Posted on December 28, 2001 in Precepts
Saying "Merry Christmas" violates the most sacred rules of religious neutrality. This is justified, we are told, by the holy federal government and it regulation of the public sphere, writes Institute fellow Phillip V. Muñoz.
Posted on December 25, 2001 in Writings
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This interview by Brian Mitchell appeared in the Wednesday, December 19, 2001 edition of Investor's Business Daily.
Posted on December 19, 2001 in Writings
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Few people realize that the founder of America's republican empire is buried in a churchyard at the foot of where the World Trade Center once stood. How fitting, writes Stephen F. Knott, given the insight Alexander Hamilton still provides for how we may preserve the Union for our prosperity.
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The events of September 11 have forced us to consider not only our international affairs but our domestic policy with a new realism and sobriety, writes Andrew E. Busch in the Fall 2001 issue of the
Claremont Review of Books.
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As the principal founder of the movement known as the New Historicism, Stephen Greenblatt has, for good or ill, done more than anyone else to shape the way literary criticism is currently practiced, writes Paul A. Cantor in the Fall 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
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Victory means living without worry that some foreigners might kill us on behalf of their causes, but also without having to bow to domestic bureaucrats and cops, especially useless ones, writes Angelo M. Codevilla in the Fall 2001 issue of the
Claremont Review of Books.
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As a source of information and insight into contemporary terrorism, the Fall 2001
Claremont Review of Books presents these excerpts from the
fatwa announced in February 1998 by Osama bin Laden.
Posted on November 28, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
Do 72 "black-eyed" virgins await martyrs in paradise? Or are there only 70? Are there also wives and serving boys? Are any of them available sexually? Yotam Feldner tries to sort through the confusion in the Fall 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on November 28, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
As we are faced with the threat of biomedical assault, we would do well to remember the biomedical and historical implications of one of history's most cataclysmic events, writes Michael Fumento in the Fall 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on November 28, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
Only one nation can project serious and sustained military power anywhere on the globe, and destroy its enemies and their instruments of terror. If we fail in that, all the rest ultimately won't matter, writes Patrick J. Garrity in the Fall 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on November 28, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
Like a well-researched historical novel, "The Legends of Rita" is almost true. There was no "Rita Vogt," but there were many young women like her who joined the terrorist underground in the early 1970s in Germany, and from their remarkable lives this film has been composed, writes Christopher C. Harmon in the Fall 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on November 28, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
The very nature of international relations places the pursuit of state interest in tension with the pursuit of moral action. Conservative and liberal criticisms of Henry Kissinger illustrate this age-old dilemma, writes Steven F. Hayward in the Fall 2001 issue of the
Claremont Review of Books.
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A people disposed to fearfulness (and therefore prone to terrorism) should look to the Western philosophical tradition and Edmund Burke, who stood for the dominion of conscience over the mind, writes Harvey C. Mansfield in the Fall 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
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Among the intrinsic perils of coalition warfare is the tendency to settle for half-measures when allies cannot agree on decisive action. We must remain steadfast and determined, writes Mackubin T. Owens in the Fall 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
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Walker Percy examines the aesthetic, as opposed to the connoisseurship, of Bourbon in the Fall 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
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The heart of the West Point education must focus on those subjects that bear most directly on its central mission, which is to prepare its officers for combat leadership, writes Jean M. Yarbrough in the Fall 2001 Claremont Review of Books.
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Going beyond the usual conservative argument for the social utility of the family, Bennett explains in human terms the real happiness and contentment that spring from a healthy family life, writes Thomas Krannawitter in the Fall 2001 issue of the
Claremont Review of Books.
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Senior fellow Thomas G. West reviews Harry V. Jaffa's book,
A New Birth of Freedom.
Posted on October 31, 2001 in Writings
Posted on October 25, 2001 in Precepts
Are we willing to give up rights to the same government that failed to stop terrorist strikes in the first place? Institute fellow Matthew Robinson writes on the media's slanted opinion polls and governmental incompetence.
Posted on October 10, 2001 in Writings
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Institute fellow Christopher Harmon describes the workings of international terrorist networks in this testimony given before the House Committee on Government Reform.
Posted on September 28, 2001 in Writings
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We have no way of knowing whether we have seen the last of the attacks on our city or whether there will be a Battle of New York in which the enemy carries out more strikes against the innocent. But in the months and years ahead, many of our countrymen will be called to hard duty to make the world again safe for civilization, writes Institute fellow James Higgins.
Posted on September 18, 2001 in Writings
Posted on September 17, 2001 in Precepts
Do Christian teachings hamper America's ability to wage war? In this Constitution Day speech, senior fellow Thomas G. West discusses what is behind the unique harmony between Christianity and political life that existed during the Founding era, as well as our present need to revive it.
Posted on September 16, 2001 in Writings
Adjunct fellow Mackubin Thomas Owens writes on slow breakdown of U.S. intelligence which naturally leads to the most devastating element of surprise, and what must be done to destroy "Jihadistan."
Posted on September 14, 2001 in Writings
That we have promised retaliation for decades and then always drawn back, hoping that we could get through if we simply did not provoke the enemy, is appeasement, and it must be quite clear by now even to those who perpetually appease that appeasement simply does not work, writes senior fellow Mark Helprin.
Posted on September 12, 2001 in Writings
America's response to these wicked attacks must be righteous indignation. It is mainly up to President Bush to express that indignation in noble and searing words, and to join with Congress in striking with a terrible, swift sword against the nation's enemies, writes senior fellow Charles Kesler.
Posted on September 11, 2001 in Writings
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Parts of the argument for Thomas Jefferson's paternity of Sally Hemings's children are hard to overcome. But this does not seem any harder than swallowing the lengthy list of radical implausibilities we have to swallow to accept that the story is true, writes Lance Banning in the Summer 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on August 30, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
Ancient political philosophy is as significant an alternative to Heidegger as he is to it, writes Mark Blitz in the Summer 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on August 30, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
The Internet poses a danger not so much to the deliberative republic as to liberalism. That's why the liberal love affair with the Internet seems to have been nothing more than a casual dalliance with an intern that turned sour, writes Edward J. Erler in the Summer 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on August 30, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
After World war II, the threat of conflict with the Soviet Union produced new pressures for the creation of a powerful central state. These pressures were met, and to a large degree counterbalanced, by strong anti-statist influences that were deeply rooted in America's founding, writes Patrick J. Garrity.
Posted on August 30, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
It was not clear that the Conservative surge that propelled Barry Goldwater to the nomination would yet mature into the dominant force within the Republican Party. It was obvious that California would be a key battleground in 1966, writes Steven F. Hayward in the Spring 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
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For FDR's hagiographers, a liberal of unquestionable credentials who understood federalism and who consequently hated the New Deal could not be allowed to exist as an honorable figure, writes James Higgins in the Summer 2001
Claremont Revioew of Books.
Posted on August 30, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt had been warned about subversions in his midst, he literally laughed it off. Still, this infiltration was no joke, writes William P. Hoar in the Summer 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on August 30, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
We Americans typically serve and drink our wines at the wrong temperatures, the whites too cold and the reds too hot, writes Josh Jensen in the Summer 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on August 30, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
Three New Books Make the Case for Ronald Reagan's Enduring Legacy. But Has Reagan Replaced FDR as the Dominant Force in American Politics, asks Charles R. Kesler in the Summer 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on August 30, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
what we face today is nothing less than a fundamental alteration in the nature of American governance, with unelected judges assuming control over many of our most contested policy issues. This is part of
Brown v. Board's troubling legacy, writes Richard E. Morgan in the Summer 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on August 30, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
Kojève's
Outline of a Phenomenology of Right is as fundamental a treatment as John Rawl's
A Theory of Justice, and more comprehensive, in linking right, law, and justice with a full account of their historical development, writes James H. Nichols, Jr., in the Summer 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on August 30, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
Rauol Berger was famous as a legal scholar, whose books had illuminated American constitutionalism and provided powerful historical arguments against judicial activism. In this interview with Constance Rossum, he reflects on his remarkable triple life as a musician, lawyer, and scholar, in the Spring 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on August 30, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
The Founding Fathers and Lincoln would have rejected the pragmatist claim that we need to jettison all certitudes in order to make democracy work. On the contrary, certitude about the doctrine of human equality is the basis of modern democracy, writes Thomas B. Silver in the Summer 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on August 30, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
Partisans of utilitarianism bend the definitions of life and death to their own purposes. That many of those purposes are noble makes life-and-death decisions so much more arduous, writes Timothy Wheeler in the Summer 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on August 30, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
Harvey Mansfield and Wilson Carey McWilliams are among today's most provocative, learned, and valuable thinkers, whose agreements and disagreements, as two new books remind us, open up some of the most significant paths for pondering where we are and where we ought to be going, writes Michael P. Zuckert in the Summer 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
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"It is easy to take history out of context, it is easy to be a revisionist, I just don't expect it from people on our side of the political spectrum. To read all of Lincoln is to know he was opposed to slavery." — By Seth Leibsohn, Director of Policy at
Empower America.
Posted on August 7, 2001 in Writings
Posted on August 3, 2001 in Precepts
Distinguished fellow Harry V. Jaffa comments on the ongoing argument between columnist
Joseph Sobran and Jack Kemp regarding the character of Lincoln as a man and as a statesman.
Posted on July 30, 2001 in Writings
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The fact that George Washington owned slaves should not be allowed to draw our attention away from his role in the American Founding. Adjunct fellow Matthew Robinson writes on the greatly neglected study of Washington's character.
Posted on July 12, 2001 in Writings
Posted on July 4, 2001 in Precepts
Posted on July 4, 2001 in Precepts
The death of Jefferson and Adams on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration amazed Americans. It was as if Providence were giving one final salute to the extraordinary men and spirit of 1776, by adding the sobering reality of the sacrifice needed to make and keep a nation free, writes Matthew Robinson.
Posted on July 3, 2001 in Writings
Adjunct fellow Matt Robinson writes on the history of the toast, particularly at the time of the American Founding, and gives us reason to be mindful of toasting to the greatest things found in our national heritage this 4th of July.
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Nothing beats a gin and tonic with a splash of Campari on a hot summer afternoon. But what about the Americano, the mojito, and the Negroni? What goes into sangria, exactly? And if a party guest happens so ask you for a Chi Chi, what should you do, asks Ben Boychuk in the Spring 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on May 24, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
Israel's boldest warrior faces a cruel war of attrition waged by people wholly unlike what modernist ideologies say they should be, writes Angelo M. Codevilla in the Spring 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on May 24, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
Anyone who wants to reflect on the condition of our legal system and the ethics of practitioners of the law will find a great deal to ponder in the tobacco war, writes Martha A. Derthick in the Spring 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on May 24, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
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The Oslo "Peace Process" is dead. It is time for a public burial, before the corpse infects the landscape even more than it has already, writes Harry V. Jaffa in the Spring 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on May 24, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
The face of pop-music has changed over the last few years, as the influence of '60s radicalism has waned. All of this is good news for everyone, more or less. Everyone, that is, except the professional rock critic, writes Mark Gauvreau Judge in the Spring 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
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Thanks to David Brooks, America's new ruling class has a name—the Bourgeois Bohemians, or Bobos. They are too politically apathetic to hold actual political offices, but they set the tone. The Bobo is now the model American, writes Peter Augustine Lawler in the Spring 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on May 24, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
Because it still knew a hero and a villain when it saw one, the distinctively American poetry of the Hollywood western helped us to see, in ways that American intellectuals no longer could, how the facts may be made worthy of becoming legend, writes John Marini in the Spring 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on May 24, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
Ronald Reagan's political enemies criticized him as a second-rate B-movie actor who couldn't distinguish the fantasy of the big screen from the reality of world affairs. Once again, the critics got it wrong, writes John Meroney in the Spring 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on May 24, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
A Wall of Separation
Ostensibly, no subject of constitutional jurisprudence has been guided more by "originalism" than the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. Unfortunately, most Supreme Court justices haven't a clue about what the founders originally meant, writes V. Phillip Muñoz in the Spring 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on May 24, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
With the end of the Cold War, America has become a global hegemon. Democratic American "armies of a season" led by eccentric geniuses helped to create this order. One wonders whether America has the will or the wherewithal to sustain it, writes Mackubin Thomas Owens in the Spring 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on May 24, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
The ghost of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. hovers—to borrow one of his own metaphors—like "a brooding omnipresence" over modern American law. Thanks to his influence we are all positivists now, and far worse for it, writes Michael M. Uhlmann in the Spring 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on May 24, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
In retelling his family's history, George Packer has found an affecting way to tell his family's story but squandered an opportunity to make America's political arguments more intelligent and productive, writes William Voegeli in the Spring 2001
Claremont Review of Book.
Posted on May 24, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
What, if anything, can the Bush Administration do to reverse the dangerous demoralization of our armed forces? Or as the more pessimistic among us fear, must America lose a war or see its women horribly maimed and killed before we retreat from gender madness, asks Jean M. Yarbrough in the Spring 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
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U.S. foreign policy is expected to deal with criminal nations as such, writes senior fellow Angelo Codevilla. But not displeasing communist China has been the greater priority.
Posted on April 12, 2001 in Writings
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National Review Online had a
Presidents' Day Symposium featuring James Bovard and Bill Kauffman. Senior Fellow Charles Kesler responds to some of their remarks and clarifies many of the misconceptions about Lincoln's presidency among conservatives.
Posted on February 21, 2001 in Writings
Tom Wolfe has been on a lonely crusade for more than a decade. His repeated calls for a return to realism in American fiction have largely gone unanswered. Makes you wonder, writes Michael Anton in the Winter 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on February 10, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
The founders were wise to reject pandering to voters in favor of the far more difficult duty of responsibly representing them, writes Joseph M. Bessette in the Winter 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on February 10, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
It's almost always fatal to ascribe "conservatism" to a Hollywood product. That said,
Gladiator may be the most conservative film in years, writes Ben Boychuk in the Winter 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on February 10, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
The 2000 election was the closest in American history. The Republican control the government, despite losing seats in both houses of Congress and losing the popular vote for president. What now, ask James W. Ceaser and Andrew E. Busch in the Winter 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on February 10, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
If our elites could be persuaded as a matter of policy to try policing the world, they would seek to do it with hired hands, writes Angelo M. Codevilla in the Winter 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on February 10, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth and one of the shortest-lived. The fragile tie of ecstasy is broken in a few minutes, and thereafter there can be no remarriage, writes Bernard De Voto in the Winter 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on February 10, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
If there were an authentic centrism to today's "New Democrats," it would involve reviving the stature of "old" Democrats such as Patrick Moynihan and "Scoop" Jackson, writes Steven F. Hayward in the Winter 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on February 10, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
That the Founding, which Lincoln inherited, was dominated by an Aristotelian Locke—or a Lockean Aristotle—has gone largely unnoticed because it contradicts the conventional wisdom of certain academic establishments. Like the "Purloined Letter," however, it has been in plain view all along, writes Harry V. Jaffa in the Winter 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on February 10, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
The collateral damage done by Ken Burns's latest opus could be very bad indeed: rock hipsters flocking to the Village Vanguard, pretending they've been there for years, tacky T-shirts, trendy public-radio tie-ins, and yet more CDs on sale at Starbucks, writes Mark Gauvreau Judge in the Winter 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on February 10, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
The United States stands as the only bulwark against evil in the modern world, writes Brian T. Kennedy in the Winter 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on February 10, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
The best books speak to permanent truths. Eight experts in the Winter 2001
Claremont Review of Books recommend a few essential volumes, published in the 20th century, for the new century's bookshelf. With Richard Brookhiser, Paul A. Cantor, Anthony Fucaloro, Robert P. George, Wilfred M. McClay, Harry Neumann, Mackubin Thomas Owens, and Paul A. Rahe.
Posted on February 10, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
On balance, the arguments for slavery reparations do not seem strong, writes David Tucker in the Winter 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on February 10, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
If "the will of the people" is seen as an independent force, separate and apart from our constitutional structure, how shall we constrain a president who invokes the "moral mandate" of popular will as his reason for ignoring that structure once in office, asks Michael M. Uhlmann in the Winter 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on February 10, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
Constitutional theory is one of the great growth industries of our time and, like personal computers, it appears to have an almost infinite capacity for market expansion. Much of the new literature, alas, seems to be preoccupied with politically fashionable deconstructions of our founding documents. Correcting this bias is no easy matter, and we should be grateful when thoughtful scholars undertake to present judicial opinions in a larger and richer constitutional context, writes Michael M. Uhlmann in the Winter 2001
Claremont Review of Books.
Posted on February 10, 2001 in Claremont Review of Books
Lincoln showed us how a true statesman serves timeless principles more than human laws. Ken Masugi writes on the meaning of Lincoln's statesmanship today as the Civil War of ideas continues.
Posted on February 6, 2001 in Writings
Distinguished fellow Harry V. Jaffa writes on Campaign Finance, and John McCain's disregard for the Constitution.
Posted on February 1, 2001 in Writings
Distinguished fellow Harry V. Jaffa reflects on the continuously peaceful transfer of power from 1800 to today — with Lincoln's presidency in particular — and the meaning of constitutional democracy in light of the recent election.
Posted on January 22, 2001 in Writings
Posted on January 22, 2001 in Precepts
In American history the toast has always signified the arrival of popular thoughts about the nature of politics. Adjunct fellow Matthew Robinson writes on the most memorable toast of all, being that of the American Founders upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Posted on January 18, 2001 in Writings
Posted on January 16, 2001 in Precepts
Liberal critics of the nominee for Attorney General claim he is a defender of the Confederacy. Senior fellow Thomas G. West shows that Ashcroft's statements, in context, reject the ideology of the Old South and defend the principles of the American Founding.
Posted on January 15, 2001 in Writings
President-elect George W. Bush could put himself in league with George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison with just a few sentences at his inauguration. All he has to do is mention the Constitution, writes adjunct fellow Matt Robinson.
Posted on January 12, 2001 in Writings
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