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Elite Status
Who should rule?Logging on this morning, I see that this has once again become a burning issue among the commentators. So far, I haven’t had much to say about the topic. I don’t aspire to rule over anyone. Becoming a politician isn’t a good fit with my introverted personality type. It is a task that I would prefer to leave to others. We have already had one commentator storm...
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The Libertarian Blind Spot
John Donne could never have been a libertarian because he believed that “No man is an island,” while libertarians seem to prefer a sort of reverse philosophy which holds that every man is an island. In particular, libertarians are so busy celebrating “the individual” that they give little or no attention to a phenomenon which is at least as important as...
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More from Hunter Wallace on Libertarianism
“Linder and Libertarianism”from Occidental Dissent, September 12, 2009Libertarians tend to think in abstract terms. They have all sorts of theories about government, economics, and ethics. I’m impressed less by their abstractions and more persuaded by the empirical results that follow their implementation.We’ve tried almost everything the libertarians recommend over...
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Hunter Wallace Settles Accounts with Libertarianism
“Raimondo, Libertarians, and Paleos”from Occidental Dissent, May 28, 2009As I pointed out to Evan McLaren last night, the disabling of the comment section at Takimag was about more than simple irritation with Captainchaos and friends trolling multiple threads. Justin Raimondo, John Zmirak, Paul Gottfried and others who write for that website have long held racialists in...
Read MoreDr. Strangelove
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombThis masterpiece of Stanley Kubrick was produced in 1963 and is a nationalist classic.Now you should find it strange to hear me argue that this “leftist movie” is a nationalist classic, but it clearly is. For beneath the superficial layer of supposed leftist pacifism is a very extensive and accurate...
Read MoreTOQ Announces New Essay Contest
The Occidental Quarterly is pleased to announce its second annual essay contest on the topic of “Libertarianism and Racial Nationalism.” For more information, please click here.The winner of the first TOQ essay contest, on “Secession,” will be announced on August 1st, not July 1st as originally announced. We thank the entrants for their...
Read MoreD. H. Lawrence on America’s Libertarian Spirit
“Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, Organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild...
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