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Roger Kimball, born in 1953, is an accomplished editor known for his sharp insights and profound understanding of literature, art, and culture. He has extensive experience in the publishing industry, having served as an editor for several prominent publishing houses, including The New Criterion and The New York Sun. Kimball's editorial work has had a significant impact on many writers and thinkers.

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“There is not much to say about Burrough's writing. It consists of semiliterate ravings by a very sick mind, a kaleidoscope or surrealistic depictions of drug-taking, violent, often misogynistic fantasy, and sexual depravity.”

Books Immorality William S Burroughs

Book:The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America

Source: The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America

“Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life.”

Ifs Kind Art Ends Beauty Idols Aesthetic Allegiance Seductive Beauty Of Life Degenerates Caricatures Fetish Rest Of Life

Book:Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age

Source: Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age

“We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.”

Years Culture Taken Granted Hideous Depravity Taken For Granted

Author:Roger Kimball

“What the historian Elie Kedourie called "the Chatham House Version" - that toxic amalgam of smugness, moral relativism, and cherished feelings of guilt about the achievements of Western civilization - everywhere nurtured the catechism of established opinion.”

Feelings House Moral Opinion Civilization Achievement Guilt Western Versions Historian Toxic Western Civilization Relativism Moral Relativism Smugness Catechism

Author:Roger Kimball

“It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the disbelief in God as the hatred of God˜an attitude as precarious logically as it has been destructive in practice. There is an important sense in which religion as traditionally understood reconciles humanity to imperfection and to failure. Since the socialist sets out to abolish failure, traditional religion is worse than _de trop_: it is an impediment to perfection.”

“Welcome to the information age. Data, data, everywhere, but no one knows a thing.”

Knows Age Information Welcome Data Information Age

Author:Roger Kimball

“Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow.”

May Simplicity Complexity

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“Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.”

Moral Virtue Fire Intelligence Application

Book:Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse

Source: Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse

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Born: 1953
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