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Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will be the featured speaker at the Claremont Institute's annual Dinner in Honor of Sir Winston Churchill on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008 at the Island Hotel in Newport Beach, California. Seating is limited. Click here to reserve your seats.
Valiunas on Edmund Wilson
Discrimination used to be a critic's most valuable stock in trade, the touchstone of his own quality or lack thereof. Multiculturalist gourmandise, the eagerness to take in as much as the belly can hold—and the more alien the fare the better, however insipid or scorching it may be—has pretty well put an end to that, writes Algis Valiunas in the Summer 2008 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Thomas on the First Amendment
Central to negotiating the "theological-political problem" at the heart of modern constitutionalism was to cast individual conscience—in a manner that implicated both speech and religion—as beyond the proper care of civil authority, writes George Thomas in the Summer 2008 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Leibsohn on Media Self-Censorship
By denouncing the documentary Obsession and refusing to accept paid advertisements, journalists are engaging in public interest self-censorship, argues Claremont Institute Fellow Seth Leibsohn. For them, any documentary on radical Islam is beyond the pale.Weiner on World War II Alliances
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.Stoner on Judicial Supremacy
Has the science of politics, said by America's founders to have been greatly improved since antiquity, further improved since they wrote the Constitution, asks James R. Stoner, Jr., in the Summer 2008 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.From the Archives: Kennedy on Missile Defense
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.Rosen on Population Control
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.Ehrman on Reagan
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.Rahe on Political Greatness
Is there a substantive difference between the aims and accomplishments of Nelson Mandela, George Washington, and Winston Churchill on the one hand, and those of Idi Amin, Joseph Stalin, and Neville Chamberlain on the other, asks Paul A. Rahe in the Summer 2008 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Kochin on American Religion and Israel
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.Schneider on American Christianity
In America, devout Christians and secularists alike appear to view religion as a fundamentally private matter (though not necessarily for the same reasons), writes Thomas E. Schneider 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.For more entries, visit our Writings Archive...
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