This anthology presents a full range of the perspectives of the paleoconservtive right underlining the originality of its thought and the reasons for its marginal status within the conservative establishment. Our book also shows why certain themes paleoconservtism has highlighted continue to find resonance.

This anthology provides detailed examinations of the major themes and perspectives of the paleoconservatives as political thinkers and activists. A long forgotten and even relentlessly marginalized group within the American Right, 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 their 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.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: What Conservates 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

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