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Jul 8, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Dennis Hale |Marc Landy |Joseph Postell |Isaac Willour
When facing objections that he was violating his state’s constitution, George Washington Plunkitt famously quipped, “What’s the constitution among friends?” Today, at the national level, people across the political spectrum seem increasingly willing to ignore constitutional restraints for the sake of accomplishing short-term political goals. Like Plunkitt, both sides seem to agree that if the ends are sufficiently important, a constitution can be ignored in choosing the means to accomplish them.
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May 14, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Brian Patrick Eha |Dennis Hale |Jeffrey Anderson |Helen Andrews
They cannot scare me with their empty spacesBetween stars—on stars where no humanrace is. I have it in me so much nearer homeTo scare myself with my own desert places. —Robert FrostPicture Cormac McCarthy in Ibiza.
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May 4, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Catesby Leigh |Dennis Hale |Allen C. Guelzo |John J. DiIulio
Our nation faces a daunting cultural challenge: to enhance the architectural value of the world we build. In recent decades the American city, where our civilization symbolizes itself in the highest degree, has been steadily degraded by cultural and educational institutions, government agencies, and real estate developers, all determined to erect “iconic” fashion statements. They do so by hiring self-regarding, theory-addled architects, who see their brief as reifying an ever-mutating Zeitgeist.
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May 2, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Jesse Merriam |Allen C. Guelzo |Dennis Hale |Christopher Flannery
The American Right is undergoing an important transition, from blaming contemporary ills on political actors and programs to indicting the entire system. This transition has ushered in a new era of “regime discourse,” featuring a host of allegations against our ruling elites and even proposals to initiate a “regime change” to overhaul the current order. Two issues are often obscured in this regime talk. Which institutional and cultural arrangements constitute our governing system?
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Algis Valiunas |Allen C. Guelzo |Christopher Flannery |Dennis Hale
Celebrated novelists, like Olympic athletes or Hollywood starlets, come and go. The lauded artists of a past generation are old hat to succeeding ones, who cannot begin to understand what all the fuss was about. This kind of deflation has befallen many of the great modernist writers who were supposed in their day to represent the absolute cutting edge of literary excellence.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Mark Helprin |Allen C. Guelzo |Dennis Hale |Christopher Flannery
As the home of intellectuals often at some remove from the consequences of their theories, and in betrayal of their purpose, universities have often become the welcoming soil for extremism, such as in National Socialist Germany, Fascist Italy, Soviet Russia, and elsewhere.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Dennis Hale |Marc Landy |Jeffrey Anderson |Daniel Mahoney
Tyranny of the Minority is the effort of two prize-winning Harvard political scientists, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, to understand what they see as a crisis in the development of a diverse, multiracial democracy. The authors, who together previously wrote How Democracies Die (2018), do not believe the crisis began with the election of Donald Trump.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | David Deavel |Dennis Hale |Forrest Nabors |David Goldman
There is a parallel universe in which bureaucrats give orders and nations follow them, in which the alphabet soup of international agencies direct flows of trade and investment and regulate the use of technology. This is the “rules-based international order,” a globalized projection of the national administrative state. The trouble is that the power to tax, fine, or confiscate assets belongs not to international bureaucracies but to national governments.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Will Thibeau |Dennis Hale |David Deavel |Forrest Nabors
In his 1957 book, The Soldier and the State, Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington described a long-forgotten paradox of civil-military relations in the United States.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Daniel Mahoney |Christopher Flannery |Dennis Hale |Forrest Nabors
Russian Conservatism (2019) and its new companion volume Russian Liberalism, by University of Ottawa intellectual historian Paul Robinson, will remain the authoritative books on their subjects for the foreseeable future. Robinson pairs erudition with admirably calibrated judgment; he manages to resist the terrible simplifications that too often dominate punditry, and even scholarship, on all things Russian.
