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Volume Fourteen · Number Five · September/October 1994

Between 1980 and 2002, The Journal of Historical Review was published by the Institute for Historical Review. It used to be the publishing flagship of the revisionist community, but it ceased to exist in 2002 for a number of reasons, mismanagement and lack of dedication being some of them. CODOH mirrors the old papers that were published in that journal.

New Work Examines Suppressed Conservative Political-Intellectual Heritage

Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement, by Justin Raimondo. Foreword by Patrick J. Buchanan. Burlingame, Calif.: Center for Libertarian Studies (P.O. Box 4091, Burlingame, CA 94011), 1993. Softcover. 289 pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $17.95. ISBN: 1-883959-00-4. Much attention has been given in recent years to ideological quarrels among factions of…

On Conservatism, Liberalism, and History

(This sampling of Prof. Oliver's writing is taken from America's Decline, pages 1-4, 79-83, 182-183, 187-189, 190-191 and 212-213.) Conservatism Conservatism, when that word was first used in a political sense, correctly implied the maintenance of existing governmental and social institutions and their preservation from all undesirable innovation and substantial change. In Europe and the…

Our Savaged “Living” Constitution

Joseph Sobran is a nationally-syndicated columnist, author and lecturer. He is a former senior editor of National Review, and currently Washington, DC, correspondent for The Wanderer and the Rothbard-Rockwell Report. This essay first appeared in Capitol Hill Voice, Jan.-Feb. 1994. Most Americans are taught, and assume, that we still live under the Constitution of the…

Overcoming Germany’s Burdensome Past: The Heritage of Europe’s “Revolutionary Conservative Movement”

Following the aftermath of the cataclysmic defeat of Germany and her Axis partners in the Second World War, exhausted Europe came under the hegemony of the victorious Allied powers – above all the United States and Soviet Russia. Understandably, the social-political systems of the vanquished regimes – and especially that of Hitler's Third Reich –…

Revilo P. Oliver: 1910-1994

Prof. Revilo Oliver – outstanding scholar, brilliant political commentator and good friend of the Institute for Historical Review – died August 10,1994, at his home in Urbana, Illinois. He was 84. He is survived by Grace, his wife of more than 50 years. Revilo Pendleton Oliver (his first name was his family name spelled backwards)…

Mastering Germany’s Difficult Past

Der Nasenring: Im Dickicht der Vergangenbeitsbewältigung (“The Nose Ring: In the Thicket of Mastering the Past”), by Armin Mohler. Essen: Heitz & Höffkes, 1989. (Revised and expanded edition published in 1991 by Verlag Langen Müller, Munich.) Softcover. 256 pages. Index. ISBN: 3-926650-26-5. Armin Mohler, the Swiss-born author who has lived for many years in Germany,…

Editorial Note

The last twelve months have been among the busiest ever at the IHR, with a staggering number of projects either completed or underway. A major project now in the “completed” column is the 12th Revisionist Conference, which took place over Labor Day weekend (September 3-5) here in southern California. Conferences are a major undertaking for…

European New Right Study Warns Against Universalism and Egalitarianism

Against Democracy and Equality: The European New Right, by Tomislav Sunic. With preface by Paul Gottfried. New York: Peter Lang (62 W. 45th St., New York, NY 10036), 1990. Hardcover. 196 (+ xii) pages. Notes. Bibliography. $40. ISBN: 0-82041294-5. William Saunders is the pen name of a British-born specialist of international finance, economics and social…

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