Roger Kimball (born 1953), an American art critic and social commentator, is the editor and publisher of
The New Criterion and the publisher of
Encounter Books. He was educated at
Cheverus High School, a
Jesuit institution in
South Portland, Maine, and then at
Bennington College, where he received his B.A. in philosophy and classical Greek, and at
Yale University. He first gained prominence in the early 1990s with the publication of his book
Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education. He currently serves on the board of the
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, the board of
Transaction Publishers and as a
Visitor of
Ralston College, a start-up
liberal arts college based in
Savannah, Georgia. He also served on the Board of Visitors of
St. John's College (Annapolis and Santa Fe). His latest book,
The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia, was published by St. Augustine's Press in June 2012.