Hilton Kramer (1928–2012)

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1. Hilton Kramer

   Author of The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Culture and Politics in the Era of the Cold War, Revenge of the Philistines, The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion a

2. 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

3. Gertrude Himmelfarb

   Author of The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments, On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society, Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians

4. David Stove

   Author of Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity, and Other Fables of Evolution, Against the Idols of the Age, The Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies

5. Roger Scruton

   Author of The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture, Conservative Thinkers: Essays from the "Salisbury Review"

6. 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, A Personal Odyssey

7. Mark Steyn

   Author of The Face of the Tiger, Mark Steyn From Head To Toe: An Anatomical Anthology

8. Russell Kirk

   Author of The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, The Portable Conservative Reader, American Cause

9. Norman Podhoretz

   Author of Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt and Norman Mailer, The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s through the 1990s

10. Paul Johnson

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

11. Theodore Dalrymple

    Author of Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass, Our Culture, What's Left of It, In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas

12. George Steiner

    Author of Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman, Grammars of Creation, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism, Second Edition

13. Jeffrey Hart

    Author of Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education, The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times

14. Claude Lévi-Strauss

    Author of The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques, Volume 1 (Raw & the Cooked), Totemism, The Elementary Structures of Kinship

15. Robert Conquest

    Author of Reflections on a Ravaged Century, The Great Terror

16. Edmund Wilson

    Author of Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War, The Twenties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period

17. Wayne Andrews

    Author of Architecture Ambition and Americans: A Social History of American Architecture

18. Ezra Pound

    Author of Selected Prose 1909-1965 (New Directions Paperbook), Love Poems of Ancient Egypt

19. Gary Rosen

    Author of The Right War?: The Conservative Debate on Iraq

20. Frederick Copleston

    Author of A History of Philosophy, Vol. 1, Part I : Greece & Rome, A History of Philosophy, Vol. 1, Part II : Greece & Rome