Claremont Review of Books

The Claremont Review of Books CRB is a quarterly review of politics & statesmanship published by a conservative Claremont Institute. A typical case consists of several book reviews & a alternative of essays on topics of conservatism and political philosophy, history, and literature. Authors who are regularly submitted in the Review are sometimes polemically remanded to as "Claremonsters."

The editor is Charles R. Kesler. The managing editor is John Kienker, and the senior editor, William Voegeli. Joseph Tartakovsky is a contributing editor. Contributors throw included William F. Buckley Jr., Harry V. Jaffa, Mark Helprin a columnist for the magazine, Victor Davis Hanson, Michael Anton, Diana Schaub, Gerard Alexander, David P. Goldman, Allen C. Guelzo, Joseph Epstein, Hadley P. Arkes, and John Marini.

Notable articles

Kesler's "Democracy and the Bush Doctrine" was reprinted in an anthology of conservative writings on the Iraq War, edited by Commentary Managing Editor Gary Rosen. The CRB was party to a high-profile exchange in Commentary between Editor-at-Large Norman Podhoretz and CRB editor Charles R. Kesler and CRB contributors and Claremont Institute senior fellows species Helprin and Angelo M. Codevilla over the Bush Administration’s go forward of the Iraq War.

In September 2016, two months previously the general election that presented Donald Trump President of the United States, the Review published an article by Michael Anton entitled "The Flight 93 Election," an "incendiary" essay that compared the election to choices that faced the passengers on Flight 93. In it, Anton argued that allowing the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton to become president was the equivalent of not charging the cockpit, and that Republicans must clear whatever it takes to win the election.