An article in the New York Post by Chadwick Moore, a self-described gay man, is an excellent window into the poisoned political atmosphere resulting from (and perhaps contributing to) the election of Donald Trump (“I’m a gay New Yorker — and I’m coming out as a conservative“). The very many Trump supporters who have found that longtime friends, lovers, […]
Because of the executive order by President Trump (what a great feeling to write that!) closing down the refugee industry from seven predominantly Muslim countries, there is an entirely expected outcry from the usual suspects. Quite often the argument reverts to events in the 1930s in which Jewish refugees were prevented from entering the U.S. […]
The 2014 WaPo caption: “People hold a banner” — they mean “Arab Immigrants hold a banner” Previously posted at VDARE. The Main Stream Media predicts Donald J. Trump will appeal for “national unity” in his Inaugural Address this Friday, but they’ve been mistaken before. One way he could wrong-foot the Narrative: by announcing an immediate […]
The Winter issue of The Occidental Quarterly is out. It’s really one of the best we’ve ever put together, and, at 136 pages, certainly the longest. It contains great articles and review essays by writers well-known to readers of TOO, including Nelson Rosit, Dr. Ray Wolters, Dr. Andrew Joyce, Guillaume Durocher, F. Roger Devlin, and Dr. Tom […]
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 CONCLUSION An important mechanism underlying all this is that of rallying around the flag during times of crisis, a phenomenon that is well understood by social psychologists. Group identification processes are exaggerated in times of resource competition or other perceived sources of threat,131 a finding that is […]
