Provocations Issue #6
How We Got Our Antiracist Constitution
Over the past decade, several American cities have been rocked by race riots. With each passing year, a new racial agenda—from police defunding, to education reform, to reparation—emerges, leading to more and more division and radicalization along racial lines. What started all of this? The roots of this pathology run much deeper than the recent symptoms suggest...
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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 Winter 2023/24 Issue Of Claremont Review of Books
National Conservatism vs. American Conservatism
By Charles R. Kesler
The Case Against a Second New Deal
By William Voegeli
Mr. X
By Helen Andrews
The Latest From The American Mind
The Real Reagan
By Daniel J. Mahoney
Mean Girls Rising
By Joel Kotkin
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
California Building Industry Association v. City of San Jose (2016)
Whether a California law mandating that all new housing buildings with 20 or more units reserve fifteen percent of the total units to be sold below market value constitutes a violation of the Takings Clauses of the United States Constitution and California Constitutions.
The Latest from Our Podcasts
The American Mind Podcast
Trump’s Path of Totality
The numbers are in, and they aren’t good. Recent inflation exceeded expectations, and even that doesn’t fully capture the pain felt by everyday Americans. Meanwhile, much of the US bore witness to the primal wonder of the cosmos during Monday’s total eclipse. As “The Science” becomes increasingly shamanistic, the world becomes more and more enchanted—but what you make of it depends on where you stand. The difference in lived and reported experiences seems to be manifesting in voters as the election season spools up and cracks deepen in the Democrat Party over the question of Zionism.
The Close Read
Dan Mahoney on Russian Politics, Past and Future
For a country that features so prominently in the news and so wildly in many conspiracy theories, Russia is a country that many Americans—especially many in the press—scarcely understand. Dan Mahoney’s new review essay in CRB gives a clarifying survey of major trends, challenges, and attitudes in Russian politics since the days of the Tsars. Without emotional theatrics but with moral clarity, Mahoney equips readers with resources for a fuller understanding of Russia’s past and its possible future.
