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A recent post by Francis P. Sempa on the  University Bookman site offers valuable information on the genesis of James Burnham’s Cold War global crusading. Burnham, who worked after World War II as a CIA agent, was the dominant intellectual influence behind William Buckley’s efforts at  National Review to purge Old Right advocates of a noninterventionist foreign policy from American conservatism. Sempa points out that during his Marxist period, Burnham saw the world as a struggle among rival imperialist powers. “In a February 1938 piece in  Socialist Appeal, [a Trotskyist publicat...

A recent post by Francis P. Sempa on the  University Bookman site offers valuable information on the genesis of James Burnham’s Cold War global crusading. Burnham, who worked after World War II as a CIA agent, was the dominant intellectual influence behind William Buckley’s efforts at  National Review to purge Old Right advocates of a noninterventionist foreign policy from American conservatism. Sempa points out that during his Marxist period, Burnham saw the world as a struggle among rival imperialist powers. “In a February 1938 piece in  Socialist Appeal, [a Trotskyist publicat...

Why Mitch McConnell is struggling to keep the GOP's central bargain from falling apart Credit: Gage Skidmore As you know, the Republican Party is the party of business. It has been that way since the late 19th century. What you may not know is that some Republicans have always taken a dim view of corporate power, depending on their brand of conservatism. Prior to Ronald Reagan's ascent, conservatives of the Old Right, as they were sometimes called, saw corporations the way that some leftists do, as potentially dangerous collectives unaccountable to the democratic will. But unl...

Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:04 UTC The official slogan of this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was "America UnCancelled," and the conference featured a slate of topics confined to such controversial viewpoints as "Why the Left Hates the Bill of Rights ... and We Love It" and "California Socialism: Promising Heaven, Delivering Hell." Fitting for the single largest annual event for America's conservative movement, CPAC was hosted at a corporate hotel that strictly enforced a Democrat-controlled local government's mask mandates and featured a controversial stage constructed by a ...

The official slogan of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was “America UnCancelled,” and the conference featured a slate of topics confined to such controversial viewpoints as “Why the Left Hates the Bill of Rights … and We Love It” and “California Socialism: Promising Heaven, Delivering Hell.” Fitting for the single largest annual event for America’s conservative movement, CPAC was hosted at a corporate hotel that strictly enforced a Democrat-controlled local government’s mask mandates and featured a controversial stage constructed by a major Dem...