Translated by Greg Johnson
Part 1 of 3
François Julien, one of the most acute minds of our time, recalled:
When I was in school, people called me and a friend “the Homerists” . . . (more…)
Translated by Greg Johnson
Part 1 of 3
François Julien, one of the most acute minds of our time, recalled:
When I was in school, people called me and a friend “the Homerists” . . . (more…)
930 words
Translated by Greg Johnson, German translation here
For the Ancients, Homer was “the beginning, the middle, and the end.” A vision of the world and even a philosophy are implicitly contained in his poems. Heraclitus summarized his cosmic foundation with a well-turned phrase: “The universe, the same for all beings, was not created by any god or by any man; but it always was, is, and will be eternally living fire . . .” (more…)
724 words
Translated by Greg Johnson
Translations of this translation: Czech, Portuguese
Their names continue to identify the boulevards of a unique though disfigured capital: Berthier, Murat, Jourdan, Masséna, Soult, Brune, Bessières, and others.
492 words
Translated by Greg Johnson
Translator’s Note:
The term “dormition” refers to the Eastern Christian tradition of the “falling sleep,” i.e., the death, of the Virgin Mary (more…)
Translated by Michael O’Meara
Czech translation of this English version: here
“Memory” is a much abused word. But so too is the word “love,” which doesn’t mean it can’t be used in its fullest sense. It’s the force of “memory,” transmitted within the bosom of the family, that enables a community to endure, despite all that seeks its dissolution. (more…)
1,534 words
Translated by Michael O’Meara
Translations: Czech, Portuguese
The noted French nationalist and historian speaks to the personal imperatives of white liberation. (more…)
976 words
Translated by Greg Johnson
Translations based on this English translation: Finnish, Greek, German, Portuguese
What is Europe? What is a European?
From the geopolitical and historical point of view, Europe is defined by its boundaries. (more…)
640 words
Translated by Greg Johnson
Czech translation based on this English translation here, German translation here, Russian translation here
Jean-Paul Sartre once said of Ernst Jünger: “I hate him, not as a German, but as an aristocrat . . .”
Sartre had some grave defects. In his political impulses, he was mistaken with a rare obstinacy. (more…)
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Translator’s Note:
The following excerpt is taken from the concluding chapter of Venner’s Gettysburg, one of two books he’s written on the War of Southern Secession. Like Maurice Bardèche’s Sparte et les sudistes [Sparta and the Confederates], it reflects the other side of that European anti-liberalism which crusades against everything contemporary America has come to represent. (more…)