Author Archives: F. Roger Devlin

F. Roger Devlin

F. Roger Devlin, Ph.D. is the author of Alexandre Kojève and the Outcome of Modern Thought and many essays, articles, and reviews on topics ranging from feminism to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

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A Sane Layman Looks at Gender Madness

F. Roger Devlin

1,435 words

Jim Goad
Gender Psychosis: Insanity and Sexual Identity
Pine Lake, Georgia: Obnoxious Books, 2020

One of the strengths of this new collection of short pieces about today’s sexual confusions is that the author has no qualifications for writing them. Qualifications for writing about sex go mainly to the sources of our confusion. Thanks to an overabundance of experts, Read more …

Published: September 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, F. Roger Devlin, feminism, gender politics, Gender Psychosis, Jim Goad, modernity, North American New Right, patriarchy, rape, sex, sexual perversion, transgenderism | 11 Responses

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Family Systems & History

F. Roger Devlin

8,561 words

Emmanuel Todd
Lineages of Modernity: A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus
Cambridge, England, and Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2019

Much of today’s dominant globalist ideology derives from development theory, a body of thought which shares with Marxism the view that economic relations are the basis of social life and sees the races of mankind as fundamentally equivalent beneath the superficial cultural differences which have arisen over history. Read more …

Published: July 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, authoritarianism, book reviews, capitalism, Catholicism, demographics, economics, education, Emmanuel Todd, essays, F. Roger Devlin, family, family dynamics, hierarchy, higher education, history, identity, individualism, industrialization, language, Lineages of Modernity, literacy, memory of places, modernity, monogamy, nationalism, North American New Right, patriarchy, Protestantism, religion, secularism, secularization, stem families, the nuclear family, tradition | 3 Responses

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Virtue Signaling as Mate Signaling

F. Roger Devlin

1,977 words

Geoffrey Miller
Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics and Free Speech
Cambrian Moon, 2019

Geoffrey Miller is an American evolutionary psychologist with a position at the University of New Mexico. His most important book so far remains his first, The Mating Mind (2000), a study of sexual selection. Read more …

Published: May 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, Darwinism, F. Roger Devlin, free speech, Geoffrey Miller, North American New Right, originals, sexual selection, virtue signaling | 4 Responses

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The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Race & Racial Differences

F. Roger Devlin

3,706 words

Race has been discussed to the point of weariness, yet most discussion consists of little more than wishful thinking, contradiction, and outright malice: “All the races are equal, but whites oppress everyone else. Then again, race doesn’t really exist, which is why we must strive for greater racial diversity.” It is understandable that many people are at once confused by, and sick of, the entire subject—especially white people, the targets of so much blame and hostility. Read more …

Published: December 27, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, biological race differences, creativity, crime, ethnocentrism, F. Roger Devlin, intelligence, North American New Right, originals | 32 Responses

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The Sexes:
Complementary, Not “Equal”

F. Roger Devlin

Peter Paul Rubens, Venus and Mars, between 1632 and 1635

3,563 words

A key component of the ideology currently dominant in the West is the “equality” of the sexes and the consequent struggle to eliminate “discrimination” between them. If this doctrine seems plausible to many people, it is because it appeals to the basic principle of fairness that like cases ought to be treated alike. If women are no different from men, it cannot be fair to treat them differently. Read more …

Published: December 22, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, biologial sex differences, F. Roger Devlin, feminism, North American New Right, parenting, reprints | 21 Responses

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The Roots of Liberalism’s Contemporary Crisis

F. Roger Devlin

2,657 words

Patrick J. Deneen
Why Liberalism Failed
New Haven, Ct./New York: Yale University Press, 2018

Patrick Deneen, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, wrote the present study in 2016, completing it shortly before Donald Trump’s election. In February 2019, a paperbound edition with a few revisions and a new Preface was published.

Race & Psychopathic Personality

F. Roger Devlin

2,246 words

Richard Lynn
Race Differences in Psychopathic Personality: An Evolutionary Analysis
Augusta, Ga.: Washington Summit Publishers, 2019

Herrnstein and Murray’s The Bell Curve (1994) demonstrated that racial differences in rates of social pathology in the United States – including crime, poverty, long-term unemployment, out of wedlock births, and welfare dependency – can in part be explained by differences in average intelligence. Read more …

Published: September 20, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, evolutionary psychology, F. Roger Devlin, North American New Right, originals, psychology, psychopathy, racial differences, Richard Lynn | 9 Responses

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Blake Nelson’s The Red Pill

F. Roger Devlin

1,620 words

Blake Nelson
The Red Pill: A Novel
Bombardier Books, 2019

This is a novel about a divorced man in his early 40s learning to navigate the contemporary dating scene. Martin Harris grew up in Portland, Oregon, went east for college and worked for an advertising agency in New York for ten years. Read more …

Published: June 18, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Blake Nelson, book reviews, F. Roger Devlin, North American New Right, originals, race realism, the manosphere, the red pill | 23 Responses

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An Alt-Right Constitution?

F. Roger Devlin

1,370 words

John E. Finn
Fracturing the Founding: How the Alt-Right Corrupts the Constitution
Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019

The first thing to understand about this polemical work is that it has very little to do with the Alt Right. As readers of this site are aware, the core of the authentic Alt Right is white racial advocacy unencumbered by taboos against the discussion of human differences or Jewish influence; Read more …

Published: April 16, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, constitutional law, constitutionalism, F. Roger Devlin, North American New Right, originals, the alt right | 5 Responses

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Trump vs. the Tyranny of Experts

F. Roger Devlin

2,025 words

Salvatore Babones
The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts
Medford, Mass.: Polity Press, 2018

Savatore Babones is an America academic with an appointment in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. Unusually for someone in such a position, he has a few good things to say about Donald Trump—or at least about the fact of his election. Read more …

Published: January 16, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, democracy, Donald Trump, elitism, F. Roger Devlin, globalization, liberalism, managerialism, North American New Right, originals, populism | 3 Responses

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Le Peuple, C’est Moi

F. Roger Devlin

3,158 words

Jan-Werner Müller
What Is Populism?
Penguin, 2017

Jan-Werner Müller, a native of Germany, is Professor of Politics at Princeton University and the author of several previous books. The present study of populism was published in 2016 by the University of Pennsylvania Press and quickly reprinted in a popular paperback format by Penguin Books in the UK Read more …

Published: December 18, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, democracy, F. Roger Devlin, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, populism | 5 Responses

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A Globalist Struggles to Explain the Failure of Globalism

F. Roger Devlin

1,483 words

Ian Bremmer
Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism
Portfolio/Penguin, 2018

Glancing through the blurbs on the back of Ian Bremmer’s new bestseller, one finds the Secretary-General of the UN, a managing director of the IMF, a co-chairman of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the President of the International Rescue Committee, and Larry Summers: not a lineup one would expect to find endorsing a bold challenge to conventional thinking. Read more …

Published: December 11, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, F. Roger Devlin, globalization, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, populism | 4 Responses

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A Mainstream Primer on Populism

F. Roger Devlin

1,973 words

John B. Judis
The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
New York: Columbia Global Reports, 2016

Following the collapse of the Warsaw Pact in 1989 and, two years later, of the Soviet Union itself, there was a widespread sense in the West that the free market had conclusively vindicated itself Read more …

Published: December 4, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, F. Roger Devlin, fascism, North American New Right, originals, populism | 3 Responses

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A Man Out of Season:
Ludovici’s The Confessions of an Anti-Feminist

F. Roger Devlin

1,476 words

Anthony M. Ludovici
The Confessions of an Anti-Feminist: The Autobiography of Anthony M. Ludovici
Edited by John V. Day
San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing, 2018

Anthony Mario Ludovici (1882–1971), anti-feminist, novelist, translator and interpreter of Nietzsche, art critic, defender of aristocracy and critic of democracy, Read more …

Published: June 26, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Anthony M. Ludovici, book reviews, Confessions of an Anti-Feminist, F. Roger Devlin, feminism, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

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A Report from Germany
Rolf Peter Sieferle:
The Man & the Scandal

F. Roger Devlin

Rolf Peter Sieferle

936 words

Rolf Peter Sieferle (1949–2016) was a German historical scholar whose posthumously published book Finis Germania set off a moral panic in the summer of 2017.

A member of the generation of ’68, he was a radical in his youth, writing his doctoral dissertation on the Marxian concept of revolution. He became a trailblazer in the field of environmental history, Read more …

Published: May 8, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, F. Roger Devlin, Germany, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Rolf Peter Sieferle | 6 Responses

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Toward the New Mainstream

F. Roger Devlin

2,076 words

Editor’s Note:

This is the text of F. Roger Devlin’s talk delivered at the third meeting of the Scandza Forum in Stockholm on April 7, 2018 and at the first Awakening Conference in Helsinki on April 8, 2018.

We supporters of the nationalist cause are the spokesmen for certain largely suppressed truths about human nature: Read more …

Published: April 20, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Awakening Conference, F. Roger Devlin, mainstreaming, North American New Right, originals, Scandza Forum, white nationalism | 6 Responses

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The Epic of Human Evolution:
Johannes V. Jensen’s The Long Journey

F. Roger Devlin

Johannes V. Jensen

4,932 words

Johannes V. Jensen cannot be called a forgotten writer — he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1944 and is still remembered in his native Denmark — yet his name will probably be unfamiliar to most of my readers. He was born in 1873, the second of eleven children of a veterinary surgeon in the village of Farsø in Northern Jutland. To help finance his medical studies at the University of Copenhagen, he began writing “cliffhanger” newspaper serials. After three years, he switched to full-time writing and journalism. Read more …

Published: January 13, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, F. Roger Devlin, human evolution, North American New Right, reprints | 3 Responses

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Why Most High-Achievers Are Men
(& Why We Cannot Afford Sexual Egalitarianism)

F. Roger Devlin

3,735 words

Roderick Kaine
Smart and SeXy: The Evolutionary Origins and Biological Underpinnings of Cognitive Differences between the Sexes
London: Arktos Media, Ltd., 2016

Roderick Kaine, who has previously written for the neo-reactionary movement under the name Atavisionary, is an American trained as a biochemist. His first book, now available from Arktos, is both a genetically based explanation of cognitive differences between the sexes, Read more …

Published: November 2, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged biological sex differences, book reviews, education, F. Roger Devlin, feminism, North American New Right, originals, sex roles | 23 Responses

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Attack of the Paleosaurs
or The Dangers of Sectarianism in Politics

F. Roger Devlin

Graphic: Voivode Wingate

1,737 words

It appears that polemics against “white nationalism” have become quite the trend at Chronicles, the flagship publication of paleoconservatism. A couple weeks ago I responded to Aaron Wolf’s article “Incidentally White” at radixjournal.com, and now I discover that only a month earlier, editor Chilton Williamson, Jr. had produced a broadly similar piece under the title “White Like Me.” Read more …

Published: February 5, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Christianity, Chronicles Magazine, conservatives, cuckservatives, F. Roger Devlin, North American New Right, originals, white nationalism | 28 Responses

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Tillbaka till Afrika:
Bakåtsträvande sexualvanor i det moderna Väst

F. Roger Devlin

3,623 words

English original here

Följande kapitel från boken Sexual Utopia in Power av F. Roger Devlin är en fullständig version av en artikel som publicerades i förkortad version i American Renaissance, volym 19, nummer 6, juni 2008.

I mitten av det ”glada tjugotalet”, medan Amerika upplevde en tid av fred och välstånd, utfärdade den framstående litteraturkritikern Irving Babbitt en olycksbådande varning: Read more …

Published: January 26, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Blacks, book excerpts, decadence, F. Roger Devlin, feminism, in Swedish, in translation, North American New Right, race-mixing, reprints, sexual revolution, sexuality | Leave a comment

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The Evolutionary Psychologist’s Guide to Picking Up Girls

F. Roger Devlin

1,406 words

Tucker Max and Geoffrey Miller
Mate: Become the Man Women Want
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2015

Time was when a young man did not need to master evolutionary psychology in order to find himself a girl. The adult world provided the young with ready-made social rituals for meeting, assessing one another’s prospects as a mate, and (eventually) entering into a lifelong covenant to bear and raise a new generation. Read more …

Published: October 26, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged biologial sex differences, book reviews, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, evolutionary psychology, F. Roger Devlin, game, Geoffrey Miller, North American New Right, originals, sexual selection | 15 Responses

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The Roots of German Self-Immolation

F. Roger Devlin

Why go to Calcutta, when you can bring Calcutta home?

1,031 words

Great historical changes are often sparked by trivial events, but have deeper causes going back for generations or even centuries. The immediate trigger of the horrifying events currently unfolding in Germany is said to have been a “tweet” casually sent out August 25 by the Office for Refugees and Migrants of the German city of Nuremberg. The “tweet” merely stated that Germany was no longer applying the accepted EU rule that applications for asylum must be made from the first EU country a person enters. Read more …

Published: October 5, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Christianity, F. Roger Devlin, Germany, Martin Luther, North American New Right, originals, pathological altruism, Protestantism, refugee crisis, the holocaust, white ethnomasochism, white guilt | 29 Responses

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Robert Stark Interviews F. Roger Devlin on Sexual Utopia in Power

F. Roger Devlin

134 words

Be sure to listen to the excellent interview with F. Roger Devlin about his new book Sexual Utopia in Power on The Stark Truth. Click here. Topics include:

His original essay Sexual Utopia in Power
The origins, motives, and outcomes of the sexual revolution
“Back to Africa: Sexual Atavism in the Modern West“

The Long Crusade:
Profiles in Education Reform, 1967–2014

F. Roger Devlin

2,708 words

Raymond Wolters
The Long Crusade: Profiles in Education Reform, 1967–2014
Whitefish, Montana: Washington Summit Publishers, 2015

In 2009, historian Raymond Wolters published Race and Education, 1954–2007, a book remarkable for eschewing moral sermonizing about desegregation in favor of recording its actual effects, both positive and (more often) negative. Read more …

Published: July 21, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged biological race differences, book reviews, education, egalitarianism, F. Roger Devlin, North American New Right, political correctness | 3 Responses

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Greg Johnson Interviews F. Roger Devlin on Alexandre Kojève & the End of History

F. Roger Devlin

Alexandre Kojève in 1922

6,558 words

Editor’s Note:

The following text is the transcript by V. S. of my conversation with F. Roger Devlin about Alexandre Kojève (1902–1968) and the end of history. To listen to the audio in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.” To subscribe to our podcasts, click here. Read more …

Published: July 14, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alexandre Kojève, Counter-Currents Radio, existentialism, F. Roger Devlin, Francis Fukuyama, globalization, Greg Johnson, interviews, Leo Strauss, Martin Heidegger, Marxism, neoconservatism, originals, podcasts, postmodernism | 3 Responses

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Solzhenitsyn on the Jews & Tsarist Russia

F. Roger Devlin

7,393 words

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Deux siècles ensemble
Volume 1: Juifs et Russes avant la révolution
Paris: Fayard, 2002

It appears now that the English-speaking world will have to wait some time yet for a translation of Two Hundred Years Together, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s two volume study of Russian-Jewish relations. Translations into both French and German have been available for five years, and Italian, Hungarian, Greek, Czech, and Latvian editions are in the works. Read more …