Hilton Kramer is editor of The New Criterion and author, most recently, of The Twilight of the Intellectuals. He is also art critic of the New York Times Observer. Roger Kimball is managing editor of The New Criterion. He has written Tenured Radicals and has recently edited a new edition of Walter Bagehot’s Physics and Politics.

A fine collection of original essays that ponder the main conundrum besetting conservative intellectuals: Why is it that they have all the best arguments and yet seem to lose at every turn in liberalism?

Hilton Kramer is editor of The New Criterion and author, most recently, of The Twilight of the Intellectuals. He is also art critic of the New York Times Observer. Roger Kimball is managing editor of The New Criterion. He has written Tenured Radicals and has recently edited a new edition of Walter Bagehot’s Physics and Politics.

A fine collection of original essays that ponder the main conundrum besetting conservative intellectuals: Why is it that they have all the best arguments and yet seem to lose at every turn in liberalism?

Hilton Kramer is editor of The New Criterion and author, most recently, of The Twilight of the Intellectuals. He is also art critic of the New York Times Observer. Roger Kimball is managing editor of The New Criterion. He has written Tenured Radicals and has recently edited a new edition of Walter Bagehot’s Physics and Politics.

A fine collection of original essays that ponder the main conundrum besetting conservative intellectuals: Why is it that they have all the best arguments and yet seem to lose at every turn in liberalism?