Apr 8, 2010

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Sexual Liberation & Racial Suicide

An address given at The Occidental Quarterly Editor’s Dinner on October 30, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia.What is “sexual liberation”? It is usually spoken of by way of contrast with the constraints of marriage and family life. It would seem to be a condition under which people have more choice than under the traditional system of monogamy. Hugh Hefner’s “Playboy...

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Feb 16, 2010

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F. Roger Devlin to be Interviewed by Tom Sunic

On Tuesday, February 16, 2010, at 9 PM Eastern US time, Tom Sunic will interview accomplished writer and thinker F. Roger Devlin, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for The Occidental Quarterly.To listen and/or download the show for free, see the instructions at the bottom of this page.Topics for discussion will include:1. How Alexander Kojeve laid bare the most fundamental...

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Feb 6, 2010

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F. Roger Devlin Discussed, TOQ mentioned in Weekly Standard Cover Story

F. Roger Devlin is discussed somewhat respectfully in Charlotte Allen’s cover story “The New Dating Game” in the February 15, 2010 issue of The Weekly Standard, a Jewish neo-conservative magazine. TOQ is also mentioned. See here and here. Congratulations Dr. Devlin, and...

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Dec 15, 2009

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The Three Horsemen of an Evolutionary Apocalypse, Part 2: Pornography

In our previous installment, we looked at a particular fitness signaling failure for food consumption, as prehistoric drives for fat accumulation are causing permanent obesity for many individuals in our world of agricultural plenty. In this installment we will explore perhaps the most caustic false signal set in our world, pornography.First it would be helpful to examine the...

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Dec 5, 2009

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Bonald’s Economic Thought

The French Age of Enlightenment witnessed and celebrated an economic revolution: the rapid growth of speculation and a money economy, and a corresponding diminution in the importance of landed wealth. Bonald believed that the change had been brought about by the practice of usury. He did not condemn all lending at interest as usury, but distinguished between the cases of lending...

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Dec 4, 2009

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Bonald’s Theory of the Nobility

Unlike Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre, Louis de Bonald devoted little space to analyzing the French Revolution itself. His focus instead was on understanding the traditional society which had been swept away. His review of Mme. de Staël’s Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution, e.g., ends up turning into a theory of the nobility and its function....

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Nov 1, 2009

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Louis de Bonald, On Divorce, Part II

Read Part 1 here.DivorceThe reader may be forgiven for wondering why the foregoing matters are discussed at length in a treatise called On Divorce. Today we are inclined to view marriage as a “personal matter.” But it is not. Most obviously, it also concerns the interests of the children it produces:Public power is the guarantor of the commitment of the two spouses to form a...

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Oct 31, 2009

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Louis de Bonald, On Divorce, Part I

On Divorce Louis de BonaldTranslated and edited by Nicholas DavidsonNew Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1992On the European continent, Louis de Bonald has long been named alongside Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre as a foremost first generation critic of the French Revolution and founder of modern conservatism. De Maistre himself, late in life, wrote to Bonald: “I have...

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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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Jul 12, 2009

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Paul Gottfried’s Terrestrial Railroad Journey

Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and TeachersPaul E. GottfriedWilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2009Dr. Paul Gottfried, currently Raffensburger Professor of Humanities at unpretentious Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, is a naturally ambitious man whose plans for academic eminence and influence with the mighty did not come to fruition. The book’s...

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