Paul Gottfried 
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 RefereeThe Italian political theorist and longtime socialist journalist Carlo Galli recently |
Deep Thoughts
Human Rights: The Useless FictionI watched a Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate bring an evangelical crowd to |
PC World
Throwing People Under the Bus to Stop a Runaway VehicleThe recent pillorying of John Derbyshire and Bob Weissberg after being accused of |
Scandal
Derb’s National RebukeUnlike Rich Lowry’s predictably PC response to John Derbyshire’s controversial |
Britain
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 EquallyMuch to the consternation of Western intellectuals and journalists, Hungary’s |
Zeitgeist
Three Flavors of Modern Anti-AmericanismAs I perused the program for the Philadelphia Society’s national meeting in April, |
Diversity
A Modest Secessionist ProposalI attended an event for Pat Buchanan and his biographer Tim Stanley at DC’s Politics |
Revisions
How England Helped Start the Great WarA vastly underexplored topic is the British government’s role in greasing the skids |
International Affairs
League of Acceptable NationsIn his recent syndicated column “A U.N. for the good guys,” Jonah Goldberg evokes |
Takimag Classic
When Democracy Murders LibertyIn a recent interview with the German weekly Junge Freiheit, popular satirist and |
History
The Eternal German Guilt TripPolitical correctness has permeated the historian’s craft to such a degree that |
PC World
Forbidden FruitEven in this progressive age, religious uncertainties still abound as we approach Holy |
2012 Election
Ron Paul: The Least of Three EvilsSometimes intelligent people say things that are so dumb, I wonder whom they are trying |
Politics
The Two-Party Pleasure ShipIn the December issue of The American Conservative, Gary L. Gregg defends the Electoral |
Europe
Germany’s Collective Self-DebasementGerman historian Wolfgang Schivelbusch published a far-ranging 2003 study on the |
Revisions
Same Statue, Different LibertyThe refurbishing of the Statue of Liberty, which has been hoisting its torch above New |
Lit Crit
A Fatally Misled CivilizationPat Buchanan may be the only self-described paleoconservative whose last six books have |
Education
Death of the ClassicsMy friend Daniel J. Flynn is publishing a book called Blue Collar Intellectuals. One |
PC World
More Tales From the Collegiate Loony BinI’ve recently started recovering from forty years among pseudo-academic weirdos in |
Education
Character Sketches of Academic LoonsHaving just retired from 40 years in academia and being mindful of the observation by |
2012 Election
Mitt Romney: From Waffle House to White House?In a syndicated column that was something less than objective, Matt Towery explains |
Media
The Wannabe HamiltonOn June 13, the resident conservative (which means additional leftist) on The New York |
Modernity Watch
The Creeping Pink CloudRupert Murdoch’s New York bullhorn, also known as the New York Post, has recently |
GOP
The Mainstreaming of Michelle MalkinA recent syndicated column by Michelle Malkin indicates what happens to interesting |
Racial Politics
Right, But DoomedJim Goad, in his comments about the “Fear of an Erudite White,” says just about |
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