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Adam Kirsch is an American poet and literary critic.
Kirsch is the son of lawyer, author, and biblical scholar Jonathan Kirsch, and a 1997 graduate of Harvard College.
Kirsch was the book critic for the New York Sun until it ceased publishing in 2008. He was previously the assistant literary editor for The New Republic, “no small achievement for a writer in his 20s.” He is also the author of the weekly column "The Reader" on Nextbook. Richard John Neuhaus writing in First Things called Kirsch “a literary critic of some distinction.” Writing in The Nation, John Palattella describes Kirsch as “the intellectual offspring of the New Formalists, a small group of poets and critics—among them Brad Leithauser, Timothy Steele and Dana Gioia (head of the National Endowment for the Arts)—whose essays and poems in defense of traditional formal conventions were championed by The New Criterion during the 1980s.” He writes regularly for Slate , The New Yorker, The Times Literary Supplement, and...... (Read more on Wikipedia)
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Ayn Rand's Revenge - — A specter is haunting the Republican Party — the specter of John Galt. In Ayn Rand's libertarian epic “Atlas Shrugged,” Galt, an inventor disgusted by creeping American collectivism, leads the country's capitalists on a retributive strike. |
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