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The Claremont Institute
To return to limited government, conservatives must return to the principles of the American Founding. The Claremont Institute provides the missing argument in the battle to win public sentiment by teaching and promoting the philosophical reasoning that is the foundation of limited government and the statesmanship required to bring that reasoning into practice.
About Our Fellowships
We educate the best and most promising young writers, lawyers, activists, academics, entrepreneurs, and public servants through our annual Publius, Lincoln, John Marshall, Speechwriters, and Sheriffs Fellowship programs, engaging this next generation of conservative leaders in a lifelong study of the true principles of government and their application to today’s policies.
This Month’s Alumni Spotlight
Jasmine Baehr
2025 Lincoln Fellow
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To return to limited government, conservatives must return to the principles of the American Founding. The Claremont Institute provides the missing argument in the battle to win public sentiment by teaching and promoting the philosophical reasoning that is the foundation of limited government and the statesmanship required to bring that reasoning into practice.
From the Summer 2026 Issue Issue Of Claremont Review of Books
The Political Contradictions of Trumpism
By William Voegeli
Red and Dead
By Daniel J. Mahoney
Officers and Gentlemen
By Mackubin T. Owens
The Latest From The American Mind
Restoring Affordability from the Bottom Up
By Kevin Roberts
The Declaration’s God
By Owen Anderson
Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence
The mission of the Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence is to restore the constitutional design envisioned by our nation’s founders.
Featured Case
Tuaua v. United States (2015)
Whether individuals born in United States territories, but not in the fifty states, are entitled to birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Latest from Our Podcasts
The American Mind Podcast
What Makes an American—Birthright Citizenship and the U.S. at 250
On the cusp of America’s 250th anniversary, the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission has prepared a lineup of events celebrating the nation’s virtues. This week, Lucas Morel, member of the commission and professor of politics at Washington and Lee University, joins the show to celebrate the many and varied expressions of patriotism this occasion has called forth, while emphasizing the need to recover the merits of the Founding.
The Close Read
How America Taught China to Build ft. Emmet Penney
Excited by the prospect of capitalizing on China’s rise in the 2010s, American firms—notably Apple—funneled billions of dollars of capital and masses of infrastructure into the nation without regard for geopolitics. Today, China has realized its opportunity to rival the U.S. as a regional power, using our investments as a springboard. This week, Claremont Lincoln Fellow Emmet Penney joins Spencer Klavan to evaluate how, as America reaches an inflection point at 250, it can recover a sense of national agency and avoid the creeping "historical nihilism" that threatens to infect both the Left and the Right.
