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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, book reviews, capitalism, 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

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

Quintilian

1,023 words

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

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Notre Dame des Fascistes,
Part II: Special Friendships

James J. O'Meara

4,241 words

Part 1

Other than living near types like Faÿ, Toklas, and the guys, Stein had “indirect ties, notably through her close friendship with a French personalist philosopher named Henri Daniel-Rops.” Read more …

Published: August 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Archeofuturism, articles, Bernard Faÿ, book reviews, France, Freemasonry, Gertrude Stein, Henri Daniel-Rops, homosexuality, James J. O'Meara, Marcel Lefebvre, modernism, North American New Right, originals, post-war Europe, the Catholic church, Traditionalism, utopianism, Vichy France | 1 Response

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Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness

Alex Graham

1,534 words

H. P. Lovecraft’s novella At the Mountains of Madness, serialized in Astounding in 1936, is one of his greatest works. The tale recounts an expedition to Antarctica in 1930 in which scholars from Miskatonic University stumble upon the ruins of a lost city. Read more …

Published: August 20, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, articles, book reviews, H. P. Lovecraft, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, science fiction, weird fiction, white dispossession | 8 Responses

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Cabaret

Trevor Lynch

The Polish poster for the film

1,886 words

Bob Fosse’s 1972 film Cabaret is supposed to be propaganda for Weimar decadence and against Nazi brutality. But the film utterly fails as propaganda insofar as it changes no minds. In fact, Cabaret is more akin to a diagnostic tool—like inkblot tests or gestalt images—for distinguishing between fundamentally different human types: people who love beauty versus people who love ugliness, people who love order versus people who love chaos, people who love health versus people who love decadence. Read more …

Published: July 3, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, North American New Right, originals, Trevor Lynch, Weimar Republic | 12 Responses

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There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be Alive
The Ultimate White Pill

Jef Costello

4,356 words

My friends on the Right bemoan the fact that we’re not living in Leave It To Beaver. They play the “what era would you like to live in?” game, picking any time other than this one. Because this is the End Time, you see; the Kali Yuga, the Wolf Age. Hell, yes! It is all those things and more. But I, for one, feel privileged to live in Dystopia. Truly, there has never been a better time to be alive. Read more …

Published: June 7, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cultural renewal, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jef Costello, living well, North American New Right, originals, the left, the liberal mind, white activism | 32 Responses

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The Greatness & Decay of France

Emil Cioran

The French signing the armistice with the Germans at Compiègne on June 22, 1940.

3,210 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: The following extracts are drawn from Emil Cioran, De la France (Paris: L’Herne, 2015). The original was written in Romanian in 1941. The title is editorial.

Published: February 13, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Emil Cioran, France, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals | 6 Responses

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Cioran on Civilization & Decadence

Emil Cioran

Sébastien Bourdon, The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

833 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: The following extracts are drawn from Emil Cioran, De la France (Paris: L’Herne, 2015). The original was written in Romanian in 1941.

Countries – unfortunately – exist. Each one crystallizes a sum of errors called values, which it cultivates and combines, and which it circulates and gives currency towards. Their totality constitutes the individuality of each country and its implicit pride – but also its tyranny, because it weighs unconsciously on the individual. Read more …

Published: February 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Emil Cioran, French translations, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals | 4 Responses

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Cioran’s On France: Thriving Amidst Decay

Guillaume Durocher

2,942 words

Emil Cioran
De la France
Paris: L’Herne, 2015

This is a strange, vile little book as only Emil Cioran knew how to produce. It was only recently published, in both the original Romanian and in French translation,[1] having been written in 1941 and left to languish for decades in some cardboard box in the Cioran archives. Read more …

Published: February 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Emil Cioran, France, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, pessimism, vitalism | 6 Responses

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Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto

Alex Graham

1,130 words

Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto is set in present-day Los Tuxtlas, Mexico in the year 1511 and depicts the final days of Maya civilization through the eyes of a man named Jaguar Paw. The main theme of the film is summarized by the Will Durant quote displayed at the beginning: “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it destroys itself from within.”

Apocalypto is hard to find: Read more …

Published: October 11, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, cyclical history, Mel Gibson, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals | 9 Responses

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Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe

Donald Thoresen

10,216 words

Douglas Murray
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
New York: Bloomsbury, 2017

Many readers of Counter-Currents will be familiar with Douglas Murray, a white British conservative who has been an outspoken critic of European immigration policy for many years and who focuses primarily on the specific problems posed by Muslims. Read more …

Published: June 4, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Donald Thoresen, multiculturalism, non-white immigration, North American New Right, originals, the Muslim question, white dispossession, white guilt | Comments closed

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American Decadence:
A Response to James Traub

Garrett Deasy

1,980 words

When I was in high school and Obama had just been elected, there were various articles in our spheres complaining about the inherent flaws of democracy. Democracy was bad and always would be, because it enabled idiots to have equal power to the responsible and intelligent. Read more …

Published: January 8, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2016 US Presidential Election, articles, Donald Trump, Garrett Deasy, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

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Decline of the Western Male, Part 2

Martin Spengler

2,898 words

Part 2 of 2. Part 1 here

Transhumanism — The Final Showdown

The West, in its essence, is neither a human nor a natural society. The current debate – is gender real? – is not directed at finding truth but is instead a program of action – “we will make it so that there is no such thing as gender.” Masculinity and femininity, their polarity, will be abolished. Read more …

Published: October 20, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, civilization, equality, femininity, feminism, freedom, globalization, manliness, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, subjectivism, technology, transhumanism | 6 Responses

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Decline of the Western Male, Part 1

Martin Spengler

3,060 words

Part 1 of 2

Martin Heidegger, Oswald Spengler – “Martin Spengler” – these two 20th-century thinkers provide the main source of inspiration behind this project. Both sought to understand the times we live in, and to bring into view the deeper historical and philosophical significance underlying many of the political, economic, social, and cultural issues before us today. Read more …

Published: October 19, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, civilization, equality, femininity, freedom, manliness, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, subjectivism, technology | 10 Responses

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Postmodernism vs. Identity, Part 2
Identity vs. Irony

Greg Johnson

2,920 words

Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here; Hungarian translation here)

Author’s Note:

The following text is the basis of a talk that I gave to the Scandza Forum in Oslo on July 1, 2017. Because time was short, however, I dispensed with the written text and spoke extemporaneously on the topic. I also gave an earlier, stand-alone version of this section on irony as a talk in Budapest on June 21, 2017

Published: August 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, identity, irony, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism, self-consciousness | 3 Responses

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Postmodernism vs. Identity

Greg Johnson

1,482 words

Part 1 of 2; Hungarian translation here

Author’s Note:

Published: August 11, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, eclecticism, Greg Johnson, identity, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism | 4 Responses

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There Is Nothing the Alt Right Can Do about the Effeminacy of White Men

Ricardo Duchesne

Cato the Elder: The Face of Rising Rome

2,617 words

Some white men are identifying with the Alt Right as they realize that the goals and norms celebrated by our social order are underpinned by multiple deceptions, suppression of debate, anti-scientific notions about human equality, and unjust opposition to white identity Read more …

Published: April 4, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alt-Right, British Empire, Council of European Canadians, degeneration, feminism, liberalism, masculinity, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Roman Empire | 15 Responses

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Pizzagate, Hegel, & Leonard Cohen:
Greg Johnson on Alex Fontana’s Fascist Pigs Podcast

Greg Johnson

48 words

I joined Alex Fontana’s Fascist Pigs Podcast to talk about Pizzagate, sexual liberation, social decadence, Nietzsche’s conservatism, Hegel on will and freedom, liberalism, Rogue One, film as an art form, and Leonard Cohen. Click here to listen. Read more …

Published: January 2, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Fontana, freedom, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, interviews, liberalism, philosophy, Pizzagate, podcasts, Rogue One, sexual liberation, will | 5 Responses

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Play “Misty” for Me, Beethoven

Christopher Balmont

404 words

The pure products of America do anal
as the spent end of what once was Europe
waits and wavers, wax on the stem of the Black Pope’s
candle, chalk ghost of the last Neanderthal
bloodline washed from its last daughter’s birth canal
as from a chalkboard or a warehouse floor.
Uterine father – wrist-deep, to the neck – where
do you look when the headlight fills the tunnel? Read more …

Published: December 31, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged North American New Right, originals, poems | 3 Responses

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Screening Pedophilia:
Egon Schiele: Tod und Mädchen

David Yorkshire

1,846 words

Austrian arthouse film Egon Schiele: Tod und Mädchen is perhaps most disappointing in that Egon Schiele led a very interesting life, yet the scriptwriter Hilde Berger and director Dieter Berner have succeeded in making it appear rather dull, in the same way as Mike Leigh served up a snore-fest about J. M. W. Turner a couple of years ago. Perhaps the two most interesting aspects of Schiele’s life, his trial for pedophilia and his experiences in the First World War, are completely glossed over Read more …

Published: December 19, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged David Yorkshire, miscegenation, modern art, movie reviews, painting, pedophilia, race-mixing | 2 Responses

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Make Cities Great Again

Martin Aurelio

Times Square, New York by Arthur Clifton Goodwin. Late 1800s.

Arthur Clifton Goodwin, Times Square, New York, late 1800s

1,384 words

James Traub’s history of Times Square in New York, The Devil’s Playground (Random House, 2007) provides – perhaps unintentionally – an excellent case study illustrative of when and how American cities went wrong.

In March of 1960, the New York Times ran a long front-page story under the headline ‘Life on 42nd St. A Study in Decay.’ Read more …

Published: November 18, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cultural renewal, Martin Aurelio, New York City, North American New Right, pornography, prostitution, reprints, urban life | 6 Responses

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Video of the Day
The Difficult Balancing Act Between Identity & Reflection

Greg Johnson

21 words / 8:31

Matthew Drake’s video for an excerpt from a Counter-Currents podcast. He created the title. Please share and like.

Source: https://youtu.be/PhcxWoIVWo8

Published: October 26, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Cicero, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, identity, irony, Matthew Drake, philosophy, reflection, video of the day, videos | 6 Responses

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Caesar Without Gods:
Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy

Christopher Pankhurst

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Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises) begins with the evocation of fear which becomes the motivational impulse for Bruce Wayne’s story. As a child he accidentally falls down a disused well, and, whilst he lies trapped and injured, he is terrified by a flock of bats that appear like a chthonic force of nature from the bowels of the earth. Read more …

Published: July 19, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Batman, C. G. Jung, caesarism, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Pankhurst, Dark Knight Trilogy, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, superheroes, the League of Shadows | 5 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast 159
Greg Johnson & Guillaume Durocher
Living as a Dissident

Counter-Currents Radio

1:00:45 / 181 words

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Greg Johnson and Guillaume Durocher talk about living as a dissident. Read more …

Published: May 6, 2016 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged alienation, alternative media, boomerang generation, Donald Trump, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, Guillaume Durocher, interviews, irony, living well, multiculturalism, neets, podcasts, postmodernism, white nationalism | 5 Responses

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Spengler:
The Numinous Genesis of Culture

Christopher Pankhurst

6,156 words

Oswald Spengler’s radical contribution to the philosophy of history was to observe that different Cultures and Civilizations are discrete life forms and that they all have a certain life-expectancy. The linear progression of history, from the Stone Age to the prevailing Western liberalism, is a myth. There is no single line of history running through all of humanity. Instead, Cultures are born, they grow to maturity, they age, and they die. Read more …

Published: March 29, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleister Crowley, articles, Christopher Pankhurst, cultural renewal, Current 93, Francis Parker Yockey, Genesis P-Orridge, Giacinto Scelsi, modern art, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, religion, the numinous, Theodor Adorno, Willis Carto | 3 Responses

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The Enjoyment of Vulgarity

Julius Evola

Max Ernst, "The Virgin Spanking the Christ Child before Three Witnesses: Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, and the Painter, 1926

Max Ernst, The Virgin Spanking the Christ Child before Three Witnesses: André Breton, Paul Eluard, and the Painter, 1926

3,285 words

Trans. G. A. Malvicini

One of the most indicative signs of the influence of the regressive processes that we have described in the preceding pages of this book [L’Arco e la Clava] with regard to customs and tastes, is the enjoyment of vulgarity, with its more or less subconscious undercurrent of pleasure taken in degradation and self-contamination. Related to it are the various expressions of a tendency towards deformation and a taste for the ugly and the base. A few observations with regard to this matter will perhaps not be devoid of interest.

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Tillbaka till Afrika:
Bakåtsträvande sexualvanor i det moderna Väst

F. Roger Devlin

3,623 words

English original here

Följande kapitel från boken Sexual Utopia in Power av F. Roger Devlin är en fullständig version av en artikel som publicerades i förkortad version i American Renaissance, volym 19, nummer 6, juni 2008.

I mitten av det ”glada tjugotalet”, medan Amerika upplevde en tid av fred och välstånd, utfärdade den framstående litteraturkritikern Irving Babbitt en olycksbådande varning: Read more …

Published: January 26, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Blacks, book excerpts, F. Roger Devlin, feminism, in Swedish, in translation, North American New Right, race-mixing, reprints, sexual revolution, sexuality | Leave a comment

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 139
Bowden on Islam:
The Manchester Speech

Jonathan Bowden

7,915 words

Editor’s Note:

This is the transcript by V. S. of Jonathan Bowden’s British National Party stump speech in Manchester on February 1, 2006. A few unintelligible words are marked ???. If you can understand what he is saying, or if you have corrections, please post them as comments below. The title is editorial.

Published: November 20, 2015 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged Bowden stump speeches, Counter-Currents Radio, Islam, Jonathan Bowden, podcasts, white nationalism | 7 Responses

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Negrified America

Julius Evola

3,171 words

Translated by G. A. Malvicini

Not long ago, the newspapers announced that according to some calculations, by 1970 half of the population of Manhattan will be black, and that in the five boroughs that make up the entire city of New York, 28 percent of the inhabitants will be of colored race. Developments in the same direction have been registered in other cities and areas of the United States. We are witnessing a negrification, a mongrelization, and a decline of the white race in the face of faster-breeding inferior races. Read more …

Published: October 28, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America, articles, Blacks in America, C. G. Jung, jazz, Julius Evola, materialism, North American New Right, reprints, the Beatniks, translations | 13 Responses

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The National Revolution of 1940

Dominique Venner

2,509 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note:

The following extracts are translated from Dominique Venner’s Histoire de la Collaboration (Paris: Gérard Watelet/Pygmalion, 2000), 103-12. Read more …