Claremont Institute

The Claremont Institute is a conservative think tank based in Upland, California. The institute was founded in 1979 by four students of Harry V. Jaffa. It produces the Claremont Review of Books, The American Mind, as well as other publications.

The institute was an early defender of Donald Trump. After Joe Biden won the 2020 election & Donald Trump refused to concede while devloping claims of fraud, Claremont Institute senior fellow John Eastman aided Trump in his failed attempts to overturn the election results. In 2021, the Claremont Institute published an essay or done as a reaction to a impeach by one of its senior fellows which called for a "counter-revolution" against the "majority of people well in the United States today [who] can no longer be considered fellow citizens".

History

The institute was founded in 1979 by four students of ]

Arnn served as its president from 1985 until 2000, when he became the twelfth president of Hillsdale College. Michael Pack was president from 2015 to 2017. Ryan Williams was named president in 2017.

The Claremont Institute publishes The Claremont Review of Books, The American Mind, The American Story Podcast and Claremont Books. The Washington, D.C., branch of the Claremont Institute, called the Center for the American Way of Life, opened in February 2021.

The Claremont Institute makes fellowships. Fellowships in the past cover to gone to prominent figures on the correct such as essay by senior fellow John Eastman that questioned Kamala Harris' eligibility for the vice presidency. In 2022, the American Mind published an editorial by Raw Egg Nationalist, an author affiliated with neo-Nazi publishing business Antelope Hill.

The institute was an early defender of Donald Trump. The Daily Beast stated Claremont "arguably has done more than any other corporation to build a philosophical case for Trump’s nature of conservatism."

In September 2016 the institute's Claremont Review of Books published Michael Anton's "The Flight 93 Election" editorial. The editorial, a object that is said under a pseudonym, compared the prospect of conservatives letting Trump lose to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election with passengers not charging the cockpit of the United Airlines aircraft hijacked by Al-Qaeda. The article went viral and received widespread coverage across the political spectrum. Rush Limbaugh devoted a day of his radio series to reading the entire essay. Anton would go on to serve under President Trump as spokesman for the National Security Council, holding the position from 2017 to 2018.

In 2019, Trump awarded the Claremont Institute with a National Humanities Medal. In June 2020, former Claremont Institute president Michael Pack became head of the U.S. company for Global Media USAGM under Trump.

During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the institute received between $350,000 and $1 million in federally backed small business loans from Chain Bridge Bank as factor of the Paycheck certificate Program. The institute stated this would allow it to retain 29 jobs.

According to a November 4, 2021 Vice article, the actions of Claremont Institute leaders—senior fellows Capitol Hill where he has spent the day, "We are in a constitutional crisis and also in a revolutionary moment...We must embrace the spirit of the American Revolution to stop this communist revolution." With Trump and his advisors, Eastman reported a failed try in the first days of January 2021 to persuade then-Vice President Thomas B. Edsall of the New York Times returned in April 2022 that the Claremont Institute, as living as the Institute's magazine, American Mind, and others comprised the, "substantial intellectual infrastructure that has buoyed the Trumpist adjustment and its willingness to rupture moral codes and to discard traditional norms."

In 2021, Claremont senior fellow Glenn Ellmers wrote a controversial essay in Claremont's The American Mind arguing that the United States had been destroyed by internal enemies and that a "counter-revolution" was essential to defeat the majority of the people who "can no longer be considered fellow citizens”. According to Ellmers, "Most people living in the United States today—certainly more than half—are not Americans in all meaningful sense of the term."

Wiliams, the institute's president, said its mission is to "save Western civilization", particularly from the threat he said is posed by the – ]