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  • Gods of the Upper Air

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 13th 2020 2:06am EDT

    Charles King has a new book out called Gods of the Upper Air about Franz Boas and his students and how they changed American anthropology. Note: I haven’t got the chance to read this book yet or Robert Putnam’s new book The Upswing. I’m going to try to read and review both here.

  • Modernists and American Historiography

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 13th 2020 1:54am EDT

    There are few things that I find more aggravating than listening to conservative liberals prattle on about the deracinated civic nationalism of the Founding Fathers. Victorian America was a White, Anglo-Saxon (in culture), Protestant nation with liberal and republican principles. It was not a “Nation of Immigrants” or a “melting pot.” The conservative liberal vision […]

  • S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 532 | Hillary Goes Full Dugin

    Jared Howe - Oct 12th 2020 9:00am EDT

    It’s getting hard to tell the difference between Richard Spencer and Hillary Clinton. If you thought that Hillary’s illegal and unsecured private email server had disqualified her from being taken seriously on matters of national security, you could be forgiven. In a 5000-word essay on the topic, Clinton urges the permanent Washington foreign policy establishment […]

  • H.L. Mencken, Nietzsche and the Culture War

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 11th 2020 5:48pm EDT

    Modernism arrived in the United States in the 1910s. The culture war between Moderns and Victorians began in the 1920s. If we were to go back to the 1920s, we would find that H.L. Mencken was unquestionably the single most important figure in defining the culture war. Who inspired H.L. Mencken’s culture war? The following […]

  • Jazz and Black Politics In the 1920s

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 11th 2020 12:58am EDT

    This is interesting. The following excerpt comes from Stanley Coben’s book Rebellion Against Victorianism: The Impetus for Cultural Change in 1920s America: “The Victorian color caste system was challenged most comprehensively during the 1920s by Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois. Despite their sound ideas and vigorous efforts, neither man accomplished much to raise the […]

  • Civilization in the United States

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 9th 2020 2:08pm EDT

    In Civilization in the United States (1921), Harold E. Stearns and the Moderns summed up their indictment of American culture. The following excerpt comes from Nathan Miller’s New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America: “A Harvard graduate and contributor to intellectual journals, the thirty-year-old Stearns was, in the spring of 1921, […]

  • H.L. Mencken, The Scopes Monkey Trial and the Culture War

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 9th 2020 10:58am EDT

    H.L. Mencken was a journalist, an atheist, a libertarian and a Nietzschean. He shared Nietzsche and the Modernists contempt for the masses. No one in the 1920s had a greater negative impact on shaping the values and beliefs of young Losters in college rebelling against their Victorian parents than Mencken. The following excerpt comes from […]

  • S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 531 | Just an Idea

    Jared Howe - Oct 9th 2020 8:52am EDT

    You ever notice how Antifa is just an idea until they get arrested by the FBI for plotting to do shit like kidnap the governor of Michigan, at which point they become “white supremacists” and “far right extremists”? At least one of the thirteen “white supremacist militia members” taken into custody by the FBI appears […]

  • The New Era

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 8th 2020 4:04pm EDT

    As I have argued, Modern America emerged in the 1920s. The Victorian consensus on identity, culture and morality began its long term decline in this period when the Losters rebelled against their parents after World War I. The rifts that began to open up in the 1920s were temporarily overshadowed by the mirage of unity […]

  • Late Victorian Women’s Fashion

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 8th 2020 2:25pm EDT

    Queen Victoria died in 1901. Technically, we are looking at women’s fashion in the Edwardian era to put this shift in perspective. King Edward VII died in 1910 and was succeeded by King George V. Victorian culture ended around 1914 at the start of World War I. Women dressed much more modestly before the big […]

  • The New Woman and 1920s Fashion

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 8th 2020 11:56am EDT

    As we have seen, the “New Woman” who smoked Torches of Freedom was a literary creation of Modernism that originated in Henrik Ibsen’s play The Doll House (1879) and was popularized by Henry James in his novels in the late 19th century. In America, the New Woman became known as the Flapper in the 1920s. […]

  • S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 530 | Meet the NEW New World Order

    Jared Howe - Oct 8th 2020 9:01am EDT

    Meet the new boss, same as the old boss — but more EtHniCaLLy DiVeRsE. When Commiela Harris brags about having the support of “seven former Bush cabinet members”, she’s signaling to the world that she’s a globalist and she doesn’t care who knows it. If it seems like the Deep State and the Moneyed Elite […]

  • The Hays Code

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 7th 2020 10:08am EDT

    In the 1920s, millions of Americans began watching Hollywood movies and movie theaters spread across America. Almost as soon as film developed into the preeminent art form of 20th century mass culture, some Americans began to worry that mass entertainment was corrupting morals. The following excerpt comes from Nathan Miller’s New World Coming: The 1920s […]

  • S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 529 | Everybody Knew

    Jared Howe - Oct 7th 2020 8:52am EDT

    The DNI just declassified handwritten notes from former CIA Director John Brennan which reveal that Hillary invented the Russia collusion hoax out of whole cloth to distract the public from her email server scandal, and that everyone from Obama to Biden to Comey to Strzok were briefed on the matter. Wait… what? If they all […]

  • America Is Having a Moral Convulsion

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 6th 2020 3:33pm EDT

    David Brooks has a long new think piece at The Atlantic in which he tries to explain the social breakdown that we are witnessing: The Atlantic: “American history is driven by periodic moments of moral convulsion. The late Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington noticed that these convulsions seem to hit the United States every […]

  • The Rise of Hollywood

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 5th 2020 9:55am EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. When did our age begin? What distinguishes Modern America from Victorian America? The transition between the two began in the 1910s, World War I was the rupture and was complete by the Roaring Twenties. The Lost Generation was the first Modern generation. On one side of this […]

  • S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 528 | Not That Kind of Pizza

    Jared Howe - Oct 5th 2020 9:09am EDT

    Buying pizza for the President’s supporters can sometimes mean different things, depending on who is in office. Trump is rumored to have purchased large quantities of meat lover’s pizza from Little Caesar’s for his supporters who gathered in a “flash mob” outside of Walter Reed Hospital to show their support as he recovers from the […]

  • The Sun Also Rises

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 3rd 2020 2:32pm EDT

    In the 1920s, Franz Boas and his students in the social sciences challenged traditional Victorian beliefs and values in race, sexuality and gender roles in favor of cultural egalitarianism. Meanwhile in the arts and literature, Modernist poets, critics and novelists simultaneously challenged Victorian beliefs and values in manners, morals, beauty, sexuality and gender roles in […]

  • Antiracism, Social Science and the Revolt Against Victorian America

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 3rd 2020 12:40pm EDT

    In the 1910s, Modernism arrived in America. The first Modernists established enclaves in Chicago and Greenwich Village in New York City. Most of the Chicago group ended up moving to Greenwich Village in the years before World War I. In America’s first truly bohemian enclave, anarchists and socialists mixed with progressive liberals and the Modernist […]

  • The Second Klan and Modernism

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 2nd 2020 10:44am EDT

    In the 1920s, the Second Klan was on the other side of the culture war between Victorians and Moderns that I have been describing in recent weeks. In fact, the rise of the Second Klan was more about national identity and this cultural and moral breakdown than it was about race. The Second Klan appealed […]

  • S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 527 | Theft Through Inflation

    Jared Howe - Oct 2nd 2020 8:18am EDT

    For today’s episode, I’m bringing you a recent discussion I had with columnist Paul Tripp of the Unz Review at Unz.com regarding the Federal Reserve and the degree to which it facilitates wealth consolidation in the hands of those who have privileged access to its money printer going brrrr, all at the expense of workers […]

  • Towards a Definition of American Modernism

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 1st 2020 5:07pm EDT

    This is an excellent article. It lays out how the Victorian culture of the 19th century had divided the world into sharp hierarchies and spheres – in race, sex, class, gender roles, civilization – and how the Modernist culture of the 20th century violently reacted against its predecessor and set about dismantling all of those […]

  • S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 526 | Organized Jewish Terrorism

    Jared Howe - Oct 1st 2020 9:54am EDT

    Never let it be said that Antifa isn’t Jewish or organized. That’s the takeaway from a new article from the Jewish Forward, which details the explicitly Jewish history of the Antifa ORGANIZATION, including the founding documents and principles it created in 1934 in opposition to the British occupation of Palestine. It’s as true now as […]

  • S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 525 | Stand Back and Standby

    Jared Howe - Sep 30th 2020 3:01pm EDT

    …did Trump just threaten to deputize the RWDS? The Blue Checkmark Mafia is in an uproar over the fact that President Trump wouldn’t condemn wHiTe SooOpReeeeeemiSts or the Proud Boys last night during his debate with Biden, who was dragged over the finish line by Chris Wallace. When prompted by Biden and Wallace to disavow […]

  • From Babbitt To Bateman: The Bohemian Origins of Consumer Capitalism

    Occidental Dissent - Sep 30th 2020 10:39am EDT

    The Victorians had prized religion and morality and an ethic of self-denial, thrift and industry. They also restrained sexuality. The Moderns rejected all of this as bourgeois, repressive and philistine. They wanted to live their lives in the moment and devoted to the religion of art and experience. If you lived a bourgeois life like […]