Author Archives: F. Roger Devlin

F. Roger Devlin

F. Roger Devlin, Ph.D. is the author of Alexandre Kojève and the Outcome of Modern Thought and many essays, articles, and reviews on topics ranging from feminism to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

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National Socialism as Anti-Modernism?
Julius Evola’s Notes on the Third Reich

F. Roger Devlin

2,205 words

Julius Evola
Notes on the Third Reich
Trans. E. Christian Kopff
London: Arktos, 2013

Evola wrote this short assessment of Hitlerian National Socialism as a follow up to Fascism Viewed from the Right. The basic thrust of the study is that National Socialism is significantly inferior to its Italian cousin from a traditionalist perspective, Read more …

Published: May 17, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Adolf Hitler, book reviews, F. Roger Devlin, Julius Evola, National Socialism, North American New Right, Notes on the Third Reich, originals, Third Reich, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Fascism as Anti-Modernism
Julius Evola’s Fascism Viewed from the Right

F. Roger Devlin

1,865 words

Julius Evola
Fascism Viewed from the Right
Trans. E. Christian Kopff
London: Arktos, 2013

Evola’s reckoning with Italian Fascism is among his later works, first published in 1964, and reprinted with additional notes in 1970. This is the first English translation, produced for Arktos by classicist E. Christian Kopff.

Alain de Benoist’s Vivid Memory
Part 3: The Beginnings of the Nouvelle Droite

F. Roger Devlin

1,468 words

Part 3 of 3

Alain de Benoist
Mémoire vive: entretiens avec François Bousquet
Paris: Éditions de Fallois, 2012

During the years 1966–’67, the movement in which Benoist had been a militant went into its death throes. Read more …

Published: July 25, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alain de Benoist, book reviews, European New Right, F. Roger Devlin, Mémoire vive, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Alain de Benoist’s Vivid Memory
Part 2: An Agitated Youth

F. Roger Devlin

1,435 words

Part 2 of 3

Alain de Benoist
Mémoire vive: entretiens avec François Bousquet
Paris: Éditions de Fallois, 2012

When Benoist was a teenager, his father purchased a small country house to the west of Paris. Read more …

Published: July 17, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alain de Benoist, book reviews, European New Right, F. Roger Devlin, Mémoire vive, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Alain de Benoist’s Vivid Memory
Part 1: A Full Childhood

F. Roger Devlin

1,372 words

Part 1 of 3

Alain de Benoist
Mémoire vive: entretiens avec François Bousquet
Paris: Éditions de Fallois, 2012

The title of Alain de Benoist’s volume of reminiscences is a play on words: literally signifying “vivid memory,” it is also the French equivalent for RAM, or Rapid Access Memory. Read more …

Published: July 10, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alain de Benoist, book reviews, European New Right, F. Roger Devlin, Mémoire vive, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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From Salon to Guillotine
Augustin Cochin on the French Revolution

F. Roger Devlin

10,020 words

Augustin Cochin
Organizing the Revolution: Selections From Augustin Cochin
Translated by Nancy Derr Polin with a Preface by Claude Polin
Rockford, Ill.: Chronicles Press, 2007

The Rockford Institute’s publication of Organizing the Revolution marks the first appearance in our language of an historian whose insights apply not only to the French Revolution but to much of modern politics as well. Read more …

Published: June 27, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Augustin Cochin, book reviews, F. Roger Devlin, French Revolution, metapolitics, reprints | Comments closed

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The Rectification of Names:
Guillaume Faye’s Why We Fight

F. Roger Devlin

1,357 words

Guillaume Faye
Why We Fight: Manifesto of the European Resistance
London: Arktos Media, 2011

Available from Counter-Currents and from Amazon.com

Human Rights between Ideology & Politics:
Alain de Benoist’s Beyond Human Rights

F. Roger Devlin

2,055 words

Alain de Benoist
Beyond Human Rights: Defending Freedoms
London: Arktos Media, 2011

The work under review is the third by French philosopher Alain de Benoist to be translated into English, and the second translation to be published by Arktos Media. Like its predecessor The Problem of Democracy, it is a short, dense book written to challenge the authority of one of the most pompous god-terms of our age.

Europe vs. the West

F. Roger Devlin

1,842 words

Pierre Krebs
Fighting for the Essence: Western Ethnosuicide or European Renaissance?
London: Arktos Media, 2012

This newest offering from Arktos is the first translation into English from the works of Pierre Krebs, a leading figure in the European New Right. Read more …

Published: February 29, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, Christianity, European New Right, F. Roger Devlin, Fighting for the Essence, neo-paganism, North American New Right, on Krebs, originals, paganism, Pierre Krebs | Comments closed

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Rethinking Democracy:
Alain de Benoist’s The Problem of Democracy

F. Roger Devlin

4,271 words

Alain de Benoist
The Problem of Democracy
Arktos Media, 2011

This deceptively brief study of democracy begins from the familiar point that the term can no longer mean much in an age when all regimes claim to be democratic. Read more …

Published: October 14, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged about Benoist, Alain de Benoist, ancient Rome, Athens, book reviews, equality, European New Right, F. Roger Devlin, freedom, French New Right, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, political theory, Sparta, The Problem of Democracy | Comments closed

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Sexual Utopia in Power, Part 4

F. Roger Devlin

Clasped hands from a figure of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, Egyptian Museum, Berlin

4,091 words

The Forgotten Men

The attempt to realize a sexual utopia for women was doomed to failure before it began. Women’s wishes aim at the impossible, conflict with one another, and change unpredictably. Read more …

Published: July 15, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, F. Roger Devlin, family, female psychology, feminism, male psychology, marriage, North American New Right, reprints, sexual revolution, sexual utopia in power, sexuality | Comments closed

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Sexual Utopia in Power, Part 3

F. Roger Devlin

Peter Paul Reubens, "The Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus," 1618

3,781 words

Part 3 of 4

Return of the Primitive

Public discussion of the sexual revolution has tended to focus on date rape and “hook-ups,” that is, on what is taking place, rather than on the formation of stable families that is not taking place. Read more …

Published: July 14, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, F. Roger Devlin, family, female psychology, feminism, male psychology, marriage, North American New Right, reprints, sexual revolution, sexual utopia in power, sexuality | Comments closed

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Sexual Utopia in Power, Part 2

F. Roger Devlin

3,774 words

Part 2 of 4

Fallout of the Revolution: “Date Rape”

A few years into the sexual revolution, shocking reports began to appear of vast numbers of young women—from one quarter to half—being victims of rape. Shock turned to bewilderment when the victims were brought forward to tell their stories. Read more …

Published: July 13, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, date rape, F. Roger Devlin, family, female psychology, feminism, male psychology, marriage, North American New Right, rape, reprints, sexual revolution, sexual utopia in power, sexuality | Comments closed

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Sexual Utopia in Power, Part 1

F. Roger Devlin

Eugène Delacroix, "Liberty Leading the People," detail, 1830

2,748 words

Part 1 of 4

It is well known to readers of this journal that white birthrates worldwide have suffered a catastrophic decline in recent decades. During this same period, ours has become assuredly the most sex-obsessed society in the history of the world. Two such massive, concurrent trends are hardly likely to be unrelated. Read more …

Published: July 12, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, F. Roger Devlin, family, female psychology, feminism, male psychology, marriage, North American New Right, reprints, sexual revolution, sexual utopia in power, sexuality | Comments closed

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The Feminine Sexual Counter-Revolution
& its Limitations, Part 2

F. Roger Devlin

5,468 words

Part 2 of 2

Let us consider Wendy Shalit’s account, culled from anecdotes and women’s magazines, of the sexual situation women face today. The humble corporate drone who has to fear harassment charges and loss of livelihood if he winks at the girl in the next cubicle will feel as if he stepped through Alice’s looking glass when he reads this material. Read more …

Published: June 28, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged A Return to Modesty, book reviews, female pysychology, feminism, Girls Gone Mild, marriage, modesty, North American New Right, reprints, sexuality, the family, The Good Girl Revolution, Wendy Shalit | Comments closed

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The Feminine Sexual Counter-Revolution
& its Limitations, Part 1

F. Roger Devlin

Artemisia Gentileschi, "Susanna and the Elders," 1622

4,818 words

Part 1 of 2

Wendy Shalit
Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-respect And Find It’s Not Bad to Be Good
New York: Random House, 2007

Now reissued as:
The Good Girl Revolution: Young Rebels with Self-Esteem and High Standards
New York: Ballantine, 2008 Read more …

Published: June 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged A Return to Modesty, book reviews, female pysychology, feminism, Girls Gone Mild, marriage, modesty, North American New Right, reprints, sexuality, the family, The Good Girl Revolution, Wendy Shalit | Comments closed

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Rotating Polyandry—& its Enforcers, Part 2

F. Roger Devlin

5,688 words

Part 2 of 2

Stephen Baskerville
Taken into Custody: The War Against Fatherhood, Marriage, and the Family
Nashville: Cumberland House Publishing, 2007 Read more …

Published: June 23, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, F. Roger Devlin, family life, marriage, North American New Right, reprints, sexuality, Stephen Baskerville, Taken into Custody | Comments closed

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Rotating Polyandry—& its Enforcers, Part 1

F. Roger Devlin

5,239 words

Part 1 of 2

Michelle Langley
Women’s Infidelity: Living In Limbo
St. Louis: McCarlan Publishing, 2005

Michelle Langley’s Women’s Infidelity is probably the first book ever reviewed in The Occidental Quarterly advertised as “shipped in a plain envelope without any mention of the contents on the package.” But even if you are not an adulterous wife yourself, there are good reasons for paying attention to Langley’s documentation of social dissolution. Read more …

Published: June 22, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, F. Roger Devlin, family life, feminism, marriage, Michelle Langley, North American New Right, reprints, sexuality, Women’s Infidelity | Comments closed

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Picking up the Torch:
E. Christian Kopff’s The Devil Knows Latin

F. Roger Devlin

1,212 words

E. Christian Kopff
The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition
Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 1999

E. Christian Kopff, classicist at the University of Colorado and occasional contributor to The Occidental Quarterly, has the knack of writing about difficult issues with an easy grace. The book under review is first of all a defense for our time of the value of classical learning. Read more …

Published: June 14, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, E. Christian Kopff, education, F. Roger Devlin, language, North American New Right, reprints, the classics, The Devil Knows Latin | Comments closed

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Louis de Bonald’s On Divorce

F. Roger Devlin

3,852 words

Louis de Bonald
On Divorce
Translated and edited by Nicholas Davidson
New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1992

On the European continent, Louis de Bonald has long been named alongside Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre as a foremost first generation critic of the French Revolution and founder of modern conservatism. Read more …

Published: June 6, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, divorce, family, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Louis de Bonald, North American New Right, On Divorce, political philosophy, reprints | Comments closed

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