Dr. Paul Gottfried is the editor-in-chief of Chronicles Magazine and president of the H.L. Mencken Club. He is a Raffensperger Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Elizabethtown College, where he taught for 25 years, a Guggenheim recipient, and a Yale Ph.D. He is the author of 15 books, including “Fascism: The Career of a Concept,” “After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State,” “Revisions and Dissents: Essays,” and one of the most influential books on me personally “Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Toward a Secular Theocracy.” He’s also editor of the brand-new anthology “The Vanishing Tradition: Perspectives on American Conservatism” featuring chapters by some of today’s boldest and most provocative writers.
Gottfried and I discuss Conservative Inc. and some of his ideas of how to push back against the cultural-Marxist madness. The Gott-father, as a lot of we paleocons call him, has quite the interesting bio, such as the fact that his doctoral advisor was none other than Herbert Marcuse of Frankfurt School infamy. Gottfried has been battling the neocons for decades in what sometimes got a little personal. It’s a “loyal opposition” movement that has left us true conservatives without leaders, without a voice, and without any small-government Republicans, at least at the federal and most state levels.
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