Claremont Review of Books

1 month 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 month ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | David Goldman |John Rosenthal |Henry Olsen |Carnes Lord

Download Subscriber Only Subscribe In his new book, Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West, Josh Hammer argues that the West should support the State of Israel as an embattled democracy and an indispensable contributor to Western civilization.

1 month 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 month 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 month 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.