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Featured Book Reviews from Latest Issue
Merit and Misery
What's the matter with meritocracy? Just about everything.
Ancient and Modern Liberty
The regime of modern liberty desperately needs old wisdom to avoid abandoning with contempt its own crucial preconditions.
A Delicate Tapestry
The divorce between faith and reason remains a troubling phenomenon within Christian nations of the West.
The Ronald and the Donald
Trumpian populism is distinct from Reaganite conservatism in substance as well as style.
Our Podcast: The Close Read
In a new podcast series, Dr. Spencer Klavan sits down with authors from the Claremont Review of Books to discuss the ideas driving conservative intellectual life.
Mar 19, 2020
Not so great
On Great Society: A New History by Amity Shlaes.
Feb 28, 2020
A Letter to My Children Regarding Bernie Sanders
Feb 12, 2020
The Law That Ate the Constitution
Feb 12, 2020
The Price of the 1980s
Jan 20, 2020
An Utterly Ordinary Impeachment
Nov 22, 2019
The Empire Strikes Back
What the effort to impeach President Trump is really about.
Editor's Picks
From the Archive
2020 Foresight
The Trump Administration needs to keep its eye on the argument, if it intends to win the vote.
Thomas Sowell’s Inconvenient Truths
Hard questions about discrimination, diversity, and civil rights.
A Giving of Accounts
A review of Crisis of the Strauss Divided, by Harry V. Jaffa
From the Web
American Greatness
Who the Hell Do They Think They Are?
First Things
Is China a Model of the Common Good?
The New Criterion