Books
Strange Bedfellows
– George Kateb, Commentary, August 1965.Excerpt: Eyebrows were raised last summer when the New York Times reported that Harry Jaffa was writing campaign speeches for Barry Gold-water. How could it be that this student of… More
Spokesman for the Political Tradition
– National Review, October 6, 1970.Review of Agnew: Profile in Conflict by Jim G. Lucas.
Equality as a Conservative Principle
– Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 8:471 (1975). Reprinted in How to Think About the American Revolution: A Bicentennial Cerebration (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1978).Excerpt: That Conservatism should search for its meaning implies of course that Conservatism does not have the meaning for which it is searching. This might appear paradoxical, since a… More
American Conservatism and the American Founding
– Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984.Summary from the Publisher: This book is the fourth in a series (including Equality and Liberty, The Conditions of Freedom, and How to Think About the American Revolution) of reprinted… More
Goldwater’s Famous ‘Gaffe’
– National Review, August 10, 1984, pp. 36-37.Seven Questions for Professor Jaffa
– George Anastaplo, Seattle University Law Review 10:3 (1987). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: This Article poses questions inspired by the four essays collected in Professor Harry V. Jaffa’s article “What Were the ‘Original Intentions’ of the Framers of the… More
What Were the “Original Intentions” of the Framers of the Constitution of the United States?
– Seattle University Law Review 10:3 (1987). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: This Article explains how the doctrine of original intent might be defended as the basis for interpreting the Constitution. The deepest political differences in American history… More
Judicial Conscience and Natural Rights: A Reply to Professor Ledewitz
– Seattle University Law Review 11:2 (1988). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: In our Spring 1987 issue, Professor Jaffa authored an essay in which he posited that the fundamental principles of equality and other tenets of natural law expressed in the… More
Seven Answers for Professor Anastaplo
– Seattle Law Review 13:375 (1990).Abstract: Professor Jaffa responds to seven questions from Professor Anastaplo.
The Closing of the Conservative Mind: A Dissenting Opinion on Judge Robert H. Bork
– National Review, July 9, 1990, pp. 40-43. Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution
– Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994.Summary from the Publisher: Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question is a unique contribution to the debate, begun by Attorney General Edwin Meese in the… More
God and Man in Court: Graglia’s Quarrel with God
– National Review, August 14, 1995, pp. 30-32.Abstract: The article presents the author’s response to the comments of law professor Lino A. Graglia on his critique of U.S. Judge Robert Bork and Chief Justice William Rehnquist… More
Defenders of the Constitution: Calhoun Versus Madison, a Bicentennial Cerebration
– Symposium, "James Madison: Philosopher and Practitioner of Liberal Democracy," Library of Congress, March 16, 2001.Excerpt: In 1987, the Center for Judicial Studies, a Conservative think tank in the precincts of the nation’s capital–a think tank, sometimes referred to as by appointment to… More
The False Prophets of American Conservatism
– Reprinted by The Claremont Institute, June 11, 2014. In Kenneth L. Grasso and Robert P. Hunt, eds., A Moral Enterprise: Politics, Reason, and the Human Good (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2002.)Excerpt: While the crisis of today does not have the immediacy of the crisis over slavery, its underlying character is the same. It is commonplace today to compare the issue of abortion to… More
American Conservatism and the Present Crisis
– Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2003.Excerpt: Roger Scruton, writing in the Wall Street Journal last December, declared that “September 11 was a wake up call through which liberals have managed to go on dreaming.… More
Crisis of the Strauss Divided: Essays on Leo Strauss and Straussianism, East and West
– Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.Summary from the Publisher: Crisis of the Strauss Divided brings together a collection of Jaffa’s published arguments defending and explaining that judgment, written during the 40 years… More
The Goldwater Campaign
– Eric Benson, New York Magazine, October 14, 2012.Excerpt: You weren’t one of Barry Goldwater’s speechwriters. How did you come to write his most famous speech? For most of the campaign, I was on the payroll for the American Enterprise… More
The Party of Lincoln vs. The Party of Bureaucrats
– The Claremont Institute, June 9, 2014.Excerpt: In the fall of 1964, I was on the speech-writing staff of the Goldwater campaign. In September and October I went on a number of forays to college campuses, where I debated… More
Harry V. Jaffa: An Inconvenient Thinker by Ken Masugi
– Ken Masugi, Library of Law & Liberty, January 15, 2015.Excerpt: Harry V. Jaffa, who died January 10, at 96, may well be American conservatism’s most consequential thinker, for having attempted to re-found conservatism on the basis of its most… More
Essays
Strange Bedfellows
– George Kateb, Commentary, August 1965.Excerpt: Eyebrows were raised last summer when the New York Times reported that Harry Jaffa was writing campaign speeches for Barry Gold-water. How could it be that this student of… More
Spokesman for the Political Tradition
– National Review, October 6, 1970.Review of Agnew: Profile in Conflict by Jim G. Lucas.
Equality as a Conservative Principle
– Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 8:471 (1975). Reprinted in How to Think About the American Revolution: A Bicentennial Cerebration (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1978).Excerpt: That Conservatism should search for its meaning implies of course that Conservatism does not have the meaning for which it is searching. This might appear paradoxical, since a… More
American Conservatism and the American Founding
– Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984.Summary from the Publisher: This book is the fourth in a series (including Equality and Liberty, The Conditions of Freedom, and How to Think About the American Revolution) of reprinted… More
Goldwater’s Famous ‘Gaffe’
– National Review, August 10, 1984, pp. 36-37.Seven Questions for Professor Jaffa
– George Anastaplo, Seattle University Law Review 10:3 (1987). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: This Article poses questions inspired by the four essays collected in Professor Harry V. Jaffa’s article “What Were the ‘Original Intentions’ of the Framers of the… More
What Were the “Original Intentions” of the Framers of the Constitution of the United States?
– Seattle University Law Review 10:3 (1987). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: This Article explains how the doctrine of original intent might be defended as the basis for interpreting the Constitution. The deepest political differences in American history… More
Judicial Conscience and Natural Rights: A Reply to Professor Ledewitz
– Seattle University Law Review 11:2 (1988). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: In our Spring 1987 issue, Professor Jaffa authored an essay in which he posited that the fundamental principles of equality and other tenets of natural law expressed in the… More
Seven Answers for Professor Anastaplo
– Seattle Law Review 13:375 (1990).Abstract: Professor Jaffa responds to seven questions from Professor Anastaplo.
The Closing of the Conservative Mind: A Dissenting Opinion on Judge Robert H. Bork
– National Review, July 9, 1990, pp. 40-43. Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution
– Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994.Summary from the Publisher: Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question is a unique contribution to the debate, begun by Attorney General Edwin Meese in the… More
God and Man in Court: Graglia’s Quarrel with God
– National Review, August 14, 1995, pp. 30-32.Abstract: The article presents the author’s response to the comments of law professor Lino A. Graglia on his critique of U.S. Judge Robert Bork and Chief Justice William Rehnquist… More
Defenders of the Constitution: Calhoun Versus Madison, a Bicentennial Cerebration
– Symposium, "James Madison: Philosopher and Practitioner of Liberal Democracy," Library of Congress, March 16, 2001.Excerpt: In 1987, the Center for Judicial Studies, a Conservative think tank in the precincts of the nation’s capital–a think tank, sometimes referred to as by appointment to… More
The False Prophets of American Conservatism
– Reprinted by The Claremont Institute, June 11, 2014. In Kenneth L. Grasso and Robert P. Hunt, eds., A Moral Enterprise: Politics, Reason, and the Human Good (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2002.)Excerpt: While the crisis of today does not have the immediacy of the crisis over slavery, its underlying character is the same. It is commonplace today to compare the issue of abortion to… More
American Conservatism and the Present Crisis
– Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2003.Excerpt: Roger Scruton, writing in the Wall Street Journal last December, declared that “September 11 was a wake up call through which liberals have managed to go on dreaming.… More
Crisis of the Strauss Divided: Essays on Leo Strauss and Straussianism, East and West
– Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.Summary from the Publisher: Crisis of the Strauss Divided brings together a collection of Jaffa’s published arguments defending and explaining that judgment, written during the 40 years… More
The Goldwater Campaign
– Eric Benson, New York Magazine, October 14, 2012.Excerpt: You weren’t one of Barry Goldwater’s speechwriters. How did you come to write his most famous speech? For most of the campaign, I was on the payroll for the American Enterprise… More
The Party of Lincoln vs. The Party of Bureaucrats
– The Claremont Institute, June 9, 2014.Excerpt: In the fall of 1964, I was on the speech-writing staff of the Goldwater campaign. In September and October I went on a number of forays to college campuses, where I debated… More
Harry V. Jaffa: An Inconvenient Thinker by Ken Masugi
– Ken Masugi, Library of Law & Liberty, January 15, 2015.Excerpt: Harry V. Jaffa, who died January 10, at 96, may well be American conservatism’s most consequential thinker, for having attempted to re-found conservatism on the basis of its most… More
Commentary
Strange Bedfellows
– George Kateb, Commentary, August 1965.Excerpt: Eyebrows were raised last summer when the New York Times reported that Harry Jaffa was writing campaign speeches for Barry Gold-water. How could it be that this student of… More
Spokesman for the Political Tradition
– National Review, October 6, 1970.Review of Agnew: Profile in Conflict by Jim G. Lucas.
Equality as a Conservative Principle
– Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 8:471 (1975). Reprinted in How to Think About the American Revolution: A Bicentennial Cerebration (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1978).Excerpt: That Conservatism should search for its meaning implies of course that Conservatism does not have the meaning for which it is searching. This might appear paradoxical, since a… More
American Conservatism and the American Founding
– Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984.Summary from the Publisher: This book is the fourth in a series (including Equality and Liberty, The Conditions of Freedom, and How to Think About the American Revolution) of reprinted… More
Goldwater’s Famous ‘Gaffe’
– National Review, August 10, 1984, pp. 36-37.Seven Questions for Professor Jaffa
– George Anastaplo, Seattle University Law Review 10:3 (1987). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: This Article poses questions inspired by the four essays collected in Professor Harry V. Jaffa’s article “What Were the ‘Original Intentions’ of the Framers of the… More
What Were the “Original Intentions” of the Framers of the Constitution of the United States?
– Seattle University Law Review 10:3 (1987). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: This Article explains how the doctrine of original intent might be defended as the basis for interpreting the Constitution. The deepest political differences in American history… More
Judicial Conscience and Natural Rights: A Reply to Professor Ledewitz
– Seattle University Law Review 11:2 (1988). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: In our Spring 1987 issue, Professor Jaffa authored an essay in which he posited that the fundamental principles of equality and other tenets of natural law expressed in the… More
Seven Answers for Professor Anastaplo
– Seattle Law Review 13:375 (1990).Abstract: Professor Jaffa responds to seven questions from Professor Anastaplo.
The Closing of the Conservative Mind: A Dissenting Opinion on Judge Robert H. Bork
– National Review, July 9, 1990, pp. 40-43. Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution
– Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994.Summary from the Publisher: Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question is a unique contribution to the debate, begun by Attorney General Edwin Meese in the… More
God and Man in Court: Graglia’s Quarrel with God
– National Review, August 14, 1995, pp. 30-32.Abstract: The article presents the author’s response to the comments of law professor Lino A. Graglia on his critique of U.S. Judge Robert Bork and Chief Justice William Rehnquist… More
Defenders of the Constitution: Calhoun Versus Madison, a Bicentennial Cerebration
– Symposium, "James Madison: Philosopher and Practitioner of Liberal Democracy," Library of Congress, March 16, 2001.Excerpt: In 1987, the Center for Judicial Studies, a Conservative think tank in the precincts of the nation’s capital–a think tank, sometimes referred to as by appointment to… More
The False Prophets of American Conservatism
– Reprinted by The Claremont Institute, June 11, 2014. In Kenneth L. Grasso and Robert P. Hunt, eds., A Moral Enterprise: Politics, Reason, and the Human Good (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2002.)Excerpt: While the crisis of today does not have the immediacy of the crisis over slavery, its underlying character is the same. It is commonplace today to compare the issue of abortion to… More
American Conservatism and the Present Crisis
– Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2003.Excerpt: Roger Scruton, writing in the Wall Street Journal last December, declared that “September 11 was a wake up call through which liberals have managed to go on dreaming.… More
Crisis of the Strauss Divided: Essays on Leo Strauss and Straussianism, East and West
– Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.Summary from the Publisher: Crisis of the Strauss Divided brings together a collection of Jaffa’s published arguments defending and explaining that judgment, written during the 40 years… More
The Goldwater Campaign
– Eric Benson, New York Magazine, October 14, 2012.Excerpt: You weren’t one of Barry Goldwater’s speechwriters. How did you come to write his most famous speech? For most of the campaign, I was on the payroll for the American Enterprise… More
The Party of Lincoln vs. The Party of Bureaucrats
– The Claremont Institute, June 9, 2014.Excerpt: In the fall of 1964, I was on the speech-writing staff of the Goldwater campaign. In September and October I went on a number of forays to college campuses, where I debated… More
Harry V. Jaffa: An Inconvenient Thinker by Ken Masugi
– Ken Masugi, Library of Law & Liberty, January 15, 2015.Excerpt: Harry V. Jaffa, who died January 10, at 96, may well be American conservatism’s most consequential thinker, for having attempted to re-found conservatism on the basis of its most… More
Multimedia
Strange Bedfellows
– George Kateb, Commentary, August 1965.Excerpt: Eyebrows were raised last summer when the New York Times reported that Harry Jaffa was writing campaign speeches for Barry Gold-water. How could it be that this student of… More
Spokesman for the Political Tradition
– National Review, October 6, 1970.Review of Agnew: Profile in Conflict by Jim G. Lucas.
Equality as a Conservative Principle
– Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 8:471 (1975). Reprinted in How to Think About the American Revolution: A Bicentennial Cerebration (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1978).Excerpt: That Conservatism should search for its meaning implies of course that Conservatism does not have the meaning for which it is searching. This might appear paradoxical, since a… More
American Conservatism and the American Founding
– Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984.Summary from the Publisher: This book is the fourth in a series (including Equality and Liberty, The Conditions of Freedom, and How to Think About the American Revolution) of reprinted… More
Goldwater’s Famous ‘Gaffe’
– National Review, August 10, 1984, pp. 36-37.Seven Questions for Professor Jaffa
– George Anastaplo, Seattle University Law Review 10:3 (1987). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: This Article poses questions inspired by the four essays collected in Professor Harry V. Jaffa’s article “What Were the ‘Original Intentions’ of the Framers of the… More
What Were the “Original Intentions” of the Framers of the Constitution of the United States?
– Seattle University Law Review 10:3 (1987). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: This Article explains how the doctrine of original intent might be defended as the basis for interpreting the Constitution. The deepest political differences in American history… More
Judicial Conscience and Natural Rights: A Reply to Professor Ledewitz
– Seattle University Law Review 11:2 (1988). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: In our Spring 1987 issue, Professor Jaffa authored an essay in which he posited that the fundamental principles of equality and other tenets of natural law expressed in the… More
Seven Answers for Professor Anastaplo
– Seattle Law Review 13:375 (1990).Abstract: Professor Jaffa responds to seven questions from Professor Anastaplo.
The Closing of the Conservative Mind: A Dissenting Opinion on Judge Robert H. Bork
– National Review, July 9, 1990, pp. 40-43. Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution
– Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994.Summary from the Publisher: Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question is a unique contribution to the debate, begun by Attorney General Edwin Meese in the… More
God and Man in Court: Graglia’s Quarrel with God
– National Review, August 14, 1995, pp. 30-32.Abstract: The article presents the author’s response to the comments of law professor Lino A. Graglia on his critique of U.S. Judge Robert Bork and Chief Justice William Rehnquist… More
Defenders of the Constitution: Calhoun Versus Madison, a Bicentennial Cerebration
– Symposium, "James Madison: Philosopher and Practitioner of Liberal Democracy," Library of Congress, March 16, 2001.Excerpt: In 1987, the Center for Judicial Studies, a Conservative think tank in the precincts of the nation’s capital–a think tank, sometimes referred to as by appointment to… More
The False Prophets of American Conservatism
– Reprinted by The Claremont Institute, June 11, 2014. In Kenneth L. Grasso and Robert P. Hunt, eds., A Moral Enterprise: Politics, Reason, and the Human Good (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2002.)Excerpt: While the crisis of today does not have the immediacy of the crisis over slavery, its underlying character is the same. It is commonplace today to compare the issue of abortion to… More
American Conservatism and the Present Crisis
– Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2003.Excerpt: Roger Scruton, writing in the Wall Street Journal last December, declared that “September 11 was a wake up call through which liberals have managed to go on dreaming.… More
Crisis of the Strauss Divided: Essays on Leo Strauss and Straussianism, East and West
– Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.Summary from the Publisher: Crisis of the Strauss Divided brings together a collection of Jaffa’s published arguments defending and explaining that judgment, written during the 40 years… More
The Goldwater Campaign
– Eric Benson, New York Magazine, October 14, 2012.Excerpt: You weren’t one of Barry Goldwater’s speechwriters. How did you come to write his most famous speech? For most of the campaign, I was on the payroll for the American Enterprise… More
The Party of Lincoln vs. The Party of Bureaucrats
– The Claremont Institute, June 9, 2014.Excerpt: In the fall of 1964, I was on the speech-writing staff of the Goldwater campaign. In September and October I went on a number of forays to college campuses, where I debated… More
Harry V. Jaffa: An Inconvenient Thinker by Ken Masugi
– Ken Masugi, Library of Law & Liberty, January 15, 2015.Excerpt: Harry V. Jaffa, who died January 10, at 96, may well be American conservatism’s most consequential thinker, for having attempted to re-found conservatism on the basis of its most… More
Teaching
Strange Bedfellows
– George Kateb, Commentary, August 1965.Excerpt: Eyebrows were raised last summer when the New York Times reported that Harry Jaffa was writing campaign speeches for Barry Gold-water. How could it be that this student of… More
Spokesman for the Political Tradition
– National Review, October 6, 1970.Review of Agnew: Profile in Conflict by Jim G. Lucas.
Equality as a Conservative Principle
– Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 8:471 (1975). Reprinted in How to Think About the American Revolution: A Bicentennial Cerebration (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1978).Excerpt: That Conservatism should search for its meaning implies of course that Conservatism does not have the meaning for which it is searching. This might appear paradoxical, since a… More
American Conservatism and the American Founding
– Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984.Summary from the Publisher: This book is the fourth in a series (including Equality and Liberty, The Conditions of Freedom, and How to Think About the American Revolution) of reprinted… More
Goldwater’s Famous ‘Gaffe’
– National Review, August 10, 1984, pp. 36-37.Seven Questions for Professor Jaffa
– George Anastaplo, Seattle University Law Review 10:3 (1987). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: This Article poses questions inspired by the four essays collected in Professor Harry V. Jaffa’s article “What Were the ‘Original Intentions’ of the Framers of the… More
What Were the “Original Intentions” of the Framers of the Constitution of the United States?
– Seattle University Law Review 10:3 (1987). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: This Article explains how the doctrine of original intent might be defended as the basis for interpreting the Constitution. The deepest political differences in American history… More
Judicial Conscience and Natural Rights: A Reply to Professor Ledewitz
– Seattle University Law Review 11:2 (1988). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: In our Spring 1987 issue, Professor Jaffa authored an essay in which he posited that the fundamental principles of equality and other tenets of natural law expressed in the… More
Seven Answers for Professor Anastaplo
– Seattle Law Review 13:375 (1990).Abstract: Professor Jaffa responds to seven questions from Professor Anastaplo.
The Closing of the Conservative Mind: A Dissenting Opinion on Judge Robert H. Bork
– National Review, July 9, 1990, pp. 40-43. Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution
– Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994.Summary from the Publisher: Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question is a unique contribution to the debate, begun by Attorney General Edwin Meese in the… More
God and Man in Court: Graglia’s Quarrel with God
– National Review, August 14, 1995, pp. 30-32.Abstract: The article presents the author’s response to the comments of law professor Lino A. Graglia on his critique of U.S. Judge Robert Bork and Chief Justice William Rehnquist… More
Defenders of the Constitution: Calhoun Versus Madison, a Bicentennial Cerebration
– Symposium, "James Madison: Philosopher and Practitioner of Liberal Democracy," Library of Congress, March 16, 2001.Excerpt: In 1987, the Center for Judicial Studies, a Conservative think tank in the precincts of the nation’s capital–a think tank, sometimes referred to as by appointment to… More
The False Prophets of American Conservatism
– Reprinted by The Claremont Institute, June 11, 2014. In Kenneth L. Grasso and Robert P. Hunt, eds., A Moral Enterprise: Politics, Reason, and the Human Good (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2002.)Excerpt: While the crisis of today does not have the immediacy of the crisis over slavery, its underlying character is the same. It is commonplace today to compare the issue of abortion to… More
American Conservatism and the Present Crisis
– Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2003.Excerpt: Roger Scruton, writing in the Wall Street Journal last December, declared that “September 11 was a wake up call through which liberals have managed to go on dreaming.… More
Crisis of the Strauss Divided: Essays on Leo Strauss and Straussianism, East and West
– Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.Summary from the Publisher: Crisis of the Strauss Divided brings together a collection of Jaffa’s published arguments defending and explaining that judgment, written during the 40 years… More
The Goldwater Campaign
– Eric Benson, New York Magazine, October 14, 2012.Excerpt: You weren’t one of Barry Goldwater’s speechwriters. How did you come to write his most famous speech? For most of the campaign, I was on the payroll for the American Enterprise… More
The Party of Lincoln vs. The Party of Bureaucrats
– The Claremont Institute, June 9, 2014.Excerpt: In the fall of 1964, I was on the speech-writing staff of the Goldwater campaign. In September and October I went on a number of forays to college campuses, where I debated… More
Harry V. Jaffa: An Inconvenient Thinker by Ken Masugi
– Ken Masugi, Library of Law & Liberty, January 15, 2015.Excerpt: Harry V. Jaffa, who died January 10, at 96, may well be American conservatism’s most consequential thinker, for having attempted to re-found conservatism on the basis of its most… More