A Paleoconservative Anthology

This anthology provides detailed examinations of the major themes and perspectives of the paleoconservatives as political thinkers and activists. A long forgotten and persistently disregarded group within the American Right, but their ideas show a remarkable staying power. Paleoconservatives, as this anthology undertakes to show, have been among the most original and insightful representatives of the Right over the last thirty years but because of internal quarrels and their conspicuous defiance of the conservative establishment, they have become isolated voices. Almost everything about the paleoconservatives should be of interest to historians of political movements, including the process by which they became a marginalized force on the intellectual right and their periodic attempts to build bridges across the political spectrum.

Paul Edward Gottfried is the editor of Chronicles and a former Horace Raffensperger professor of humanities at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: What Conservatives Could Learn from Paleoconservatives by David Azerrad Chapter 2: Revisiting the Clash between Neoconservatives and Paleoconservatives by Keith Preston Chapter 3: Sam Francis: A Foundational Thinker of the Right by Pedro Gonzalez Chapter 4: Jeffersonian Constitutionalism: The Heart of Paleoconservative Legal Theory by Williams J. Watkins Chapter 5: Paleoconservative Jurisprudence by Stephen B Presser Chapter 6: The Triumph of the Political: Post-Libertarianism at the End of the American Ideology by C. Jay Engel Chapter 7: Richard Weaver and The South by Joseph Scotchie Chapter 8: A Paleoconservative Dialectic by Grant Havers Chapter 9: Human Nature: A Biosocial View by Alexander Riley Chapter 10: How Conservatives Should Practice the Historian's Craft by Mark J. Brennan Chapter 11: Myth of the Reagan Revolution by Carl F Horowitz Chapter 12: Rethinking "National Security" by Wayne Allensworth About the Contributors