Risk and friction are part of what it means to be human.
His greatest legacy is showing how faith, courage, and action can improve the nation.
We honor him by continuing to build the America we want for ourselves and our posterity.
The healthiest parts of our culture are the ones least affected by her doctrines.
The 8(a) program enriches the primes at the American people’s expense.
The seminal essay that made the case for Trump—and the intellectual tradition behind it.
Risk and friction are part of what it means to be human.
Editors’ Picks Essential Reading
Salvos The Counter-Revolution
Social media algorithms reward the most extreme positions—at great cost.
Cheap imports are not the only measure of a healthy economy.
Mexican and South American criminals are still gleaning key expertise on the battlefields of Ukraine.
Laws against its distribution are still on the books.
Time to revisit the Constitution’s Spending Clause limits.
The future of the GOP is here.
Its influence extends far beyond Cuba.
There’s no contradiction between national interest and civilizational alliance.
The answer is limited government, not command and control.
A politics of revolutionary resentment.
The price of literary perfection.
Americans have become rusty at arguing about religion in public.
American politics is no longer a contest over how we govern, but over who decides.
A field guide to the South Africanization playbook.
What’s behind the rise of socialism?
Peer review funds derivative research at colossal expense.
We need students who are schooled in “hardy, rough-handed obedience.”
What is the right architecture for a republic?
America 250 Celebrating Our Country
A revolution in self-government happened 250 years ago.
Hillsdale’s revamped American history and civics curriculum.
A personal reflection on the Hungarian Revolution.
The ongoing debate between inheritance and radical emancipation.
Reverence for great ideas and great men.
American history, memory, and identity through European eyes.
The moral logic of equality.
Natural right and American exceptionalism.
She has no coherent theory of equality.
Why the Declaration of Independence—not conquest or invention—was America’s greatest gift to the world.
A tale of the heroic deeds of old from men of renown.
What is the right architecture for a republic?
We must regain the courage to defend our nations.
Chief Justice Roberts forgot the Declaration of Independence.
One fit for republican government.
A sure guide to understand America.
How the founders resolved the theological-political problem.
Rhapsodies in red, white, and blue.
The preconditions for republican government.
How historians distort the American Founding.
The making of an American.
What to watch in preparation for July 4th.
We honor Charlie properly by remembering these facts of his life and work. We honor him further by continuing to build, intelligently and prudently, the America we want for ourselves, our fellow citizens, and our children and grandchildren.
Ryan P. Williams in Remembering Charlie Kirk, One Year Later
Features Meeting of the Minds
As America approaches its 250th birthday, it is an ideal time to contemplate the character of the republic the Founders established in 1776. Spencer Klavan leads a discussion on how Americans can “recover a sense of their country as an era-defining project, forward-looking but steeped in ancient traditions of faith and law.”
Is it coming to a close, or just getting started?
During Donald Trump’s second term, the issue of IVF and life in the womb has come rocketing back to the foreground of national politics. In this series, authors discuss and debate potential paths forward for Americans struggling with fertility.
Challenges and opportunities in a fraught domain.
Based on his new Provocation for the Center for the American Way of Life, Ronald J. Pestritto and contributors assess what the Trump Administration is doing to counter the Progressives’ assault on republican government.
Recovering republican government in the 21st century.
Contributors respond to Jesse Merriam’s provocative call to rethink the aims of the conservative legal movement to meet the challenges of today.
It should prioritize fraying social bonds over civil rights shibboleths.
Based on his new Provocation for the Center for the American Way of Life, “Not Enough Good Men,” Scott Yenor and contributors reassess the modern rejection of single-sex education.
The declining state of American boys and girls makes it increasingly necessary.
Andrew Beck leads a focused discussion on assimilating to American culture, with responses from notable contributors.
We should expect anyone who wishes to be a citizen of the land of the free to adopt our way of life.
Contributors discuss Donald Trump’s impact on American politics following his famous ride down a golden Trump Tower escalator in June 2015.
The second act has barely begun.
Christopher Caldwell, Helen Andrews, David Goldman, and other writers respond to James Hankins’s immigration proposal.
Deporting criminals is the easy part.
Edward J. Erler and other contributors discuss the Claremont Institute’s case against automatic birthright citizenship.
President-elect Trump is right to see the doctrine as constitutionally dubious.
Dan McCarthy and other contributors lay out what Donald Trump should do in his second administration if he wins the 2024 election.
His agenda must revolve around recovering the practices of self-government.
Roger Kimball paints a picture of the future if Kamala Harris wins the presidency, and respondents consider the implications of that prospect.
Freedom, once lost, is lost forever.
Ryan Williams and other contributors consider the world-shaking implications of what happened at Donald Trump’s rally this past Saturday.
Donald Trump and America each dodged a bullet.
Ryan Williams and alumni of our fellowship programs reflect on the meaning of July 4th through food, festivities, and great speeches and documents from American history.
A very happy 4th of July to you and yours.
Authors respond to Spencer Klavan’s essay, “A Matter of Taste,” which explores what the Right needs to do to revive aesthetics, culture, and art.
Conservatives must snub political kitsch for aesthetic greatness.
Contributors discuss the core arguments of Jeremy Carl’s new book, The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart.
If they don't act, white Americans will soon be subsidizing their own destruction.
Authors respond to Charles Kesler’s essay on national conservatism and American conservatism in the Winter 2023/4 Claremont Review of Books.
Not all nationalisms are created equal.
Memos What Is to Be Done
The next stage of the sexual counter-revolution.
Use patronage and political accountability to fund scientific genius.
The international surrogacy boom is about scaling chain migration.
A playbook for all the states.
A new playbook to curb its abuses.
Data centers, high places, and a conservative AI policy.
Governor Pritzker’s flawed remedy to a real problem.
The case for creating the Sasse Society to cultivate higher-ed leaders.
New ones are coming—and this time they’re here to stay.
Republicans should focus on building a more local, more cooperative, and more human economy.
A “dynamic dozen” could both advance our industry and preserve our form of government.
A playbook to address the munitions crisis.
Congress must close the loopholes that allow terrorists and fraudsters to remain citizens.
How to fix America’s immigration crisis.
The Trump Administration should claim Marie Byrd Land.
China’s stranglehold over B12 is a problem.
Philanthropists must aim for total and unconditional victory.
America cannot turn its back on a spacefaring future.
