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DURING THE EARLY post-Second World War years, James Burnham, a leading American Trotskyite in the 1930s, emerged as a chief critic of the policy of containment as articulated by the Department of State’s policy planning chief, George F. Kennan, and implemented by the Truman Administration.
Apr 12, 2019 · James Burnham, a top lawyer in the U.S. Justice Department’s civil division who previously worked in the Trump White House counsel’s office, is assuming a new role that will make him a more ...
May 17, 2024 · The life and career of James Burnham followed a similar trajectory, provoking British academic Binoy Kampmark to label Burnham as “the first neoconservative.” Burnham, however, was a thinker who bore only an incidental resemblance to the neoconservatives.
This article examines the origins of American neo-conservatism by assessing the contributions of one of its less known inspirations, James Burnham.
On one of the greatest, and most underrated, political and social commentators of the twentieth century. The common-place critic . . . believes that truth lies in the middle, between the extremes of right and wrong. —William Hazlitt, “On Common-Place Critics”.
3 days ago · Few 20th-century writers have moved so dramatically from the left to the right as James Burnham, and fewer still have articulated so clearly the moral and cultural validity of such a shift. Born in Chicago in 1905 and educated at Princeton and Balliol, Burnham began a 26-year career as a teacher and.
Nov 25, 2014 · James Burnham’s 1964 classic, Suicide of the West, remains a startling account on the nature of the modern era. It offers a profound, in depth analysis of what is happening in the world...
