Essays, Speeches, and Other Scholarly Works
- Now available online: The Rise and Fall of Constitutional Government, by Thomas G. West and Douglas A. Jeffrey (pdf)
- 2006 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, with Twelve Panels Hosted by the Claremont Institute
Recent Items
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is suppressing Islamic art for political reasons, write George A. Pieler and Jens F. Laurson.
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Great reading for the season, recommended by Hadley Arkes, Kathleen Arnn, Elliott Banfield, Mark Blitz, Ben Boychuk, Matthew Franck, Larry Greenfield, Jakub Grygiel, Allen Guelzo, Alonzo Hamby, Daniel Walker Howe, Brian Janiskee, Thomas Karako, John Kienker, Daniel Mahoney, Harvey Mansfield, Wilfred McClay, Cheryl Miller, Jack Pitney, Julie Ponzi, Robert Reilly, Bruce Sanborn, Carl Schramm, Algis Valiunas, Thomas West, Ryan Williams, John Yoo, and Michael Zuckert.
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An Advent Conversation with James V. Schall, S.J.
Senior Fellow Ken Masugi continues his series of Advent interviews with political theorist James V. Schall, S.J. Topics for discussion include President Obama's recent speeches and Pope Benedict's statements on economics and morality in his encyclical "Caritas in Veritate."
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We remember Winston Churchill for his defense of the free world against the forces of evil led by Adolph Hitler. The world today is no less dangerous and we are just as ill-prepared to meet the challenges, writes Brian T. Kennedy.
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When the political venom and hyperbole fade, those interested in understanding the decisions and debates behind the critical first years of the war to remove Saddam Hussein from power will have to put Douglas Feith's book on their must-read list, writes Stanley Renshon.
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Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial, 1809 - 2009
The Claremont Institute takes the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth to honor his memory. We are pleased to feature reviews and essays from the Claremont Review of Books and from our archives.
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The Speech That Changed the World
Of all Lincoln's speeches, whether greater or lesser, the only one that can be said truly to have changed the course of history, was delivered to the Republican State Convention in Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858, writes Claremont Institute Distinguished Fellow Harry V. Jaffa.
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Fr. James V. Schall on The Openness of the Christian Mind
Ken Masugi continues his series of Advent interviews with political theorist James V. Schall, S.J. The conversation begins with discussion of Fr. Schall's new book, The Mind that is Catholic. Fr. Schall discusses, among other things, what long and short books we should be reading, and the eternal relationship between reason and revelation, or between politics and theology.
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The history of war is the history of alliances. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, two very different kinds were on prominent display: the desperate switching to and fro of Josef Stalin, who first joined with Hitler and then Hitler's enemies; and the Anglo-American alliance based on ties of ancestry and shared ideals, writes Lauren Weiner.
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Understanding the Need for a National Missile Defense After 9/11
Without any defense, we would today have to suffer helplessly a ballistic missile attack, just as we suffered helplessly on September 11, writes Brian T. Kennedy.
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Bold in its claims and wildly arrogant in its approach, the international population control movement of the 20th century provides a stark example of the harms that can occur in the name of benevolence, writes Christine Rosen.
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In The Age of Reagan, Sean Wilentz simply does not want to engage with conservative thought. The book has no discussion of the complexities of conservative thinking, how conservatism relates to modern American culture, or how conservative thought has contributed to the changes of the past three decades, writes John Ehrman.
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The Chosen and the Almost-Chosen
The Americans who fought their way from Omaha Beach to Dachau or who held the Chinese army to a bloody stalemate in Korea did so not as crusading knights aiming to justify their privileges before God, but from a sense of what was necessary for their own security—out of love for their neighbors at home—as well as out of love for their neighbors abroad, writes Michael S. Kochin.
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Why Doesn't the World Understand Us?
There has long been an unwritten Anglo-American strategy for economic and military dominance. The aim has been to create a world-wide system of trade, investment, and military might, based on sea power, writes Andrew Cort in his review of Walter Russell Mead's God and Gold.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Because of the American mind for war, America's conflicts have fallen into two broad types: professional wars and citizen wars, writes Thomas A. Bruscino, Jr.
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Spring 2008 Claremont Review of Books Now Available
The Spring 2008 issue of the Claremont Review of Books is now available, featuring Charles R. Kesler and Daniel Oliver on William F. Buckley, Jr., James W. Ceaser on the 2008 presidential primaries, Harry V. Jaffa on Sen. Obama's reply to Rev. Wright, Michael M. Uhlmann on the war powers, Carl J. Schramm on modern economics, Larry P. Arnn on Sir Winston Churchill, Harvey C. Mansfield on charity, plus discussions of Progressivism, atheism, intelligent design, P.G. Wodehouse, Dick Cheney, Joseph Epstein, Henry Adams, the Glorious Revolution, the Civil War, and more.
