Center for the American Way of Life

A project of @ClaremontInst dedicated to forming a new Right to reclaim America’s institutions.

[Center for the American Way of Life @CenterForAWL]

"Every single time the American people give us power, the only thing that we try to do is to trim down the thing that they gave us control over?"

@JDVance in 2023 on the Right's use of power in the federal government.

[Claremont Institute @ClaremontInst]

The Claremont Institute is proud to announce the 2026 class of our Lincoln Fellows, a program for patriotic young professionals in federal or state government roles, public policy, and journalism.

These fellows will spend 2 weeks this summer with our Senior Fellows to discuss statesmanship and political thought from the Founding to modern day political disputes.

Please, join us in welcoming Amanda Banks, @MicahBock, John Cohen, West Cuthbert, Ashlea Frazier, Ross Hougham, Benjamin Jaros, Ben Jensen, @noellem, @nukebarbarian, @JoeProenza, Dawn-Marie Sullivan, and @KJTorrance.

[The American Mind @theammind]

Justice Clarence Thomas' speech at the University of Texas, Austin with @UT_Civitas should remind Americans that the Founding Fathers provided the resources for moral renewal — it requires a free and virtuous people to preserve it, not institutions.

@DrJohnEastman writes on Justice Thomas' appearance in May of this year.

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The Claremont Institute is proud to announce the 2026 class of Publius Fellows, our flagship program for rising leaders pursuing careers in politics, scholarship, journalism, and related fields.

They will spend 2 ½ weeks this summer immersed in the political philosophy, statesmanship, and constitutional principles that define the American Way of Life.

Please join us in welcoming, Jasper Boers, Jack Burch, @blaynecs, Jonah Davids, @tenglishDC, Jacob Hiles, Jackson Hines, John Huggins, @TheodoreMadrid1, Mackenzie Moreno, @CalebNunes13, Alexandre Reza, Samuel Silvestro, and Eve Velasquez.

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R.J. Pestritto’s new Provocation for the @CenterForAWL traces exactly how we got here—and what it would take to get out. The full case: https://t.co/g0XQoWUZJd

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"The Bush team sought a 'peace process' in which the defenders do not destroy their attackers but instead grant them powers, in exchange for the attackers' promise to negotiate. Alas, the attackers then sell that promise again and again, at ever higher prices."

From the CRB archive, Angelo M. Codevilla on why the logic of peace processes always works against the side that wants peace.

Read from the 2006 archive https://t.co/AV1yYciGXt

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Federalists and Anti-Federalists fought bitterly over the Constitution.

@docMJP shares what both sides agreed on: What Americans possessed was the virtue to govern themselves.

Our latest event was an examination of that virtue, and what happens when we lose it.

[The American Mind @theammind]

Federal regulations cost the U.S. economy over $2 trillion every year.

@KevinRobertsTX, president of @Heritage, argues that Republicans should stop writing checks to insiders and start rewriting the rules that cut families off from the American dream.

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“A private company in San Francisco made a national security judgment that will affect every American who uses a computer.”

@WilliamThibeau defends Trump's AI oversight EO, putting frontier model decisions with accountable officials. https://t.co/fyHDPCUp4G via @RCPolitics.

[Center for the American Way of Life @CenterForAWL]

“The next 10% of military degradation now costs more than the first 90, and that is the operational lesson of the past four years.” Read

@WilliamThibeau's debut piece for @FoxNews on the cost challenges facing America's military procurement. https://t.co/O2j1kQHWxj

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Earlier this month in Beverly Hills, Claremont's @RpWWilliams and @DocMJP examined whether American liberty can survive without its moral foundation.

A timely conversation on the enduring insights of the Founders and the American system as we approach our 250th anniversary.

[Claremont Institute @ClaremontInst]

“Thomas’s remarks were particularly striking because they resisted the fashionable reduction of constitutional interpretation to technocratic expertise or evolving social consensus.”

In his latest for @TheAmMind, Founding Director of the Claremont Institute's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence @DrJohnEastman reflects on Justice Clarence Thomas's recent address at the University of Texas, a speech grounded in natural right, the Declaration of Independence, and the civic courage required to preserve constitutional government.

Read it here https://t.co/LRXgIAGBHt

[The American Mind @theammind]

“If we intend to preserve our way of life—its people, culture, and Christian foundations—then we must adopt a posture closer to revolution than preservation.”

@RyanMNeuhaus writes on the necessity for the American Right to take hard power seriously.

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“Democrats need to decide whether they actually oppose “lawfare” — or whether they simply object when Republicans respond in kind to hold accountable those who engaged in it.”

Read @DrJohnEastman on the left's newest legal panic https://t.co/vYTpN3hgds via @DC_Reporter.

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In his appearance with Tim Pool, Visiting Fellow @RealTheoWold discusses the strain that blue states' redistricting efforts would create on the already fragile progressive coalition.

[Center for the American Way of Life @CenterForAWL]

In his appearance with @Timcast, Visiting Fellow @RealTheoWold discusses the strain that blue states' redistricting efforts would create on their already fragile coalition.

[Center for the American Way of Life @CenterForAWL]

“Abortion is ultimately part of the broad, pervasive, persistent feminist assault on motherhood.”

Washington Fellow @ScottYenor writes that the way the American right frames the abortion issue limits the right's effectiveness in fighting it https://t.co/xP8dGjK8Cq via @AmReformer.

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“Republican women drifted more slowly toward the Democrat vision of womanhood. Now increasingly Republican women have either stayed put or moved in a somewhat more traditional direction...”

@ScottYenor answers the Women question https://t.co/P3y1XxPZxf via @DailySignal.

[The American Mind @theammind]

“One of the effects of the Court's ruling will be producing Republican gains in the midterms.”

Mark Pulliam writes on the triumph of originalist/textualist analysis and equality before the law in the 6-3 majority decision in Louisiana v. Callais.

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“The pot industry sold America a bill of goods on the supposed ‘benefits’ of marijuana, and the bill is coming due.”

Washington Fellow @ScottYenor writes on the rising cultural backlash against weed https://t.co/kCzIYaKrZE via @FDRLST

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“So the war goes back again, as many things do, to the Obama administration.”

@CenterForAWL's Visiting Fellow @RealTheoWold explains the history of the left's efforts that led to the current redistricting battle in America with @TimcastNews.