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Yukio Mishima’s 1963 novel The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is one of his darkest works. Set in post-War Yokohama, it is the story of Fusako Kuroda, a thirty-three-year-old widow who runs a boutique selling Western luxury goods, and her thirteen-year-old son Noboru Kuroda. (See Alex Graham’s discussion of the novel here.)

Fusako’s world is entirely feminine, bourgeois, modern, and Western. She is also deeply lonely. Then she meets Ryuji Tsukazaki, the second-mate on a steamship. Read more …

Published: September 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, class, England, gender, Japan, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, sex, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, thumos, tradition, Trevor Lynch, Yukio Mishima | 3 Responses

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

Quintilian

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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, book reviews, Christianity, crime, decadence, Hungary, liberalism, Mexico, modernity, North American New Right, originals, Quintilian, Ross Douthat, The New York Times | 17 Responses

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Principalities & Powers, Part Two:
The Middle-Class Moment

Samuel Francis

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With a whoop and a holler, politicians have suddenly discovered that there’s a wild animal called the American middle class prowling around the voting booths, and officeholders are pounding down the stairs to make sure the rough beast does no damage once it gets inside the house. Read more …

Published: March 27, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Chronicles Magazine, elites, globalization, mass immigration, North American New Right, reprints, Samuel Francis | 4 Responses

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Reflexões sobre a Estética e Figura Literária do Dândi

Robert Steuckers

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English original: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Antes de entrar no assunto principal, eu gostaria de fazer três observações preliminares:

Eu hesitei em aceitar seu convite para falar sobre a figura do dândi, pois esse tipo de questão não é meu tema principal de interesse.

Eu finalmente aceitei porque redescobri um ensaio lúcido e magistral de Otto Mann, Read more …

Published: May 28, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged amoralism, Art Nouveau, Beau Brummell, Charles Baudelaire, dandyism, decadence, drugs, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, in Portuguese, in translation, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jugendstil, Julius Evola, liberal education, modernity, nihilism, North American New Right, Oscar Wilde, Otto Mann, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, religion, Rene Guénon, reprints, Robert Steuckers, Romanticism, Stefan George, the Pre-Raphaelites, Traditionalism, Victor Segalen | Leave a comment

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The Stark Truth
Robert Stark interviews Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya on The Dharma Manifesto

Counter-Currents Radio

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Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya was born in New York City. Read more …

Published: December 31, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged caste, Christianity, Counter-Currents Radio, dharma, diversity, hierarchy, hinduism, interviews, Islam, Judaism, Marxism, multiculturalism, nationalism, paganism, podcasts, Robert Stark, The Stark Truth, Third Way economics, usury, warrior ethics, white nationalism | 7 Responses

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Úvahy o estetické a kulturní postavě dandyho, část 1

Robert Steuckers

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English original here

Záznam přednásky Roberta Steuckerse, kterou pronesl na semináři Synergon-Deutschland v květnu 2001.

Nežli se dostaneme k samotnému tématu, rád bych pronesl několik úvodních poznámek:

On Danger

Ernst Jünger

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Among the signs of the epoch we have now entered belongs the increased intrusion of danger into daily life. There is no accident concealing itself behind this fact but a comprehensive change of the inner and outer world.

We see this dearly when we remember what an important role was assigned to the concept of security in the bourgeois epoch just past. The bourgeois person is perhaps best characterized as one who places security among the highest of values and conducts his life accordingly. Read more …