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"Every single time the American people give us power, the only thing that we try to do is to trim down the thing that they gave us control over?" @JDVance in 2023 on the Right's use of power in the federal government.

Tillis, Scott, Wicker, and McConnell. Their tweets on Orbán's defeat were indistinguishable from Hillary Clinton's and Alex Soros's. Read @RealJeremyCarl's latest on the uniparty, and why the pre-Trump consensus is still alive and well in the Senate GOP. americanmind.org/salvo/orbans-d…

The Provocations series is available in hard copy, audiobook, and e-book formats on here amazon.com/Government-Une…

The assault on the Declaration’s bedrock principles of natural rights and government by consent of the governed began over a century ago, with American progressives like President Woodrow Wilson. For our latest Provocation, @ClaremontInst Senior Fellow Ronald J. Pestritto explains how we got here: the birth of the administrative state, its empowerment by the courts, and how Trump can reclaim consent of the governed. Read his Provocation here dc.claremont.org/government-by-…

“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.” Those were among the last words Abraham Lincoln spoke publicly. He delivered them on April 11, 1865. Three days later, on April 14th, he was shot at Ford's Theatre. Writing in the CRB for the Fall 2013 issue, Diana Schaub, professor of political science at Loyola University Maryland, argues that this insistence on clarity and principle was not a late development but the consistent thread of Lincoln's entire public life. From his first run for office in 1832 to the Second Inaugural, Lincoln's project was always to sharpen the public mind. Allen C. Guelzo, one of the foremost Lincoln scholars in America, makes a related point in his review for the Winter 2023/2024 issue of the CRB: Lincoln's own definition of democracy was characteristically precise. "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy." On the 161st anniversary of his assassination, the CRB archive stands as one of the most sustained conservative engagements with Lincoln's life and thought in American letters. We remember him by carrying that work forward. Subscribe to read Diana Schaub's Lincoln for Liberals here claremontreviewofbooks.com/lincoln-for-li… And Lincoln in a New Light by Allen C. Guelzo here: claremontreviewofbooks.com/lincoln-in-a-n… You can also access essays from dozens of authors from Claremont Salvatori Research Fellow Glenn Ellmers, to contributing writers like Mark Helprin, in the CRB archive. claremontreviewofbooks.com/articles/essay…

“Either Merkel or Orbán misunderstood something.” Claremont Senior Fellow Christopher Caldwell on Viktor Orbán's career spanning more than three decades, and how his loss signals a shift in populist politics in the West compactmag.com/article/orban-… via @compactmag.

“In his new war against Iran, Trump applies the lessons he’s learned from these unhappy recent wars. He has his eye on the prize—victory—which he orders to be pursued relentlessly until it is secured.” Charles Kesler on Trump's new war, and the new motivating agenda in Washington and the Pentagon: “We Win, They Lose.” Read his essay from the editor's desk here claremontreviewofbooks.com/we-win-they-lo…

The Claremont Institute seeks a Digital Communications Manager to support our rapidly expanding communications and media efforts. Apply here. claremont.org/digital-commun…

Trump was not elected as a sovereign. He was elected as a representative, and his authority rests on the consent of the people who sent him to Washington. @RonDodson supported Trump and opposed the Iran war before it started. Now he explains the cost and why it's a mistake.

“Legal Counsel produced a memo saying that anybody born here, no matter what, was a citizen. But that memo never got the force of law.” @DrJohnEastman explains how bureaucrats distorted the 14th Amendment into the birthright citizenship policy we're confronting today.

”It's one of the real important reasons to get rid of these sorts of programs.” Claremont Senior Fellow @realJeremyCarl discusses the ways that DEI hampers, not enhances, assimilation into America with @DouthatNYT.

The Claremont Institute seeks a Communications Director to lead and steward the Institute’s communications strategy, messaging, and public presence across all platforms. hubs.li/Q049sTXh0

The Spring 2026 Issue of the Claremont Review of Books is out now, featuring essays and reviews by CRB Editor Charles R. Kesler, Claremont Senior Fellow Christopher Caldwell, Jack Roth Senior Fellow in American Politics Michael Anton, CRB Associate Editor @SpencerKlavan, Lane Scott, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Claremont Institute @TomKlingenstein, @compactmag_'s @nukebarbarian, and more. claremontreviewofbooks.com/issue/spring-2…

There are a couple of hard things Trump needs to do to secure his legacy. Mass deportations is one of them. It is “hard” because of decades of accumulated political-partisan-policy inertia (and bad judges). But it is not hard as a matter of execution. The roadmap is here.

Palantir’s @riverswrites says, “The AI revolution can and must serve American workers and their families.” @SamRaus1 writes that the backlash against data centers is real and proposes a solution: give blue-collar workers skin in the game. americanmind.org/salvo/seizing-…

“Eastman told POLITICO he recalls first digging into the birthright citizenship issue sometime in the 1990s.” Read @Politico's profile of @DrJohnEastman, the "brain trust" in the conservative movement's fight to reform birthright citizenship in America. politico.com/news/2026/03/3…

"Many of the anti-war detractors seem to have little appreciation for what has transpired since the Iranian Revolution." Earlier this month, Claremont Institute Senior Fellow @BrianTKennedy1 wrote for @TheAmMind that from the 1979 embassy seizure to the Beirut barracks bombing to Iranian-supplied IEDs killing American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States has faced nearly five decades of Iranian aggression met with consistent non-response. Kennedy writes that each failure to act deepened Iran's contempt and invited further escalation. The nuclear question sharpens the stakes considerably: Iran has shown the capability to launch a ballistic missile from a container ship off the American coast and detonate it in the upper atmosphere. A strike that would devastate America's electronic infrastructure without leaving a clear target for retaliation. The choice, he argues, was never war or peace. It was war now or war later, on worse terms. Read his latest below.

Straussians have done more than any other school of scholars to investigate the principles of the American Founding, and they famously disagree. As America approaches its 250th anniversary, @VPhillipMunoz traces the debate from Jaffa's early "low but solid" interpretation to his mature argument that the Founders adapted Lockean rights to fit an Aristotelian framework. The question has never been more urgent: do we celebrate the Declaration and return to the Founding, or imagine a post-liberal future? Read here claremontreviewofbooks.com/ancient-and-mo…

Saint Thomas Aquinas identified four natural tendencies in human beings: to preserve oneself, to unite with the opposite sex, to associate with others in political community, and to know the truth about God. Pierre Manent's great essay in the latest issue of the CRB asks which of these our age still recognizes as authoritative. The answer: only the first. Everything else, from the family, the city, to the church, has been reclassified as constructed, therefore available for deconstruction. What remains is only the self-important sovereign individual, pressing his rights against every institution that dares to make a claim on him. The result is a kind of slow erasure of the common world. Manent argues that natural law is the only framework capable of reuniting human rights with the grammar of action directed toward the good, and that recovering it is among the most urgent tasks of our political moment. Subscribe here to read hubs.li/Q048Gg2m0

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“All Iran can do is respond with proportionate attacks on energy infrastructure in the Gulf.” @WilliamThibeau breaks down Iran's remaining capabilities and why its last move could still send shockwaves through the world with @christopherrufo and @L0m3z.