Books
“Value Consensus” in Democracy: The Issue in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
– The American Political Science Review, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Sep., 1958), pp. 745-753. Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).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
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).Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics
– New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.Summary from the Publisher: This is the first of four books by Harry V. Jaffa reprinted by the Claremont Institute in honor of his 80th birthday. This book was originally published by… More
Harry V. Jaffa on Equality
– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, 1972.Summary: Harry V. Jaffa delivered this speech in 1972 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar titled “Recycling the City: Alternatives to Decay.”
Equality as a Conservative Principle
– Jaffa, Harry V. "Kendall & Carey: The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition." Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 8 (1975): 471.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
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
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.
Inventing the Past
– The St. John's Review 33:1 (Autumn 1981).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
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
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
The Speech That Changed the World
– Jaffa, Harry V. "The Speech That Changed the World." Claremont Review of Books, February 6, 2009.Excerpt: Of all Lincoln’s speeches, whether greater or lesser, the only one that can be said truly to have changed the course of history, was delivered to the Republican State… 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
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
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).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.
The Emancipation Proclamation
– In Robert A. Godwin, ed., 100 Years of Emancipation (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1963). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Excerpt: Both in the pre-inaugural period, and in the opening stages of the conflict, the danger of disunion, now the paramount danger, did not come from the forces of slavery alone. It… More
Essays
“Value Consensus” in Democracy: The Issue in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
– The American Political Science Review, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Sep., 1958), pp. 745-753. Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).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
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).Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics
– New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.Summary from the Publisher: This is the first of four books by Harry V. Jaffa reprinted by the Claremont Institute in honor of his 80th birthday. This book was originally published by… More
Harry V. Jaffa on Equality
– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, 1972.Summary: Harry V. Jaffa delivered this speech in 1972 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar titled “Recycling the City: Alternatives to Decay.”
Equality as a Conservative Principle
– Jaffa, Harry V. "Kendall & Carey: The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition." Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 8 (1975): 471.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
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
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.
Inventing the Past
– The St. John's Review 33:1 (Autumn 1981).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
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
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
The Speech That Changed the World
– Jaffa, Harry V. "The Speech That Changed the World." Claremont Review of Books, February 6, 2009.Excerpt: Of all Lincoln’s speeches, whether greater or lesser, the only one that can be said truly to have changed the course of history, was delivered to the Republican State… 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
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
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).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.
The Emancipation Proclamation
– In Robert A. Godwin, ed., 100 Years of Emancipation (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1963). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Excerpt: Both in the pre-inaugural period, and in the opening stages of the conflict, the danger of disunion, now the paramount danger, did not come from the forces of slavery alone. It… More
Commentary
“Value Consensus” in Democracy: The Issue in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
– The American Political Science Review, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Sep., 1958), pp. 745-753. Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).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
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).Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics
– New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.Summary from the Publisher: This is the first of four books by Harry V. Jaffa reprinted by the Claremont Institute in honor of his 80th birthday. This book was originally published by… More
Harry V. Jaffa on Equality
– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, 1972.Summary: Harry V. Jaffa delivered this speech in 1972 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar titled “Recycling the City: Alternatives to Decay.”
Equality as a Conservative Principle
– Jaffa, Harry V. "Kendall & Carey: The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition." Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 8 (1975): 471.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
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
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.
Inventing the Past
– The St. John's Review 33:1 (Autumn 1981).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
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
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
The Speech That Changed the World
– Jaffa, Harry V. "The Speech That Changed the World." Claremont Review of Books, February 6, 2009.Excerpt: Of all Lincoln’s speeches, whether greater or lesser, the only one that can be said truly to have changed the course of history, was delivered to the Republican State… 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
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
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).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.
The Emancipation Proclamation
– In Robert A. Godwin, ed., 100 Years of Emancipation (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1963). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Excerpt: Both in the pre-inaugural period, and in the opening stages of the conflict, the danger of disunion, now the paramount danger, did not come from the forces of slavery alone. It… More
Multimedia
“Value Consensus” in Democracy: The Issue in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
– The American Political Science Review, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Sep., 1958), pp. 745-753. Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).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
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).Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics
– New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.Summary from the Publisher: This is the first of four books by Harry V. Jaffa reprinted by the Claremont Institute in honor of his 80th birthday. This book was originally published by… More
Harry V. Jaffa on Equality
– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, 1972.Summary: Harry V. Jaffa delivered this speech in 1972 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar titled “Recycling the City: Alternatives to Decay.”
Equality as a Conservative Principle
– Jaffa, Harry V. "Kendall & Carey: The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition." Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 8 (1975): 471.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
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
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.
Inventing the Past
– The St. John's Review 33:1 (Autumn 1981).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
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
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
The Speech That Changed the World
– Jaffa, Harry V. "The Speech That Changed the World." Claremont Review of Books, February 6, 2009.Excerpt: Of all Lincoln’s speeches, whether greater or lesser, the only one that can be said truly to have changed the course of history, was delivered to the Republican State… 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
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
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).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.
The Emancipation Proclamation
– In Robert A. Godwin, ed., 100 Years of Emancipation (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1963). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Excerpt: Both in the pre-inaugural period, and in the opening stages of the conflict, the danger of disunion, now the paramount danger, did not come from the forces of slavery alone. It… More
Teaching
“Value Consensus” in Democracy: The Issue in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
– The American Political Science Review, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Sep., 1958), pp. 745-753. Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).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
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).Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics
– New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.Summary from the Publisher: This is the first of four books by Harry V. Jaffa reprinted by the Claremont Institute in honor of his 80th birthday. This book was originally published by… More
Harry V. Jaffa on Equality
– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, 1972.Summary: Harry V. Jaffa delivered this speech in 1972 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar titled “Recycling the City: Alternatives to Decay.”
Equality as a Conservative Principle
– Jaffa, Harry V. "Kendall & Carey: The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition." Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 8 (1975): 471.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
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
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.
Inventing the Past
– The St. John's Review 33:1 (Autumn 1981).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
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
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
The Speech That Changed the World
– Jaffa, Harry V. "The Speech That Changed the World." Claremont Review of Books, February 6, 2009.Excerpt: Of all Lincoln’s speeches, whether greater or lesser, the only one that can be said truly to have changed the course of history, was delivered to the Republican State… 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
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
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).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.
The Emancipation Proclamation
– In Robert A. Godwin, ed., 100 Years of Emancipation (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1963). Reprinted in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Excerpt: Both in the pre-inaugural period, and in the opening stages of the conflict, the danger of disunion, now the paramount danger, did not come from the forces of slavery alone. It… More