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The write stuff: U.S. serial print culture from conservatives out to neo-Nazis
Library Trends, Wntr, 2008 by Chip Berlet
The antipathy between neoconservatives and paleoconservatives is exemplified by an incident in 1989 in which the increasingly neocon writer Richard John Neuhaus was tossed out of his New York City branch office (his belongings were actually dumped curbside) after he criticized the increasingly paleocon editors of Chronicles, published by the Rockford Institute in Illinois, which funded Neuhaus's work. Neuhaus had suggested the Chronicles editors be more sensitive to the appearance of xenophobia in the form of articles that appeared to invoke white supremacist or antisemitic themes (Rockford File, 1992; "Unpleasant Business," 1989).
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White Nationalism Patrick Buchanan is often seen as a paleoconservative, but he dabbles in white racial nationalism. In 2002 Buchanan joined Scott McConnell and Taki Theodoracopulos to found The American Conservative magazine. This serial is hard to classify because it mixes xenophobic themes from the Patriot movement, Paleoconservatism, and White Nationalism, along with appeals to progressive leftists to join the cause, especially in opposition to globalization benefiting large international corporations. Since one of their major themes is stopping the immigration of people of color (the editors would deny this), we place them in this sector. Other periodicals with a core racial nationalist theme include Citizens Informer; Occidental Quarterly; and The Nationalist Times, which in many ways is a veiled vehicle for extreme right views on race.
Extreme Right Serials on the extreme right are a diverse lot, yet in terms of their overt bigotry are more predictable and less collectable. Supplemental information is in the section on scholars using serials as primary sources (below), and in the online list (see unnumbered note). Extreme right groups are usually built around the concept of white supremacy, but most groups in this sector also use frames and narratives that portray Jews as involved in sinister conspiracies against the common good (Billig, 1990; Cohn, 1996; Postone, 1986; Smith, 1996). This antisemitism often invokes or echoes the infamous hoax document, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (Cohn, 1996). White supremacy, conspiracism and antisemitism can be found in other sectors, but it is seldom a primary theme as it is in the extreme right (Berlet, 2004b; Mintz, 1985). (For an overview of the contemporary white supremacist movement, see Berlet & Vystosky, 2006.)
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