Feb 3, 2010

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The R.E.A.L. Tragedy

A response to Jeffrey Imm and R.E.A.L.Growing up in the 1990s, I found myself pondering all sorts of mysteries as a teenager: why did my black classmates consistently receive lower test scores; why were black students always in the lower track courses; why did people on television claim that blacks were as smart as Whites; why did blacks act in such a peculiar way; why were the...

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Jan 28, 2010

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American Secondary Teachers

I have been inspired over the last several months by many of the critiques of different aspects of modern society put forth by Alex Kurtagic. The sardonic yet brutally honest way in which he tackles airport security, telephone technical assistance, television—and in his novel Mister, virtually everything comprising modern democratic civilization—corresponds to the way I think...

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Oct 15, 2009

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American Secondary Schoolers

Radical Traditionalists like me believe, or should I say, know, that civilizations are organic entities that are born, grow, climax, decay, and then die. Though few are willing to admit it, this fact holds true for the United States as well. Like every empire that has come before it, “the land of milk and honey” will ultimately collapse following a series of internal and...

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Oct 13, 2009

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Jared Taylor on “The Silent Catastrophe”

From Taki’s Magazine, October 12, 2009The media love disaster. One can hardly sit through a half hour of cable news without hearing dire prophecies of “climate change” and other ecotastrophes. And over the past year, television pundits have warned incessantly that without massive Wall Street bailouts and compulsory Swine Flu vaccinations, the sky just might fall. This all...

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Oct 1, 2009

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F. Roger Devlin on Why We Write

I came late to the issues characteristically discussed in The Occidental Quarterly.I had no interest in politics during my early adult years, a circumstance for which I am now grateful. Like most Americans, I assumed that “politics” meant electoral contests between hardly-distinguishable parties.In early adulthood I encountered The Gulag Archipelago and gained a proper...

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Sep 25, 2009

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Richard Hoste on Why We Write

The most interesting thing about the writers of TOQ isn’t why we write, but why we came to write from the perspective that we have. Wanting to express oneself in print isn’t that rare. High IQ people have their journals and books while even the less intelligent have MySpace. The more interesting question is how did we come to hold such unpopular beliefs?As a hereditarian, I...

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Sep 23, 2009

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Cultural Enrichment?

If there’s one argument in favor of multiculturalism that I hear far too often, its that a racially mixed nation fosters the “cultural enrichment” of its inhabitants. In other words, the individual American somehow becomes more knowledgeable about the world and its peoples, more skilled in interpersonal interactions, and just overall more refined if he is surrounded by...

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Jun 1, 2009

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Picking up the Torch

The Devil Knows Latin:Why America Needs the Classical TraditionE. Christian KopffWilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 1999E. Christian Kopff, classicist at the University of Colorado and occasional contributor to The Occidental Quarterly, has the knack of writing about difficult issues with an easy grace. The book under review is first of all a defense for our time of the value of...

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