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American magazine on politics and statesmanship

The Claremont Review of Books (CRB) is a quarterly review of politics and statesmanship published by the conservative Claremont Institute. A typical issue consists of several book reviews and a selection of essays on topics of conservatism and political philosophy, history, and literature. Authors who are regularly featured in the Review are sometimes nicknamed "Claremonsters." The editor is Charles R. Kesler. The managing editor is John Kienker, and the senior editor, William Voegeli. Allen C. Guelzo, Joseph Epstein, Hadley P. Arkes, and John Marini.

Legal scholar Ken Masugi was editor of the first iteration of the Claremont Review of Books which existed for just under two years in the mid 1980s. According to Jon Baskin, writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education, it "looked more like a college newspaper," and had about 600 subscribers. The Review took a pro Trump position during the 2016 election campaign, with an article by Charles Kessler criticizing the Never Trump movement. "Conservatives care too much about the party and the country to wash our hands of this election," he wrote. "A third party bid would be quixotic.". Nevertheless, the Review published articles by both Trump supporters and "Never Trumpers" during the 2016 campaign, moving after his election to a thoroughly pro Trump position. was reprinted in an anthology of conservative writings on the Iraq War, edited by Commentary Managing Editor Gary Rosen. The CRB was party to a high profile exchange in Commentary between Editor at Large Norman Podhoretz and CRB editor Charles R. Kesler and CRB contributors and Claremont Institute senior fellows Mark Helprin and Angelo M. Codevilla over the Bush Administration’s conduct of the Iraq War. In September 2016, two months before the US 2016 presidential election, the Review published an online only article entitled "The Flight 93 Election." Written by Michael Anton under a pseudonym, the essay compared the election to choices that faced the passengers on Flight 93, one of the four hijacked planes used in the September 11th attacks. When the article was read by Rush Limbaugh on his radio show, the sudden surge in demand to read it crashed the CRB website. Addressing an audience of Republicans and Never Trump conservatives, Anton argued that allowing the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton to become president by abstaining from voting was the equivalent of not charging the cockpit.