James Burnham
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James Burnham: The Partisan Review Years August 16, 2022
When James Burnham formally left the Socialist Workers Party in 1940 (intellectually, he had left it the year before), he did not immediately embrace the conservatism of his American Mercury, The Freeman, and National Review years. Burnham instead be...
Spengler, Toynbee, and Burnham February 07, 2022
In the United States, public schools are seeking to discredit the founding principles of our nation. In our major cities, rioting, looting, and crime go unpunished and in some cases are applauded by civil authorities. Left-wing district attorneys pub...
Milosz's Letter to Burham February 23, 2020
In a life that stretched from 1911 to 2004, the great Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz experienced the twin traumas of Poland’s 20th century: first Nazi occupation, then communist dictatorship. A man of the democratic left, he was never enamored with Stali...
James Burnham Was the Architect of Our Cold War Victory March 27, 2019
If Ronald Reagan was the political architect of the West's Cold War victory, James Burnham was the intellectual architect. In a superb trilogy written between 1947 and 1952, and in his regular column in National Review between 1955 and 1978, Burnham ...
