Kimball, managing editor of The New Criterion, has written a controversial expose of the politicization of college/university humanities programs. He has named individuals, symposia, schools, groups, etc., he feels are destroying the values, methods, and goals of traditional humanistic studies. His thesis is that there has been a blurring of the social sciences and humanities by those who were involved in and influenced by the radicalism of the 1960s. Kimball sees courses in literature becoming amateur experiences in sociological and/or anthropological sermonizing.