A cultural “return” to Stoicism would be a step backward not forward. The moral horizon of the West was not born from stoic detachment but from the incarnational and redemptive worldview of Christendom. Stoicism can teach endurance and restraint, but it offers no real redemption. As @SpencerKlavan notes, there are noble elements within the Stoic ethic, but those virtues reach their fulfillment not in the self-sufficient sage, but in the saint. The West’s highest moral vision flows from a faith that sanctifies suffering, redeems weakness, and binds reason to love something Stoicism, for all its dignity, does not achieve. Subscribe here to read claremontreviewofbooks.com/t…

"Watergate does not bother me." @RpwWilliams and @MeSabo86 expose the plot to take down two presidents in the latest episode the Roundtable.

"The colonial institutions that left the most enduring positive imprint were those, like the army, where an aristocratic spirit prevailed..." In his review of 'A Counter-History of French Colonization' by @drissghalibooks, Luke Foster examines the Third French Empire's colonial experiment from beginning to end. In the counter-history, Ghali challenges the modern dogma, arguing that the glorious French Empire, flawed by any account, was a civilizing force whose former spirit must be recovered to restore the confidence that once made the Republic great. Subscribe to read the review here. claremontreviewofbooks.com/f…

All these decades later, it's still the economy, stupid. To continue to succeed, @realJeremyCarl writes, the Republican Party must begin addressing kitchen table issues, namely, affordability—a top issue among voters of all constituencies.

Sheriffs are America's first line of defense against threats to our way of life. Join us on November 12th for the 2025 American Sheriff Dinner as we honor Sheriff Michael Lewis, featuring keynote remarks from Tom Homan. Few tickets remain, get one here goldenageagenda.com/event/am…

The average person now spends over $1,000 a year on medication, and polling shows nearly all Americans believe it's too much. Politicians have found a scapegoat in the pharmaceutical companies, Sam Raus writes that the bureaucracy is the true problem. americanmind.org/memo/drug-p…

"They both look a lot to me like one major party who is, disproportionately the party controlling... the permanent apparatus of the bureaucracy" @RpwWilliams, in the latest episode of The Roundtable, discusses FBI corruption—this time, Arctic Frost and Crossfire Hurricane.

The Court began its November sitting this week in what’s shaping up to be one of the most consequential terms in modern history. Dozens of cases, many stemming from “forum-shopped” rulings by lower courts stacked with Democratic judges, will determine whether our Republic is one whose laws are executed by administrative bureaucrats, or the will and representatives of the American people. Already, the Court has stayed rogue rulings that attempt to prohibit President Trump’s foreign aid decisions, deportations, and executive firings. Still the biggest fights are still ahead. Including cases on tariffs, campaign coordination, and property rights. With cases on elections, guns, property, immigration, and executive authority, this is a true blockbuster term that may shape the balance of powers for a generation. Read the full analysis from @DrJohnEastman, Director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, in @theammind here. americanmind.org/salvo/a-con…

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It is not clear why the minority in one legislative chamber should be able to stop the routine operations by deploying the filibuster, a rule that does not belong to the age-old customs of the Senate, in that it is contrary to the principles of government found in our Constitution.

One year ago today, President Donald Trump and the Republican Party triumphantly won over the American people and thus the American government. After a seemingly short twelve months, the government is now in its longest shutdown in history, and just last night, New York City elected a radical, anti-American mayor. In his Fall 2024 essay for the CRB, Charles R. Kesler asked in response to Trump's sweeping, historic victory, "Now who's on the wrong side of history?" Is it the Democrats, whose vision for America is a strictly non-American cause, who take the character of our state and the dreams of her people to be oppressive, immoral, and discredited? Or Trump's growing coalition, as Kesler wrote of it, "he [Trump] thinks of Americans as a beautiful people based on a beautiful set of commonsense ideas. Perhaps that’s why he is on his way to building a new majority party, a truly ascendant coalition, brethren of the same principle." America would be wise not to forget the lessons of Trump’s last victory. Read Charles R. Kesler's 2024 essay here. claremontreviewofbooks.com/a…

VP @JDVance: Zohran Mamdani has dared to return American generosity with insults at every opportunity. It’s time to rethink the generosity extended to people whose only uniting agenda is hatred for Americans and a need to exploit us until nothing remains.

Leo Strauss is often blamed for inspiring neoconservatism, and by extension, the most zealous forms of interventionism it produced. In his latest, @RonDodson adds to the writings of those who have worked to correct the record on a Straussian approach to foreign policy.

Wars force regimes to prove what they are made of. Our regime lost the wars. In 2011, Angelo Codevilla wrote, reflecting on a decade of American wars, that we had become poorer, less civil, and less hopeful. Codevilla excoriates the ruling class, arguing that these useless wars did nothing to defend America instead serving only to weaken us, forcing the American people to confront the fact that the ruling class is no longer on America’s side. And so the lost decade became the lost decades, and the "expert" class continued in full confidence with no reflection or intent of slowing down. Subscribe to read Codevilla's 2011 essay for the CRB here. claremontreviewofbooks.com/t…

"The true statesman, like the philosopher of the ancient world, knows that order begins at home and that power without discipline corrodes what it means to be free. Lincoln understood this when he tempered his realism with charity, seeking not conquest but restoration."

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"Is the New Theism a Christian movement?" @SpencerKlavan and @MatthewSchmitz discuss the resurgence of religiosity and belief amongst the ruling classes in Western Countries.

"It is not correct to call Reagan a neoconservative, not merely because of the protean character of neoconservatism, but because Reagan doesn’t fit the intellectual and temperamental prerequisites." In his 2004 piece for the CRB, @stevenfhayward wrote of Reagan’s beginnings, education, and his striking similarities to great statesmen of the past, chiefly Winston Churchill. Read Hayward's essay on the "homemade" Reagan, and why we could use a few more men like him today. claremontreviewofbooks.com/h…

America’s sheriffs stand on the front lines of sovereignty, order, and the rule of law. Join us on November 12th in Orange County to honor Sheriff Michael Lewis as he receives our 2025 American Sheriff Award, with Tom Homan appearing as a special guest. For more information and tickets, visit goldenageagenda.com/event/am…

"A president who has derided foreign misadventures looks to be on the brink of one of his own. What is going on?" Read Senior Fellow Christopher Caldwell's latest on the potential conflict with Venezuela hubs.ly/Q03Rcnk80 via The Free Press