Vanishing Tradition

Paul Gottfried is Raffensperger Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Elizabethtown College. He is the author of thirteen books, most recently Fascism.

• Introduction: The Right in Changing Perspective1. The Big Conservatism and the American Exceptionalism2. The Significance of the M. E. Bradford Affair3. The Tory Right and the American Conservative Movement: Parallel Universes?4. Who Funds Conservatism, Inc.?5. Imagination and Its Failures: The Struggle of a Conservative American Foreign Policy6. The Contradictions of Catholic Neoconservatism7. Trump, Neoconservatives, and the Misrepresentation of the American Founding8. Why the Alt Right Is Not Going Anywhere (Regardless of What We Call It)9. The Unwanted Southern Conservative10. Republican Voters and Conservative Ideology11. Afterword: The Never-Ending Purges

The decidedly persuasive thesis of The Vanishing Tradition is that what is and is not permissible in conservative circles has been inverted since [Russell] Kirk's day.(The Catholic World Report) [Paul E. Gottfried] long has been considered by serious right-wing thinkers to be the foremost authority on the subject; both its "neo" and "paleo" varieties. The book provides key insights into political developments since [the mid-1960s].(American Greatness) Many conservatives sense they're being had. And the conservative noticing the most is political philosopher Paul Gottfried. Sam Francis used to say that the conservative movement isn't conserving anything and it's not moving anywhere. The Vanishing Tradition, a collection written by and for individualists, presents sensible ways both to conserve and move.(The American Conservative) Gottfried and his essayists succeed in providing, with compelling insight, a valuable renewal to readers' understanding of what conservatism has come to mean today.(Choice)