James Burnham Archives - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
by | Dec 22, 2023

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…

by | Sep 10, 2023

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…

by | Jul 26, 2023

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…

by | Jul 16, 2023

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…

by | Apr 9, 2023

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…

by | Dec 13, 2022

If there is one idea that unites the American Left and motivates its public policy positions it is anti-nationalism. Anti-nationalism pervades the Left’s domestic and foreign policy preferences. This is one reason why the Left so vigorously opposed President Trump’s…

by | Sep 2, 2022

Conrad Black is a respected conservative who has written interesting books, including a very good biography of Richard Nixon, and who hasn’t succumbed to the Trump Derangement Syndrome that afflicts far too many conservatives and Republicans these days. In fact,…

by | Feb 4, 2022

CNN reports that in a joint statement released by the Kremlin on February 4, 2022, China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, in a pre-Olympic meeting in Beijing, called for a halt to further NATO expansion. The statement…

by | Jan 25, 2022

We are approaching another “Presidents’ Day,” which will be celebrated this year on February 21. This federal holiday has evolved from a celebration of George Washington’s birthday (February 22) to an amorphous celebration of all of our nation’s presidents. But…

by | Oct 20, 2021

The Financial Times reports that China has successfully launched a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile that U.S. officials worry we cannot defend against. China’s warplane incursions into Taiwan’s air defense space have continued and intensified. China’s President has publicly called for the…

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