Tag Archives: book reviews

An American Storm Before the Storm

3,395 words

Mike Duncan
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
New York: Public Affairs, 2017

If the United States is anywhere on the Roman timeline, it must be somewhere between the great wars of conquest and the rise of the Caesars. Read more …

Published: January 19, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-white media, anti-white rhetoric, articles, Black Lives Matter, Blacks in America, Capitol occupation, conservatism, demagoguery, democracy, Donald Trump, empire, Gaius Gracchus, Gaius Marius, history, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, mainstream media, Mike Duncan, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, optimates, originals, populares, populism, Roman Republic, Rome, the Social Wars, The Storm Before the Storm, Tiberius Gracchus, white dispossession | 11 Responses

Solzhenitsyn from Under the Rubble

Spencer J. Quinn

3,648 words

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn et al.
From Under the Rubble
Boston: Little, Brown & Company (1975)

Shortly before being deported from the Soviet Union in 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn contributed three essays to a volume that was later published in the West as From Under the Rubble. Read more …

Published: January 18, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sakharov, anti-Bolshevism, anti-Communism, anti-white double standards, articles, capitalism, decadence, dissidence, ethnonationalism, From Under the Rubble, globalism, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, parliamentary democracy, Russia, socialism, Spencer J. Quinn, Stalinism, the left, the Soviet Union, totalitarianism | 9 Responses

A. E. van Vogt’s Slan:
An Analogy for Zionism?

1,918 words

A. E. van Vogt
Slan
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946

Science fiction writer A. E. van Vogt’s first novel-length work, Slan, became a classic, notable for being a pioneer in the mutant protagonist genre that gave us the X-Men comic book series and its cinematic spinoffs. Read more …

Published: January 13, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. E. van Vogt, articles, Beau Albrecht, crypsis, North American New Right, novels, originals, science fiction, Slan, the Jewish question, Zionism | 8 Responses

The Golden Path:
Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune & God Emperor of Dune

Greg Johnson

Frank Herbert

4,241 words

Frank Herbert’s Dune (1965) is one of the masterpieces of science fiction, far eclipsing its five sequels in readership and reputation. But I wish to argue that the third and fourth Dune books, Children of Dune (1976) and God Emperor of Dune (1981), are equally audacious works of the imagination. [1] Both volumes tend to be underrated, partly due to the long shadow of Dune, partly because the sheer scope of Herbert’s vision boggles the mind, Read more …

Published: January 12, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, being, Children of Dune, Dune, dystopia, Frank Herbert, free will, Gelassenheit, God Emperor of Dune, Greg Johnson, honor, knowing, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, science fiction, thumos, utopia | 13 Responses

America First: 1939–1941

2,812 words

Lynne Olson
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight over World War II, 1939–1941
New York: Random House, 2013

The idea of America First policy is back after a long hiatus. The first proponent for such a policy was none other than George Washington. Read more …

Published: January 7, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, America first, articles, Charles Lindbergh, culture, democracy, Foreign Policy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, futurism, history, interventionism, isolationism, Lynne Olson, metapolitics, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, propaganda, Robert E. Sherwin, Second World War, the Jewish question, Those Angry Days, WASPs, Winston Churchill, Yankees | 6 Responses

Michael Kellogg’s The Russian Roots of Nazism

Spencer J. Quinn

2,922 words

Michael Kellogg
The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Émigrés and the Making of National Socialism, 1917–1945
Cambridge University Press, 2005

With the near-universal demonization of the Third Reich, historians have developed a blind spot for the genesis of German anti-Semitism. Michael Kellogg, in his 2005 work The Russian Roots of Nazism, sheds a sharp light on this topic and points our attention eastward. Read more …

Published: December 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Alfred Rosenberg, anti-Bolshevism, anti-Communism, anti-Semitism, articles, Baltic Germans, ethnonationalism, history, irredentism, Jews, Max von Scheubner-Richter, Michael Kellogg, National Socialism, National Socialist Germany, Nazism, North American New Right, originals, Piotr Shabelsky-Bork, Russia, Second World War, Spencer J. Quinn, the Baltics, the Jewish question, The Russian Roots of Nazism, the Weimar Republic, Ukraine, Vladimir Biskupsky, volkisch ideology, White Russians | 34 Responses

The Great Reset

6,679 words

Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret
Covid-19: The Great Reset
Geneva: Forum Publishing, 2020

What is the “Great Reset” that the politicians and talking heads have been babbling about lately? The New York Times called it a “baseless conspiracy theory.” That settles it; end of discussion, everything’s cleared up, QED. Read more …

Published: December 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Beau Albrecht, COVID-19, economics, globalist capitalism, globalization, Klaus Schwab, New World Order, North American New Right, originals, privacy, the Great Reset, Thierry Malleret, woke capital, World Economic Forum | 16 Responses

The Masculine Sport of Last Stands

1,063 words

Michael Walsh
Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All is Lost
New York: Saint Martin’s Press, 2020

Last Stands is a good book. Its author, Michael Walsh, takes a look at the many examples of men fighting to the last and tries to understand their motivations. Read more …

Published: December 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, diversity, honor, Last Stands, masculinity, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, war, women | 10 Responses

“You Owe Them Everything!”
A Review of Spencer Quinn’s Charity’s Blade

Kathryn S.

John Everett Millais’ Joan of Arc, The Maid of Orléans (1865)

3,902 words

I have both the pleasure of informing Counter-Currents readers of an upcoming novel authored by Mr. Spencer Quinn and of reviewing this latest addition to white nationalist-friendly fiction. When critiquing an author (especially for the first time), I like to get a sense of his Weltanschauung by reading and synthesizing some of his other works in conjunction with the monograph in question. Thus, I will also refer throughout to a few of his salient articles. Read more …

Published: December 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Charity's Blade, fiction, Kathryn S, literature, maturity, motherhood, North America New Right, originals, parenting, Spencer J. Quinn, women, women of the right | 6 Responses

The Plymouth 400 Symposium
When the Sons of the Mayflower Struck Back

Robert Hampton

2,101 words

Daniel Okrent
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
New York: Scribner, 2019

The Mayflower arrived at Plymouth 400 years ago this week. This monumental anniversary has largely gone unremembered. In the past, the Plymouth anniversary was a great event that drew our nation’s foremost orators to speak of the glories of America and its settlers. Read more …

Published: December 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Albert Ballin, articles, Calvin Coolidge, Catholics, Charles Davenport, Communism, Daniel Okrent, elites, eugenics, Franz Boas, Henry Cabot Lodge, immigration, Jacob Schiff, Jews in America, Madison Grant, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, terrorism, The Guarded Gate, the Jewish question, The Plymouth 400 Symposium, the Puritans, the Republican party, Warren G. Harding, WASP elite, WASPs, Woodrow Wilson | 14 Responses

Know Your Enemy:
Antifa

1,671 words

Kyle Shideler, ed., Gabriel Nadales, Erin Smith, Matthew Vadum, J. Michael Waller
Unmasking Antifa: Five Perspectives on a Growing Threat
Washington: Center for Security Policy, 2020

A menace stalks America: Antifa. While this menace has rampaged across the country since Donald Trump’s inauguration, very little information has circulated about the movement’s origins, means of support, or ideology. Read more …

Published: December 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged antifa, antifascism, antiracism, articles, Erin Smith, Gabriel Nadales, George Soros, J. Michael Waller, Kyle Shideler, Matthew Vadum, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, political infrastructure, political organizing, political violence, terrorism | 11 Responses

The Plymouth 400 Symposium
How Ellis Islanders Saw Their War Against WASPs

Robert Hampton

1,770 words

E. Digby Baltzell
The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America
New York: Random House, 1964

The WASPs can never get any love. Their power once evoked equal amounts of admiration and resentment in American society. Now they’re just a relic and a punching bag for every other group’s ethnic grievances. Read more …

Published: December 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, caste, E. Digby Baltzell, elites, identity politics, immigration, Joseph McCarthy, liberal elite, liberalism, meritocracy, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, The Plymouth 400 Symposium, WASP elite, WASPs, white dispossession | 16 Responses

More on the Limitations of the Military Mind

2,109 words

Tim Bakken
The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris, and Failure in the U.S. Military
New York: Bloomsbury, 2020

I am now going to my grave with that lapse in moral courage on my back.

— General Harold K. Johnson (1912 – 1983); referring to Vietnam. Read more …

Published: December 8, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Blacks in America, diversity, Foreign Policy, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, rape, segregation, The Cost of Loyalty, the military, Tim Bakken, United States Military Academy, war, West Point, white dispossession | 22 Responses

Seyward Darby’s Sisters in Hate

Margot Metroland

1,978 words

Seyward Darby
Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism
New York: Little, Brown, 2020

This badly named book began with a cover story in Harper’s back in September 2017. It was about female activists and intellectuals on the Far Right. Read more …

Published: December 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, eugenics, feminism, Lana Lokteff, Margot Metroland, misogyny, North American New Right, originals, Red Ice, Seyward Darby, Sisters in Hate, Unite the Right, women, women of the right | 18 Responses

A Promised Land:
Obama, from Illinois to Abbottabad

3,518 words

Barack Obama
A Promised Land
New York: Random House, 2020

There were stacks and stacks of Barack Obama’s new memoir at the brick-and-mortar bookstore I went to on Black Friday, 2020. I hadn’t been to a brick-and-mortar store for some time. If possible, I go to the library.

The Vanishing Tradition:
Perspectives on American Conservatism

Max Richardson

5,456 words

Paul Gottfried, editor
The Vanishing Tradition: Perspectives on American Conservatism
DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2020

The Vanishing Tradition is an anthology edited by Paul Gottfried, and owing to its structure, a proper review is not really possible. Rather, I will individually summarize and comment on each contribution to the anthology. Read more …

Published: December 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abortion, anthologies, articles, Boyd D. Cathey, capitalism, Catholicism, Civil Rights Movement, Communism, conservatism, Conservative Inc., feminism, Foreign Policy, geopolitics, George Gawley, Grant Havers, immigration, Jack Kerwick, Jesse Russell, Josef Stalin, Joseph Cotto, Keith Preston, Marjorie Jeffrey, metapolitics, National Review, NATO, neoconservatism, Nicholas Drummond, noninterventionism, North American New Right, originals, Paleoconservatism, Paul Gottfried, rationalism, Richard Marcy, the alt right, the avant-garde, the Jewish question, Trotskyism | 11 Responses

Ibram X Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist

5,116 words

Ibram X. Kendi
How to Be an Antiracist
New York: One World, 2019

I recently ran across a copy of How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, neé Rogers. I figured it would be a good opportunity to get rid of some of that unearned white privilege. Heck, who needs all that extra baggage, right? Read more …

Published: December 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-racism, articles, Beau Albrecht, Blacks in America, critical race theory, cultural Marxism, How to Be and Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi, identity politics, North American New Right, originals | 21 Responses

Hillbilly Elegy: Movie vs. Book

Margot Metroland

J. D. Vance.

2,212 words

There are many odd and irksome things about the new Hillbilly Elegy movie on Netflix. For my money, the strangest aspect of the production is that it has only a superficial resemblance to J. D. Vance’s 2016 book. It’s as though you were to make a movie of Moby-Dick, knowing only that it has a ship and a white spermaceti whale and a mad captain who stumps around on a peg-leg. Read more …

Published: November 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, class, Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, Margot Metroland, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, rural America, the working class | 19 Responses

Spencer J. Quinn’s My Mirror Tells A Story

Meg Wiley

854 words

Spencer J. Quinn, Illustrations by Anthony Coulter
My Mirror Tells A Story
Austin, TX: The White People’s Press, 2020

Available for purchase here

The year is 2020.

Your children are going to school in what “President-elect” Joe Biden would call a “racial jungle.” Read more …

Published: November 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, bullying, childhood, children's books, Meg Wiley, North American New Right, originals, parenting, school, Spencer J. Quinn, white dispossession, white identity | 3 Responses

August Kubizek’s The Young Hitler I Knew

6,990 words

Suppose your best friend from when you were a young’un became the meanest hombre ever to leave boot-prints on the ground. It indeed happened, on the wild frontier of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Had Attila the Hun been brought forward in time to meet him, he wouldn’t have challenged a gunslinger like that to a duel at twenty paces. The town of Linz might not be big enough for both of them, but the 5th-century “Scourge of God” would’ve known better than to tangle with the dastardly desperado of the Danube! Read more …

Published: November 5, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, art, articles, August Kubizek, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Beau Albrecht, biographies, film, friendship, Germany, history, love, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, painting, the Jewish question, The Young Hitler I Knew, Vienna | 27 Responses

The Future of Work:
Heart, Hand, & Head

1,190 words

David Goodhart
Head, Hand, Heart: Why Intelligence is Over-Rewarded, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2020

David Goodhart is an upper-class British political centrist who arrived at his views from the Left. He works at a UK think tank called Policy Exchange. He’s the author that first articulated the concept of “Somewheres” vs. “Anywheres.” Read more …

Published: October 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, artificial intelligence, David Goodhart, deindustrialization, economics, labor, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, work | 15 Responses

The Heroes We Need or the Heroes We Deserve?
Political Fiction in the Shadow of the 2020 Election

James J. O'Meara

2,386 words

Anonymous
Angry White Man
Free Future, 2020

Gerald McManus
Dark Millennium: A Visionary Tale
Ceshore Pub Co, 2001

Because he’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. Read more …

Published: October 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, culture, genocide, Gerald McManus, identity politics, intelligence, James J. O'Meara, meritocracy, North American New Right, originals, political fiction, white dispossession | 8 Responses

The Terrorist Left of the 1970s

2,056 words

Bryan Burrough
Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
New York: Penguin Books, 2015

What the underground movement was truly about — what it was always about — was the plight of black Americans. (p. 27) Read more …

Published: October 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America in the 1970s, articles, Black Liberation Army, Black Panthers, Bryan Burrough, Communism, Days of Rage, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, Students for a Democratic Society, Symbionese Liberation Army, terrorism, the Weatherman Underground | 14 Responses

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

Spencer J. Quinn

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 | 29 Responses

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

James J. O'Meara

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 | 3 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 | 24 Responses