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Martin Heidegger is one of the giants of twentieth-century philosophy, both in terms of the depth and originality of his ideas and the breadth of his influence in philosophy, theology, the human sciences, and culture in general.

Heidegger was born on September 26, 1889, in the town of Meßkirch in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He died on May 26, 1976 in Freiburg and was buried in Meßkirch. Read more …

Published: September 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, Martin Heidegger, modernity, National Socialism, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, technology | 2 Responses

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Remembering T. S. Eliot:
September 26, 1888–January 4, 1965

Greg Johnson

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Thomas Stearns Eliot was one of the 20th century’s most influential poets, as well as an essayist, literary critic, playwright, and publisher. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, from old New England stock, Eliot emigrated to England in 1914 and was naturalized as a British subject in 1927.

Published: September 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, modernism, poetry, T. S. Eliot | 3 Responses

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Remembering Francis Parker Yockey
(September 18, 1917–June 16, 1960)

Greg Johnson

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Francis Parker Yockey was born 103 years ago today, September 18, in Chicago. He died in San Francisco on June 16, 1960, an apparent suicide. Yockey is one of America’s greatest anti-liberal thinkers and an abiding influence on the North American New Right. In honor of his birthday, I wish to draw the reader’s attention to the following works on this site.

Published: September 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Francis Parker Yockey, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of history, political philosophy | 8 Responses

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Remembering H. Keith Thompson
(September 17, 1922–March 3, 2002)

Kerry Bolton

The rarely-photographed H. Keith Thompson, Jr. in 1954

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Charles Harold Keith Thompson Jr. (September 17, 1922 – March 3, 2002), more familiarly known as Keith Thompson, was Francis Parker Yockey’s primary US colleague. He was born in Orange, New Jersey of English, German, and Scottish descent. Dr. Hans Thomsen, Keith’s cousin, was the last German chargé d’affaires in Washington DC prior to World War II, and they worked closely together to keep the USA out of the war. At Drew College and Yale, Thompson expressed his opposition to the USA’s having fought in World War I and becoming involved in another war against Germany. Read more …

Published: September 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Francis Parker Yockey, H. Keith Thompson, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right | 5 Responses

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Remembering D. H. Lawrence:
September 11, 1885–March 2, 1930

Greg Johnson

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David Herbert Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England and died from tuberculosis on March 2, 1930 in Vence, France, at the age of 44.

The fourth son of a nearly-illiterate coal miner, Lawrence rose by dint of genius and hard work to become an internationally famous, often censored, and sometimes persecuted novelist, poet, essayist, and painter.

Published: September 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, D. H. Lawrence, Greg Johnson | 2 Responses

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Remembering Leni Riefenstahl
(August 22, 1902–September 8, 2003)

Greg Johnson

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Helene Bertha Amalie “Leni” Riefenstahl was born on this day in Berlin in 1902. She died in Pöcking, Bavaria, on September 8, 2003, just after her 101st birthday. She was a highly accomplished dancer, actress, photographer, and film director.

Published: August 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Greg Johnson, Leni Riefenstahl, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, the Jewish question | 17 Responses

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Remembering H. P. Lovecraft
(August 20, 1890–March 15, 1937)

Greg Johnson

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island, and died there of cancer on March 15, 1937. An heir to Poe and Hawthorne, Lovecraft is one of the pioneers of modern science fiction, fantasy, and horror literature. Lovecraft is a literary favorite in New Rightist circles, for reasons that will become clear from a perusal of the following works on this website.

Published: August 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, H. P. Lovecraft, literature, North American New Right | 2 Responses

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Remembering Knut Hamsun
(August 4, 1859–February 19, 1952)

Greg Johnson

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Knut Hamsun was born Knut Pedersen in Lom, Norway on August 4, 1859. He died in Grimstad, Norway, on February 19, 1952. The author of more than twenty novels, plus poems, short stories, plays, and essays, Hamsun was one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers. His rejection of both Romanticism and naturalism, his emphasis on outsiders and rebels, and his exploration of inner and sometimes extreme states of consciousness, made him a pioneer of literary modernism. Read more …

Published: August 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Knut Hamsun, literature, National Socialism, North American New Right | 2 Responses

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Remembering Carl Schmitt
(July 11, 1888–April 7, 1985)

Greg Johnson

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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Carl Schmitt was born on July 11, 1888 in Plettenberg, Westphalia, Germany — where he died on April 7, 1985, at the age of 96. The son of a Roman Catholic small businessman, Carl Schmitt studied law in Berlin, Munich, and Strasbourg, graduating and taking his state exams in Strasbourg in 1915. In 1916, he earned his habilitation in Strasbourg, qualifying him to be a law professor. He taught at business schools and universities in Munich, Greifswald, Bonn, Berlin, and Cologne.

Published: July 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Carl Schmitt, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, political philosophy | 2 Responses

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Schmitt, the Man

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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If you search for Carl Schmitt on Counter-Currents, you’ll get a veritable deluge of articles written or inspired by this most eminent of German jurists. From my own humble attempts at applying his friend-enemy distinctions to American race relations, much grander thinkers’ treatments on the deeper aspects of Schmittean thought, Read more …

Published: July 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged academia, articles, cancel culture, Carl Schmitt, denazification, deplatforming, education, media, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | 4 Responses

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Remembering Revilo Oliver:
July 7, 1908–August 20, 1994

Greg Johnson

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Revilo Pendleton Oliver was born in Texas on this day in 1908. He received his undergraduate degree at Pomona College in California and his doctorate in classics at the University of Illinois under William Abbot Oldfather. He was Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois for many years. Read more …

Published: July 7, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged conservatism, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, reprints, Revilo Oliver, white nationalism | 4 Responses

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Charles Ives, American Composer

Alex Graham

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Today is a fitting occasion to celebrate the works of Charles Ives (October 20, 1874–May 19, 1954), one of America’s greatest composers. In true American fashion, Ives was an iconoclast who combined old-world influences with adventurous musical experimentation and the sounds of his small-town New England childhood. He could justly be called the musical equivalent of Ben Franklin or Thomas Edison. Read more …

Published: July 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American identity, Americana, articles, classical music, folk music, North American New Right, originals | 8 Responses

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Remembering Charles Wing Krafft:
September 19, 1947–June 12, 2020

Greg Johnson

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Charles Krafft is my name,
America is my nation,
Seattle is my dwelling place,
And art is my salvation.

Charles Wing Krafft — painter, porcelain artist, and provocateur — died peacefully in the early morning hours of Friday, June 12 after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 72. Read more …

Published: June 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Charles Krafft, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals | 20 Responses

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Rivers of Blood:
Remembering Enoch Powell
(June 16, 1912–February 8, 1998)

Enoch Powell

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Editor’s Note:

This is the full text of Enoch Powell’s famous “Rivers of Blood” speech to the Annual General Meeting Read more …

Published: June 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Britain in the 1960s, Enoch Powell, immigration, multiculturalism, North American New Right, reprints, Rivers of Blood, speeches, white dispossession | 9 Responses

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Remembering William Butler Yeats:
June 13, 1865–January 28, 1939

Greg Johnson

William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939

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William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet, playwright, and politician, was born on this day in 1865. One of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century, Yeats’ life and work straddle the great divide between Romanticism and Modernism. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

In life and in art, Yeats rejected modern rationalism, materialism, and egalitarianism. He saw them as coarsening and brutalizing.

Published: June 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fascism, Greg Johnson, Ireland, literature, North American New Right, poetry, W. B. Yeats | 1 Response

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Remembering Oswald Spengler
(May 29, 1880–May 8, 1936)

Greg Johnson

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Oswald Spengler was born on this day in 1880. For his contributions to the philosophy of history and culture, Spengler is one of the most important philosophical influences on the North American New Right, largely by way of his disciple Francis Parker Yockey. Spengler is often wrong, but even when he errs, he does so magnificently.

Published: May 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Greg Johnson, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history | 2 Responses

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Remembering Louis-Ferdinand Céline
(May 27, 1894–July 1, 1961)

Greg Johnson

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French novelist, essayist, and physician Louis-Ferdinand-Auguste Destouches, who was born on this day in 1894. Céline is one of the giants of 20th-century literature. And, like Ezra Pound and so many other great writers of the last century, he was an open and unapologetic racial nationalist. For more on Céline, see the following works on this website: Read more …

Published: May 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fascism, Greg Johnson, literature, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North American New Right, the Jewish question | Leave a comment

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Remembering Richard Wagner
(May 22, 1813–February 13, 1883)

Greg Johnson

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Richard Wagner was born 206 years ago today in Leipzig in the Kingdom of Saxony. He died on February 13, 1883 in Venice. As an artist, intellectual, author, and cultural force, Wagner has left an immense metapolitical legacy, which is being evaluated and appropriated in the North American New Right. I wish to draw your attention to the following writings which have been published at Counter-Currents. Read more …

Published: May 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, classical music, Greg Johnson, metapolitics, North American New Right, Richard Wagner | 6 Responses

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Remembering Julius Evola:
May 19, 1898–June 11, 1974

Greg Johnson

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Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola was born on May 19, 1898 in Rome. Along with René Guénon, Evola is one of the writers who has most influenced the metapolitical outlook and project of Counter-Currents, which is reflected in the fact that Evola is one of the most-tagged writers on this website. In commemoration of his birthday, I wish to draw your attention to the following resources.

Counter-Currents has published the following writings of Evola’s: Read more …

Published: May 19, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Julius Evola, North American New Right, Traditionalism, videos | 1 Response

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Remembering Thomas Nelson Page
(April 23, 1853 — November 1, 1922)

Spencer J. Quinn

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After the Civil War, the American South was in ruins. Beyond the poverty, oppression, and the rapid demise of the old regime, however, the inheritors of the former Confederacy found themselves without defense in the national court of moral opinion. They were a defeated people who had drawn arms against a tolerant and progressive government in order to cling to outmoded ways of life, including (most offensively to some) the ancient practice of slavery.

Those who pined for the South’s days of greatness needed a champion. During the postbellum period, Thomas Nelson Page was one such champion. Read more …

Published: April 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged antebellum South, articles, North American New Right, originals, postbellum South, Reconstruction, Spencer J. Quinn, the Civil War, the South, Thomas Nelson Page | 3 Responses

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Earth Day Special

John Morgan

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Today is Earth Day, which has been an occasion to call for conservationism and environmental protection since it was first celebrated in America with bipartisan support in 1970, in response to the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969. Although in recent decades, environmentalism has come to be identified with the political Left, taking stewardship of the Earth and seeking harmony in the relationship between man and nature has traditionally been an issue of the Right. Read more …

Published: April 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged animal rights, articles, deep ecology, Earth Day, ecology, environmentalism, John Morgan, North American New Right, reprints | 2 Responses

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Remembering Jonathan Bowden:
April 12, 1962–March 29, 2012

Greg Johnson

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Jonathan David Anthony Bowden was born on April 12, 1962. He died on March 29, 2012, just short of his 50th birthday. Jonathan was a painter, novelist, essayist, playwright, actor, and orator. He was also a friend. His ideas and personality have had a real and permanent impact on my approach to New Right metapolitics. He will be missed, but he will also be remembered and honored. Read more …

Published: April 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, Jonathan Bowden, North American New Right, reprints | 2 Responses

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Bowden & I. . .

Fenek Solère

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“You fight for your own country, and your own group, and your own culture, and your own civilization, at your own level, and in your own way. And when someone says apologize for this or for that, you say: No. I regret nothing!”

— Jonathan Bowden (Credo) Read more …

Published: April 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Fenek Solère, North American New Right, originals | 4 Responses

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Remembering Krzysztof Penderecki
(November 23, 1933 — March 29, 2020)

Alex Graham

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Krzysztof Penderecki, who died on March 29, 2020, was one of the most prolific and creative composers of the past century. His works include four operas, eight symphonies plus other orchestral works, about a dozen concertos, vocal and choral works, and chamber and solo instrumental works. Read more …

Published: April 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, articles, classical music, electronic music, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

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Remembering Pentti Linkola
December 7, 1932 — April 5, 2020

Timo Hännikäinen

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Like other Nordic countries, Finland has a strong conformist mentality. The Law of Jante is in force to keep too headstrong or conflict-seeking individuals in leash. In this respect, it is strange that one of the modern Finnish cultural icons is a character as extreme as Pentti Linkola. Read more …

Published: April 7, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ecology, environmentalism, Finland, North American New Right, originals, Pentti Linkola, Timo Hännikäinen | 6 Responses

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Reflections on the Revolution in Spain: Remembering Robert Brasillach (March 31, 1909 – February 6, 1945)

Margot Metroland

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In his memoir Notre avant-guerre, Robert Brasillach tells how his political enthusiasms developed in the years preceding the outbreak of war in September 1939. One of the high points of the story is Brasillach’s 1938 visit to Spain, in order to report on war conditions for his Rightist newspaper in Paris, Je suis partout. Read more …

Published: March 31, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, in English, Je Suis Partout, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, Robert Brasillach, Spain, Spanish Civil War, translations | 4 Responses

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The Martyrdom of Robert Brasillach

Fenek Solère

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“The James Dean of French Fascism.”– Alice Kaplan, author of The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach (2001)

Such a description of the puny, bespectacled, and boyish-looking poet — especially coming from the daughter of a Nuremberg prosecutor — seems to be either thinly barbed facetiousness or malignant irony. Read more …

Published: March 31, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Fenek Solère, France, French literature, Je Suis Partout, North American New Right, originals, Robert Brasillach, Vichy France | 5 Responses

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The Man of the Twentieth Century:
Remembering Ernst Jünger,
March 29, 1895–February 17, 1998

John Morgan

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Hungarian translation here; Czech translation here

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The Power of Myth: Remembering Joseph Campbell, March 26, 1904–October 30, 1987

John Morgan

Joseph Campbell & his wife, Jean Erdman Campbell, c. 1939.

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Joseph Campbell, the famed teacher of comparative mythology, was born on this day in 1904. For many people, including yours truly, he has served as a “gateway drug” into not only a new way of looking at myths, but into a non-materialistic way of viewing the world. And although as a public figure, Campbell mostly remained apolitical, evidence from his private life indicates that he was at least nominally a “man of the Right.” Read more …

Published: March 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-Semitism, articles, C. G. Jung, comparative mythology, John Morgan, Joseph Campbell, mythology, North American New Right, reprints | 11 Responses

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Remembering Genesis P-Orridge
(February 22nd, 1950 — March 14, 2020)

Scott Weisswald

Throbbing Gristle. From left: Sleazy, Genesis, Cosey, and Chris.

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Visual artist, composer, singer, DJ, and general architect of chaos Genesis P-Orridge passed away on March 14, 2020. The Dissident Right shares a surprising amount of common ground with the counterculture icon — and owes some of its aesthetics and methods to them [1] as well.

Born February 22nd, 1950 in Manchester, Neil Andrew Megson adopted the name Genesis P-Orridge — a woo-ish corruption of the word “porridge” — while living in London. Read more …