Roger Kimball is editor and publisher of The New Criterion, a monthly literary magazine and journal of culture, politics, and art, and he is president and publisher of Encounter Books. He lectures widely and has contributed to many newspapers and journals, including The New Criterion, the Times Literary Supplement, Modern Painters, Literary Review, the Wall Street Journal, The Public Interest, Commentary, The Spectator, the New York Times Book Review, The Sunday Telegraph, The American Spectator, The Weekly Standard, the National Review, Quadrant, The National Interest, and Weltwoche. He has also appeared on national radio and television programs, as well as the BBC. In addition, Kimball is the author of numerous books, including The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia; The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art; Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse; Art’s Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity; and Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education.
Kimball earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and classical Greek from Bennington College, and a Master of Arts and Master of Philosophy in philosophy from Yale University. He has served on the boards of the Manhattan Institute, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the Russells Kirk Center, and Ralston College, and he serves as chairman of the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale. He has also served on the board of visitors of St. John’s College and the board of Transaction Publishers. He is the recipient of a Bradley Prize from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the Thomas L. Phillips Career Achievement Award from the Fund for American Studies, both in 2019.