The Occidental Quarterly: Western Perspectives on Man, Culture, and Politics

The Spring issue of The Occidental Quarterly contains 118 pages of fascinating, intellectually stimulating articles and reviews. Brenton Sanderson leads off with a detailed account of Leonard Bernstein's strong Jewish identity and his leftist activism ("Leonard Bernstein and the Jewish Cultural Ascendency"). Sanderson also shows how Bernstein was promoted to the status of cultural icon as a result of activism by Jews with high positions in the media.

Guillaume Durocher's article on the Song of Roland highlights the theme that, despite the fact that Christianity has become entirely subservient to the left in the contemporary era, there was a time when Christianity motivated the defense of Europe from foreign invasion, in this case the invasion of Muslim armies ("The Mightier Our Blows, the Greater Our Emperor's Love: The Crusader Ideology of Germanized Christianity in the Song of Roland"). This eleventh-century work glorifies military virtues and defense of people and culture that are so despised in today's culture of the West.

Kerry Bolton's article dissections the recent UN Global Migration Compact, supporting the view that a basic motivation for this disastrous agreement is to allow the free flow of labor in order to promote the interests of international corporations ("Globalization of Labor: Origins and Aims of the United Nations Global Migration Compact"). Although framed as non-binding for signatories, he argues on the basis of previous UN compacts that these provisions will eventually become mandatory.

Robert S. Griffin profiles William Gayley Simpson (b. 1892, d. 1991), an important forerunner who had many of the ideas that animate the dissident right today ("Who Was William Gayley Simpson?").

F. Roger Devlin's review essay on Stephen Baskerville's The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Governmental Power recounts the effects of the rise of extreme feminist ideas on education, the legal system, and family law ("The Criminalization of Masculinity"). For example, professors of gender studies have rejected any attempt to develop scientifically based theories in favor of what can only be described as anti-male ideology.

There are also a number of shorter reviews: Nelson Rosit reviews Michael Rectenwald's Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage ("A Method to Their Madness"). Andrew Joyce reviews Richard Houck's Liberalism Unmasked ("Liberalism as Psychopathology"). TOQ editor Kevin MacDonald reviews Aviva Weingarten's Jewish Organizations' Response to Communism and to Senator McCarthy ("Joe McCarthy and the Jews"). Richard McCulloch reviews Greg Johnson's The White Nationalist Manifesto ("A Manifesto for Europeans").