Roger Kimball Bio | Wiki
Roger Kimball is an American art critic and conservative social commentator. He edited and published The New Criterion and Encounter Books. He became noticed in the early 1990s with the publication of his book Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education. Currently, Kimball serves on the board of the Manhattan Institute, and as a Visitor of Ralston College.
Additionally, he serves as the Chairman of the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale and has also served on the Board of Visitors of St. John’s College. On May 7, 2019, Kimball received the Bradley Prize in Washington, D.C., and the Thomas L. Phillips Career Achievement Award from The Fund for American Studies on September 12, 2019.
Roger Kimball Age
Kimball was born in 1953, in the United States. He is 69 years old.
Roger Kimball Height
He is a man of above-average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 8 in (Approx. 175 m).
Roger Kimball Family
He was born and raised in the United States by his parents. Kimball holds an American nationality and belongs to the white ethnicity. However, he has not shared information about his parents and/or sibling.
Roger Kimball Wife
Kimball is a man who enjoys his life and career. However, he keeps his marital status private. Therefore, it is not known to the media whether he is married, divorced, or single.
Roger Kimball Yale
He attended Cheverus High School, a Jesuit institution in Portland, Maine. Later, Kimball enrolled at Bennington College, where he received a B.A. in philosophy and classical Greek. Subsequently, he attended Yale University and received an M.A. in 1978 and an M.Phil. in 1982 in philosophy. Currently, Kimball serves as the Chairman of the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale.
Roger Kimball New Criterion
Kimball is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion. He also blogs at The New Criterion’s weblog Dispatch. In many of his essays in The New Criterion, and in books including Experiments Against Reality and Lives of the Mind, he focuses on figures from the Western canon whose work he feels has been misunderstood or neglected.
These figures include G.C. Lichtenberg, Walter Pater, Robert Musil, and Anthony Trollope, as well as philosophers and historians such as Plutarch, Walter Bagehot, Hegel, and George Santayana, among others.
Roger Kimball Epoch Times
Kimball writes regular columns for American Greatness, The Epoch Times, and The Spectator, US edition.
Roger Kimball Tenured Radicals | Books
Kimball first became noticed in the early 1990s with the publication of his book Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education published in 1990. The book criticizes the ways in which humanities are taught and studied in American universities. it also argues that modern humanities have become politicized. Moreover, it generated controversy, with the New York Times Book Review’s Roger Rosenblatt. Kimball’s other books include:
The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age
Art’s Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity
Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse
The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art
The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia
Roger Kimball Net Worth
He earns his wealth from his career. Therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. Kimball’s estimated net worth is $2 million.
Who Is Roger Kimball
Kimball is an American art critic and conservative social commentator. He edited and published The New Criterion and Encounter Books and now serves on the board of the Manhattan Institute, and as a Visitor of Ralston College.