Tag Archives: book reviews

Building the Walls

1,863 words

Tim Marshall
The Age of Walls: How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018

Tim Marshall is a British journalist who had a long career with Sky News. In response to Trump’s win in 2016, he wrote a book about walls around the world and how these walls are affecting geopolitics. Read more …

Published: October 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Africa, Age of Walls, articles, Bangladesh, borders, Brexit, China, Donald Trump, geography, geopolitics, India, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Kuwait, migrant crisis, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, Pakistan, Palestine, the European Union, Tibet, Tim Marshall, Xinjiang | 5 Responses

Michael Hoffman’s They Were White & They Were Slaves

3,665 words

Spanish translation here

Michael Hoffman
They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America
Dresden, New York: Wiswell Ruffin House

Every few years or so a book comes around that rips your foundations from under you and makes you re-question pretty much everything. For me, Kevin MacDonald’s Culture of Critique and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago are two such books. Michael A. Hoffman’s They Were White and They Were Slaves is another. Read more …

Published: October 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abolitionism, articles, Blacks in America, class, class conflict, economics, indentured servitude, Michael Hoffman, North American New Right, originals, revolution, slavery, Spencer J. Quinn, the working class | 27 Responses

Hook, Line, & Sinker:
Steve Bannon & the Usual Suspects

7,911 words

Benjamin Teitelbaum
War For Eternity: Inside Bannon’s Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers
New York: HarperCollins, 2020

“I am sure you can appreciate the urgency of such matters. . . Richard Spencer [is not someone] that you play around with.” — Jason Jorjani [1] Read more …

Published: October 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Dugin, Alt-Right Corporation, articles, Benjamin Teitelbaum, Iran, Jacob Needleman, James J. O'Meara, Jason Jorjani, John Morgan, Julius Evola, modernity, mysticism, North American New Right, originals, political intrigue, Rene Guénon, Richard Spencer, Russia, spirituality, Steve Bannon, Traditionalism | 10 Responses

Jim Cobb’s Prepper’s Financial Guide

3,300 words

Jim Cobb
Prepper’s Financial Guide
Berkeley: Ulysses Press, 2015

Disaster preparation is a difficult topic. There are some entry-level items, such as what outdoor survival supplies should go into a “bug-out bag” which might be needed in short notice for a long hike in very uncertain conditions. However, beyond the “101” level stuff, things get complicated pretty quickly. Read more …

Published: October 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, banks, Beau Albrecht, communitarianism, economic collapse, economic depression, economics, homesteading, Jim Cobb, North American New Right, originals, prepping, survivalism | 2 Responses

Eisenhower: American Simpleton

Robert Hampton

2,004 words

Stephen E. Ambrose
Eisenhower: Soldier and President
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990

Dwight D. Eisenhower is an all-American figure both Democrats and Republicans revere.. As a general, he oversaw the largest amphibious invasion in human history and successfully managed the Allied victory in the west. As a president, his term was marked by unprecedented prosperity and stability in America, and he kept us from World War III. Read more …

Published: October 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged conservatives, Dwight Eisenhower, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, Stephen E. Ambrose | 25 Responses

Emmanuel Todd’s Lineages of Modernity

Ricardo Duchesne

6,392 words

The idea that the norms implanted upon us by our families affect our personalities and our prospects in life is almost a truism. The idea that there is a strong relationship between the Western nuclear family and liberal modernity is no longer controversial, and so is the idea that different family types have existed across the world and that these types have played a significant role in the historical trajectories of the cultures of the world. Some are aware of the so-called “Hajnal line” proposed in 1965 by John Hajnal, Read more …

Published: October 7, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, egalitarianism, Emmanuel Todd, families, family structures, hierarchy, Jews, Kevin MacDonald, kinship groups, literacy, modernity, North American New Right, originals, patriarchy, Protestant reformation, Ricardo Duchesne, the nuclear family, universalism | 4 Responses

The Right Wing’s Got Talent

Michael Walker

4,427 words

Philippe-Joseph Salazar
Suprémacistes: L’enquête Mondiale chez les Gourous de la Droite Identitaire
Paris: Plon, 2020

This book results from interviews with leading thinkers of the race-conscious right — the so-called alternative right — which seeks to bring race to the forefront of political debate. The title Suprémacistes is, however, misleading; for the author, Philippe-Joseph Salazar, nowhere describes the people who are the subject of this study as supremacists Read more …

Published: October 6, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, articles, European New Right, Francois Bosque, French New Right, Greg Johnson, Guillaume Faye, interviews, Jared Taylor, journalism, messaging, Michael Walker, North American New Right, optimism, originals, personalities, Philippe-Joseph Salazar, philosophy, rhetoric, Supremacists, the alt right, Tomislav Sunić | 11 Responses

Sándor Márai’s Hungarian Classic: Embers

Kathryn S.

3,469 words

He came from a world where soft music lilted through dining rooms and ballrooms and salons . . . it was played to make life sweeter and more festive, to make women’s eyes flash and men’s vanity throw sparks . . . [his] music on the other hand didn’t offer forgetfulness; it aroused people to the feelings of passion and guilt and demanded that [they] be truer to themselves . . . such music is upsetting . . . [1] Read more …

Published: September 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, Austria, Austro-Hungarian Empire, class, Communism, conservatism, Embers, friendship, honor, Hungarian literature, Hungary, identity, imperialism, Kathryn S, Marai Sandor, music, nationalism, North American New Right, nostalgia, originals, the middle class | 3 Responses

A Dissident’s Guide to Blacks & Africa:
A Review

2,254 words

Jared Taylor, ed.
A Dissident’s Guide to Blacks and Africa
Oakton, Virginia: New Century Foundation, 2020

More than any of the required reading produced by American Renaissance, A Dissident’s Guide to Blacks and Africa captures the essence of what American Renaissance is all about. Racial differences lead to racial preferences, and Jared Taylor has built a career Read more …

Published: September 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A Dissident's Guide to Blacks and Africa, Africa, American Renaissance, articles, black criminality, Blacks in America, Dan Roodt, demographic transition, ethics, F. Roger Devlin, Frances Cress Welsing, Gedaliah Braun, Heinrich B. Zaayman, Jared Taylor, language, Marian Evans, morality, North American New Right, originals, Paul Theroux, Sade Adebayo, Spencer J. Quinn, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Jackson, Zora Wheatley | 24 Responses

From Nixon to Reagan:
A Look at the First Right Wing Revolution

2,379 words

Rick Perlstein
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014

The Invisible Bridge is a look at the link between Richard Nixon’s reshaping of American politics and the Republican Party and the rise of Ronald Reagan. In the 1970s, Ronald Reagan was considered very far to the Right, indeed. Read more …

Published: September 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Communism, Hollywood, Jews in America, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, political organizing, propaganda, Richard Nixon, Rick Perlstein, Ronald Reagan, the Republican party, the Soviet Union, war | 9 Responses

Jerry Rubin’s Do It!

4,358 words

Jerry Rubin
Do It! Scenarios of the Revolution
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970

Much to my surprise, Jerry Rubin has exceeded my expectations. To some, he was the voice of a generation. To others, he’s a symbol of everything that went wrong with some of the Boomers, and in particular the faults of the hippy-dippy counterculture. Read more …

Published: September 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1960s counterculture, anti-capitalism, articles, Beau Albrecht, Communism, drugs, hippies, hypocrisy, infighting, Jerry Rubin, Jews in America, Jews in literature, North American New Right, originals, political organizing, radicalism, the Jewish question, the left, yippies | 12 Responses

Benjamin Ginsburg’s How the Jews Defeated Hitler

2,419 words

Benjamin Ginsburg
How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism
Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013

Benjamin Ginsburg has his uses for the Dissident Right. As a Jewish author who sometimes airs dirty Jewish laundry for his readers, he can be placed in the same category as David Cole — Jews who offer critical assessments of their own people that justify the claims of anti-Semites, Read more …

Published: September 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, articles, Benjamin Ginsburg, Jews in America, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, the Jewish question, World War II | 16 Responses

A Sane Layman Looks at Gender Madness

F. Roger Devlin

1,435 words

Jim Goad
Gender Psychosis: Insanity and Sexual Identity
Pine Lake, Georgia: Obnoxious Books, 2020

One of the strengths of this new collection of short pieces about today’s sexual confusions is that the author has no qualifications for writing them. Qualifications for writing about sex go mainly to the sources of our confusion. Thanks to an overabundance of experts, Read more …

Published: September 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged F. Roger Devlin, feminism, gender politics, Gender Psychosis, Jim Goad, modernity, North American New Right, patriarchy, rape, sex, sexual perversion, transgenderism | 11 Responses

Stolypin vs. Bogrov:
Themes of Ethnonationalism in Solzhenitsyn’s August 1914

4,457 words

The white man stood tall and proud. He was handsome and confident, and was well-dressed in his white summer-weight frock coat. Regal, although not quite the Tsar. As Prime Minister, he was the next best thing. Despite this, Pyotr Stolypin had remarkable little security around him when he attended a play at the Kyiv Opera House on September 14th, 1911. His relationship with the Tsar had soured a bit recently due to his insistence that the local governments of the western provinces (called zemstvos) be dominated by the Russian people and not the influential Polish landowners. Read more …

Published: September 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, articles, August 1914, Bolshevik Revolution, Communism, identity, Jews in Russia, Mordecai Bogrov, North American New Right, originals, Pyotr Stolypin, Russia, Spencer J. Quinn, the Jewish question | 2 Responses

Self Defense — From America’s Foremost Expert & Gun Culture Supporter

2,527 words

Massad Ayoob
Deadly Force: Understanding Your Right to Self Defense
Iola, WI: Gun Digest Books, 2014

In the wake of Charlottesville and other street battles between pro-whites and the Antifa, it is a good idea to take a look at the legal aspects of self-defense. For unlike movies and TV shows where the villain is killed by the hero and the show ends with the hero honored by all, violent self-defense has serious legal ramifications that could last for years. Read more …

Published: September 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, firearms, Massad Ayoob, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, reprints, self-defense., the law, violence | 3 Responses

The Rise & Fall of the Second Klan

Giles Corey

8,516 words

Thomas R. Pegram
One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2011

The Ku Klux Klan suffers from a positively radioactive reputation, even among fellow Rightists. During the infamous family dinner scene in American History X, at which Edward Norton’s Derek Vinyard assaults his sister and displays his swastika tattoo to the Jewish teacher dating his widowed mother, Read more …

Published: August 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America in the 1920s, articles, Catholicism, D. C. Stephenson, family values, fraternal organizations, Giles Corey, Hiram Evans, institutions, Ku Klux Klan, law enforcement, moral communities, morality, Nathan Bedford Forrest, North American New Right, originals, political infrastructure, political organizing, Protestantism, Reconstruction, the Second Klan, white activism, white community building, William Simmons | 12 Responses

Tim Marshall’s Prisoners of Geography

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

1,531 words

Tim Marshall
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
London: Elliot and Thompson (2015)

The physical realities that underpin national and international politics are too often disregarded in both writing about history and in contemporary reporting of world affairs. Geography is clearly a fundamental part of the “why” as well as the “what.” Read more …

Published: August 19, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America, articles, demographics, ethnic identity, ethnic nationalism, Foreign Policy, geography, geopolitics, globalism, multiculturalism, nationalism, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, pluralism, race replacement, Russia, the European plain, the state, Tim Marshall, trade, war | 16 Responses

Eight Years & the Pain of Being Black in America

2,085 words

Ta-Nehisi Coates
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
New York: One World Publishing, 2017

I expected to hate We Were Eight Years in Power. After all, the book is written by a guy with one of those, dare I say, unusual black names — Ta-Nehisi — and I’m a total white nationalist. But I ended up finding the book both interesting and wise. Read more …

Published: August 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Barack Obama, black criminality, Blacks in America, crime, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, race relations, Ta-Nehisi Coates | 9 Responses

Notre Dame des Fascistes,
Part III: Excursus on Evola

3,927 words

Part 1, Part 2

All this anti-Masonry and TradCath stuff; there was something familiar with all this, until at some point I exclaimed again, “You’ve seen these films before, haven’t you, my man!” It’s Baron Evola’s doppelganger!

Although to be honest, it may have been Will herself who clued me in. Read more …

Published: August 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Archeofuturism, art, articles, Barbara Will, Bernard Faÿ, Catholicism, Christianity, fascism, France, Freemasonry, Gertrude Stein, homosexuality, identity, James J. O'Meara, Jews in literature, Julius Evola, liberalism, modernism, North American New Right, originals, Traditionalism, Vichy France | 8 Responses

The Quintessence of Mediocrity:
Ross Douthat’s The Decadent Society

Quintilian

1,023 words

Ross Douthat
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
New York: Simon & Schuster (2020)

Never-Trumper Ross Douthat is a faux-Christian, faux-conservative writer for leftist publications like The Atlantic and The New York Times. His presence at those publications is akin to that of the house Negro, Read more …

Published: August 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged antifa, articles, bourgeois society, Christianity, crime, decadence, Hungary, liberalism, Mexico, modernity, North American New Right, originals, Quintilian, Ross Douthat, The New York Times | 17 Responses

Notre Dame des Fascistes,
Part II: Special Friendships

4,241 words

Part 1

Other than living near types like Faÿ, Toklas, and the guys, Stein had “indirect ties, notably through her close friendship with a French personalist philosopher named Henri Daniel-Rops.” Read more …

Published: August 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Archeofuturism, articles, Bernard Faÿ, decadence, France, Freemasonry, Gertrude Stein, Henri Daniel-Rops, homosexuality, James J. O'Meara, Marcel Lefebvre, modernism, North American New Right, originals, post-war Europe, the Catholic church, Traditionalism, utopianism, Vichy France | 1 Response

Take Your Choice, Part II:
Stop the Hate!

4,912 words

Part 1

Senator Bilbo excerpts from a compilation of fourteen essays by black notables in one of the recent egalitarian books, What the Negro Wants, edited by Rayford W. Logan (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1944). He identifies one of the authors, W. E. B. DuBois, Read more …

Published: August 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American identity, anti-white propaganda, articles, Beau Albrecht, Black Nationalism, blacks and Jews, Blacks in America, Christianity, communists, Franz Boas, integration, liberalism, mixed-race individuals, North American New Right, originals, Overton window, post-war America, race-mixing, segregation, separation, the Jewish question, Theodore G. Bilbo | 3 Responses

Notre Dame des Fascistes,
Part I: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, & the Joy of Collaboration

Gertrude Stein.

6,991 words

Barbara Will
Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma (Gender and Culture Series)
New York City: Columbia University Press, 2011

The joy of the body, the most honorable and fecund joy of all, reign[s] in America.

— Bernard Faÿ Read more …

Published: August 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, anti-modernism, anti-Semitism, articles, Bernard Faÿ, Catholicism, collaborationism, fascism, Gertrude Stein, homosexuality, James J. O'Meara, Jews in literature, language, literature, modernism, North American New Right, originals, postmodernism, revolution, the French Revolution, the Jewish question, Vichy France | 2 Responses

Take Your Choice, Part I:
Strange Times Ahead

4,280 words

Theodore G. Bilbo
Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization
Poplarville, Mississippi: Dream House (1947)

The final political testament by Senator Bilbo of Mississippi, Take Your Choice, is a useful opportunity to see how well old documents stand in the light of the present day. Read more …

Published: August 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Beau Albrecht, egalitarianism, identity, integration, miscegenation, mixed-race individuals, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, Overton window, post-war America, repatriation, segregation, social engineering, the civil rights movement, the Democratic party, the Republican party, Theodore G. Bilbo | 13 Responses

The Hardhat Riot of 1970

2,535 words

David Paul Kuhn
The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution
New York: Oxford University Press, 2020

The Hardhat Riot of May 8, 1970 left a subtle and lasting impact on American culture. Sensitive liberals of the Useful Idiot type, like the horror author Stephen King, Read more …

Published: August 7, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Hardhat riots, Jews in America, Kent State, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, Richard Nixon, the 1960s counter-culture, the civil rights movement, the Democratic party, the Republican party, Vietnam War | 14 Responses

Julius Evola:
The Philosopher & Magician in War: 1943-1945

Collin Cleary

3,484 words

Gianfranco de Turris
Julius Evola: The Philosopher and Magician in War: 1943–1945
Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2020

This English translation of Gianfranco de Turris’s Julius Evola: Un filosofo in guerra 1943–1945 has come along at just the right time, for it shows us how a great man coped both with societal collapse and with personal tragedy. Read more …

Published: August 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, adversity, articles, Benito Mussolini, biographies, Collin Cleary, fascism, Germany, Gianfranco de Turris, Julius Evola, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, post-occupational network, post-war Europe, Third Reich, Vienna, World War II | 9 Responses

The Last Battle
Part II: The Swan Song of Hermann Göring

Giles Corey

Hermann Göring on the stand.

4,304 words

Part I

During the trials, almost all of the prisoners remained true to their Führer. The Leader had always repaid this extraordinary devotion in kind, valuing loyalty and continuity above all else, Read more …

Published: August 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Albert Speer, Alfred Jodl, articles, David Irving, Germany, Giles Corey, Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Karl Dönitz, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, North American New Right, Nuremberg, Nuremberg Tribunal, originals, Rudolf Hess, war crimes, Wilhelm Keitel, World War Two | 19 Responses

The Last Battle
Part I: Might Makes Right

Giles Corey

Justice Robert H. Jackson at the Nuremberg Trials.

8,526 words

David Irving
Nuremberg: The Last Battle
London: Focal Point Publications, 2004

Author’s Note: Thanks are due to the great Mark Weber of the Institute for Historical Review for his editorial advice. Read more …

Published: July 31, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, David Irving, Dwight Eisenhower, Germany, Giles Corey, Harry Truman, Henry Morgenthau, Hitler, Josef Stalin, Julius Streicher, kangaroo court, Mark Weber, North American New Right, Nuremberg, Nuremberg Tribunal, originals, Robert H. Jackson, Robert Kempner, Second World War, the holocaust, the Jewish question, war crimes | 11 Responses

Knut Hamsun’s Hunger