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10 Apr 2023 15 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat $0.13
As soon as I finished the works by Burnham I could get my hands on, I immediately turned to another mid-20th-century political scientist: Bertrand de Jouvenel. His work On Power: The Natural History of its Growth is monumental. Its lofty aims are mad...
7 Apr 2023 14 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat $0.19
Do the Progressives worship the gods of chaos? Maybe. The Managerial Revolution was primarily driven by ideology put into praxis. While I think James Burnham does a much better job explaining how ideologies work in Machiavellians, I also think he do...
5 Apr 2023 13 minute read 2 comments MatTehCat $0.24
Big Sister is watching you.In my post on Monday, the third of April, I explored why the power shift from a capitalist to a managerial society occurred according to James Burnham. What I did not make clear was who the managers were or are. In today’s...
3 Apr 2023 8 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat $0.02
Why did James Burnham believe that a social revolution occurred after WWI? Over the past several weeks, I’ve taken the time to read Burnham’s essential works. I started with Suicide of the West, proceeded to Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom, and...
31 Mar 2023 14 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat $0.04
Looking at what people do and have done tells us more about them than listening to what they say. This rule partly defines the essence of Machiavellian Political Science. To express this concept, Burnham turns to Pareto’s theory of Residues and Deriv...
29 Mar 2023 13 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat $0.01
Every great society is defined by only a few great men whose character is so exemplary that the majority must align themselves with them or falter. On Monday, the 27th of March, I began reviewing Burnham's work, Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom....
27 Mar 2023 11 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat $0.23
This past Friday, I began reading a book by James Burnham, published in 1943: The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom. The Machiavellians, compared to Suicide of the West, is a little shorter but is very interesting. This book roughly begins in Medi...
25 Mar 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Drew Binsky $0.10
ISFAHAN (Iran) is "HALF THE WORLD?!" Ladies & Gentlemen: I have found my new favorite city in Iran and one of the coolest places on Earth -- ISFAHAN! Our G Adventures tour continues in this UNESCO World Heritage city that has so much beaut...
25 Mar 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Drew Binsky $0.06
What Can $10 Get You in IRAN? (Budgeting in Iran) It's time to bring back my $10 series for a 14th episode -- and this time, I am coming to you live from the lovely country of IRAN!! As you may remember from my video a few days ago when I e...
24 Mar 2023 9 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat $0.01
The Liberal is disturbed by grass. That sounds ridiculous but rings true when you think about it. I am coming to the end of James Burnham’s Suicide of the West, and it’s clear that the Liberal is plagued by his inability to detach from the abstract,...
