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 ...

The first sentence of my intellectual biography of National Review’s co-founder read: “James Burnham began his intellectual career in the 1930s as one of Leon Trotsky’s leading American exponents and ...

People Want to Move Where There’s More Opportunity? How Dare They There Is No International-Law ‘Right’ to Enrich Uranium Both supporters and opponents of aiding Ukraine can find justification for ...

Five Ways Republicans Can Bring Down Gas Prices and Reclaim the ‘Affordability’ Mantle The Power of ‘Baby’ The Comey Indictment Fails to Charge a ‘True Threat’ It’s déjà vu all over again as so-called ...

James Burnham is a partner at Jones Day. He previously served as a counselor to the attorney general, and a deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Division. The ...

Afraid for the future of the West in the face of the Soviet threat, this former Trotskyite shaped Ronald Reagan's tough approach. As the intellectual historian John P. Diggins pointed out, Burnham’s ...

In his memorable The Struggle for the World, which shocked people who still believe that good will and good wishes are enough to create One World (TIME, March 24, 1947), James Burnham told Americans ...