| Named after | Rockford College |
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| Merged into | Charlemagne Institute |
| Successor | Charlemagne Institute |
| Formation | 1976 |
| Founder | John A. Howard |
| Founded at | Rockford, IL |
| Dissolved | 2018 |
| Type | nonprofit |
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| Legal status | 501(c)(3) |
| Purpose | cultural advocacy |
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Budget | Revenue: $467,026 Expenses: $1,148,857 (FYE June 2016)[1] |
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The Rockford Institute was an American conservative think-tank associated with paleoconservatism, based in Rockford, Illinois.[2] Founded in 1976, it ran the John Randolph Club[3] and published the magazine Chronicles. In 2018 the Rockford Institute merged with the Charlemagne Institute (renamed from Intellectual Takeout in 2018), which became the new publisher of Chronicles.[4] The Charlemagne Institute describes itself as "leading a cultural movement to defend and advance Western Civilization, the foundation of our American republic."[5]
Chronicles, the Rockford Institute, and since 2018 the Charlemagne Institute have been described as central to the paleoconservative intellectual movement.[6] Chronicles peaked in the 1990s[7] and helped shape the paleoconservative revival that accompanied Patrick Buchanan's 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns.[8] At its peak, it had 15,000 subscribers.[7] As of September 2016 there were 6,700 subscribers.[9]
- ^ "The Rockford Institute" (PDF). Foundation Center. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
- ^ Duin, Julia (10 December 1997). "Rockford Institute chief leaves to form his own think tank". Washington Times. p. A.2.(subscription required)
- ^ Heidi Beirich; Mark Potok (Winter 2003). "Paleoconservatives' Decry Immigration". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
- ^ "Mission and Vision – History". Charlemagne Institute. Bloomington, Minnesota. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ "Charlemagne Institute | Defending & Advancing Western Civilization". Charlemagne Institute. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ Bar-On, Tamir; Molas, Bàrbara, eds. (2022). The right and radical right in the Americas: ideological currents from interwar Canada to contemporary Chile. Lanham Boulder New York London: Lexington Books. p. 165. ISBN 978-1-7936-3583-9.
- ^ a b E. Christian Kopff. Chronicles. First Principles. 3 September 2010.
- ^ Blumenthal, Max (25 May 2011) [2006-09-20]. "Sen. John Cornyn Meets the Racist Right". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ Chronicles, Statement of Ownership, November, 2016, p. 7