Rockford Institute

The Rockford Institute is an American conservative think-tank associated with paleoconservatism, based in Rockford, Illinois. It runs the John Randolph Club, and publishes the Chronicles magazine.

It was founded by Rockford College President John A. Howard in 1976 as a response to American social changes of the 1960s. Allan Carlson served as president until 1997. He left with John Howard to found The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society, on offshoot of the Rockford Institute. They took with them two publications: Religion and Society Report and Family in America. Thomas Fleming, editor of Chronicles, succeeded Carlson as president.

The institute and Lutheran pastor Richard John Neuhaus invited Cardinal Ratzinger to give a lecture in New York in January 1988. On May 5, 1989, Neuhaus and his Religion and Society Center were evicted from the institute's New York office after he complained about what he said were "the racist and anti-Semitic tones" of the institute's Chronicles magazine. The charge, which was supported by other leading conservatives, was denied by the institute. They said the office, called Rockford East, was closed for budgetary reasons and because of concerns that Neuhaus was not following institute policies. According to political commentator David Frum, the split was seen by leading conservatives as a sign of the division between the paleoconservative and the neo-conservative elements of the movement.

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