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Alexandra Minna Stern
Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right is Warping the American Imagination
New York: Beacon Press, 2019

I never really saw the wisdom in how the Left typically ignores Dissident Right ideas until reading Alexandra Minna Stern’s Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right is Warping the American Imagination. Read more …

Published: August 15, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, the Alt Lite, white nationalism | 9 Responses

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Age of Cringe:
Alt-Right: Age of Rage

Trevor Lynch

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Based on a few clips, I was certain that Alt-Right: Age of Rage (2018) would lead to permanent physical damage from sheer cringiness. But I was delighted to have been proven wrong. This is a remarkably fair-minded documentary. On balance, though, I think it will be good for white identity politics. Age of Rage was directed by Adam Bhala Lough, an American of partial South Asian descent.

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“How Did Anyone Even Notice Me?”

Donald Thoresen

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Jonathan Weisman
(((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018

One finds a dilemma within White Nationalist criticism of Jewish literature: how to reconcile Jewish hysteria concerning imminent pogroms whenever a Jew isn’t treated with reverence with the actual White Nationalist goal of a society non-violently freed of Jews and Jewish influence. Read more …

Published: January 30, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-Semitism, articles, book reviews, Donald Thoresen, Donald Trump, Gamergate, Jewish subversion, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, white nationalism | 20 Responses

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Con-Tiki:
Torchlight Reflections on an Aryan Archetype

James J. O'Meara

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Adam Foshko & Jason Henderson
California Tiki: A History of Polynesian Idols, Pineapple Cocktails and Coconut Palm Trees
Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2018

“It’s just a convenient, easily accessible torch. No need to overthink it.”[1]

Published: January 29, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Charlottesville, implicit whiteness, James J. O'Meara, Neville, North American New Right, originals, Unite the Right | 12 Responses

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We Are Doomed Revisited:
An Interview with John Derbyshire

Travis LeBlanc

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2019 is almost here.

As everyone knows, 2019 is the year when the dystopian sci-fi movie Blade Runner takes place. 2019 will also be the ten year anniversary of the release of John Derbyshire’s paradigm-shifting bestseller We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism, a book which paints a dystopian future for America even more disturbing and unsettling than the one portrayed in Blade Runner. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged conservatism, Dissident Right, interviews, John Derbyshire, North American New Right, originals, pessimism, Travis LeBlanc, writing | 6 Responses

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Beyond the Alt Right
Toward a New Nationalism

Greg Johnson

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The Alt Right is dead. But the Alt Right was so useful—and so much fun—that we need to create a replacement for it, the sooner the better. Read more …

Published: December 21, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, democracy, elitism, fascism, globalization, Greg Johnson, Matthew Goodwin, metapolitics, National Populism, North American New Right, originals, populism, Roger Eatwell, the Alternative Right, white nationalism, yellow vests | 40 Responses

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Thoughts on the State of the Right

James Lawrence

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Editor’s Note:

This is a very important essay. Please read, comment, and share. — Greg Johnson

There’s no sense in mincing words anymore: The Alt Right has hit a wall and is presently faced with the hard task of pulling back and searching for a new course. The enemy media are (prematurely) claiming victory. Read more …

Published: June 28, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, fourth generation warfare, Hailgate, James Lawrence, North American New Right, reprints, Richard Spencer, the Alternative Right, Unite the Right, white nationalism | 23 Responses

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Dark Star Risible:
Gary Lachman’s Goofy Exploration of the Trumpian Occult

Rainer Chlodwig von K.

The book that exposes Red Ice for the neo-Soviet Russian front that it is!

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Gary Lachman
Dark Star Rising: Magick & Power in the Age of Trump
New York: TarcherPerigree, 2018

I’m only a few pages into your pathetic Alt-Right cash-in book and already regard it as an instant camp classic. Thanks for the unintentional laughs, sir. https://t.co/r941q6zcEt

— R. Chlodwig von K. (@icareviews) June 2, 2018

Published: June 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Donald Trump, Gary Lachman, meme magick, Norman Vincent Peale, North American New Right, positive thinking, reprints | 14 Responses

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John Morgan Interviewed on The Convict Report

John Morgan

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Counter-Currents Book Editor John Morgan recently spoke to the team at the Australian podcast, The Convict Report, about his long intellectual and personal journey into this milieu and his assessment of the Dissident Right as it stands today. John thanks the Dingoes for a great conversation and enjoyed speaking with his Anglo comrades and brethren in the land Down Under! To listen, click here.

Published: March 7, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Australia, interviews, John Morgan, news items | 2 Responses

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Response to “Why the Alt Right Movement Will Fail”

James Dunphy

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The following is a response to a pleb-tier YouTube video entitled “Why The [sic] ‘Alt Right’ Movement Will Fail” which has over 60,000 views as of me writing this. [It now has over 113k views. — Ed.] In it, a snarky young nonwhite man attempts to give several reasons why the Alt Right has no future. Read more …

Published: November 7, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, James Dunphy, North American New Right, originals, race realism, white nationalism | 19 Responses

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Rally ‘Round the Flag

Donald Thoresen

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In the wake of Charlottesville, there has been much discussion about optics and the most effective aesthetic strategies for the growing White Nationalist movement. Andrew Anglin recently pronounced the Alt Right “dead” and implied that American symbology was the best path forward. He received instant blowback from many in the movement. Read more …

Published: September 29, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American flag, American nationalism, articles, Donald Thoresen, NFL protests, North American New Right, originals, Symbolism, white nationalism | 17 Responses

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Price Anchoring & the Alt Right

Michael Andreopoulos

Stephen Colbert demonstrating how far the Overton window in America has shifted over the past two years.

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As Noam Chomsky points out in Manufacturing Consent, our propaganda system operates less by overt censorship and more by controlling the range of acceptable discourse. Read more …

Published: September 29, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged antifa, articles, conservatism, liberals, North American New Right, originals, Overton window, Unite the Right | 11 Responses

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George Hawley’s Making Sense of the Alt-Right

Greg Johnson

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George Hawley
Making Sense of the Alt-Right
New York: Columbia University Press, 2017

George Hawley is an amazingly productive young political scientist at the University of Alabama. By my count, Making Sense of the Alt-Right is his fifth book in four years. Last year, I reviewed his Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism, for which I had high praise, although I complained that he had not dealt with populism, which was the animating force Trump’s ongoing rise to the White House. Read more …

Published: September 18, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alternative Right, book reviews, Donald Trump, George Hawley, Greg Johnson, Making Sense of the Alt-Right, North American New Right, originals, white nationalism | 9 Responses

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Rebranding the Right

Spencer J. Quinn

Mixed messages.

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After any setback, it is perfectly natural and proper to reassess one’s tactics and goals. It is, after all, a winning attitude after a loss to blame oneself and not one’s enemies.

Published: August 31, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Charlottesville, North American New Right, originals, race realism, Spencer Quinn, Unite the Right, white nationalism | 13 Responses

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Vivisecting the Femiblob, Part Two

P. T. O'Talryn

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

The Advantage of the Other

In 1683 the troops of the Ottoman Empire marched to the gates of Vienna, in the very heart of Europe. Their intention was clear: sack the city, rape and kill the inhabitants, and use it as a staging base for their expansion into the rest of Christendom. Although the Poles under John III Sobieski saved the day, Read more …

Published: June 30, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Christianity, cultural Marxism, Friedrich Schiller, H. R. Giger, liberalism, modern art, modernity, North American New Right, originals, P. T. O'Talryn, Salvador Dalí | 11 Responses

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Nostradamus

Spencer J. Quinn

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Like many in the West, I’m sure, I spent fifteen minutes in my youth being fascinated by the seventeenth-century Jewish prophet Nostradamus. Anyone who can fold time like a piece of paper and then burrow through it to get a peek at the other side is certainly someone we would all like to know about. Can that even be done? If so, in God’s name, how? How can someone make remarkably accurate predictions of events which are scheduled to happen hundreds of years after his death? Read more …

Published: June 16, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged North American New Right, originals, predictions, Spencer Quinn | 19 Responses

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Anders Breivik Revisited

Spencer J. Quinn

The campers on Utøya the day before Breivik’s attack.

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My recent article, “Anders Breivik and the Manchester Bombing,” elicited such controversy and outrage among our readership that I felt an encore was necessary. The Breivik massacre is fairly unique in that it acts as a firecracker, Read more …

Published: June 5, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anders Breivik, Islamic terrorism, liberals, mass immigration, North American New Right, originals, Spencer Quinn, terrorism, the left | 14 Responses

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How to Talk to Conservatives (and Why We Must)

Spencer J. Quinn

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About twenty years ago, I overheard a conversation between two college kids about a subversive new cable television program called South Park. One kid was enthralled by the show’s pointed satire, sophisticated cultural references, and frequent sexual and scatological references. Read more …

Published: June 1, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged conservatism, North American New Right, originals, race realism, Spencer Quinn, the Jewish question, the red pill, white nationalism | 8 Responses

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Nations Don’t Go Extinct Due to Loss of Material Comforts:
A Response to Bain Dewitt

F. C. Comtaose

Jared Kushner donned his smartest business casual attire for his visit to American troops in Iraq, while Ivanka wrote his name across the front of his bulletproof vest so that everyone in the changing room would know it was his.

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The article “Russians Are Not #Ourguys” by Mr. Dewitt has generated a whirlwind of heated response from Counter-Currents readers. In my humble and candid opinion, the article reeks of being a piece of neocon shilling (dotted by some ostensibly decent and rational remarks, admittedly) which reads like it’s straight from the National Review or even The Weekly Standard. Read more …

Published: May 29, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America first, Bain Dewitt, Donald Trump, F. C. Comtaose, geopolitics, Iran, Israel, Japan, neoconservatism, North American New Right, North Korea, originals, Russia, Syria, Turkey | 24 Responses

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I Scream, You Scream

Spencer J. Quinn

Chinese ice cream.

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In case you missed it, I recently I got into a little tiff with one of my blogging idols, Kim du Toit. On April 28, Counter-Currents published an article of mine, “Kim du Toit and the Freedom Paradox,” in which I more or less introduced Kim to the Alt Right and took him to task in a nice and respectful way over our political differences. Kim was one of my favorite bloggers of the previous decade and was just coming off an eight-year hiatus, so I figured the time was right. Read more …

Published: May 15, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alt Lite, democracy, freedom, Kim du Toit, North American New Right, originals, racial integration, Spencer Quinn, the US Constitution | 18 Responses

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The Alt Lite & the Spectrum Axis

Spencer J. Quinn

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It is a very simple idea.

Remember that in the film Moneyball, the new Assistant General Manager, Peter Brand, said that “it’s all about getting things down to one number.” Like Spearman’s g, but for baseball. A single number which could establish a player’s objective worth. Read more …

Published: May 3, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alt Lite, democracy, ethnonationalism, freedom, Gavin McInnes, immigration, North American New Right, originals, race realism, Spencer Quinn | 7 Responses

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God-Emperor from a Machine:
The Alt Right, Aesthetics, & Memetics

Pseudo-Laurentius

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Meme war is nothing new or original in human history, but the battlefields we wage it on have completely transformed. Read more …

Published: May 3, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged meme magick, memes, North American New Right, Pseudo-Laurentius, reprints | 1 Response

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Kim du Toit & the Freedom Paradox

Spencer J. Quinn

Kim du Toit

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One of the tricky things about writing from an Alt Right perspective is how to deal with conservatives or Alt Light people I have always respected but who aren’t “Alt” enough for me to truly connect with. Read more …

Published: April 28, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alt Lite, Kim du Toit, North American New Right, originals, race realism, South Africa, Spencer Quinn | 15 Responses

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On Gavin McInnes & the Alt Lite

Spencer J. Quinn

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Recently, Gavin McInnes, our friend over at Taki’s Magazine, helpfully released a video entitled “What is the Alt Right?” In it, he does a pretty good job of describing who (or what) most of us are, dividing us into the “Alt Lite,” the “Alt Right,” and everyone else. Read more …

Published: April 19, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alt Lite, Gavin McInnes, North American New Right, originals, race-mixing, Spencer Quinn, white dispossession | 8 Responses

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The Weaponized Nonsense of George Lakoff

Margot Metroland

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Sometimes you read a newspaper column that starts off so pointlessly and insipidly you can’t tell whether it’s supposed to be a parody of bad writing, or the writer just wants to introduce a humorous idea but can’t find the right hook to hang it on. This happened a few days ago (April 10) in The Washington Post, with a column by one Steven Petrow. Read more …

Published: April 14, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Donald Trump, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals | 15 Responses

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There Is Nothing the Alt Right Can Do about the Effeminacy of White Men

Ricardo Duchesne

Cato the Elder: The Face of Rising Rome

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Some white men are identifying with the Alt Right as they realize that the goals and norms celebrated by our social order are underpinned by multiple deceptions, suppression of debate, anti-scientific notions about human equality, and unjust opposition to white identity Read more …

Published: April 4, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged British Empire, Council of European Canadians, decadence, degeneration, feminism, liberalism, masculinity, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Roman Empire | 15 Responses

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Welcome to the League of Shadows!

Jef Costello

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This essay was originally a talk delivered to The New York Forum on Sunday, March 26, 2017.

I had an interesting conversation the other night with an old friend of mine who has been involved in one way or another with our movement since he was in high school. We were discussing the dramatic changes that have taken place in just the last several years. Read more …

Published: March 30, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged activism, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, The New York Forum | 18 Responses

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Whose Jane Austen is It, Anyway?

Margot Metroland

Mock ad by Michael O’Donoghue & George W. S. Trow, 1971 National Lampoon

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For the past couple of weeks there’s been a lot of media blather about how the novelist Jane Austen is an icon of the Alt Right. The distress this causes Leftist critics has been a thing of high comedy and low hysteria.

If you haven’t been keeping up, I review some articles immediately below. Otherwise, feel free to skip about halfway down, where I get into matters of cultural appropriation and Austen sex roles. Read more …

Published: March 27, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals | 12 Responses

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Alt Right versus New Right

John Morgan

Alt Right meets New Right: John Morgan with Alain de Benoist at the 2013 NPI conference.

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The following is the text of the talk that John Morgan was scheduled to deliver at Identitarian Ideas IX in Stockholm last Saturday, but was unable to due to circumstances beyond his control. As such it was intended for a primarily Swedish audience.

Today I want to talk about two schools of political thought that on the surface seem similar, but that are in fact quite different in a number of fundamental ways: namely the Alt Right and the European New Right. Read more …

Published: February 28, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, European New Right, John Morgan, North American New Right, originals | 32 Responses

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Now in Audio Version!
Milo-lita: More Musings on Milo

Spencer J. Quinn

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To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.”

Writers like myself have to be careful when addressing famous figures currently associated with the Alt Right. While I contribute as well as I can, offering insights, ideas, and disseminating information from the sidelines, what I do pales in comparison Read more …