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 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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Nov 20, 2009

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Twilight: New Moon Doesn’t Suck

The news is: the movie of New Moon, the second installment of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga, doesn’t suck—in the vulgar, colloquial, non-vampire sense of the word—although all the signs were certainly there.First, the book of New Moon is terrible: nearly 600 pages of pedestrian prose, glacially paced, padded to excruciating lengths not with fluff, but with damp, insipid,...

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Oct 26, 2009

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Straw Dogs

I have suggested in previous articles, as well as in my dystopian novel, Mister, that the longer we allow our enemies to carry on as they are, the harsher the measures that will be required to extricate ourselves from the present mess.This is not a profound insight; it is something every schoolboy learns in the playground. When a challenge is allowed to pass without a forceful...

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Oct 13, 2009

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Go Small or Go Home

“Go Small or Go Home”by Schaeferfrom The Art of Manliness, October 11, 2009. . . I found myself roaming the halls of our newly-built 3-bed, 2-bath suburban home fuming that we didn’t have enough storage space. During college I could carry everything I owned in the back of my Dodge pickup. Now 1,600 square feet was not adequate to house our growing collection of...

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Aug 27, 2009

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Edgar Rice Burroughs and Masculine Narrative

From The Brussels Journal, August27, 2009Contemporary popular culture is as jejune as contemporary politics: strangled by political correctness and by contempt for form and etiquette, it eats away like acid at what remains of courtesy and memory.  But the past of popular culture – in literature and the movies – has much nourishment to offer.  One of the most popular authors...

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Aug 7, 2009

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They Don’t Make Them Like they Used To

From The Occidental Observer, August 6, 2009On occasion of my 39th birthday, my wife organized a holiday in the Lake District in Cumbria, in the North East of England. While there we visited England’s Pencil Museum, where we learnt much about the invention and manufacture of the pencil, a tool that spawned a huge industry in the region during the Victorian era. One of the...

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May 2, 2009

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Palefaces:
Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight on Film

Catherine Hardwicke’s movie Twilight is based on the first novel of a series by Stephenie Meyer. The books mostly appeal to young women, and the advertisements for the movie screamed “chick flick,” so I gave it a pass when it was released in theaters. But I admire Joss Whedon’s series Angel, about a vampire with a soul, and when I heard that Twilight...

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Apr 24, 2009

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The Racial Caste System in Sports

There seems to be no slaking Western man’s thirst for spectator sports. The “bread and circuses” of the Roman Empire seem almost trivial by comparison. American culture is awash in worship of sports teams and professional athletes. Even those who excel in activities that feature very little “athleticism,” like golf and motor sports, achieve the kind of fame and fortune...

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Apr 22, 2009

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F. Roger Devlin in Russian

F. Roger Devlin’s TOQ classic “Sexual Utopia in Power” has been translated into Russian. Russians of course know quite a lot about revolutionary dystopias, so it is a real compliment when they choose to translate an American writer’s work on this topic. Congratulations Dr. Devlin....

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