Tribes of Terror
Al-Qaeda and the Taliban have gathered the diaspora of the worldwide Islamist revolution into Waziristan, one of Pakistan's obscure tribal regions. With Pakistan now in turmoil and simmering tensions between modernity and Muslim social life coming to a head, Stanley Kurtz proposes effective strategies for the war on terrorism in the Winter 2007/08 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Winter 2007/08 CRB (6.4 MB PDF)
abstractConfronting Dred Scott
Though no serious scholar would ever endorse the outcome of Dred Scott, there's broad disagreement among those who condemn it. Was the decision a wild burst of judicial activism in the service of a bad cause, or a plausible ruling given the state of the Constitution at the time, asks Michael Zuckert in the Winter 2007/08 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Whatever It Takes
What do four recent movies on Iraq and terrorism—In the Valley of Elah, The Kingdom, Rendition, and Lions for Lambs—say about the way Hollywood thinks about war and torture, asks Martha Bayles in the Winter 2007/08 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.In War: Resolution
The history of American war blunders should teach us that mistakes are inevitable during war, and that our goal cannot be to realize every one of our objectives, but to realize more of them than the enemy does of his. We would be wise to remember Churchill's words: "Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter," writes Victor Davis Hanson in the Winter 2007/08 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Fr. James V. Schall on Pope Benedict and the Defense of Reason
Every year, Ken Masugi speaks with Fr. James V. Schall, professor of government at Georgetown University, about the relationship between reason and faith and its implications for politics. In the fifth installment of their annual conversation, Schall takes up radical Islam, why Hell is modernity's most neglected doctrine, and how the Church should seek to influence politics.A Very Claremont Christmas
Recommended reading for the season from Hadley Arkes, Brian Calle, Angelo Codevilla, Patrick Collins, Steven Hayward, Scott Johnson, Tom Karako, John Kienker, Christopher Levenick, Jack Pitney, and Bruce Sanborn.Correspondence
abstractGrowing Up American
abstractFolk Tales
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abstractTimeless Mind
abstractBeijing's Thoroughly Non-Politicized Olympics
China has called for the 2008 Olympics not to be "politicized." But the host country should take its own advice, writes Daniel C. Palm.Losing the War of Ideas?
After a short two-year tenure, Karen Hughes now departs as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. She concentrated on the public affairs area of her job by creating the Rapid Response Unit and regional media hubs-things that anyone would find hard to believe the US government was not already doing before her arrival, writes Robert R. Reilly.Mother Tongue
Seth Lerer, in this engaging but ultimately frustrating book, means to address the unprofessional lover of English with the argument that the 1,400-year-old language has been in constant change, endlessly "invented," writes Joseph Tartakovsky in the Fall 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Aryan Sister
Leni Riefenstahl turned out propaganda without compunction because serving the Nazi regime was her main chance, writes Algis Valiunas in the Fall 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books. Fame, money, and power enticed her into accepting the devil's bargain; there was nothing in her scantly furnished soul to make her resist.American Statecraft and the Iraq War
Because the U.S. government's occupation of Iraq violated the principles of statecraft, America is on the verge of losing a crucial round in the long war against Middle Eastern regimes, writes Angelo M. Codevilla in the Fall 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation
The Claremont Institute wishes to make known to you the following proclamation, at the request of President George Washington.Allan Bloom and America
From the archives: Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind, which turns 20 this year, is a good and useful book, but it makes a critical mistake about America, writes Thomas G. West.Tribes of Terror
Al-Qaeda and the Taliban have gathered the diaspora of the worldwide Islamist revolution into Waziristan, one of Pakistan's obscure tribal regions. With Pakistan now in turmoil and simmering tensions between modernity and Muslim social life coming to a head, Stanley Kurtz proposes effective strategies for the war on terrorism in this special preview of the Winter 2007/08 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The Genius of Old New York
Edith Wharton, the massive new biography by Oxford English professor Hermione Lee, is the story of success: how Lee's formidable heroine survived a painful childhood, a disastrous marriage, an only slightly less disastrous love affair, repeated bouts of depression and illness, and the German occupation. Through it all, writes Cheryl Miller in the Fall 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books, Wharton remained unflappable.Chilling Uncertainties about Global Warming
Despite what Al Gore says, we need to approach the global warming question with honest debate and a renewed fidelity to the principles of science, write Jens F. Laurson and George A. Pieler.The Trouble with Limited Government
Reagan was elected president 25 years after the first issue of National Review declared its intention to "stand athwart history, yelling Stop." In the 25 years since, however, conservatives determined to scale back the welfare state might as well have been standing a respectful distance behind history, whispering "Please slow down." If conservatism has a future, writes William Voegeli in the Fall 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books, those who want to fashion it need to acknowledge and understand this stunning defeat.Reagan and the Historians
The Reagan book industry is shifting into high gear these days with several important new perspectives on our 40th president and his statecraft. It may be wondered, however, whether the best guide to the man isn't still Reagan himself, in the form of his newly published diaries, writes Steven F. Hayward in the Fall 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.From Under the Rubble
Born in Russia one year after the Bolshevik seizure of power, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn outlived the political system that persecuted him, surviving its horrible network of labor camps while documenting its myriad crimes. Solzhenitsyn's writings, argues David L. Tubbs in the Fall 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books, are indispensable for understanding the 20th century.Forcing the Spring
It's not enough to reject the liberals' notion of change for change's sake, writes Charles R. Kesler in the Fall 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books. Conservatives have to prove that they can reason their way to an improved policy on Iraq, as on other issues.Fall 2007 CRB (3.6 MB PDF)
abstractOut of Focus
This year's Academy Awards were swept by a film, The Departed, which is set in Boston but based on another film, Infernal Affairs, set in Hong Kong. It is regrettable that few serious comparisons have been made between the two, writes Martha Bayles in the Fall 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books, because their relationship is summed up by a comment Samuel Johnson is said to have made to an aspiring writer: "Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good."Land of the Free
Americans want to know how this country came to be what it is: a nation that has advanced ordered freedom, representative government, and bounteous global capitalism, writes Michael Barone in the Fall 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books. They want to read the kind of history Bill Bennett has written in his two-volume America: The Last Best Hope.A Thousand and One Nights
Michael Oren argues that three themes, power, faith, and fantasy, have defined the American encounter with the Middle East, writes Harvey Sicherman in the Fall 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books. By power Oren means the usual exertions of military and economic influence; faith, the lure of the region, especially Palestine, to a deeply Protestant republic; and fantasy, illusions about the Middle East that inspired many a do-gooder, carnival barker, Hollywood mogul, and president.Justice Clarence Thomas on Bill Bennett's Morning in America
On his radio show Tuesday morning, Bill Bennett, the Claremont Institute's Washington Fellow, introduced Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas this way: "For years, as I've been doing the speech circuit, people have said to me, 'who is the greatest living American?' I don't hesitate, I say, 'Justice Clarence Thomas, my friend, Clarence Thomas.'"Behind the Veil of Ignorance
abstractBack to the Cave
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abstractMaking It New
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abstractSaving Liberalism from Itself
American liberalism, if it will only acknowledge its pre-liberal debts, can be the foundation of a decent and dignified political order, writes Peter Augustine Lawler in the Summer 2007 issue of Claremont Review of Books.The French Connection
Why did the French Revolution of 1789, dedicated to liberty, equality and fraternity, devolve just four years later into a dictatorship with a policy of terror, asks John Zvesper.Bodiless Politics
Pierre Manent, in A World Beyond Politics?, aims to present an "impartial overview of the political order—or disorder—of today's world." He provides, in addition, a defense of politics that is intended as a wake up call to fellow Europeans who have forgotten, or who no longer appreciate, the value of what he calls "the political," writes James W. Ceaser in the Summer 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The Story of LBJ
Lyndon Johnson told a college chum that he intended to live his life in such a way that after he had been dead for a hundred years somebody would know that he had lived. With 34 down and 66 to go (LBJ died in 1973), writes Alvin S. Felzenberg, he is getting his wish.Celebrating Constitution Day
Today we celebrate the 220th anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution. To commemorate the occasion, we have selected articles from our archives by David Forte, Harry V. Jaffa, Thomas L. Krannawitter, Ronald J. Pestritto, Ralph A. Rossum, and James A. Stoner that reflect on the rise and fall of constitutional government in America, and point a way toward reclaiming our Constitution.Iran's Proxy War Against America by Thomas Joscelyn
On September 10, General David Petraeus, while testifying before the House Committees on Foreign Affairs and Armed Services, said that Iran is fighting a "proxy war" using Shi'a militias against Iraqi and coalition forces in Iraq. Today, on the sixth anniversary of September 11, the Claremont Institute is proud to announce a new policy study by Thomas Joscelyn—Iran's Proxy War Against America, which details Tehran's thirty-year offensive against the U.S.Allah in America
Modern Islam's complexity may be best captured through the stories of individual Muslims, writes Robert S. Leiken. That is the method wisely chosen by former Wall Street Journal reporter Paul Barrett in his American Islam, a most welcome volume based on on-the-spot, in-depth reporting over time.Liberal Democratic Citizenship
What should liberal democracies expect—and what do they have the right to demand—from their immigrants and from their citizens, asks John Zvesper.Getting Religion
From the point of view of America's conservatives, Noah Feldman's solution to America's church-state problem—to let religious people say all they want in public, even in political discussions, but let the rules stand that secular liberals have pushed through the courts—is no solution at all, writes Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr., in the Summer 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The Electoral College: Proven Constitutional Pillar of Freedom
Pith and Pen
The anecdote is generally lighter than a parable and weightier than a joke, less misleading than rumor and more entertaining than testimony. It is a story whose subject cannot be ghosts, fish, or cock-and-bull, but only people, preferably famous ones. Finally, writes Joseph Tartakovsky in the 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books, it must be neat, pointed, and self-contained.A Noble and Generous Soul
Alexis de Tocqueville's equanimity in addressing the two great "anthropological forms" of political experience—democracy and aristocracy—is rooted in a profound thoughtfulness about both human nature and the nature of democracy, writes Daniel J. Mahoney in the Summer 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books. While he loved liberty—liberty as equal rights—his greatness of soul owed something to the dying world of aristocracy.Building Democracy
For over 40 years, Allan Greenberg has been a leading figure in the revival of a classical perspective in architecture, and the confrontation with the doctrines of relativism that inform the assumptions of today's architectural establishment. In Architecture of Democracy, Greenberg returns to that deep connection between American architecture and the American regime—the "good" that is enduring and that holds across the historical epochs, writes Hadley Arkes in the Summer 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.In Memoriam
Charismatic and charming, with a ready and hearty laugh, the late Muhsin Mahdi maintained the stance of a true philosopher in an era marked by conflict between and among the three Abrahamic faiths, writes Charles Butterworth.Made in America
abstractGuide for the Perplexed
abstractWard Churchill and Multiculturalism: Why American Schools are becoming Anti-American
The political goal of our institutions of higher education is to teach American students the truth about their country, beginning with the self-evident truths that form the core of political justice and the American experiment in self-government, writes Thomas L. Krannawitter. If we muster the nerve and the intelligence to teach those truths without blushing, we will find Ward Churchill is the least of our problems. Of much more concern are the multicultural institutions that (mis)educated him.Winning the War of Ideas
American public diplomacy is in disarray, writes Robert R. Reilly in the Summer 2007 Claremont Review of Books. We are not winning—indeed, we are hardly waging—the war of ideas, and it is vitally important that we do, because in our war against the radical Islamists the final victory will take place not on the battlefield but in the minds of men.Between Riddle and Revelation
In Dante: the Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man, Barbara Reynolds writes with the confidence of a scholar who has attained an objective, de-romanticized standpoint on Dante and his world, and in the process she breaks new ground, writes Giuseppe Mazzotta in the Summer 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Why We Read
If you were subjected to too many gender studies courses at a top-tier university, pick up The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature and start reading, recommends Eliana Johnson.Statecraft and Wordcraft
Interpreters of Lincoln who attempt to shed new light on his presidential speeches, especially the Gettysburg Address, enter a contested holy land. Did Lincoln speak the Address's precise words? Were they inspired or calculated? What kind of political purposes were involved? Is it better to understand them in terms of Lincoln's own time or the years that followed? Two new books approach these challenges in different yet complimentary ways, writes John C. Briggs in the Summer 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The Greatness and Decline of American Oratory
American Speeches, a two-volume collection from the Library of America, very successfully winnows out the petty and the dry, and mostly winnows out the pretentious and pompous, leaving a selection of mighty speeches on the twin themes of liberty and equality, writes Diana Schaub in the Summer 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Civic Biology?
The famous Scopes trial involved more than a simple clash between creationism and Darwinian natural science. Many proponents of the Tennessee law upholding the teaching of biblical creation were most troubled by the eugenics and racial superiority emphasized by progressive evolutionists, explain Michael Novak and Ashley Morrow.Crisis of the Old Liberal Order
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who died in February at the age of 89, spent 60 years being famous as an emblem and arbiter of American liberalism, though his importance waned as liberalism's did, writes William Voegeli in the Summer 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The Great Triumvirate
In this highly readable tale of the Cold War's endgame, John O'Sullivan demonstrates how the collaboration of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II, which proved to be more than the sum of its parts, contributed decisively to the Soviet imperium's confusion and ultimate ruin, writes Carnes Lord in the Summer 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Constitutional Conventions
In the founders' republican form of government, the people retain their sovereignty through numerous checks on government power but do not themselves rule day to day, writes Randy E. Barnett in the Summer 2007 Claremont Review of Books.Making Americans
There are a number of short-term actions to be taken on the immigration front, some more important than others. But our ultimate goal is to make sure that Americans, both those here and those we choose to admit in the future, will still be, as Lincoln said, blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh, of those men who wrote the Declaration of Independence. If we cannot get this right, the rest won't matter, writes Brian T. Kennedy in the Summer 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Christianity's Fertile Roots
Besides denunciations and vindications of Christianity, there may be a third narrative, a Jewish one, in which the West's most popular faith partly lost its way for some centuries, but eventually rediscovered its Hebrew core, writes David Klinghoffer.Lord Have Mercy
Every talented writer is entitled to be a bore on at least one subject, but where religion is concerned Christopher Hitchens abuses the privilege, writes Ross Douthat in the Summer 2007 Claremont Review of Books.Test of Spacing Bug on Claremont.org homepage
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Iraq and the Neoconservatives
President Bush believes in democracy as a historical and even providential solution to the problem of evil in the world. The neoconservatives make much more modest claims for democracy as a regime within reach of almost every nation in the world, including the Middle East's inveterate despotisms. Both the Bush Administration and the current generation of neoconservatives overreached in turning a punitive and preventive war against Saddam Hussein into a war for Iraqi democracy: liberation was one thing, democratization quite another. Republican candidates in 2008 therefore should distance themselves from the Bush Doctrine's excesses without abandoning the crucial fight against terrorism, writes Charles R. Kesler in the Summer 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The American Founding as the Best Regime
This bonding of civil and religious liberty is the core of the idea of limited government, and hence of freedom in our world, for we are compelled both to rely upon and to enjoy a degree of personal autonomy that was inconceivable in the ancient city, writes Claremont Institute Distinguished Fellow Harry V. Jaffa.Intelligence Failures
George Tenet's At the Center of the Storm and John Prados's Safe for Democracy show, each in its own way, that the CIA serves not the United States but its own corporate interests and its partisan vision, writes Angelo M. Codevilla in the Summer 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books. It will continue to do so until a president who understands this remakes U.S. intelligence from the ground up.Unnatural Acts
In Challenging Nature, Lee Silver is at his best when he is teaching biology, writes Ramesh Ponnuru in the Spring 2007 Claremont Review of Books. The results are far less edifying when he commits philosophy, especially when he seems unaware that he is doing so.Forging a Nation
What accounts for the fact that by the Second World War, Americans, in their collective memory of the Civil War, had threaded Southern pride into the larger tapestry of American nationalism? Nations, Markets, and War shows that, apart from economics and military success, perceptions of interest and identity play a large role in the building of nations, writes Jeremy Rabkin the Spring 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.From Polis to Imperium
Emphasizing political and military events over culture, Robin Lane Fox has written a spirited history of two periods that "have come to be seen as particularly classical": Athens of the 4th and 5th centuries, and the Rome of Julius Caesar and Augustus, from the 1st century B.C. to 14 A.D. But what is the meaning of the classical, asks Thomas R. Martin in the Spring 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Arms and the Man
It is commonly argued that changes in precision weaponry and information technology have created a "revolution in military affairs." Will the ongoing RMA really give the United States a significant advantage against its enemies, asks Colin Dueck in the Spring 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Books in Brief: Perspectives on Politics in Shakespeare
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Books in Brief: Who Really Cares
abstractEmpire and Its Discontents
The revival of interest in empires is welcome, writes Jakub J. Grygiel in the Spring 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books. No matter how we define American power, it is impressive in scope and size, and the challenges of managing it have historical parallels.What Terrorists Believe
In Knowing the Enemy, Mary Habeck's purpose is to take seriously the ideas of the jihadists. In doing so, she not only enriches our understanding of the enemy, but perhaps more importantly, suggests how we may use the extremists' ideology against them, writes Elizabeth Edwards Spalding.Correspondence
AbstractBooks in Brief
abstract© Inequity
abstractA Left-Handed Salute
abstractEastman is New Dean of Chapman University Law School
Long-time Claremont Institute scholar Dr. John Eastman has accepted a new position as Dean of Chapman University Law School.Taming Big Government
abstractArthur Schlesinger on Clavin Coolidge
abstractDon't Just Do Something, Stand There
Let's put illegal immigration on the course of ultimate extinction by tolerating no more furtherance, or rewarding, of it—but without taking any drastic measures either, writes Claremont Institute fellow Seth Leibsohn.Moderate Romanticism?
Isaiah Berlin's intellectual history, Political Ideas in the Romantic Age, can tell us much about the development of Berlin's own thought—and perhaps its shortcomings as well, writes James H. Nichols, Jr.Campaign Speech to the American Political Science Association
AbstractPhilosophy and Revelation
Heinrich Meier agrees with Leo Strauss that revealed religion should be seen as a challenge to the the philosophic life. Why did Strauss rekindle this quarrel between ancients and moderns, asks Svetozar Minkov in the Spring 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Got Religion?
Was America founded as one nation under John Locke—or Jesus Christ, asks Daniel L. Dreisbach.Larry McMurtry and the American West
Larry McMurtry intended his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lonesome Dove, to "demythicize" the West. "[I]nstead," he complained later, it "became a kind of American Arthuriad." What explains this persistent failure of intentions in McMurtry's Western writings, asks Douglas A. Jeffrey in the Spring 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Ferocious Warmakers: How Democracies Win Wars
From the Archive: Republican Rome. Swiss cantons. Italian city-states. Victorian England. America. Why do democracies project military power far beyond what their limited territories and populations suggest? Victor Davis Hanson explains, in an essay from the Winter 2002 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.New World Order
Robert Kagan denies that the nation has become too idealistic, arrogant, or imperial, and that only a more considerate America can reclaim hearts and minds abroad. Instead, he writes to advocate an approach to the world—call it what you will: neoconservative, Reaganite, Bush Doctrinaire—that since Iraq has come under withering political attack, writes Patrick Garrity in the Spring 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration:
Principles and Challenges in America
The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration, by Institute senior fellows Edward J. Erler, John Marini, and Thomas G. West, seeks to revive the issue of republican character in the current immigration debate, and to elucidate the constitutional foundations of American citizenship. It is the latest volume in the Claremont Institute’s series on Statesmanship and Political Philosophy.
Alexander in Afghanistan
Steven Pressfield's The Afghan Campaign is a vivid, compelling tale about Alexander's campaign in Afghanistan, as recounted by a young Macedonian infantryman in the army, writes Ronald Cluett in the Spring 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Church Militant
It's not merely that President Bush and Tony Blair fear framing the war against terror in terms of an age-old religious clash, or even an embarrassing postcolonial replay. It's that the Western public as a whole remains deeply ashamed of their crusading ancestors' zealotry and intolerance, writes Victor Davis Hanson in the Spring 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Encountering Islam
Edward Said's Orientalism condemns virtually all the great Western literary travelers through Muslim lands as agents of imperialism. But this literature, which includes works by Flaubert, Tocqueville, and Twain, offers a fascinating, honest picture of Islamic civilization that can instruct us still, writes Algis Valiunas in the Spring 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Political Correctness vs. Our Students
Complaining about political correctness on campus is like complaining about your taxes in April. But with its sharp, scientific insights into how P.C. harms the hearts and minds of our students, this new book by an anonymous M.D. deserves our attention, writes Julie Ann Ponzi.Justice Kennedy’s Partial Birth Abortion Decision Invites Long-Overdue Dialogue
Roe v. Wade closed the door on the genuine political dialogue concerning abortion, and Casey nailed the door shut. Justice Kennedy's opinion in Gonzales v. Carhart has reopened the door a crack, recognizing that an issue such as this simply cannot be decided without the input of the people, writes Claremont Institute Fellow John Eastman in The Los Angeles Daily Journal. As Director of the Claremont Institute's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, Eastman filed an amicus brief in the partial birth case, located here.Bring Back the Constitution
The presidential campaigns are still in that early stage when the candidates introduce themselves on the basis of their biography and the offices they've held, as if they were running for student body president. There is no significant policy debate. But bringing in the Constitution would lend the race seriousness and focus, writes Charles R. Kesler in the Spring 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The Case for the Strong Executive
Complaints against the "imperial presidency" are back in vogue. We should defend the strong executive, and remember that the debate between the strong executive and its adversary, the rule of law, is necessary, good, and-under the Constitution-never-ending, writes Harvey C. Mansfield in the Spring 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.L'Américain
French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy's book, Témoignage, argues that France's political elites have failed their country. No wonder his plans for reform—of France's social model, political institutions, and immigration and foreign policies—have earned him the disapprobative epithet, "Sarkozy l'Américain," writes Patrick Chamorel in the Winter 06/07 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Slaughtering the 14th Amendment
In 1873, a dispute over state regulation of the Louisiana beef industry gave the United States Supreme Court its first opportunity to interpret the newly ratified 14th Amendment. The Slaughterhouse Cases, as the decision came to be known, has been a source of controversy ever since, writes Timothy Sandefur in the Summer 2004 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.A Tell-All with Nothing to Tell
Like audiences who pay to peek between their fingers at horror movies, certain liberals love to frighten themselves with nightmarish visions of an America governed by religious zealots. Damon Linker's Theocons: Secular America Under Siege exposes their foolishness, writes Michael M. Uhlmann in the Spring 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Mythic Morals
The Three Rings
The Man Who Made Modern America
Consistently Right
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ABSTRACTA Closer Look Under The Bed
To Be As Gods
FDR As Statesman
The Price of Rights
Why America Works
Have Gun, Will Travel
For over 30 years, Colin Gray has been the most consistently brilliant strategic thinker in the English-speaking world. And he is at his best when addressing the broad questions of strategy, writes Mackubin Thomas Owens in the Fall 2004 issue of the <I>Claremont Review of Books.</i>Tribute to Professor Librescu
Why did he act to preserve the lives of his students? And what can we learn? asks Joseph Tartakovsky.Oh, What A Tangled Webb
As Democrats head into the 2008 elections, they are preparing to give populism another whirl, writes William Voegeli in the Spring 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Ends, Enemies, and Friends
The Gelded Age
Mark Steyn's bestselling new book, America Alone, though urgent and filled with wit and insight, is not without its flaws, writes Theodore Dalrymple in the Spring 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Cultivated Taste
Two new translations of Virgil's Georgics—called "the best poem of the best poet" by John Dryden—remind us of the poem's brilliance. Virgil's seamless melding of poetic artistry with philosophical ideas makes the Georgics difficult to translate, but the work is rewarding when it is done well, writes Bruce S. Thornton in the Spring 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Rumsfeld to Receive Statesmanship Award at 2007 Churchill Dinner
The Claremont Institute is pleased to announce that Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld will receive the 2007 Statesmanship Award at our annual dinner in honor of Sir Winston S. Churchill.Right On
It is hard to believe that the '70s—once thought so vapid, narcissistic, and dreary—could have brought forth modern conservatism. But the political changes that happened during that decade set the tone for the Reagan Revolution and all that followed it, writes Vincent J. Cannato.Cultural Learnings for Make Benefit Glorious Comedy of Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen's comic personae can be wildly funny, but the comedian faces the same problem as all satirists: how do you make fun of others when you're outnumbered? The best comedy is that in which people laugh as hard at themselves as they do at others, writes Martha Bayles in the Spring 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Correspondence
abstractThe Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend
The argument Dinesh D'Souza makes in The Enemy at Home—that we should reach out to moderates and traditionalists in the Muslim world—is defensible given the paucity of our alternatives. But the problem is that there is also a severe paucity of moderates and traditionalists on whom the U.S. can rely, writes Jonah Goldberg in the Spring 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.A Clear Head
abstractThe Cost of Ignorance
Bad Council
abstractDiscreet Revolutionary
abstractMussolini's Brain Trust
Queen of the Grassroots
Books in Brief
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Spinning Spinoza
A Matter of Life and Death
In his book, Ramesh Ponnuru brings a clear and precise understanding to the subjects of abortion, euthanasia, and embryonic stem-cell research and makes a straightforward argument for the sanctity of life, writes James R. Stoner, Jr.Correspondence
abstractWhat Ought a Bureaucrat Do?
Civil servants are granted an awesome amount of power, but they bear an awesome responsibility to interpret and execute the law rightly. What principles should guide them in carrying out their task?, asks Kevin R. Kosar.Books in Brief: Praeambula Fidei
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Books in Brief: The West at War
abstractBooks in Brief: To Dare and to Conquer
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abstractUp from Victimhood
According to two new books, Bill Cosby is right to label destructive personal behavior as the principal factor in perpetuating black poverty and to criticize civil rights leaders who disdain discussions of black crime or poverty unless they concentrate on white racism, writes Peter C. Myers in the Spring 2007 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Books in Brief
abstractDateline—Greeneland
Alan Furst has been justly praised for his rich descriptions of World War II-era Europe, a world of secret policemen and spies, frontier incidents and concentration camps, refugees and collaborators. His latest tale, The Foreign Correspondent, is told with characteristic skill, writes John O'Sullivan in the Winter 2006/07 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The Longest Hatred
Walter Laqueur's recent work, The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism, sets for itself the daunting task of chronicling the history of anti-Semitism from biblical times to the present. The book is nothing if not thorough, writes Mark Goldblatt.Welcome to the Claremont Review of Books
Elevating the Gaze
Republican government depends upon a well-educated citizenry, and civic education should resist politicized reductionism and elevate the gaze of its citizens, writes David J. Bobb.Strategically Challenged
Bob Woodward's new book reveals much about how President Bush and his advisors fumbled with the realities of the Iraq war. It is a valuable insight into the devolution of America's foreign policy establishment, writes Angelo Codevilla in the Winter 2006/07 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Sneak Attack
A. C. Grayling's moral condemnation of the area bombings that ended World War II—not to mention his comparison of those bombings to the September 11 attacks—devalues the sacrifices and impugns the courage of the Allied soldiers who carried out those missions, writes Duncan Currie.Ungrateful Volcano
Fouad Ajami is one of the great stalwarts in support of the Iraq war, and yet his new book casts a gloomy eye on that nation’s future. Nonetheless his portrait of Iraq is wise and fascinating, writes Joseph Tartakovsky in the Winter 2006/07 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.City of Man
Architecture is at its most beautiful when it gives form not to the architect's intention, but to enduring truths, writes Carroll William Westfall.Theater of War
Frank Rich's new book is supposed to be a critique of showbiz values in public life, writes Christopher Hitchens in the Winter 2006/07 issue of the Claremont Review of Books. But with its Hollywood-echo title—The Greatest Story Ever Sold—it is instead an example of how universal those very values have now become.The Fourth Dimension
Love and the Good Life
Women who embrace traditional female roles are much closer to living the Good Life than those who try to balance work with raising children at home, writes Jennifer Roback Morse.Blame America First
As anti-Americanism flourishes worldwide, many Americans assume that the cause is over here, not over there. But an honest look at the problem shows that the world's scorn has little to do with America's behavior, writes Gerard Alexander in the Winter 2006/07 Claremont Review of Books.Uncaptive Mind
The Bad Man School of History
When Liberalism Was Young
.Plato's Impossible Polity
.Redefining the Revolution
Business as Usual
Birth of a Blockbuster
The Worst Generation Faces the Greatest Peril
If Men Were Angels
Respecting Reagan
Florid Balderdash
The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World, by Jerome McGann.Correspondence
We, the People
The Rise and Decline of al-Qaeda
Mystic Chords of Memory
The Right Stuff
Like a Mighty Wind
Five new volumes by outspoken votaries of the Christian Left have one telling thing in common: their sermonizing focuses less on individual moral behavior than on collective political action. No surprise that their concerns are those of liberal politics, backed by divine sanction—or so they believe, writes Christopher Levenick in the Winter 2006/07 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Correspondence
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