The Classically Greek Roots of Civilizational Self-Doubt The Greeks were the first of all peoples to look at themselves in the mirror. Benedict Beckeld 13 Jul 2022 · 10 min read
Herbert Marcuse and the Left’s Endless Campaign Against Western ‘Repression’ The Frankfurt School of social theory began about a century ago, in the Weimar Republic. It consisted in the main of a group of rather anti-capitalist, Marxist-light gentlemen who embraced oikophobia (the hatred or dislike of one’s own cultural home), and who were understandably disillusioned by the carnage of Benedict Beckeld 2 Mar 2022 · 8 min read
PODCAST 65: Benedict Beckeld on Oikophobia—Fashionable Disdain For Your Own Culture Philosopher Benedict Beckeld talks to Jonathan Kay about why so many intellectuals and young people loathe the culture of the West. Quillette / Benedict Beckeld 1 Dec 2019 · 1 min read
'Oikophobia': Our Western Self-Hatred The simplest way of defining oikophobia is as the opposite extreme of xenophobia. Benedict Beckeld 7 Oct 2019 · 8 min read
