Tag Archives: F. Roger Devlin

Family Systems & History

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Emmanuel Todd
Lineages of Modernity: A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus
Cambridge, England, and Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2019

Much of today’s dominant globalist ideology derives from development theory, a body of thought which shares with Marxism the view that economic relations are the basis of social life and sees the races of mankind as fundamentally equivalent beneath the superficial cultural differences which have arisen over history. Read more …

Published: July 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authoritarianism, book reviews, capitalism, Catholicism, demographics, economics, education, Emmanuel Todd, essays, family, family dynamics, hierarchy, higher education, history, identity, individualism, industrialization, language, Lineages of Modernity, literacy, memory of places, modernity, monogamy, nationalism, North American New Right, patriarchy, Protestantism, religion, secularism, secularization, stem families, the nuclear family, tradition | 3 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 277
Counter-Currents Birthday Livestream, June 11, 2020

Counter-Currents Radio

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On Thursday, June 11, 2020, Greg Johnson celebrated Counter-Currents’ 10th birthday with a three-hour livestream. This is the recording. Guests include:

Kevin MacDonald
Jim Goad
Sam Dickson
Mark Weber

Virtue Signaling as Mate Signaling

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Geoffrey Miller
Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics and Free Speech
Cambrian Moon, 2019

Geoffrey Miller is an American evolutionary psychologist with a position at the University of New Mexico. His most important book so far remains his first, The Mating Mind (2000), a study of sexual selection. Read more …

Published: May 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Darwinism, free speech, Geoffrey Miller, North American New Right, originals, sexual selection, virtue signaling | 4 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 275
F. Roger Devlin on the White Death:
Case & Deaton’s Deaths of Despair

Counter-Currents Radio

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Greg Johnson talks to F. Roger Devlin about Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (Princeton University Press, 2020) by two Princeton economists: Anne Case and her husband, Nobel laureate Angus Deaton. Case and Deaton discovered the alarming rise of mortality among working and middle-class whites since 1999. Read more …

Published: May 22, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged alcohol, Deaths of Despair, drugs, globalization, interviews, non-white immigration, podcasts, suicide, white dispossession | 3 Responses

Stephen Baskerville’s The New Politics of Sex

Morris V. de Camp

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Stephen Baskerville
The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, & the Growth of Governmental Power
Kettering, Ohio: Angelico Press, 2017

Shortly after I graduated from high school, a young woman of my acquaintance fell pregnant. This was a scandal, of course, but the more alarming part of the situation was the fact that the father of the baby acknowledged paternity but refused to marry. Read more …

Published: April 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, biological sex differences, book reviews, divorce, feminism, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, sexual revolution | 17 Responses

The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Race & Racial Differences

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Race has been discussed to the point of weariness, yet most discussion consists of little more than wishful thinking, contradiction, and outright malice: “All the races are equal, but whites oppress everyone else. Then again, race doesn’t really exist, which is why we must strive for greater racial diversity.” It is understandable that many people are at once confused by, and sick of, the entire subject—especially white people, the targets of so much blame and hostility. Read more …

Published: December 27, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, biological race differences, creativity, crime, ethnocentrism, intelligence, North American New Right, originals | 32 Responses

The Sexes:
Complementary, Not “Equal”

Peter Paul Rubens, Venus and Mars, between 1632 and 1635

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A key component of the ideology currently dominant in the West is the “equality” of the sexes and the consequent struggle to eliminate “discrimination” between them. If this doctrine seems plausible to many people, it is because it appeals to the basic principle of fairness that like cases ought to be treated alike. If women are no different from men, it cannot be fair to treat them differently. Read more …

Published: December 22, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, biologial sex differences, feminism, North American New Right, parenting, reprints | 21 Responses

The Roots of Liberalism’s Contemporary Crisis

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Patrick J. Deneen
Why Liberalism Failed
New Haven, Ct./New York: Yale University Press, 2018

Patrick Deneen, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, wrote the present study in 2016, completing it shortly before Donald Trump’s election. In February 2019, a paperbound edition with a few revisions and a new Preface was published.

Remembering Louis de Bonald:
October 2, 1754–November 23, 1840

Greg Johnson

Louis de Bonald

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Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald, is one of the great French counter-Revolutionary conservative thinkers. For an overview of his life, see “Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald,” here at Counter-Currents.

F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right: Read more …

Published: October 2, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, commemorations, conservatism, Greg Johnson, Louis de Bonald, North American New Right, originals, the French Revolution | Leave a comment

Race & Psychopathic Personality

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Richard Lynn
Race Differences in Psychopathic Personality: An Evolutionary Analysis
Augusta, Ga.: Washington Summit Publishers, 2019

Herrnstein and Murray’s The Bell Curve (1994) demonstrated that racial differences in rates of social pathology in the United States – including crime, poverty, long-term unemployment, out of wedlock births, and welfare dependency – can in part be explained by differences in average intelligence. Read more …

Published: September 20, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, evolutionary psychology, North American New Right, originals, psychology, psychopathy, racial differences, Richard Lynn | 9 Responses

Blake Nelson’s The Red Pill

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Blake Nelson
The Red Pill: A Novel
Bombardier Books, 2019

This is a novel about a divorced man in his early 40s learning to navigate the contemporary dating scene. Martin Harris grew up in Portland, Oregon, went east for college and worked for an advertising agency in New York for ten years. Read more …

Published: June 18, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Blake Nelson, book reviews, North American New Right, originals, race realism, the manosphere, the red pill | 23 Responses

An Alt-Right Constitution?

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John E. Finn
Fracturing the Founding: How the Alt-Right Corrupts the Constitution
Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019

The first thing to understand about this polemical work is that it has very little to do with the Alt Right. As readers of this site are aware, the core of the authentic Alt Right is white racial advocacy unencumbered by taboos against the discussion of human differences or Jewish influence; Read more …

Published: April 16, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, constitutional law, constitutionalism, North American New Right, originals, the alt right | 5 Responses

Trump vs. the Tyranny of Experts

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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, democracy, Donald Trump, elitism, globalization, liberalism, managerialism, North American New Right, originals, populism | 3 Responses

Le Peuple, C’est Moi

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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, democracy, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, populism | 5 Responses

A Globalist Struggles to Explain the Failure of Globalism

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Ian Bremmer
Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism
Portfolio/Penguin, 2018

Glancing through the blurbs on the back of Ian Bremmer’s new bestseller, one finds the Secretary-General of the UN, a managing director of the IMF, a co-chairman of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the President of the International Rescue Committee, and Larry Summers: not a lineup one would expect to find endorsing a bold challenge to conventional thinking. Read more …

Published: December 11, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, globalization, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, populism | 4 Responses

A Mainstream Primer on Populism

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John B. Judis
The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
New York: Columbia Global Reports, 2016

Following the collapse of the Warsaw Pact in 1989 and, two years later, of the Soviet Union itself, there was a widespread sense in the West that the free market had conclusively vindicated itself Read more …

Published: December 4, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, fascism, North American New Right, originals, populism | 3 Responses

Remembering Louis de Bonald:
October 2, 1754–November 23, 1840

Greg Johnson

Louis de Bonald

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F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right: Read more …

Published: October 2, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, commemorations, conservatism, Greg Johnson, Louis de Bonald, North American New Right, originals, the French Revolution | 1 Response

Video of the Day
Why Conservatives Conserve Nothing

Greg Johnson

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Published: June 30, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservatism, cuckservatives, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, Republicans, video of the day, videos | 4 Responses

A Man Out of Season:
Ludovici’s The Confessions of an Anti-Feminist

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Anthony M. Ludovici
The Confessions of an Anti-Feminist: The Autobiography of Anthony M. Ludovici
Edited by John V. Day
San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing, 2018

Anthony Mario Ludovici (1882–1971), anti-feminist, novelist, translator and interpreter of Nietzsche, art critic, defender of aristocracy and critic of democracy, Read more …

Published: June 26, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anthony M. Ludovici, book reviews, Confessions of an Anti-Feminist, feminism, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

Learning from Auschwitz

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Translated from Finis Germania by F. Roger Devlin

What does the teaching of Auschwitz actually consist of? That man, when he finds the opportunity, is capable of the worst? If anyone needs Auschwitz to learn this, let him learn it from Auschwitz. Or that in technological modernity modern technology can be used for mass murder? Read more …

Published: May 14, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, German guilt, multiculturalism, North American New Right, Rolf Peter Sieferle, the holocaust, translations | 4 Responses

The New Official Religion

The Holocaust memorial in Berlin.

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Translated from Finis Germania by F. Roger Devlin

At regular intervals, the practiced television viewer can watch a presentation that runs approximately as follows: The Federal President delivers a historical sermon before the assembled parliamentarians in which he conjures up the spirits of the undead and announces a truth which everybody knows and all believe in. Read more …

Published: May 11, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged German guilt, Germany, North American New Right, originals, Rolf Peter Sieferle, the holocaust, translations | 3 Responses

The Eternal Nazi

Charles Krafft, The Cross Wasn’t Heavy

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Translated from Finis Germania by F. Roger Devlin

There are still myths and there are still taboos. Nudity and sexual practices of all sorts are no longer among them, any more than good old-fashioned blasphemy. The Christian God, for example, can be abused at pleasure without the slightest consequences. One taboo, however, remains immoveable: anti-Semitism. Read more …

Published: May 9, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, German guilt, Germany, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Rolf Peter Sieferle, the holocaust, the Jewish question, translations | 6 Responses

A Report from Germany
Rolf Peter Sieferle:
The Man & the Scandal

Rolf Peter Sieferle

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Rolf Peter Sieferle (1949–2016) was a German historical scholar whose posthumously published book Finis Germania set off a moral panic in the summer of 2017.

A member of the generation of ’68, he was a radical in his youth, writing his doctoral dissertation on the Marxian concept of revolution. He became a trailblazer in the field of environmental history, Read more …

Published: May 8, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Germany, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Rolf Peter Sieferle | 6 Responses

Excerpts from Finis Germania

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Translated by F. Roger Devlin

Translator’s Note:

Finis Germania is a very different book from the carefully referenced scholarly works which established Sieferle’s academic reputation. It is a collection of brief personal meditations on what the Germans call Vergangenheitsbewältigung: “overcoming (or coping with) the past,” Read more …

Published: May 8, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, German guilt, Germany, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Rolf Peter Sieferle, the holocaust, translations | 6 Responses

Toward the New Mainstream

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Editor’s Note:

This is the text of F. Roger Devlin’s talk delivered at the third meeting of the Scandza Forum in Stockholm on April 7, 2018 and at the first Awakening Conference in Helsinki on April 8, 2018.

We supporters of the nationalist cause are the spokesmen for certain largely suppressed truths about human nature: Read more …

Published: April 20, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Awakening Conference, mainstreaming, North American New Right, originals, Scandza Forum, white nationalism | 6 Responses

The Scandza Forum, April 7, 2018

Garrett Deasy

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On Saturday, April 7th, I attended the third Scandza Forum in Stockholm, Sweden. This was my third Scandza Forum, and fourth visit to Sweden. The theme of this conference was “normalizing nationalism.”

I had a while before the first speech to talk with other attendees, and during this time I grabbed a couple of notepads and a pen. I met familiar faces, including a few friends, and was impressed as usual by the quality of the Swedish nationalists. Read more …

Published: April 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Garrett Deasy, Greg Johnson, Jared Taylor, Millennial Woes, North American New Right, originals, Patrick Casey, Scandza Forum, The Golden One | 5 Responses

Jared Taylor, Greg Johnson, F. Roger Devlin, Millennial Woes, & Marcus Follin to Speak at the Scandza Forum, Stockholm, April 7th

Counter Currents

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The next Scandza Forum is just around the corner: on Saturday, April 7th, in Stockholm. We have an outstanding lineup of speakers.

Jared Taylor, editor of American Renaissance, author five books, including White Identity and If We Do Nothing, and the dean of white advocacy in America, Read more …

Published: March 26, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Frodi Midjord, Greg Johnson, Jared Taylor, Millennial Woes, news items, Scandza Forum, The Golden One | 3 Responses

Listen to “Me ne frego – episode 9 with Roger Devlin on the Woman Question” on Spreaker.

New Podcast
F. Roger Devlin on the Woman Question

Me ne frego

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The first hour of the new episode of Me ne frego is F. Roger Devlin on the Woman Question in light of the recent anti-woman campaign on the “Alt Right.” The last half-hour is in Swedish. You can listen here:

Published: December 13, 2017 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged feminism, Frodi Midjord, Me ne frego, misogyny, podcasts, the woman question | 21 Responses

The Epic of Human Evolution:
Johannes V. Jensen’s The Long Journey