Paleoconservatism and Conservatism
by Roman Joch, Civic Institute Prague, Czech Republic
No good deed should remain unpunished, Samuel Francis obviously thought, when he penned an overwrought response (“(Con)fusion on the Right”, Chronicles, March 2004) to a more-or-less friendly treatise on paleoconservatism by Donald Devine (“Conservatism, Chronicles and Paleoconservatism”, ConservativeBattleline.com). Well, I myself would be tougher on paleoconservatives than Mr. Devine had been. Why, I would be as tough on paleoconservatism as I would be on… neoconservatism. When reading some articles by both neocons and paleocons, sometimes I even think, “Plague on both of your houses!”