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  • Ideas Have Consequences

    by Richard M. Weaver ...
    A foundational text of the modern conservative movement, this 1948 philosophical treatise argues the decline of Western civilization and offers a remedy.Originally published in 1948, at the height of post–World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses "words hard as cannonballs" to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read ... Read more

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  • The Long March

    How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America

    by Roger Kimball ...
    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. Kimball believes that the counterculture transformed high culture as well as our everyday life in terms of attitudes toward self and country, sex ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

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  • Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations

    A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus

    by William F. Buckley Jr. ...
    For most of the last century, William F. Buckley Jr. was the leading figure in the conservative movement in America. The magazine he founded in 1955, National Review, brought together writers representing every strand of conservative thought, and refined those ideas over the decades that followed. Buckley’s own writings were a significant part of this development. He was not a theoretician but a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Rape of the Masters

    How Political Correctness Sabotages Art

    by Roger Kimball ...
    Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this witty and provocative book, the student is less likely to learn about the aesthetics of masterworks than to be told, for instance, that Peter Paul Rubens' great painting Drunken Silenus is an allegory about anal ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Critical Temper

    Interventions from The New Criterion at 40

    Edited by Roger Kimball ...
    On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, The New Criterion has brought together a plump chrestomathy of essays demonstrating its range and acuity as America’s foremost review of culture and the arts. With contributions by Bruce Bawer, Anthony Daniels, Denis Donoghue, Joseph Epstein, John Steele Gordon, Victor Davis Hanson, Charles Hill, Donald Kagan, Roger Kimball, Heather Mac Donald, Myron ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Betrayal of Liberalism

    How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control

    Edited by Hilton Kramer, Roger Kimball ...
    In this incisive collection of essays which appeared originally in The New Criterion, ten distinguished critics and observers examine the origins and prospects of liberalism, from its roots in thinkers such as Rousseau and Mill to its troubled legacy in twentieth-century pursuits, and its compromising effects in the moral and intellectual life of our culture. Its contributors include Roger Scruton ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Where Next?

    Western Civilization at the Crossroads

    Edited by Roger Kimball ...
    At least since Oedipus met King Laius on the road from Delphi to Thebes, the image of a crossroads has signaled a dramatic and morally fraught turning point. It was with this cargo of significance in mind that The New Criterion published a special series of essays on “Western Civilization at the Crossroads” during its fortieth-anniversary season. Featuring contributions by Conrad Black, Victor ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Fortunes of Permanence

    Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia

    by Roger Kimball ...
    “Cultural instructions.” Everyone who has handled a package of seedlings has encountered that enigmatic advisory. This much water and that much sun, certain tips about fertilizer, soil, and drainage. Planting one sort of flower nearby keeps the bugs away but proximity to another sort makes bad things happen. Young shoots might need stakes, and watch out for beetles, weeds, and unseasonable frosts. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Who Rules?

    Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Fate of Freedom in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Roger Kimball ...
    The populist phenomenon is often identified with the election of Donald Trump in November 2016. But the political, moral, and social realities for which Trump was a symbol both predated his candidacy and achieved independent fulfillment in countries as disparate as the United Kingdom, Hungary, and Brazil.At the center of the populist challenge, this volume proposes, are two questions. The first ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Vox Populi

    The Perils and Promises of Populism

    Edited by Roger Kimball ...
    The rise of populist movements across the political spectrum poses a vital question: what role should populism play in modern democracy? In ten trenchant essays, the writers of The New Criterion examine the perils and promises of populism in Vox Populi, a new collection that marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of this critical journal.Beginning with a reflection on the problems of populism for ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Future Tense

    The Lessons of Culture in an Age of Upheaval

    Edited by Roger Kimball ...
    We are living in an age of unprecedented upheaval. The future of Western culture is uncertain. America’s economic and political vitality are more fragile than ever. The preservation of tradition is far from guaranteed.Many have observed that we are living through a world historical moment of which Hegel spoke: a time when many of the traditional assumptions about the shape and future of culture ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The New Leviathan

    The State Versus the Individual in the 21st Century

    Edited by Roger Kimball ...
    The ideas and policies that are percolating down from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol Hill-increased government intervention, calls to spread the wealth around,” onerous regulations, and bailouts for all-are not new. We’ve been down this road before. We know where it leads. It is that forlorn byway that Friedrich von Hayek called the Road to Serfdom.The good news is we don’t have to go down ... Read more

    $18.79 USD