Subscribe to access essays and reviews by America's most formidable conservative thinkers and writers! LATEST ISSUE | ESSAYS | BOOK REVIEWS | PODCAST | SUBSCRIBE The new summer issue is now online! “Progressives believe that even if mass incarceration and more assertive policing practices do explain the drop in crime, the country was more just and admirable with high crime and lax law enforcement.” So writes senior editor William Voegeli in his cover essay, “Criminal Negligence,” for the new Summer 2021 issue of the Claremont Review of Books, which is now online for subscribers. Voegeli sifts the evidence of surging crime rates and carefully assesses the political problem it poses for the Democratic Party. The issue also features essays by Jeffrey H. Anderson on why citizens shouldn’t wear masks, Christopher Caldwell on Italy’s shrinking future, and Glenn Ellmers on Harry V. Jaffa’s enduring legacy. Among our book reviews you’ll find Michael Anton on Kenneth Miller’s Texas vs. California, James Ceaser on Edmund Fawcett’s Conservatism, Myron Magnet on R.J. Pestritto’s America Transformed, Charles Murray on Michael Sandel’s The Tyranny of Merit, and Peter Myers on Joshua Mitchell’s American Awakening. And in this issue we include a remembrance of our friend and contributor, Patrick Garrity, who passed away in May. Access all of these great articles and receive your own print copy of the magazine in the mail with your new subscription. Four quarterly issues for just $19.95. Subscribe Check out some of the issue highlights, along with a selection of unlocked articles, below. We hope you find the Claremont Review of Books to be one of the most intelligent and engaging periodicals in America. The summer issue is now online! From the Editor's Desk Essays Book Reviews Shadow Play Parthian Shot READ NOW Criminal Negligence By William Voegeli Liberals would rather live with crime than fight it. The New York Times recently reported that Americans suffered 30% more homicides in 2020 than in 2019. “In Chicago and several other cities, last year was the worst year for killings since the mid- 1990s.” READ MORE Who Lost Afghanistan? - Unlocked! By Charles Kesler Bitter defeat. It was truly macabre, President Joe Biden’s plan to end America’s military involvement in Afghanistan on September 11 of this year, 20 years to the day after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, plotted and promoted by al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. READ MORE The Masking of America By Jeffrey H. Anderson Faceless people make compliant subjects, not good citizens. We should never fully return to our maskless society where only health care providers donned a mask, because judicious use of masks will continue to save lives” (emphasis added).  READ MORE Little Italy By Christopher Caldwell Less populous, more populist. Well after dark on an evening in late May, almost silently, an an- ti-smuggling patrol ship from the Italian Guardia di Finanza approached a commercial pier on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. READ MORE Why Harry V. Jaffa Matters By Glenn Ellmers He saw our house dividing once again. During the cold war the destruction of the American republic under a barrage of Soviet nuclear-tipped missiles was considered a remote but distinct possibility. Today, we again face the possible end of the American republic. READ MORE Right Flight - Unlocked! By Michael Anton The war between the states. In the preface to Texas vs. California, Kenneth Miller indicates that he finished his manuscript in May 2020. That makes it unusually prescient for an academic book. For at that time, three key events lay ahead... READ MORE Thinking Like a Conservative By James W. Ceaser "Conservatism" covers multiple theoretical ideas. Edmund Fawcett’s Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition is an expansive volume covering conservative thought and practice since the late 18th century. READ MORE Meritocracy's Cost By Charles Murray Meritocracy conceals elite disdain for the lives of ordinary Americans. Michael Young’s novel The Rise of the Meritocracy, published in 1958, was written in the voice of a historian in 2033 describing a meritocratic Britain where talent was identified, nurtured, and rewarded regardless of ethnic or social origins. READ MORE Family Matters By Amy Wax There is no greater threat to young people’s intellectual development and personal integrity than the progressive ideology dominating schools. Parenting is hard. Writing well about parenting is even harder. Americans have transformed what was once a natural function, guided by age-old conventions and instincts, into an elaborate, minutely analyzed project beset by conflicting recommendations and expectations. READ MORE The Claremont Review of Books Podcast New Episode James Poulos on Digital Religion Who will catechize the bots? Listen ‌ ‌ ‌ The mission of the Claremont Institute is to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life. The Claremont Institute | 1317 W Foothill Blvd #120, Upland, CA 91786 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by [email protected] powered by Try email marketing for free today!