Robert Locke is a former editor for FrontPage Magazine. A conservative

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 American

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 nationalist

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, he is critical of liberals

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, libertarians

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, and some "compassionate conservatives

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", including George W. Bush

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. He is an admirer of conservative scholar Leo Strauss

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 (although, as a self-proclaimed agnostic

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, he is critical of Strauss' atheism

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), architect Robert A.M. Stern, and photorealist

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 painter Richard Estes

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. Many of his writings are archived at FrontPage Magazine.

Locke has attended both Columbia University

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 and University of Chicago

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; he maintains membership in a conservative alumni organization of the former. He currently resides in New York City

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, New York

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.

Controversies

In the January 21st, 2003, issue of Manhattan weekly NY Press, FrontPage Magazine editor David Horowitz

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 publicly disassociated himself from Locke, stating that certain published e-mails written by Locke as a representative of his publication held views that "do not reflect mine in any way, shape or fashion."

Locke wrote two articles for The American Conservative

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, a paleoconservative

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 magazine for which Scott McConnell

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 is one of the three editors. McConnell dismissed Locke after reading that Locke wrote an article for VDARE.com suggesting the involuntary transfer of Palestinians from all of Israel as a solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

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