Jeffrey Anderson

3 days ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | John McWhorter |Jeffrey Anderson |Christopher Caldwell |Andrew E. Busch

Download There is a rhyme in Ira Gershwin’s lyric for “Someone to Watch Over Me” that is easily missed when the song is sung in a rhythmically flexible ballad style, as it usually is today:Although he may not be the man someGirls think of as handsomeTo my heart he’ll carry the key. That level of quiet yet fierce craft is classic Ira Gershwin, and yet it is no surprise that Michael Owen’s Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words is the first full-length biography of him.

1 month ago | csis.org | Federico Steinberg |Jeffrey Anderson

On April 2—dubbed “Liberation Day” by the U.S. administration— President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on nearly every country in the world, targeting both allies and rivals alike. These include a 34 percent tariff on China, 24 percent on Japan, 20 percent on the European Union, and double-digit tariffs on numerous others (which will be additive to preexisting tariffs).

2 months ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Jeffrey Anderson |Barry Strauss |Gary Saul Morson

Joe Biden abused the presidential pardoning power to a degree that is perhaps unprecedented in American history. In a naked act of nepotism, he pardoned his convicted son Hunter for “those offenses against the United States which he has committed,” as well as for those he “may have committed or taken part in,” over more than a decade-long period spanning most of Biden’s second vice-presidential term and almost all of his sole presidential term.

Nov 26, 2024 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Charles Kesler |Edward Feser |Jeffrey Anderson |Theodore Dalrymple

Donald Trump and the Republican Party had a triumphant Election Day, gaining ground in all parts of the country and among almost all voting sectors. He won all seven of the ballyhooed swing states, by comfortable margins except in the blue-wall states of Wisconsin (where his margin of victory was 0.9%), Michigan (1.4%), and Pennsylvania (1.8%). Still, he won all three blue-wall states twice—in 2024 as in 2016—something no Republican had managed since Ronald Reagan.

Nov 8, 2024 | city-journal.org | Jeffrey Anderson

In 2024’s issues-versus-intangibles election, the issues won out. According to exit polling, voters gave Kamala Harris a minus-5-point net favorability rating (47 percent favorable, 52 percent unfavorable). That’s not pretty, but it’s better than the minus-7-point favorability rating that they gave Donald Trump (46 percent favorable, 53 percent unfavorable). How, then, did Trump emerge victorious? As exit polling conveys, he won because voters trusted him more than Harris to lead on the issues.