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When my father died last month, we had not spoken since Christmas. A few terse emails were exchanged, but that was it. You see, over Christmas dinner my father had revealed that he was contributing money to the SPLC. This didn’t exactly sit well with me. Read more …

Published: July 2, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, death, free will, Jef Costello, living well, North American New Right, originals, self-improvement | 39 Responses

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Renewing the Radical Right

Jonathan Bowden

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Editor’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V. S. of part of Jonathan Bowden’s interview at the Union Jack Club in London on Saturday, November 21, 2009, after his famous lecture/performance on Punch and Judy. The title is editorial. Read more …

Published: October 2, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged biological race differences, bourgeois man, conformism, conservatism, courage, cowardice, interviews, Jonathan Bowden, liberalism, Marxism, metapolitics, morality, North American New Right, optimism, originals, the European Union, tragedy, UKIP | 2 Responses

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Ask a Eugenicist
Science vs. Public Opinion

Marian Van Court

Frederick Childe-Hassam, The Sonata

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It seems like there’s a total “disconnect” on this issue [eugenics] between science on the one hand, and popular opinion, on the other.

You’re absolutely right. There are two arenas in which the Nature-Nurture debate is taking place – the scientific one, and the public one – and the outcomes are exactly opposite. Read more …

Published: September 10, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ask a Eugenicist, eugenics, hereditarianism, intelligence, IQ, Marian Van Court, North American New Right, originals, social constructionism, twin studies | 3 Responses

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From the Editor
Two Must-Read Reviews at American Renaissance

Greg Johnson

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1. “Science Versus Ideology”: Thomas Jackson reviews Nancy Segal, Born Together – Reared Apart: The Landmark Minnesota Twin Study, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012), 410 pp. $49.95: http://www.amren.com/features/2012/07/science-versus-ideology/

Doc Savage & Criminology

Jonathan Bowden

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One of the more interesting things about the pulp star Doc Savage, the man of bronze, is that he carried out operations on the brains of criminals in order to correct them. These exercises in popular culture — the 181 pulp novels written by Lester Dent — are thus one of the most basic advocates for eugenics throughout the 1930s and ’40s. Read more …

Published: September 13, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, criminology, Doc Savage, eugenics, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

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Eugenics or Dysgenics?
Brian Aldiss’ Moreau’s Other Island

Jonathan Bowden

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Brian Aldiss
Moreau’s Other Island
Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1980

Moreau’s Other Island by the science fiction writer Brian Aldiss was published over thirty years ago, but it still retains a certain “bite” in socio-biological terms.

Arkham Asylum: An Analysis

Jonathan Bowden

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Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth
Story by Grant Morrison, art by Dave McKean
DC Comics, October 1989

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Published: December 31, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Batman, criminology, Friedrich Nietzsche, graphic novels and comics, Jonathan Bowden, North American New Right, originals, the Joker, transhumanism, video games | 5 Responses

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Blind Cyclops:
The Strange Case of Doctor Fredric Wertham

Jonathan Bowden

Fredric Wertham, 1895–1981

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In 1954 an obscure psychiatrist penned a book called Seduction of the Innocent which almost put paid to the entire comic book industry in the United States. The whole incident is almost forgotten today, but it is highly instructive over how “fire-storms” and cultural wars can break out. It is also reasonably true to say that–unlike the parallel film industry–it took American comics about three decades to fully ingest and recover from Doctor Wertham’s assault.

Criminology, Elitism, Nihilism:
James Hadley Chase’s No Orchids for Miss Blandish

Jonathan Bowden

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James Hadley Chase
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
London: Robert Hale, 1939

No Orchids for Miss Blandish was published in 1939 and later appeared in British editions by Robert Hale. Two films were made as a result of it (one of them by Robert Altman), and the Corgi/Transworld paperback editions have been sold all over the world. Read more …