Jeremy Rabkin

Nov 27, 2024 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Will Thibeau |Jeremy Rabkin |Christopher Caldwell |Theodore Dalrymple

The American military is widely seen as the last bastion of institutional integrity—and even conservatism—in the federal government. Although public faith in the military has dipped by a third in recent years, over 60% of Americans still have confidence in our fighting force. Only small business benefits from a higher degree of trust from the public. In Congress, the military still enjoys vast bipartisan deference when it comes to promotions and budget votes. Even though General Charles Q.

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.

Aug 25, 2024 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Helen Andrews |Jeremy Rabkin |Christopher Caldwell |Theodore Dalrymple

In the history of American race relations, discrete decades of upheaval—such as the 1870s, 1910s, or 1960s—have marked the transition from one national racial bargain to another. Race relations during the long stretches of relative tranquility that followed each disruption, however, were not necessarily better, and could often be worse than what had come before.

Apr 17, 2024 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Jeremy Rabkin |Spencer Klavan |Christopher Caldwell

As Pierre Manent has observed, human rights law has become, for many people in Western countries, not merely a substitute for religion but a new religion in itself. Once one thinks about it, the point seems inescapable. Human rights adherents have their own sacred texts, their own mystic doctrines, and their own robed clergy—more often called “judges.”Martin Loughlin, Professor of Public Law at the London School of Economics, is against all that.