Category: History, Page 30
Danelaw to Denmark: A Viking Journey
Occidental Dissent - Dec 27th 2019 1:01pm ESTThe entire history of the United States falls within the Modern era. The ethnic and cultural distinction between Yankee and Southerner can similarly be traced back to the Early Modern Era and has its roots in divisions over climate, slavery and religion. The Anglo-American founding stock came from different parts of the British Isles. The […]
Æthelstan: The First King of the English
Occidental Dissent - Dec 25th 2019 10:58am ESTNow watching:
1000 AD: A Tour of the Viking World
Occidental Dissent - Dec 24th 2019 11:35am ESTThe World War II debate continues to rage in the comments. It seems like everyone has a strong opinion on the subject. I’ve always hated the World Wars and the 20th century. Liberalism won World War II and the end of that conflict represents the beginning of our own era in which “racism” and “anti-Semitism” […]
Danelaw: Viking State in the Heart of England
Occidental Dissent - Dec 22nd 2019 10:45am ESTIn the last update of my DNA test results from Ancestry.com, I learned that I had a lot more Scandinavian ancestry than I was previously led to believe. It jumped from 3 percent to 13 percent including Sweden, Norway and the Baltics. Danish was my third largest ancestry region. I have no doubt where that […]
Was World War II Necessary?
Occidental Dissent - Dec 21st 2019 10:58am ESTI’m going to be on the road traveling all day and won’t be able to post much content. In the meantime, I want to start a debate on the merits of Adolf Hitler’s foreign policy, which I believe was a total disaster that brought about the worst defeat in German history. Specifically, I believe that […]
The Christmas Truce
Occidental Dissent - Dec 18th 2019 7:21pm ESTIt is one of the greatest tragedies in the history of the Western civilization that the World Wars didn’t end in the Christmas Truce in 1914.
The Untold History of German America
Occidental Dissent - Dec 16th 2019 7:58pm ESTHow about a change of pace? Let’s take a look at German America.
DW: Frederick and The Empress
Occidental Dissent - Dec 14th 2019 7:17pm ESTI’m going to chill this evening and watch this documentary on the contest between Frederick the Great and the Hohenzollerans of Prussia and Maria Theresa and the Habsburgs of Austria over supremacy over the German world.
New Labour Plotted To Turn Britain Into a Third World Country
Occidental Dissent - Dec 13th 2019 8:39pm ESTIn light of BREXIT and the collapse of the Labour Party in last night’s general election, it is worth remembering what brought it about. Daily Mail: “Labour threw open the doors to mass migration in a deliberate policy to change the social make-up of the UK, secret papers suggest.A draft report from the Cabinet Office […]
Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism
Occidental Dissent - Dec 12th 2019 9:40am ESTEditor’s Note: This is a work in progress.
Scandinavia In the Age of Revolution
Occidental Dissent - Dec 9th 2019 11:09pm ESTIs Protestantism necessarily liberal? Is Protestantism opposed to racialism and anti-Semitism? Is Protestantism opposed to nationalism and authoritarianism? These questions have drawn my attention lately. We’ve already seen how church and state used to be integrated in Lutheran Europe before the Napoleonic Wars and how Protestants supported the Third Reich. We have also seen how […]
The Age of Lutheran Orthodoxy
Occidental Dissent - Dec 8th 2019 8:27pm ESTEditor’s Note: This is a work in progress. Liberalism didn’t exist in Martin Luther and John Calvin’s time. As I explained earlier, Protestantism WAS NOT always liberal. It developed centuries later and then mostly in the context of the religious pluralism of the Anglo and Dutch world. The following excerpt comes from Eric W. Gritsch’s […]
South Africa In 1984
Occidental Dissent - Dec 7th 2019 3:06pm ESTLiberalism destroyed a promising country:
Masters of the Universe
Occidental Dissent - Dec 6th 2019 11:00am ESTWe’re continuing our exploration of neoliberalism this morning. Daniel Stedman Jones is the author of Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics which traces the intellectual origins of neoliberalism in Europe between the World Wars, the political breakthrough that happened in the 1970s during the stagflation crisis that ended embedded […]
Southern History Series: Sen. Huey Long’s Share Our Wealth Society
Occidental Dissent - Dec 2nd 2019 12:43pm EST
Chris Hayes says that his greatest fear is that someday a demagogue will come along with a draconian anti-immigration policy and offering medicare for all— Douglas Mercer (@douglasmercer33) November 29, 2019 In my view, the Right doesn’t need to reclaim socialism from the Left so much as it needs to embrace economic populism. We need […]Alternate History: What If Britain Became Fascist?
Occidental Dissent - Dec 1st 2019 4:58pm ESTFascism wasn’t simply a German or Italian movement. There were fascist movements in other European countries. German fascism and Italian fascism also differed in a number of ways. What would have happened if Britain had gone fascist and liberalism hadn’t triumphed in World War II? How would our timeline have changed?
The Decline and Fall of the Western Liberal Political Class
Occidental Dissent - Nov 30th 2019 11:50pm ESTI will be completely honest. My attitude toward democracy has somewhat improved after reading this book because I increasingly see liberalism as the problem that ails the West. We never got the chance to vote on countless things like mass immigration, political correctness, multiculturalism, gay marriage, etc. Those key decisions were all made on behalf […]
Code Name Godsend: Historians Discover Fourth Jewish Spy Who Betrayed America To The Soviets
Occidental Dissent - Nov 29th 2019 1:01am ESTThe other Jewish spies and/or couriers were Ted Hall, David Greenglass, Morris Cohen, Harry Gold and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Klaus Fuchs is notable for being the only spy who wasn’t Jewish. New York Times: “The world’s first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexican desert — a result of […]
Spiked Online: Sacha Baron Cohen Is Wrong About Social Media
Occidental Dissent - Nov 27th 2019 8:48pm ESTI didn’t know this. I have always hated and avoided the World War II era. Spiked Online: “The enemies of free speech see ‘Hitler’ as a kind of trump card against calls for unrestricted and unadulterated free speech. The implication is that the Nazis’ rise to power and the Holocaust could have been prevented if […]
Should We Apologize For Our History?
Occidental Dissent - Nov 24th 2019 11:07am EST@xuriousmusic @westland_will @RichardBSpencer pic.twitter.com/NinMxQ9JKx— MarkBrahmin (@MarkBrahmin) October 20, 2019 Imagine being under the yoke of this thing. pic.twitter.com/EnxYulrK16— Protocols Pete (@ProtocolsPete) November 23, 2019 Should I feel guilty about British colonialism? My people left Britain to come to the American South in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. We conquered the Indians and replaced them […]
Southern History Series: Herrenvolk Democracy
Occidental Dissent - Nov 21st 2019 7:45pm ESTWe’re continuing with the theme tonight of what American Nationalism was like when it was controlled by the South before the War Between the States in the early days of the Democratic Party. The following excerpt comes from William A. Link’s book Southern Crucible: The Making of an American Region. “Between the 1820s and the […]
Confederate Monument Comes Down In Pittsboro
Occidental Dissent - Nov 20th 2019 8:38pm ESTThe same people who tell us that it is sacrilege not to care about the Holocaust, which had nothing to do with our people, have no problem tearing down monuments to our dead ancestors. New York Times: “A Confederate monument in the small town of Pittsboro, N.C., was removed early Wednesday from the spot outside […]
