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Article: Left and Right Eclecticism: Roger Kimball's Cultural Criticism.
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- Humanitas
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- March 22, 2001
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Roger Kimball, managing editor of The New Criterion, has recently received extraordinary praise in America. He has been hailed by Irving Kristol as 'among our most intelligent, thoughtful, and provocative cultural critics', and by Frederick Morgan as 'one of the ablest and most philosophically skilled critics on the current scene'. According to John Simon, Kimball is 'uniquely qualified to deal with literary and philosophical matters alike'. William J. Bennett, William F. Buckley, Harvey Mansfield, John Ellis, and the late Allan Bloom are among the many who have lauded Kimball's books. (1)
In 1996 Claes G. Ryn questioned the quality and the philosophical depth ...