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75-828: Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other Regnery Publishing is a politically conservative book publisher based in Washington, D.C. The company was founded by Henry Regnery in 1947. In December 2023, Regnery was acquired from Salem Media Group by Skyhorse Publishing , with Skyhorse president Tony Lyons becoming Regnery's publisher. Regnery has published books by Haley Barbour , Ann Coulter , Ted Cruz , Newt Gingrich , Josh Hawley , David Horowitz , Michelle Malkin , Barbara Olson , Sarah Palin , Mike Pence , Robert Spencer , and others. Regnery Publishing has existed as
150-666: A federal republic under the rule of law . Conservative philosophy also derives in part from the classical liberal tradition of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, which advocated laissez-faire economics (i.e. economic freedom and deregulation ). Louis Hartz argues that socialism has failed to become established in the United States because of Americans' widespread acceptance of an enduring, underlying Lockean consensus. While historians such as Patrick Allitt (born 1956) and political theorists such as Russell Kirk (1918–1994) assert that conservative principles have played
225-428: A lawsuit over royalties claiming that Regnery had been self-dealing by diverting book sales away from retail outlets and to book clubs and other channels owned by Regnery's then-parent company, Eagle Publishing. On January 30, 2008, a federal judge dismissed all eight counts of the lawsuit because the authors had signed contracts with Regnery which included a mandatory arbitration clause in their contracts, and three of
300-432: A Conservative Party. They soon merged it into the state Democratic Parties. All of the major American political parties support republicanism and the basic classical liberal ideals on which the country was founded in 1776, emphasizing liberty, the rule of law, the consent of the governed , and that all men were created equal. Political divisions inside the United States often seemed minor or trivial to Europeans, where
375-612: A balance between federal government and states' rights . Apart from some right-libertarians , American conservatives tend to favor strong action in areas they believe to be within government's legitimate jurisdiction, particularly national defense and law enforcement while opposing government intervention in social issues such as healthcare and the environment . Social conservatives —many of them religious—often oppose abortion and same-sex marriage . They often favor prayer in public schools and government funding for private religious schools . Like most political ideologies in
450-657: A balanced budget. They argue that low taxes produce more jobs and wealth for everyone, and, as President Grover Cleveland said, "unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation". A recent movement against the inheritance tax labels such a tax as a " death tax ." Fiscal conservatives often argue that competition in the free market is more effective than the regulation of industry and is the most efficient way to promote economic growth . The Republican Party has taken widely varying views on protectionism and free trade throughout its history. Others, such as some libertarians and followers of Ludwig von Mises , believe all government intervention in
525-533: A book titled The Politician , written in 1956 and privately printed, rather than by the JBS, for Welch in 1963. It was his personal "fact-finding" mission and was not part of the materials or the formal beliefs of the JBS. Welch claimed President Franklin D. Roosevelt had known about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in advance but said nothing because he wanted to get the U.S. into the war. The book spawned much debate in
600-682: A candy recipe. The business initially struggled to the point that Welch had to take a second job. He hired his brother James to assist him the following year. James Welch left to found his own candy company in 1925. In 1926, the company had 160 employees. Due to difficulties covering costs and Welch's conflict with the board of directors, the Oxford Candy Company went out of business during the Great Depression . Welch continued to try to sell his own product, caramel lollipops later named Sugar Daddies , while working in sales for Brach and Sons for
675-580: A conspiracy. In 1954, Regnery published Welch's biography of John Birch , an American Baptist missionary in China who was killed by Chinese Communists after he became a U.S. intelligence officer in World War II. In 1951, Regnery published God and Man at Yale , the first book written by William F. Buckley, Jr. At that time, Regnery had a close affiliation with the University of Chicago and published classics for
750-450: A couple of years. Unsuccessful, Welch filed for bankruptcy and joined his brother's company, the James O. Welch Company . Welch became director of sales and advertising for the company. The company began making Sugar Daddies, and Welch developed other candies such as Sugar Babies , Junior Mints , and Pom Poms. In 1956, upon deciding he needed to spend his time fighting communism, Welch retired
825-568: A few select titles from other genres and the trademark for the Gateway Editions series. The original Henry Regnery Company remained in Chicago and was renamed Contemporary Books. Contemporary was purchased by Tribune Company and merged with Compton's Multimedia Publishing Group to form Tribune Education, which was acquired in 2000 by McGraw-Hill . In the 1980s, Alfred S. Regnery , son of Henry Regnery, took control of Regnery Gateway. In 1993,
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#1732887513931900-491: A major role in U.S. politics and culture since 1776, they also argue that an organized conservative movement with beliefs that differ from those of other American political parties did not emerge in the U.S. at least until the 1950s. The recent movement conservatism has its base in the Republican Party , which has adopted conservative policies since the 1950s; Southern Democrats also became important early figures in
975-403: A modest sale." The Internal Revenue Service forced the company to be reorganized as a for-profit concern on March 1, 1948. Regnery hired his first few employees that year. Regnery published some of the first and most important books of the postwar American conservative movement. "[I]t was a measure of the grip that liberal-minded editors had on American publishing at the time that Regnery, which
1050-600: A monarchy, an established church, or a hereditary aristocracy. American conservatism is best characterized as a reaction against utopian ideas of progress and European political philosophy from before the end of World War II . Russell Kirk saw the American Revolution itself as "a conservative reaction, in the English political tradition, against royal innovation". In the 2022 book The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism , Matthew Continetti noted that
1125-749: A more militaristic , interventionist foreign policy aimed at promoting democracy abroad, which stands in stark contrast to Paleoconservatisms more isolationist foreign policy. Neoconservatives often name communism and Islamism as the biggest threats to the free world. They often oppose the United Nations for interfering with American unilateralism. National conservatism focuses on upholding national and cultural identity . National conservatives strongly identify with American nationalism , patriotism , and American exceptionalism , while opposing internationalism , globalism , and multiculturalism . The movement seeks to promote national interests through
1200-533: A professor of history at Mount Holyoke College , wrote: Here was no lover of government by plutocracy, no dreamer of an America filled with factions and hard-packed cities. Here was a man who loved America as it was and had been, one whose life was a doughty testament to the trials and glories of ordered liberty. Here ... was the model of the American conservative. Robert W. Welch Jr. Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr. (December 1, 1899 – January 6, 1985)
1275-502: A series of companies associated with Henry Regnery . The first, Henry Regnery Company , was founded in Chicago in 1947 and split in 1977, forming Regnery Gateway Inc. and Contemporary Books Inc. Under the leadership of Henry Regnery's son, Alfred Regnery , Regnery Gateway became the present-day Regnery Publishing. After helping to found Human Events as a weekly newsletter, Regnery began publishing monthly pamphlets and books. Some of
1350-614: A smaller government is known as starve the beast . Activist Grover Norquist is a well-known proponent of the strategy and has famously said, "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." The argument in favor of balanced budgets is often coupled with a belief that government welfare programs should be narrowly tailored and that tax rates should be low, which implies relatively small government institutions. Neoconservatism emphasizes foreign policy over domestic policy. Its supporters, mainly war hawks , advocate
1425-446: A steady flow of "prescription and prejudice". Kirk's use of the word "prejudice" here is not intended to carry its contemporary pejorative connotation: a conservative himself, he believed that the inherited wisdom of the ages may be a better guide than apparently rational individual judgment. Through much of the 20th century, a primary force uniting the varied strands of conservatism, and uniting conservatives with liberals and socialists,
1500-406: A strong national defense , gun rights , capital punishment , and a defense of Western culture from perceived threats posed by communism , Islamism and moral relativism . American conservatives may question epidemiology , climate change , and evolution more frequently than moderates or liberals . In the United States, " conservative " is often used very differently from the way it
1575-534: A study of human experience. On this point we are, without reservations, on the conservative side. According to Peter Viereck , American conservatism is distinctive because it was not tied to a monarchy, landed aristocracy, established church, or military elite. Instead American conservatives were firmly rooted in American republicanism , which European conservatives opposed. They are committed, says Seymour Martin Lipset , to
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#17328875139311650-428: A wealthy man. From his teenage years, Welch was an anti-communist. He was a strong adherent of conspiracy theories , believing many individuals and organizations were part of an international communist plot. In his own words, the American people consisted of four groups: "Communists, communist dupes or sympathizers, the uninformed who have yet to be awakened to the communist danger, and the ignorant." Welch supported
1725-1008: A writer for the American Prospect , wrote the following about Regnery's position in the publishing world: Some reviewers have criticized the Politically Incorrect Guide books for their accuracy. In March 2005, historian David Greenberg wrote that The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History was " incorrect in more than just its politics" and that "it would be tedious to debunk." In August 2006, one critic called The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design "not only politically incorrect but incorrect in most other ways as well: scientifically, logically, historically, legally, academically, and morally." In May 2008, Chris Mooney criticized The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science as "The Incorrect Guide to Science." Peter Bacon of Harvard Political Review took issue with The Politically Incorrect Guide to
1800-536: Is a form of democratized Whig constitutionalism plus the free market . The point of difference comes with the influence of social liberalism ". American conservatives tend to support Christian values , moral absolutism , and American exceptionalism , while opposing abortion , euthanasia , and some LGBT rights (depending on the politicians). They tend to favor economic liberalism , and are generally pro- business and pro- capitalism , while opposing communism and labor unions . They often advocate for
1875-419: Is a large and mainstream ideology in the Republican Party and nation. As of 2021, 36 percent of Americans consider themselves conservative, according to polling by Gallup, Inc. Conservatism in the United States is not a single school of thought. According to American philosopher Ian Adams, all major American parties are " liberal and always have been. Essentially they espouse classical liberalism , that
1950-794: Is an example. He referred to the Conspirators as "The Insiders", seeing them mainly in internationalist financial and business families such as the Rothschilds and Rockefellers , and organizations such as the Bilderbergers , the Council on Foreign Relations , and the Trilateral Commission . As a result of his conspiracy theories, the John Birch Society became synonymous with the " radical right ". In 1983, Welch stepped down as president of
2025-717: Is associate publisher of Regnery's history imprint. One of Regnery's publishing lines is the Politically Incorrect Guide (P.I.G.) series of books, introduced in 2004 to present conservative views of historical or current events, such as the American Civil War , the British Empire , the Roman Catholic Church , Islam , immigration , and climate change . In November 2007, Jerome Corsi , Bill Gertz , Robert "Buzz" Patterson, Joel Mowbray, and Richard Miniter , five authors whose works had been published by Regnery, filed
2100-524: Is used in Europe. Following the American Revolution , Americans rejected the then core ideals of European conservatism, which were based on landed nobility , hereditary monarchy , established churches , and powerful armies. Conservatives in the United States historically view individual liberty within the bounds of conservative values as the fundamental trait of democracy . They typically believe in
2175-717: The Brown v. Board of Education decision. Welch founded the John Birch Society (JBS) in December 1958 in Indianapolis, Indiana , with Welch giving a "marathon two-day monologue" promoting smaller government and stopping the perceived Communist infiltration of the government. He named the organization for John Birch , an American missionary and military intelligence officer killed in a confrontation with Chinese Communist soldiers in 1945. Starting with eleven men, Welch greatly expanded
2250-611: The America First Committee , supported Robert Taft 's 1940 presidential candidacy, and supported classical liberal ideals. Prosperous from the candy business, Welch became a director of the Chambers of Commerce in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also a national councilor of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce . He also became a director of a local bank and joined the school board of Belmont, Massachusetts , where he lived. Welch
2325-563: The Great Books series at the University, but he lost the contract as a result of publishing Buckley's book. In 1953, Regnery published Russell Kirk 's work The Conservative Mind , a seminal book for post- World War II American conservatism, as well as books by Albert Jay Nock , James J. Kilpatrick , James Burnham and Whittaker Chambers . He also published paperback editions of literary works by authors such as novelist Wyndham Lewis and
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2400-452: The nuclear family . There are two overlapping subgroups of social conservatives: the traditional and the religious. Traditional conservatives strongly support traditional codes of conduct, especially those they feel are threatened by social change and modernization. Religious conservatives focus on conducting society based on the morals prescribed by fundamentalist religious authorities, rejecting secularism and moral relativism . In
2475-529: The 1950s. Welch was born in Chowan County, North Carolina , the son of Lina Verona (née James) and Robert Henry Winborne Welch Sr. As a child, he was considered gifted and received his early education at home from his mother, a school teacher. His boyhood home was in Stockton, North Carolina . Welch enrolled in high school at the age of ten and was admitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at
2550-424: The 1960s over whether the author really intended to call Eisenhower a Communist. G. Edward Griffin , a friend of Welch, claims that he meant collectivist , not Communist. The charge's sensationalism led many conservatives and Republicans to shy away from the group. Welch accused Presidents Truman and Eisenhower of being communist sympathizers and possibly Soviet agents of influence. He alleged that Eisenhower
2625-587: The 1960s, Welch became convinced that even the Communist movement was but 'a tool of the total conspiracy.'" "This master conspiracy, he said, had forerunners in ancient Sparta , and sprang fully to life in the 18th century, in the 'uniformly Satanic creed and program' of the Bavarian Illuminati . Run by those he called 'the Insiders', the conspiracy resided chiefly in international families of financiers, such as
2700-568: The 1960s, says Rick Perlstein , "comprised monthly meetings to watch a film by Welch, followed by writing postcards or letters to government officials linking specific policies to the Communist menace". In 1962, William F. Buckley Jr ., in his magazine, National Review , denounced Welch as promoting conspiracy theories far removed from common sense. While not attacking the members of the Society directly, Buckley concentrated his fire upon Welch in order to prevent his controversial views from tarnishing
2775-680: The 1980s preached traditional moral and religious social values. The history of American conservatism has been marked by tensions and competing ideologies. During the era of Ronald Reagan , a coalition of ideologies was formed that was known as "the Three Leg Stool " — the three legs being social conservatives (consisting of the Christian right and paleo-conservatives ), war hawks (consisting of interventionists and neoconservatives ), and fiscal conservatives (consisting of right-libertarians and free-market capitalists ), with overlap between
2850-592: The American conservative movement has been fractured for a century. Political conservatives have emphasized an identification with the Founding Fathers of the United States and the U.S. Constitution . Scholars of conservative political thought "generally label John Adams as the intellectual father of American conservatism". Russell Kirk points to Adams as the key Founding Father for conservatives, saying that "some writers regard him as America's most important conservative public man". In 1955, Clinton Rossiter ,
2925-557: The Civil War for its "cherry-picked research and one-sided judgments of figures." Conservatism in the United States Defunct Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Conservatism in
3000-673: The Henry Regnery Company was by socialist Victor Gollancz , who ran the Left Book Club in Great Britain. A man of Jewish heritage, Gollancz was appalled at the bombing of German civilians late in the war and by the treatment of the country afterward. Gollancz published In Darkest Germany in Britain but was unable to find an American publisher for his ideas. He approached Regnery, who agreed to publish it. Regnery subsequently published
3075-470: The John Birch Society. He was succeeded as president by Congressman Larry McDonald , who died a few months later when the airliner he was on was shot down by the Soviet Union . Republican criticism of the John Birch Society intensified after Welch circulated a letter in 1954 calling President Dwight D. Eisenhower a possible "dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy". Welch went further in
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3150-594: The National States Rights Conference in 1956, Welch turned his focus towards public education on the threat of Communism. The same year, he began the magazine One Man's Opinion (later renamed American Opinion ); Rhee and Chiang received copies of the first edition and responded positively as they perceived him to be an ally. Welch published his "A Letter to the South" in the magazine that year, in which he blamed Communism for desegregation and spoke against
3225-522: The Regnery family sold the publishing company to Phillips Publishing International, which put the book publishing company into its Eagle Publishing subsidiary, which also published the weekly Human Events . At that time, Regnery Gateway was renamed Regnery Publishing Inc. Alfred Regnery left his post as president of Regnery Publishing in the 2000s to become the publisher of The American Spectator magazine. Alex Novak, son of political columnist Robert Novak ,
3300-536: The Republican presidential nomination and was a prominent campaign contributor to Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy 's re-election campaign. In 1955, he traveled to Asia to meet Chiang Kai-shek and Syngman Rhee ; "a formative moment for Welch, who found himself welcomed with effusive praise as a leading American anti-Communist." He initially planned to form a third party , but after being rebuffed at
3375-484: The Southern " Bible Belt " and in recent years played a major role in the political coalitions of George W. Bush and Donald Trump . Fiscal conservatism has ideological roots in capitalism , limited government , free enterprise , and laissez-faire economics. Fiscal conservatives typically support tax cuts , reduced government spending , free markets , deregulation , privatization , minimal government debt , and
3450-662: The U.S. edition of Our Threatened Values by Gollancz. Regnery's third book was The Hitler in Our Selves , by Max Picard . Other early books included The German Opposition to Hitler by the German nationalist Hans Rothfels and The High Cost of Vengeance (1949) by Freda Utley which was critical of the Allies' air campaign and post-war occupation. Utley's book was the first Regnery book to be reviewed in The New York Times , where it
3525-468: The United States is based on a belief in individualism , traditionalism , republicanism , and limited federal governmental power in relation to U.S. states . Conservatism is one of two major political ideologies of the United States with the other being liberalism . Conservative and Christian media organizations and American conservative figures are influential, and American conservatism
3600-469: The United States , conservatism originates from republicanism , which rejects aristocratic and monarchical government and upholds the principles of the 1776 U.S. Declaration of Independence ("that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness") and of the U.S. Constitution , which established
3675-650: The United States, he believed, the subversion had actually begun years before the Bolshevik Revolution . Conflating modern liberalism and totalitarianism , Welch described government as 'always and inevitably an enemy of individual freedom .'" "Consequently, he charged, the Progressive era , which expanded the federal government's role in curbing social and economic ills, was a dire period in our history, and Woodrow Wilson 'more than any other one man started this nation on its present road to totalitarianism' ... In
3750-491: The United States, this translates into hard-line stances on moral issues, such as opposition to abortion , LGBT rights , feminism , pornography , comprehensive sex education , and recreational drug use . Religious conservatives often assert that America is a Christian nation , calling for laws that enforce Christian morality . They often support school prayer , vouchers for parochial schools , and restricting or outlawing abortion . Social conservatives are strongest in
3825-552: The age of twelve, the youngest student ever to enroll there. He was a fundamentalist Baptist and, by his own admission, was "insufferable" in his attempts to convert his fellow students. Welch attended the United States Naval Academy and Harvard Law School but did not graduate from either institution. After dropping out of Harvard, in 1922 Welch founded the Oxford Candy Company in Brooklyn, New York , after buying
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#17328875139313900-620: The authors later sought arbitration (Miniter, Corsi, and Mowbray). In December 2011, the American Arbitration Association released its decision on the arbitration case, ruling in favor of Regnery on all counts. In January 2014, Regnery was acquired along with other Eagle Publishing properties by Salem Communications . On July 18, 2018, Simon & Schuster issued a press release announcing an international distribution agreement with Regnery Publishing to begin July 2018. According to
3975-686: The belief in America's "superiority against the cold reactionary monarchical and more rigidly status-bound system of European society". In terms of governmental economic policies, American conservatives have been heavily influenced by the classical liberal or libertarian tradition as expressed by Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman , and a major source of influence has been the Chicago school of economics . They have been strongly opposed to Keynesian economics . Traditional ( Burkean ) conservatives tend to be anti-ideological, and some would even say anti-philosophical, promoting, as Russell Kirk explained,
4050-691: The divide between the left and the right led to violent polarization, starting with the French Revolution . In 2009, Emory University history professor Patrick Allitt wrote that attitude, not policy, are at the core of differences between liberals and conservatives: Certain continuities can be traced through American history. The conservative 'attitude' ... was one of trusting to the past, to long-established patterns of thought and conduct, and of assuming that novelties were more likely to be dangerous than advantageous. No American party has ever advocated traditional European ideals of "conservatism" such as
4125-416: The economy is wasteful, corrupt, and immoral. Fiscal conservatism advocates restraint of progressive taxation and expenditure. Fiscal conservatives since the 19th century have argued that debt is a device to corrupt politics; they argue that big spending ruins the morals of the people, and that a national debt creates a dangerous class of speculators. A political strategy employed by conservatives to achieve
4200-485: The entire conservative movement. Divergent foreign policy views between Buckley and Welch also played a role in the break. Being in the tradition of an older, Taftian conservatism, Welch favored a foreign policy of "Fortress America" rather than "entangling alliances" through NATO and the United Nations . For this reason, Welch combined a strong anti-Communism with opposition to the bipartisan Cold War consensus of armed internationalism. Beginning in 1965, he opposed
4275-493: The era, we are, without reservations, on the libertarian side. The profound crisis of our era is, in essence, the conflict between the Social Engineers, who seek to adjust mankind to scientific utopias, and the disciples of Truth, who defend the organic moral order. We believe that truth is neither arrived at nor illuminated by monitoring election results, binding though these are for other purposes, but by other means, including
4350-675: The escalating U.S. role in the Vietnam War . In the view of the more hawkish Buckley, Welch lacked sufficient support for U.S. political and military leadership of the world. Welch was the editor and publisher of the Society's monthly magazine American Opinion and the weekly The Review of the News , which in 1971 incorporated the writings of another conservative activist, Dan Smoot . He also wrote The Road to Salesmanship (1941), May God Forgive Us (1951), The Politician (about Eisenhower) and The Life of John Birch (1954). A collection of his essays
4425-502: The first pamphlets he published, including a reprint of a speech by University of Chicago president Robert M. Hutchins , criticized the harsh treatment of Germans and Japanese both in popular attitudes and in postwar administration of the former Axis countries . Regnery published the pamphlets and some books under the name Human Events Associates in 1946. He began publishing under his own name in September 1947. The first book published by
4500-472: The lack of evidence supporting a diagnosis . After U.S. Senator Josh Hawley lost a publishing contract with Simon & Schuster in the aftermath of the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol for his role in objecting to the certification of the Electoral College results in the 2020 presidential election , Regnery Publishing said it would publish Hawley's book. In early 2023, Regnery acquired ISI Books,
4575-407: The membership, exerted very tight control over revenues and set up a number of publications. At its height, the organization claimed it had 100,000 members. Welch distrusted outsiders and did not want alliances with other groups (even other anti-Communists). He developed an elaborate organizational infrastructure in 1958 that enabled him to keep a very tight rein on the chapters. Its main activity in
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#17328875139314650-476: The movement's history. In 1937, Southern Democrats formed the congressional conservative coalition , which played an influential role in Congress from the late 1930s to the mid-1960s. In recent decades, Southern conservatives voted heavily Republican. Conservatism in the United States is not a single school of thought. Barry Goldwater in the 1960s spoke for a " free enterprise " conservatism. Jerry Falwell in
4725-400: The poets T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound . In 1954, Regnery published McCarthy and His Enemies by William F. Buckley and L. Brent Bozell Jr. "Although Mr. Buckley [...] had criticized the senator for 'gross exaggerations,' Mr. McCarthy said he would not dispute the merits of the book with the authors", according to a news article in The New York Times . While criticizing McCarthy, the book
4800-516: The preservation of traditional cultural values , restrictions on illegal immigration , and strict law and order policies. In the United States, there has never been a national political party called the Conservative Party. Since 1962, there has been a small Conservative Party of New York State . During Reconstruction in several states in the South in the late 1860s, the former Whigs formed
4875-489: The publishing division of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute . In December 2023, Skyhorse Publishing announced that it was purchasing Regnery, with Skyhorse president Tony Lyons becoming publisher of Regnery. In January 2024, Skyhorse announced the phasing out of Regnery's religious imprint, Salem Books, in favor of Skyhorse's existing Good Books imprint. In November 2001, Nicholas Confessore , then
4950-614: The sides . In the 21st century United States, types of conservatism include: In February 1955, in the first issue of National Review , William F. Buckley Jr. explained the standards of his magazine and articulate the beliefs of American conservatives: Among our convictions: It is the job of centralized government (in peacetime) to protect its citizens' lives, liberty and property. All other activities of government tend to diminish freedom and hamper progress. The growth of government (the dominant social feature of this century) must be fought relentlessly. In this great social conflict of
5025-469: The terms of the agreement, Regnery retained responsibility for sales of its titles in the United States while Simon & Schuster began to handle distribution in the United States and both sales and distribution in Canada and export markets around the world. In 2020, Regnery Publishing published Irreversible Damage , a book that endorses the controversial concept of rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD), despite
5100-479: Was a "dedicated, conscious agent of the communist conspiracy", and that Eisenhower's brother Milton was the President's superior in the communist apparatus. President Eisenhower never responded publicly to Welch's claims. According to Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz, "Wherever he looked, Welch saw Communist forces manipulating American economic and foreign policy on behalf of totalitarianism. But within
5175-536: Was an American businessman, political organizer, and conspiracy theorist. He was wealthy following his retirement from the candy business and used his wealth to sponsor anti-communist causes. He co-founded the John Birch Society (JBS), an American right-wing political advocacy group , in 1958 and tightly controlled it until his death. He was highly controversial and criticized by liberals , as well as some conservatives, including William F. Buckley Jr. only after being an early donor to Buckley's National Review in
5250-562: Was edited into a book, The New Americanism , which later became the inspiration for The New American . In the 1960s, Welch began to believe that even the Communists were not the top level of his perceived conspiracy and began saying that communism was just a front for a Master Conspiracy, which had roots in the Illuminati going back to the founding of the United States; the essay "The Truth in Time"
5325-496: Was excoriated. Reinhold Niebuhr gave it a positive review in The Nation magazine. The company was founded as a nonprofit corporation. Regnery later wrote that it was initially organized that way, "not because I had any ideological objection to profits, but because, as it seemed to me then, and does still, in matters of excellence the market is a poor judge. The books that are most needed are often precisely those that will have only
5400-446: Was founded in 1947, was one of only two houses known to be sympathetic to conservative authors", according to Henry Regnery's 1996 obituary in The New York Times . In the early 1950s, Regnery published two books by Robert Welch , who went on to found the John Birch Society in 1958. In May God Forgive Us , Welch criticized influential foreign-policy analysts and policymakers and accused many of working to further Communism as part of
5475-675: Was opposition to communism, which was seen not only as an enemy of the traditional order but also the enemy of Western freedom and democracy. Between 1945 and 1947, it was the Labour government in the United Kingdom, which embraced socialism, that pushed the Truman administration to take a strong stand against Soviet Communism . Social conservatism in the United States is the defense of traditional family values rooted in Judeo-Christian ethics and
5550-433: Was sympathetic to him (and in fact was harsher on McCarthy's critics than it was on the senator for making false allegations), and McCarthy attended a reception for the authors. In 1977, the Henry Regnery Company split, with Henry Regnery moving to Washington D.C. to form Regnery Gateway Inc. He took with him many of the Henry Regnery Company's rights to political, philosophical, psychological, and religious books along with
5625-777: Was vice president of the National Confectioners Association and worked for the War Production Board and Office of Price Administration in the 1940s. He became a Republican Party official in Massachusetts and ran and lost a primary election in 1950 for Lieutenant Governor of the state. He joined the National Association of Manufacturers ' board of directors, and also served as a regional vice president and chairman of its education committee. In 1952, he supported Robert A. Taft 's unsuccessful bid for
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