Fifty years ago this week, on April 30, 1975, Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, fell to communist North Vietnamese forces, and the world watched as helicopters rescued the last remaining Americans from our embassy. America’s longest war — up…
Jim Holmes, Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and Distinguished Fellow at the Krulak Center at the Marine Corps University, is one of our country’s leading public intellectuals. He is a throwback to Alfred Thayer Mahan, a…
It was 80 years ago this month that James Burnham’s article titled “Lenin’s Heir” appeared in Partisan Review. It was the top article advertised on the magazine’s cover. It is, unfortunately, unknown to most Americans, but it was one of…
One hopes that the incoming Trump administration is prepared to wage bureaucratic wars against the permanent managerial class that runs Washington as presidents come and go. The old saying that personnel is policy is only too true in the swamps…
Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince, which was first published in 1532 and still remains in print, is known for its unsentimental and amoral advice to leaders and would-be leaders about attaining and using power. Machiavelli wrote the book to gain favor…
Politics, wrote James Burnham in his book The Machiavellians (1943), is about the struggle for power among elites. Those political elites, Burnham contended in The Managerial Revolution (1941), are interested first and foremost in their own power and privileges. And…
On July 27, 1953, the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed, and the guns fell silent for the first time in three years on the Korean Peninsula. The armistice effectively restored the status quo ante to the peninsula that had been…
Thirty-five years ago, on the eve of the end of the Cold War, the great conservative thinker Robert Nisbet wrote a small book titled The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America, which diagnosed the ills of modernity in…
The headlines are flush with China’s moves on the global chessboard. China brokered an agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran in which the Middle East rivals restored diplomatic relations after a seven-year rift, causing observers to suggest that China is…
