Gottfried is very insightful about conservative and reactionary metapolitics and political theory / philosophy. 

Gottfried’s work on fascism, antifascism and the political philosopher Leo Strauss is particularly notable for his sustained and “original contribution” to documenting and debating the intellectual histories and the comparative hermeneutic / interpretative debates about their respective, real world impacts and the varied impacts that this has had - and continues to have in very observable, documentable, and still unfolding way.

Here is Gottfried on the important conservative United States political philosopher Leo Strauss: