Category Archives: Paul Gottfried

What Are the Paleoconservatives Conserving?

Michael Anton writes: There is less dividing Paul Gottfried and me than I would have expected, which is good. For when the orc hordes—at Sauron’s urging—come for both of us, they aren’t going to discern, much less care about, any … Continue reading

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No, Paleoconservatives Are Not Helping the Left

Paul Gottfried writes May 8, 2021: Michael Anton raises several good points in his brief against Brion McClanahan’s assault on the 1776 Commission and that commission’s yoking of universal equality with the American founding. Anton is perfectly correct that state … Continue reading

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Paul Gottfried: Don’t call me the ‘godfather’ of those alt-right neo-Nazis. I’m Jewish

Paul Gottfried writes April 17, 2018: Robert Fulford’s comments about my political influence (March 10) were illustrated with a picture of an unidentified “man” giving a Nazi salute at a recent event of which I know nothing and headlined “How … Continue reading

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Liberal Democracy

Paul Gottfried writes in this 2017 book: * WHEN I WAS A YOUNG FACULTY MEMBER at Rockford College forty years ago, my divisional chairman, who was a devout disciple of Leo Strauss, once complained that a colleague he had just … Continue reading

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Revisions and Dissents: Essays

Paul Gottfried writes in this 2017 book: A classical or essentialist Right is hard to find in the contemporary Western world, where journalists and other assorted intellectuals rush to denounce its bearers—or even partial bearers—as “fascists.” That may be one … Continue reading

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