Wilfred M. McClay

Wilfred M. McClay is G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty at the University of Oklahoma, and the author, most recently, of Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story (Encounter Books).

Articles by Wilfred M. McClay

The Anti-Populist

Richard Hofstadter's civilized discourse.

The Higher Shamelessness

America is far from shameless.

A CRB Discussion of Modern Liberalism’s Origins

A CRB Discussion of Modern Liberalism's Origins

The High-Low Coalition

The power of liberalism has translated into the steady enrichment of those who wield it, and into steadily diminishing prospects in the lives of the very people it first rose to serve, writes Wilfred M. McClay in the Claremont Review of Books.

Exceptionally American

A review of Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character, by Claude S. Fischer

The Sources of American Renewal

Reclaiming self-government from the bottom up.

A Left-Handed Salute

A devastating critique of the intellectual state of the Left and the academic world it dominates.

Claremont Review of Books

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