Charles R. Kesler

Charles R. Kesler (born 1956) is an American political scientist. He is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University. He is editor of the Claremont Review of Books, and the author of several books. He also serves on the Board of Trustees at New College of Florida. He graduated from Harvard University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in social studies in 1978, followed by a Ph.D in government in 1985.

Career Kesler is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and the graduate faculty at Claremont Graduate University.

Kesler was a member of the Trump administration's 18-member 1776 Commission, which released a report on 18 January 2021 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) that called for "patriotic education."

Published works Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding (Free Press, 1987) Keeping the Tablets: Readings in American Conservatism (HarperCollins, 1988) The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics, 2003) I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism (Broadside, 2012) Crisis of the Two Constitutions: The Rise, Decline, and Recovery of American Greatness (Encounter Books, 2021)