Author Archives: Ricardo Duchesne

Ricardo Duchesne

Project 1619:
When Will Conservatives Stop Begging Nonwhites to Love Western Civilization?

1,366 words

Andrew Roberts is a renowned conservative, Visiting Fellow at Stanford University, and Visiting Professor at King’s College London, who believes that everyone in the world can be educated to love the democratic values of Western civilization. If only blacks and immigrants were taught to appreciate the immense value of Greek Read more …

Published: August 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 1619 Project, American identity, Andrew Roberts, articles, conservatism, Council of European Canadians, higher education, history, identity, immigration, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Western civilization, Western uniqueness | 20 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 9: The Moral Argument for White Interests

Ricardo Duchesne

1,390 words

We have now reached the last chapter of Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition. This indispensable book argues that both the rise and decline of the West can be explained in terms of the genetically selected predisposition Europeans have for creating communities that emphasize the moral reputation Read more …

Published: July 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, ethnocentrism, identity, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, Kevin MacDonald, kinship, moral communities, morality, North American New Right, reprints, rhetoric, Ricardo Duchesne, white identity | 8 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 8: Why Are Whites Canceling Each Other?

Ricardo Duchesne

Whites cleaning up the mess blacks made of Minneapolis.

1,582 words

Do you know why Europeans across the political spectrum — liberals, conservatives, socialists — are morally committed to a politics that is leading to the dissolution of their millennial racial identities while promoting the racial identities of non-white immigrants within their own nations? Read more …

Published: July 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, ethnocentrism, history, identity, individualism, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Kevin MacDonald, morality, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints, reputation, Ricardo Duchesne, sociology | 5 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 7: White Maladaptive Altruism

Ricardo Duchesne

Benjamin Haydon, The Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840, 1841.

5,142 words

The white race is uniquely altruistic. Why? This is a very difficult question to answer. It is easy to understand altruistic behavior for the benefit of one’s family members. This is common among animals. Mother bears will put their lives in danger to protect their cubs from attack. Sacrifices for one’s relatives and ingroup ethnic members Read more …

Published: June 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged abolitionism, altruism, articles, civic nationalism, egalitarianism, empathy, German Idealism, individualism, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Kevin MacDonald, negative liberty, North American New Right, positive liberty, Quakers, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Romanticism, structuralism, the Self | Leave a comment

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 6: From Puritan Individualism to Jewish Infiltration

Ricardo Duchesne

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (front, second from left) with his football team, 1899.

2,687 words

Chapter 6, “Puritanism: The Rise of Egalitarian Individualism and Moralistic Utopianism,” of Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, claims that Puritanism and the intellectual movements descending from this religion were the “most important” forces shaping the culture of the United States “from the eighteenth century down to the mid-twentieth century.” Read more …

Published: May 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Anglo-American culture, aristocratic individualism, articles, Christianity, immigration, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, Jews and immigration, Jews in America, Kevin MacDonald, multiculturalism, North American New Right, Puritans, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, the Jewish question, WASPs | 2 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & the Western Liberal Tradition:
Hail the Catholic Church!

Ricardo Duchesne

1,658 words

Since the beginning of his academic career in the early 1980s, Kevin MacDonald has been wondering why only in the West “wealthy, powerful men” have not sought “to control ever-larger numbers of women”. Evolutionary biology teaches that male reproductive success benefits greatly from the acquisition of multiple mates. In all societies, except those in which harsh ecological conditions limit the amount of surplus the society can generate, “it is expected that males with wealth and power” will employ their surpluses to “secure as many mates as possible.” This is Evolutionary Biology 101. Read more …

Published: April 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged aristocratic individualism, articles, collectivism, incest, individualism, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, Kevin MacDonald, kinship, marriage, monogamy, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, the Catholic church, the church | 3 Responses

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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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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 3: The Origins of the Weird Whites

Ricardo Duchesne

2,069 words

The essence of liberalism is individualism, and the primordial evolutionary fact of individualism is the “the cutting-off from the wider kinship group,” and the origins of this cutting-off can be traced back to Northern hunter-gatherers in Europe during the last glacial age in the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods. Read more …

Published: March 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged anthropology, aristocratic individualism, articles, evolutionary psychology, hunter gatherers, individualism, Indo-Europeans, Kevin MacDonald, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne | 13 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & the Western Liberal Tradition:
Aristocratic Individualism

Ricardo Duchesne

3,588 words

In Part 1 of my detailed examination of Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future (2019) I covered MacDonald’s argument in chapter one that Europe’s founding peoples consisted of three population groups: Read more …

Published: February 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged aristocracy, articles, book reviews, citizenship, ethnicity, Greece, history, individualism, Italy, Kevin MacDonald, kinship, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne | 15 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & the Western Liberal Tradition:
The Indigenous Europeans

Ricardo Duchesne

2,932 words

Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects For the Future (2019) is the first book that employs an evolutionary psychological approach to explain the rise of the West — actually, it is the first book that aims to comprehend the dynamics of the entire history of the West from prehistoric to current times to explain as well the decline of the West, the ways in which the “egalitarian individualism” originated by northwest Europeans in hunting and gathering times planted the seeds of the West’s current decision to destroy its genetic heritage through the importation of masses of immigrants. Read more …

Published: February 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, Council of European Canadians, Europe, genetics, hunter gatherers, Kevin MacDonald, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne | 5 Responses

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Pinkera Brzydzą Biali Nacjonaliści

Ricardo Duchesne

4,611 words

English original here

Steven Pinker
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
New York: Viking, 2018

Wraz z publikacją “Enlightenment Now” (Oświecenie Teraz) Steven Pinker zdecydowanie ustanowił się jako główny intelektualista publiczny w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Read more …

Published: November 5, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, cosmopolitanism, diversity, ethnonationalism, European identity, identitarianism, in Polish, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, populism, progress., Ricardo Duchesne, social capital, Steven Pinker, trust, universalism | Leave a comment

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The Immense Revolution of the Presocratics

Ricardo Duchesne

Oil painting of Heraclitus by Etienne Parrocel (1696-1775)

6,037 words

To understand why Europeans were the progenitors of the highest accomplishments in history – close to one hundred percent of the great ideas in philosophy, science, anthropology, sociology, economics, geography, geology, astronomy, mathematics, architecture, technology, dance, and music – you must understand the Presocratic self-conscious separation of the knowing “I” from the “not-I.” Read more …

Published: September 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged ancient Greeks, articles, Council of European Canadians, Heraclitus, North American New Right, Parmenides, presocratic philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, self-consciousness, Western uniqueness | 4 Responses

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Camille Paglia & the Consciousness-Light Day of Western Man

Ricardo Duchesne

3,871 words

Camille Paglia infuriated feminists when she observed in Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) that males – as biological beings – are responsible for the development of civilized life and most of the world’s cultural creativity. What no one has wanted to say is that the implicit argument throughout Sexual Personae is that only white males have possessed the Apollonian rationality that “has taken us to the stars.”

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The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part IV

Ricardo Duchesne

Georg Friedrich Kersting, Faust in his Study

5,530 words

Part 4 of 4 (Part 3 here)

Definition of “Axial thought”

The Axial Age idea is the most concerted effort to retain aspects of the idea of progress while disallowing Western civilization from claiming to be the most progressive in the sciences, technology, cultural creativity, and forms of state organization. This idea has historical merits. Read more …

Published: July 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged ancient Greeks, anti-white propaganda, aristocracy, Aristotle, articles, Axial Age, China, Council of European Canadians, egalitarianism, India, individualism, Israel, North American New Right, Plato, pre-Socratic philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, ritual, Robert N. Bellah, Western uniqueness | 1 Response

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The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part III

Ricardo Duchesne

The Mask of Agamemnon

4,700 words

Part 3 of 4 (Part 2 here, Part 4 here)

Rituals in simple mythic cultures

According to Bellah, humans express their highest values and cultural practices in those activities we define as “play” and “ritual,” because these activities are performed when humans are in a “relaxed” state away from evolutionary pressures. Read more …

Published: July 9, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged aristocracy, articles, Axial Age, Council of European Canadians, egalitarianism, individualism, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, ritual, Robert N. Bellah, Western uniqueness | 2 Responses

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The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part II

Ricardo Duchesne

2,468 words

Part 2 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

“New capacities” under conditions of “relaxed selection”

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The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part I

Ricardo Duchesne

Robert N. Bellah, theorist of the Axial Age

3,787 words

Part 1 of 4

Only European peoples have made history and discovered the idea of time, and this is why the idea of progress is uniquely European: Only European history has been characterized by progress, and there can be no conception of historical time and no history without progression or without man becoming conscious of his role in the making of history, as well as the realization that only the mind can be the adjudicator of the truth. Read more …

Published: July 3, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged academia, anti-white rhetoric, articles, Axial Age, Council of European Canadians, cultural Marxism, evolution, Karl Jaspers, North American New Right, political correctness, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Robert N. Bellah, Western uniqueness | Leave a comment

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Michael Sandel’s Anti-White Populist Strategy to Defeat “Right-Wing Populism”

Ricardo Duchesne

Michael Sandel

1,999 words

The rise of nationalist populism has shaken the globalist establishment far more than the rise of Islamic radicalism did in the 1990s and after. Muslim terrorism merely encouraged globalists to bring more “moderate” Muslims to the West to show undisturbed confidence in the value of diversity. The more Muslims have bombed the West, the more power “moderate” Muslims have gained by way of grants, affirmative action, spread of businesses, regulations against “Islamophobia,” and endless eulogies about their “indispensable” contributions. Read more …

Published: March 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged academia, articles, Council of European Canadians, Democratic Party, globalism, mass immigration, neoconservatism, North American New Right, populism, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, socialism, welfare | 10 Responses

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The Higher Cognitive Fluidity of the European Mind

Ricardo Duchesne

Julian Jaynes

7,982 words

Half of my book, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, is about discrediting the multicultural claim that, as late as the mid-1700s, the West was no more advanced than the major civilizations of Asia, or China in particular, and that only a set of fortuitous circumstances gave the West a chance to industrialize first. The West did not “stumble” accidentally into the New World, I argued, and it was not “easy access” to the resources of the Americas, enslavement of blacks, or availability of cheap coal in Britain that made Britain’s takeoff possible.

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On the “Unreflected Substantiality” of the Chinese Mind

Ricardo Duchesne

7,688 words

As the Chinese “silent invasion” of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada continues, you may want to learn something about the Western academics who lay the intellectual groundwork for this invasion. In a prior article, “The Transcendental Mind of Europeans Stands Above the Embedded Mind of Asians,” we met two influential scholars calling upon whites to abandon their “failed” attempts to formulate transcendental truths for the sake of the more “profound” contextual approach of Chinese philosophers with their demonstration that all thinking is “embedded” to a time and a place. Read more …

Published: February 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged ancient Greeks, Aristotle, articles, China, Chinese philosophy, Confucius, Council of European Canadians, cultural relativism, East vs. West, G. W. F. Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Max Weber, North American New Right, Plato, reason, reprints, self-consciousness, Taoism, the Axial Age, Thomas Hobbes, Western uniqueness | 5 Responses

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The Transcendental Mind of Europeans Stands Above the Embedded Mind of Asians

Ricardo Duchesne

7,002 words

Europeans were the first – and are still the only – race to become conscious of their consciousness, to identify the faculty of thinking as the point from which all knowledge must proceed in separation from all extra-intellectual sources and inclinations, be they conventions of the time, religious mandates, or emotional inclinations.

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Jean Piaget & the Superior Psychogenetic Cognition of Europeans, Part II

Ricardo Duchesne

Representatives of two stages of mental development: Rembrandt, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (1653)

6,358 words

Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Why did the West rise to become the most powerful civilization, the progenitor of modernity, the culture with the most prodigious creators? The answers are plenty. But it may be that a child psychologist, Jean Piaget, has offered the best theoretical framework to explain the difference between the West and the Rest. Read more …

Published: October 18, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged ancient Greeks, Aristotle, articles, Council of European Canadians, evolutionary psychology, North American New Right, racial differences, René Descartes, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne | 6 Responses

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Jean Piaget & the Superior Psychogenetic Cognition of Europeans, Part I

Ricardo Duchesne

Jean Piaget

4,677 words

Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

Everyone has heard about Jean Piaget’s (1896-1980) theory of the cognitive development of children. But no one knows that his theory placed Europeans at the top of the cognitive ladder with most humans stuck at the bottom — unless Europeans taught them how to think.

Piaget is widely recognized as the “greatest child psychologist of the twentieth century.” Unlike many other influential figures, Piaget’s discoveries have withstood the test of time. Read more …

Published: October 17, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Council of European Canadians, evolutionary psychology, North American New Right, racial differences, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne | 2 Responses

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Canada in Decay: One Year Later

Ricardo Duchesne

762 words

August 22 marks one year since the release of Canada in Decay: Mass Immigration, and the Ethnocide of Euro-Canadians (reviewed at Counter-Currents here). I thought this book would have an impact in the long run as the first scholarly effort to explain the nature and origins of multiculturalism from a truly critical perspective, without kowtowing to the banks, politicians, and conformist academics. Read more …

Published: September 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Amazon.com, articles, Canada, Council of European Canadians, metapolitics, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne | 2 Responses

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The Masculine Preconditions of Individualism, Part 4

Ricardo Duchesne

3,397 words

Part 4 of 4

The Radicalizing Logic of Modern Individualism

With the formation of nation states in the modern era, as liberal institutions were emerging in the form of constitutional rule, freedom of religious expression, and representative bodies in which members of the bourgeoisie were included, Read more …

Published: June 8, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alexander Dugin, articles, collectivism, European identity, G. W. F. Hegel, individualism, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne | 1 Response

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The Masculine Preconditions of Individualism, Part 3

Ricardo Duchesne

3,355 words

Part 3 of 4

Bio-Masculine Foundations of Individualism

In The Uniqueness of Western Civilization I traced this aristocratic individualism back the pre-historic Indo-Europeans (IEs). The IEs created a new type of aristocratic society in the sense that “some men,” not just the king, were free to deliberate over major issues affecting the group, as well as free to strive for personal recognition. Read more …

Published: June 7, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged agonism, articles, ethnocentrism, European identity, individualism, manliness, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, the Indo-Europeans | 1 Response

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The Masculine Preconditions of Individualism, Part 2

Ricardo Duchesne

1,893 words

Part 2 of 4

Conventional vs. Postconventional Morals

Europeans will never become tribal and collectivist in the manner and degree of non-Europeans. Having an individual identity, an awareness of one’s inner being, that one’s actions can be causally dependent on one’s free will rather than on preceding events, Read more …

Published: June 6, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, ethnocentrism, European identity, Immanuel Kant, individualism, Jacob Burckhardt, morality, North American New Right, philosophy, reason, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, self-consciousness | Leave a comment

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The Masculine Preconditions of Individualism, the Indo-Europeans, and the Modern Hegelian Concept of Collective Freedom

Ricardo Duchesne

1,476 words

Part 1 of 4

Libertarian freedoms are not incompatible with a strong commitment to in-group white identity politics. On the contrary, Europeans can preserve their attachment to individual liberties only by living inside nations with a strong sense of collective ancestry in opposition to mass immigration. Read more …

Published: June 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged agonism, articles, Carl Schmitt, collectivism, G. W. F. Hegel, individualism, Indo-Europeans, manliness, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, thumos | 7 Responses

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Steven Pinker’s Anti-Enlightenment Attack on White Identitarians

Ricardo Duchesne

5,422 words

Polish version here

Steven Pinker
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
New York: Viking, 2018

Pinker “Loathes” White Identitarians

With the publication of Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker has decisively established himself as the foremost public intellectual in the United States. Read more …

Published: March 16, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, cosmopolitanism, diversity, ethnonationalism, European identity, identitarianism, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, populism, progress., Ricardo Duchesne, social capital, Steven Pinker, trust, universalism | 23 Responses

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Jordan Peterson’s Rejection of Identity Politics Allows White Ethnocide

Ricardo Duchesne

1,298 words

Jordan Peterson’s rejection of identity politics makes no sense in the face of an establishment from left to right committed to the diversification of all Western nations through relentless immigration, which is fast reducing Whites to a minority, and is premised on the prohibition of White identity, while encouraging the inherently collectivist identities of non-Whites. Read more …