John Burtka is president of the Institute of Intercollegiate Studies, founded in 1953 by William F. Buckley Jr. to educate undergraduates about the principles of Western heritage and the Judeo-Christian tradition. He was previously managing director of the American Conservative magazine. In February 2024, John Burtka published a book titled Gateway to Statesmanship by Regnery Publishing. In this collection there are epoch-making texts about statesmanship spanning different periods, from ancient times to the present day. Recently, he was a guest at MCC, and now he talks about his new book, about the great political values of Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán asked the Mandarin.
“One of Donald Trump’s virtues is his extraordinary political ability. Already in 2015, he recognized some basic issues: immigration, foreign policy woes adventure, trade policy and China.
No one saw these things as a big problem unless they looked in intellectual journals that were very obscure. I think he identified these problems
John Burtka told Mandiner. He said, however, that he believes that “when he died, he suffered in many ways because he did not have the moral discipline that we see in, say, the classical world or the Christian tradition, which I think is necessary to achieve a certain level. level of greatness.” Self-control, discipline, the ability to resist flatterers. I think those are all areas he’s struggled with,” he said, referring to Donald Trump.
