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Part 2 of 2. Part 1 here.

Partings II – Watts and The Church Today: Real Presence or Real Estate?

Watts was quite successful in his attempt to express the religio perennis in the language of Christian theology; not just in my opinion today, but among his Episcopal peers at the time (one bishop even called it “the most important book on religion in this century”[1]), Read more …

Published: January 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alan Watts, Anglicanism, articles, book reviews, Brideshead Revisited, Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, Frithjof Schuon, James O'Meara, mysticism, New Age, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of history, Protestantism, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism, Vedanta | 3 Responses

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Re-Kindling Alan Watts, Part One

James J. O'Meara

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Alan W. Watts
Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion
New York: Pantheon, 1947; reissued with a new Preface, 1971
Kindle, 2016

“For God is not niggardly in his self-revelation; he exposes himself right before our eyes.” — Alan Watts Read more …

Published: January 4, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alan Watts, Anglicanism, articles, book reviews, Brideshead Revisited, Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, Frithjof Schuon, James O'Meara, mysticism, New Age, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of history, Protestantism, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism, Vedanta | 10 Responses

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Masterpieces of Aryan Literature 4
Evelyn Waugh’s Black Mischief

Quintilian

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Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) is probably best known today for Brideshead Revisited, his 1945 novel of fin-de-siècle longing and Catholic apologetics that has received both television and cinematic adaptations. He made his fame in the 1930s, however, by penning some of the most biting, satirical novels of the British upper class and its various hangers-on. Waugh was brutally honest about the inferiority of the Negro race and its incompatibility with Western civilization. Read more …

Published: November 21, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Africa, book reviews, colonialism, Masterpieces of Aryan Literature, North American New Right, originals, Quintilian, satire | 3 Responses

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The Enigma of Whittaker Chambers

Margot Metroland

Whittaker Chambers, underground man.

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(Written in the style, if not quite the spirit, of senior TIMEditor Chambers’ weekly newsmagazine.)

Rumpled, paunchy Whittaker Chambers (April 1, 1901-July 9, 1961) has long merited haughty sneers and raised eyebrows on America’s nationalist Right. Reasons: his shifting ideologies, his inscrutable motives.

Among the most compelling critiques of Chambers we may count those of Classics professor Revilo P. Oliver. Read more …

Published: April 4, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Arnold Toynbee, Ayn Rand, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Joseph Stalin, Margot Metroland, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, Time magazine, Whittaker Chambers | 9 Responses

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Henry Williamson, George Orwell, & the Pigs

Margot Metroland

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Henry Williamson

Today is the birthday of Henry Williamson (Dec. 1, 1895 – Aug. 13, 1977)—ruralist author, war historian, journalist, farmer, and visionary of British fascism.

Two rather incongruous points of Williamson’s life stand out. One is that he achieved fame with what is usually regarded as a children’s book, Tarka the Otter (originally published 1927, with a movie version in 1979).

The other is that he was a friend of Lawrence of Arabia; and that it was on his way back from posting a letter to Williamson that T. E. Lawrence was mysteriously killed in a motorcycle accident. Read more …

Published: December 1, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged animals, articles, commemorations, fascism, George Orwell, Henry Williamson, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, Sir Oswald Mosley | 2 Responses

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The Loved One

Trevor Lynch

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The Loved One (1965) is my all-time favorite comedy. Based on a 1948 novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One stands alongside Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood (the book and the movie) as a savagely on-target, dark comic satire on American Protestant civilization.

Both Waugh and O’Connor, of course, were Catholic. Read more …

Published: January 16, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America, Catholicism, Flannery O'Connor, Hollywood, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Protestantism, religion, satire, Trevor Lynch | 5 Responses

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Kenya Obama & the Temple of Dumb:
Election Day Reflections on Ignatius Reilly, Heinrich Himmler, & the Need for Roots

James J. O'Meara

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“So check it out, and next time you go cruising down the street, take a look around. We are Franklin Franklin.” — Jeff Frankas

After reading Jeff Frankas’ excellent review of Small Apartments[1] I did what I usually do in such circumstances–head over to Amazon to see if there are any used copies in the $0.25 range (my current book budget). Once there, I discovered that it has already been made into a movie, a veritable “underground hit” with big stars like . . . Billy Crystal. Read more …