Paul Gottfried

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Paul Gottfried is the Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College and the author of nine books, most recently an autobiography, Encounters, as well as several tons of essays on European social and intellectual history and the history of political movements. He contributes to Taki's Magazine, per request of his physician, as a means of releasing pent-up bile and vexation.


Conservatism

It’s Hard to Win When You’re Playing Against the Referee

It’s Hard to Win When You’re Playing Against the Referee

The Italian political theorist and longtime socialist journalist Carlo Galli recently

Deep Thoughts

Human Rights: The Useless Fiction

Human Rights: The Useless Fiction

I watched a Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate bring an evangelical crowd to

PC World

Throwing People Under the Bus to Stop a Runaway Vehicle

Throwing People Under the Bus to Stop a Runaway Vehicle

The recent pillorying of John Derbyshire and Bob Weissberg after being accused of

Scandal

Derb’s National Rebuke

Derb’s National Rebuke

Unlike Rich Lowry’s predictably PC response to John Derbyshire’s controversial

Britain

What the Hell is “The West”?

What the Hell is “The West”?

Being recently stuck for many hours in an exceedingly narrow space on a plane headed

History

Counting the Dead Equally

Counting the Dead Equally

Much to the consternation of Western intellectuals and journalists, Hungary’s

Zeitgeist

Three Flavors of Modern Anti-Americanism

Three Flavors of Modern Anti-Americanism

As I perused the program for the Philadelphia Society’s national meeting in April,

Diversity

A Modest Secessionist Proposal

A Modest Secessionist Proposal

I attended an event for Pat Buchanan and his biographer Tim Stanley at DC’s Politics

Revisions

How England Helped Start the Great War

How England Helped Start the Great War

A vastly underexplored topic is the British government’s role in greasing the skids

International Affairs

League of Acceptable Nations

League of Acceptable Nations

In his recent syndicated column “A U.N. for the good guys,” Jonah Goldberg evokes

Takimag Classic

When Democracy Murders Liberty

When Democracy Murders Liberty

In a recent interview with the German weekly Junge Freiheit, popular satirist and

History

The Eternal German Guilt Trip

The Eternal German Guilt Trip

Political correctness has permeated the historian’s craft to such a degree that

PC World

Forbidden Fruit

Forbidden Fruit

Even in this progressive age, religious uncertainties still abound as we approach Holy

2012 Election

Ron Paul: The Least of Three Evils

Ron Paul: The Least of Three Evils

Sometimes intelligent people say things that are so dumb, I wonder whom they are trying

Politics

The Two-Party Pleasure Ship

The Two-Party Pleasure Ship

In the December issue of The American Conservative, Gary L. Gregg defends the Electoral

Europe

Germany’s Collective  Self-Debasement

Germany’s Collective Self-Debasement

German historian Wolfgang Schivelbusch published a far-ranging 2003 study on the

Revisions

Same Statue, Different Liberty

Same Statue, Different Liberty

The refurbishing of the Statue of Liberty, which has been hoisting its torch above New

Lit Crit

A Fatally Misled Civilization

A Fatally Misled Civilization

Pat Buchanan may be the only self-described paleoconservative whose last six books have

Education

Death of the Classics

Death of the Classics

My friend Daniel J. Flynn is publishing a book called Blue Collar Intellectuals. One

PC World

More Tales From the Collegiate Loony Bin

More Tales From the Collegiate Loony Bin

I’ve recently started recovering from forty years among pseudo-academic weirdos in

Education

Character Sketches of Academic Loons

Character Sketches of Academic Loons

Having just retired from 40 years in academia and being mindful of the observation by

2012 Election

Mitt Romney: From Waffle House to White House?

Mitt Romney: From Waffle House to White House?

In a syndicated column that was something less than objective, Matt Towery explains

Media

The Wannabe Hamilton

The Wannabe Hamilton

On June 13, the resident conservative (which means additional leftist) on The New York

Modernity Watch

The Creeping Pink Cloud

The Creeping Pink Cloud

Rupert Murdoch’s New York bullhorn, also known as the New York Post, has recently

GOP

The Mainstreaming of Michelle Malkin

The Mainstreaming of Michelle Malkin

A recent syndicated column by Michelle Malkin indicates what happens to interesting

Racial Politics

Right, But Doomed

Right, But Doomed

Jim Goad, in his comments about the “Fear of an Erudite White,” says just about

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