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There is still a month left to apply for the Publius Fellowship—the Claremont Institute's premier two-week seminar in American political thought and statesmanship. The fellowship will run from June 22-July 7 in Newport Beach, CA. The application deadline is March 2. To jump directly to the application, click HERE.Tartakovsky on Charles Dickens and Lawyers
Lawyers appear in 11 of Charles Dickens's 15 novels. Some of them even resemble humans, writes Claremont Review of Books contributing editor Joseph Tartakovsky.Pestritto on the Progressives' Constitution
Over at Liberty Fund's new Library of Law and Liberty website, Claremont Institute Senior Fellow R.J. Pestritto discusses the Progressives' Constitution with editor Richard Reinsch (2009 Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow).Stoner on Higher Ed.
Is tenure the cause of the problems that plague higher education today, asks James R. Stoner, Jr., in the Claremont Review of Books.Horner on Kissinger
Why does our country's supreme realist flirt with Wilsonian idealism, asks Charles Horner in the Claremont Review of Books.Eastman & Meese file brief challenging Obamacare Medicaid Expansion
The Claremont Institute's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence (CCJ) filed a second important brief arguing that the provisions of Obamacare forcing the States to greatly expand their Medicaid coverage were unconstitutional.Valiunas on McKim, Mead & White
The architectural firm produced a good many of the handsomest buildings in America, some sadly lost, some built to endure, writes Algis Valiunas in the Claremont Review of Books.Murray on Brooks's Social Animal
Here's what a certain group of highly educated, affluent elites think constitutes a life well lived, writes Charles Murray in the Claremont Review of Books.A Claremont Review of Books Web Exclusive: Lochner v. New York, The Judiciary, and Legitimate Constitutionalism
Claremont Review of Books Senior Editor William Voegeli offers a more extended consideration of Richard Epstein's review (from the Fall 2011 CRB) of David Bernstein's Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform. After a short introduction, Voegeli presents an exchange between critics, Epstein, and Bernstein, and then offers some links for further reading.Lauck on the Iowa Caucus
Political scientists are beginning to recognize common-sense and fairly obvious reasons for maintaining Iowa's first-to-vote status, writes Jon Lauck.Johnson on Pearl Harbor
Could following the Declaration of Independence have prevented the Pacific War, asks Charles C. JohnsonA Very Claremont Christmas
Recommended reading for the season from Hadley Arkes, Mark Blitz, Denis Boyles, Christopher Caldwell, Matthew Continetti, Lindsay Eberhardt, Matthew Franck, Alonzo Hamby, Steven Hayward, Daniel Walker Howe, John Kienker, Carnes Lord, Daniel Mahoney, Wilfred McClay, Cheryl Miller, Michael Nelson, Jack Pitney, Robert Reilly, Bruce Sanborn, Carl Schramm, Michael Uhlmann, Algis Valiunas, Jean Yarbrough, and John Yoo.Morgan on Constitutionalism
Ordinary Americans, when they think about it, take the Constitution seriously, opposing radical devaluations of its text by the living constitutionalists, writes Richard E. Morgan in the Claremont Review of Books.For more entries, visit our Writings Archive...
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