Patrick Collins

Nov 26, 2024 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Simon Heffer |Patrick Collins |David Goldman |Lane Scott

Fighting DiscriminationI thank Helen Andrews for her rich review of books by Jeremy Carl and myself on the culture war (“Beyond the Pale,” Summer 2024). While she makes many good points, her framing of me as a liberal as against Carl the conservative is not accurate. In fact, as Carl’s numerous references in his book to my work suggests, we are both national conservatives who endorse the classical liberal procedures of the Constitution while eschewing left-liberalism in the culture.

Aug 25, 2024 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Douglas A. Jeffrey |Helen Andrews |William Voegeli |Patrick Collins

With The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, Adam Shatz, U.S. editor of the London Review of Books, has written a generally excellent biography—already named a best book of the year by The New York Times and The New Yorker—though sometimes he is a little naïve or even wrongheaded.