Charles Kesler is a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute, Editor of the Claremont Review of Books, host of Claremont’s The American Mind video series, and the Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College.
Dr. Kesler also teaches in the Claremont Institute’s Publius Fellows Program and Lincoln Fellows Program. He received his B.A. in Social Studies and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. From 1989 to 2008, Dr. Kesler was director of CMC’s Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World.
He is the recipient of the prestigious 2018 Bradley Prize, a high honor bestowed upon distinguished individuals who have influenced American scholarship and debate.
From September 2000 to March 2001, he served as vice chairman of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Congress's James Madison Commemoration Commission.
He was selected in June 2000 as a member of the Scholars Commission on the Jefferson-Hemings Issue sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society.
Dr. Kesler is the author of I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism (Broadside Books); the editor of Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding (Free Press); co-editor, with John B. Kienker, of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Ten Years of the Claremont Review of Books (Rowman & Littlefield); and co-editor, with William F. Buckley, Jr., of Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought (HarperCollins). He has written extensively on American constitutionalism and political thought, and his edition of The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics) is the best-selling edition in the country.
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Trump and the Two Constitutions
Stanford Student Chapter
Stanford Law School559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305
Talks with Authors: Crisis of the Two Constitutions
Civil Rights Practice Group Teleforum
American politics grows embittered because it is increasingly torn between two rival constitutions, two opposed...
Talks with Authors: Crisis of the Two Constitutions
Civil Rights Practice Group Teleforum
American politics grows embittered because it is increasingly torn between two rival constitutions, two opposed...
Brutus v. Publius: The Fight Over the Judiciary
Documentary short featuring Charles Kesler and Gordon Lloyd
Before the United States Constitution was ratified, the Founding Fathers famously debated the merits and...
Panel Discussion: Confronting Terror: 9/11 and the Future of American National Security
9/11 Tenth Anniversary Program
On September 15, 2011, the Chicago Lawyers Chapter hosted the 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Program featuring this...
Panel Discussion: Confronting Terror: 9/11 and the Future of American National Security
9/11 Tenth Anniversary Program
On September 15, 2011, the Chicago Lawyers Chapter hosted the 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Program featuring this...