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We speak about gatekeeping, containment, neoconservatism, equality and egalitarianism, natural rights, the Frankfurt School and Marcuse, vitalism, Kondylis, the meaning of ideology, and much more.

Paul Gottfried is an American political philosopher, historian, writer, and editor-in-chief of Chronicles magazine. He is the author of many books, among them After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State, Fascism: The Career of a Concept, and his latest: Antifascism: The Course of a Crusade.