Ken Masugi

Apr 19, 2024 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Harry V. Jaffa |Ken Masugi |Jonah Goldberg |Steven Smith

Editors' note: This essay inaugurates the CRB's Locus Classicus feature, in which we review good and great works of the past that continue to compel modern attention. Harry Jaffa's interpretation of Macbeth, published here for the first time, is adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College in 1974. It was the last of three memorable lectures by him on three great literary murder sagas: Camus's The Stranger, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, and Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Nov 8, 2023 | lawliberty.org | David Fischer |Ken Masugi |Dave Barfield |Elizabeth Amato

Brandeis University historian David Hackett Fischer’s African Founders illuminates the leading controversies today with facts that shame political cant and enable us to reassess the centuries of slavery’s effects on American national character. In a scholarly tome of over 900 pages, Fischer follows the method of his earlier work, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America.There he traced the peopling of America from the perspective of the character of different regions of Britain.

Mar 25, 2023 | amgreatness.com | Ken Masugi

It was not Hobbes and Locke, but the Marx-Darwin-Hegel-Progressives who corrupted the founders’ legacy, replacing one form of slavery with another. The man I regard as America’s Pope spoke at the Heritage Foundation the other day. (Fortunately, I lack the authority to choose a pope, which would be quickly abused.) The presence of Bishop Robert Barron marked an important point in the history of the American Right and the Catholic Church in America.

Feb 1, 2023 | amgreatness.com | Ken Masugi

A review of The Fall of the FBI: How a Once Great Agency Became a Threat to Democracy, by Thomas Baker (Bombardier Books, 362 pages, $30) Today, the heroes are few and outnumbered as the FBI has become the enforcement arm of the Democratic Party, which is the party of government.