Tag Archives: Ayn Rand

Zaprzeczenie libertarianizmu

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Poniższy tekst to przemówienie, które wygłosiłem na londyńskim forum w dniu 3 października 2015 r. Chciałbym podziękować Jez Turner, London Forum Team i ich wiernym odbiorcom za umożliwienie mi tego.

“Most Likely You Go Your Way & I’ll Go Mine”
Stephen King’s Fight Club

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Chuck Palahnuik
Adjustment Day: A Novel
London: Jonathan Cape, 2018

“Ears, gentlemen. Sandinista ears.”[1]

I had almost reached the massive iron door, hidden behind a construction dumpster, that serves as the entrance to the abandoned glove factory that has been my squat for the past several years Read more …

Published: September 7, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adjustment Day, book reviews, Chuck Palahniuk, Colin Wilson, James J. O'Meara, Jef Costello, literary criticism, Neville Goddard, New Thought, North American New Right, originals, The Fountainhead, white nationalism | 8 Responses

She’s So High, High Above Me:
Watching The Fountainhead on TCM

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You know I always wanted to pretend that I was an architect.
–George Costanza[1]

The Fountainhead is something of a rite of passage or gateway drug on the Right. Back in the 1960s/’70s it was more likely the movie than the book that one stumbled upon. I suppose I must have seen it on some afternoon movie show back in the ‘60s. Was it the Bill Kennedy at the Movies show on CKLW out of Windsor, Ontario on Saturday afternoons? Read more …

Published: August 14, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, James J. O'Meara, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, The Fountainhead | 9 Responses

The Gospel According to Goldberg

Margot Metroland

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Jonah Goldberg
Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
New York: Crown Forum, 2018

Anyone expecting Jonah Goldberg’s Suicide of the West to be a new meditation on James Burnham’s 1964 classic[1] about the moral degeneracy of liberal democracy is in for a laugh. Having borrowed Burnham’s tasty title, Goldberg goes off in another direction entirely, often inverting Burnham’s argument. Read more …

Published: May 17, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, capitalism, free market, James Burnham, John Locke, liberal democracy, Margot Metroland, Max Weber, North American New Right, originals | 17 Responses

Whiggish History & the Right

Quintilian

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Buckley posing as writer in limousine with dog accessory

There is currently a minor contretemps in the Alt Right and Alt Lite as to whether National Socialism is of the Left or of the Right. This is a debate which, I believe, is generally of no practical import, is potentially divisive, and is rooted in several historiographical misapprehensions. Read more …

Published: September 11, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Quintilian, Vox Day, William F. Buckley | 19 Responses

Heidegger & Ethnic Nationalism

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Heidegger doing his thing

Parts 1 and 2

Author’s Note:

This is the text of a lecture delivered at the London Forum on Saturday, May 27th. I want to thank Jez Turner, the London Forum team, and everyone who attended this event. Read more …

Published: June 27, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cosmopolitanism, environmentalism, ethnonationalism, Greg Johnson, individualism, Martin Heidegger, metapolitics, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, pre-Socratic philosophy, science, technology | 14 Responses

The Enigma of Whittaker Chambers

Margot Metroland

Whittaker Chambers, underground man.

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(Written in the style, if not quite the spirit, of senior TIMEditor Chambers’ weekly newsmagazine.)

Rumpled, paunchy Whittaker Chambers (April 1, 1901-July 9, 1961) has long merited haughty sneers and raised eyebrows on America’s nationalist Right. Reasons: his shifting ideologies, his inscrutable motives.

Among the most compelling critiques of Chambers we may count those of Classics professor Revilo P. Oliver. Read more …

Published: April 4, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Arnold Toynbee, Evelyn Waugh, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Joseph Stalin, Margot Metroland, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, Time magazine, Whittaker Chambers | 9 Responses

We are All Egoists – and Why That’s a Good Thing

Alan Smithee

Artwork by KEKM8

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Many of those who end up exploring the political fringe – particularly on the Right – end up obsessed with various forms of what might loosely be called egocentricity. In those of a libertarian bent, this usually expresses itself as an obsession with contrasting honorable “individualism” against slavish “collectivism.” Read more …

Published: January 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged altruism, anarchism, egoism, libertarianism, Max Stirner, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

Creative Destruction:
Bowden on Libertarianism

Jonathan Bowden

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Editor’s Note:

This is the transcript by V. S. of Richard Spencer’s Vanguard Podcast interview of Jonathan Bowden about libertarianism. You can listen to the podcast here.

Richard Spencer: Hello, everyone! Today, it’s a great pleasure to welcome back to the podcast Jonathan Bowden. Read more …

Published: August 12, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged conservatives, F. A. Hayek, interviews, Jonathan Bowden, libertarianism, North American New Right, originals, Rand Paul, Republicans, Richard Spencer, Ron Paul | 1 Response

Objectivist Zen
Or: If You Meet Ayn Rand on the Road, Kill Her

Jef Costello

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I discovered Ayn Rand when I was 20 years old and a college student (as prescribed by Scripture). I was living at home and tagged along one day when my mother went to the public library to return some books. There I loafed around, waiting for my mother to finish her usual gratuitous chat with the librarians, when suddenly it caught my eye: a paperback copy of The Fountainhead nestling innocently in one of those tall metal racks that spin around.

Published: July 8, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Jef Costello, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Zen | 13 Responses

A Hero Despite Himself:
Bringing Mike Hammer to the Screen

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Max Allan Collins and James L. Traylor
Mickey Spillane on Screen: A Complete Study of the Television and Film Adaptations
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2012

“Dat’s Mike Ham-muh?” — Dismayed patron at a showing of I, The Jury (1953)

“Mike Hammer is Mickey Spillane . . . Mickey Spillane is Mike Hammer” — Read more …

Published: June 30, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, detective fiction, James Bond, James J. O'Meara, Kiss Me Deadly, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast 147
The Pursuit of Happiness
The Conquest of Nature: Ayn Rand

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Beginning in August of 1999, I gave a series of eight lectures on “The Pursuit of Happiness: Philosophies East and West,” Read more …

Published: February 24, 2016 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, Epicureanism, Greg Johnson, living well, modernity, philosophy, podcasts, progress., science, space exploration, technology, The Pursuit of Happiness | 3 Responses

Ideal: The Novel & The Play de Ayn Rand

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English original here

Ayn Rand
Ideal: The Novel and the Play
New York: New American Library, 2015

Ideal es la segunda novela “perdida” de Ayn Rand, cuya publicación póstuma este verano es un evento literario mayor. Read more …

Published: January 26, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, literature, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, satire | Leave a comment

Vyvrátenie libertarianizmu

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Libertarianizmus je politika individualizmu. Individualizmus je rovnako metafyzická, ako i morálna pozícia. Metafyzický individualizmus je téza, že existujú iba konkrétni ľudia. Read more …

Published: December 7, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, collectivism, Frankfurt School, Greg Johnson, in Slovak, in translation, individualism, libertarianism, North American New Right, reprints, the Jewish question, universalism | Leave a comment

A Sense of Life:
Ayn Rand & White Nationalism

Gregory Hood

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The story is clichéd. A teenager discovers a book. It challenges his religion. It rips apart his morality. He radically changes his behavior within days. The path of his life is forever altered. As Jerome Tuccille titled his book about the libertarian movement, It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand.

Even a casual glance at the American scene shows Rand’s influence is growing. Sales of Atlas Shrugged are brisk, Read more …

Published: November 30, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Bolshevik Revolution, Communism, Gregory Hood, North American New Right, reprints, the Jewish question, white nationalism | 19 Responses

La Refutación del Libertarianismo

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Traducido por Francisco Albanese; English original here

Nota del autor:

El siguiente texto es la charla que dicté en el London Forum el 3 de Octubre, 2015. Deseo agradecer a Jez Turner, al equipo del London Forum, y a su fiel audiencia por hacer esta charla posible. Read more …

Published: November 12, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, collectivism, Frankfurt School, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, individualism, libertarianism, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, universalism | Leave a comment

La réfutation du libertarisme

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English original here

Note de l’auteur :

Le texte suivant est le discours que j’ai prononcé au London Forum le 3 octobre 2015. Je souhaite remercier Jez Turner, l’équipe du London Forum, et leur fidèle public pour avoir rendu ce discours possible.
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Published: November 4, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, collectivism, Frankfurt School, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, individualism, libertarianism, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, universalism | Leave a comment

Du refus du libertarianisme

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English original here

Note de l’auteur:

Le texte qui suit est une allocution que j’ai donnée au London Forum le 3 Octobre 2015. Je souhaite remercier Jez Turner, l’équipe du London Forum ainsi que leur fidèle publique qui ont rendu possible cette rencontre. Read more …

Published: October 22, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, collectivism, Frankfurt School, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, individualism, libertarianism, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, universalism | Leave a comment

Libertarisme omvergeworpen

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Vertaald door Otharus; English original here

Noot van de auteur:

Dit is de voordracht die ik hield bij “the London Forum” op 3 oktober 2015. Ik wil Jez Turner, zijn team en hun trouwe publiek bedanken voor het mogelijk maken deze voordracht. Read more …

Published: October 20, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, collectivism, Frankfurt School, Greg Johnson, in Dutch, in translation, individualism, libertarianism, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, universalism | Leave a comment

The Refutation of Libertarianism

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Translations: Dutch, French 1, French 2, Polish, Slovak, Spanish

Author’s Note:

The following text is the talk I delivered at the London Forum on October 3, 2015. I wish to thank Jez Turner, the London Forum team, and their faithful audience for making this talk possible.
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Published: October 20, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, collectivism, Frankfurt School, Greg Johnson, individualism, libertarianism, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, universalism | 42 Responses

“Тар“ на Уиндам Люис: Упражнение по дясна психология

Jonathan Bowden

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English original here

Романът “Тар“(Tarr) на Уиндам Люис (анаграма едновременно на “art”(изкуство) и “rat”(плъх) излиза за пръв път през 1915 г., докато Великата война бушува и остава едно от големите упражнения по психология на хладнокръвието. Read more …

Published: August 21, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleister Crowley, book reviews, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, in Bulgarian, in translation, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, originals, psychology, Wyndham Lewis | Leave a comment

Ayn Rand’s Ideal: The Novel & the Play

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Spanish translation here

Ayn Rand
Ideal: The Novel and the Play
New York: New American Library, 2015

Ideal is Ayn Rand’s “lost” second novel, whose posthumous publication this summer is a major literary event.

Published: July 10, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, satire | 4 Responses

Ayn Rand, Before Capitalism

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Editor’s Note:

This essay was written in 2000 and published online at a long-defunct website. It contains some good ideas and good writing, so I believe it deserves to live again.

“The capitalistic world is low, unprincipled and corrupt.”

—Ayn Rand, Journals of Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand & Ortega y Gasset

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Editor’s Note:

This essay was written in 2000 and published online at a long-defunct website. It is really a sketch of a more detailed research project that somebody else might wish to carry out. Even as such, I think it deserves a new lease on life. I do not regret a single hour spent reading Ortega.

Between Two Lampshades
Michael Enoch Interviews Greg Johnson, Part 1

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Part 1 of 3

Editor’s Note:

What follows is the transcript by V. S. of Michael Enoch’s Between Two Lampshades interview with Greg Johnson on The Right Stuff. Read more …

Published: June 15, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Between Two Lampshades, conservatism, F. A. Hayek, Greg Johnson, interviews, Kevin MacDonald, Leo Strauss, libertarianism, Martin Heidegger, Michael Enoch, Neo-Reaction, neoconservatism, NRX, the Jewish question, The Right Stuff, trust | 3 Responses

Essential Films . . . & Others

Edward Hopper, New York Movie, 1939

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Looking over Trevor Lynch’s list of his “Ten Favorite Films” in his forthcoming collection, Son of Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies, it occurred to me that I couldn’t possibly put together such a list, even if I could decide on a criterion or two.

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 83
The Pursuit of Happiness
An Overview of the Course

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Beginning in August of 1999, I gave a series of eight lectures on “The Pursuit of Happiness: Read more …

Published: January 15, 2014 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Buddhism, Callicles, Confucius, detachment, duty, Epictetus, ethics, Friedrich Nietzsche, harmony, hedonism, Immanuel Kant, living well, Michel de Montaigne, moral philosophy, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, Socrates, Stoicism, Taoism, The Pursuit of Happiness, William James | Leave a comment

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 62
What Socrates Knew:
Plato’s Gorgias, Part 7 of 10

30:08 / 395 words

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Note: After a long hiatus, we will be running philosophy lectures on Wednesdays again. Read more …

Published: November 13, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Alcibiades, Callicles, egoism, ethics, evil, Gorgias, Greg Johnson, hedonism, living well, morality, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, rhetoric, self-actualization, Socrates, the Sophists | Leave a comment