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Category Archives: Paul Gottfried
‘Marx was not Woke’
In April, 2023, Paul Gottfried reviewed in Chronicles magazine the 2022 Yoram Hazony book Conservatism: A Rediscovery: Marx was not in the least concerned with nonbinary oppression, raging homophobia, or the inherently evil nature of being white. This father of … Continue reading
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The Laundered Theorist: An Intellectual Biography of Paul Gottfried
Paul Edward Gottfried, born November 21, 1941, has spent six decades writing the history of American conservatism from inside and against it. He taught humanities at Elizabethtown College for twenty-five years, edits Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, and has … Continue reading
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Alliance Theory & The Custodianship Question
Custodianship Question in America Australia, New Zealand Europe Asia Canada, Latin America, Africa Different groups may have different interests, but all groups want custody of their own sacred stories. After Jews consolidated their position in the American History profession in … Continue reading
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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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I Argue With Paul Gottfried
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Dennis Prager – Intellectual Vulgarian?
Paul Gottfried said January 28, 2020: “I think he’s an intellectual vulgarian of a kind I have rarely encountered in this world. He has said such ridiculous things about history, fascism, democracy and so forth that it has hard for … Continue reading
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