Claremont Review of Books

Claremont Review of Books

The Claremont Review of Books (CRB) is a quarterly publication that focuses on politics and leadership, produced by the conservative Claremont Institute. Each issue typically includes various book reviews along with essays discussing conservatism, political theory, history, and literature. Writers who frequently contribute to the Review are often affectionately referred to as "Claremonsters."

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  • 1 week ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Henry Olsen |John Rosenthal |Peter Skerry |Michael Burlingame

    Download Subscriber Only Subscribe President Donald Trump’s whirlwind of early activity reminded Americans what leadership can look like. But effective leadership consists of much more than throwing a lot of executive orders against the wall to see what legally sticks. It requires prudential judgment, assessing what is possible now. Taking big risks with imperfect information is also a key characteristic of real leaders. Both President George H.W. Bush and George W.

  • 1 week ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Paul Gottfried |Vladimir Golstein |Henry Olsen |Gary Saul Morson

    Download Subscriber Only Subscribe A distinguished presbyterian theologian and incisive critic of the modern cult of the individual, Carl R. Trueman devotes his latest book, To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory from Marx to Marcuse, to the Frankfurt School and the rise of critical theory.

  • 1 week ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Gary Saul Morson |Anthony Esolen |Henry Olsen

    Download Subscriber Only Subscribe “We shall know nothing,” wrote Albert Camus, “until we know whether we have the right to kill our fellow men.” Andrew Klavan cites this comment in his splendid new book, The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness. The kingdom of Cain is the world in which humanity has dwelled since Adam and Eve’s eldest son, the first person born after the fall, committed the first murder. Violent crime has haunted us ever since.

  • 1 week ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Luke Foster |Mark Helprin |Paul Gottfried |Tevi Troy

    Download Subscriber Only Subscribe The French empire was built over two decades in a madcap dash for glory.

  • 1 week ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Anthony Esolen |Paul Gottfried |Gary Saul Morson

    Download Subscriber Only Subscribe Death holds the ultimate mystery for human beings, and consequently the question how best to live presents one with a darkness hardly less difficult to fathom. A good death is of course the fitting end to a good life—though Christians believe that deathbed conversion can absolve one of a life badly spent, as in Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich.