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.
Constitution Day 2016: Jurisprudence Award Presentation-Judge Alice Batchelder
Judge Alice Batchelder accepts the Claremont Institute's 2016 Jurisprudence Award.
Michael Pack is a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute, formerly serving as president from 2015 to 2017. Pack founded Manifold Productions, an independent film and television production company, in 1977.
John C. Eastman is Founding Director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, and currently serves as the Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service at Chapman University’s Dale E. Fowler School of Law. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute.
Judge Alice Batchelder is Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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Christopher Caldwell, author of The Age of Entitlement, examines how the Civil Rights Laws transformed American conceptions about democracy.
Claremont Senior Fellow John Eastman discusses the serious privacy concerns that arise from contact tracing.
Woke Capital Is Destroying the American Vision
The Claremont Institute commemorated the 230th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution with panel discussions addressing some of the most pressing threats to our constitutional system. Panel 2: The Administrative State and the New "Conservative" Majority on the Supreme Court.
