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1 month ago | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Charles Kesler |Michael Kochin |Jeffrey Anderson |Christopher Flannery
The capital is rattled. The headlines tell the story. From The Wall Street Journal: “DOGE Staffer Arrives at Internal Revenue Service Headquarters.” “DOGE Aides Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems for Fraud.” “Musk Moves with Lightning Speed to Exert Control Over the Government.”Well, that last one, though an actual headline, is a little ahead of the facts.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Arthur Herman |Christopher Flannery |Dan McLaughlin |Daniel Mahoney
Now who’s on the wrong side of history?
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
americanmind.org | Christopher Flannery
By September 25, 1789, the U.S. House of Representatives had only been operating for about six months under the Constitution. They were meeting in New York, as they would continue to do until the government was moved to Philadelphia the following year, and then to what became Washington, D.C. Everything was new and uncertain.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
chroniclesmagazine.org | Christopher Flannery
Aristotle famously writes at the beginning of his Politics that “man is by nature a political animal.” This is because “man alone of the animals has speech [logos].” Logos is typically translated as “reason.” But it is also accurately translated in different contexts as—among other possibilities—speech, word, argument, or account. The King James Version of the gospel of John memorably opens:In the beginning was the Word [logos], and the Word [logos] was with God, and the Word [logos] was God.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
americanmind.org | Christopher Flannery
Stolberg was a German border town. American bombing and artillery had destroyed parts of it, and now Americans occupied it. It was late in 1944.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
lucianne.com | Christopher Flannery
Original ArticlePosted By: Moritz55, 10/19/2024 11:21:43 AMThe season has come again (actually, we're a few weeks behind schedule) for the restorative quadrennial reading of Michael Anton's "The Flight 93 Election," first published at the website of the Claremont Review of Books in September 2016. Its vivifying spirit leaps out immediately in the famous opening lines: 2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die. You may die anyway.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
americanmind.org | Christopher Flannery
The season has come again (actually, we’re a few weeks behind schedule) for the restorative quadrennial reading of Michael Anton’s “The Flight 93 Election,” first published at the website of the Claremont Review of Books in September 2016. Its vivifying spirit leaps out immediately in the famous opening lines:2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die. You may die anyway. You—or the leader of your party—may make it into the cockpit and not know how to fly or land the plane.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
americanmind.org | Christopher Flannery
You learn things from studying any life, but more from some lives than others. For some reason my father always had the autobiography of Renaissance sculptor Benvenuto Cellini around when I was growing up. Frequently, of an evening, he took Plutarch’s Lives down off the shelf. When a new biography of Ian Fleming came out recently, John Kienker—esteemed Managing Editor of the Claremont Review of Books—thoughtfully called it to my attention.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
americanmind.org | Christopher Flannery
Constitution Day, September 17, makes its annual return. It is a good occasion to reflect again on what it means for Americans to be a constitutional people. At the time of the framing of the Constitution, such a people was a great novelty in the history of the world.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Christopher Flannery |Will Thibeau |William Voegeli |Helen Andrews
“I am proposing to write the spy story to end all spy stories.” So said Ian Fleming in response to his friend Robert Harling while they sat eating K rations on a roadside in France after D-Day in 1944. Harling worked with Fleming in British Naval Intelligence and had asked his friend what he planned to do when the war was over. Harling almost “choked on [his] Spam” when he heard Fleming’s answer.
