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51-1010: Before Spencer, the company was run by Louis Andrews. He was also director of the National Policy Institute and managing editor of The Occidental Quarterly , both heavily funded by William Regnery II . In 2013, the company was listed as being headquartered in Whitefish, Montana . As of 2019, the company had moved to Augusta, Georgia. Authors published by WSP include J. Philippe Rushton , Kevin B. MacDonald , Richard Lynn , Tatu Vanhanen , and Michael H. Hart . WSP has published Radix Journal through its imprint Radix. Contributors have included Kerry Bolton , Peter Brimelow , Samuel T. Francis , Kevin B. MacDonald , William Regnery II , Alex Kurtagić , and Jared Taylor . This company has published content supportive of white nationalism and white supremacy. " Human biodiversity " (HBD), an alt-right euphemism for scientific racism ,

102-555: A "third school" to emerge from paleoconservatism in the form of an ideology of Western European identity politics , and hold that the American political order of freedom and liberty is under ethnic and ideological threat. Its foreign policy positions, broadly, are anti-immigration with the exception of "selected people of European ancestry" and non-interventionism , including the rejection of influence from Israel and Mexico on U.S. politics. The Occidental Quarterly also runs

153-404: A choice between endorsing authoritarian governments, which might evolve into democracies, or Marxist–Leninist regimes, which she argued had never been ended once they achieved totalitarian control. In such tragic circumstances, she argued that allying with authoritarian governments might be prudent. Kirkpatrick argued that by demanding rapid liberalization in traditionally autocratic countries,

204-744: A former Trotskyist theorist who developed strong feelings of antipathy towards the New Left , had numerous devotees in the SDUSA with strong links to George Meany 's AFL-CIO. Following Shachtman and Meany, this faction led the SP to oppose immediate withdrawal from the Vietnam War and oppose George McGovern in the Democratic primary race and, to some extent, the general election. They also chose to cease their own party-building and concentrated on working within

255-552: A great deal and that Strauss's influence caused his students to reject historicism and positivism as morally relativist positions. They instead promoted a so-called Aristotelian perspective on America that produced a qualified defense of its liberal constitutionalism. Strauss's emphasis on moral clarity led the Straussians to develop an approach to international relations that Catherine and Michael Zuckert (2008) call Straussian Wilsonianism (or Straussian idealism ),

306-542: A journal of liberalism, became a major publication for neoconservatives during the 1970s. Commentary published an article by Jeane Kirkpatrick, an early and prototypical neoconservative. As the policies of the New Left made the Democrats increasingly leftist, these neoconservative intellectuals became disillusioned with President Lyndon B. Johnson 's Great Society domestic programs. The influential 1970 bestseller The Real Majority by Ben Wattenberg expressed that

357-726: A new, more aggressive Middle East policy on the part of the United States in defense of the interests of Israel, including the removal of Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and the containment of Syria through a series of proxy wars , the outright rejection of any solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would include a Palestinian state , and an alliance between Israel, Turkey and Jordan against Iraq, Syria and Iran . Former United States Assistant Secretary of Defense and leading neoconservative Richard Perle

408-622: A news-related website, The Occidental Observer , launched in 2007 as an online companion to the Quarterly, as well as a book publishing company, The Occidental Press. The Occidental Observer states that its mission is to "present original content touching on the themes of white identity, white interests, and the culture of the West." The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has referred to it as "a primary voice for anti-Semitism from far-right intellectuals." According to Newsweek magazine, in 2004

459-487: Is no different from sites run for Jewish singles, such as JDate . Neoconservatism Defunct Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other Defunct Neoconservatism is a political movement which began in the United States during

510-629: Is published by the Charles Martel Society (not to be confused with France's anti-Algerian Charles Martel Group ), named in honor of Charles Martel , who halted a Muslim invasion of Europe at the Battle of Tours in 732. The editor of The Occidental Quarterly is psychologist Kevin B. MacDonald . Its publisher was William Regnery II . Editorial advisory board members include anthropologist Virginia Abernethy , Richard Lynn , James C. Russell and Kevin B. MacDonald. Jared Taylor , of

561-706: The American Renaissance magazine, is a past member. Samuel T. Francis was an associate editor until his death. In response to a critical essay by The American Prospect which said that "Sitting on the Occidental's advisory board is a who's who of the national anti-immigration movement", Regnery defended the editorial board, stating: "Of the thirteen individuals on its editorial board, ten hold Ph.D.s and two others are editors of their own publications. All are respected writers in their own fields." They explicitly reject neoconservatism and call for

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612-556: The Bush administration's foreign policy ; especially in their support for Israel , promotion of American influence in the Arab world and launching the war on terror . The Bush administration's domestic and foreign policies were heavily influenced by major ideologues affiliated with neoconservatism, such as Bernard Lewis , Lulu Schwartz , Richard and Daniel Pipes , David Horowitz , and Robert Kagan . Critics of neoconservatism have used

663-532: The Charles Martel Society . Its stated purpose is to defend "the cultural, ethnic, and racial interests of Western European peoples" and examine "contemporary political, social, and demographic trends that impact the posterity of Western Civilization". The Southern Poverty Law Center calls it a "racist journal", while historian Tony Taylor describes the publication as a "far-right, racially obsessed US magazine". Other sources have referred to

714-788: The Judeo-Christian heritage are the essentials of the Great Tradition in Strauss's work. Strauss emphasized the spirit of the Greek classics and Thomas G. West (1991) argues that for Strauss the American Founding Fathers were correct in their understanding of the classics in their principles of justice. For Strauss, political community is defined by convictions about justice and happiness rather than by sovereignty and force. A classical liberal, he repudiated

765-754: The Middle East . In 2017, Ted Becker, former Walter Meyer Professor of Law at New York University and Brian Polkinghorn, distinguished professor of Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution at Salisbury University , argued that Yinon's plan was adopted and refined in a 1996 policy document entitled A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm , written by a research group at the Israeli-affiliated Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies in Washington. The group

816-717: The civil rights movement , racial integration , and Martin Luther King Jr. From the 1950s to the 1960s, liberals generally endorsed military action in order to prevent a communist victory in Vietnam during the Vietnam War . Neoconservatism was initiated by liberals' repudiation of the Cold War and by the " New Politics " of the American New Left , which Norman Podhoretz said was too sympathetic to

867-455: The counterculture and too alienated from the majority of the population, and by the repudiation of "anti- anticommunism " by liberals, which included substantial endorsement of Marxist–Leninist politics by the New Left during the late 1960s. Some neoconservatives were particularly alarmed by what they believed were the antisemitic sentiments of Black Power advocates. Irving Kristol edited

918-403: The "real majority" of the electorate endorsed economic interventionism but also social conservatism and that it could be disastrous for Democrats to adopt liberal positions on certain social and crime issues. The neoconservatives rejected the countercultural New Left and what they considered anti-Americanism in the non-interventionism of the activism against the Vietnam War . After

969-594: The 1960s among liberal hawks who became disenchanted with the increasingly pacifist Democratic Party along with the growing New Left and counterculture of the 1960s . Neoconservatives typically advocate the unilateral promotion of democracy and interventionism in international relations together with a militaristic and realist philosophy of " peace through strength ". They are known for espousing opposition to communism and radical politics . Many adherents of neoconservatism became politically influential during Republican presidential administrations from

1020-592: The 1960s to the 2000s, peaking in influence during the presidency of George W. Bush , when they played a major role in promoting and planning the 2003 invasion of Iraq . Prominent neoconservatives in the Bush administration included Paul Wolfowitz , Elliott Abrams , Richard Perle , Paul Bremer , and Douglas Feith . Although U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had not self-identified as neoconservatives, they worked closely alongside neoconservative officials in designing key aspects of

1071-576: The Carter administration had delivered those countries to Marxist–Leninists that were even more repressive. She further accused the Carter administration of a "double standard" and of never having applied its rhetoric on the necessity of liberalization to communist governments . The essay compares traditional autocracies and Communist regimes: [Traditional autocrats] do not disturb the habitual rhythms of work and leisure, habitual places of residence, habitual patterns of family and personal relations. Because

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1122-673: The Democratic Party, eventually influencing it through the Democratic Leadership Council . Thus the Socialist Party dissolved in 1972, and the SDUSA emerged that year. (Most of the left-wing of the party, led by Michael Harrington, immediately abandoned the SDUSA.) SDUSA leaders associated with neoconservatism include Carl Gershman , Penn Kemble , Joshua Muravchik and Bayard Rustin . Norman Podhoretz's magazine Commentary , originally

1173-545: The Republican Administration of President George H. W. Bush and that of his Democratic successor, President Bill Clinton . Many critics charged that the neoconservatives lost their influence as a result of the end of the Soviet Union. After the decision of George H. W. Bush to leave Saddam Hussein in power after the first Iraq War during 1991, many neoconservatives considered this policy and

1224-643: The Republican who promised to confront Soviet expansionism. Neoconservatives organized in the American Enterprise Institute and The Heritage Foundation to counter the liberal establishment. Author Keith Preston named the successful effort on behalf of neoconservatives such as George Will and Irving Kristol to cancel Reagan's 1980 nomination of Mel Bradford , a Southern Paleoconservative academic whose regionalist focus and writings about Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction alienated

1275-626: The United Nations in the Reagan administration. Some left-wing academics such as Frank Meyer and James Burnham eventually became associated with the conservative movement at this time. A substantial number of neoconservatives were originally moderate socialists who were originally associated with the moderate wing of the Socialist Party of America (SP) and its successor party, the Social Democrats, USA (SDUSA). Max Shachtman ,

1326-546: The Vietnam War, the anti-communist, internationalist and interventionist roots of this Cold War liberalism seemed increasingly brittle to the neoconservatives. As a consequence they migrated to the Republican Party and formed one pillar of the Reagan Coalition and of the conservative movement. Hence, they became Neo-conservatives. Through the 1950s and early 1960s, the future neoconservatives had endorsed

1377-501: The anti-war faction took control of the party during 1972 and nominated George McGovern , the Democrats among the neoconservatives endorsed Washington Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson for his unsuccessful 1972 and 1976 campaigns for president. Among those who worked for Jackson were the incipient neoconservatives Paul Wolfowitz , Doug Feith , and Richard Perle . During the late 1970s, neoconservatives tended to endorse Ronald Reagan ,

1428-428: The country. We would not have been able to get everybody out and bring everybody home. And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam [Hussein] worth? And the answer is not that damned many. So, I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the president made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in

1479-636: The decision not to endorse indigenous dissident groups such as the Kurds and Shiites in their 1991–1992 resistance to Hussein as a betrayal of democratic principles. Some of those same targets of criticism would later become fierce advocates of neoconservative policies. During 1992, referring to the first Iraq War , then United States Secretary of Defense and future Vice President Richard Cheney said: I would guess if we had gone in there, I would still have forces in Baghdad today. We'd be running

1530-668: The defense of liberal democracy in the face of its vulnerability. Strauss influenced The Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol , William Bennett , Newt Gingrich , Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas , as well as Paul Wolfowitz . A theory of neoconservative foreign policy during the final years of the Cold War was articulated by Jeane Kirkpatrick in " Dictatorships and Double Standards ", published in Commentary Magazine during November 1979. Kirkpatrick criticized

1581-487: The foreign policy of Jimmy Carter , which endorsed détente with the Soviet Union. She later served the Reagan Administration as Ambassador to the United Nations. In "Dictatorships and Double Standards", Kirkpatrick distinguished between authoritarian regimes and the totalitarian regimes such as the Soviet Union. She suggested that in some countries democracy was not tenable and the United States had

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1632-418: The government risks violent overthrow and should expect gradual change rather than immediate transformation. She wrote: "No idea holds greater sway in the mind of educated Americans than the belief that it is possible to democratize governments, anytime and anywhere, under any circumstances ... Decades, if not centuries, are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain,

1683-524: The journal The Public Interest (1965–2005), featuring economists and political scientists, which emphasized ways that government planning in the liberal state had produced unintended harmful consequences. Some early neoconservative political figures were disillusioned Democratic politicians and intellectuals, such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan , who served in the Nixon and Ford administrations, and Jeane Kirkpatrick , who served as United States Ambassador to

1734-545: The light of the Yinon Plan and the Clean break analysis, to be proof that Israel is engaged in a modern version of The Great Game , with the backing of Zionist currents in the American neoconservative and Christian fundamentalist movements. They also conclude that Likud Party appears to have implemented both plans. During the 1990s, neoconservatives were once again opposed to the foreign policy establishment, both during

1785-490: The miseries of traditional life are familiar, they are bearable to ordinary people who, growing up in the society, learn to cope. [Revolutionary Communist regimes] claim jurisdiction over the whole life of the society and make demands for change that so violate internalized values and habits that inhabitants flee by the tens of thousands. Kirkpatrick concluded that while the United States should encourage liberalization and democracy in autocratic countries, it should not do so when

1836-578: The more cosmopolitan and progress-oriented neoconservatives, to the leadership of the National Endowment for the Humanities in favor of longtime Democrat William Bennett as emblematic of the neoconservative movement establishing hegemony over mainstream American conservatism. In another (2004) article, Michael Lind also wrote: Neoconservatism ... originated in the 1970s as a movement of anti-Soviet liberals and social democrats in

1887-446: The movement. The term neoconservative was popularized in the United States during 1973 by the socialist leader Michael Harrington , who used the term to define Daniel Bell , Daniel Patrick Moynihan , and Irving Kristol , whose ideologies differed from Harrington's. Earlier during 1973, he had described some of the same ideas in a brief contribution to a symposium on welfare sponsored by Commentary . The neoconservative label

1938-456: The philosophy of John Locke as a bridge to 20th-century historicism and nihilism and instead defended liberal democracy as closer to the spirit of the classics than other modern regimes. For Strauss, the American awareness of ineradicable evil in human nature and hence the need for morality, was a beneficial outgrowth of the pre-modern Western tradition. O'Neill (2009) notes that Strauss wrote little about American topics, but his students wrote

1989-467: The problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq. A key neoconservative policy-forming document, A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm (commonly known as the "Clean Break" report) was published in 1996 by a study group of American-Jewish neoconservative strategists led by Richard Perle on the behest of newly-elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . The report called for

2040-401: The publication as white nationalist. The Anti-Defamation League has referred to it as one of the primary publications promoting far-right anti-Semitism . Journalists David Frum and Max Blumenthal described the publication as pseudo-scholarly or pseudo-academic. The World Weekly describes the magazine as a "stalwart" of the alt-right movement in the United States. The journal

2091-445: The publisher Regnery announced to the magazine's subscribers his plans for a whites-only dating Web site. Newsweek reported that Regnery was concerned about a declining numbers of whites in the population, and quoted him telling his subscribers that the dating site was important "since the survival of our race depends upon our people marrying, reproducing and parenting." Regnery defended the whites-only matchmaking idea, insisting that it

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2142-723: The road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse. ... The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American policymakers". In 1982 and around the time of the Lebanon War , a paper known as the Yinon Plan was published under the authorship of Oded Yinon, a senior advisor to Israeli Minister of Defense Ariel Sharon , which called for an aggressive geopolitics aimed at " Balkanizing " Iraq and Syria by provoking sectarian divisions and taking advantage of existing ones in

2193-434: The term to describe foreign policy and war hawks who support aggressive militarism or neocolonialism . Historically speaking, the term neoconservative refers to Americans who moved from the anti-Stalinist left to conservatism during the 1960s and 1970s. The movement had its intellectual roots in the magazine Commentary , edited by Norman Podhoretz . They spoke out against the New Left, and in that way helped define

2244-471: The tradition of Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Humphrey and Henry ('Scoop') Jackson, many of whom preferred to call themselves 'paleoliberals.' [After the end of the Cold War] ... many 'paleoliberals' drifted back to the Democratic center ... Today's neocons are a shrunken remnant of the original broad neocon coalition. Nevertheless, the origins of their ideology on the left are still apparent. The fact that most of

2295-642: The younger neocons were never on the left is irrelevant; they are the intellectual (and, in the case of William Kristol and John Podhoretz, the literal) heirs of older ex-leftists. C. Bradley Thompson , a professor at Clemson University, claims that most influential neoconservatives refer explicitly to the theoretical ideas in the philosophy of Leo Strauss (1899–1973), although there are several writers who claim that in doing so they may draw upon meaning that Strauss himself did not endorse . Eugene Sheppard notes: "Much scholarship tends to understand Strauss as an inspirational founder of American neoconservatism". Strauss

2346-656: Was a refugee from Nazi Germany who taught at the New School for Social Research in New York (1938–1948) and the University of Chicago (1949–1969). Strauss asserted that "the crisis of the West consists in the West's having become uncertain of its purpose". His solution was a restoration of the vital ideas and faith that in the past had sustained the moral purpose of the West. The Greek classics ( classical republican and modern republican ), political philosophy and

2397-584: Was adopted by Irving Kristol in his 1979 article "Confessions of a True, Self-Confessed 'Neoconservative ' ". His ideas have been influential since the 1950s, when he co-founded and edited the magazine Encounter . Another source was Norman Podhoretz , editor of the magazine Commentary , from 1960 to 1995. By 1982, Podhoretz was terming himself a neoconservative in The New York Times Magazine article titled "The Neoconservative Anguish over Reagan's Foreign Policy". The term itself

2448-824: Was directed by Richard Perle , who, some years later, became one of the key figures in the formulation of the Iraq War strategy adopted during the administration of George W. Bush in 2003. Both Becker and Polkinghorn admit that avowed enemies of Israel in the Middle East take the sequence of events—Israel's occupation of the West Bank , the Golan Heights , its encirclement of Gaza , the invasion of Lebanon, its bombing of Iraq , airstrikes in Syria and its attempts at containing Iran's nuclear capacities —when read in

2499-479: Was one of the main publishing subjects of Washington Summit Publishers. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) said in 2006 that the company had reprinted racist tracts along with books promoting antisemitism and eugenics . In 2015, the SPLC listed Washington Summit Publishers as a white nationalist hate group. The Occidental Quarterly The Occidental Quarterly is an American magazine published by

2550-460: Was the "Study Group Leader", but the final report included ideas from fellow neoconservatives, pro-Israel right-wingers and affiliates of Netanyahu's Likud party, such as Douglas Feith , James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks Jr., Jonathan Torop, David Wurmser , Meyrav Wurmser , and IASPS president Robert Loewenberg. Within a few years of the Gulf War in Iraq , many neoconservatives were endorsing

2601-434: Was the product of a rejection among formerly self-identified liberals of what they considered a growing leftward turn of the Democratic Party in the 1970s. Neoconservatives perceived in the new left liberalism an ideological effort to distance the Democratic Party and American liberalism from Cold War liberalism as it was espoused by former Presidents such as Harry S. Truman , John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson . After

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