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There is no city quite like Detroit, Michigan that exemplifies American deindustrialization. If one flies into the city’s airport at night, one looks down on a dark void, occasionally lit by streetlamps shining their light upon a ruin. By day, things look no better. Vast stretches of the city have become urban prairie. The story of Detroit Read more …

Published: August 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Blacks in America, deindustrialization, Detroit, economics, industrialization, industry, labor, manufacturing, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, post-war America, the factory, the Rust Belt, urban blight, urbanization | 7 Responses

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Night of the Living Dead

John Wilkinson

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One of the smartest moves I ever made was becoming a “cord cutter.” Aside from the financial benefit, it has served to liberate my mind from the clutter of contemporary pop culture and media propaganda. Nevertheless, I occasionally indulge in streaming old movies, classics, whenever I can find them. Read more …

Published: August 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Blacks in America, Civil Rights Movement, Duane Jones, George Romero, horror movies, John Wilkinson, movie reviews, Night of the Living Dead, North American New Right, originals, violence, zombie movies | 24 Responses

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Kennedy’s Suppression of Right-Wing Speech

Morris V. de Camp

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Paul Matzko [1]
The Radio Right: How a Band of Broadcasters took on the Federal Government and Built the Modern Conservative Movement
New York: Oxford University Press, 2020

The decade of the 1960s is laden with irony and contradictions. On the one hand, especially in the early days of the decade, there was the appearance of national unity and calm across America. But just under the surface, explosive forces were gathering. Read more …

Published: July 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, censorship, communications, deplatforming, John F. Kennedy, mainstream media, mass media, media, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals | 6 Responses

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Our Boy Bezmenov:
Soviet Subversion Strategies in America

Beau Albrecht

Yuri Bezmenov during his interview with Edward Griffin.

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A long campaign of demoralization leads to destabilization. Then some crisis conveniently emerges, which, upon close examination, appears aimed at bringing about a Leftist overthrow. Does that seem familiar? Since the public has been through two largely manufactured crises in the first half of 2020, maybe it even sounds like it’s been ripped from the headlines! Actually, all this is much older than one might expect. Read more …

Published: June 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Beau Albrecht, Communism, cultural Marxism, espionage, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, psychological warfare, Russia, spying, subversion, the Cold War, the Weimar Republic | 14 Responses

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White Nationalism 1.0

Morris V. de Camp

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Kathleen Belew
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018

“The influence of key veterans upon the white power movement, therefore, is part of the longer story about veterans’ claims on society, and about the expansive aftermath of modern war.”– Kathleen Belew

Philosophical Psychopathy:
Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro”

Beau Albrecht

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Norman Mailer became a much-celebrated author of several novels, some quite dreadful, as well as a founder of The Village Voice. He wrote numerous essays, of which “The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster” became the most famous. It essentially served as an iconic manifesto for the nascent Counterculture. The following is a distillation and analysis of its ponderous sentences and floating abstractions. Read more …

Published: May 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1960s counterculture, articles, Beau Albrecht, hippies, miscegnation, morality, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism, psychopathy | 13 Responses

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The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part One

Derek Hawthorne

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I watched Hitchcock’s The Birds the other night, for the first time in years. Alone in my apartment, isolated for weeks now due to Coronavirus, I had a sudden hankering to watch the film. Some little. . . um. . . bird was telling me this was what I needed to see, right now. See it I did, and I have carried away what it has to teach us about the current crisis and, strangely enough, how Heidegger is the key to understanding this enigmatic film, which has haunted me for years. Read more …

Published: May 8, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, articles, Derek Hawthorne, electronic music, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, The Birds | 8 Responses

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The Ideas of Paul Weyrich

Morris V. de Camp

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Paul M. Weyrich & William S. Lind
The Next Conservatism: Paul Weyrich’s Last Testament
South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine’s Press, 2009

Paul Weyrich (1942 — 2008) was a profoundly influential conservative, dare I say, right-wing activist. He was born and raised in Wisconsin and was a Catholic who rejected the Vatican II reforms. His last book before his death is called The Next Conservatism. It was published in 2009, Read more …

Published: April 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Civil Rights Movement, hippies, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals | 3 Responses

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Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint

Beau Albrecht

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Philip Roth
Portnoy’s Complaint
New York: Random House, 1969

Six years ago, I decided that I should finally get around to reading a classic great American novel, Portnoy’s Complaint, by Philip Roth. So I delved into the book without knowing anything about it. I had no preconceptions other than that it was rated an excellent literary work. Was I ever in for a surprise! Read more …

Published: April 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Beau Albrecht, book reviews, North American New Right, originals, Philip Roth, psychoanalysis, psychology, the Jewish question | 9 Responses

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From Massive to Passive:
George Lewis’s Massive Resistance

Morris V. de Camp

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George Lewis
Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement
London: Hodder Education, 2006

There are very few books that cover the white response to the “civil rights” movement very seriously. Professor George Lewis of the University of Leicester (UK) has done such a work. However, the book maintains the flaws of all histories of “civil rights,” Read more …