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.
Obit
Dancing on a Hero’s GraveMay 29, 2013 As a college student I would buy copies of The New Yorker to sample the |
District of Corruption
The Illusion of DifferenceMay 09, 2013 In response to a speech by President Obama at Ohio State on May 5 criticizing |
Looking Back
Discrimination in BridgeportDecember 29, 2012 As a child during the 1950s in the factory city of Bridgeport, CT, I |
PC World
Toward a More Diversified DiversityDecember 03, 2012 In a solemn 2010 convocation of well-heeled feminists in Long Beach, Justice |
Bitch, Please!
Gender-Neutral Societies SuckNovember 26, 2012 Having spent over half my life in the professional company of academics, I can |
Modest Proposals
A Five-Point Plan to Save the GOPNovember 14, 2012 After the recent electoral debacle, Republican journalists and neocon news |
International Affairs
Russia Scolds America BackOctober 29, 2012 A detailed report in The New York Times tells about a hearing taking place in |
Politics
The Impermanence of LabelsOctober 07, 2012 George Will recently complained about the “cognitive dissonance” |
Lit Crit
The Late, Great Joe SobranOctober 01, 2012 Joseph Sobran: The National Review Years. (Vienna, Virginia: FGF Books, |
Toeing the Line
Leading From the Front of the BusSeptember 04, 2012 Sometimes seemingly insignificant events dramatically affect the course of |
Scandal
The Bashing of Joe PaternoAugust 04, 2012 Last week the NCAA saddled Penn State with penalties that may mean the |
Scandal
Chick-fil-A Eats CrowJuly 29, 2012 Fast-food franchise Chick-fil-A, known for its juicy chicken sandwich, has come |
Education
Institutions of Higher EmotingJuly 25, 2012 Recently I commented on a blunder by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, who |
Manhunt
Romney: Reaching Out to Everyone and Pleasing NobodyJuly 14, 2012 On July 11 Mitt Romney addressed an NAACP conference in Houston, and the GOP |
Lit Crit
Perish the EuroJune 20, 2012 The latest bestseller by German economist Thilo Sarrazin, a former member of |
Idiocracy
Let Them Drink CokeJune 15, 2012 New York Mayor Bloomberg has recommended that a 16-ounce limit be placed on the |
Semantics
The “F” WordJune 04, 2012 Although the adjective “fascist,” as George Orwell pointed out during and |
Conservatism
Is Modern Conservatism a Mental Illness?May 24, 2012 Jonah Goldberg in his new collection of meditations, The Tyranny of Clichés: |
Conservatism
It’s Hard to Win When You’re Playing Against the RefereeMay 10, 2012 The Italian political theorist and longtime socialist journalist Carlo Galli |
Deep Thoughts
Human Rights: The Useless FictionApril 27, 2012 I watched a Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate bring an evangelical crowd |
PC World
Throwing People Under the Bus to Stop a Runaway VehicleApril 19, 2012 The recent pillorying of John Derbyshire and Bob Weissberg after being accused |
Scandal
Derb’s National RebukeApril 10, 2012 Unlike Rich Lowry’s predictably PC response to John Derbyshire’s |
Britain
What the Hell is “The West”?April 09, 2012 Being recently stuck for many hours in an exceedingly narrow space on a plane |
History
Counting the Dead EquallyMarch 27, 2012 Much to the consternation of Western intellectuals and journalists, Hungary’s |
Zeitgeist
Three Flavors of Modern Anti-AmericanismMarch 13, 2012 As I perused the program for the Philadelphia Society’s national meeting in |
Diversity
A Modest Secessionist ProposalMarch 04, 2012 I attended an event for Pat Buchanan and his biographer Tim Stanley at DC’s |