Author Archives: Michael Walker

Michael Walker

Michael Walker is the editor of The Scorpion, http://thescorp.multics.org/.

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America’s Health Fix:
Case & Deaton’s Deaths of Despair, Part II

Michael Walker

Anne Case and Angus Deaton.

3,201 words

Part I

When Purdue Pharmaceutical introduced OxyContin, their marketing for the drug was aggressive, efficient, unscrupulous, and amoral. Resources were poured into advertising; the company spent $200 million on marketing in 2001. Sales grew from $48 million in 1996 to $1.1 billion in 2000, Read more …

Published: June 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, Deaths of Despair, drug abuse, drug addiction, globalization, healthcare, Jews in medicine, mental health, Michael Walker, Middle America, North American New Right, opioid crisis, originals, white dispossession | 1 Response

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America’s Health Fix:
Case & Deaton’s Deaths of Despair, Part I

Michael Walker

2,670 words

During the 1970s and 1980s, when libertarian ideas were in the air, Ayn Rand a fashionable writer, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had romped to power, and the Chicago Boys were invited to demonstrate the merits of free-market economics in South America, a lively debate was being pursued in libertarian circles on how far freedom can go.

Didn’t free individuals have the right to take their own lives, Read more …

Published: June 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Deaths of Despair, drug abuse, drug addiction, drugs, Jews in medicine, mental illness, Michael Walker, North American New Right, opioid crisis, originals, white dispossession | 2 Responses

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Roger Scruton’s Death-Devoted Heart
Part Two: The Sacred

Michael Walker

4,445 words

Why does Scruton not examine the role of Melot in Death-Devoted Heart more closely?

Tristan und Isolde echoes themes from Romeo and Juliet and Othello, so it is unlikely that Wagner did not have both plays in mind when he composed his opera. The Othello theme is especially clear in the regrets expressed by King Marke that he could not clearly see, just as Othello could not clearly see. Melot, like Iago, faces death if he cannot make good the claim of adultery; Read more …

Published: May 6, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, articles, collectivism, eros, Immanuel Kant, individualism, love, Michael Walker, North American New Right, opera, originals, Parsifal, religion, Richard Wagner, Roger Scruton, romance, Romanticism, Romeo and Juliet, sex | 1 Response

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Roger Scruton’s Death-Devoted Heart
Part One: The Personal

Michael Walker

5,223 words

Sir Roger Scruton, who died of cancer on January 12th, 2020 at the age of seventy-five, wrote more than fifty books, was the editor of the conservative publication The Salisbury Review, and in his final years was briefly chairman — dismissed and subsequently reinstated — of the Conservative Government’s “Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission.”

I once met Roger Scruton. He invited me to his flat in London in 1982 where I remember enjoying his excellent wine. Read more …

Published: April 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, eros, Immanuel Kant, love, Michael Walker, North American New Right, opera, originals, Parsifal, religion, Richard Wagner, Roger Scruton, romance, Romanticism, Romeo and Juliet | 1 Response

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 264
Four French Collaborationists:
Châteaubriant, Céline, Drieu, Brasillach

Michael Walker

Alphonse de Châteaubriant

369 words / 58:30

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This is a lost London Forum talk by Michael Walker on four French artists of the Right: Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, and Robert Brasillach. Read more …

Published: March 13, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Tagged Catholicism, France, literature, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Michael Walker, National Socialism, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, podcasts, Robert Brasillach, The London Forum, World War II | 6 Responses

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It’s Population, Stupid:
Gunnar Heinsohn’s Söhne & Weltmacht

Michael Walker

4,564 words

Gunnar Heinsohn
Söhne und Weltmacht: Terror im Aufstieg und Fall der Nationen
Zürich, Switzerland: Orell Füssli Verlag, 2020 (2003)

Robert Malthus’s essay on population growth is widely known and widely refuted, mostly by commentators who have not read it. In his Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus argued that population growth undermined the achievements which technology had brought and was bringing to human society Read more …

Published: March 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, birth control, book reviews, demographics, industrialization, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals | 8 Responses

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Alain de Benoist’s Against Liberalism

Michael Walker

7,429 words

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Alain de Benoist
Contre le libéralisme: La Société n’est pas un Marché
Monaco: Éditions du Rocher, 2019

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Ailis

Michael Walker

Henry Holiday, Dante and Beatrice (1883)

4,395 words

Google threw up no results and that surprised him. She had been ambitious, determined to become a famous actress, but he had not heard anything about her since she disappeared. Disappeared? That seemed a hard word . . . The Internet told him nothing, or rather by telling him nothing, it told him that in that respect she had failed. Read more …

Published: September 30, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, fiction, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals | 12 Responses

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What Capitalism Has Left to Say

Michael Walker

4,996 words / 32:13

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Charles Robin
La gauche du capital: libéralisme culturel et idéologie du Marché
Paris: Krisis, 2014

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Confronting the Ethnomasochists on the High Seas:
Alexander Schleyer’s Defend Europe

Michael Walker

3,363 words / 22:05

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Alexander Schleyer
Defend Europe: Eine Aktion an der Grenze
Steigra: Antaios Verlag, 2018

Published: June 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Antaios Verlag, articles, Generation Identity, Identitarians, Michael Walker, migrant crisis, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

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National Masochism

Michael Walker

5,736 words

Martin Lichtmesz & Michael Ley (eds.)
Nationalmasochismus
Steigra: Antaios Verlag, 2018

In the Platz der deutschen Einheit (German Unity Square) in Düsseldorf, someone has covered the street name with Simone de Beauvoir Platz. This is one example among many that anyone living in the Federal Republic of Germany may encounter – evidence of the hatred of their country which some Germans feel. Evidence is all around. Read more …

Published: April 18, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Antaios Verlag, articles, book reviews, denazification, ethnomasochism, Germany, Martin Lichtmesz, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals | 4 Responses

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Don’t Get Mixed Up with Racism

Michael Walker

Martin Lichtmesz

4,895 words / 31:48

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Martin Lichtmesz
Rassismus: Ein amerikanischer Alptraum
Steigra: Antaios Verlag, 2018

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 227
Baby, Where Did Our Love Go?
Observations on the Unfolding Brexit Drama

Michael Walker

5,280 words/ 34:08

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One thing was obvious about the referendum result of June 23, 2016 – namely, that neither side had expected it. Read more …

Published: February 15, 2019 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, Brexit, David Cameron, European Union, Euroskepticism, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, Theresa May, UKIP, United Kingdom | 10 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 225
Now for My Next Writer . . .

Michael Walker

5,673 words / 36:48

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Tarmo Kunnas
Faszination eines Trugbildes: Die europäische Intelligenz und die faschistischeVersuchung 1919-1945
Brienna Verlag, 2017

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In the Valley of the Fat & Impotent

Michael Walker

4,955 words / 32:02

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The political system of the German Republic is so fashioned as to favor long periods of stable rule under the same head of state, but even by its own standards the term of office of Angela Merkel (uninterrupted since 2005) has been very long. Read more …

Published: November 12, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged Alternative for Germany, Angela Merkel, articles, Germany, mass immigration, Michael Walker, migrant crisis, North American New Right, originals, race replacement | 21 Responses

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Now in Audio Version!
British Politics Today:
Optimism, Pessimism, & Realism

Michael Walker

Theresa May trying (and failing) to be the multicultural Dancing Queen, a clear case of too much optimism.

3,745 words / 25:20

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Counter-Currents readers may be familiar with the name Tai Lopez. Tai Lopez runs commercials which regularly appear on YouTube. He is a self-made millionaire and latter-day preacher of the “God helps those who help themselves” school of economics: Read more …

Published: October 15, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, Brexit, British politics, Conservative Party, environmentalism, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Michael Walker, North American New Right, optimism, originals, pessimism, populism, realism, Theresa May, UKIP, United Kingdom | 5 Responses

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Now in Audio Version!
Environmentalism & White Nationalism:
A Shared Destiny

Michael Walker

4,558 words / 28:30

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Andreas Meißner
Mensch, was nun? Wie wir der ökologischen Krise begegnen können
Münster: Edition Octopus, 2009 Read more …

Published: September 10, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, ecology, economic policy, environmentalism, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, white nationalism | 9 Responses

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Now in Audio Version!
Mussolini, or the Will to Power

Michael Walker

5,082 words / 33:16

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Werner Bräuninger
DUX: Mussolini, oder Der Wille zur Macht
Graz: Ares Verlag, 2018 Read more …

Published: July 20, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, Benito Mussolini, book reviews, dictatorship, Italian fascism, Italy, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, war | 8 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 218
Rolf Peter Sieferle’s Epochenwechsel

Michael Walker

10,814 words / 1:06:43

Audio version: To listen in a player, use the one above or click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” To subscribe to the CC podcast RSS feed, click here. Read more …

Published: May 25, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, capitalism, environmentalism, free market, Germany, globalization, human rights, mass immigration, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, podcasts, Rolf Peter Sieferle, sustainability | 3 Responses

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Now in Audio Version!
Europe’s Dams are Cracking: A Review

Michael Walker

9,362 words / 59:49

Konrad Windisch, ed.
Europas Dämme bersten: Ursachen, Hintergründe und Folgen des Flüchtlings-Tsunamis
Pähl: Hohe Warte, 2017 Read more …

Published: April 18, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, European Union, George Soros, Germany, globalization, mass immigration, Michael Walker, migrant crisis, North American New Right, originals, populism | 12 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 213
Populism: Beyond Left & Right?
Alain de Benoist’s The Populist Moment

Michael Walker

The faces of European populism today: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.

8,406 words

Alain de Benoist
Le Moment Populiste: Droite-Gauche c’est Fini!
Paris: Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, 2017 Read more …

Published: February 21, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged Alain de Benoist, anti-fascism, articles, book reviews, Brexit, Donald Trump, education, elitism, European New Right, European Union, Euroskepticism, French New Right, Front National, globalization, GRECE, identity, Jeremy Corbyn, Left/Right divide, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, populism, referenda | 6 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 210
Interview with Michael Walker

Michael Walker

550 words / 90:54

Greg Johnson, John Morgan, and Michael Polignano reconvene for a new weekly Counter-Currents Radio podcast. This week, we interview author and founder of the British New Right magazine The Scorpion, Michael Walker. Read more …

Published: January 26, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Tagged Brexit, Counter-Currents Radio, Counter-Currents Radio Weekly, Greg Johnson, John Morgan, metapolitics, Michael Polignano, Michael Walker, podcasts, populism, Sebastian Kurz | 9 Responses

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The Sound of Music:
The Outcome of the Austrian Elections

Michael Walker

Sebastian Kurz

2,416 words

One of the few things which can be stated with any certainty about the consequences of the recent Austrian elections on October 15 is that they are unpredictable, both for Austria and for European politics. The hard Left is out of parliament, the Social Democrats are in disarray, the anti-immigration course of the conservatives under a new, young leader has reaped dividends, and the “far Right” FPÖ has entered a coalition government. Read more …

Published: January 18, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, Austria, European Union, Euroskepticism, mass immigration, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, populism, Sebastian Kurz | 1 Response

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Going Somewhere?
A Review of David Goodhart’s The Road to Somewhere

Michael Walker

6,100 words

David Goodhart
The Road to Somewhere: The New Tribes Shaping British Politics
London: Penguin, 2017 Read more …

Published: January 4, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, Brexit, British politics, Conservative Party, Donald Trump, Labour Party, Left/Right divide, liberal elite, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, populism | 2 Responses

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The Devil in the Detail:
A Review of Ryszard Legutko’s The Demon in Democracy

Michael Walker

5,650 words

Published: November 24, 2017 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, Communism, European Union, human rights, language, liberal democracy, liberalism, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, totalitarianism | 5 Responses

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Not Going Gentle into That Good Night:
A Review of Two Books on Brexit, Part Two

Michael Walker

2,588 words

Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Published: November 3, 2017 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, Brexit, David Cameron, European Union, Euroskepticism, Michael Walker, Nigel Farage, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, populism, referenda, UKIP, United Kingdom | 1 Response

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Not Going Gentle into That Good Night:
A Review of Two Books on Brexit, Part One

Michael Walker

3,411 words

Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

Published: November 2, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, Brexit, David Cameron, European Union, Euroskepticism, Michael Walker, Nigel Farage, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, populism, UKIP, United Kingdom | 6 Responses

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Defeating Defeatism:
A Review of Derek Turner’s Sea Changes

Michael Walker

4,007 words

Derek Turner (Foreword by Tito Perdue)
Sea Changes
Whitefish, Mt.: Washington Summit Publishers, 2012 Read more …

Published: October 24, 2017 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, Derek Turner, England, Jean Raspail, journalists, liberals, mass immigration, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, The Camp of the Saints, United Kingdom | 3 Responses

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Now in Audio Version!
Understanding Brexit:
A Review of The Bad Boys of Brexit

Michael Walker

4,098 words

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Arron Banks
The Bad Boys of Brexit: Tales of Mischief, Mayhem & Guerrilla Warfare in the EU Referendum Campaign
London: Biteback Publishing, 2017

When I was asked last year by the German-language weekly Junge Freiheit to contribute to their “portrait” series with a piece on Arron Banks, I was in the embarrassing position of having to admit that I had never heard of him. Read more …

Published: October 13, 2017 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, Brexit, Conservative Party, European Union, Euroskepticism, Jo Cox, Michael Walker, Nigel Farage, North American New Right, originals, populism, UKIP, United Kingdom | 2 Responses

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Between Capital & Archaic Socialism

Michael Walker

Jean-Claude Michéa

3,163 words

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Jean-Claude Michéa
Notre Ennemi, le Capital
Paris: Climats, 2016

Following the election of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth President of the United States, there was a flood of YouTube clips of Clinton supporters, mostly female, throwing tantrums of biblical proportions (the reader will know the sort of thing: he rent his garments and covered himself with sackcloth, etc.) which afforded this writer both amusement and bewilderment. The tearful outbursts of grief were without insight or intelligence of any kind, with one exception. Read more …