Books
Slavery — A Battle Revisited
– New Leader 41:30 (August 18-25, 1958). Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Review of Created Equal: The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 by Paul Angle.
Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
–Jaffa, Harry V. Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. 50th Anniversary Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
This edition includes a new introduction by the author to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the original 1959 publication.
Summary from the Publisher: Crisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political… More
In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859
– Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959).Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859: The Great Debate Continued
– In Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds., In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Source of American Caesarism: Review of Harry V. Jaffa
– Willmoore Kendall, National Review, November 7, 1959.Excerpt: The idea of natural right is not so easily reducible to the equality clause, and there are better ways of demonstrating the possibility of self-government than imposing one’s… More
Lincoln and Douglas
– Allen Nevins, New Leader 43:20 (May 1960).Review of Crisis of the House Divided.
Reply to Allan Nevins’ review of Crisis of the House Divided
– New Leader (June 20, 1960).On the Nature of Civil and Religious Liberty: Reflections on the Centennial of the Gettysburg Address
– In Melvin Laird, ed., The Conservative Papers (New York: Doubleday, 1964). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Weathermen and Fort Sumter
– National Review, December 20, 1970.The Heresy of Equality: Bradford Replies to Jaffa
– M. E. Bradford, Modern Age (Winter 1976).Excerpt: This essay is a direct response to Harry Jaffa’s “Equality as a Conservative Principle,” Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, VI11 (June, 1975), pp. 471-505, which is itself a… More
Equality, Justice, and the American Revolution: In Reply to Bradford’s “The Heresy of Equality”
– Modern Age, Spring 1977. Reprinted in How to Think About the American Revolution: A Bicentennial Cerebration (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1978).Fellows’ Choice
– Hadley Arkes, The Wilson Quarterly 1:3 (Spring 1977), pp. 127-128.Review of Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.
Jaffa’s Thinking on the American Revolution
– David L. Schaefer, The Review of Politics,Vol. 41, No. 3 (July 1979), pp. 437-442.Help!!!: Another Look at the Declaration
– National Review, July 11, 1980, pp. 836-840. Reprinted in American Conservatism and the American Founding (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984).Inventing the Past
– The St. John's Review 33:1 (Autumn 1981).Harry V. Jaffa and American History by Herman Belz
– Herman Belz, Claremont Review of Books, Summer 1984.Excerpt: One of the most important contributions to American history and political science in the past generation is the work of a political philosopher who, in a significant sense, is an… More
Equality, Liberty, Wisdom, Morality and Consent in the Idea of Political Freedom
– Jaffa, Harry V. "Equality, Liberty, Wisdom, Morality and Consent in the Idea of Political Freedom." Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 15, no. 1 (1987).Jaffa’s article provides a comprehensive examination of the philosophical foundations of political freedom, advocating that the American founding exemplifies the harmonious… 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
On Jaffa, Lincoln, Marshall, and Original Intent
– Lewis E. Lehrman, Seattle University Law Review 10:3 (1987). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: This Foreword introduces the article to follow written by Harry V. Jaffa, scholar of Abraham Lincoln’s political philosophy. The Foreward provides background material necessary… 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
“Who Killed Cock Robin?” A Retrospective on the Bork Nomination and a Reply to “Jaffa Divides the House”
– Seattle University Law Review 13:3 (1990). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: In an utterance that may have changed the history of the United States, and of the world, Lincoln argued that the grounds upon which one opposed the extension of slavery into the… More
Inventing the Gettysburg Address
– Intercollegiate Review 28:1 (Fall 1992). Reprinted in American Conservatism and the American Founding (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984).Excerpt: Thirty years ago, Garry Wills was a rising star of the Right, a celebrity in the constellation of William F. Buckley, Jr. and National Review. His essay on “The Convenient… More
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
Defending the Cause of Human Freedom
– The Claremont Institute, April 15, 1994.Excerpt: The Spring 1994 Intercollegiate Review featured a section entitled “Not In Memoriam, But in Affirmation: M. E. Bradford.” I welcome this, or any tribute, to my departed… 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
Storm Over the Constitution
– Lanham: Lexington Books, 1999.Summary from the Publisher: Written by one of America’s foremost political and legal theorists, Storm Over the Constitution examines the arguments of some of the leading proponents of… More
The Virtue of Practical Wisdom
– Thomas, Clarence. "The Virtue of Practical Wisdom." Claremont Review of Books, February 9, 1999. Excerpt: We gather here tonight in memory of a great man, a great president whose noble words and selfless deeds enabled this great nation to fulfill its promises of equality and liberty… More
A New Birth of Freedom
– Jaffa, Harry V. A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War. With a new foreword by Allen C. Guelzo. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018.Summary from the Publisher: A New Birth of Freedom is the culmination of over a half a century of study and reflection by one of America’s foremost scholars of American politics,… 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
Abraham Lincoln and the Universal Meaning of the Declaration of Independence
– In Scott Douglas Gerber, ed., The Declaration Of Independence: Origins and Impact (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2002).Jaffa versus Mansfield by Thomas G. West
– Thomas G. West, Perspectives on Political Science 31:4 (Fall 2002).Excerpt: Harry Jaffa and Harvey Mansfield are two of the ablest among those whose study of America has been shaped and helped by what they learned from Strauss. Both men are patriots. Both… 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
Wages of Sin
– Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2004.Excerpt: Among the young scholars in the 1950s who challenged the prevailing historical canon on slavery, no less than Fogel, was one he never mentions. Before the publication of Crisis of… More
The Disputed Question: Original Intent and the American Soul
– Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2005.The American Founding as the Best Regime
– Jaffa, Harry V. "The American Founding as the Best Regime." Claremont Review of Books, July 4, 2007.Excerpt: The Preamble of the Constitution crowns its enumeration of the ends of the Constitution by declaring its purpose to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our… More
Dred Scott Revisited
– Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 31:1 (Winter 2008).Jaffa’s New Birth: Harry Jaffa at Ninety
– Michael Zuckert, Review of Politics Vol. 71, No. 02 (Spring 2009), pp 207-223.Excerpt: With the publication of Harry Jaffa’s New Birth of Freedom, it is possible to see the overall trajectory of his thinking and to come to some assessment of it. New Birth… More
Lincoln with Harry Jaffa on Uncommon Knowledge
– Uncommon Knowledge, Hoover Institution, July 22, 2009.Summary: In a year that marks the two hundredth year since the birth of Lincoln, and the fiftieth year since the publication of his own Crisis of the House Divided, Harry Jaffa discusses… More
Lincoln in Peoria
– Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2009.Excerpt: A friendly critic has recently characterized my life’s work as dedicated to the moral vision of Athens, Jerusalem, and Peoria. Of course, as a faithful student of Leo… More
The Declaration in a House Divided
– Video, Jack Miller Center, April 21, 2015.Summary: Interviews with Diana Schaub, James W. Ceaser, and others on the Declaration of Independence.
Essays
Slavery — A Battle Revisited
– New Leader 41:30 (August 18-25, 1958). Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Review of Created Equal: The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 by Paul Angle.
Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
–Jaffa, Harry V. Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. 50th Anniversary Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
This edition includes a new introduction by the author to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the original 1959 publication.
Summary from the Publisher: Crisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political… More
In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859
– Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959).Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859: The Great Debate Continued
– In Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds., In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Source of American Caesarism: Review of Harry V. Jaffa
– Willmoore Kendall, National Review, November 7, 1959.Excerpt: The idea of natural right is not so easily reducible to the equality clause, and there are better ways of demonstrating the possibility of self-government than imposing one’s… More
Lincoln and Douglas
– Allen Nevins, New Leader 43:20 (May 1960).Review of Crisis of the House Divided.
Reply to Allan Nevins’ review of Crisis of the House Divided
– New Leader (June 20, 1960).On the Nature of Civil and Religious Liberty: Reflections on the Centennial of the Gettysburg Address
– In Melvin Laird, ed., The Conservative Papers (New York: Doubleday, 1964). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Weathermen and Fort Sumter
– National Review, December 20, 1970.The Heresy of Equality: Bradford Replies to Jaffa
– M. E. Bradford, Modern Age (Winter 1976).Excerpt: This essay is a direct response to Harry Jaffa’s “Equality as a Conservative Principle,” Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, VI11 (June, 1975), pp. 471-505, which is itself a… More
Equality, Justice, and the American Revolution: In Reply to Bradford’s “The Heresy of Equality”
– Modern Age, Spring 1977. Reprinted in How to Think About the American Revolution: A Bicentennial Cerebration (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1978).Fellows’ Choice
– Hadley Arkes, The Wilson Quarterly 1:3 (Spring 1977), pp. 127-128.Review of Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.
Jaffa’s Thinking on the American Revolution
– David L. Schaefer, The Review of Politics,Vol. 41, No. 3 (July 1979), pp. 437-442.Help!!!: Another Look at the Declaration
– National Review, July 11, 1980, pp. 836-840. Reprinted in American Conservatism and the American Founding (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984).Inventing the Past
– The St. John's Review 33:1 (Autumn 1981).Harry V. Jaffa and American History by Herman Belz
– Herman Belz, Claremont Review of Books, Summer 1984.Excerpt: One of the most important contributions to American history and political science in the past generation is the work of a political philosopher who, in a significant sense, is an… More
Equality, Liberty, Wisdom, Morality and Consent in the Idea of Political Freedom
– Jaffa, Harry V. "Equality, Liberty, Wisdom, Morality and Consent in the Idea of Political Freedom." Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 15, no. 1 (1987).Jaffa’s article provides a comprehensive examination of the philosophical foundations of political freedom, advocating that the American founding exemplifies the harmonious… 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
On Jaffa, Lincoln, Marshall, and Original Intent
– Lewis E. Lehrman, Seattle University Law Review 10:3 (1987). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: This Foreword introduces the article to follow written by Harry V. Jaffa, scholar of Abraham Lincoln’s political philosophy. The Foreward provides background material necessary… 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
“Who Killed Cock Robin?” A Retrospective on the Bork Nomination and a Reply to “Jaffa Divides the House”
– Seattle University Law Review 13:3 (1990). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: In an utterance that may have changed the history of the United States, and of the world, Lincoln argued that the grounds upon which one opposed the extension of slavery into the… More
Inventing the Gettysburg Address
– Intercollegiate Review 28:1 (Fall 1992). Reprinted in American Conservatism and the American Founding (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984).Excerpt: Thirty years ago, Garry Wills was a rising star of the Right, a celebrity in the constellation of William F. Buckley, Jr. and National Review. His essay on “The Convenient… More
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
Defending the Cause of Human Freedom
– The Claremont Institute, April 15, 1994.Excerpt: The Spring 1994 Intercollegiate Review featured a section entitled “Not In Memoriam, But in Affirmation: M. E. Bradford.” I welcome this, or any tribute, to my departed… 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
Storm Over the Constitution
– Lanham: Lexington Books, 1999.Summary from the Publisher: Written by one of America’s foremost political and legal theorists, Storm Over the Constitution examines the arguments of some of the leading proponents of… More
The Virtue of Practical Wisdom
– Thomas, Clarence. "The Virtue of Practical Wisdom." Claremont Review of Books, February 9, 1999. Excerpt: We gather here tonight in memory of a great man, a great president whose noble words and selfless deeds enabled this great nation to fulfill its promises of equality and liberty… More
A New Birth of Freedom
– Jaffa, Harry V. A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War. With a new foreword by Allen C. Guelzo. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018.Summary from the Publisher: A New Birth of Freedom is the culmination of over a half a century of study and reflection by one of America’s foremost scholars of American politics,… 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
Abraham Lincoln and the Universal Meaning of the Declaration of Independence
– In Scott Douglas Gerber, ed., The Declaration Of Independence: Origins and Impact (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2002).Jaffa versus Mansfield by Thomas G. West
– Thomas G. West, Perspectives on Political Science 31:4 (Fall 2002).Excerpt: Harry Jaffa and Harvey Mansfield are two of the ablest among those whose study of America has been shaped and helped by what they learned from Strauss. Both men are patriots. Both… 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
Wages of Sin
– Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2004.Excerpt: Among the young scholars in the 1950s who challenged the prevailing historical canon on slavery, no less than Fogel, was one he never mentions. Before the publication of Crisis of… More
The Disputed Question: Original Intent and the American Soul
– Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2005.The American Founding as the Best Regime
– Jaffa, Harry V. "The American Founding as the Best Regime." Claremont Review of Books, July 4, 2007.Excerpt: The Preamble of the Constitution crowns its enumeration of the ends of the Constitution by declaring its purpose to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our… More
Dred Scott Revisited
– Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 31:1 (Winter 2008).Jaffa’s New Birth: Harry Jaffa at Ninety
– Michael Zuckert, Review of Politics Vol. 71, No. 02 (Spring 2009), pp 207-223.Excerpt: With the publication of Harry Jaffa’s New Birth of Freedom, it is possible to see the overall trajectory of his thinking and to come to some assessment of it. New Birth… More
Lincoln with Harry Jaffa on Uncommon Knowledge
– Uncommon Knowledge, Hoover Institution, July 22, 2009.Summary: In a year that marks the two hundredth year since the birth of Lincoln, and the fiftieth year since the publication of his own Crisis of the House Divided, Harry Jaffa discusses… More
Lincoln in Peoria
– Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2009.Excerpt: A friendly critic has recently characterized my life’s work as dedicated to the moral vision of Athens, Jerusalem, and Peoria. Of course, as a faithful student of Leo… More
The Declaration in a House Divided
– Video, Jack Miller Center, April 21, 2015.Summary: Interviews with Diana Schaub, James W. Ceaser, and others on the Declaration of Independence.
Commentary
Slavery — A Battle Revisited
– New Leader 41:30 (August 18-25, 1958). Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Review of Created Equal: The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 by Paul Angle.
Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
–Jaffa, Harry V. Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. 50th Anniversary Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
This edition includes a new introduction by the author to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the original 1959 publication.
Summary from the Publisher: Crisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political… More
In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859
– Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959).Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859: The Great Debate Continued
– In Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds., In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Source of American Caesarism: Review of Harry V. Jaffa
– Willmoore Kendall, National Review, November 7, 1959.Excerpt: The idea of natural right is not so easily reducible to the equality clause, and there are better ways of demonstrating the possibility of self-government than imposing one’s… More
Lincoln and Douglas
– Allen Nevins, New Leader 43:20 (May 1960).Review of Crisis of the House Divided.
Reply to Allan Nevins’ review of Crisis of the House Divided
– New Leader (June 20, 1960).On the Nature of Civil and Religious Liberty: Reflections on the Centennial of the Gettysburg Address
– In Melvin Laird, ed., The Conservative Papers (New York: Doubleday, 1964). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Weathermen and Fort Sumter
– National Review, December 20, 1970.The Heresy of Equality: Bradford Replies to Jaffa
– M. E. Bradford, Modern Age (Winter 1976).Excerpt: This essay is a direct response to Harry Jaffa’s “Equality as a Conservative Principle,” Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, VI11 (June, 1975), pp. 471-505, which is itself a… More
Equality, Justice, and the American Revolution: In Reply to Bradford’s “The Heresy of Equality”
– Modern Age, Spring 1977. Reprinted in How to Think About the American Revolution: A Bicentennial Cerebration (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1978).Fellows’ Choice
– Hadley Arkes, The Wilson Quarterly 1:3 (Spring 1977), pp. 127-128.Review of Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.
Jaffa’s Thinking on the American Revolution
– David L. Schaefer, The Review of Politics,Vol. 41, No. 3 (July 1979), pp. 437-442.Help!!!: Another Look at the Declaration
– National Review, July 11, 1980, pp. 836-840. Reprinted in American Conservatism and the American Founding (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984).Inventing the Past
– The St. John's Review 33:1 (Autumn 1981).Harry V. Jaffa and American History by Herman Belz
– Herman Belz, Claremont Review of Books, Summer 1984.Excerpt: One of the most important contributions to American history and political science in the past generation is the work of a political philosopher who, in a significant sense, is an… More
Equality, Liberty, Wisdom, Morality and Consent in the Idea of Political Freedom
– Jaffa, Harry V. "Equality, Liberty, Wisdom, Morality and Consent in the Idea of Political Freedom." Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 15, no. 1 (1987).Jaffa’s article provides a comprehensive examination of the philosophical foundations of political freedom, advocating that the American founding exemplifies the harmonious… 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
On Jaffa, Lincoln, Marshall, and Original Intent
– Lewis E. Lehrman, Seattle University Law Review 10:3 (1987). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: This Foreword introduces the article to follow written by Harry V. Jaffa, scholar of Abraham Lincoln’s political philosophy. The Foreward provides background material necessary… 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
“Who Killed Cock Robin?” A Retrospective on the Bork Nomination and a Reply to “Jaffa Divides the House”
– Seattle University Law Review 13:3 (1990). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: In an utterance that may have changed the history of the United States, and of the world, Lincoln argued that the grounds upon which one opposed the extension of slavery into the… More
Inventing the Gettysburg Address
– Intercollegiate Review 28:1 (Fall 1992). Reprinted in American Conservatism and the American Founding (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984).Excerpt: Thirty years ago, Garry Wills was a rising star of the Right, a celebrity in the constellation of William F. Buckley, Jr. and National Review. His essay on “The Convenient… More
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
Defending the Cause of Human Freedom
– The Claremont Institute, April 15, 1994.Excerpt: The Spring 1994 Intercollegiate Review featured a section entitled “Not In Memoriam, But in Affirmation: M. E. Bradford.” I welcome this, or any tribute, to my departed… 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
Storm Over the Constitution
– Lanham: Lexington Books, 1999.Summary from the Publisher: Written by one of America’s foremost political and legal theorists, Storm Over the Constitution examines the arguments of some of the leading proponents of… More
The Virtue of Practical Wisdom
– Thomas, Clarence. "The Virtue of Practical Wisdom." Claremont Review of Books, February 9, 1999. Excerpt: We gather here tonight in memory of a great man, a great president whose noble words and selfless deeds enabled this great nation to fulfill its promises of equality and liberty… More
A New Birth of Freedom
– Jaffa, Harry V. A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War. With a new foreword by Allen C. Guelzo. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018.Summary from the Publisher: A New Birth of Freedom is the culmination of over a half a century of study and reflection by one of America’s foremost scholars of American politics,… 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
Abraham Lincoln and the Universal Meaning of the Declaration of Independence
– In Scott Douglas Gerber, ed., The Declaration Of Independence: Origins and Impact (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2002).Jaffa versus Mansfield by Thomas G. West
– Thomas G. West, Perspectives on Political Science 31:4 (Fall 2002).Excerpt: Harry Jaffa and Harvey Mansfield are two of the ablest among those whose study of America has been shaped and helped by what they learned from Strauss. Both men are patriots. Both… 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
Wages of Sin
– Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2004.Excerpt: Among the young scholars in the 1950s who challenged the prevailing historical canon on slavery, no less than Fogel, was one he never mentions. Before the publication of Crisis of… More
The Disputed Question: Original Intent and the American Soul
– Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2005.The American Founding as the Best Regime
– Jaffa, Harry V. "The American Founding as the Best Regime." Claremont Review of Books, July 4, 2007.Excerpt: The Preamble of the Constitution crowns its enumeration of the ends of the Constitution by declaring its purpose to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our… More
Dred Scott Revisited
– Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 31:1 (Winter 2008).Jaffa’s New Birth: Harry Jaffa at Ninety
– Michael Zuckert, Review of Politics Vol. 71, No. 02 (Spring 2009), pp 207-223.Excerpt: With the publication of Harry Jaffa’s New Birth of Freedom, it is possible to see the overall trajectory of his thinking and to come to some assessment of it. New Birth… More
Lincoln with Harry Jaffa on Uncommon Knowledge
– Uncommon Knowledge, Hoover Institution, July 22, 2009.Summary: In a year that marks the two hundredth year since the birth of Lincoln, and the fiftieth year since the publication of his own Crisis of the House Divided, Harry Jaffa discusses… More
Lincoln in Peoria
– Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2009.Excerpt: A friendly critic has recently characterized my life’s work as dedicated to the moral vision of Athens, Jerusalem, and Peoria. Of course, as a faithful student of Leo… More
The Declaration in a House Divided
– Video, Jack Miller Center, April 21, 2015.Summary: Interviews with Diana Schaub, James W. Ceaser, and others on the Declaration of Independence.
Multimedia
Slavery — A Battle Revisited
– New Leader 41:30 (August 18-25, 1958). Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Review of Created Equal: The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 by Paul Angle.
Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
–Jaffa, Harry V. Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. 50th Anniversary Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
This edition includes a new introduction by the author to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the original 1959 publication.
Summary from the Publisher: Crisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political… More
In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859
– Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959).Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859: The Great Debate Continued
– In Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds., In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Source of American Caesarism: Review of Harry V. Jaffa
– Willmoore Kendall, National Review, November 7, 1959.Excerpt: The idea of natural right is not so easily reducible to the equality clause, and there are better ways of demonstrating the possibility of self-government than imposing one’s… More
Lincoln and Douglas
– Allen Nevins, New Leader 43:20 (May 1960).Review of Crisis of the House Divided.
Reply to Allan Nevins’ review of Crisis of the House Divided
– New Leader (June 20, 1960).On the Nature of Civil and Religious Liberty: Reflections on the Centennial of the Gettysburg Address
– In Melvin Laird, ed., The Conservative Papers (New York: Doubleday, 1964). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Weathermen and Fort Sumter
– National Review, December 20, 1970.The Heresy of Equality: Bradford Replies to Jaffa
– M. E. Bradford, Modern Age (Winter 1976).Excerpt: This essay is a direct response to Harry Jaffa’s “Equality as a Conservative Principle,” Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, VI11 (June, 1975), pp. 471-505, which is itself a… More
Equality, Justice, and the American Revolution: In Reply to Bradford’s “The Heresy of Equality”
– Modern Age, Spring 1977. Reprinted in How to Think About the American Revolution: A Bicentennial Cerebration (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1978).Fellows’ Choice
– Hadley Arkes, The Wilson Quarterly 1:3 (Spring 1977), pp. 127-128.Review of Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.
Jaffa’s Thinking on the American Revolution
– David L. Schaefer, The Review of Politics,Vol. 41, No. 3 (July 1979), pp. 437-442.Help!!!: Another Look at the Declaration
– National Review, July 11, 1980, pp. 836-840. Reprinted in American Conservatism and the American Founding (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984).Inventing the Past
– The St. John's Review 33:1 (Autumn 1981).Harry V. Jaffa and American History by Herman Belz
– Herman Belz, Claremont Review of Books, Summer 1984.Excerpt: One of the most important contributions to American history and political science in the past generation is the work of a political philosopher who, in a significant sense, is an… More
Equality, Liberty, Wisdom, Morality and Consent in the Idea of Political Freedom
– Jaffa, Harry V. "Equality, Liberty, Wisdom, Morality and Consent in the Idea of Political Freedom." Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 15, no. 1 (1987).Jaffa’s article provides a comprehensive examination of the philosophical foundations of political freedom, advocating that the American founding exemplifies the harmonious… 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
On Jaffa, Lincoln, Marshall, and Original Intent
– Lewis E. Lehrman, Seattle University Law Review 10:3 (1987). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: This Foreword introduces the article to follow written by Harry V. Jaffa, scholar of Abraham Lincoln’s political philosophy. The Foreward provides background material necessary… 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
“Who Killed Cock Robin?” A Retrospective on the Bork Nomination and a Reply to “Jaffa Divides the House”
– Seattle University Law Review 13:3 (1990). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: In an utterance that may have changed the history of the United States, and of the world, Lincoln argued that the grounds upon which one opposed the extension of slavery into the… More
Inventing the Gettysburg Address
– Intercollegiate Review 28:1 (Fall 1992). Reprinted in American Conservatism and the American Founding (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984).Excerpt: Thirty years ago, Garry Wills was a rising star of the Right, a celebrity in the constellation of William F. Buckley, Jr. and National Review. His essay on “The Convenient… More
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
Defending the Cause of Human Freedom
– The Claremont Institute, April 15, 1994.Excerpt: The Spring 1994 Intercollegiate Review featured a section entitled “Not In Memoriam, But in Affirmation: M. E. Bradford.” I welcome this, or any tribute, to my departed… 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
Storm Over the Constitution
– Lanham: Lexington Books, 1999.Summary from the Publisher: Written by one of America’s foremost political and legal theorists, Storm Over the Constitution examines the arguments of some of the leading proponents of… More
The Virtue of Practical Wisdom
– Thomas, Clarence. "The Virtue of Practical Wisdom." Claremont Review of Books, February 9, 1999. Excerpt: We gather here tonight in memory of a great man, a great president whose noble words and selfless deeds enabled this great nation to fulfill its promises of equality and liberty… More
A New Birth of Freedom
– Jaffa, Harry V. A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War. With a new foreword by Allen C. Guelzo. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018.Summary from the Publisher: A New Birth of Freedom is the culmination of over a half a century of study and reflection by one of America’s foremost scholars of American politics,… 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
Abraham Lincoln and the Universal Meaning of the Declaration of Independence
– In Scott Douglas Gerber, ed., The Declaration Of Independence: Origins and Impact (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2002).Jaffa versus Mansfield by Thomas G. West
– Thomas G. West, Perspectives on Political Science 31:4 (Fall 2002).Excerpt: Harry Jaffa and Harvey Mansfield are two of the ablest among those whose study of America has been shaped and helped by what they learned from Strauss. Both men are patriots. Both… 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
Wages of Sin
– Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2004.Excerpt: Among the young scholars in the 1950s who challenged the prevailing historical canon on slavery, no less than Fogel, was one he never mentions. Before the publication of Crisis of… More
The Disputed Question: Original Intent and the American Soul
– Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2005.The American Founding as the Best Regime
– Jaffa, Harry V. "The American Founding as the Best Regime." Claremont Review of Books, July 4, 2007.Excerpt: The Preamble of the Constitution crowns its enumeration of the ends of the Constitution by declaring its purpose to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our… More
Dred Scott Revisited
– Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 31:1 (Winter 2008).Jaffa’s New Birth: Harry Jaffa at Ninety
– Michael Zuckert, Review of Politics Vol. 71, No. 02 (Spring 2009), pp 207-223.Excerpt: With the publication of Harry Jaffa’s New Birth of Freedom, it is possible to see the overall trajectory of his thinking and to come to some assessment of it. New Birth… More
Lincoln with Harry Jaffa on Uncommon Knowledge
– Uncommon Knowledge, Hoover Institution, July 22, 2009.Summary: In a year that marks the two hundredth year since the birth of Lincoln, and the fiftieth year since the publication of his own Crisis of the House Divided, Harry Jaffa discusses… More
Lincoln in Peoria
– Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2009.Excerpt: A friendly critic has recently characterized my life’s work as dedicated to the moral vision of Athens, Jerusalem, and Peoria. Of course, as a faithful student of Leo… More
The Declaration in a House Divided
– Video, Jack Miller Center, April 21, 2015.Summary: Interviews with Diana Schaub, James W. Ceaser, and others on the Declaration of Independence.
Teaching
Slavery — A Battle Revisited
– New Leader 41:30 (August 18-25, 1958). Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).Review of Created Equal: The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 by Paul Angle.
Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
–Jaffa, Harry V. Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. 50th Anniversary Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
This edition includes a new introduction by the author to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the original 1959 publication.
Summary from the Publisher: Crisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political… More
In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859
– Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959).Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859: The Great Debate Continued
– In Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen, eds., In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Source of American Caesarism: Review of Harry V. Jaffa
– Willmoore Kendall, National Review, November 7, 1959.Excerpt: The idea of natural right is not so easily reducible to the equality clause, and there are better ways of demonstrating the possibility of self-government than imposing one’s… More
Lincoln and Douglas
– Allen Nevins, New Leader 43:20 (May 1960).Review of Crisis of the House Divided.
Reply to Allan Nevins’ review of Crisis of the House Divided
– New Leader (June 20, 1960).On the Nature of Civil and Religious Liberty: Reflections on the Centennial of the Gettysburg Address
– In Melvin Laird, ed., The Conservative Papers (New York: Doubleday, 1964). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Weathermen and Fort Sumter
– National Review, December 20, 1970.The Heresy of Equality: Bradford Replies to Jaffa
– M. E. Bradford, Modern Age (Winter 1976).Excerpt: This essay is a direct response to Harry Jaffa’s “Equality as a Conservative Principle,” Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, VI11 (June, 1975), pp. 471-505, which is itself a… More
Equality, Justice, and the American Revolution: In Reply to Bradford’s “The Heresy of Equality”
– Modern Age, Spring 1977. Reprinted in How to Think About the American Revolution: A Bicentennial Cerebration (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1978).Fellows’ Choice
– Hadley Arkes, The Wilson Quarterly 1:3 (Spring 1977), pp. 127-128.Review of Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.
Jaffa’s Thinking on the American Revolution
– David L. Schaefer, The Review of Politics,Vol. 41, No. 3 (July 1979), pp. 437-442.Help!!!: Another Look at the Declaration
– National Review, July 11, 1980, pp. 836-840. Reprinted in American Conservatism and the American Founding (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984).Inventing the Past
– The St. John's Review 33:1 (Autumn 1981).Harry V. Jaffa and American History by Herman Belz
– Herman Belz, Claremont Review of Books, Summer 1984.Excerpt: One of the most important contributions to American history and political science in the past generation is the work of a political philosopher who, in a significant sense, is an… More
Equality, Liberty, Wisdom, Morality and Consent in the Idea of Political Freedom
– Jaffa, Harry V. "Equality, Liberty, Wisdom, Morality and Consent in the Idea of Political Freedom." Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 15, no. 1 (1987).Jaffa’s article provides a comprehensive examination of the philosophical foundations of political freedom, advocating that the American founding exemplifies the harmonious… 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
On Jaffa, Lincoln, Marshall, and Original Intent
– Lewis E. Lehrman, Seattle University Law Review 10:3 (1987). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: This Foreword introduces the article to follow written by Harry V. Jaffa, scholar of Abraham Lincoln’s political philosophy. The Foreward provides background material necessary… 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
“Who Killed Cock Robin?” A Retrospective on the Bork Nomination and a Reply to “Jaffa Divides the House”
– Seattle University Law Review 13:3 (1990). Reprinted in Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994).Abstract: In an utterance that may have changed the history of the United States, and of the world, Lincoln argued that the grounds upon which one opposed the extension of slavery into the… More
Inventing the Gettysburg Address
– Intercollegiate Review 28:1 (Fall 1992). Reprinted in American Conservatism and the American Founding (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984).Excerpt: Thirty years ago, Garry Wills was a rising star of the Right, a celebrity in the constellation of William F. Buckley, Jr. and National Review. His essay on “The Convenient… More
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
Defending the Cause of Human Freedom
– The Claremont Institute, April 15, 1994.Excerpt: The Spring 1994 Intercollegiate Review featured a section entitled “Not In Memoriam, But in Affirmation: M. E. Bradford.” I welcome this, or any tribute, to my departed… 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
Storm Over the Constitution
– Lanham: Lexington Books, 1999.Summary from the Publisher: Written by one of America’s foremost political and legal theorists, Storm Over the Constitution examines the arguments of some of the leading proponents of… More
The Virtue of Practical Wisdom
– Thomas, Clarence. "The Virtue of Practical Wisdom." Claremont Review of Books, February 9, 1999. Excerpt: We gather here tonight in memory of a great man, a great president whose noble words and selfless deeds enabled this great nation to fulfill its promises of equality and liberty… More
A New Birth of Freedom
– Jaffa, Harry V. A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War. With a new foreword by Allen C. Guelzo. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018.Summary from the Publisher: A New Birth of Freedom is the culmination of over a half a century of study and reflection by one of America’s foremost scholars of American politics,… 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
Abraham Lincoln and the Universal Meaning of the Declaration of Independence
– In Scott Douglas Gerber, ed., The Declaration Of Independence: Origins and Impact (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2002).Jaffa versus Mansfield by Thomas G. West
– Thomas G. West, Perspectives on Political Science 31:4 (Fall 2002).Excerpt: Harry Jaffa and Harvey Mansfield are two of the ablest among those whose study of America has been shaped and helped by what they learned from Strauss. Both men are patriots. Both… 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
Wages of Sin
– Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2004.Excerpt: Among the young scholars in the 1950s who challenged the prevailing historical canon on slavery, no less than Fogel, was one he never mentions. Before the publication of Crisis of… More
The Disputed Question: Original Intent and the American Soul
– Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2005.The American Founding as the Best Regime
– Jaffa, Harry V. "The American Founding as the Best Regime." Claremont Review of Books, July 4, 2007.Excerpt: The Preamble of the Constitution crowns its enumeration of the ends of the Constitution by declaring its purpose to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our… More
Dred Scott Revisited
– Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 31:1 (Winter 2008).Jaffa’s New Birth: Harry Jaffa at Ninety
– Michael Zuckert, Review of Politics Vol. 71, No. 02 (Spring 2009), pp 207-223.Excerpt: With the publication of Harry Jaffa’s New Birth of Freedom, it is possible to see the overall trajectory of his thinking and to come to some assessment of it. New Birth… More
Lincoln with Harry Jaffa on Uncommon Knowledge
– Uncommon Knowledge, Hoover Institution, July 22, 2009.Summary: In a year that marks the two hundredth year since the birth of Lincoln, and the fiftieth year since the publication of his own Crisis of the House Divided, Harry Jaffa discusses… More
Lincoln in Peoria
– Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2009.Excerpt: A friendly critic has recently characterized my life’s work as dedicated to the moral vision of Athens, Jerusalem, and Peoria. Of course, as a faithful student of Leo… More
The Declaration in a House Divided
– Video, Jack Miller Center, April 21, 2015.Summary: Interviews with Diana Schaub, James W. Ceaser, and others on the Declaration of Independence.