Tag Archives: civic nationalism

The Conceded Election

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Richard Nixon made a fateful decision on the afternoon of November 9, 1960. He telegrammed John F. Kennedy to formally concede the presidential race. This concession ensured that there was no nasty legal battle or potential constitutional crisis over the election. Read more …

Published: September 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 presidential election, articles, Donald Trump, elections, John F. Kennedy, North American New Right, originals, polarization, Richard Nixon, Robert Hampton, voter fraud | 19 Responses

Michael Anton’s Defense of Civic Nationalism

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Michael Anton is one of a handful of American conservative intellectuals who is pro-Trump, pro-nationalist, and pro-populist. He is the author of the much-discussed 2016 essay “The Flight 93 Election.” For a time, he was a national security official in the Trump administration. His new book, The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return is a powerful case for re-electing Donald Trump as the last chance to avoid America’s decline into a one-party Leftist banana republic like California. Read more …

Published: September 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American identity, articles, assimilationism, ethnonationalism, Greg Johnson, immigration, Michael Anton, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, The Stakes | 19 Responses

A Long Time Coming

John Wilkinson

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Much has been said in recent months about the cult of radical Leftism donning a veil of religious zealotry over the George Floyd death and Black Lives Matter protests. In truth, America’s excessively libertine, egalitarian idealism has always been a twisted morality play that relentlessly seeks to destroy the strong and healthy in favor of the Read more …

Published: July 6, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Americana, anti-racism, articles, Black Lives Matter, conservatism, John Wilkinson, liberalism, neoconservatism, North American New Right, originals, statues | 14 Responses

Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 7: White Maladaptive Altruism

Ricardo Duchesne

Benjamin Haydon, The Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840, 1841.

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The white race is uniquely altruistic. Why? This is a very difficult question to answer. It is easy to understand altruistic behavior for the benefit of one’s family members. This is common among animals. Mother bears will put their lives in danger to protect their cubs from attack. Sacrifices for one’s relatives and ingroup ethnic members Read more …

Published: June 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abolitionism, altruism, articles, egalitarianism, empathy, German Idealism, individualism, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Kevin MacDonald, negative liberty, North American New Right, positive liberty, Quakers, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Romanticism, structuralism, the Self | Leave a comment

The Expulsion of the Moriscos:
Matthew Carr’s Blood & Faith

Morris V. de Camp

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Matthew Carr
Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain
New York: New Press, 2009

There is something about the Spain of centuries past that is so dreadfully modern. One situation was the presence of large numbers of Muslim Moors after the conquest of Granada in 1492. The Moorish community arrived in Spain during the Islamic conquest of Iberia which started in 711 AD. Read more …

Published: March 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Catholic Church, conversion, diversity, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, Spain | 5 Responses

The Vices of The Virtue of Nationalism
Hazony on Ethnic vs. Civic Nationalism

Yoram Hazony

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In my review of Yoram Hazony’s The Virtue of Nationalism, I focused on the book’s virtues. Here I wish to examine some of its vices.

The positions I defend in The White Nationalist Manifesto (San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2018) are broadly compatible with the main arguments of The Virtue of Nationalism. We both hold that nations are ethnic groups and that the best political system is the nation-state, because it promotes peace between peoples and leaves them free to become who they are, to live according to their unique identities. Read more …

Published: February 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ethnic genetic interests, ethnic nationalism, family, genetic similarity theory, Greg Johnson, Johnson on Hazony, Judaism, marriage, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, The Virtue of Nationalism, Yoram Hazony | 20 Responses

Yoram Hazony’s The Virtue of Nationalism

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Yoram Hazony
The Virtue of Nationalism
New York: Basic Books, 2018

Yoram Hazony is an Israeli political theorist. He has a BA in East Asian studies from Princeton and a Ph.D. in political theory from Rutgers. While at Princeton, he founded a conservative publication, the Princeton Tory. An orthodox Jew and a political Zionist, he is the president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem. Read more …

Published: January 31, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Greg Johnson, imperialism, Johnson on Hazony, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, The Virtue of Nationalism, tribalism, Yoram Hazony | 18 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 255
A Conversation with Keith Woods

Counter-Currents Radio

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Greg Johnson talks to Irish YouTuber Keith Woods about his intellectual development, his nationalist politics, his takes on the Iran Crisis, Read more …

Published: January 10, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Alt Lite, Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson, interviews, Iran Crisis, Nick Fuentes, podcasts, the Jewish question, YouTube | 20 Responses

Sága alternativní pravice o čtyřech dějstvích. Část druhá.

(Stěží) deset zdvižených pravic, které otřásly hnutím alternativní pravice.

907 slov

English original here

Část druhá, úvodní si můžete přečíst zde, třetí tady a čtvrtou závěrečnou zde.

Meme War II: European Vacation

Travis LeBlanc

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What to do about Tommy Robinson has long been a moral quandary for the Dissident Right. The purist position was, “No, the guy is a narcissist conman controlled by Zionist Jews” – which no one on our side really disputes.

Chatty Cathy’s Poison Pill

Margot Metroland

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Jill Lepore
This America: The Case for the Nation
New York: W. W. Norton, 2019

The theme of This America isn’t what Jill Lepore thinks it is.

Jill Lepore is a Harvard Professor of American History, and an incredibly prolific author – twenty-five books, and many essays in The New Yorker – with a fluid, appealing writing style. Read more …

Published: July 31, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American history, articles, book reviews, liberalism, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals | 8 Responses

Guatemalans are Not the New Puritans

Guatemalan Catholics, just like people you might have met in seventeenth-century Plymouth, right? RIGHT?

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“Catholic migrants from Central America now have more in common with our Puritan forebears than do most Europeans.”

So argues Matthew Schmitz, a Catholic writer who supports Yoram Hazony’s “national conservatism.” He claims that a multi-racial nationalism is possible so long as it’s guided by Judeo-Christian faith. Read more …

Published: July 30, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Catholicism, immigration, Integralism, North American New Right, originals, philo-Semitism, Robert Hampton, the Catholic church, Yoram Hazony | 17 Responses

The Many Faces of the Jewish Elite, Part 2
Pragers vs. Foxmans

Spencer J. Quinn

Dennis Prager is all too happy to lecture whites on why combining race and nationalism is evil while supporting Israel, an ethnonationalist state.

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Part 1 here

Among the secular diaspora Jews in the West, a useful distinction can be made. There are those who will give Right-wing whites some benefit of the doubt, and there are those who won’t. The former group we can call “pragers,” and the latter we can call “foxmans.”

Let’s assume that the vast majority of both pragers and foxmans are ethnocentric: that is, they identify ethnically as Jews and exist on the Right-wing side of their own politics. This ethnocentrism manifests itself in two ways: either honestly, by being pro-Jewish or pro-Israeli, or dishonestly, by being anti-white. Read more …

Published: July 30, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American nationalism, anti-Semitism, articles, ethnocentrism, Israel, Israeli nationalism, Jews in America, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, the Jewish question, white dispossession | 7 Responses

Grow Up, People!

Morris V. de Camp

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Ben Sasse
The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis – and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2017

Senator Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska) has come out with a book that is needed and should be taken seriously by any Rightist. This is because Senator Sasse has had an extraordinarily successful career. Read more …

Published: July 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, conservatism, education, maturity, millennials, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals | 17 Responses

Co-Opted Nationalism

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Racial nationalists were banned from attending Yoram Hazony’s National Conservatism Conference, which aimed to offer a race-free nationalism (except for Jewish ethnonationalists, of course). The opening speech delivered by David Brog, the non-Christian former head of Christians United for Israel, declared racialists were unwelcome. Hazony spent weeks before the conference arguing with identitarians that nationalism has nothing to do with race. The Israeli scholar boasted that racialists would suffer a crushing defeat from the success of his conference.

Published: July 23, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American nationalism, articles, conservatism, Conservatism Inc., North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, Yoram Hazony, Zionism | 10 Responses

Turning Point Trumpism

Charlie Kirk at CPAC, where a cardboard flat = truth in advertising

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Another CPAC has come and gone, and national populism was almost non-existent at this year’s conservative gala.

Even though Donald Trump became president on a national populist agenda that challenged conservative orthodoxy on immigration, foreign policy, trade, and state power, CPAC 2019 offered the impression he won on the stale conservatism of Ronald Reagan.

The major themes of CPAC 2019 were the evils of socialism (but no mention of why it’s becoming popular), the sheer awesomeness of Israel, Read more …

Published: March 5, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Charlie Kirk, conservatism, Conservatism Inc., Donald Trump, National Populism, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, Turning Point USA | 12 Responses

The Proud Boys’ Lesson

The brawl between the Proud Boys and the Antifa in New York on October 12.

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The Proud Boys could only have arisen in the Trump era. A multi-racial fraternity dedicated to “Western chauvinism” and brawling with the Antifa is not something the Tea Party could have produced.

There’s always been an element of the ridiculous in the Proud Boys. Read more …

Published: February 14, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alt Lite, antifa, articles, Gavin McInnes, North American New Right, originals, political violence, Robert Hampton | 4 Responses

The Republican Workers Party:
A Review

Spencer J. Quinn

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F. H. Buckley
The Republican Workers Party: How the Trump Victory Drove Everyone Crazy, and Why It Was Just What We Needed
New York: Encounter Books, 2018

Any book that celebrates the 2016 election while denying the crucial role that race and ethnonationalism played in the rise of Donald Trump is just asking not to be taken seriously. Read more …

Published: February 14, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2016 US Presidential Election, American conservatism, articles, book reviews, Donald Trump, Left/Right divide, North American New Right, originals, populism, Spencer J. Quinn | 4 Responses

Sicilian Nightmares

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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A man can learn a lot while visiting Sicily. He can learn that old Rome and Byzantium still live in some corners of the Mediterranean; he can learn that the strange, winding streets of a medieval town can feel more like home than the post-communist, Eastern European shithole he calls home; Read more …

Published: December 3, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, caste, cultural decline, Donald Trump, Julius Evola, Kanye West, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, Traditionalism | 11 Responses

The Moral Superiority of White Nationalism

Buck Daniels

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Over the past year, I have spoken with—and thought about—a particular demographic that should be open to White Nationalism, but which largely has not been: conservative Gen-Xers. They tend to reject White Nationalism as being un-American, as immoral, and most prominently, as comprised of losers and failures.

Published: November 28, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American identity, articles, Buck Daniels, individualism, James Fenimore Cooper, North American New Right, originals, thumos, white nationalism | 19 Responses

Killing Lincoln

The Z Man

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One of the unmistakable features of modern conservatives is their not-so-veiled hostility toward heritage America. Some attribute this to ethnic hostility, given the infiltration of the Right by neoconservatives. Initially, these people made the journey from communism to anti-communism and were never conservative in temperament. Of course, the royal lifestyles of many conservatives has made them into unpleasant snobs. All of that is true to one degree or another, but it obscures an important point about modern conservatives. Read more …

Published: October 26, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, American identity, articles, egalitarianism, neoconservatism, North American New Right, reprints, the Jewish question, the Z Man | 22 Responses

What is the Alternative Right? Part 2

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Czech version here

Part 2 of 4; Part 1 here

Author’s Note:

This is the second installment of the opening essay of a forthcoming anthology called The Alternative Right.

3. Brand Wars & Polarization

From the summer of 2015 to the fall of 2016, the Alt Right was winning debates and changing minds. Read more …

Published: October 18, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, Hailgate, North American New Right, originals, Richard Spencer, the Alt Lite, the alt right, the Alternative Right | 15 Responses

The Identitarian Dispensation

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Mark Lilla
The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics
New York: Harper, 2017

I have been reading Mark Lilla since the 1990s, when he published his first and best book, G. B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern.[1] Lilla has made a career of reading reactionary thinkers—Vico, Heidegger, Schmitt, Strauss, Voegelin, Read more …

Published: October 4, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Greg Johnson, identitarianism, identity politics, Mark Lilla, neoconservatism, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question | 7 Responses

Hamilton & White Centrist Delusions

Alex Graham

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Three years after its premiere, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton is still running and is currently on its second national tour. The hip-hop, racially diverse reimagining of the life of Alexander Hamilton has been the object of nauseatingly fulsome praise since its premiere and has been zealously promoted by the mainstream media. Read more …

Published: September 13, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, articles, North American New Right, originals, popular music, protectionism, the liberal mind | 9 Responses

Civic Nationalism & the Diaspora Question

Richard Houck

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America’s inevitable future, according to civic nationalists.

East Asians who migrate to America have been seen historically as the “model minority,” so much so that Asians – and the country of Singapore – are both commonly cited as examples of civic nationalism “working.” It occurred to me that if there was ever a group of people who could be considered “naturally conservative,” that title would most certainly apply to Asians, long before it would apply to Hispanics. Read more …

Published: August 21, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Asians in America, mass immigration, North American New Right, originals, Richard Houck, Singapore | 16 Responses

What’s Wrong with Diversity?

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There are contexts in which diversity is a good thing. For instance, diversity of goods in the marketplace, diversity of options in life, diversity of opinions in politics and academia, and a diversity of points of view on juries for awarding prizes or deciding court cases. Read more …

Published: July 25, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, diversity, genetic similarity theory, Greg Johnson, J. Philippe Rushton, multiculturalism, multiracialism, North American New Right, originals, Tatu Vanhanen, white nationalism | 10 Responses

Principalities & Powers, Part Seven:
The Buchanan Revolution, Part II

Samuel Francis

Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, and Ross Perot at a 1992 presidential debate

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Perhaps the greatest irony of the periodic political revolutions that occur in American democracy is that most of the voters who make them possible have not the foggiest notion of what they are doing. In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt won the White House by running on a platform that promised to balance the budget and reduce the scale and power of the federal government, and there is no doubt that most of the Americans who sent him to Washington supported him simply because of the desperate economic straits in which they found themselves and their country, not because of any passion they shared with him for the socialist and internationalist experiments that he and his brood immediately imposed. Read more …

Published: April 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1992 presidential election, articles, Chronicles Magazine, cuckservatism, Left/Right divide, Middle America, neoconservatism, North American New Right, Patrick Buchanan, populism, reprints, Ronald Reagan, Ross Perot, Samuel Francis | 1 Response

Principalities & Powers, Part Five:
The Buchanan Revolution

Samuel Francis

Patrick Buchanan in 1992

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Nothing churns the entrails of the professional democracy priesthood more than the rancid taste of a little real democracy. Since one of the main dishes on the 1992 political menu has been a generous serving of authentic popular rebellion, the sages have spent a good part of the last year lurching for their lavatories. Read more …

Published: April 2, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1992 presidential election, America first, articles, Chronicles Magazine, conservatism, George H. W. Bush, Israel, Left/Right divide, neoconservatism, North American New Right, Paleoconservatism, Patrick Buchanan, populism, reprints, Republican party, Samuel Francis | Leave a comment

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