Correspondence
Correspondence Summer 2021
Summer 2021 Correspondence
Shadow Play
Souls on Wheels
The film Nomadland expands the scope and meaning of the book that inspired it.
Parthian Shot
Two Blind Mice
Both Putin and Biden are blind to the challenge of China.
Book Reviews
Yesterday Once More
The Upswing proffers progressivism as the solution to our problems without examining progressivism’s role in creating those problems.
Struggle Session
China's rulers continue to maintain an enormous apparatus of repression.
Meritocracy’s Cost
Meritocracy conceals elite disdain for the lives of ordinary Americans.
Between Kaiser and Führer
Remembering the German Revolution of 1918.
Racism All the Way Down
Calling America a caste society is both misleading and harmful to black progress.
The Genius of American Oligarchy
John C. Calhoun’s influence on the growth and future shape of the United States was immense.
Thinking Like a Conservative
"Conservatism" covers multiple theoretical ideas.
Taking It to the Streets
Andy Ngô bravely reports the truth about Antifa and their violence.
Family Matters
There is no greater threat to young people’s intellectual development and personal integrity than the progressive ideology dominating schools.
Right Flight
The war between the states.
The Making of the Administrative State
The Progressives bequeathed us a regime without legitimacy.
Strange Gods
Bipolarity, addiction, and identity politics afflict us. But the greatest of these is identity politics.
Getting Rights Wrong
“Rational basis review” is a terrible way to determine our liberties.
Teach Your Children Well
We are heirs to a vast repository of wisdom about how to live, how to think, and how to become truly free.
Essays
American Pragmatist
William James and the modern sensibility.
Criminal Negligence
Liberals would rather live with crime than fight it.
Little Italy
Less populous, more populist.
Why Harry V. Jaffa Matters
He saw our house dividing once again.
The Masking of America
Faceless people make compliant subjects, not good citizens.
In Memoriam
Patrick J. Garrity (1955–2021)
Patrick J. Garrity, a long-time friend and contributor to the Claremont Review of Books, is remembered by Larry P. Arnn and Christopher Flannery.
From the Editor's Desk
Who Lost Afghanistan?
Bitter defeat.
