Oct 16, 2009

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Race and Culture

When members of our pro-white community hear the word “culture,” many are wont to react in the way Hermann Göring allegedly did — by reaching for their revolver.There is good reason for this.  No concept in the twentieth century has so often been used to deny racial difference and relativize the white man’s values as the anthropological notion of culture...

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Sep 27, 2009

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The Hot Rod of the Apocalypse

Mike DavisBuda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car BombLondon: Verso, 2007“L’automobile, c’est la guerre.”– Léon DaudetThe prototype of the apocalyptic hot rod was “Buda’s wagon.”In September 1920, shortly after the arrest of two Italian anarchists (the soon-to-be-famous Sacco and Vanzetti), another Italian anarchist, Mario...

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Sep 20, 2009

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Michael O’Meara on Why We Write

“Qui dit ‘ni droite ni gauche’ dit de droite.”–Charles PeguyIn an earlier piece with the same title, Kevin MacDonald said what most of us at The Occidental Quarterly must feel: that we, the country’s white majority, have been dispossessed, that we no longer belong to America, and that America no longer belongs to us.Given the nature of the...

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Sep 10, 2009

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Another European Destiny, Part II

Editor’s Note: For the first part of this review essay on Dominique Venner’ s Ernst Jünger: Un autre destin européen (Paris: Éds. du Rocher, 2009), click here.4. Der ArbeiterJünger’s nationalist politics turned out to be a passing phase in his long life.  By 1930, after the wind started to go from the revolutionary-nationalist sails and the National...

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Sep 8, 2009

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Another European Destiny

Dominique VennerErnst Jünger: Un autre destin européenParis: Éds. du Rocher, 2009In Dominique Venner’s historical essay, Ernst Jünger: Un autre destin européen, the subject is presented as une figure ultime, a European archetype provisionally absent from Europe today, but nevertheless one rooted in the depths of the European spirit — and destined, thus, to...

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Aug 30, 2009

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The Edge of the Sword

Author’s Note: Myth and science are tangential to the real issue facing us, which is about politics and preservation.  The following is an effort to sharpen (or maybe just to repeat) certain ideas presented in “The Sword.”One.The starting point for all discussions of white preservation must begin with the realization that we have entered an Interregnum, a period...

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Aug 20, 2009

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The Sword

My article “Toward the White Republic,” which recently won the TOQ essay contest (though under shady circumstances according to one critic), has been the subject of several internet discussions, most of which, typical of the medium, have produced more heat than light.Nevertheless, around the margins of this discussion and in a few genuine flashes of insight buried under...

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Aug 1, 2009

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The TOQ Secession Essay Contest Winner:
“Toward the White Republic”

Editor’s Note: It is a great pleasure to announce the winning essay of the first annual TOQ Essay Contest: Michael O’Meara’s “Toward the White Republic.” We had 20 entries. One was subsequently withdrawn. Of the 19 remaining, I judged this the best, but there was close competition, and in the end I hope to publish nine other entries in TOQ, beginning...

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Jul 14, 2009

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Preparing for America’s Collapse:
Lessons from the Soviet Union

“US, SU: Same Scenario?”Reinventing Collapse:The Soviet Example and American Prospectsby Dimitry OrlovGabriola Island, Canada: New Society Publications, 2008 “A time of crisis is a great opportunity.”–Barack Hussein ObamaDespairing of my people’s passivity, I have often thought that the collapse of the United States might be the one thing to turn...

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Jul 10, 2009

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The Next Conservatism?

Paul M. Weyrich and William S. Lind, The Next Conservatism (South Bend: St. Augustine’s Press, 2009).There are, in my view, only a handful of contemporary “conservative” thinkers in the US worth reading. William Lind is one of them.Associated with the “cultural conservatism” of the Free Congress Foundation (which “advocates the creation of...

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