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American Conservative

Summary

American political magazine founded in 2002 as a vehicle for paleoconservative dissent from neoconservative foreign policy dominance; publishes commentary skeptical of American interventionism, globalization, and liberal cultural hegemony from a traditionalist, nationalist, and localist perspective.

Core Contribution

A rare institutional voice for paleoconservative, anti-interventionist conservatism at odds with the mainstream neoconservative consensus; published prescient critiques of the Iraq War from the right before the invasion; gave platform to traditionalist Catholic, communitarian, and localist perspectives underrepresented in mainstream conservative media.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • paleoconservatism
  • anti-interventionism
  • Iraq War dissent from right
  • localism
  • post-liberalism

Historical Influences

Pat Buchanan Russell Kirk Robert Nisbet Edmund Burke

Intellectual Lineage

Pat Buchanan Russell Kirk traditionOld Right Taft Republicanism

Allied Works

Pat Buchanan's A Republic Not an EmpireRussell Kirk's The Conservative MindRod Dreher's The Benedict Option

Contemporaries & Peers

First Things National Review Commentary

Minds Influenced

Rod Dreher Patrick Deneen national conservatism movement post-liberal right

Intellectual Posterity

post-liberal conservatism national conservatism movement Benedict Option discourse

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