In this episode, I chat with Dr. Paul Gottfried, 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.
Gottfried’s 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.” Gottfried’s editor of the brand-new anthology “The Vanishing Tradition: Perspectives on American Conservatism,” featuring chapters by some of today’s boldest and most provocative thinkers. You can also find Gottfried’s prolific writings far and wide in some of America’s most esteemed publications.
Gottfried and I discuss swindling Conservative Inc., as well as some of his ideas of how to push back against the progressive madness. The “Gott-father,” as many of his paleocon readers call him, has quite the interesting bio, such as the fact that his doctoral advisor was none other than Herbert Marcuse of the Frankfurt School. Besides having this keen vantage on cultural Marxism, Gottfried has also been opposing the neocons for decades in battles that have sometimes gotten a little personal. This “loyal opposition” ideology has abandoned us true conservatives and traditionalists and left us without leaders, without a voice, and without any real Republican recourse, at least at the federal and most state levels.
I am thrilled to have had the opportunity to talk with one of my heroes who has been fighting the good fight for a long, long time. I hope you all enjoy the interview and that it does justice to the respect I have for this truly brilliant and benevolent man.
Source: Dissident Mama – Dissident Mama, episode 12 – Paul Gottfried