Paul Gottfried and Bill Lind discuss "What is Cultural Marxism?"

Описание: Broadcast live on Friday, November 13, 2020. This week's Backchannel is a free discussion between Chronicles Editor Paul Gottfried and military historian and author Bill Lind on the topic, “What is Cultural Marxism.” Gottfried and Lind wrote complimentary essays in the November 2020 issue of Chronicles in which they debated the origins and nature of the ideology that animates the modern left, with Lind emphasizing its Marxist origins and Gottfried characterizing it as a revolution against the West’s traditional, Christian cultural underpinnings. The discussion will be moderated by Charlemagne Institute Chief Executive Devin Foley, and Gottfried and Lind will answer questions from livestream viewers.

About the presenters:

Dr. Paul Gottfried, Editor-in-Chief of Chronicles magazine, is Horace Raffensperger Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Elizabethtown College and author of Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt, The Strange Death of Marxism, and Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right. His latest books are The Vanishing Tradition: Perspectives on American Conservatism and Fascism: The Career of a Concept.

William S. Lind is a military historian, a columnist for The American Conservative, and author of Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation Warfare, and Retroculture: Taking America Back.