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A comment on Paul Gottfried’s review of Cultural Insurrections
From The Occidental Observer, April 18, 2009
Kevin MacDonald
Paul Gottfried is outside the mainstream of Jewish intellectuals in being associated with paleoconservatives rather than either the left or the neoconservative right. In my eyes, therefore, he is a force for relative good in a world where paleocons like Pat Buchanan have been relegated to the fringes of intellectual debate in the US and have long rap sheets at powerful, well-endowed organizations like the $PLC and the ADL.
Another reason I am predisposed to be positive about Gottfried is that he reviewed Cultural Insurrections respectfully, noting pointedly that there are completely different standards in discussing the activities and influence of other ethnic groups or religions. And he agrees with much of my analysis that Jews have in fact been deeply involved in erecting the culture of critique that now pervades the West.
Inevitably, however, despite a great many good things in Gottfried’s review, my reply must necessarily discuss points of disagreement. . . . More
Kevin MacDonald
Kevin MacDonald, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at California State University—Long Beach.
While I believe in the majority of what you believe, there are some items I would do in another way. But, I appreciate your talent of expressing a lot of my feelings on the subject.