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CRB: A bully’s pulpit
In previewing the new issue of the Claremont Review of Books (subscribe here) yesterday we featured Bill Voegeli’s demolition of Michael Grunwald’s panegyric supporting the godawful stimulus bill of 2009, enacted right around the time that the recession was ending (according to the National Bureau of Economic Research). We continue our preview today with Hillsdale College Professor R.J. Pestritto’s review of Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition, by Bowdoin »
Liberalism is bunk
Henry Ford is reported to have said that “History is bunk.” Reviewing Paula Baker’s new book, Brad Smith reminds us of some history made by Ford: Ninety-five years ago Truman Newberry, a modest, well-mannered scion of an old-money Detroit family, suddenly found himself under federal indictment and his very name synonymous with political corruption. Newberry’s “crime”? He had run for the United States Senate as a long-shot underdog against the »
Is Liberalism Doomed?
Liberals are feeling triumphant these days, but in the backs of their minds there must be a sense of foreboding. They won this year by demonizing Republicans and by bribing various demographic groups with government largesse. But the Left’s tactical victory can’t conceal the fact that its ideology is bankrupt. The left’s real enemy isn’t Republicans, it is arithmetic. Welfare states are collapsing all around the world. Ours is on »
Quotable quotes from Harvey Mansfield
Harvey Manssfield is the great teacher of government and long-time member of the Harvard faculty. Among his books are Manliness and an indispensable edition of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. The Wall Street Journal Weekend interview profiles Professor Mansfield. At age 80, he can look back on an incredibly distinguished career, but he’s still going strong. The quotable Professor Mansfield offers this: “We have now an American political party and a »
The money of others
John Hinderaker and I wrote an essay on income inequality in 1995 and haven’t much looked back at the subject. We took our bearings from the proposition of Publius in the Federalist that the “first object of government” is to protect “the different and unequal faculties of acquiring property[.]” Now there is a revolutionary thought! The liberals’ appetite for income redistribution and animus against income inequality proceed unabated, arguably stronger »
Black actress does the unthinkable, endorses Romney
You might think that an African-American actress could tweet her support for Mitt Romney without becoming the subject of vicious verbal abuse in response. But to think this, you would have to be oblivious to the character of the American left. The actress in question is Stacey Dash. She tweeted an image of herself in a red swimsuit in front of the American Flag with the message, “Vote for Romney. »
Jean Yarbrough: TR and the American Political Tradition
Jean Yarbrough is Professor of Government and Gary M. Pendy, Sr. Professor of Social Sciences at Bowdoin College. Professor Yarbrough’s new book — Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition — has been 12 years in the making. Beautifully written, it answers the longstanding need for a book that seriously examines the political thought of Theodore Roosevelt and accurately places him in the American political tradition. This is an important »