Literary Criticism so long ago slipped over the edge into self parody that when I first found an old dog-eared copy of The Pooh Perplex at a book sale many years ago it took me more than a few pages to figure out whether it was meant to [... more]
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Future Of the European Past very irritating: This collection of essays published in the New Criterion are not all bad. The late John Herrington saw signs of hope in reviving the classics. Ferdinand Mount takes a rather calm attitude to the problem of "dumbing down." But [... more]
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Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the ... REALITY ON THE RUN?: I have read most of the essays in this volume in their earlier versions; yet they seem to me as fresh and intellectually invigorating as at my first go round. This is partly due to having read some of the works discussed since [... more]
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Tenured Radicals, Revised: How Politics has Corrupted ... Deconstructing the canon: An early sally countering irrational trends in humanities studies, Kimball provides an overview of the impact of "deconstructionism." He sees the humanities in a state of crisis. At issue is the aim of the "new [... more]
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The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s ... From Amazon.com: The 1960s, writes Roger Kimball, "has become less the name of a decade than a provocation." This incisive critique of that turbulent time won't calm the debate. The Long March will enthrall conservatives who think of themselves [... more]
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