F. Roger Devlin

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It is well known to readers of this journal that white birthrates worldwide have suffered a catastrophic decline in recent decades.
—First sentence of Sexual Utopia in Power (and it gets worse)

Christopher Moore (born 1964), known under the pseudonym Francis Roger Devlin, is a white nationalist and men's rights activist. He is a contributing editor for the racist screed The Occidental Quarterly[1] and writes for VDARE.[2] In August 2024, the Southern Poverty Law Center identified Devlin as former academic Christopher Moore of Baltimore, Maryland. He became a part of white nationalist and far right movements in the 1990s while a graduate student, joining the Council of Conservative Citizens and Sam Francis. Moore started using the Devlin pseudonym in 2004, since becoming a part of the alt-right and has written for a number of alt-right websites such as VDARE, Radix Journal, Counter-Currents and American Renaissance.[3]

Sexual Utopia in Power[edit]

Devlin is particularly noteworthy for his essay Sexual Utopia in Power, which is the origin of many MRA subcultural memes, jargon, and special definitions of words. A key argument of the essay was that the sexual revolution created incels. The work was also notable for having no citations whatsoever, reading something like a train-of-thought without concern for evidence.

It was originally published in the Occidental Quarterly in 2006 and came to the wider attention of the pickup artist subculture when Heartiste posted effusively about it in 2008.[4] It is now widely advocated in the manosphere, with the /r/redpill subreddit listing it in the sidebar as "essential reading".[5]

In a 2021 Edward Dutton podcast, he described the inspiration for the essay as "basically the result of slumming about on the internet, looking at dating sites, pickup sites".[3]

Influence[edit]

The book became an explicitly cited cornerstone of the MGTOW and incel movements, particularly because the book blamed the decline in marriage in the USA on women. It is common to hear MGTOWs ask one to, "read Sexual Utopia in Power, bro trust me it'll help you see the matrix". He developed a misogynistic definition of hypergamy which is central these movements.[3]

Writing[edit]

Moore has also done academic philosophy, writing Alexandre Kojève and the Outcome of Modern Thought (University Press of America, 2004) which was based on his PhD dissertation for Tulane University.[6][3]

Ideology[edit]

Devlin identifies as part of the alt-right,[7] which he describes as a "white advocacy"[8] movement, and is considered among its "most important thought leaders" according to VDARE.[9] Devlin attended the National Policy Institute conference, which gained national attention after many in attendance performed Nazi salutes.[10] Devlin denounced this behaviour,[11] although he believed "there is nothing intrinsically wrong with" Nazi salutes.[7] Instead, he seemed concerned because such behaviour is too politically incorrect.

In 2022, he registered the Homeland Institute, a white nationalist public policy group under Counter-Currents.[3]

In 2023, he released the Swedish version of Sexual Utopia in Power in Stockholm with the far-right publishing house Logik Förlag which connected with the neo-Nazi Party of Swedes.[3]

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