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Thomas Nelson Page’s The Old Dominion

Spencer J. Quinn

2,676 words

Thomas Nelson Page
The Old Dominion: Her Making and Her Manners
1908

In compiling his famous 1908 essay collection The Old Dominion: Her Making and Her Manners, author Thomas Nelson Page seemed to have several goals in mind. Of course, offering a brief history of the Commonwealth of Virginia was one. He also quite clearly wished to rehabilitate the good name of his home state Read more …

Published: April 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Jamestown, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, the South, Thomas Nelson Page | 4 Responses

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Puritanophobia

Janice Drew, Vandalized Plymouth Rock

1,310 words

The Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock 400 years ago. Sadly for the occasion, unknown vandals defaced the actual Plymouth rock and other monuments dedicated to the Pilgrims’ arrival.

Published: February 19, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Calvinism, North American New Right, originals, Puritans, Robert Hampton, the United States, WASPs | 32 Responses

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The Optimism of the Groove:
Stanley Crouch’s Kansas City Lightning

James J. O'Meara

9,401 words

Stanley Crouch
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise & Times of Charlie Parker
HarperCollins, 2013

“The double consciousness so fundamental to jazz: the burdens of the soul met by the optimism of the groove.” — Stanley Crouch Read more …

Published: February 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Blacks in America, book reviews, essays, James J. O'Meara, jazz, North American New Right, originals, the United States | 11 Responses

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The 1619 Project Devours Its Liberal Parents

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The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project is the future of American education.

Buffalo Public Schools announced this month that the essay series will now be mandatory for its students and other school districts are soon to follow. The news was greeted with grumbles from acclaimed historians and conservatives, who despise 1619 Project’s attacks on sunny liberal view of American history. Read more …

Published: January 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Blacks in America, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, slavery | 17 Responses

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1676: A Year That Shaped White America

2,640 words

Edmund Morgan
American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
New York: W.W. Norton, 1975

Jill Lepore
The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity
New York: Vintage, 1999

The Dissident Right must take back American history. Read more …

Published: December 27, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Indians, articles, Blacks in America, book reviews, Jamestown, North American New Right, originals, populism, Robert Hampton, slavery | 4 Responses

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Chatty Cathy’s Poison Pill

Margot Metroland

3,082 words

Jill Lepore
This America: The Case for the Nation
New York: W. W. Norton, 2019

The theme of This America isn’t what Jill Lepore thinks it is.

Jill Lepore is a Harvard Professor of American History, and an incredibly prolific author – twenty-five books, and many essays in The New Yorker – with a fluid, appealing writing style. Read more …

Published: July 31, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, civic nationalism, liberalism, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals | 8 Responses

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The Founders of Ohio

1,189 words

David McCullough
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019

David McCullough’s latest book tells the story of the pioneers who settled the Northwest Territory (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and most of Minnesota), mostly focusing on Ohio and spanning the signing of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 up to 1853. Read more …

Published: July 4, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, articles, book reviews, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

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World War II Uniforms—The Army’s Snooze Button to Stay in the American Dream

2,572 words

In modern America, image is everything. Even war. Therefore, the United States Army is rolling out new uniforms reminiscent of something old—the iconic “pinks and greens” of the World War II “Greatest Generation.”

Probably not by coincidence,” The New York Times explained, “that’s what the Army was wearing the last time the nation celebrated total victory in a major war.” Read more …

Published: May 16, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Gregory Hood, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, the holocaust, white guilt, World War II | 13 Responses

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What Did the Founders Mean By “Liberty”?

C. B. Robertson

1,156 words / 7:35

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If there is a singular, inarguable principle that lies at the heart of America, it is liberty. The “Statue of Liberty” is perhaps our most iconic landmark, and the “Liberty Bell” in Philadelphia is one of our oldest national symbols. Read more …

Published: July 11, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Benjamin Franklin, C. B. Robertson, liberalism, liberty, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, the American founding | 2 Responses

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Video of the Day
Is White Nationalism Un-American?

11:25

Original article here

Published: July 9, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Indians, Asian exclusion, Blacks in America, Chinese in America, Greg Johnson, non-white immigration, North American New Right, video of the day, videos, white nationalism | 3 Responses

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Thanksgiving:
The Only Holiday Unique to the American Ethny

1,955 words

There is no holiday or tradition that is both solemn and deeply intertwined in the unique historical American ethnicity and spiritualism as Thanksgiving. The holiday has several meanings. The first is religious. The Mayflower Pilgrims celebrated their survival in Plymouth Colony with a feast and give thanks to God for their blessings. Today, deep within American culture Thanksgiving still carries the impulse to give thanks to the Almighty for one’s blessings during the year. Read more …

Published: November 22, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Indians, articles, C. F. Robinson, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Thanksgiving, the Jewish question | 3 Responses

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Madison Grant’s Great Work The Conquest of a Continent

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One great work of American history is David Hackett Fischer’s Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America. It has altered how a great many Americans see their country and their regional origins. It makes the Civil War easier to understand as well as the Red State/Blue State divide. It helps clear up why Southerners say “y’all” and in New Jersey they sometimes say, “youse.” David Hackett Fischer has followed up the ideas in Albion’s Seed in other works and other historians have built upon Fischer’s ideas.

Published: November 19, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, C. F. Robinson, Madison Grant, Nordicism, North American New Right, originals | 2 Responses

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Is White Nationalism Un-American?

John Singleton Copley, Portrait of Paul Revere, 1768

1,500 words / 10:54

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Many patriotic Americans object to White Nationalism because they are told it is “un-American.” America, they say, was always a multiracial society, dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal.” Therefore, the White Nationalist idea of a society that bases citizenship on race is alien to the American tradition. Read more …

Published: April 17, 2017 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged American Indians, articles, Asian exclusion, Blacks in America, Chinese in America, Greg Johnson, non-white immigration, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, white nationalism | 16 Responses

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Michael Cushman’s Our Southern Nation

2,617 words

Michael O. Cushman
Our Southern Nation: Its Origin and Future
New York: American Anglican Press, 2015

David Hackett Fischer and Colin Woodard are two authors who have each told the story (with Albion’s Seed and American Nations, respectively) of the regional movement of various peoples into the United States of America, and of how the conflicts between them have shaped the nature of modern American life on a grand scale. Read more …

Published: October 10, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American South, book reviews, North American New Right, originals, slavery | 8 Responses

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Madison Grant’s The Conquest of a Continent

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Editor’s Note:

In honor of Banned Books Week, we are pleased to publish James Dunphy’s article on Madison Grant’s The Conquest of a Continent, a book targeted by the Anti-Defamation League to be stifled, lest it give white Americans “nativist” ideas.

Published: September 28, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Argentina, articles, book reviews, Chile, James Dunphy, Latin America, Madison Grant, Nordicism, North American New Right, originals | 9 Responses

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Jim Webb’s Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America

Lawrence Murray

1,312 words

Jim Webb
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
New York: Broadway Books, 2004

Former Virginia Senator (2007-2013), Secretary of the Navy (1988-1989), Marine, and unapologetic Vietnam War veteran Jim Webb launched a quixotic bid for the Democratic presidential nomination last year, withdrawing in a few months. Read more …

Published: September 7, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Jim Webb, Lawrence Murray, North American New Right, populism, reprints, the Scots-Irish, warrior ethics, white nationalism | Leave a comment

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Review of Jim Webb’s Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America

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Originally published on February 17, 2005, this review remains to my mind one of the most memorable pieces ever to appear at VNN.

Jim Webb
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
New York: Broadway Books, 2004

Published: September 7, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Jim Webb, North American New Right, populism, reprints, the Scots-Irish, warrior ethics, white nationalism | 1 Response

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Nicholas Guyatt’s Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation

Donald Thoresen

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Nicholas Guyatt
Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
New York: Basic Books, 2016

Throughout history, whites have tended to feel a need to dissect the philosophical implications and practical consequences of their actions. Passion and emotion are rarely the driving forces behind white historical movement. Read more …

Published: September 5, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abolitionism, American Indians, Blacks in America, book reviews, Donald Thoresen, miscegenation, North American New Right, originals, race-mixing, segregation, slavery, white nationalism | 7 Responses

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How the Irish Became White, Part 3

Michael O'Meara

3,221 words

Part 3 of 3

Apropos of Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White (New York and London: Routledge, 1995)

Published: December 28, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, capitalism, How the Irish Became White, Marxism, Michael O'Meara, Noel Ignatieff, North American New Right, originals, Protestantism, secession, the Irish, the labor movement, white dispossession, white nationalism, whiteness studies | 9 Responses

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How the Irish Became White, Part 2

Michael O'Meara

Thomas Nast cartoon asserting the equal worth of Irish and blacks

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Part 2 of 3

Apropos of Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White (New York and London: Routledge, 1995)

What are here called the ‘whiteness historians’ ought not to be confused with ‘Whiteness Studies’ (WS) or ‘critical race studies’ (or certain other new ‘disciplines’ favored by ‘the New Know-Nothings’), Read more …

Published: December 27, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, How the Irish Became White, Marxism, Michael O'Meara, Noel Ignatieff, North American New Right, originals, the Irish, the labor movement, white dispossession, whiteness studies | 6 Responses

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How the Irish Became White, Part 1

Michael O'Meara

4,478 words

One of Thomas Nast’s 19th-century anti-Irish cartoons

Part 1 of 3

Apropos of Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White (New York and London: Routledge, 1995)

‘We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English’. — Winston Churchill

Published: December 26, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, How the Irish Became White, Marxism, Michael O'Meara, Noel Ignatieff, North American New Right, originals, the Irish, the labor movement, white dispossession, white genocide, whiteness studies | 7 Responses

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Two Puritan Commonwealths in Massachusetts

Andrew Hamilton

Plymouth Colony, 1620–1691

1,970 words

Plymouth Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony were two distinct Puritan commonwealths. Because this fact is not widely known, it is useful to understand some of the distinctions.

Published: November 23, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andrew Hamilton, articles, Christianity, North American New Right, originals, Puritanism, tolerance | 5 Responses

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Social Aristocracy

Andrew Hamilton

John Singleton Copley, “The Copley Family,” 1776

2,532 words

In the United States and England there has long existed the loose idea of a white social aristocracy arising from birth, old money, and social position that exercises a kind of fascination over people’s minds.

Published: September 21, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andrew Hamilton, articles, North American New Right, originals, WASPs | 21 Responses

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American Supremacism

Michael O'Meara

768 words

Author’s Note:

The following short excerpt is from a forthcoming essay titled ‘How the Irish Became White’, which makes an ethnonationalist critique of the ‘whiteness historians’ (Ignatiev, Roedeger, Allen, etc.) and their treatment of Irish-America.

Published: September 13, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anglo-Saxons, articles, capitalism, Catholicism, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, originals, Protestantism, Puritans, the United States | 15 Responses

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American Transcendentalism:
An Indigenous Culture of Critique

Kevin MacDonald

5,146 words

Philip F. Gura
American Transcendentalism: A History
New York: Hill and Wang, 2007

Philip Gura’s American Transcendentalism provides a valuable insight into a nineteenth-century leftist intellectual elite in the United States. This is of considerable interest because Transcendentalism was a movement entirely untouched by the predominantly Jewish milieu of the twentieth-century left in America. Read more …

Published: June 29, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abolitionism, book reviews, egalitarianism, Kevin MacDonald, North American New Right, Puritanism, reprints, white dispossession | 5 Responses

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An Introduction to the Economic Nature of the United States

Wyndham Lewis, Portrait of Ezra Pound

7,875 words

This is not a SHORT History of the Economy of the United States. For forty years I have schooled myself, not to write the Economic History of the U.S. or any other country, but to write an epic poem which begins “In the Dark Forest,” Read more …

Published: March 28, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, C. H. Douglas, economics, Ezra Pound, money, North American New Right, reprints, Social Credit, Third Way economics | 5 Responses

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Podcast No. 8
Greg Johnson, “The End of Globalization”
Mark Weber, “Reasons for Hope”

Counter-Currents Radio

Graphic by Harold Arthur McNeill

time: 61:45/6,734 words

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Segment One

Greg Johnson reads “The End of Globalization” (12:00 minutes) Read more …

Published: March 17, 2012 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged articles, Counter-Currents Radio, economics, George Soros, globalism, globalization, Greg Johnson, Johnson on economics, Mark Weber, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, protectionism, the Jewish question, the racially conscious left, white nationalism | 2 Responses

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Ethnic Hegemonies in American History, Part 3

Norman Rockwell, “The Problem We All Live With,” 1963

4,057 words

Part 3 of 3

The Rising Tide of Color

The Civil Rights Movement opened doors for some African-Americans, especially those with some European ancestry. Read more …

Published: March 16, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged affirmative action, articles, Civil Rights Movement, E. O. Wilson, Frankfurt School, George Hocking, neo-conservatism, neoconservatism, non-white immigration, North American New Right, reprints, Ronald Reagan, sociobiology, the Jewish question, the New Left, universalism, white nationalism | 2 Responses

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Ethnic Hegemonies in American History, Part 2

Thomas Hart Benton, “Bootleggers,” 1927

2,860 words

Part 2 of 2

The First World War and the Great Depression

In 1912 Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, became president for eight years when regular and Progressive Republicans split. Read more …

Published: March 15, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Frankfurt School, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George Hocking, North American New Right, reprints, the Jewish question, the New Left, WASPs, Woodrow Wilson, World War I, World War II | 1 Response

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Ethnic Hegemonies in American History, Part 1

Grant Wood, "Parson Weems' Fable," 1939

3,537 words

Part 1 of 3

Political Philosophy and Human Genetic Diversity

Western political philosophy tends toward moral and political universalism: the idea that norms are valid for all human beings. Read more …

Published: March 14, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Civil War, American Indians, articles, capitalism, George Hocking, North American New Right, populism, progressivism, reprints, universalism, WASPs | Leave a comment

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