Tag Archives: Ancient Greece

Caspar David Friedrich, Greifswald in Moonlight, 1817.

9,130 words

As men and women of the Right, we are searchers for Truth. We believe that by finding Truth and living by Truth, we might know Beauty, and we might know ourselves. Essence is our mission and with it, survival. And so this essay will try to surface and then sketch three fundamental “lifeways,” Read more …

Published: January 15, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, borders, Carl Schmitt, cities, cosmopolitanism, culture, desire, folklore, folkways, geography, homelands, honor, imperialism, Kathryn S, Latin America, literature, Lord Byron, mountains, myth, North American New Right, originals, reason, Romanticism, rural life, the countryside, the Jewish question, the plains, the sublime, the supernatural, thumos, trade, tradition, tripartition, urban life | 19 Responses

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The Saxon Savior:
Converting Northern Europe

Ash Donaldson

4,814 words

“There were many whose hearts told them that they should begin to tell the secret runes.” Thus begins an ancient manuscript written in Old Saxon. It may surprise the reader to learn that these are, in fact, the opening lines of the Christian Gospel in the version known as the Heliand, produced for the Saxons in the early ninth century, after their conquest by Charlemagne. Read more …

Published: July 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander the Great, Aristotle, articles, Ash Donaldson, Christianity, Christianity vs. paganism, community, North American New Right, originals, tribalism, universalism | 24 Responses

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The Higher Cognitive Fluidity of the European Mind

Ricardo Duchesne

Julian Jaynes

7,982 words

Half of my book, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, is about discrediting the multicultural claim that, as late as the mid-1700s, the West was no more advanced than the major civilizations of Asia, or China in particular, and that only a set of fortuitous circumstances gave the West a chance to industrialize first. The West did not “stumble” accidentally into the New World, I argued, and it was not “easy access” to the resources of the Americas, enslavement of blacks, or availability of cheap coal in Britain that made Britain’s takeoff possible.

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Religious Piety in Sparta & Rome

Guillaume Durocher

Augustus as Pontifex Maximus

1,847 words

As (post-)Christian moderns, we are twice handicapped in trying to understand the religions of the ancient pagan states such as Sparta and Rome. Where we tend to think of religious belief as universalistic, other-worldly, monolatrous, and dogmatic, ancient paganism was particularistic, world-embracing, polytheistic (almost ecumenical), and non-dogmatic (but ritualistic). Read more …

Published: January 18, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Rome, articles, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, paganism | 3 Responses

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Why I Write
Putting the Pieces Back Together

Quintilian

1,092 words

Ezra Pound: “Make it new!”

The great monologist Jean Shepherd used to remark, “In four thousand years, no one will know that you ever existed.” This statement is shocking for modern man, who — while not believing in an immortal soul — is convinced that technological advances will soon grant immortality to his physical being. Mortality might come as a shock to deracinated modern man — who is never more than a few feet away from a hand sanitizer or a “safe zone” to protect him from the challenges of bacteria or differing opinions — yet this was not always the case. Read more …

Published: December 5, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2017 fundraiser, ancient Rome, articles, Christianity, Ezra Pound, modernism, North American New Right, originals, Quintilian, T. S. Eliot, Western civilization, why we write | 4 Responses

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Jonathan Bowden’s Extremists

Alex Graham

1,932 words

Jonathan Bowden
Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics
Edited by Greg Johnson
San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing, 2016

Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics is a highly original book that contains the transcripts of nine of Jonathan Bowden’s orations: one on vanguardism followed by profiles of Thomas Carlyle, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Charles Maurras, Martin Heidegger, Savitri Devi, Julius Evola, Yukio Mishima, and Maurice Cowling. Read more …

Published: November 2, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, book reviews, Charles Maurras, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Jonathan Bowden, Martin Heidegger, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Savitri Devi, Thomas Carlyle, vanguardism, Yukio Mishima | 2 Responses

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Why the Confederacy Matters

Chad Crowley

James Henry Beard, North Carolina Emigrants: Poor White Folks (1845)

1,000 words

As of late, a great deal of debate has occurred on the Right concerning whether certain aspects of white-European history possess any relevance to the contemporary white racialist movement or not. For example, many have questioned the merits of the perpetuation of National Socialist ideology in the postmodern “West.” Read more …

Published: September 21, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Rome, Aristotle, Chad Crowley, Classical civilization, Confederate Monuments, hierarchy, inequality, North American New Right, originals, Plato, The Confederacy | 8 Responses

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Plato, Hitler, & Totalitarianism

Guillaume Durocher

2,744 words

Today, Western liberals are ambivalent about Plato. On the one hand, liberals claim they are the heirs of Greco-Roman civilization and philosophy Read more …

Published: March 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Aristotle, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, Plato, totalitarianism | 15 Responses

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The Four Elements of National Identity in Herodotus

Martin Aurelio

1,033 words

The Western Classical notion of identity comes to us from Herodotus’ Histories, written in the 5th century B.C. It’s from Herodotus that we have the story of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae, told in the broader context of the entire Hellenic world’s successful resistance of the Persian invasion. In order to do that, the Spartans (Dorians) and Athenians (Ionians) had to overcome their differences and join together to defend what was common to both of them as Greeks. Read more …

Published: June 15, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Herodotus, Martin Aurelio, national identity, North American New Right, religion, reprints | 3 Responses

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The Ancient Greeks:
Our Fashy Forefathers

Guillaume Durocher

1,707 words

Nigel Rodgers
The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece
Lorenz Books, 2014

“Western civilization” is certainly not fashionable in mainstream academia these days. Nonetheless, the ancient Greek and Roman heritage remains quietly revered in the more thoughtful and earnest circles. Quite simply, virtually all of our social and political organization, to the extent these are thought out, ultimately go back to Greek forms, Read more …

Published: June 10, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Athens, book reviews, European identity, fascism, Guillaume Durocher, homosexuality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, political philosophy, Sparta | 8 Responses

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Thoughts on Debt Repudiation

Greg Johnson

Merry-Joseph Blondel, 1781–1853, “Solon, Legislator of Athens”

2,349 words /15:14

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French translation here

In Ancient Athens, debtors who were unable to pay their creditors lost their land and were reduced to serfs who had to give their landlords one sixth of their produce in perpetuity. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged agrarianism, ancient Rome, Aristotle, articles, banking, debt, economics, Greg Johnson, Johnson on economics, Jubilee, money, North American New Right, originals, populism, Solon, usury | 4 Responses

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Natural Rights vs. Human Rights:
A Critique of Alain de Benoist

John Law

6,534 words

Introduction

This essay examines Alain de Benoist’s book Beyond Human Rights, translated into English in 2011 by Arktos, originally published in French in 2004. This book is a powerful condemnation of the Western idea of natural rights, which it claims to be intrinsically associated with the idea that all humans across the world have human rights. It objects to the imposition of human rights obligations on an otherwise multicultural humanity. Read more …

Published: August 13, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, articles, book reviews, cosmopolitanism, G. W. F. Hegel, Immanuel Kant, John Law, nationalism, North American New Right, philosophy, political theory, reprints, republicanism, rights, universalism | 1 Response

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Aristokratia III: Hellas

James J. O'Meara

1,792 words

Aristokratia III: Hellas
Edited by K. Deva
Manticore, 2015

Having previously devoted previous volumes to Nietzsche and to Evola, for its third incarnation, “Hellas,” Aristokratia seemingly pauses to reflect on itself: what are arête, hoi aristoi and aristokratia?

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Oswald Spengler & the Faustian Soul of the West, Part 1

Ricardo Duchesne

3,526 words

Faust im Studierzimmer Georg Friedrich Kersting

Georg Friedrich Kersting, “Faust in his Study”

Part 1 of 2

If I had to choose one word to identify the uniqueness of the West it would be “Faustian.” This is the word Oswald Spengler used to designate the “soul” of the West. He believed that Western civilization was driven by an unusually dynamic and expansive psyche. The “prime-symbol” of this Faustian soul was “pure and limitless space.” This soul had a “tendency towards the infinite,” a tendency most acutely expressed in modern mathematics. Read more …

Published: January 2, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Rome, articles, Charles Murray, exploration, Faustian man, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Western civilization | 7 Responses

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The Axial Age & the European Discovery of Logos, Part 2

Ricardo Duchesne

3,055 words

Thinkers East and West

Part 1 here

The Presocratic Discovery of Logos

Part 2 of this essay goes beyond the quantitative observation that Presocratic Greece on its own produced more original thinkers than the rest of the Axial world combined, Read more …

Published: December 26, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, China, Karl Jaspers, North American New Right, philosophy, presocratic philosophy, reason, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, science, the Axial Age | 3 Responses

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The Axial Age & the European Discovery of Logos, Part I

Ricardo Duchesne

2,821 words

. . . was the Presocratic discovery of logos.

The idea of an “Axial Age” was a boon to the ideological drive after WWII to envision the history of all cultures as a “collective” undertaking between “connected” peoples. The behavior of Germany during Second War was testimony, apparently, of what happens when an otherwise modern culture refuses to join with the world of cosmopolitanism in defense of its ethnic integrity. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, China, history, Karl Jaspers, North American New Right, philosophy, political correctness, presocratics, reason, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, science, the Axial Age | 1 Response

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Ethnic Cleansing in Ancient Attica & Lemnos

Andrew Hamilton

Herodotus

2,257 words

In The Histories, the Greek historian Herodotus relates an account of a conflict between (Greek) Athenians and a group identified as “Pelasgians.” The story encodes ideas of racial/cultural difference, expulsion, miscegenation, mass murder, and, especially, racial (genetic) dominance that are still relevant today.

The story is related in Book Six, §§6.137–6.140. At some unknown date prior to Herodotus’ time, but still remembered, the Athenians expelled the Pelasgians from Attica, Read more …

Published: August 15, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andrew Hamilton, articles, Athens, ethnic cleansing, Herodotus, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question | 5 Responses

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The Landmark Ancient Histories

Andrew Hamilton

Landmark Ancient Histories editor Robert B. Strassler

3,228 words

No group of people can hope to regain control of their destiny unless they possess two essential things: the will to survive as a people, and knowledge. The reader who seeks to have a well-guided will must have an unshakable sense of identity: an understanding of who he is and his relationship to the world around him.

Published: August 1, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander the Great, Andrew Hamilton, articles, book reviews, Herodotus, history, North American New Right, originals, Xenophon | 12 Responses

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Leonidas & the Spartan Ethos

Theodore J. O'Keefe

4,408 words

The Persian rider edged his horse cautiously forward. Just ahead the coastal plain dwindled to a narrow passage between the mountains and the sea, scarcely wider than a carriage track. Read more …

Published: October 19, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, eugenics, North American New Right, physical fitness, reprints, Sparta, Theodore J. O'Keefe, warrior ethics, white heroism | 5 Responses

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The Homeric Gods

Mark Dyal

4,074 words

Athena

Walter F. Otto
The Homeric Gods: The Spiritual Significance of Greek Religion
Translated by Moses Hadas
North Stratford, N.H.: Ayer Company Publishers, 2001

“My goal is to create total enmity between our current ‘culture’ and Antiquity. Whoever wants to serve the former must hate the latter.”—Friedrich Nietzsche[1]

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Podcast No. 12
Matt Parrott, “Trayvon & the End of White Guilt”; Greg Johnson, “Thoughts on Debt Repudiation”

Counter-Currents Radio

time: 30:38/55 words

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Segment One

Matt Parrott reads “Trayvon and the End of White Guilt” (6:08) Read more …

Published: April 14, 2012 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged agrarianism, ancient Rome, anti-white propaganda, Aristotle, articles, banking, Counter-Currents Radion, debt, economics, Greg Johnson, Johnson on economics, Jubilee, Matt Parrott, money, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, populism, Solon, Trayvon Martin, usury, white guilt, white nationalism | 6 Responses

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Réflexions sur la répudiation de la dette

Greg Johnson

Merry-Joseph Blondel, 1781–1853, « Solon, Législateur d’Athènes »

2,624 words

English original here

Dans l’ancienne Athènes, les débiteurs qui étaient incapables de payer leurs créditeurs perdaient leur terre et étaient réduits à l’état de serfs qui devaient donner à leur propriétaire terrien un sixième de leur production, à perpétuité. Si la dette excédait le total des biens du débiteur, lui et sa famille étaient réduits à l’esclavage. Read more …

Published: March 21, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged agrarianism, ancient Rome, Aristotle, articles, banking, debt, economics, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, Johnson on economics, Jubilee, money, North American New Right, originals, populism, Solon, usury | Leave a comment

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Thoughts on Debt Repudiation

Greg Johnson

Merry-Joseph Blondel, 1781–1853, “Solon, Legislator of Athens”

2,325 words

French translation here

In Ancient Athens, debtors who were unable to pay their creditors lost their land and were reduced to serfs who had to give their landlords one sixth of their produce in perpetuity. If the debt exceeded the debtor’s total assets, he and his family were reduced to slavery. Read more …

Published: February 6, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged agrarianism, ancient Rome, Aristotle, articles, banking, debt, economics, Greg Johnson, Johnson on economics, Jubilee, money, North American New Right, originals, populism, Solon, Third Way economics, usury | 27 Responses

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Greek & Barbarian

F. Roger Devlin

2,498 words

The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories Edited by Robert B. Strassler
New York: Pantheon, 2007

Independent scholar Robert Strassler has produced far and away the best English edition aimed at the general reader of the work which remains the fountainhead of the Western historical tradition. Let us hope there is still a fit audience out there for it—men, that is, capable of learning what Herodotus has to teach.