The write stuff: U.S. serial print culture from conservatives out to neo-Nazis

(5.) See a critical collection of these covers online at http://www.publiceye.org/militarism/ warmania2002/index.html.

(6.) The information in this section was obtained from the biography and chronological bibliography of yon Mises work at the Ludwig yon Mises Institute Web site, especially http://www.mises.org/misesbib/m1945.asp; http://www.mises.org/misesbib/m1960 .asp; and http://www.mises.org/misesbib/m1965.asp.

(7.) See note 3.

(8.) All the author, title, and publishing information in this section was gleaned from a series of tables of contents at the online Fidelity Magazine Index, retrieved February 5, 2007, from http://www.culturewars.com/Fidelity_Press/FIndex/FIndexlist.html; and the online Culture Wars Index, retrieved February 5, 2007, from http://www.culturewars.com/ CultureWars/index/indexlist.htm.

(9.) Based on review of files from JBS HQ, including collection of reprints at PRA.

(10.) Based on biographical and organizational materials posted on the website of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Retrieved February 7, 2007, from www.mises.org.

(11.) Citing Wikipedia is always dicey, but it is possible to cite a specific version of an entry. Start with the link here, because cybervandals have deleted the list on at least one occasion. For a reputable "permanent version" of "Alternative press (U.S. political right)" see: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alternative_press_%28U.S._political _right%29&oldid=107090129

Chip Berlet, senior analyst at Political Research Associates near Boston, has studied the political right for over thirty years. Berlet is co-author (with Matthew N. Lyons) of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort (Guilford, 2000), and editor of Eyes Right! Challenging the Right Wing Backlash (South End Press, 1995), both of which received a Gustavus Myers Center Award for outstanding scholarship on the subject of human rights and bigotry in North America. A journalist by trade, Berlet's byline has appeared in publications ranging from the New York Times and Boston Globe to the Progressive and Amnesty Now. Berlet also writes chapters in academic books and articles in scholarly journals, and is on the editorial advisory board of the journal Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions.

Table 1 : Selected Sectors of the Political Right

Sector       SubSectors                       Primary Grievance

Secular      Corporate Internationalist       State Intervention in
                                              Economic Realm, National
             Business Nationalists            Defense, Tradition, Law
                                              and Order
             Economic Libertarians

             National Security Militarists

             Neoconservatives

Religious    Christian Conservatives          Gender. Sexual Identity,
                                              Sexuality Morality,
             Christian Nationalists           Marriage, Traditional
                                              Family Values
             Christian Theocrats

Xenophobic   Patriot Movement                 Elite Conspiracies,
                                              Political Corruption,
             Paleoconservatives               Repression, Tyranny,
                                              Ethnic Culture
             White Nationalists

             Extreme Right                    Race, White Bloodlines
                                              Jewish Conspiracies

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