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From a manuscript of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy.

1,638 words

I have never been to prison and I hope I never go to prison. In a perfect world, obeying the laws and refraining from illegal activity would be enough to guarantee a life without imprisonment. Unfortunately, we do not live in a perfect world. We are living in a world where propaganda, intimidation, and violence against white people is being promoted and encouraged. Yet when white people defend themselves, we are the ones who get arrested and sent to prison. For fear of their safety, many white people feel like prisoners Read more …

Published: June 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, anti-white discrimination, articles, Fullmoon Ancestry, lawfare, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, rule of law, solitude, thoughtcrime, white dispossession | 12 Responses

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My Five Favorite Books of 2019

Alex Graham

1,297 words

1. Steele Brand, Killing for the Republic: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)

This is an excellent work of military history that examines the tradition of civic militarism in the Roman Republic. Brand combines detailed analyses of battles with insights about Roman culture and society. His analysis of the Battle of Sentinum (295 BC), for instance, includes diagrams of battle formations as well as a discussion of the history of the devotio, Read more …

Published: December 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2019 roundups, ancient Rome, articles, book reviews, Hindu nationalism, hinduism, living well, North American New Right, originals, Peter Sloterdijk, self-actualization, warrior ethics | 1 Response

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Yiannopoulos vs. Fuentes

Severinus

4,787 words

Milo Yiannopoulos recently interviewed Nick Fuentes because of his movement’s demolition of Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA. Milo told Fuentes that “the purpose of this interview is to let you speak in your own words about what you in fact do believe,” but Milo must have spoken for at least five minutes to every 30 seconds Fuentes was allotted – Read more …

Published: December 20, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, biological race differences, Christianity, holocaust revisionism, intelligence testing, Milo Yiannopoulos, Nick Fuentes, North American New Right, originals, Severinus, the holocaust, the Jewish question | 15 Responses

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Socrates Versus the Bugmen

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

2,285 words

I’ve mentioned before on this site and elsewhere that being part of the Dissident Right is an initiatory experience, as far as I’m concerned. Read more …

Published: February 13, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, bugmen, leadership, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, Socrates, vice, Xenophon | 1 Response

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Sugimoto Gorō & Soldier-Zen

Guillaume Durocher

2,382 words

Asceticism often has a bad reputation in vitalist circles. The idea of the sexless, passionless, passive, world-rejecting monk seems self-evidently maladaptive, an evolutionary dead end, as Nietzsche and Savitri Devi surmised. Yet the fact is that monks have often been warriors, and the monarchs of ascetic religions, such as Christianity and Buddhism, have often been great conquerors. Read more …

Published: March 14, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Buddhism, bushido, Guillaume Durocher, Japan, North American New Right, originals, Samurai, Second World War, Zen Buddhism | 3 Responses

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Epicurean Spiritual Exercises

Pierre Hadot

Bust of Epicurus

1,291 words

Trans. Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note:

The following is drawn from Pierre Hadot, Qu’est-ce que la philosophie antique ? (Paris: Gallimard, 1995), 191-96. Some non-English secondary sources have been removed from Hadot’s footnotes. The title is editorial.

To achieve the healing of the soul and a life in accord with the fundamental [Epicurean] choice, it is not enough to have learned the Epicurean philosophical discourse. Read more …

Published: December 14, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, Epicureanism, Guillaume Durocher, hedonism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Pierre Hadot | Leave a comment

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Should the Protestant Ethic Become the Spirit of the Alt Right?

Ricardo Duchesne

Max Weber

2,008 words

Whites will become a minority within a few decades in all their main homelands. The question is no longer how to prevent becoming a minority but how to survive in order to regain majority status.

A few months ago I noted that easy going comfort is the main factor behind the decline of masculinity in the West and that only an atmosphere of conflict and hardship in childhood will strengthen Westerners to fight against the occupation of their lands. Read more …

Published: August 4, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Benjamin Franklin, Calvinism, capitalism, living well, Max Weber, North American New Right, Protestantism, rationality, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, self-improvement, technology, utilitarianism, virtue, white nationalism, work | 20 Responses

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Lessons from Demonland, Part Three

John Bruce Leonard

E. R. Eddison, 1922

2,810 words

Part 3 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)

E. R. Eddison
The Worm Ouroboros
Charleston, S.C.: BiblioBazaar, 2008

The blood which binds one to one’s family and to one’s people is treated throughout The Worm Ouroboros as one of the strongest and least questionable motivators of human action, and proves to be finally decisive in all the characters to whom we are presented. Read more …

Published: May 15, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, E. R. Eddison, fantasy literature, John Bruce Leonard, masculinity, North American New Right, originals, The Worm Ouroboros, warrior ethos | Leave a comment

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The Buddha as Spiritual Lawgiver

Guillaume Durocher

3,870 words

Sayings of the Buddha
Rupert Gethin, translator
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008

Anyone who wishes to promote certain values is faced with the challenge of how to maintain those values over time: throughout one’s life, from one generation to the next, and across the centuries. A people’s adherence to values is likely to wane over time, overcome by lower drives, such as the desires for material comfort and personal self-indulgence. Read more …

Published: March 20, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Buddhism, family life, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, religion | 19 Responses

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Youth, Beats, & Right-Wing Anarchists,
Part 2: Youth in Revolt Against the Modern World

Julius Evola

2,566 words

Translated by Bruno Cariou

Part 1 of 2

We would now like to consider the concerns of young generation a little more specifically. There are youths who revolt against the socio-political situation in Italy, and who are at the same time interested in what we call, in general, the world of Tradition. Read more …