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 | Kyle Smith |William Inboden |Michael Kochin |John Masko

Download Dorian Lynskey’s Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell about the End of the World is an exhaustive look at the enduring appeal of works about how civilization might end, from the Book of Revelation to 12 Monkeys, The Matrix, I Am Legend, and whatever extinction-level event Hollywood next brings to screens.
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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.
The Eruption of Mount Elon

1 month ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Charles Kesler |Michael Kochin |Jeffrey Anderson |Christopher Flannery

The capital is rattled. The headlines tell the story. From The Wall Street Journal: “DOGE Staffer Arrives at Internal Revenue Service Headquarters.” “DOGE Aides Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems for Fraud.” “Musk Moves with Lightning Speed to Exert Control Over the Government.”Well, that last one, though an actual headline, is a little ahead of the facts.
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1 month ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Barry Strauss |Christopher Caldwell |Andrew E. Busch |Daniel Mahoney

Ptolemaic Egypt is a paradox. The kingdom was founded by Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great’s generals. It lasted for about three centuries, from 305 to 30 B.C.—roughly the length of the Hellenistic period that followed Alexander’s death in 323 B.C. Its long-term contribution to civilization was enormous.
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1 month ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Christopher Caldwell |Kyle Smith |Charles Kesler |William Voegeli

The amazing thing about Donald Trump’s arrival in office for his second term has been the sheer consequentiality of it. What felt like an inflection has proved a revolution. Dreams that seemed alive to some people just six months ago—transcending binary sexuality, for example—are dead and discredited. So are the state mechanisms by which such dreams were imposed—affirmative action, speech codes, and so on.
Winter 2024/25 Correspondence

1 month ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | William Voegeli |Jeffrey Anderson |Barry Strauss

Stoicism and ChristianityI appreciated Spencer Klavan’s thoughtful review of Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor and his recognition of my attempt to write a biography that made Marcus “seem human without making him seem any less impressive” (“The Last Great Stoic,” Fall 2024). Marcus was, I believe, an ordinary person with flaws who strove earnestly to improve himself—and succeeded.
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1 month ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Jeffrey Anderson |Barry Strauss |Gary Saul Morson

Joe Biden abused the presidential pardoning power to a degree that is perhaps unprecedented in American history. In a naked act of nepotism, he pardoned his convicted son Hunter for “those offenses against the United States which he has committed,” as well as for those he “may have committed or taken part in,” over more than a decade-long period spanning most of Biden’s second vice-presidential term and almost all of his sole presidential term.
From Russia, with Tough Love

1 month ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Daniel Mahoney |Andrew E. Busch |Joseph M. Bessette |William Voegeli

No, all hope cannot be pinned on science, technology, or economic growth. Victorious technological civilization has simultaneously instilled in us a spiritual insecurity. Certainly, its gifts enrich, but enslave us as well. All is interests, we must not neglect our interests, all is a struggle for material things; but an inner voice faintly prompts us that we’ve lost something pure, elevated—and fragile. We have ceased to see the purpose.
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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.
Condoleezza Rice Goes to the Seashore

2 months ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | David Goldman |Charles Kesler |Karl Rove

In Jules Dassin’s 1960 comedy Never on Sunday Melina Mercouri’s Piraeus demimondaine weeps at the awful denouement of “Medea,” but cheers up when the actors take their curtain call.