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Voegeli on Conservatism and Civil Rights
Viewed from 2008, the movement William F. Buckley, Jr., led was detached from the civil rights struggle because conservatives, despite frequent and apparently sincere expressions of hope for racial harmony, rarely viewed the fight against pervasive, entrenched, and episodically brutal racial discrimination as a question of great moral urgency, writes William Voegeli in the Summer 2008 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Tartakovsky on Political Insults
The well-turned insult is a necessary and salutary force in politics, a spicy seasoning in an old, force-fed dish. It's a check on pomposity, proof of democratic vitality, a relief from endless electioneering, and a show of intelligence and moderation, writes Joseph Tartakovsky.Wheeler on Second Amendment Decision
Dr. Timothy Wheeler, head of Claremont Institute's Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership, explains that the U.S. Supreme Court D.C v. Heller decision now makes it clear to all - the Second Amendment affirms an individual right to own firearms for the purpose of self-defense. Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia cites the historical evidence that the founders intended protection of an individual, not a collective right.Levinick on Jacksonian America
Decades hence, what Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. was to Andrew Jackson and the Democrats, Daniel Walker Howe will be to John Quincy Adams and the Whigs, writes Christopher Levenick in the Summer 2008 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Guelzo on Lincoln
For a century and more after his death, Abraham Lincoln was extolled as the greatest example of what American democracy offered in a statesman. But just as a vast skepticism about the value of democracy has darkened the American mind over the past generation, so has a skepticism about the value of Abraham Lincoln, and it has become fashionable for democracy's despisers to cast Lincoln as a racist, a wrecker of the Constitution, a military despot, a capitalist tool, and a great fixer rather than a Great Emancipator, writes Allen C. Guelzo in the Summer 2008 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Helprin on China
Worldwide, activists of every stripe, from dilettante movie stars to Tibetans and Uighurs willing to lay down their lives, have seen China's coming into the light because of the Olympics as a point of leverage by which to make its governance more humane and democratic. They are mistaken, writes Mark Helprin in the Summer 2008 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Long on Clarence Thomas
We might call Clarence Thomas the essential American, a man who loved America from the start, even when that love was painfully unrequited. As the Supreme Court Justice most committed to conservatism and the constitution, it is not too much to say that the success of the American experiment depends in part on whether the opinions of Justice Thomas continue to persuade, writes Wendy E. Long in the Summer 2008 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Knippenberg on Faith-Based Initiatives
John DiIulio offers a vision of faith friendly policy that is free from parochialism and cant, but he muddies the waters on faith-based hiring rights, writes Joseph M. Knippenberg.Uhlmann on the War Powers
Lawyers and legislators can only go so far in directing the conduct of war. Then you need a president, writes Michael M. Uhlmann in the Spring 2008 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Anderson on the Constitution
Paul R. DeHart's Uncovering the Constitution's Moral Design argues that the United States Constitution is thoroughly Aristotelian and Thomistic, but one wonders if it is as logically consistent as DeHart's method forces it to be, writes Ryan T. Anderson.Belz on the Constitution's Origins
Unruly Americans, by University of Richmond historian Woody Holton, is a tendentious and unapologetic neo-populist fable that dismisses the favorable view of the founders advanced in recent scholarship, writes Herman Belz.Berkowitz on the Persistence of Religion
Through its radical questioning of all things including religion and tradition, modern thought had made all things questionable, including modernity's confident repudiation of religion and tradition, writes Peter Berkowitz in the Spring 2008 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.For more entries, visit our Writings Archive...
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