Monthly Archives: March 2020

Reflections on the Revolution in Spain: Remembering Robert Brasillach (March 31, 1909 – February 6, 1945)

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In his memoir Notre avant-guerre, Robert Brasillach tells how his political enthusiasms developed in the years preceding the outbreak of war in September 1939. One of the high points of the story is Brasillach’s 1938 visit to Spain, in order to report on war conditions for his Rightist newspaper in Paris, Je suis partout. Read more …

Published: March 31, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, commemorations, in English, Je Suis Partout, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, Robert Brasillach, Spain, Spanish Civil War, translations | 4 Responses

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Fróði Midjord’s The Virtue of Dominance

Video of the Day

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Fróði Midjord delivered a powerful speech at the second annual Prabudimas Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, on February 15th, 2020. The following video is an excerpt of that speech, where he discusses the virtue of being dominant in our societies Read more …

Published: March 31, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Frodi Midjord, Kryptis, Lithuania, metapolitics, North American New Right, Scandza Forum, solidarity, speeches, video of the day | 9 Responses

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The Martyrdom of Robert Brasillach

Fenek Solère

1,686 words

“The James Dean of French Fascism.”– Alice Kaplan, author of The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach (2001)

Such a description of the puny, bespectacled, and boyish-looking poet — especially coming from the daughter of a Nuremberg prosecutor — seems to be either thinly barbed facetiousness or malignant irony. Read more …

Published: March 31, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, commemorations, Fenek Solère, France, French literature, Je Suis Partout, North American New Right, originals, Robert Brasillach, Vichy France | 5 Responses

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The Plowman in the Library

Fullmoon Ancestry

Hans Holbein the Younger, The Plowman from Dance of Death, 1524-26.

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I’ve spent the last 21 days in quarantine. To be honest, staying inside these last three weeks has been relatively easy for me. After all, I spent most of my time in college by myself reading books in the university library. Looking back at my experience in college, I think my real education came not from the lectures or assigned readings, but from the books I decided to read on my own out of interest and curiosity. One such book was a prose version of Piers Plowman, the 14th-century poem attributed to William Langland. In many ways, the themes of this poem reflect both my times in college and the last three weeks spent inside my home during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Read more …

Published: March 31, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged anti-white propaganda, articles, coronavirus, COVID-19, higher education, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, solitude, white disposession | 5 Responses

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Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts V & VI: Together & Locusts

Scott Weisswald

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Nine Inch Nails released the albums Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts simultaneously on March 26th, 2020 with a whopping price tag of free. Trent Reznor, the group’s central creative member, announced the surprise records with a Tweet: “Anyone out there?” Read more …

Published: March 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged ambient music, articles, contemplation, COVID-19, depression, industrial music, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, Scott Weisswald, solitude | 2 Responses

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The Anti-Revolutionary Manifesto

Yukio Mishima

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Translated by Riki Rei

Translator’s note: Mishima penned this essay titled “Anti-Revolutionary Manifesto” in early 1969, almost two years before his suicide, at the peak of Leftist protests, demonstrations, and riots, which were sweeping not just across Japan, but throughout the entire Western world. Read more …

Published: March 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Communism, essays, in English, Japan, nationalism, North American New Right, Riki Rei, Traditionalism, translations, Yukio Mishima | 3 Responses

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Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There!

James J. O'Meara

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“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” — Pascal, Pensées 139

“Be still, and know that I am God.” — Psalm 46:10 Read more …

Published: March 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, contemplation, coronavirus, COVID-19, James J. O'Meara, leisure, North American New Right, originals, solitude, work | 10 Responses

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The Fine Art of Automotive Repair

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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Say you’re trying to fix a vehicle. You pop open the hood and find that someone threw a wrench in the gears, the relay is worn, and the battery needs replacing. How do you then fix the vehicle? Well, you remove the wrench from the gears, replace the relay and the battery and then check for additional damage (you never know with cars). Read more …

Published: March 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, individualism, liberalism, materialism, monarchism, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, Plato, Platonism, religion, society | 6 Responses

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The Man of the Twentieth Century:
Remembering Ernst Jünger,
March 29, 1895–February 17, 1998

John Morgan

3,554 words

Hungarian translation here; Czech translation here

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition:
The Kinship Cut-Off

Ricardo Duchesne

William Dobson, Portrait of a Family, Probably that of Richard Streatfield, 1645.

1,921 words

Have you spent countless hours searching for the origins of individualism in the philosophical treatises of the Western Canon? Reading Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition may make you think this was wasted time: the origins of individualism lie in the pedestrian world of family life. Read more …

Published: March 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, collectivism, individualism, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, Kevin MacDonald, liberalism, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Scandinavia, socialism, Sweden | 6 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 266
Pulp Fiction

Greg Johnson

141 words / 76:09

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In the fall of 2000, I taught an adult education class entitled Philosophy on Film, where we discussed The Matrix, American Beauty, Ground Hog Day, Network, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Gattaca, and Crimes and Misdemeanors.

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On Griping

Spencer J. Quinn

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In the mid-1990s, actor John Leguizamo produced a pretty funny comedy sketch TV series called House of Buggin’. In it, I remember a game show parody in which contestants of different races got to gripe about, well, other races Read more …

Published: March 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, North American New Right, originals, psychology, Spencer J. Quinn, white dispossesion | 11 Responses

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Wise Blood

Trevor Lynch

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John Huston’s Wise Blood (1979) is one of his lesser-known films, but it deserves a wider audience. Based on Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 novel of the same name, Wise Blood is the most faithful screen adaptation I have ever seen, largely because the screenwriter truly loved and understood the source material. The script was written by Benedict Fitzgerald, who knew Flannery O’Connor from childhood. Read more …

Published: March 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged America in the 1970s, articles, Catholicism, Christianity, Flannery O'Connor, John Huston, materialism, movie reviews, North American New Right, religion, reprints, satire, the South, Trevor Lynch | 5 Responses

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Might is Right:
Damned by Amazon Since March 2020

Kevin Slaughter

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On March 12th, 2020, Amazon.com swept all editions of Might is Right into the digital dustbin and suppressed the sale of the 123-year-old book. They did not merely stop selling the book, they completely removed any trace that they ever sold them in the first place. While the 19th-century text had stirred up controversy over those years, the publishers of the most scholarly edition have never heard of it being banned before now. Read more …

Published: March 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Amazon.com, articles, censorship, egoism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Stirner, Might is Right, North American New Right, Ragnar Redbeard, reprints | 14 Responses

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The Power of Myth: Remembering Joseph Campbell, March 26, 1904–October 30, 1987

John Morgan

Joseph Campbell & his wife, Jean Erdman Campbell, c. 1939.

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Joseph Campbell, the famed teacher of comparative mythology, was born on this day in 1904. For many people, including yours truly, he has served as a “gateway drug” into not only a new way of looking at myths, but into a non-materialistic way of viewing the world. And although as a public figure, Campbell mostly remained apolitical, evidence from his private life indicates that he was at least nominally a “man of the Right.” Read more …

Published: March 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged anti-Semitism, articles, C. G. Jung, commemorations, comparative mythology, John Morgan, Joseph Campbell, mythology, North American New Right, reprints | 11 Responses

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The Purgative Fantasy

William de Vere

Albertus Pictor, Death Playing Chess, 1480-90.

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There is something sinister in the springtime this year. Rather than a serving as a yearly reminder of rebirth and natural beauty, the blooming trees and emergent grasses wear the face of some ancient enemy, awoken from its long slumber. The spreading pestilence makes one long for the dormancy and stasis of winter.

This atmosphere of dread has infected every dimension of our lives. Read more …

Published: March 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged accelerationism, apocalypse, articles, coronavirus, COVID-19, ecology, extinction, Kali Yuga, nature, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, religion, Rene Guénon, Savitri Devi, William de Vere | 5 Responses

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From Massive to Passive:
George Lewis’s Massive Resistance

Morris V. de Camp

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George Lewis
Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement
London: Hodder Education, 2006

There are very few books that cover the white response to the “civil rights” movement very seriously. Professor George Lewis of the University of Leicester (UK) has done such a work. However, the book maintains the flaws of all histories of “civil rights,” Read more …

Published: March 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged America in the 1960s, articles, book reviews, Civil Rights, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, segregation, the 1960s, the South | 9 Responses

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Remembering Genesis P-Orridge
(February 22nd, 1950 — March 14, 2020)

Scott Weisswald

Throbbing Gristle. From left: Sleazy, Genesis, Cosey, and Chris.

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Visual artist, composer, singer, DJ, and general architect of chaos Genesis P-Orridge passed away on March 14, 2020. The Dissident Right shares a surprising amount of common ground with the counterculture icon — and owes some of its aesthetics and methods to them [1] as well.

Born February 22nd, 1950 in Manchester, Neil Andrew Megson adopted the name Genesis P-Orridge — a woo-ish corruption of the word “porridge” — while living in London. Read more …

Published: March 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Aleister Crowley, articles, Britain in the 70s, commemorations, dance music, industrial music, magick, neofolk, North American New Right, originals, punk music, Scott Weisswald | 15 Responses

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Remembering Flannery O’Connor (March 25, 1925 — August 4, 1964)

Margot Metroland

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Like her near-contemporary Gore Vidal (both were born in 1925), the fiction writer Mary Flannery O’Connor had her first brush with fame via a Pathé movie newsreel. She had a pet chicken whom she’d taught to walk backward. Gore’s fame came a few years later when he piloted an airplane, age ten. Read more …

Published: March 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Catholicism, commemorations, Flannery O'Connor, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, religion, Southern Agrarianism, Southern literature, the South | 16 Responses

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Melting Crackpot:
E. Michael Jones on Sam Francis

Robert Hampton

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The Catholic writer E. Michael Jones is currently one of the most popular thinkers on the Dissident Right, owing to disaffected nationalists turning to Catholicism in the wake of Charlottesville. In their desperate search for a based Catholic thinker, these young right-wingers settled upon Jones. Jones’s many tirades against Jews and willingness to associate with the Dissident Right make him an appealing figure to aspiring Catholic reactionaries.

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A Call to Arms:
The Final Speech of Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima

2,338 words

Translated by Riki Rei.

Translator’s Note:

This text, entitled A Call to Arms, was left on the spot when Yukio Mishima committed seppuku in the General’s office of the East Japan Division of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force at the Ichigaya military base, Tokyo, on November 25, 1970. Read more …

Published: March 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged in English, Japan, nationalism, North American New Right, Riki Rei, translations, Yukio Mishima | 8 Responses

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The Wisdom of “The Gambler”

Fullmoon Ancestry

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Heavy metal has always been a large part of my life and my red-pill journey. To this day, my morning routine consists of exercising while listening to some of my favorite metal bands like Manowar, Bathory, and Goatmoon. That said, every metalhead has a guilty pleasure, and my guilty pleasure is the music of Kenny Rogers. Read more …

Published: March 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Fullmoon Ancestry, music, North American New Right, originals, pop music | 5 Responses

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La Peste

Fenek Solère

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“But what does it mean, the plague? It’s life, that’s all.”
– Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)

The Coronavirus pandemic has rather put me in mind of Albert Camus’s classic allegorical book about the pestilence that struck the “ugly and smug little port town” of his native Oran in the 1940s. The plague is a metaphor that Camus rather unsubtly intended to represent the growth of National Socialism Read more …

Published: March 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Albert Camus, articles, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, Fenek Solère, French literature, globalism, immigration, North American New Right, originals | 8 Responses

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The Gift of Corona

Jef Costello

2,331 words Shuttered windows.

I arrived at the gym the other night at 7:50 p.m. only to be told: “By the way, we’re closing in ten minutes.” The governor had ordered all gyms to close at 8:00 that night and to remain closed until further notice. I was the last guy to hear, apparently. This was the climax in a series of events that led to my finally recognizing the gift of Corona.

I had been in a state of denial for a couple of weeks. I am still not convinced that the whole thing isn’t being massively overblown (as I argued here.) Read more …

Published: March 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, coronavirus, COVID-19, crisis, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals | 13 Responses

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Idiot Porn:
Anti-White Stereotypes in Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust

Spencer J. Quinn

2,781 words The cover of Nathanael West's book The Day of the Locust.

Within the field of literature, Jews have often complained about negative Jewish stereotypes. There is a Wikipedia page [1] dedicated to the subject, and scholars have dedicated much time to researching this phenomenon. For example, in his 2005 article “How Racist Was Oliver Twist?” novelist Norman Lebrecht actually counted (or relayed someone else’s count of) the number of times Charles Dickens referred to his Jewish villain Fagin in the first thirty-eight chapters of Oliver Twist as “the Jew.” It was 257. Read more …

Published: March 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged anti-white propaganda, book reviews, Hollywood, Jews in literature, Los Angeles, North American New Right, originals, stereotypes | 14 Responses

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The Expulsion of the Moriscos:
Matthew Carr’s Blood & Faith

Morris V. de Camp

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Matthew Carr
Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain
New York: New Press, 2009

There is something about the Spain of centuries past that is so dreadfully modern. One situation was the presence of large numbers of Muslim Moors after the conquest of Granada in 1492. The Moorish community arrived in Spain during the Islamic conquest of Iberia which started in 711 AD. Read more …

Published: March 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, Catholic Church, civic nationalism, conversion, diversity, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, Spain | 5 Responses

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Introduction to a Banned Book

Greg Johnson

You can buy Greg Johnson’s The White Nationalist Manifesto here

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Author’s Note:

This is the introduction to my best-selling book The White Nationalist Manifesto, which has been banned from 80% of the global book market controlled by Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble. But it is available from better booksellers, including Counter-Currents.

What would you do if tomorrow morning you learned that you had one week to live—seven more days, then no future? The world would go on, but you would not be in it. At first, most people would feel shock and sadness. Read more …

Published: March 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Greg Johnson, The White Nationalist Manifesto | 9 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 265
Thank You, Corona Chan

Counter-Currents Radio

141 words / 72:56

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Greg Johnson and Fróði Midjord talk about how the coronavirus outbreak has revealed the intellectual bankruptcy, corruption, and incompetence of the current system and how it creates an opening for sensible nationalist policies.

Published: March 20, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Tagged capitalism, conservatism, coronavirus, Counter-Currents Radio, democracy, Frodi Midjord, globalization, Globalvirus, Greg Johnson, liberalism, podcasts | 15 Responses

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Morrissey’s I Am Not a Dog on a Chain

Scott Weisswald

1,926 words

How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?

Morrissey, our favorite gay (postulated) racist (dismissed) vegan (confirmed), released his 13th solo album today, March 20th, 2020. It is called I Am Not a Dog on a Chain, which is a fantastic example of just how kneecapped the self-awareness of the rich and famous can be. Read more …

Published: March 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, boomers, dance music, Morrissey, music reviews, New Music Friday, North American New Right, originals, pop music, Scott Weisswald | 6 Responses

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Tyler O’Neil’s Making Hate Pay

Spencer J. Quinn

2,845 words

Tyler O’Neil
Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center
New York: Bombardier Books, 2020

There’s a moment in the film 300 in which the Spartan defenders at Thermopylae allow their allies, the Arcadians, to take on the Persians. Despite recognizing their weaknesses as soldiers, King Leonidas begrudgingly gives the Arcadians credit for taking part in the fight. This is about how I felt upon reading Tyler O’Neil’s Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Read more …