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1 month ago | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Algis Valiunas |Mark Helprin |Edward Feser |William Voegeli
Since the dawn of the atomic age, when we gained the capacity to destroy everything there is, we have grown superficially accustomed to the possible end of civilized life—or even of all human life—on earth, blunting the edge of a wholesome and salutary fear. But, of course, to live with full, unremitting awareness of how precarious our condition really is would be intolerable, so a certain insouciance proves wholesome, and salutary, too.
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1 month ago | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Daniel Mahoney |Mark Helprin |William Voegeli |Charles Kesler
This fall, celebrity intellectual Ta-Nehisi Coates moved on from demanding reparations for America’s racial sins to comparing Israel with the Jim Crow South. “I don’t think I ever, in my life, felt the glare of racism burn stronger and more intense than in Israel,” Coates writes in his new book, The Message.
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2 months ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Mark Helprin |Joyu Wang |Frannie Block |Jane Lytvynenko
Quotes of the Day:“You can sway 1000 men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one-man by logic.”– Robert A. Heinlein"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy."– Franz Kafka"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."– George Orwell1. The Thoughts of Chairman Xi Jinping2.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Mark Helprin
Macbeth famously saw a dagger that did not exist, but it is just as possible not to see something that does. Decades after knowing of George Soros it occurred to me that his last name is a palindrome. Were this a mark of the devil it would be entirely appropriate, inasmuch as Soros helped to dispose of the property of Jews sent to the death camps, and subsequently, in the flimsy guise of reform, has devoted his life to undermining fundamental institutions such as criminal justice.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Mark Helprin
In his great Civil War history, Decision in the West (1992), Albert Castel describes the last Confederate hope of victory.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Mark Helprin |Jean M. Yarbrough |Algis Valiunas |Christopher Flannery
Political thought at the crossroads of time and eternity. Exporting America’s civil war to Britain, France, and NATO. It’s neither easy nor simple.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Mark Helprin |Charles Kesler |Algis Valiunas
Political SolutionsAn illusion of the Claremont worldview is that theories of politics shape actual politics. Claremont theorists typically assert that tragic errors of understanding were made in the early and mid-20th century. That was when Progressives and other ideologues sold our leaders on a far larger national regime than the American Founders ever imagined. Supposedly, that error must be reversed in order to confine government to its proper sphere.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Charles Kesler |Mark Helprin |Jean M. Yarbrough
President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign, of blessed memory, proceeded under the banner “Let’s Finish the Job.” When it became clear that the job had finished Biden or at least his candidacy, the Democrats replaced him as coldly and firmly as they had cleared the way for him, at the expense of Bernie Sanders, in early 2020. It was nothing personal; just business. With as little compunction, the party shifted its message, too.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Mark Helprin |Michael Kochin |Christopher Caldwell |Will Thibeau
“It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States.” Thus did the evasive Stephen Douglas, in the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, dodge the moral question of slavery by leaping into the briar patch of legality. “I’m leaving everything up to the states.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Jean M. Yarbrough |Mark Helprin |Algis Valiunas
The editors of Leisure with Dignity, celebrating their teacher Charles Kesler, open with a brief archeology of the Claremont Graduate University (CGU) and of the Claremont Institute. Founded in 1925, CGU came into its own in the late 1960s with the arrival of Leo Strauss, who, together with his students Harry V.
