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Roger Kimball
Overrated: Maureen Dowd
The New York Times columnist, despite her transatlantic celebrity, no longer knows how far to go in her puerile cattiness
Roger Kimball
Overrated
US Politics
Thomas Sowell
The American economist, whose broad learning and philosopher's eye bring a sharp clarity to the science, is applauded
Roger Kimball
Academia
Economy
Underrated
Leszek Kolakowski
Roger Kimball finds it strange that the author of the most pertinent works on Marxism is so little known
Roger Kimball
Academia
Communism
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Russia
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John Stuart Mill
Roger Kimball blames the revered advocate of 'experiments in living' for our inability to escape from the quagmire of moral nihilism
Roger Kimball
Academia
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Philosophy
Politics
Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
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The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
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A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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