Born in 1941 in Brooklyn, New York, Paul Gottfried is a distinguished historian, philosopher, and political theorist whose influential career spans over half a century. Educated at Yeshiva University and Yale, where he studied under renowned political thinkers such as Herbert Marcuse, Gottfried emerged as one of America's most original and provocative conservative intellectuals.

He is the author of thirteen books, including The Conservative Movement, The Strange Death of Marxism, Fascism: The Career of a Concept, and Antifascism: The Course of a Crusade.

Gottfried is the Raffensperger Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Elizabethtown College, a Guggenheim recipient, and a Mises Research Fellow. He currently serves as editor in chief of Chronicles magazine, where he has been a contributing writer since its founding in 1977