Christopher Caldwell

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Christopher Caldwell is a Senior Fellow at The Claremont Institute and one of America’s most incisive cultural and political commentators. A contributing editor at The Claremont Review of Books and a contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times, Caldwell is the author of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West and the bestselling The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, both widely praised for their bold, clarifying insight into the social and constitutional upheavals of the modern West. He is the recipient of the 2025 Henry Salvatori Prize in the American Founding.

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Is Europe Done with Free Speech? Populism and Its Censors

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