Tag: Alain de Benoist

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Although the book is not polemical or sensationalistic, still less speculative (de Benoist is no Dan Brown), it is nevertheless provocative. There is provocation in the very title chosen: L’Homme qui n’avait pas de Père, the man who had no father. If there is originality in this book, it is in its insistence on the importance of closely examining Jesus’ family tree, of stressing its importance and weighing up the evidence of his parenthood and family relations. (more…)

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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

Alain de Benoist
L’Homme qui n’avait pas de Père: Le Dossier Jésus
Paris: Krisis, 2021
964 pages

All translations of quotations from the book in this review are the author’s. Passages from the Bible are from the King James Version. (more…)

Thomas Molnar

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Translated by György Balázs Kun

The following interview was published in Hungarian in the autumn 2021 issue of the journal Kommentár.

The best-known Hungarian conservative author, the greatest contemporary counter-revolutionary thinker, and the most productive Catholic philosopher of the twentieth century, Thomas Molnar, was born a hundred years ago this year. Béla Király, who is one of Alain de Benoist’s comrades-in-arms and discussion partners, conducted and translated an interview with him which reveals the two Right-wing thinkers’ parallel careers that lasted for decades. (more…)

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Fighting racism requires knowing what it is — not an easy task . . . [R]acism is a Schimpfwort: a term with pejorative connotations, whose very use inevitably tends to be more instrumental than descriptive. To call someone a racist, even if the charge is intellectually dishonest, can be a useful tactic, either in successfully paralyzing or in casting enough suspicion as to curtail credibility. — Alain de Benoist, “What is Racism?” (more…)

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Matthew Rose
A World after Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021

Countless books and articles have sought to explore the “Alt Right” over the past five years. Most amount to little more than point-and-sputter journalism, expressing horror in every paragraph that people would dare to believe such things as we do. (more…)

Mladý Hamsun v roce 1890

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English version here

Knut Hamsun zůstává záhadou. Byť byla jeho díla takřka kompletně přeložena do francouzštiny a dočkala se také celé řady filmových i televizních adaptací a přestože nejsou jeho knihy na rozdíl od tolika jiných „zastaralé ani přežité“ (Hubert Nyssen), francouzská veřejnost jej ignoruje. (more…)

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It is two years since Guillaume Faye, one of the leading intellectuals of the French and European New Right, passed away on 6th March 2019 at the age of 69 after a long struggle with cancer.

Faye was born on 7th November 1949 in Angoulème in southwest France into a middle-class family. An academically gifted child, he followed a well-charted path from lycée (grammar school) to university in Paris, where he studied political science. (more…)

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Translated by Greg Johnson 

Nicolas Gauthier: Joe Biden has been proclaimed winner of the US presidential election. Donald Trump, who has not conceded defeat, cries fraud and is preparing to engage in a legal battle. What is your analysis? (more…)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Don’t Tread on Us, 2020.

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Μετάφραση από τα Γαλλικά: Greg Johnson
Μετάφραση από τα Αγγλικά: Lohengrin

English translation here

Οι προεδρικές εκλογές των ΗΠΑ πλησιάζουν γρήγορα. Προσωπικά, θέλετε να επανεκλεγεί ο Donald Trump; Θα σας ευχαριστούσε μια δεύτερη θητεία αυτού του προέδρου, μόνον και μόνον για να δείτε την έκφραση στα πρόσωπα των αντιπάλων του, Αμερικανών και Ευρωπαίων; (more…)

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Translated by Greg Johnson

Nicolas Gauthier: With his speech at Les Mureaux, and his promise to begin fighting “Islamic separatism,” Emmanuel Macron seems to have discovered previously unglimpsed realities. Is this to his credit? Can we say that he is now regaining control?

Alain de Benoist: Macron has many faults, but he’s not a complete idiot. (more…)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Don’t Tread on Us, 2020.

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Translated by Greg Johnson

The US presidential election is fast approaching. Personally, do you want Donald Trump to be re-elected? Would a second term of this president please you, if only to see the faces of his opponents, American and European?

Alain de Benoist: I would like his re-election, but by default, for lack of something better. As you know, this character doesn’t thrill me that much. (more…)

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Philippe-Joseph Salazar
Suprémacistes: L’enquête Mondiale chez les Gourous de la Droite Identitaire
Paris: Plon, 2020

This book results from interviews with leading thinkers of the race-conscious right — the so-called alternative right — which seeks to bring race to the forefront of political debate. The title Suprémacistes is, however, misleading; for the author, Philippe-Joseph Salazar, nowhere describes the people who are the subject of this study as supremacists (more…)