Remembering Francis Parker Yockey:
September 18, 1917–June 16, 1960

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Francis Parker Yockey was born 102 years ago today, September 18, in Chicago. He died in San Francisco on June 16, 1960, an apparent suicide. Yockey is one of America’s greatest anti-liberal thinkers and an abiding influence on the North American New Right. In honor of his birthday, I wish to draw the reader’s attention to the following works on this site.

By Yockey himself:

• “America’s Two Political Factions,” here
• “America’s Two Ways of Waging War,” here
• “Brotherhood,” here
• “Culture” (December 1953), here
• “The Destiny of America,” here
• “1848–1948: Years of Decision,” here
• “From the Notebooks,” here
• “The Imperative of Our Age,” here
• “Liberalism,” here
• “The Nature of Politics,” here
• “Nothing New Under the Sun: A Letter from Francis Parker Yockey,” here
• “The Prague Treason Trial,” here
• Selections from Francis Parker Yockey, here
• “Thoughts Personal and Superpersonal (Excerpts),” here
• “Thoughts Personal and Superpersonal: Knowledge and Skepticism,” here
• “Thoughts Personal and Superpersonal: On Money,” here
• “Thoughts Personal and Superpersonal: Prussianism and Americanism,” here
• “Twentieth-Century Metaphysics,” here
• “Two Reflections,” here
• “The World in Flames,” here

About Yockey:

• Maurice Bardèche on Francis Parker Yockey, here
• Kerry Bolton, “The Cold War Axis: Soviet Anti-Zionism and the American Right,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Kerry Bolton, “A Contemporary Evaluation of Francis Parker Yockey,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Kerry Bolton, “Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium,” here
• Kerry Bolton, “Early Reactions to Imperium,” here
• Podcast, “Kerry Bolton on Francis Parker Yockey at 100,” here
• Anthony Gannon, “Francis Parker Yockey, 1917–1960: A Remembrance of the Author of Imperium,” here
• Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Six Poems for Francis Parker Yockey, here
• Margot Metroland, “Revilo P. Oliver and Francis Parker Yockey,” here
• Michael O’Meara, “Boreas Rising: White Nationalism and the Geopolitics of the Paris-Berlin-Moscow Axis,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Michael O’Meara, “The Death of Francis Parker Yockey,” here
• Michael O’Meara, “The Jitterbugs and the Vabanquespieler: On Yockey’s America,” here
• Margot Metroland, “Spengler, Yockey, and The Hour of Decision,” here
• Revilo Oliver, “After Fifty Years,” here
• Revilo Oliver, “The Shadow of Empire: Francis Parker Yockey after 20 Years,” here
• Ted Sallis, “The Overman High Culture: The Future of the West,” here (in French, in Portuguese)
• Ted Sallis, “Pan-European Preservationism,” here
• Keith Stimley, Interview with H. Keith Thompson on Francis Parker Yockey, here

Counter-Currents is publishing a three-volume set of the Collected Works of Francis Parker Yockey. Volume 3, The World in Flames: The Shorter Writings of Francis Parker Yockey, edited by K. R. Bolton and John Morgan, will be the first to appear. After many delays, it will be released before the end of 2019.