Claremont Review of Books

Written in Boeotia around 700 B.C., Works and Days is a didactic poem composed by Hesiod and addressed to his idle brother, Perses, instructing him in the rhythms of the farmer’s year, the gods’ expectations of honest labor, and the correct ordering of a life close to the soil. It is also among the oldest wine-making instruction manuals in the Western tradition. “Whe...

Republicans’ apprehensions about the 2026 midterm elections, now less than six months away, increase by the week. Democrats have stacked one win on top of another in the off-year and special elections held since 2024. According to the Real Clear Politics (RCP) average of public opinion surveys, President Trump’s approval/disapproval numbers are nearly identical to what they w...

In the middle of April, Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez summoned the world’s leftist statesmen to Barcelona for what he called a Global Progressive Mobilization. There are not many leftist statesmen to choose from these days. But Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico and Lula of Brazil rallied round Sánchez, and so did the representatives of activist philanthropies—Bill Gates’s pe...

What Sets the West Apart

Spencer Klavan’s cover essay “The Renegade Academy” (Spring 2026) states eloquently much that I believe about the Western tradition—and the recent attacks upon it. I will certainly now read the book under review, Allen Guelzo and James Hankins’s The Golden Thread. But I didn’t see in Klavan,...

Something has gone wrong with the formation of American citizens. Too many young Americans have renounced the beliefs and conduct that maintain our civic order. In surveys, patriotic sentiment decreases with each successive generation from the Greatest to the Zs. Among the latter, 72% of college students agree that it’s acceptable to shut down a speaker who voices offensive o...