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All Hallows’ Eve:
On Death & Remembrance

William de Vere

2,390 words

I cannot speak for the rest of the world, but for those of us who grew up in the United States, especially in its more rural environs, autumn is a particularly nostalgic season. In part, this is owing to associations formed during childhood: the forest ramblings, the fallen leaves crunching underfoot, the morning fog over the trees, the smell of woodsmoke in the air; the pumpkin patches and hayrides, county fairs and bonfires — all of these thoughts and remembrances come back to us in this season, tinted in shades of red and gold. Read more …

Published: October 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged All Hallow's Eve, articles, autumn, Halloween, melancholy, North American New Right, nostalgia, originals, Samhain, spirituality, William de Vere, Yuletide | 9 Responses

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Raising Aristocrats

William de Vere

8,088 words

O my brothers, I dedicate and direct you to a new nobility: you shall become procreators and cultivators and sowers of the future — verily, not to a nobility that you might buy like shopkeepers and with shopkeepers’ gold: for whatever has its price has little value. Read more …

Published: October 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged aristocracy, articles, childhood, children, education, Friedrich Nietzsche, heroism, innocence, liberal education, nobility, North American New Right, originals, parenthood, parenting, philosophy, spirit, William de Vere, youth | 6 Responses

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Denazifying Savitri Devi

William de Vere

8,304 words

The very idea sounds absurd. Militant supporter of National Socialism, foundational figure of Esoteric Hilterism, the iron maiden known to academia — insofar as she is known at all — as “Hitler’s Priestess”: dissociating Savitri Devi from her fanatical loyalty to Hitler’s Germany seems as futile as denazifying The Führer himself. Read more …

Published: September 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Akhnaton, aristocracy, articles, Bhagavad Gita, ecology, environmentalism, Esoteric Hitlerism, eugenics, folk, folk-soul, hinduism, humanity, immanentism, Indo-Europeans, industrialization, Kali Yuga, Kalki, karma yoga, Men against Time, monism, National Socialism, Neoplatonism, nobility, North American New Right, originals, paganism, primordial metaphysics, primordial religion, primordialism, race, religion, Savitri Devi, spirituality, technology, the sun, Traditionalism, Vishnu, warrior ethics, warriors, William de Vere | 19 Responses

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Michaelmas:
Of Harvest Festivals & Holy Warriors

William de Vere

6,101 words

Come out, ’tis now September, the hunters’ moon’s begun,
And through the wheaten stubble we hear the frequent gun;
The leaves are turning yellow, and fading into red,
While the ripe and bearded barley is hanging down its head.

— “All Among the Barley,” British folk song Read more …

Published: September 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Archangel Michael, aristocracy, articles, autumn, chivalry, Christianity, Christus Victor, feasts, festivals, feudalism, harvest, holy war, Knights Templar, Michaelmas, North American New Right, originals, paganism, religion, spirituality, syncretism, time, tradition, war, warrior ethics, William de Vere | 7 Responses

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The Metaphysics of Integral Ecology

William de Vere

Caspar David Friedrich, Landscape with Mountain Lake in the Morning, 1823.

3,918 words

Among those on the Right who address man’s relationship to the rest of the natural world, one finds a variety of approaches. There are the anthropocentric conservationists, who promote the “wise use” or prudent management of natural resources for future generations. There are the Social Darwinist varieties, Read more …

Published: September 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged agape, articles, Christianity, constructivism, ecology, emanationism, environmentalism, epistemology, German Idealism, hierarchy, industrialization, integral ecology, knowledge, metaphysics, modernity, monism, nature, Neoplatonism, North American New Right, originals, panentheism, philosophy, Platonism, postmodernism, primordial metaphysics, Sophia perennis, Traditionalism, William de Vere | 7 Responses

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Living Monuments

William de Vere

Caspar David Friedrich, Wall at Dusk, 1837-40.

3,000 words

My ancestors arrived in the Tidewater region of this continent around 400 years ago, and lived and died almost entirely beneath the Mason-Dixon line. As a Catholic, a Southron, and an Anglo-American, I am filled with sorrow and impotent rage at the sight of my forebears being demonized by those who are so manifestly inferior to them. Read more …

Published: July 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged ancestry, articles, environmentalism, life, monuments, nature, North American New Right, originals, self-actualization, spirituality, statues, thumos, time, tradition, William de Vere | 6 Responses

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The Politics of Meat:
An Ecofascist Perspective

William de Vere

4,436 words

Jef Costello’s recent articles concerning the “Carnivore Diet” inspired me to ponder a subject that I had neglected for some time: the ethics and politics of diet.

Published: July 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged agriculture, animal rights, articles, carnism, carnivore diet, death, deep ecology, diet, ecofascism, ecology, environmentalism, factory farming, hunting, liberalism, meat, modernity, North American New Right, originals, Savitri Devi, spirituality, the bourgeoisie, veganism, vegetarianism, William de Vere | 27 Responses

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Midsummer

William de Vere

1,554 words

I have returned, for a time, to the lakes and forests where I spent my childhood summers.

Returned to the knotted post oaks and the impenetrable blackjack pines, to the dense undergrowth and brambles, to the thick forests echoing with the song Read more …

Published: June 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, childhood, coming of age, ecology, environmentalism, modernity, North American New Right, originals, reflection, urbanization, why we write, William de Vere | 5 Responses

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Ecofascism Resurgent

William de Vere

4,631 words

While mankind suffers through the worst global crisis in recent memory, the rest of the world appears to be benefiting from our discomfiture.

The quarantines, travel bans, and economic stagnation brought about by COVID-19 have had a number of unintended consequences for the natural environment: improvements in air quality resulting from the reduction of major pollutants such as nitrous oxide and greenhouse gases; cleaner waterways (most famously the canals of Venice); and the return of wildlife to humanized landscapes. Read more …

Published: April 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, capitalism, consumerism, coronavirus, COVID-19, deep ecology, Earth Day, Earth First, ecofascism, ecology, environmentalism, industrialization, materialism, misanthropy, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Pentti Linkola, Savitri Devi, socialism, William de Vere | 21 Responses

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Dispatches from the War on Corona

William de Vere

3,789 words

In March 2020, the world declared war on COVID-19.

The use of martial rhetoric with reference to peacetime political conflicts — the War on Drugs, the War on Poverty, the domestic arena of the War on Terror — has a long and dubious history in American politics. The appeal is obvious. Warlike language depicts every conflict as a life-or-death struggle, encourages mass mobilization, justifies significant intrusion into people’s lives, and provides a pretext for novel (and possibly illegal) political solutions. Read more …

Published: April 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, coronavirus, COVID-19, language, manliness, North American New Right, originals, propaganda, William de Vere | 8 Responses

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The Purgative Fantasy

William de Vere

Albertus Pictor, Death Playing Chess, 1480-90.

2,823 words

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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The WASP in the Wilderness

William de Vere

3,121 words

Despite their many social ills, one might judge the decades prior to World War I to be the last period of sanity in the West. It was truly the last epoch in American history in which the values of old Europe still held any sway, when criticism of modernity by men of the Right still exerted some influence, and when ancestral traditions of dignity and civic responsibility were still in force among the old families. It was a time when anxieties about the rising power of the underclass and the preservation of America’s political, cultural, and natural heritage were paramount. Read more …

Published: March 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged aristocracy, articles, ecology, environmentalism, North American New Right, originals, subversion, urbanization, WASPs, William de Vere | 8 Responses

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The Rangers of the North

William de Vere

1,287 words

“Few now remember them . . . yet still some go wandering, sons of forgotten kings walking in loneliness, guarding from evil things folks that are heedless.” (Tom Bombadil, “Fog on the Barrow Downs,” The Fellowship of the Ring)

In memory of Christopher Tolkien Read more …

Published: January 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, fantasy literature, J. R. R. Tolkien, North American New Right, reprints, The Lord of the Rings, William de Vere | 7 Responses

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Leftward Drift & Radical Ecology:
The Tragedy of Earth First!, Part 2

William de Vere

1,815 words

Murray the Hegelian

Part 2 of 2; part 1 here

With the early successes of Earth First! came the envious spite typical of the doctrinaire Left — who, despite their constant denunciations of ugly noxious screeds are themselves often quite guilty on that score. The opening salvo was fired by Murray Bookchin, a bloviating Hegelian from Vermont (by way of New York City). This was a man whose vituperative style and all-around prickliness eventually led even his own disciples to concede that he set back the cause of the American ecology movement for decades. Read more …

Published: January 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, deep ecology, Earth First, entryism, environmentalism, leftism, North American New Right, reprints, William de Vere | 7 Responses

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Leftward Drift & Radical Ecology:
The Tragedy of Earth First!, Part 1

William de Vere

3,464 words

Part 1 of 2; part 2 here

While its current champions would have us believe that political ecology is the exclusive domain of the Left, and often fret about the specter of entryism by racists and crypto-fascists into their struggle for world liberation, a cursory glance at the history of ecological thought reveals the opposite to be true. Read more …

Published: January 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, deep ecology, Earth First, environmentalism, leftism, North American New Right, reprints, William de Vere | 6 Responses

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The American Kshatriya

William de Vere

Horatio Greenough, George Washington, 1840

3,341 words

Valor, fearlessness, fortitude, resourcefulness, and also, not fleeing in war, charity, and the ability to rule, are the natural duties of a Kshatriya. — Bhagavad Gita 18:23

According to a widely-accepted hypothesis of Georges Dumézil, prehistoric Indo-European society was divided into three basic functions: a sacral, a martial, and an economic class. This tripartite ideology survived the Indo-European migrations throughout Europe and Asia and has persisted, with various modifications, into modernity. Read more …

Published: December 19, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Julius Evola, living well, manliness, North American New Right, reprints, Traditionalism, tripartition, warrior ethics, William de Vere | 8 Responses

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Ecology Viewed from the Right

William de Vere

2,885 words

Whatever its contemporary associations, the natural home of political ecology lies on the Right – not the false Right associated with the Republican Party in America, of course, whose conservatism is little more than a desperate and self-destructive attachment to the liberal principles of the Enlightenment, but what Julius Evola has called the True Right: Read more …

Published: November 29, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged animal rights, articles, ecology, environmentalism, modernism, North American New Right, originals, progressivism, True Right, William de Vere | 12 Responses

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Autumnal Reflections

William de Vere

1,209 words

This time of year, when autumn fades into winter, has been particularly evocative to me ever since I was a child. Of course, “the holiday season” has a special meaning for many people, and their reasons are probably for the most part quite similar to mine. There is a shared seasonal nostalgia for the cold autumn air, the brilliant foliage, Jack-o’-lanterns and Christmas trees, eggnog and pumpkin pie and sugar cookies, Halloween costumes and Thanksgiving dinners and Christmas mornings. Read more …

Published: November 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Christmas, North American New Right, reprints, Thanksgiving, William de Vere | 5 Responses

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