is Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books. He writes regular columns for American Greatness, The Epoch Times, and The Spectator, US edition. Mr Kimball lectures widely and has appeared on national radio and television programs as well as the BBC. Mr Kimball is also the author of many books, including: The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia, The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art, Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse (Ivan R. Dee), and Art’s Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity (Ivan R. Dee). Other titles by Mr Kimball include The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America, Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age, and Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education.
An incisive critic and prolific commentator, Mr Kimball has contributed to many publications both in the United States and abroad, including The New Criterion, The Times Literary Supplement, Modern Painters, Literary Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Public Interest, Commentary, The Spectator, The New York Times Book Review, The Sunday Telegraph, The American Spectator, The Weekly Standard, National Review, Quadrant, The National Interest, The Telegraph, and Weltwoche.
Mr Kimball has served on the Board of Advisors of the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History, the Board of Visitors and Governors of St John’s College, Annapolis and Santa Fe, and Transaction Publishers. He currently serves on the boards of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal and is Chairman of the William F. Buckley Jr Program at Yale. He is the recipient of a Bradley Prize from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the Thomas L. Phillips Career Achievement Award from the Fund for American Studies, both in 2019.
Mr Kimball has been a member of the Board of Governors since 2025.
