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Aug 21, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Forrest Nabors |Mark Pulliam |James Patterson |David Schaefer
Incredible though it might seem and whether we like it or not, we are living through a genuinely revolutionary period, when fundamental principles are challenged and political outcomes defy prediction. In grave times such as ours, as in Lincoln’s time, “we must think anew, and act anew,” learn from the past, and protect our most dearly-held principles that the blood of martyrs and patriots has consecrated.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
mustreadalaska.com | Suzanne Downing |Forrest Nabors
By FORREST NABORS, PhDPart II of a four-part seriesWhat was the secret of New England republicanism? In short, the answer is, the faith of the people of New England, from which all their institutions were formed.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
mustreadalaska.com | Forrest Nabors |Suzanne Downing
By FORREST A. NABORS, PhDPart I of a four-part seriesA borough charter is a form of a constitution, or, an organic law of a people by which a government is framed and maintained. The purpose or end of a constitution is the kind of government and way of life that the framers of the constitution wish to have. The general character of a people – their convictions, habits, customs – and the form of their government shape each other and depend upon each other.
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May 17, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Joshua Mitchell |Daniel Mahoney |Forrest Nabors |David Goldman
Kevin Slack has written a remarkable book. War on the American Republic: How Liberalism Became Despotism authoritatively lays out a new line of reasoning that has become popular among young right-wing thinkers. Many leading figures on the so-called “New Right” profess themselves disappointed with the impotence of the conservative movement to date. Some of them have produced manifestos of their own.
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Joseph Epstein |Allen C. Guelzo |Daniel Mahoney |Forrest Nabors
I thought that I had formed an idea of ancient Rome but I had done nothing of the kind. I had not a notion of such magnificence. —George Gissing, in a letter to his sister MargaretWe know a vast deal about the history of Rome and yet there remains so much we do not know. Mary Beard reports in her new book, Emperor of Rome, that the teenage emperor Elagabulus—who ruled from A.D. 218 to 222, his reign ending with his assassination at age 18—may have invented the whoopee cushion.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Charles Kesler |Daniel Mahoney |Helen Andrews |Forrest Nabors
Let’s take it for granted, shall we, that president Joe Biden is a sympathetic figure, a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” as special counsel Robert Hur put it in his report declining to file charges against his ultimate boss. Biden might have preferred the charges, assuming they came with a finding that he is compos mentis and fit to stand trial. Now the only court he will have to face is the one he dreads most: public opinion.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | John J. DiIulio |Jeffrey Anderson |Forrest Nabors |David Goldman
The post-World War II Philadelphia in which I grew up was an urban, Catholic, working-class, two-parent-family world. Most dads had steady, decent-paying blue-collar jobs. Kids’ lives revolved around the parish church and school. Families didn’t need a credit card to take their vacation week at the South Jersey seashore. Nobody bowled (or drank) alone. By the time I graduated from high school in 1976, that world was dying fast.
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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 | Joseph M. Bessette |Helen Andrews |Christopher Flannery |Forrest Nabors
Some years ago, when co-authoring a textbook on American government, I calculated the rise in federal spending between 1932, the year before Franklin Roosevelt launched his New Deal, and 2012. Over these eight decades, total federal spending rose from just over $5 billion to $3.8 trillion. Domestic expenditures rose from $2.3 billion to $2.8 trillion.
