Talk:Paul Gottfried

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[edit] Recent edit

A recent edit added some strongly POV phrases, including:

• Most of Gottfried's work is characterized by vast and often esoteric learning combined with elegant prose,...Unsubstantiated neoconservative attacks on his personal reputation.'

without adding any actual facts. I've reverted it, but I'd be happy to see factual, NPOV material added. Thanks, -Willmcw 10:05, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] An-Cap?

I removed the American Anarchist and Anarcho-Capitalist tags from this page because I'm fairly sure he is neither. I'd love to be proved wrong, however. Does anyone have any evidence that Dr. Gottfried identifies himself as anarchist? The closest I've seen is a LewRockwell.com article in which he says he is "verging on right-wing anarchism" (or something similar). Atripodi 20:58, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I was student of Paul Gottfried at Elizabethtown College, and interviewed him as a member of the student media there in the period of 2000 - 2002. Based on my conversations with him, and to some extent on intellectual comments he made about my classwork, I can strongly agree with the statement from LewRockwell.com. However, this opinion is drawn largely from inference, since he never directly expressed any such sentiment himself in class, nor in my interviews with him. Therefore, I would suggest quoting the LewRockwell.com article and leaving it at that. MolotovH 19:12, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

I have spoken with him and he is not an anarchist or even a minarchist.

[edit] Jewish

Is he? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.98.214.61 (talk) 00:20, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

He is a Jew. He is on the Jews for Ron Paul page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RG415WBFA (talk • contribs) 18:38, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

He's a Catholic, actually. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.68.219.77 (talk) 05:57, 2 May 2008 (UTC)