The Winter 2019-2020 issue of The Occidental Quarterly contains seven essays and 118 pages. Guillaume Durocher leads off with a fascinating account of Frederick the Great's Jewish policy--"Between Containment and Profit." Frederick, the quintessential eighteenth-century monarch, regarded Jews as an economic asset but also as requiring control both over their numbers (restricting Jewish immigration and marriage) and their financial practices.
Brenton Sanderson's "Balzac and the Jews" delineates Jewish portraits in the work of Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850). For example the Jewish art dealer, Elie Magus, is described as exemplifying "a type he grew to know exceedingly well due to his passion for collecting art and antiquities--the Jewish trader who, through sharp business practices and ethnic networking, becomes immensely wealthy."
KosChertified?, the consumer research branch of Free Press Promotions, LLC, contributes a quantitative study of the kosher certifying industry which certifies over one million products, ranging from dishwashing soap and wrappers to bottled water. His main conclusion is that the relative non-visibility of kosher seals belies the claim that companies are eager to become certified because of increased profits. The costs and profits of the kosher industry are a closely guarded secret, suggesting that this ethnic monopoly's success relies mainly on lack of public awareness.
Benjamin Villaroel provides a data-filled essay on racial identity and racial politics in Chile. He makes it clear that Chile has not been immune to the demographic changes that beset the Western world. While still in its early stages compared to many Western countries (foreign-born Chileans constituted 6.1% of the population as of 2017), it is "certain that Chile is darkening. With the enormous increases in non-White immigration."
Andrew Joyce contributes an essay titled "The Necessity of Anti-Semitism," an alternative take on a famous talk by a philo-Semitic historian, Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981). While Parkes regarded conflicts between Jews and non-Jews as illusory, Joyce describes four real conflicts been Jews and non-Jews in the contemporary West: conflict over the construction of culture ("the culture of critique"); the culture of sterility (promotion of birth control and abortion); the culture of usury (the role of Jews in contemporary debt-related practices; and the culture of the pro-Israel lobby (promoting wars for Israel).
In his "The Right, the Left, and Traditionalism: An Overview of Recent Scholarship on the North American Right," Brian Thorn contributes a review essay on two academic books on the American right, Linda Gordon's The Second Coming of the KKK (on the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s) and Peter Kolozi's Conservatives Against Capitalism (on critiques of capitalism by conservatives such as Pat Buchanan and Russell Kirk.
Wrapping up, F. Roger Devlin reviews How Sweden Became Multicultural by M. Eckehart. This book shows that the same forces that have been so influential in other parts of the West are also apparent in Sweden, including a strong role for Jewish activists and media owners. This pro-immigration activism is combined in the case of Sweden with a highly conformist traditional Swedish culture that is now dominated by the ideology that, against the clear long-term interests of Swedes, homogeneous Sweden ought to give way to multiculturalism--the usual mantra that "diversity is our strength."
