Richard J. Bishirjian
Richard J. Bishirjian
Political theorist, Ph.D., president of Yorktown University from 2000 to 2016 and currently president of American Academy of Distance Learning. He is the editor of A Public Philosophy Reader, The Development of Political Theory, The Conservative Rebellion and author of The Coming Death and Future Resurrection of American Higher Education. Dr. Bishirjian’s essays have been published in The Political Science Reviewer, Modern Age, Review of Politics, Chronicles, The American Spectator and The Imaginative Conservative
The American Empire: A Subtle Transition

The American Empire: A Subtle Transition

My study, Rise and Fall of the American Empire to be published in January 2022 by En Route Books and Media, publisher of my recent book, Ennobling Encounters, is based on a premise: The country that was new in 1789, when its Constitutional order was ratified, no longer exists.As a consequence, the written Constitution of the United States which intended to order and organize our politics has been challenged to a breaking point.That development was hastened by the collapse in 1991 of America’s nemesis, the Soviet Union. But tensions and divisions in American society had been long coming largely as a consequence of the many wars of the 20th century. More


Conservatism and Spiritual and Social Recovery

Conservatism and Spiritual and Social Recovery

As I read newspapers, popular magazines, listen to National Public Radio, watch cable television, attend Catholic Mass, and work with American academics at the deracinated institutions called colleges, I am conscious that American secular culture has had at least one hundred years to effect a closing not only of the American mind but of the American soul as well. That is visible in large protests and vandalism and looting in the context of something called “Black Lives Matter.” Few if any except the revolutionaries who teach “community activists” in such matters are aware that the ideal to which they are responding was first conceived by Lenin in his 1902 essay, “What is to be Done?” In that essay Lenin outlined the methods that he believed would achieve a successful revolution in Czarist Russia. His methods included a) maintaining large non-Party organizations with mass membership controlled by communists; b) concentration on agitation of single ideas to foment discontent; and c) organized activism aimed at “the masses,” not exclusively the “proletariat.”  More


The Rise of Islam and American Policy in South Asia

The Rise of Islam and American Policy in South Asia

The challenge of Empire to traditional constitutional order occurs when the first response to acts of terror increases the powers of the State. The Patriot Act and the attack on Iraq by the Bush Administration empowered a "war faction" in the American President’s Party and millennial fundamentalists who saw these acts in term of the “Last Days”. That places President Donald Trump in a position to increase his Imperial powers when confronting a rising Islam. Thus far, President Trump has chosen to withdraw American troops in Afghanistan and Syria. The real test is in relation to the Islamic regime in Iran.  More


American Foreign Policy toward Eastern Europe

American Foreign Policy toward Eastern Europe

In the election for the American President in 2024, foreign policy and national security in America will become a political football in the wake of President Biden’s bungling of American policy toward Russia. Much of this is self-inflicted due to the Democrat Party's and “Progressive’s” attack on fossil fuels and Europe’s reliance on Russian oil.  More


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