CRB: The continuing crisis Michael Anton wrote “The Flight 93 election” on the then upcoming 2016 presidential election under the pseudonym Publius Decius Mus. Published by the Claremont Review of Books on September 5, it proved to be the most consequential essay on the election because Rush Limbaugh took it up and read from it on his September 7 show that year. When Anton returned in 2020 with The Stakes and the American Mind essay “The coming coup?,” Rush took it up as well (video at bottom). Continuing our preview of the current (Winter) issue of the Claremont Review of Books, we turn to Anton’s essay “The continuing crisis.” Here is the opening of the essay: