The Fortunes of Permanence
Kimball's latest book, published in 2012, The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia looks at cultivation of mind and spirit as intrinsically tied to inherited cultural instructions. He argues that this cultivation is a spiritual enterprise and of utmost importance to political freedom. He uses such figures as G.K. Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, and Friedrich von Hayek to illuminate these "cultural instructions" and criticize doctrines such as relativism and multiculturalism. Andrew Roberts has said that the book "contains the secret to nothing less than the regeneration of America, indeed of the English-speaking culture as a whole." It has also been called "a vigorous book of joyful praise and serrated criticism" by Apologia Pro Literati Vita.
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