James Charles Bennett (born 1948) is an American businessman, with a background in technology companies and consultancy, and a writer on technology and international affairs from a conservative point of view.
During the 1980s he was involved in space-launch ventures, being a founder in 1985 of
American Rocket CompanyFounded in 1985 by George Koopman, Bevin McKinney and Jim Bennett, the American Rocket Company, or AMROC, was a company that developed hybrid rocket motors....
(AMROC) whose technology found its way into
SpaceShipOneSpaceShipOne is a rocket-powered aircraft that completed the first privately funded human spaceflight on June 21, 2004. It was developed by Scaled Composites....
. In the 1990s he was a technology consultant.
James Charles Bennett (born 1948) is an American businessman, with a background in technology companies and consultancy, and a writer on technology and international affairs from a conservative point of view.
During the 1980s he was involved in space-launch ventures, being a founder in 1985 of
American Rocket CompanyFounded in 1985 by George Koopman, Bevin McKinney and Jim Bennett, the American Rocket Company, or AMROC, was a company that developed hybrid rocket motors....
(AMROC) whose technology found its way into
SpaceShipOneSpaceShipOne is a rocket-powered aircraft that completed the first privately funded human spaceflight on June 21, 2004. It was developed by Scaled Composites....
. In the 1990s he was a technology consultant. He is President and Chairman of Internet Transactions Transnational, Inc., a 1997 Internet start-up, and Vice Chairman of Openworld, Inc., a nonprofit group promoting sustainable self-help initiatives.
His publications and quotes like “democracy, immigration, multiculturalism… pick any two”, popularising the idea of Anglospheric
exceptionalismExceptionalism is the perception that a country, society, institution, movement, or time period is "exceptional" in some way and thus does not conform to normal rules or general principles...
in a similar, vocal vein as
Mark SteynMark Steyn is a Canadianwriter, political commentator and cultural critic. He has written five books, including America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It, a New York Times bestseller...
, are identified by both
the LeftIn politics, left-wing, political left, leftist and the Left are terms used to describe a number of positions and ideologies. They are most commonly used to refer to support for changing traditional social orders or for creating a more egalitarian distribution of wealth and privilege...
and Eurocentrics as misleading and arrogant right wing propaganda. He was a columnist for
United Press InternationalUnited Press International is a news agency headquartered in the United States with roots dating back to 1907. Once a mainstay in the newswire service along with Associated Press and Reuters, it began to decline as afternoon newspapers, its chief client category, began to fail with the rising...
2000-3, with a weekly piece
The Anglosphere Beat; he has propagated the idea of the
Anglosphere-Definitions:According to a post on Word Spy, a blog on unusual words, the term was first used by author Neal Stephenson in his 1995 novel The Diamond Age. Stephenson did not use the term in any specific geopolitical sense but rather to describe a fictional race called the Atlantans who, when...
as significant, , in world affairs and alignments. His book-length study
The Anglosphere Challenge: Why the English-Speaking Nations Will Lead the Way in the Twenty-First Century was published in 2004. He is co-founder and current President of the
Anglosphere Institute of
Alexandria, VirginiaAlexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 128,283. Located along the Western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is approximately 6 miles south of downtown Washington, D.C.Like the rest of northern Virginia, as...
.
He is also is an Adjunct Senior Fellow of the
Hudson InstituteThe Hudson Institute is an American, conservative, non-profit think tank founded in 1961, in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, by futurist, military strategist, and systems theorist Herman Kahn and his colleagues at the RAND Corporation...
, and a contributor to its publications.