The American Mind’s Weekly Digest

FEATURES

Weekly Features present varied responses from notable commentators on a single theme, often prompted by a longer essay.

Founders Keepers

Edward J. Erler

Only justice preserves regimes, not history or tradition.

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Nationalism and the Moral Imagination

Gerald Russello

The traditions of American civilization carry intelligible moral ideas.

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The War Over American Pride

Jerry Gibbon

If local communities are to survive, institutionalized shame toward America must be rooted out.

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Forging a New Right, From Concepts to Perceptions

James Poulos

Our new world sheds new light on the relations between reason and tradition.

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ESSAYS

Essays of the Week are original, longer essays on an important topic.

Losing the Class

Ian Marcus Corbin

On campus, today's forlorn meritocrats no longer believe what the apparatchiks are teaching them.

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VIDEO

Watch as Rebeccah Heinrichs, Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow (2014) and senior fellow at Hudson Institute, argues at the Oxford Union that Trump's foreign policy is preferable to Obama's foreign policy.

PODCAST

Each episode of The American Mind Podcast engages with Claremont scholars, friends, and challengers in thought-provoking conversations about the causes of our current political and cultural reality—always with an eye towards restoring America back to civic health.