David Azerrad

Nov 19, 2024 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | David Azerrad |Michael Barone |Michael Kochin |Jeremy Rabkin

After a century in which Communism killed 100 million people, it should be obvious to all that left-wing extremism can produce as much misery as right-wing extremism, if not more. And yet, within the collective imagination of the West, in particular of its intellectual elites, the danger always comes from the right. Fascism, in all its varieties and manifestations, is the perennial threat.

Oct 14, 2024 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Jeremy Rabkin |David Azerrad |Will Thibeau |Douglas A. Jeffrey

The late James Q. Wilson once observed of a domestic reform proposal that, like Middle East peace, it had everything in its favor except feasibility. It’s hard to avoid this conclusion about the reforms proposed by Philip K. Howard. Howard sees an America mired in frustration and dysfunction. As he says at the outset of his new book, Everyday Freedom:Nothing much works as it should. Simple daily choices seem fraught with peril. In the workplace, we walk on eggshells.

Sep 23, 2024 | heritage.org | David Azerrad

Suppose the second video had never come out and the Covington Catholic High School boys had not been exonerated. Suppose the media had not been compelled to issue pathetic, half-hearted apologies for stoking the flames of hatred after the incident. Suppose the pundits had not sheepishly deleted their rush-to-judgment tweets condemning the boys. What exactly would the boys have been guilty of based on the 3 minutes and 44 seconds of footage in that first video?

Sep 12, 2024 | tomklingenstein.com | David Azerrad |Declan Leary

Editor's Note That all differences in outcome are attributable to the “systemic racism” of the American way of life is the central premise of the destructive left. Faced with this increasingly apparent and increasingly dangerous belief, some have retreated to the opposite position: that all differences in social outcomes are merely the result of biological disparities between populations.

Sep 3, 2024 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Harvey Mansfield |Charles Kesler |Michael Barone |David Azerrad

CRB editor Charles R. Kesler recently sat down with Harvey C. Mansfield at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In a wide-ranging conversation, the distinguished Harvard professor of government, who retired from teaching last year at age 91, discussed his life, Harvard’s woes, Leo Strauss, Niccolò Machiavelli, the two greatest books on American politics, and more.