Paul Gottfried


Paul Edward Gottfried is an American paleoconservative philosopher, historian, and columnist. He is a former Horace Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. He is currently president of the H. L. Mencken Club and editor-in-chief of Chronicles magazine.

Early life and education

His father was a successful furrier from Budapest, who had fled Hungary after the July Putsch of 1934. The family relocated to Bridgeport soon after his birth. Gottfried attended Yeshiva University in New York as an undergraduate and returned to Connecticut to attend Yale. He belonged to the Yale Political Union's Party of the Right.

Career

Gottfried is opposed to nation-building and is an avid critic of American interventionist foreign policy.
Gottfried is also the first person to use the term "alternative right", when referring specifically to developments within American right-wing politics, in 2008. Richard B. Spencer co-created the term with Gottfried while working together at Taki's Magazine and helped it to gain wide currency through media attention surrounding conferences organized by his think tank, the National Policy Institute.
In 2018, he joined the :fr:Institut des sciences sociales, économiques et politiques|Institut des sciences sociales, économiques et politiques, founded by Marion Maréchal and Thibaut Monnier, in Lyon, France.
Gottfried is the US correspondent of , a Nouvelle Droite journal founded by GRECE in 1968.

Selected publications

Books