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  Paleoconservatism Vs. Neoconservatism: A Primer - Associated Content
Like the dinosaurs, paleoconservatism seems to be a dying breed, but its adherents are proudly hanging on.
Paleoconservatism represents what the GOP used to be before Iraq and the war on terror.
Paleoconservatism and Social Issues: Paleoconservatives tend to agree with Republicans on right to life issues such as abortion and euthanasia.
www.associatedcontent.com /article/716535/paleoconservatism_vs_neoconservatism.html   (595 words)

  
  Paleoconservatism - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Paleoconservatism (sometimes shortened to paleo or paleocon when the context is clear) refers to a branch of American conservative thought that is often called Old Right.
The southern conservative thread of paleoconservatism embodying the statesmanship of nineteenth-century figures such as John Randolph of Roanoke, John Taylor of Caroline and John C. Calhoun has proven influential as well, and has found a modern expositor in the late Mel Bradford.
Paleoconservatism, Core beliefs, Intellectual precursors and modern expositors, Paleoconservatives in the modern United States, Paleoconservatives vis-à-vis neoconservatives, Paleoconservatism and civil society, Paleoconservatives, Culture War and Political Correctness, Paleoconservatism's economic concerns, Paleoconservatism's foreign policy concerns, Paleoconservatism's cultural and immigration policy concerns, Further reading, Prominent paleoconservatives, Paleoconservative organizations, External links and Paleoconservatism.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Paleoconservatism   (3074 words)

  
 American Conservative Union Foundation
Paleoconservatism is the name that has become a useful shorthand for those American conservatives who desire not only an old republican, constitutional system but perhaps also an older social structure that once accompanied and created that system but has since disappeared.
It is my impression that paleoconservatism's explanation of why this is so has as much to do with the corruption of Americans as it has to do with the supposed sterility of fusionism.
In essence, paleoconservatism has reacted against the perception that certain aspects of libertarianism effectively trumped traditionalist concerns among fusionist conservatives on economics and immigration, while accommodation by fusionist conservatives with the security state became a habit that failed to die out after 1990.
acuf.org /issues/issue3/040107med.asp   (743 words)

  
 League of the Scarlet Pimpernel: What is Paleoconservatisim and What Defines a Paleoconservative?
Despite what the term may imply and what detractors of this brand of political and social philosophy may say paleoconservatism is neither tenaciously focused on what was nor is it primarily concerned with conservatism as that term applies to the modern conservative ideology.
Paleoconservatism is therefore concerned more with how to think about social and political issues rather than what to think.
Paleoconservatives adhere to a belief in natural law and it is practically impossible for a paleoconservative to not also believe in some form of divine law (this is primarily from the Christian perspective although some historical paleoconservatives were/are deist and I know of at least one modern Muslim paleoconservative).
secessionist.us /blog/2006/10/what-is-paleoconservatism-and-what.html   (1181 words)

  
 WHAT IS PALEOCONSERVATISM? A ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION WITH THE EDITORS OF CHRONICLES   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Paleoconservatism is the expression of rootedness: a sense of place and of history, a sense of self derived from forebears, kin, and culture—an identity that is both collective and personal.
Paleoconservatism is the last remaining barrier in America that successfully blocks a few unsuspecting viators on the path to the Terror.
Paleoconservatism, strictly understood, has nothing to say about the natural phenomenon of race or the relationship of race and social environment, any more than it has anything to say about the heliocentric theory of the solar system, the doctrine of transubstantiation, or the authorship of the plays of Shakespeare.
www.chroniclesmagazine.org /Chronicles/January2001/0101RoundTable.htm   (7097 words)

  
 The Paleo Persuasion
The second reaction that elicited the emergence of paleoconservatism was what most paleos began to grasp as the intellectual, moral, and political collapse of the mainstream conservative movement itself.
Third, paleoconservatism emerged also as a reaction against what was taking place in American culture itself in the 1980s and ’90s, trends that the mainstream Right warmly embraced.
Paleoconservatism is worth a much longer and deeper look than his volume can give, though Scotchie himself is both so thoroughly familiar with his subject and so sympathetic to it that he could have produced a much more extended treatment.
www.amconmag.com /12_16/review6.html   (1436 words)

  
 Paleoconservatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paleoconservatism (sometimes shortened to paleo or paleocon when the context is clear) is an anti-authoritarian
Paleoconservatism is unusual in that it seeks to be both noble and populist at the same time.
Paleoconservatism is not pacifism, however, nor does it mean opposition to all wars.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paleoconservatism   (10674 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - Conservative Splits   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Old Right historian and editor Paul Gottfried noted that neoconservatives "have always been open in expressing their contempt for the Old Right." Whether or not this claim is valid, the converse seems to be true: criticism of neoconservatism has come to be an increasingly conspicuous feature of Old Right writings.
...10013-1578 tween neoconservatism and paleoconservatism is this: neoconservatives belong to the tradition of liberal-democratic modernity, the tradition of Montesquieu, Madison, and Tocqueville...
...A FOURTH explanation suggests that the distinction between neoand paleoconservatism is a matter of placement on the political spectrum: neoconservatives are thought to be "to the left" of paleoconservatives...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V85I5P56-1.htm   (3879 words)

  
 The Helpful Persuasion by Ryan McMaken
Nevertheless, the job of the intellectual historian is an important one because it gives legitimacy to a movement and organizes the various (sometimes conflicting voices) within a movement and illustrates that they are not just a handful of cranks crying out in the desert, but an actual current in intellectual activity that deserves notice.
This is Scotchie’s second book that aims at explaining paleoconservatism, but while The Paleoconservatives: New Voices of the Old Right was a collection of essays by various paleocons, Revolt from the Heartland is a historical account that puts the work of paleoconservatives into historical, political, and intellectual context.
Paleoconservatism is very good in examining the problems and pitfalls of expanding American influence in Asia and the Middle East, but speaks in absolutely glowing terms when referring to American expansionism into Indian and Spanish territory during the 19
www.lewrockwell.com /mcmaken/mcmaken75.html   (1648 words)

  
 Paleoconservative - Conservapedia
Paleoconservatism "is distinguished by certain philosophical presumptions that differ markedly from the presumptions of neocons and most modern conservatives."
Paleoconservatism vocally distinguishes itself in its opposition to neoconservatism.
However, what really sets them apart from other conservatives is much deeper than just policy: they generally reject the Enlightenment in whole or in part; they reject Lockean "contract theory" and the concept of "natural rights" outright.
www.conservapedia.com /Paleoconservative   (1063 words)

  
 The Paleo Pundit   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In The End of Paleoconservatism he talks about the infighting among conservatives that ultimately led to the supremacy of the neoconservatives over the paleoconservatives for the hearts and minds of the conservative movement.
Combining with predilections of southern agrarianism, what is said about Kirk could probably be generalized to Chronicles paleoconservatism as a whole, at least outside of a narrow milieu, as its perspective to many seems to be in the Kirkian tradition strongly literary, philosophical, and abstract.
The End of Paleoconservatism by paleoconservative writer James P. Lubinskas is an essay outlining what he sees as the decline of paleoconservatism within the greater conservative movement since Pat Buchanan received less than one percent of the total vote in the 2000 presidential election.
paleoconservative.blogspot.com   (5613 words)

  
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A proposed definition embracing both paleoconservatism and 'modern social conservatism' is those outlooks upholding and valuing traditional nation, family, and religion, as well as a real work-ethic, and strict law and order.
In his article, Taube finds the paleoconservatives' emphasis on nationhood too robust, yet it is really of the same type as the 'modern social conservative' criticism of multiculturalism, excessive aboriginal claims (a major issue in Canada), and uncontrolled immigration.
The sensitivity of paleoconservatism and social conservatism to 'the truly social' mentioned above offers a certain nuance to their views that is lacking in the usual neoconservative boosterism of unrestricted capitalism and unlimited technology as panacea.
www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/1003/1003stylecdncons.txt   (1326 words)

  
 VOICES IN THE WILDERNESS:... OF THE "PALEOCONSERVATIVE" SPECTRUM   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In reality, as has been noted by a number of recent reviews on the subject, paleoconservatism is a distinct movement originated in the '80s as a reaction to neoconservatism.
The cultural divides between the neoconservatism and paleoconservatism after all are not just those of the abstract differences between different techniques of literary interpretation.
Both were founded in the early 1980's to give renewed emphasis in the conservative movement to the fight for western values, as opposed to the multicultural values and agenda that is generally quietly acquiesced to by the neoconservative and mainstream conservative establishment, if not openly embraced such with George W. Bush.
www.etherzone.com /2003/wilk020603.shtml   (1970 words)

  
 Paleoconservatism
Fusionists can also be skeptical of or hostile to the fictions of social contract, the idea of the perfectibility of man or imaginary equality, but it seems to me that they tend to try to push these criticisms into the background, while paleoconservatives persistently put them at the forefront.
The reason that some mild version of paleoconservatism lives on, despite all, is that it is not a normal conservative sentiment to want your country made over by foreign immigrants; or to go to war against people who mean you and your family no harm."
Put together, in light of these phenomena it is evident that paleoconservatism is quite explicitly an intellectual movement as opposed to a political movement.
members.tripod.com /doggo/doggpaleoconservatism.html   (1363 words)

  
 The End of Paleoconservatism
Known as paleoconservatism, this vibrant and combative movement shattered conservative unity for most of the decade and forced some right wingers to reconsider what it meant to be a conservative.
The results of the 2000 campaign signaled the death of paleoconservatism as a serious force within conservatism.
For much of the last decade paleoconservatism was a thorn in the side of conservatism and caused a great deal of infighting.
www.nationalinvestor.com /Experts-Lubinskas.htm   (2251 words)

  
 VDARE - The End of Paleoconservatism? Not quite, By Scott McConnell
Funny thing is, a kinder and gentler version of “paleoconservatism” lives on within the Republican ranks, despite Buchanan’s departure, his weak third-party showing and all the other factors Lubinskas mentions.
The battle endures although many paleocons left the GOP with Buchanan and others were purged from their journalism jobs years ago; and although the neocons have played their cards assiduously, made sycophantic pilgrimages to Austin from early 1999 onward, control the key publications, the money, etc. etc.
The reason that some mild version of paleoconservatism lives on, despite all, is that it is not a normal conservative sentiment to want your country made over by foreign immigrants; or to go to war against people who mean you and your family no harm.
www.vdare.com /mcconnell/end_Paleoconservatism.htm   (505 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Paleoconservatives: New Voices of the Old Right: Books: Joseph Scotchie   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Russell Kirk introduces the cultural paleoconservatism, with its preference for social classes and distinctions of age and sex, while Richard Weaver explains why culture is more important to a civilization's survival than mere material conditions.
Joseph Scotchie notes that the term 'Paleoconservatism' arose in the 1980's, perhaps in opposition to the rise of the 'neoconservatism', which is the so called conservatism of the Beltway Right.
Paleoconservatism resonates with Middle America and stands opposed to not only liberalism, but to the pseudoconservatism of the Northeastern Establishment and the Beltway, which acquiesces with much of liberalism's vision for America.
www.amazon.com /Paleoconservatives-New-Voices-Old-Right/dp/1560004274   (1905 words)

  
 Foamy Dog Magazine: The New Conservative Divide
As the first decade of the 2000Õs progresses, it is becoming increasingly clear that the two types of conservatism that will define this decade are neoconservatism and paleoconservatism.
Paleoconservatism is defined in the American Heritage Dictionary as, Òextremely stubborn or stubbornly conservative in politics.Ó The term paleoconservative actually originated fairly recently, in the Rockford InstituteÕs Chronicles magazine, as a reaction to what was seen as increasing neocon encroachment into conservatism.
Palecons claim that their brand of conservatism is the true descendant of conservative thought of the 1950Õs and 1960Õs.
www.rantweb.com /pale.html   (1319 words)

  
 Informat.io on Paleoconservatism
describes paleoconservatism as "the expression of rootedness: a sense of place and of history, a sense of self derived from forebears, kin, and culture -- an identity that is both collective and personal.”[16] It is not an ideology and has no party line.
Paleoconservatives in the 21st century often focus on their points of disagreement with neoconservatives, especially on issues like immigration, affirmative action, foreign wars, and welfare.
In addition, while paleoconservatism is not a doctrinal movement, supporters typically sympathize with the Christian Right's attacks on moral relativism, big government and secular humanism, even as they complain that the movement is obsessed with the Middle East and the Republican Party's short-term goals.
www.informat.io /?title=paleoconservatism   (10028 words)

  
 Paleoconservatism is the Word and the Word is Good by Chris Abraham - Because the Medium is the Message   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Paleoconservatism is the Word and the Word is Good by Chris Abraham - Because the Medium is the Message
Paleoconservatism is the Word and the Word is Good
In some cases this has led to strife among the Paleoconservatives themselves.[4] For example some paleoconservatives have attacked the Civil Rights Movement and called for the repeal of all anti-discrimination laws.[5] Such statements have led many to accuses some paleoconservatives of promoting racism or White nationalism.
www.chrisabraham.com /2006/06/paleoconservati_1.php   (2479 words)

  
 Public Opinion: Paleocons and neocons
I see paleoconservatism in Australia as a Hansonite populism, which is what John Howard incorporated and amalgamated to his economic liberalism during the late 1990s.
It is necessary to ask why because Christopher says that paleoconservatism is seen by many to be little more than a quaint, new brand of nostalgia with limited application to the way we live now or to domestic politics.
Pearson says that paleoconservatism is a useful corrective to the neo-liberalism of the Coalition and the ALP Right because it is sceptical about economic rationalist dogma and has a pragmatic 'if the facts I change my mind", tendency.
www.sauer-thompson.com /archives/opinion/000521.php   (861 words)

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