John Eastman delivers the closing remarks at the Claremont Institute's 2016 Constitution Day Celebration.
Battle for Brexit: A Conversation with Christopher Caldwell 10.21.2019
Michael Anton and Christopher Caldwell discuss the uncertainty and obstructionism surrounding Britain's supposedly impending exit from the E.U.
Christopher Caldwell is a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute and Contributing Editor of the Claremont Review of Books, where he recently published an extensive analysis of bureaucratic opposition to Brexit (Why Hasn’t Brexit Happened? Summer 2019).
Michael Anton is a Lecturer and Research Fellow at Hillsdale College, a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, and a former national security official in the Trump administration.
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Dean Reuter, Hans A. von Spakovsky, and Lawrence VanDyke discuss our increasingly politicized executive branch.
John Malcolm, John Shu, Michael Uhlmann, and John Yoo discuss the erosion of the separation of powers.
Judge Alice Batchelder accepts the Claremont Institute's 2016 Jurisprudence Award.
The polls were right, and the pundits were wrong. A Republican presidential field that was hailed as the most talented in a generation has been flummoxed, humbled, and finally beaten by Donald Trump. The Party of Lincoln is now firmly in the hands of a Manhattan billionaire, and conservatives seem hopelessly divided about how to proceed.
When the first Civil Service Reform Act passed in 1883, “good government” reformers envisioned nonpartisan civil servants fairly administering the federal bureaucracy. From the vantage point of 2016, it is clear this dream has turned into a nightmare.
