Roger Kimball

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1. Roger Kimball

   Author of The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America, The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art, Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age

2. Hilton Kramer

   Author of The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Culture and Politics in the Era of the Cold War, The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion a, Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century

3. Roger Scruton

   Author of The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture, A Political Philosophy

4. Paul Johnson

   Author of Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties, Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, Art: A New History

5. Thomas Sowell

   Author of A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy, The Quest for Cosmic Justice

6. Russell Kirk

   Author of The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, The Politics of Prudence, Redeeming the Time

7. Gertrude Himmelfarb

   Author of On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society, One Nation, Two Cultures, The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling

8. Theodore Dalrymple

   Author of Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass, Our Culture, What's Left of It, Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy

9. Robert Conquest

   Author of Reflections on a Ravaged Century, The Dragons of Expectation: Reality and Delusion in the Course of History

10. Dinesh D'Souza

    Author of Illiberal Education, The End of Racism

11. William F. Buckley, Jr.

    Author of God and Man at Yale, Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography, Last Call for Blackford Oakes

12. Victor Davis Hanson

    Author of Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power, Who Killed Homer?: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think

13. David Stove

    Author of Against the Idols of the Age, On Enlightenment

14. David Horowitz

    Author of Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey, The Politics of Bad Faith: The Radical Assault on America's Future

15. Allan Bloom

    Author of The Closing of the American Mind, Giants and Dwarfs : Essays 1960-1990

16. Robert H. Bork

    Author of The Tempting of America, Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges

17. Keith Windschuttle

    Author of The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering Our Past

18. Alan Charles Kors

    Author of The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America's Campuses

19. Jeffrey Hart

    Author of Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education

20. Joshua Muravchik

    Author of Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism