...and more great content from the new spring 2022 issue of the Claremont Review of Books! LATEST ISSUE | ESSAYS | BOOK REVIEWS | PODCAST | SUBSCRIBE The new spring 2022 issue of the Claremont Review of Books is now out, and while subscribers can enjoy access to the complete table of contents—both in print and online—we've unlocked a collection of articles below for your reading pleasure! We hope you enjoy this sampling of America's premier journal of political thought and statesmanship and we invite you to subscribe to access the complete issue online now, along with digital and print copies of forthcoming issues. Four quarterly issues—including immediate access to all new and archived content—for just $19.95. Subscribe A Tragedy of Errors The war in Ukraine in context and perspective by Mark Helprin To write about war as it is ongoing is like catching a falling knife, or perhaps polishing it. One cannot know what will happen, or the particulars that will have decisively shaped the outcome. With the war in Ukraine barely a month old, writing in March for readers in May is a stressful proposition kept in bounds only by hewing to the fundamentals that by their very nature are best positioned to survive ambitious and specific predictions. Like so many others, this war is a tragedy of errors, some circumstantial and acute, and others universal and chronic. History is scored by the crescendos of war, with periods of relative calm only between their crests. We may focus upon the breakers for their drama and destruction, but these are part of a perpetual wave that gathers its power in the smooth, silent dips we ignore. What follows is divided into three broad categories ascending from the specific to the general: an overview of the course of the war and what it has revealed, with attention to the underlying nuclear dimension; the lost opportunities of neither restructuring the post-Cold War European system nor building up our deterrence; what may follow and what must be done. The focus is more on us than it is on Russia or Putin...Continue Reading The Spring 2022 Issue is here! The CRB Interview From the Editor's Desk Essays Book Reviews Shadow Play Parthian Shot Read Now The Supreme Court Leak By Charles Kesler The overturning of Roe v. Wade will intensify the battle between the progressives’ constitution and the founders’ Constitution. READ MORE - Unlocked! Present at the Creation By Norman Podhoretz Norman Podhoretz on the rise of the anti-American Left. READ MORE - Unlocked! Boris Johnson's Party Politics By Christopher Caldwell Is the prime minister who saved Brexit headed for the exit? READ MORE The Right Now By William Voegeli What Trump hath wrought…and revealed. READ MORE - Unlocked! In the Red By Jeffrey H. Anderson Our glidepath to insolvency. READ MORE - Unlocked! Bleak Nation By Allen C. Guelzo Our colonial past was not beautiful, but it was also no more destructive than many other pasts. READ MORE The 1619 Lesson By Daniel J. Mahoney If the young are taught the terrible falsehood that “racism is and always was the dominant ideology,” then the American experiment will hang by the thinnest thread, and we will have no Lincolns to save it. READ MORE Pursuing Happiness By Diana Schaub Tracing the radically different conceptions of human flourishing that have been in contention over the past half-millennium can help us acquire self-knowledge. READ MORE - Unlocked! Deep-State Constitutionalism By Randy E. Barnett Individual natural rights are essential to assure that the “common good” is genuinely common to all. READ MORE Read the complete issue! 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!