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Tom Fuentes, Rest in Peace
Tom was instrumental in building the conservative movement in California and the nation. More than that he was a patriot, a father, and a man of faith. He will be sorely missed.Reilly on Dmitri Shostakovich
Why does the meaning of his symphonic music seem so elusive, asks Robert R. Reilly in the Claremont Review of Books.Rogachevsky on Americans in Paris
Most 19th-century Americans did not go abroad to discard their American identity in order to embrace a more refined foreign one, writes Neil Rogachevsky in the Claremont Review of Books.Feser on Science and Scientism
Scientism's arguments typically reduce to a circle of mutually reinforcing prejudices, writes Edward Feser in the Claremont Review of Books.CCJ Urges Supreme Court to Protect the Mt. Soledad Cross
The Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence filed an important brief urging the Supreme Court to review a federal court decision that held the Mt. Soledad War Memorial in San Diego to be unconstitutional because it includes a cross.Lerner on Violence
Steven Pinker's confidence that technology will promote human commonality and reduce violence is less an argument than an attitude, writes Craig S. Lerner in the Claremont Review of Books.Voegeli on Individual Mandate
Under the guise of preventing cost shifting, Obamacare commits cost shifting, writes Claremont Review of Books senior editor William Voegeli in the Los Angeles Times.Kesler with Leibsohn on Morning in America
Claremont Review of Books Editor Charles Kesler discusses American Conservatism, Harry V. Jaffa, and Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Ten Years of the CRB with Fellow Seth Leibsohn on Bill Bennett's Morning in America.Watson on Law Schools
As legal training and apprenticeship have given way to legal education and schooling, progressive thinking has washed over our law schools, writes Bradley C.S. Watson in the Claremont Review of Books.Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence argues against Obamacare
The Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence filed several important amicus briefs against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including one challenging the individual mandate.Burlingame on the Civil War
Supporters of the war effort understood that it was a struggle first and foremost to save the Union and thereby to vindicate free government, writes Michael Burlingame in the Claremont Review of Books.George on Conservatism
What is it, exactly, that contemporary American conservatism seeks to conserve, asks Robert P. George in the Claremont Review of Books.For more entries, visit our Writings Archive...
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