Claremont Review of Books
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The Claremont Review of Books (CRB) is a quarterly review of politics and statesmanship published by the conservative Claremont Institute. A typical issue consists of several book reviews and a selection of essays on topics of conservatism and political philosophy, history, and literature.[1] Authors who are regularly featured in the Review are sometimes nicknamed "Claremonsters."[2][3]
The editor is
History
Legal scholar
The Review was re-established in 2000 under the editorship of Charles R. Kesler in what The New York Times described as "a conservative, if eclectic, answer to The New York Review of Books."[1] In 2017 it had about 14,000 subscribers.[4][citation needed]
Political positions
According to historian
The Review took a pro-Trump position during the 2016 election campaign, with an article by Charles Kessler criticizing the Never Trump movement. "Conservatives care too much about the party and the country to wash our hands of this election," he wrote. "A third party bid would be quixotic.".[7] Nevertheless, the Review published articles by both Trump supporters and "Never Trumpers" during the 2016 campaign, moving after his election to a thoroughly pro-Trump position.[1] According to the New York Times, in the spring of 2017 the Review was "being hailed as the bible of highbrow Trumpism."[4][1]
Jon Baskin understood the Review's pro-Trump stance as "an expression of the belief that conservative intellectuals can cut a path between the East Coast Straussians' political reticence and the ineffectual tinkering of the think tankers," but was at a loss to explain "how a group so attached to the principles of the Constitution could place its faith in the author of
During the George W. Bush administration, the Review "made a conservative case against the war in Iraq."[4]
Notable articles
Kesler's "Democracy and the Bush Doctrine"
In September 2016, two months before the US 2016 presidential election, the Review published an online-only article entitled "The Flight 93 Election."[9] Written by Michael Anton under a pseudonym, the essay compared the election to choices that faced the passengers on Flight 93, one of the four hijacked planes used in the September 11th attacks. When the article was read by Rush Limbaugh on his radio show, the sudden surge in demand to read it crashed the CRB website.[10] Addressing an audience of Republicans and Never-Trump conservatives, Anton argued that allowing the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton to become president by abstaining from voting was the equivalent of not charging the cockpit.
Notes
- ^ approximate subscribers for year 2017
References
- ^ a b c d Schuessler, Jennifer (20 February 2017). "'Charge the Cockpit or You Die': Behind an Incendiary Case for Trump". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- ^ "The Unforgivables: Trump's Top Collaborators". Daily Beast. 19 October 2016.
- ISBN 9781641770194. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Jon Baskin (17 March 2017). "The Academic Home of Trumpism". Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- ^ "The Great Resenter". www.claremont.org. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ George H. Nash (10 October 2010). "An Outcry Against Government From Above". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- ^ Fred Barnes (6 June 2016). "Trump's Intellectuals". The Weekly Standard. 21 (37).
- ^ Kesler, Charles (Winter 2004). "Democracy and the Bush Doctrine". Claremont Review of Books. The Claremont Institute for Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
- ^ Michael Anton (as "Publius Decius Mus") (4 September 2016). "The Flight 93 Election". Claremont Review of Books. The Claremont Institute for Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
- ^ Zerofsky, Elisabeth (August 3, 2022). "How the Claremont Institute Became a Nerve Center of the American Right". The New York Times. Retrieved January 19, 2024.