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Recommended reading for the season from Tom Karako, John Kienker, Brian Kennedy, Richard Samuelson, Bruce Sanborn, Josh Treviño, William Voegeli, and Thomas West.Beating Ploughshares into Swords
Although the wretched condition of postcolonial Africa can be attributed in part to the bitter effects of European imperialism, it is the Africans themselves who must eliminate their dictators and enable citizens to work honestly to improve their lot, writes Charles Geshekter in the Fall 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Claremont Institute and Fellows' Publications
The Cost of Good Intentions
Our response to world poverty should focus on improving the lives of individuals rather than causing fundamental changes in foreign governments and societies, writes Gerard Alexander in the Fall 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The New Know-Nothings
Can Iran and Syria be enticed into stabilizing post-Saddam Iraq as part of some "grand bargain," asks Thomas Joscelyn. Or is the advice to do so grounded in a dangerous ignorance of our terrorist enemies?The One, the Few, and the Many
Can the grinding forces of modernity, destroying the rules of society and replacing formality with vulgarity, possibly be defeated? Can aristocratic statesmanship, however diminished, exist in a democratic age? Ken Masugi looks at a new film that addresses these themes.The $10,000 Solution?
Those who belong to the church of libertarianism will no doubt find Charles Murray's latest plan to replace the welfare state convincing. Those of us not dedicated to that faith must ask for more evidence, writes R. Shep Melnick in the Fall 2006 Claremont Review of Books.Giving Honor Its Due
Our ethical and intellectual resources are in danger of being depleted. We too often understand freedom as private license and too little feel the honorable need to defend our country, writes Mark Blitz in the Fall 2006 Claremont Review of BooksAmicus Brief
In his new book, Joseph Epstein tells us how to write about friendship, never mind that the challenge—how to make a friend—can't be confidently undertaken because there are no sure-fire rules, writes William F. Buckley, Jr., in the Fall 2006 Claremont Review of BooksSearch by Author
Jihadtropolis?
“Behold!” reads an official police notice on the waiting-room wall at the Bethnal Green police station, in the East London borough of Tower Hamlets. “Fear from people should not prevent one from saying the truth if he knows it.” It is a hadith saying of the Prophet Muhammad, stuck amid a row of posters urging Britons to do their civic duty and report any crimes they might get wind of. Tower Hamlets, which includes large Bengali and Somali communities, is a majority-minority borough.Sage Advice
How would the America's founders address today's thornier political problems? Richard Brookhiser offers some good answers, writes Forrest McDonald in the Fall 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Faith-based Liberalism
What becomes of American liberalism when it turns away from history? In Peter Beinart's hands, it becomes religion, writes Richard Samuelson in the Fall 2006 Claremont Review of Books.Racial Preferences Mean Big Government
Liberals will resort to "any means necessary" to stop the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative on November 7. Those who have an interest in recovering constitutional government have an interest in the MCRI's success, writes Thomas L. Krannawitter.Claremont Institute Writings
The Road to Condemning Guantanamo
The challenges faced by America in its current war have provided renewed impetus for the old anti-American resentments that have animated the debased usage of key categories in international humanitarian law. To close Guantanamo in deference to such resentments would not serve the cause of justice. In light of the potential risk to American security, however, it could well end up serving the cause of a furtive and long-awaited revenge, writes John Rosenthal in the Fall 2006 Claremont Review of BooksOur Predicament
George W. Bush's brimming moral confidence, married to a management style that leads him to boast that, as president, he doesn't have to explain anything to anybody, has led him into a predicament from which he seems unable to extricate his administration, or our country, writes Charles R. Kesler in the Fall 2006 Claremont Review of Books.The War in Lebanon
Israel won this summer's battle, but greater ones lie ahead, writes Mark Helprin in the Fall 2006 Claremont review of Books.The Era of Big Ideas is Over
Do liberals think that conservatives' fundamental ideas are wrong? Or do they think that having fundamental ideas is wrong, asks William Voegeli in the Fall 2006 Claremont Review of Books.Marx and Lenin
Was the tyranny inaugurated in 1917 by Lenin, and later carried on by Stalin, a departure from Marx, or was it actually a predictable political expression of Marx's inherently violent political theory? In a paper originally presented at the 1980 meeting of the American Political Science Association, senior fellow Thomas G. West reminds us that ideas have consequences.Born American, But in the Wrong Place
On October 23, 1956, students gathered at the foot of Sandor Petofi's statue in Budapest and read his poem "Rise, Magyar!" made famous in the democratic revolution of 1848. Workers, and even soldiers, soon joined the students. The demonstrators took over the state-run radio station and the Communist Party offices and toppled a huge statue of Stalin, dragging it through the streets. Rebellion spread throughout the country. The demonstrators—now Freedom Fighters—held Soviet occupation forces at bay for several days.Failing Civics
Our leading colleges have sacrificed civic education to academic theories. But can Americans be good citizens if they don't know their country's history, asks Larry Peterman.Born American, But in the Wrong Place
Peter W. Schramm offers a personal reflection on the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution.In Search of a Public Philosophy
Once upon a time there was a maxim that "history is philosophy teaching by example." The authors of The Federalist, among many other sober people, believed this, writes Daniel Walker Howe in the Fall 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Fr. James V. Schall on Benedict XVI at Regensburg
Ken Masugi interviews political theorist James V. Schall, S.J., on Pope Benedict XVI's recent speech at Regensburg.Suicide of the West
We have had many perils and predicted apocalypses before. Islamism, and indeed (in my belief) the whole of Islam, is potentially very vulnerable to the corrosive effect of the intellectual acid-bath of rational criticism. Therefore, what we have to fear is fear itself: a fact of which the Islamists are themselves fully aware, writes Theodore Dalrymple in the Fall 2006 Claremont Review of Books.Americas' Game
By his outstanding accomplishments on the field, his generosity, and the force of his personality, Roberto Clemente became the patron saint of Spanish-speaking players in the major leagues. But was he a American hero, asks Patrick J. Garrity in the Fall 2006 Claremont Review of Books.Magnanimous History
In the end, the most significant contribution of Doris Kearns Goodwin's book is not her depiction of Lincoln's cabinet, or his prudence, sense of justice, or mastery of men. It is his magnanimity, writes David K. Nichols in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The Prince and the Dandy
Bewildered and intimidated out of ignorance, or perhaps dismissing the subject as effeminate, few American men are willing to give much thought to their attire. The result? All too often, no matter who wears the pants in a relationship, it is the woman who chooses the trousers, writes Justin Shubow in the Fall 2006 Claremont Review of BooksA People's History of Reconstruction
For too long, Reconstruction has been widely regarded as a time of rampant misgovernment thrust on the South by a vindictive cabal of Radical Republicans abetted by unscrupulous carpetbaggers, duplicitous scalawags, and former slaves totally lacking any capacity for self-government, writes Jean Edward Smith in the Fall 2006 Claremont Review of Books.The Pettifoggery of War
Alan Dershowitz's Preemption reflects a lawyerly overconfidence in the power of the law, a view unfortunately shared by the U.S. Supreme Court. It never occurs to the author to ask why, if the law really could work in this area, the legal rules already in place have failed so spectacularly, writes John Yoo in the Fall 2006 Claremont Review of Books.What Hath God Wrought?
When studying Western Civilization, we must remember that Christendom is not the same as Christianity. Historical and economic forces at work in the former are not always and simply consequences of the latter, writes Robert Royal in the Fall 2006 Claremont Review of Books.Books in Brief: The British Moment
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With the best of intentions, the Republicans risk turning higher education into a federally funded no-truth zone, writes Larry P. Arnn in the Fall 2006 Claremont Review of Books.Constitutional Resistance
When judges forget that judgment is their specific virtue and knowing and following law is their specific task, the constitutional solution is to find a way to bring them back to it. There are constitutional means by which politicians and citizens may resist, writes James R. Stoner, Jr., in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Saddam Hussein’s Support for Terror—regardless of the Senate Intel. Cmte. Report
Steve Hayes reveals how bad the recent Senate Intelligence Committee Report Actually Was.Regime Change
The Failure of the Founding Fathers highlights overlooked or underappreciated facts about the framers. Still, the book fails, because it is less a work of history than an argument constructed to advance an ideological and political agenda, writes David Forte in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Remembering 9/11
On the fifth anniversary of 9/11, we revisit essays by senior fellows Mark Helprin and Charles R. Kesler, written, respectively, the day after and on the first anniversary of the attacks.An American Hero
Frederick Douglass deliberately styled himself a hero, in a period of our history distinctive in its celebration of heroes, but also a period in which blacks' capacity for heroism was commonly denied, writes Peter C. Myers in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Terrorists-In Their Own Words
A compendium of statements, worth remembering—always, or at least until they are defeated. (Courtesy-The White House)The Long Twilight Struggle
As the Cold War recedes into history, arguments about its causes and consequences will certainly continue. John Lewis Gaddis is a thoughtful, knowledgeable guide through these arguments. One may disagree with him, but only by clarifying one's own thinking, writes Patrick J. Garrity in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Reading, Writing, and Reform
Ironically, these days liberals are the ones defending the educational status quo, while so-called conservatives demand structural change. Indeed, one might define a contemporary liberal as one who champions personal choice in all realms of life except the education of (other people's) children, writes R. Shep Melnick in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Old Hickory
Andrew Jackson is one of the few examples we have of presidents who were seriously interested in reducing the size and scope of government. Although his efforts were at times successful, they were somewhat momentary obstacles on the path to expanded federal authority, writes Richard J. Dougherty.The Year Liberalism Died
American liberalism died in 1980. Of course, no one knew it at the time, writes Michael Barone in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Between East and West
"The Turkic world does not yet add up to the sum of its many parts," according to a new book. But Turkey and the Turkic world could be central to the 21st century, if they so desire, writes John S. Gardner in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Two Cheers for Neoconservatism
Neoconservatism has been caricatured so often but so ignorantly that it has become hard to see its true features lurking within the distortions, writes John Zvesper.Hedging Allegiance
One important aspect of immigration policy that is conspicuously absent from the current debate is whether immigrants should be expected to adapt to an American way of life, including exclusive allegiance to the Constitution and its principles, writes Edward J. Erler in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Let Sleeping Beauties Lie
Parents have always fretted about what to read to their children, and experts have always been ready with advice. There have been three revolutions in modern children's literature, writes Dorothea Wolfson in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The Stupid Isolationist Right
The Stupid Isolationist Right. Yes, that is still a legitimate and meaningful category.New World, Old Myths
From the first moment of contact, Europeans viewed the American Indians through various mythic lenses. Five hundred years later, little has changed, writes Bruce S. Thornton in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Good Democrats and Bad Democrats
What the Democratic Party has most liked to say about itself—that it is the party of the working man, the voice of the oppressed, the tribune of the people—loses some of its strut in the light of a rather long list of inconvenient facts, chiefly having to do with slavery and race, writes Allen C. Guelzo in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Where's the Love?
The American Founding's affirmation of the truth that man is the creature open to his duties to the Creator is our way of perpetuating that tension between reason and revelation that is the secret to the West's vitality, writes Peter Augustine Lawler in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Books in Brief: Rescuing Canada's Right
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Today's Republican discontent is driven by a growing sense of philosophical malaise—a sense that the party has become unmoored from its most basic philosophical commitments, and that elected Republicans no longer seek power to advance their principles but for its own sake, writes Andrew E. Busch in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Man of Letters
Despite shifting tastes and trends, Samuel Johnson still looms large in our literary history. Towering over all his other achievements is his Dictionary of the English Language, writes James G. Basker in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The Supreme Court v. the Constitution of the United States of America
Judicial supremacy is a thoroughly modern development that scarcely antedates the late 20th century. It was invented, not surprisingly, by the Supreme Court itself, writes Michael M. Uhlmann in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Soft in the Middle
One suspects that if Rod Dreher would read more about our tradition he would discover that Western civilization and America are not so indefensible; that we have come through times as difficult as these before; that what it takes is more and better politics, not less, writes Douglas A. Jeffrey in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Rousseau on the Couch
If Jean-Jacques Rousseau attempted to live out the principles set forth in his writings, as he claimed he did, then the hard facts about his life might help us understand those principles. In this respect, one new biography of the great philosopher doesn't quite make the cut, writes Jonathan Marks.Our Literature of Extremes
Why is great American Literature—in this so different from English literature—radical, that is, lacking in the middle registers of experience, asks Jeffrey Hart in the spring 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Leaving the Constitution
A new edition of Frank Goodnow's Politics and Administration recalls a landmark work in our constitutional decline, writes Ronald J. Pestritto in the spring 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Good-Government Conservatism
Edwin J. Feulner and Doug Wilson's new book is a spirited call to action, extending their argument for limited government beyond the Beltway to the American public, writes John B. Kienker in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Battlewise History
The gifted historian Victor Davis Hanson has argued convincingly for the antiquity and interconnectedness of democracy, agriculture, and war. Now he has returned to ancient Greece to write about what Thucydides, in his classic History of the Peloponnesian War, called "a war like no other," writes E. Christian Kopff in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Migrant Thoughts
Of course everyone in the New World is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants, and immigrants have built America and continue to do so. Legal or illegal, they are almost universally good people who work to better their lot and that of their children. That is not, however, license either for illegal entry or America's failure to have an immigration policy except by unregulated default, writes Mark Helprin in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The Failure of the Rehnquist Court
The late chief justice's attempt to reform the Supreme Court failed. But now we have two new conservative justices. What lies ahead for the court, asks Richard E. Morgan in the spring 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Dismal Science
The assertion about abortion and crime that popularized Freakonomics is wrong. But there's a larger problem in economics: today's practitioners of the "dismal science" have forgotten the teachings of Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas, writes John D. Mueller in the spring 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.God and Harold at Yale
Harold Bloom, the 75-year-old one-man humanities department at Yale, has some 30 books under his belt, but the latest is in style and substance the most Bloomian yet, writes Benjamin Balint in the spring 2006 issue of Claremont Review of Books.Hijacking History
The original understanding of the Constitution's allocations of the war powers continues to be warmly debated, as does the subsequent record of war-making under the Constitution. Have presidents, congresses, and courts adhered to whatever division of powers they are supposed to observe or enforce, asks Charles A. Lofgren in the spring 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The War Over the War Powers
John Yoo makes a compelling case that Congress need not formally authorize many, perhaps most, military commitments abroad, for which the president possesses ample constitutional authority, writes Joseph M. Bessette in the spring 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Taking the Constitution Seriously
In the thoroughness of its clause-by-clause analysis and in its fidelity to original meaning, the Heritage Guide to the Constitution is the best commentary on the Constitution in at least a century, writes Eric R. Claeys in the spring 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Getting Theirs
In today's pop culture, "female chauvinist pigs," unlike their male counterparts, promote the sexual objectification of other women in the name of emancipating all women from the patriarchal male agenda of the past, writes Julie Ann Ponzi in the spring 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The Grand Alliance
Winston Churchill was one of the few foreign statesmen of the last century who understood America's importance for the world. Sir Martin Gilbert's Churchill and America is the most complete account of the great man's lifelong attraction to the U.S., writes Steven F. Hayward in the spring 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Man's Field
Harvey Mansfield's new modest defense of manliness is, in truth, a profound critique of manliness—a critique that used to be readily available from both women and philosophers, until they converted to manliness themselves, writes Diana Schaub in the spring 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The Riddle of the Middle
Aristotle may have a more sophisticated understanding of politics than do contemporary political theorists—communitarians, say, or classical liberals, writes Michael Davis.A Conspiracy of Dunces
Has multiculturalism—and its handmaiden Islamization—transformed the land of the Rights of Man into an unrecognizable battlefield called Eurabia, asks Christopher Orlet.Crossing the Rubicon
Not only is it one of the best TV series ever made, HBO's Rome is also one of the best screen portrayals of Rome, surpassing a whole herd of Hollywood sacred cows, writes Martha Bayles in the spring 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Facing up to Immigration Questions
America experiences dueling postures on immigration— while we are very welcoming to outsiders, there are long standing American cautions about strangers to our laws and customs, writes Larry Peterman.France's Immigrant Problem—and Ours
Last autumn, Americans congratulated themselves that France's rioting and car burnings could, of course, never happen in the U.S. Not so fast, writes Victor Davis Hanson in the spring 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Books in Brief: The Future of the United Nations
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Seven leading thinkers reflect on our political and military options in eliminating Iran's nuclear capability in the spring 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Educating Citizens
The unsurprising result of the multiculturalism inflicted on America's students has been to produce citizens who cannot distinguish between right and wrong, who are ignorant of their rights and duties, and who identify themselves through the skin color or surnames of their ancestors, writes Christopher Flannery, as part of the Claremont Institute's "Becoming Americans" Essay Series.Announcing the Claremont Institute's
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The Conservative Cocoon
It's a good thing that conservatives are fighting back against the biases of the mainstream media. But having spent a generation complaining about liberalism's less-than-intimate relationship with reality, conservatives need to think hard about whether they're in danger of spinning themselves a similar cocoon, writes Ross Douthat in the Winter 2005/06 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Hard Questions
For the first time since 1994, Republicans seem skittish, diffident, and increasingly divided on domestic as well as foreign policy. Conservatives at least will have some hard questions to face, writes Charles R. Kesler in the spring 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Constitution or Tyranny
The Left openly disdains the Constitution when it frustrates even the most transient of their preferences, writes Mark Helprin in the Spring 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The Debacle at Harvard
The debacle at Harvard is demeaning to all involved, writes Harvey C. Mansfield in the spring 22006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The One That Got Away
A new biography inadvertently suggests that Herman Melville still matters to us not because of the genius of his work but rather because we can attach to him the fashionable opinions of the time, writes Cheryl Miller in the spring 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The Opiate of the Masses
How does a working man drink his vodka? Joseph Tartakovsky has the answer in the spring 2006 of the Claremont Review of Books.Twice-Told Tales
Henry Adams and the Making of America is not a bad book, but it is not particularly good, either. Better to skip it and go directly to the fine edition of Adams's History published by the Library of America, advises Richard Samuelson in the spring 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Ancient Greatness
Publishing books about Alexander the Great is an industry that shows no signs of diminishing. Three recent books make diverse contributions to the huge library of modern works about Alexander, writes Thomas R. Martin in the Winter 2005/06 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Who Owns the Copyright to the Universe?
There is nothing in Darwinian theory that excludes the possibility that natural selection is the means by which God created the species, writes Harry V. Jaffa in the Spring 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Fat of the Land
A quarter-century after the Reagan Revolution, and a decade since the Gingrich Revolution, the public sector is bigger than ever. Supporters of the welfare state continue to wield substantial political clout, writes R. Shep Melnick in the Winter 2005/06 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Divine Revelations
Renaissance artists divorced ancient gods from the beliefs of antiquity, thus stripping Jupiter, Apollo, and their fellow immortals of all but their names, writes Mary Lefkowitz in the Winter 2005/06 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.On Privacy
The people who talk most insistently about a right to privacy have been the people most willing to see the law invade spheres of privacy, writes Hadley Arkes.Modern Virtue?
Responsibility is a virtue that can be understood only in the context of a liberal democratic society based on the principles of freedom and equal rights, write Carnes Lord in the Winter 2005/06 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Good Fight and Good Luck
When he was elected in 2000, George W. Bush gave every indication that he, like his father before him, was a conventional "realist" in foreign affairs. Then came 9/11, writes Mackubin T. Owens.Where Have All the Voters Gone?
The wrong-headed belief that there is a conspiracy against working-class Americans' voting has long been a favorite of progressive intellectuals, activists, and left-liberal Democrats, writes Gerard Alexander in the Winter 2005/06 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The Logic of the "Peace Process"
Rhetoric aside, the policy of the U.S. has been not war against the sources of terrorism, but rather "peace processes" or "engagement" with people and institutions who, if given enough incentives, ostensibly will deliver peace without our having to make war, writes Angelo M. Codevilla in the Winter 2005/06 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Be Very Wary of Restricting President's Power
CCJ Director John Eastman defends the President's authority to conduct surveillance of enemy communications in time of war.The Central Idea
Unless we as a political community can by reasoned discourse re-establish in our own minds the authority of the constitutionalism of the Founding Fathers and of Lincoln, of government devoted to securing the God-given equal rights of every individual human being, we will remain ill equipped to bring the fruits of freedom to others, writes Harry V. Jaffa.Islamic Chauvinism and the Mohammed Cartoons
As Muslims denounce the Danish cartoons for "stereotyping," "disrespecting faith," or "hurting feelings," charges of hypocrisy and double standards are flying against them. But the Muslim riots around the world have nothing to do with hypocrisy, writes Joseph Tartakovsky.Spotlight Needed on Colorado Courts
Now that Samuel Alito has been confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, with intense media attention and high drama in the Senate, Coloradans should take a closer look at how the newest member of our own state Supreme Court will be chosen, writes John Andrews in the Denver Post.The Christian Origins of the Law
For all the faults of Christendom's legal orders, they still reveal an enduring strength and coherence, derived from the vigorous combination of positive command, clarity of moral right, and integrated historical tradition, writes Peter Judson Richards.A New Poetic Standard
Anthony Esolen has produced an incomparably good work, which is likely to become the standard poetic translation of the Divine Comedy for years to come, writes Giuseppe Mazzotta in the Winter 2005/06 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The Disputed Question
Is Antonin Scalia's legal positivist approach to original intent jurisprudence the best that today's conservatives can hope for? Harry V. Jaffa and Ralph A. Rossum debate the question in the Winter 2005/06 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Sacred Texts
Americans have long likened their Constitution to the Bible, an analogy usually intended to cultivate a reverence for the former by imbuing it with the sacred authority of the latter, writes Christopher Levenick in the Winter 2005/06 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The New Freedom
Wilson, an academic-turned-president, put his progressive ideas into practice. Ronald Pestritto has succeeded splendidly in uncovering the harm that "mere" academics can do, writes Jean M. Yarbrough in the Winter 2005/06 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Architecture of Liberty
The United States Capitol reflects the principles of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, writes Carroll William Westfall in the Winter 2005/06 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.America's Mayor
From time to time a statesman comes to power who breaks the mold and tries to govern against the grain. Ronald Reagan did that in the 1980s for the nation. And Rudy Giuliani did it the 1990s for New York City, writes James Q. Wilson in the Winter 2005/06 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.The Democratic Peace
The idea that democracies are inherently peaceful is flawed, making our foreign policy, which rests on this proposition, potentially tragic, writes Mark Helprin in the Winter 2005/06 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Re-Negotiating Munich With the Conservatives
Steven Spielberg's Munich deserves a closer look from conservative critics who see only another exercise in moral equivalence and nihilism in America's own war on terror, writes Ken Masugi. If there is moral tergiversation, however, the film is ultimately about the moral resolve required is any war of survival. This is how Americans must think and act if we are to prevail in the war against the terrorists.American Idol
With the Franklin Tercentenary taking place this January 17, it's fair to say that Americans are almost as fascinated by Franklin as the French famously were—and, one might add, just as blind to Franklin's conscious manipulation of his own persona, writes Jerry Weinberger in the Winter 2005/06 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Books in Brief: Black Rednecks and White Liberals
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