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Co-hosts Fróði Midjord and Jonas De Geer were joined by Counter-Currents Book Editor John Morgan for today’s broadcast, which commemorated two recent anniversaries: Read more …

Published: May 6, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Anthony Burgess, Communism, Enoch Powell, Frodi Midjord, John Morgan, Jonas De Geer, Me ne frego, neoliberal totalitarianism, neoliberalism, Stanley Kubrick | 5 Responses

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Wild in the Streets of Sleepy London Town

James J. O'Meara

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Dave Wallis
Only Lovers Left Alive
London: Anthony Blond, 1964
Richmond, Va.: Valancourt, 2015

“In those days, before the death of the last square . . .”

At some point, I suppose with Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange,[1] the “youth in trouble” genre, already fairly exploitative beneath its standard moralistic framework,[2] mutated into a “cult of youth” format, Read more …

Published: April 10, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Albert Camus, Anthony Burgess, book reviews, David Bowie, dystopian fiction, James J. O'Meara, John Wyndham, literature, North American New Right, originals, post-apocalyptic fiction, The Rolling Stones, white survivalism, William S. Burroughs | 10 Responses

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The Prophet of Exhaustion
Being Yet Another Remembrance of
Bill Hopkins (1927–2012), Part 2

Margot Metroland

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Part 2 of 2

Bill Hopkins

3. “The corrupt vigour of fascism.”

In early 1958, Time magazine ran a humorous squib titled “Sloane Square Stomp.”[9] It told how Colin Wilson (and presumably Bill) had attended a premiere of their friend Stuart Holroyd’s new play at the Royal Court Theatre. Bill and Colin’s onetime friend Christopher Logue stood up in the stalls with Kenneth Tynan, denouncing Holroyd and Wilson as fascists. During the interval, this led to a shoving match in a nearby bar. The whole thing was a tempest in a teapot, Read more …

Published: March 5, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Angry Young Men, Anthony Burgess, articles, Bill Hopkins, Colin Wilson, David McCalden, fascism, Jonathan Bowden, literature, Margot Metroland, memoirs, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, religion, Revilo P. Oliver, Sir Oswald Mosley, Stuart Holroyd, The Divine and the Decay | 5 Responses

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Pulp Fascism

Jonathan Bowden

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Editor’s Note:

The following text is a transcription by V. S. of a lecture entitled “Léon Degrelle and the Real Tintin,” delivered at the 21st meeting of the New Right, London, June 13, 2009. The lecture can be viewed on YouTube here. (Please post any corrections as comments below.)

The Strange Case of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange

Jonathan Bowden

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Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1962

A Clockwork Orange is a short novella produced by Anthony Burgess in a very short period of time—yet the author had doubtless dwelt upon an entire zoology before producing it. One of the book’s characteristics, which even the most casual reader notices, is the experimental language or deliberate argot that Burgess develops for his retinue of juvenile delinquents. Read more …