Charles Kesler

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Author | Editor of Claremont Review of Books — Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute

Charles R. Kesler is editor of the Claremont Review of Books and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute. He is the Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College, the author of I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism, and the coeditor, with William F. Buckley, Jr., of Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought. His edition of The Federalist Papers is the best-selling one in the country. In 2017, Politico magazine named Kesler to its annual Politico 50 list of “the key thinkers, doers, and visionaries who are reshaping American politics and policy,” and in 2018 the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation awarded him a Bradley Prize.

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Crisis of the Two Constitutions: The Rise, Decline, and Recovery of American Greatness

Crisis of the Two Constitutions details how we got to and what is at stake in our increasingly divided America. It takes controversial stands on matte...

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UFOs and God

In all my years of doing a radio commentary, I have only mentioned UFOs and extraterrestrials a few times. I recently did an interview with Derrick Warfel about his book, UFOs and God, which is a comp...

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