Apr 10, 2010

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Paranormal Activity

I recently watched the 2009 film, Paranormal Activity. This is a haunted house horror film that employs a hyperrealist approach reminiscent of The Blair Witch Project, where the actors do their own filming using a digital video camera, the acting is virtually improvised, and the result is presented as “found footage.”The story is simple: a twenty-something suburban couple,...

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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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Mar 23, 2010

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Acéphale

The Headless Monster of “Modern” MasculinityIn 1936, while staying at the coastal village of Tossa de Mar with artist André Masson, George Bataille envisioned the Acéphale, pictured above. The Acéphale was a headless monster who symbolized man’s rejection of hierarchy and God and his escape from the boredom of civilization into a life lost to the pursuit...

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Mar 22, 2010

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The Psychopathology of Judaism

Translated by John de NugentJudaism is not merely a “religion,” as many Jews are overt atheists or agnostics, and they do not consider themselves less Jewish for all that. Jewry is also not a race even if it is true that a “trained eye,” most of the time, can recognize a Jewish appearance, that is to say, a characteristic pattern which is the result of their strict...

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Mar 13, 2010

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The War on Oblivion

A Discussion about the Future of Fatherhood in the WestThe birth rate of whites—native Europeans—in Europe is well below replacement level. As many writers including Pat Buchanan and Mark Steyn have noted, the aging, bloated European welfare states will increasingly be sustained by immigrants who are openly hostile to European culture. In America, our immigrants are much less...

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Mar 8, 2010

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Through a Feminist Looking Glass

My earliest childhood literary experiences involved the likes of Brothers Grimm, Alexander Afanasiev, Charles Perrault, Astrid Lindgren, Hans Christian Andersen, and, of course, Lewis Carroll. Nowadays, these books are customarily shoved to the back of the children’s section at the bookstore (if they’re stocked at all). (I checked. Many times.) They’ve been...

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Feb 26, 2010

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She Married Him

Editor’s Note: I decided to reprint the following commentary by Mark Richardson because it makes some valuable points about the limits of modern liberalism. After I had formatted it, I followed a link to the original story upon which Richardson is commenting. There I discovered that his article also illustrates the fatal limit of modern conservatism, not in what the author...

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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 15, 2010

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Game On: Revenge of the Matriarchs

I was walking past WalMart’s aisle of literature when I noticed what appeared to be an entire section of books featuring hot Amish women longingly gazing out over the open plain. After a closer look, I realized that I had stumbled onto the new genre that I’ve being hearing about: Amish Porn. They’re a type of romance novel that take place in idyllic American communities.To...

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Jan 29, 2010

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Where are the Girls?

This is the time-honored inquiry made by young men arriving at a party where the presence of the opposite sex isn’t immediately apparent. The same inquiry may also be made in relation to the glaringly apparent absence of the fairer sex in what the media like to term “the extreme right wing of Australian politics.” What is meant by this is nationalism. If the...

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