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Martin Sellner is an activist, author, and influential voice in contemporary debates on identity, free speech, and remigration policy. Born in Vienna in 1989 and raised in Lower Austria, Sellner studied law and philosophy (BA) at the University of Vienna and has become one of the most prominent figures of the New Right in the German-speaking world. Sellner gained public recognition as co-founder and spokesman of the Identitarian Movement Austria (IBÖ), organizing high-profile campaigns such as Defend Europe in the Mediterranean to draw attention to issues of mass immigration and Islamization. Prior to the 2020 deletion of his social media channels, he was the most-followed German-language patriotic influencer across YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook.Born in 1941 in Brooklyn, New York, Paul Gottfried is a distinguished historian, philosopher, and political theorist whose influential career spans over half a century. Educated at Yeshiva University and Yale, where he studied under renowned political thinkers such as Herbert Marcuse, Gottfried emerged as one of America's most original and provocative conservative intellectuals. He is the author of thirteen books, including The Conservative Movement, The Strange Death of Marxism, Fascism: The Career of a Concept, and Antifascism: The Course of a Crusade. Gottfried is the Raffensperger Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Elizabethtown College, a Guggenheim recipient, and a Mises Research Fellow. He currently serves as editor in chief of Chronicles magazine, where he has been a contributing writer since its founding in 1977.