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Charles Kesler is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and editor of the Claremont Review of Books. A prominent conservative political theorist and scholar of American constitutionalism, he contributed essays to The Weekly Standard on constitutional issues, executive power, and conservative political thought during the mid-to-late 1990s.
Let Us Talk of Many Things
In light of the conclusion of the Senate trial of the president, the editors of THE WEEKLY STANDARD asked 22 writers, thinkers, and political actors the following questions: "President William Jefferson Clinton has been impeached and acquitted. What have we learned? What should we do now?"
At a time when the winning alliance between . social and economic conservatives seems ready to unravel, here comes a book on the American Revolution designed to reassure and inspirit today's aspiring revolutionaries.
The battle for congressional term limits was lost this year, on two fronts. In the House of Representatives, four versions of a constitutional amendment to limit congressional tenure went down to defeat. Soon after, the Supreme Court, in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, struck down the attempt…