The Occidental Quarterly

The Occidental Quarterly has a new addition to the masthead: a recognition of William H. Regnery II as founder of the Charles Martel Society, the publisher of The Occidental Quarterly. This was a pioneering endeavor, resulting in the first and only scholarly journal dedicated to Western perspectives on society and culture. We are now in our twentieth year of publishing, and Mr. Regnery deserves a huge amount of credit for getting this publication off the ground.

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The Occidental Quarterly has a new addition to the masthead: a recognition of William H. Regnery II as founder of the Charles Martel Society, the publisher of The Occidental Quarterly. This was a pioneering endeavor, resulting in the first and only scholarly journal dedicated to Western perspectives on society and culture. We are now in our twentieth year of publishing, and Mr. Regnery deserves a huge amount of credit for getting this publication off the ground.

The lead article of the Fall issue of 2020 is Regnery's essay on the problems faced by the traditional American majority. He proposes a partition of the United States in which the majority of European-Americans form a separate country that would exclude the approximately forty percent of European Americans labeled "millenarians"--people who envision a "utopian future free from all racial conflict. This is the same sort of millenarianism that has characterized the moral crusades of the American past, from the Civil War to World War II, to our contemporary regime-change wars in the Middle East."

Andrew Joyce provides exhaustive detail on the movement to permanently and irreversibly end free speech throughout the West, including the de-platforming by financial institutions (e.g., credit card processers refusing to service to certain websites), removal of content (e.g., removal of videos on You Tube), the loss of employment, and, in many countries, criminal penalties. These efforts are led by well-funded, politically influential activist organizations such as the European Council on Reconciliation and Tolerance and the Anti-Defamation League. We are witnessing the end of the Enlightenment and are well into a new Dark Age where central dogmas related to globalism and multiculturalism cannot be questioned in public without severe consequences.

Karl Nemmersdorf's article describes the life and times of Fay Stender, a radical activist attorney who defended the revolutionaries of the late 1960s and early 1970s (e.g., Huey Newon and George Jackson) and was instrumental in the prison reform movement of the period. This article is very relevant to the present cultural context where radicals associated with Black Lives Matter and antifa are calling for defunding the police amidst rioting and looting in the major urban areas of the United States.

It's interesting therefore that Stender became disenchanted with her efforts at prison reform: She "had finally come to see the real nature of the convicts she had tried to help. ... Of all the men she had freed, 'only one, absolutely only one, stayed out.' More than one had committed rapes or murders after being freed." Stender committed suicide after being grievously wounded by an ex-convict.

We in the West are accustomed to think of globalism as applying primarily to Western countries. John Q. Publius's article describes the pervasiveness of globalism, including in Eastern Europe, and the well-orchestrated funding of globalist initiatives (particularly on immigration) by governments, non-governmental organization, and the United Nations.

Finally, F. Roger Devlin reviews Richard Lynn's autobiography, Memoirs of a Dissident Psychologist. Because of his work on racial and ethnic differences in intelligence around the world, Prof. Lynn has been viciously attacked. In his memoirs he describes his early life as a communist and his experiences as a student in psychology at Cambridge University. Most interesting are his personal encounters with many of the figures who have contributed to research on differences in intelligence, such as Richard Herrnstein, Arthur Jensen, J. Philippe Rushton, and William Shockley, as well as figures like B. F. Skinner who adamantly opposed such findings.