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Mike Duncan
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
New York: Public Affairs, 2017

If the United States is anywhere on the Roman timeline, it must be somewhere between the great wars of conquest and the rise of the Caesars. Read more …

Published: January 19, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-white media, anti-white rhetoric, articles, Black Lives Matter, Blacks in America, book reviews, Capitol occupation, conservatism, demagoguery, Donald Trump, empire, Gaius Gracchus, Gaius Marius, history, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, mainstream media, Mike Duncan, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, optimates, originals, populares, populism, Roman Republic, Rome, the Social Wars, The Storm Before the Storm, Tiberius Gracchus, white dispossession | Leave a comment

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America First: 1939–1941

Morris V. de Camp

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Lynne Olson
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight over World War II, 1939–1941
New York: Random House, 2013

The idea of America First policy is back after a long hiatus. The first proponent for such a policy was none other than George Washington. Read more …

Published: January 7, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, America first, articles, book reviews, Charles Lindbergh, culture, Foreign Policy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, futurism, history, interventionism, isolationism, Lynne Olson, metapolitics, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, propaganda, Robert E. Sherwin, Second World War, the Jewish question, Those Angry Days, WASPs, Winston Churchill, Yankees | 6 Responses

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Five Minutes with the Average Voter

Jim Goad

Phil Eiger Newmann, The Arena, 2020.

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Any belief, no matter how desperately well-intentioned, in the efficacy and wisdom of democracy depends on the fundamentally flawed notion that the average voter is anything loftier than an easily frightened and brainwashed lab rat. Read more …

Published: December 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Craigslist, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Jim Goad, Left vs. Right, memes, North American New Right, originals, polarization, rhetoric, the political | 23 Responses

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The Only Honest Person in the Room

Spencer J. Quinn

Donald Trump and Linda Lee Tarver

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During the ongoing proceedings stemming from the fraudulent 2020 US presidential election, most of the actors involved have eschewed the topic of race. This is both good and bad. It’s good because if one side avers that race has been a decisive factor in this controversy, the other side would go ballistic and distract from the cases President Trump and his allies are bringing before the courts, the legislatures, and the American public. Read more …

Published: December 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 presidential election, anti-white racism, articles, black criminality, Blacks in America, civic nationalism, Democrats, North American New Right, originals, race realism, Republicans, Spencer J. Quinn, the franchise, voter fraud | 8 Responses

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He Can Only Lose If It’s Stolen

Robert Hampton

Trump rallies supporters in Rome, GA. Michael Tracey.

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The election is finally upon us. The mainstream media repeatedly tells us it will be a landslide for Joe Biden. The MAGAsphere insists it will be a red wave.

It’s very likely the blowout predictions will be wrong and a close election will be the result. Read more …

Published: November 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, 2020 presidential election, articles, demographics, Donald Trump, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, voter fraud, white dispossession | 6 Responses

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The Final Straw

Fullmoon Ancestry

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While traveling the past few weeks, I kept thinking about the upcoming 2020 US presidential election. More precisely, I kept wondering whether this election would be the final straw that breaks the camel’s back. Read more …

Published: November 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 presidential election, articles, Edmund Burke, empire, France, Fullmoon Ancestry, North American New Right, originals, prejudice, revolution, tradition | 3 Responses

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Building Coalitions

Beau Albrecht

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The demographics problem is a growing threat, perhaps the greatest one facing Western civilization. Minorities have been bloc voting for ages, of course. The problem is that when whites finally muster the political will to stand together and take our own side, we might be less than half the population by then. In an electoral system, Read more …

Published: September 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Indians, articles, Asians in America, Beau Albrecht, Blacks in America, coalitions, cultural Marxism, intersectionality, Jews in America, liberalism, minority coalitions, Muslims, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, whites as a minority | 30 Responses

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Notes on Populism

Greg Johnson

Norman Rockwell, Study for “Freedom of Speech”

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Populism seeks to rescue popular government from corrupt elites. Naturally, the elites strike back. The most common accusation from elite commentators is that populism is “anti-democratic.” As Yascha Mounk frames it, populism is “the people vs. democracy.” I argue that populism is not anti-democratic, but it is anti-liberal. (See Donald Thoresen’s review of Mounk’s The People vs. Democracy here.)

Many critics of populism accuse it of being a form of white identity politics, Read more …

Published: August 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, elitism, Greg Johnson, identity politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, populism | 6 Responses

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Chinese Handcuffs

John Wilkinson

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Imagine, if you will, the perfect system of torture and restraint. A device so effective that the more forcefully you resist it, the tighter it grips you, and the more hopeless your chance of escape. Such a contraption does in fact exist. You might recognize it as the anodyne but frustrating toy called “Chinese handcuffs.” Read more …

Published: July 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, 2020 presidential election, articles, Black Lives Matter, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, John Wilkinson, liberalism, North American New Right, originals | 15 Responses

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Notes on Schmitt’s Crisis & Ours

Greg Johnson

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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Like many of his books, Carl Schmitt’s The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (1923) is a slender volume packed with explosive ideas.[1] The title of the English translation is somewhat misleading. The German title, Die geistesgeschichtliche Lage des heutigen Parlamentarismus, is more literally rendered The Intellectual-Historical Position of Contemporary Parliamentarism. But the word “crisis” is still appropriate, because parliamentary democracy in Weimar Germany really was in crisis. Read more …

Published: July 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, articles, Carl Schmitt, fascism, Georges Sorel, Greg Johnson, Juan Donoso Cortés, liberalism, Marxism, Mikhail Bakunin, myth, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, political philosophy, syndicalism, violence, vitalism | 8 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 280
Carl Schmitt’s The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy

Counter-Currents Radio

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On the Counter-Currents Radio fundraiser livestream for July 5th, Greg Johnson and Nicholas Jeelvy discuss Carl Schmitt’s 1923 book The Crisis of Liberal Democracy and the light it throws on the crisis of liberal democracy in the white world today. We also answer questions from listeners. Read more …

Published: July 9, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged anarchism, Carl Schmitt, Counter-Currents Radio, Georges Sorel, Greg Johnson, Juan Donoso Cortés, liberalism, Marxism, myth, nationalism, Nicholas Jeelvy, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, podcasts, syndicalism, violence, vitalism | 3 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 265
Thank You, Corona Chan

Counter-Currents Radio

141 words / 72:56

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Greg Johnson and Fróði Midjord talk about how the coronavirus outbreak has revealed the intellectual bankruptcy, corruption, and incompetence of the current system and how it creates an opening for sensible nationalist policies.

Published: March 20, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged capitalism, conservatism, coronavirus, Counter-Currents Radio, Frodi Midjord, globalization, Globalvirus, Greg Johnson, liberalism, podcasts | 15 Responses

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How Coronavirus Will Change the World

Greg Johnson

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Coronavirus is going to change the world. I just hope that I live to see it, along with the people I care about.

I call the Coronavirus the “Globalvirus,” because globalism is the underlying condition that made it all possible.

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Democracy Dies in Darkness

Giles Corey

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The Democratic Party is profoundly stupid.

The unholy alliance of neoliberal oligarchs and neoconservative Jews that constitute the American ruling class, armed with the cudgel of POC puppets (or as Tucker Carlson referred to them, “a constellation of aggrieved interest groups Read more …

Published: March 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 Democratic primaries, 2020 presidential election, articles, demographics, Donald Trump, Giles Corey, Joe Biden, North American New Right, originals | 18 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 243
Mass Shootings, Censorship, & Gun Control

Counter-Currents Radio

215 words / 69:47

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Greg Johnson, John Morgan, and Frodi reconvene our roundtable to discuss the recent massacres in El Paso, Texas, Dayton, Ohio, and Gilroy, California and the establishment’s differing reactions to them. Read more …

Published: August 9, 2019 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged censorship, Counter-Currents Radio, deplatforming, gun control, gun rights, non-white immigration, Patrick Crusius, podcasts, terrorism | 7 Responses

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Letter from the Third Reich

Emil Cioran

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Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: This article is translated from the French version in Emil Cioran, Apologie de la Barbarie: Berlin – Bucharest (1932-1941) (Paris: L’Herne, 2015), pp. 67-71. Read more …

Published: April 24, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Emil Cioran, French translations, Germany, Guillaume Durocher, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, Third Reich, vitalism | 7 Responses

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Why the People Can’t Be Trusted

Donald Thoresen

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Yascha Mounk
The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom is in Danger & How to Save It
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018

The Donald Trump presidency will be fascinating for future students of Jewish power and the integral role Jewish academics play in its maintenance. Read more …

Published: April 15, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Donald Thoresen, free speech, Jews in America, North American New Right, originals, populism, white identity politics | 9 Responses

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Trump vs. the Tyranny of Experts

F. Roger Devlin

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Salvatore Babones
The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts
Medford, Mass.: Polity Press, 2018

Savatore Babones is an America academic with an appointment in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. Unusually for someone in such a position, he has a few good things to say about Donald Trump—or at least about the fact of his election. Read more …

Published: January 16, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Donald Trump, elitism, F. Roger Devlin, globalization, liberalism, managerialism, North American New Right, originals, populism | 3 Responses

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What Populism Isn’t

Greg Johnson

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Jan-Werner Müller
What is Populism?
Penguin, 2017

When a political establishment feels threatened by a growing force like National Populism, Plan A is to defend the establishment and attack its opponents by dispatching middle-brow journalists to sneer and jeer and middle-brow political hacks to construct partisan talking points. Read more …

Published: December 28, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Carl Schmitt, Greg Johnson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, liberalism, National Populism, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, populism | 10 Responses

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Beyond the Alt Right
Toward a New Nationalism

Greg Johnson

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The Alt Right is dead. But the Alt Right was so useful—and so much fun—that we need to create a replacement for it, the sooner the better. Read more …

Published: December 21, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alt-Right, articles, elitism, fascism, globalization, Greg Johnson, Matthew Goodwin, metapolitics, National Populism, North American New Right, originals, populism, Roger Eatwell, the Alternative Right, white nationalism, yellow vests | 40 Responses

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Le Peuple, C’est Moi

F. Roger Devlin

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Jan-Werner Müller
What Is Populism?
Penguin, 2017

Jan-Werner Müller, a native of Germany, is Professor of Politics at Princeton University and the author of several previous books. The present study of populism was published in 2016 by the University of Pennsylvania Press and quickly reprinted in a popular paperback format by Penguin Books in the UK Read more …

Published: December 18, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, F. Roger Devlin, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, populism | 5 Responses

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1848–1948: Years of Decision

Francis Parker Yockey

Sir Oswald Mosley, 1949

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Earlier this year, Counter-Currents put out a request for the text of the following essay, given that the original copy which we had was incomplete due to having been partially eaten by rats. Fortunately, we were able to locate the complete text, and it is reproduced below, as it will be in our upcoming Yockey anthology, The World in Flames. The Preface is by Dr. Kerry Bolton. — John Morgan

Published: October 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Communism, Francis Parker Yockey, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right, originals, Sir Oswald Mosley, The World in Flames, Union Movement | 4 Responses

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Brotherhood

Francis Parker Yockey

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Of the many long-lost texts by Francis Parker Yockey that will be included in our upcoming anthology of Yockey’s shorter writings, The World in Flames, one is a four-part essay entitled “Brotherhood.” Kerry Bolton and I had to search far and wide to find a complete copy of the text, as we announced during our search earlier this year, but find it we finally did, and we offer it here as a prelude to our patient readers who have been awaiting the finalized volume. The Preface is by Dr. Bolton. — John Morgan Read more …

Published: September 28, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Communism, constitutionalism, Francis Parker Yockey, Jews, Jews in America, Joseph Stalin, liberalism, National Renaissance Party, North American New Right, originals, the US Constitution, universalism | 1 Response

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Démocrature:
Nazi Concept Welcomed into French Language

Guillaume Durocher

686 words

It’s that time of year. The French dictionaries Le Petit Larousse and Le Petit Robert (don’t ask me why they are called “petit,” they are huge) are adding various neologisms and foreign loanwords to our beloved langue de Céline.

My interest was particularly piqued by the following new entry: Read more …

Published: July 6, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Guillaume Durocher, illiberal democracy, liberal democracy, North American New Right, originals, populism | 6 Responses

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Fašistický sen, část 2

Maurice Bardèche

Arno Breker – Fackelträger (1940)

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Druhý díl ze třídílné minisérie, první část naleznete zde, závěrečnou třetí tady.

Fašismus v protikladu k tomu demokratickému předkládá svůj vlastní alternativní obraz člověka i pojetí svobody, od onoho velebeného demokratického velice odlišné.

Demokracie svobodu nijak neomezuje, snad kromě zákazu škodit ostatním. Read more …

Published: March 14, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, fascism, freedom, in Czech, liberalism, Maurice Bardèche, North American New Right, reprints, Second World War, translations, What is Fascism?, World War II | Leave a comment

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Interjú Greg Johnsonnal

Greg Johnson

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A szerkesztő megjegyzése:

Ha csak most ismerkedik a Counter-Currents internetes folyóirattal, kitűnő kiindulási pont az alábbi interjú, amelyet Laura Raim francia marxista újságíró készített Greg Johnsonnal. Read more …

Published: March 7, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged civic nationalism, Counter-Currents Radio, elitism, ethnic nationalism, Frank Herbert, G. W. F. Hegel, Georges Bataille, globalization, Greg Johnson, in Hungarian, interviews, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Laura Raim, metapolitics, National Socialism, Neo-Reaction, North American New Right, NRX, organicism, originals, Paleoconservatism, Paul Gottfried, Peter Sloterdijk, philosophy of culture, Plato, podcasts, populism, republicanism, Richard Spencer, the Alternative Right, the mixed regime, thumos, time preferences, white nationalism, William Pierce | Leave a comment

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Klást správné otázky aneb jak se vyhnout smrtícím nástrahám Trumpových polovičatých řešení

John Morgan

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Všichni jsme moc dobře věděli, že to ani nemůže být jinak: liberálové se v následujících čtyřech letech budou pohoršeně snažit zablokovat jakýkoliv krok prezidenta Trumpa, ať už bude ve skutečnosti seberozumnější či sebenepatrnější. Sledovat v příštích letech liberály, jak se rozhořčují nad novými a novými údajnými políčky lidské slušnosti, bude nepochybně nevyčerpatelným zdrojem pobavení. Read more …

Published: February 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged citizenship, Donald Trump, immigration, immigration ban, in Czech, John Morgan, North American New Right, reprints | Leave a comment

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Ethno-Statal Speculations

Guillaume Durocher

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Suffrage should be granted to married fathers and mothers with children, who are not social misfits. For these have shown responsibility, have rendered service to the community by perpetuating its lineage, and have a stake in its future.

Perhaps suffrage should be proportional to the number of children raised.