Oh for cripes sake!
Go to the Chronicles Web site, they bill themself as the flagship magazine of paleo-conservatism.
I've visited in person and have known the people invoved for decades. The Rockford Institute is old-line conservative, albeit with a particular interest in "social" conservatism. This is the definition of paleo-con that I used (i.e., those who were the conservative movement before the neo-cons arrived) -- not the pejorative definition used by David Frum. They have little in common with self-designated libertarians Lew Rockwell, Joe Sobran, Justin Raimondo, et al., none of whom would dream of calling himself a conservative of any stripe. Frum had an ax to grind.
Rockford, as I recall, was a spinoff from Rockford College, led by John Howard, president emeritus of the Institute as well as the college. Allan Carlson is based at Rockford -- great conservative scholar in social questions. These are old line conservatives, not these allegedly horrid paleos. Tom Fleming -- well, he's feisty, but on the whole he's been a good asset over the years. (And beware -- there's another Tom Fleming in the public policy world, an historian.)