If in the next century the United States is to regain its republican spirit and rescue Constitutional government, the conservative movement will first have to rediscover what about America it is trying, after all, to conserve.
Posted on December 17, 1998 in Writings
Today, a great many Americans more readily and unequivocally assent to the "Playboy Philosophy" than to the older, harder, more austere principles that guided the American Founding.
Posted on December 17, 1998 in Writings
One thing must be remembered above all else in the coming hearings of impeachment against the President of the United States. You must put the Constitution, your duty to it, and your oath to it, in the center of your thoughts and actions.
Posted on December 10, 1998 in Writings
The vote of the members of the House on any future impeachment resolution, in the teeth of President Clinton's manifest crimes, will be one that they had better be prepared to explain to their fellow Americans until their dying days.
Posted on December 2, 1998 in Writings
Reversing the advice of Theodore Roosevelt to 'speak softly and carry a big stick,' Mr. Clinton blusters, threatens, rattles swords, and then…nothing. This is a recipe for disaster.
Posted on November 27, 1998 in Writings
Mr. Rusher wonders whether he is the only Republican in the country who didn't think the party's showing on November 3rd was a "debacle," a "drubbing," or an "earthquake."
Posted on November 14, 1998 in Writings
The Claremont Institute's recent conference on homosexuality revealed the kinds of assaults that do not seem to count, or register, in the current state of our public life.
Posted on November 11, 1998 in Writings
The House of Representatives can either follow the reasonable procedures set forth in our Constitution, or set the dangerous precedent of bending the law for a rogue chief executive.
Posted on November 11, 1998 in Writings
The new Speaker of the House must be someone who combines two qualities rarely found in one soul. First, he must be devoted to principle. Second, he must be patient.
Posted on November 10, 1998 in Writings
By accusing our conference of "hate-mongering," the Los Angeles City Council displayed malicious ignorance. By suggesting that the topic of our conference should be out-of-bounds, they revealed a moral astigmatism, not to mention a tyrannical bent.
Posted on November 5, 1998 in Writings
Nationally syndicated columnist Don Feder, after observing the behavior of the protesters at our recent conference on homosexuality, sees a conspiracy to deny First Amendment rights.
Posted on November 2, 1998 in Writings
Claremont Institute fellow Ronald J. Pestritto hopes that the liberal advocates of hate crimes legislation will abandon their candlelight vigils for mass murderers and join in the call for just punishment for all crime.
Posted on October 30, 1998 in Writings
If the Palestinian Authority intends to use violence to establish despotism, then it is better to confront that violence now, rather than later when it is stronger still.
Posted on October 4, 1998 in Writings
The political emergence of the idea of postmodernism under Bill Clinton indicates how far our President and his defenders — and an alarming portion of our political culture — have departed from the principles of the American Founding, writes Institute fellow Ronald Pestritto.
Posted on October 1, 1998 in Writings
Posted on October 1, 1998 in Writings
Since the Founding of the Republic, but especially for the last 100 years, the ethos of the U.S. military has been oriented toward the requirement to win the nation's wars. This warrior ethos is now under assault, writes Institute fellow Mackubin Thomas Owens.
Posted on September 25, 1998 in Writings
We must bring our government under control, and the method of control is written by the greatest political minds who ever lived.
Posted on September 17, 1998 in Writings
The President of the
National Rifle Association tells us that a cultural war is indeed raging across our land, storming our values, assaulting our freedoms, and killing our self-confidence in who we are and what we believe. We invite you to read his remarks from our Constitution Day event.
Posted on September 17, 1998 in Writings
We should not respect the Constitution simply because it is tradition. There are, after all, bad traditions. Rather, as American citizens we have a duty to understand the Constitution as fully as possible, writes Vice President Tom Krannwitter.
Posted on September 17, 1998 in Writings
Posted on September 1, 1998 in Writings
Posted on August 1, 1998 in Writings
Posted on July 1, 1998 in Writings
Arts do not grow like the grass in the fields. Human purpose, design, and conscious method infuse the arts. The liberal arts are, writes Christopher Flannery, the leisure disciplines, the disciplines of freedom.
Posted on June 1, 1998 in Writings
"Conservative statesmanship, if it is going to be successful in the future, is going to have to come to grips with the fantastic changes that liberalism has made in our politics over the past century." — Senior fellow Charles Kesler, at the Claremont Institute's 1998 President's Club Meeting.
Posted on May 28, 1998 in Writings
"How can politics help to restore a healthy American culture? The question assumes that politics can shape culture — indeed, can conduct us 'towards the renewal of civilization,' in the noble words of this volume's subtitle — but that assumption is, of course, itself controversial." — Charles Kesler.
Posted on May 15, 1998 in Writings
Posted on April 1, 1998 in Writings
The subordination of the passions to reason — in the economy of human well-being — was a doctrine common to both Athens and Jerusalem, writes distinguished fellow Harry V. Jaffa.
Posted on February 13, 1998 in Writings
Contrary to our 'paleoconservatives,' the truths of the Founding do not depend solely upon tradition or divine revelation, but are 'discerned in human nature' by human reason grounded in 'self-evident truths.'" — Distinguished fellow Harry V. Jaffa
Posted on February 12, 1998 in Writings
The former Attorney General encourages us look to Abraham Lincoln for principled guidance when confronting today's political situation. We invite you to read the transcript of his Lincoln Day remarks, delivered earlier this year in Washington, D.C.
Posted on February 12, 1998 in Writings
"By ending its extension, Lincoln believed slavery would be placed 'in course of ultimate extinction.' Before the outbreak of the Civil War, however, Lincoln expected the measures to end slavery would be taken by the slave states themselves. That, after all, is how slavery had been ended in the North." — Distinguished fellow Harry V. Jaffa
Posted on January 29, 1998 in Writings
Posted on January 1, 1998 in Writings
