Edited sentence: Paradoxically, given Weiss's self-described credentials as an unswerving progressive, he chose to fulminate at length about his dismissal in the pages of The American Conservative, a magazine co-founded by Pat Buchanan, which has featured contributions by avowed white supremacist Samuel Francis, as well as articles purporting that acceptance of gay marriage would invariably lead to an increased prevalence of pedophilia.The American Conservative is viewed by some prominent conservative proponents as unacceptably retrograde, and even racist, in many of the arguments made within its articles and by its contributors in other venues.These mainstream conservatives have dissociated themselves from a number of views espoused by writers on the magazine's masthead, deeming them so extreme as to constitute only a fringe of the spectrum of contemporary conservative thought