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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, bourgeois society, 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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White “Civil Wars”:
Grinding Napoleon’s Axiom

Kathryn S.

Johann Peter Krafft, The Siege of Szigetvár, 1825.

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The bad news is the bad news — the stories we’ve seen and heard in the past few months, years, decades that all keep warning us of more to come. The good news is that these times of transition provide us with opportunities for clarity and fresh perspectives on historical and social phenomena Read more …

Published: September 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, civil wars, colonialism, empire, friend/enemy dichotomy, identity, Kathryn S, modernism, nation-state, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Traditionalism, war | 36 Responses

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Blackboxing Q

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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Picard: Well. . . I suppose that is the end of Q.

[with a flash, Q appears on the bridge with a trumpet, accompanied by a mariachi band]

Q: AU CONTRAIRE, MON CAPITAINE! HE’S BACK! Read more …

Published: September 8, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conspiracy theories, Donald Trump, elite psychology, elites, ethics, memes, midwits, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, QAnon, white dispossession | 10 Responses

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An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part XII:
Sigurd’s First Initiation into Runelore

Collin Cleary

Sigurd and the dwarf Regin forge a sword, from the portal of the stave church of Hylestad, Setesdal, Norway c. 1200.

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Part I here, Part XI here

In our last installment, we saw how Queen Hjordis, pregnant with Sigurd, is taken in by King Alf, son of King Hjalprek of Denmark. Before his death, Sigmund had prophesied that his son “will become the greatest and most famous of our family.” Sigmund also entrusts to Hjordis the fragments of his sword, broken by Odin. “Take good care also of my sword’s fragments,” Sigmund tells her. “A good sword can be made from them, which will be called Gram, and our son will carry that sword and do many great things with it which will never be forgotten. Read more …

Published: November 18, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Germanic paganism, Germanic tradition, Norse sagas, North American New Right, originals, Poetic Edda, Richard Wagner, runes, Volsung Saga, Volsunga Saga | 1 Response

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The Aryan Ethos:
Loyalty to One’s Own Nature

Julius Evola

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Today, more than ever, one must understand that social problems, in their essence, are rooted in problems of ethics and world-view. Anyone who thinks that social problems can be solved through purely technical means, is like a doctor who only wants to treat the patent symptoms of a disease, rather than examining and treating its deep causes. Read more …

Published: June 15, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, caste, ethics, guilds, individualism, Julius Evola, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, political philosophy, self-actualization, translations | 2 Responses

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Nebraska

Trevor Lynch

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Nebraska is a low-budget, black and white movie starring Bruce Dern and Will Forte (Saturday Night Live), as well as Bob Odenkirk (Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad). Nebraska was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where Dern won the Best Actor award. Since then, Nebraska has been nominated for 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Alexander Payne), Best Actor (Dern), Best Supporting Actress (June Squibb, who plays Dern’s wife), and Best Original Screenplay (Bob Nelson). Read more …

Published: February 4, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged David Lynch, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, populism, status competition, status consciousness, the Jewish question, The Straight Story, Trevor Lynch | 18 Responses

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The Decline of Wit into Camp
Sour Cream:
Michael Nelson’s A Room in Chelsea Square

James J. O'Meara

4,797 words

Anonymous (Michael Nelson)
A Room in Chelsea Square
Richmond: Valancourt Books, 2014

“Well,” said John,” I’m thought queer because I have more brains than most children. Some say I have more brains than I ought to have. You’re queer because you have more money than most people; and (some say) more than you ought to have.” — Olaf Stapledon, Odd John