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The Life and Times of Fay Stender Radical Attorney for the Black Panthers, Part 3
The Occidental Observer - Nov 4th 2019 11:07pm ESTGeorge Jackson and the Soledad Brothers Meanwhile, Fay met George Jackson. Huey Newton had told Fay about George Jackson and asked if she could help him. Jackson (whose family had relocated to California) was serving a life sentence in Soledad Prison for a $70 robbery, according to his sympathizers. The truth is a bit otherwise. […]
The Life and Times of Fay Stender, Radical Attorney for the Black Panthers and Disrupter of White Social Order, Part 2
The Occidental Observer - Nov 4th 2019 12:12am ESTGo to Part 1 Legal Work for the Movement When she returned to Berkeley, Fay “felt energized.”[i] So did other returnees. Mario Savio, fresh from Mississippi, launched the Free Speech Movement (FSM) at UC Berkeley that fall, kicking off the wider radical crusade of the 1960s. When the police began to clear Sproul Hall of […]
The Life and Times of Fay Stender, Radical Attorney for the Black Panthers and Disrupter of White Social Order
The Occidental Observer - Nov 3rd 2019 1:36am EDTIntroduction Fay Stender earned fame as a radical attorney in the 1960s and 1970s, defending two of the most prominent Black Panthers in highly publicized court cases. During the course of her career in left-wing activism, she embraced numerous “causes” with a passion as flamboyant as it was unbalanced. She worked strictly within the stream […]
Sociology as Religion, Part 2
The Occidental Observer - Nov 1st 2019 1:18am EDTThe author returns to the Project’s origins in Chapter Four, and here is where I diverge from Smith’s analysis. As mentioned in discussing Chapter One, the author sees the Project as perhaps the ultimate stretch of Western liberalism and individualism. I see the Project more as a discontinuity, not only from Western tradition generally, but […]
Sociology as Religion, Part 1
The Occidental Observer - Oct 31st 2019 2:36am EDTChristian Smith, The Sacred Project of American Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. The Left’s seizure of the academy has been manifest for some time. Christian Smith’s The Sacred Project is a case study of this phenomenon in a discipline where the Left’s grip is near total, analyzed from the perspective of his specialty […]
Harold Bloom (1930–2019): Unconventional Jewish Guru
The Occidental Observer - Oct 29th 2019 7:43am EDT“The defense of the Western canon is in no way a defense of the West or a nationalist enterprise. If multiculturalism meant Cervantes, who could quarrel with it?” Harold Bloom, The Western Canon It’s been remarked that in the last two decades of his life, the infamous Yale literary critic Harold Bloom was sufficiently preoccupied […]
Why I Owe Jim Bakker an Apology and Thank You
The Occidental Observer - Oct 26th 2019 11:41am EDTRecently, I wrote an article, posted here, on the 1969 Academy-Award-winning film “Midnight Cowboy.” I’m old enough to have seen it in a theater back when it was first released—of course, no DVDs or streaming in those years. I hadn’t seen it again until this year, a gap of a half-century no less. What particularly […]
The Nobel Prize in Literature and the Politics of Selective Outrage
The Occidental Observer - Oct 25th 2019 8:34am EDTIn an era in which every work of art is scrutinized by establishment critics according to prevailing political sensitivity, it is not surprising that the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature is now mired in controversy. Perhaps calling it a controversy might be a bit of a stretch considering how little impact literature –or most art, […]
The Tory Parliamentary Struggle to Preserve English National Identity, 1753–1858: Parts IV and V
The Occidental Observer - Oct 23rd 2019 8:58am EDTPart IV: The Collapse of the Anti-Jewish Party, 1847–1858 The agitation for Jewish “emancipation” would not begin again in earnest until the Whig ministry of Lord Russell. There was no law against Jews taking up seats in Parliament; rather, they were effectively barred from taking office because of a technicality. In 1847, Lionel de Rothschild, […]
The Tory Parliamentary Struggle to Preserve English National Identity, 1753–1858, Part III
The Occidental Observer - Oct 22nd 2019 11:27am EDTPart III: The Jewish Onslaught Against Parliamentary Anti-Judaism, 1829–1836 The movement for Jewish “emancipation” in nineteenth-century England was spearheaded by Jews and their Whig or Liberal allies, while the opposition was led by the High Tories: The High Tory majority in the House of Lords had acted as a barrier to the advancement of Jewish […]
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