A very Claremont Christmas

Our friends at the Claremont Institute and the Claremont Review of Books have assembled a list of recommended books under the heading “A very Claremont Christmas.” Professor Hadley Arkes and I both contributed to the list, and both Professor Arkes and I include John Bolton’s Surrender Is Not an Option on our list. Here is Professor Arkes’s rationale:

John Bolton visited us recently in Amherst, and even I was struck by his political “presence.” He has acquired “star quality” and rightly so, for he is substantive, smart, anchored in the grounds of his judgments. He is not unhinged by the critics he encounters when giving talks

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