Editorial Team

EDITOR IN CHIEF: Paul Gottfried

Paul Gottfried, Ph.D., is editor-in-chief of Chronicles. He is the Raffensperger Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Elizabethtown College, a Guggenheim recipient, and a Mises Research Fellow. Paul also cohosts the Cotto/Gottfried interview program on Roku. He has been writing for Chronicles since its founding in 1977, and is the author of numerous articles as well as 13 books, including: 

• Paleoconservative Anthology (Lexington Books, 2023)
• Antifascism: Course of a Crusade (Cornell-NIU Press, 2021)
• The Vanishing Tradition (Cornell-NIU Press, 2020)
• Revisions and Dissents (Northern Illinois University Press, 2017)
• The Search for Historical Meaning (University of Illinois, 2016)
• Fascism: The Career of a Concept (Northern Illinois University Press, 2015)
• War and Democracy (Arktos, 2012)
• Leo Strauss and the American Conservative Movement (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
• Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2009)
• Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right (Palgrave-Macmillan, July 2007)
• The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium (University of Missouri Press, 2005)
• Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Towards A Secular Theocracy (University of Missouri Press, 2002)
• After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State (Princeton University Press, 1999)
• Conservative Millenarians (Fordham University Press, 1979)

EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Edward Welsch

Edward Welsch is the executive editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. He was previously a journalist covering the financial markets and energy industry for The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News from bureaus in Washington, D.C., New York, and Calgary, and was also the editor of financial newsletters. He is an undergraduate of St. Olaf College and a student of its Great Books program, and holds a master’s degree in Journalism and Communications from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

MANAGING EDITOR: Julie Ponzi

FOREIGN AFFAIRS EDITOR: Srdja Trifkovic

BOOKS EDITOR: Mark G. Brennan

LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITOR: Stephen B. Presser

POETRY EDITOR: Catharine Savage Brosman

ASSISTANT EDITOR: John Howting

PUBLISHED BY: The Chronicles Institute