Liberty
A decadent society documented
Charles Murray dissects Ross Douthat‘s latest tome for the Claremont Review of Books. “Complaining about decadence is, almost by definition, a luxury good,” Ross Douthat observes in his new book,…
Claremont Review of Books
American magazine on politics and statesmanship
Liberty
Norman Podhoretz changes tune on Trump
Scott Morefield of the Daily Caller explores interesting observations from the “founder of neoconservatism.” Commentary magazine editor-at-large Norman Podhoretz, once a staunch opponent of President Donald Trump and much of…
Liberty
A highly vocal part of the bureaucratic resistance
Susan Crabtree of the Washington Free Beacon reports on one way in which the Trump administration’s failure to appoint new bureaucrats is undermining its work. President Donald Trump’s more-than-one-year delay…
Liberty
What Cicero can teach North Carolina about policies to help the poor
View in your browser. What can be done to help the poor is a perennial issue in politics, and with it comes what is to me a real puzzler. Why…
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Problems with the politics of kindness
The latest print edition of National Review features Michael Knox Beran‘s review of The Pity Party, the latest book from William Voegeli. Beran focuses on the author’s analysis of the…
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Why liberal compassion fails to produce results
William Voegeli of the Claremont Review of Books recently explained for a Hillsdale College audience, documented in the latest issue of Hillsdale’s Imprimis, why public policies based on compassion often…
Health Care
A constitutional argument against Obamacare
In a recent issue of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis, government professor and Claremont Review of Books editor Charles Kesler calls for Obamacare critics to focus their attention on the law’s clear…
Law & Public Safety
The Tea Party’s ties to the Constitution
Charles Kesler explores for the Claremont Review of Books the links between the Tea Party movement and American constitutional history. Both the old and the new Tea Party stand for…
Liberty
A Feminist “Wikistorm”
Sounds like the stuff of nightmares, right? Well, it’s real and happened at the Claremont Graduate School out in California in October. Prominent gender and media studies professors from across the…
Law & Public Safety
Will praises a measure designed to realign the constitutional balance
George Will‘s latest column focuses on retiring U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis’ effort to redress a key flaw in our current constitutional system. His Regulations From the Executive in Need of…
Liberty
Obama as a different kind of liberal
In the latest edition of Hillsdale College?s Imprimis, Claremont Review of Books editor Charles R. Kesler compares our current president to his left-of-center predecessors. While Kesler finds that much of…
Liberty
Bet you didn’t know
I have finally discovered the significance of this ?John Locke? character, who reportedly lived and died a while back. According to a piece in the Claremont Review of Books by…