Remembering Richard Wagner:
May 22, 1813–February 13, 1883

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Richard Wagner was born 206 years ago today in Leipzig in the Kingdom of Saxony. He died on February 13, 1883 in Venice. As an artist, intellectual, author, and cultural force, Wagner has left an immense metapolitical legacy, which is being evaluated and appropriated in the North American New Right. I wish to draw your attention to the following writings which have been published at Counter-Currents/North American New Right. 

About Wagner

• Kerry Bolton, “Wagner as Metapolitical Revolutionary”
• Jonathan Bowden, “Frankfurt School Revisionism”
• Collin Cleary, “Wagner’s Place in the Germanic Tradition,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8
• Jef Costello, “Rage Against the Machine: A Very American Ring Cycle”
• Gabriele D’Annunzio, “Tristan and Isolde”
• Alexander Jacob, “The Aryan Christian Religion and Politics of Richard Wagner” (French translation here)
• Greg Johnson, “Make Rome Great Again: Rienzi in Berlin”
• Greg Johnson, Review of Bryan Magee’s Aspects of Wagner
• Greg Johnson, Review of Bryan Magee’s The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
• Emi Mann Kawaguchi, “Yukio Mishima and Richard Wagner: Art and Politics, or Love and Death”
• Kurwenal, “Wagner, Nietzsche, and the New Suprahumanist Myth,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• John Morgan, “I Saw the World End: Wagner’s Ring in Munich”
• John Morgan, “Boomer Bayreuth: Wagner’s Parsifal at the Festspielhaus in 2018”
• Sir Oswald Mosley, “The Meaning of Wagner’s Ring”
• James J. O’Meara, “My Wagner Problem — and Ours”
• Christopher Pankhurst, “Parsifal and the Possibility of Transcendence”
• Quintilian, “Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen”
• Brenton Sanderson, “Evil Genius: Constructing Wagner as Moral Pariah,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
• Deems Taylor, “The Monster” (Portuguese translation here)
• Theberton, “Wagner and Great Art” (Video of the Day)
• Donald Thoresen, “A Life with Wagner”
• Richard Widmann, “Never Surrender: Wagner on War and Culture”

Relevant to Wagner:

• Kerry Bolton, “Wotan as Archetype: The Carl Jung Essay”
• Jonathan Bowden, “Hans-Jürgen Syberberg: Leni Riefenstahl’s Heir?”
• Collin Cleary, “Asatru as a Living Tradition”
• Collin Cleary, “An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part I”
• Guillaume Durocher, “Brigitte Haman’s Hitler’s Vienna, Part 3: Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist”
• Alex Graham, “Stanisław Wyspiański’s Wawel Plays”
• Richard J. Herbert, “The Question of Race in Spengler & Its Meaning for Contemporary Racialism” (Spanish translation here)
• Gregory Hood, “Revolution from the Periphery: The Lessons of Nueva Germania”
• Greg Johnson, “The Hero at 150: Remembering Richard Strauss”
• Greg Johnson, Review of The Genius of Valhalla: The Life of Sir Reginald Goodall
• Greg Johnson, “Sir Reginald Goodall: An Apprecation”
• James J. O’Meara, “Our Wagner, Only Better: Harry Partch, Wild Boy of American Music,” Part 1
• James J. O’Meara, “Review of The Grail: Two Studies”
• James J. O’Meara, “The Bayreuth of Hobo Pythagoreanism: The University of Washington’s Harry Partch Festival”