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Review of Thomas Wheatland’s The Frankfurt School in Exile, Part I:
Authoritarianism and the Family
From The Occidental Observer, October 19, 2009Thomas Wheatland’s book, The Frankfurt School in Exile, provides a useful historical account of the travels, connections, and ideas of an important Jewish intellectual movement. The Institute for Social Research began as an orthodox Marxist organization during the Weimar period. During this period, they were dedicated to studying the...
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The Roman Polanski Case:
Once Again, It’s Hollywood vs. America
From The Occidental Observer, October 3, 2009Over 30 years ago, director Roman Polanski raped a 13-year-old girl. The details aren’t pretty. According to the girl’s Grand Jury Testimony, Polanski plied her with enough alcohol and Quaalude to make her dizzy and disoriented. He then had oral copulation with her, followed by sexual intercourse, and ending with sodomy because he...
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Kevin MacDonald on Why We Write
Editor’s Note: This is a lightly-edited extract from a talk given at The Occidental Quarterly Editor’s conference on March 18, 2007 near Washington, D.C.One of the charges repeatedly leveled against me by the Southern Poverty Law center and others who would silence my research is that I write for The Occidental Quarterly and serve on its Editorial Board.[1] Thus I want to...
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The Morality of Majority Rights and Interests
From The Occidental Observer, September 6, 2009I’ve managed to avoid the vast majority of the outpourings of praise for Sen. Kennedy. But I couldn’t help noticing Neal Gabler’s op-ed in the L.A. Times because it mentioned Kennedy’s notorious moral lapses. The article, titled (ironically) “Ted Kennedy, America’s conscience” notes thatafter his brothers’...
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Anger in White America — Again
The Occidental Observer, August 24, 2009The health care debate continues to rivet the country. By most accounts, the sheer emotional intensity of the protests has forced Democrats to scale back their plans for nationalized health care. And who are these angry protesters? The vast majority of these angry citizens are White people — a topic I wrote about recently, but before...
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Kevin MacDonald on the Fall of Anglo-America
Eric P. Kaufmann’s The Rise and Fall of Anglo-Americaby Kevin MacDonaldfrom The Occidental Observer, July 29, 2009Eric P. Kaufmann’s The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America presents the case that Anglo-America committed what one might call “suicide by idea”: White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants were motivated to give up ethnic hegemony by their attachment to Enlightenment ideals...
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Kevin MacDonald on Anger in White America
From The Occidental Observer, July 23, 2009Sarah Palin emerged in the presidential campaign of 2008 as the candidate of the Republican base — the people the globalist elites in the party pander to every four years so that if everything breaks right, they may have a chance of winning. Palin is the very image of White fertility and small town Americana — all that the...
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Kevin MacDonald on Joe McCarthy and the Jews
“Joe McCarthy and the Jews”from The Occidental Observer, July 12, 2009Beginning in the 19th century, liberal/leftist politics has been a hallmark of the Jewish community in America and elsewhere. The attraction of Jews to the success of the Bolshevik Revolution was an entirely mainstream among large numbers of Jews in America and led to one of several anti-Jewish...
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Kevin MacDonald Defends Darwin from Patrick Buchanan
“Pat Buchanan on Darwin”from The Occidental Observer, July 1, 2009Pat Buchanan is without doubt the most incisive political commentator that we have. His writings on the death of the West, immigration, the neocon influence in the Republican Party, and the Israel Lobby are brilliant and courageous, and they certainly have won him no friends among the most powerful forces...
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Kevin MacDonald on Evolutionary Psychology
“Evolutionary Psychology: The Really Dangerous Idea Is That It’s Wrong”by Kevin MacDonaldfrom The Occidental Observer, June 14, 2009Sharon Begley is at it again, flailing away at evolutionary psychology because it doesn’t fit well with her feminist, liberal agenda. This is ironic because evolutionary psychology owes its very existence to political...
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