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All this anti-Masonry and TradCath stuff; there was something familiar with all this, until at some point I exclaimed again, “You’ve seen these films before, haven’t you, my man!” It’s Baron Evola’s doppelganger!

Although to be honest, it may have been Will herself who clued me in. Read more …

Published: August 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Archeofuturism, art, articles, Barbara Will, Bernard Faÿ, book reviews, Catholicism, Christianity, France, Freemasonry, Gertrude Stein, homosexuality, identity, James J. O'Meara, Jews in literature, Julius Evola, liberalism, modernism, North American New Right, originals, Traditionalism, Vichy France | 8 Responses

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Notre Dame des Fascistes,
Part I: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, & the Joy of Collaboration

James J. O'Meara

Gertrude Stein.

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Barbara Will
Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma (Gender and Culture Series)
New York City: Columbia University Press, 2011

The joy of the body, the most honorable and fecund joy of all, reign[s] in America.

— Bernard Faÿ Read more …

Published: August 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, anti-modernism, anti-Semitism, articles, Bernard Faÿ, book reviews, Catholicism, collaborationism, Gertrude Stein, homosexuality, James J. O'Meara, Jews in literature, language, literature, modernism, North American New Right, originals, postmodernism, revolution, the French Revolution, the Jewish question, Vichy France | 2 Responses

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Julius Evola:
The Philosopher & Magician in War: 1943-1945

Collin Cleary

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Gianfranco de Turris
Julius Evola: The Philosopher and Magician in War: 1943–1945
Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2020

This English translation of Gianfranco de Turris’s Julius Evola: Un filosofo in guerra 1943–1945 has come along at just the right time, for it shows us how a great man coped both with societal collapse and with personal tragedy. Read more …

Published: August 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, adversity, articles, Benito Mussolini, biographies, book reviews, Collin Cleary, Germany, Gianfranco de Turris, Julius Evola, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, post-occupational network, post-war Europe, Third Reich, Vienna, World War II | 8 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, democracy, 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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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 commemorations, Greg Johnson, Ireland, literature, North American New Right, poetry, W. B. Yeats | 1 Response

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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 commemorations, Greg Johnson, literature, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North American New Right, the Jewish question | Leave a comment

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The Last Words of Yukio Mishima to His Followers

Yukio Mishima

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Translated by Riki Rei.

To the members of Tatenokai [Shield Society]:

Among you there are both those who have stayed with us consistently since the founding of our organization and those of the fifth class who have been with us for only nine months. Yet as far as I’m concerned, regardless of the degrees of your involvement and experience, we are all comrades of a shared identity who have gone beyond the difference of ages Read more …

Published: March 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Japan, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Riki Rei, speeches, the 1970s, translations, Yukio Mishima | Leave a comment

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Remembering Gabriele D’Annunzio:
March 12, 1863–March 1, 1938

Greg Johnson

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Today is the birthday of Gabriele D’Annunzio, novelist, poet, playwright, aesthete, dandy, playboy, war hero, and the first fascist dictator, who from 1919 to 1920 ruled over the Adriatic city-state of Fiume, establishing many of the political and aesthetic forms followed by Mussolini a few years later.

To learn more about D’Annunzio’s life and accomplishments, see the following works on this site: Read more …

Published: March 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Greg Johnson, Italy, literature, North American New Right | Leave a comment

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Pinocchio: The Face of Fascism

Margot Metroland

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Extraordinary! There are three—maybe four—Pinocchio films now in development or newly released. They all promise to reveal dark, hitherto unexplored aspects of the famous marionette’s saga. One is a Robert Downey Jr. project that’s been hemming and hawing since about 2012. Initially Downey was planning to play both Geppetto and the title role. Now he’s older, so he’ll just play Geppetto. A new live-action Pinocchio premiered last month in Italy. Read more …

Published: January 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cartoons, children's literature, Disney, Guillermo del Toro, Italy, Margot Metroland, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals | 8 Responses

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Remembering Pierre Drieu La Rochelle:
January 3, 1893–March 15, 1945

Greg Johnson

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Pierre Drieu La Rochelle was born on this day in 1893. In commemoration, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this site:

Maurice Bardèche, “Bardèche’s Six Postulates of Fascist Socialism” (Ukrainian translation here)

Published: January 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, France, literature, North American New Right, originals, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle | Leave a comment

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Remembering Wyndham Lewis:
November 18, 1882–March 7, 1957

Greg Johnson

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Wyndham Lewis was born on this day in 1882. A first-rate novelist, critic, and painter, he was a leading English exponent of fascist modernism. In honor of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website:

Kerry Bolton, “Wyndham Lewis” (French translation here)
Jonathan Bowden, “Classical Modernism and the Art of the Radical Right”
Jonathan Bowden, “Elitism, British Modernism, and Wyndham Lewis” (transcript) Read more …

Published: November 18, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals, painting, Percy Wyndham Lewis | Leave a comment

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Remembering Roy Campbell:
October 2, 1901–April 22, 1957

Greg Johnson

Roy Campbell

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Roy Campbell was a South African poet and essayist. T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Edith Sitwell praised Campbell as one of the best poets of the inter-war period. Unfortunately, his conservatism, Nietzscheanism, and Catholicism, as well as his open contempt for the Bloomsbury set and his participation in the Spanish Civil War on the Fascist side, have led his works to be consigned to the memory hole. Read more …

Published: October 2, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals, poems, poetry, Roy Campbell, South Africa | 2 Responses

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Remembering Maurice Bardèche:
October 1, 1907–July 30, 1998

Greg Johnson

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Today is the birthday of Maurice Bardèche (1907–1998), the French Neo-Fascist writer. Bardèche was a prolific and highly versatile author of literary, film, and art criticism, history, journalism, and social and political theory. He published twenty-odd books and countless essays, articles, and reviews. Read more …

Published: October 1, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Maurice Bardèche, North American New Right, originals, Robert Brasillach | Leave a comment

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

Greg Johnson

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Published: May 27, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, literature, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North American New Right, the Jewish question | 2 Responses

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Starship Troopers

Trevor Lynch

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Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers (1959) marked his transition from writing juvenile pulp science fiction to serious novels of ideas, in this case setting forth a highly reactionary and militarist political philosophy. Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 film of Starship Troopers takes quite a few liberties with Heinlein’s plot but manages to capture its spirit and communicate its key ideas. Read more …

Published: April 27, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, movie reviews, North American New Right, Paul Verhoeven, reprints, science fiction, Starship Troopers, Trevor Lynch | 9 Responses

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Remembering Gabriele D’Annunzio:
March 12, 1863–March 1, 1938

Greg Johnson

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Published: March 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Greg Johnson, Italy, literature, North American New Right | 14 Responses

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Between Buddha & Führer:
The Young Cioran on Germany

Guillaume Durocher

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Emil Cioran
Apologie de la Barbarie: Berlin – Bucharest (1932-1941)
Paris: L’Herne, 2015

This is a very interesting book released by the superior publishing house L’Herne: a collection of Emil Cioran’s articles published in Romanian newspapers, mostly from before the war. Read more …

Published: March 7, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Buddhism, Emil Cioran, Guillaume Durocher, National Socialism, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Romania, Third Reich | 3 Responses

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Cioran, Germany, & Hitler

Gina Puica Vincent Piednoir

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Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: The following are excerpts from the preface to a collection of early articles by Emil Cioran translated from Romanian into French. I found this very interesting concerning the young Cioran’s embrace of fascism as embodying the “barbarism” he considered necessary to halt decadence. I have broken up some of the paragraphs. Read more …

Published: January 29, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Emil Cioran, French translations, Guillaume Durocher, Iron Guard, North American New Right, originals, Romania, Third Reich | 3 Responses

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Remembering Pierre Drieu La Rochelle:
January 3, 1893–March 15, 1945

Greg Johnson

97 words

Pierre Drieu La Rochelle was born on this day in 1893. In commemoration, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this site: Read more …

Published: January 3, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle | Leave a comment

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Remembering Filippo Marinetti:
December 22, 1876–December 2, 1944

Greg Johnson

Marinetti in the First World War.

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Those on the Right who believe that modern art is always “decadent” need to come to grips with Italian Futurism. In commemoration of the birthday of Filippo Marinetti, the founder of Italian Futurism and one of the prophets of Fascism, I would like to draw your attention to several writings on this Website.

1. Marinetti’s own “Futurist Manifesto” of 1909.

2. Kerry Bolton’s essay “Filippo Marinetti,” which has also been published in his book Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence. (Portuguese translation here.)

Published: December 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art, articles, commemorations, Filippo Marinetti, futurism, Greg Johnson, modern art, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

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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, democracy, elitism, 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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Jason Stanley’s How Fascism Works

Donald Thoresen

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Jason Stanley
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
New York: Random House, 2018

Jason Stanley, a Jew who is a professor of philosophy at Yale, has recently published a book in which he seeks to explain how fascism takes root in society. With the conceptual complexity and intellectual depth of an MSNBC talk show, the author finds that–surprise!–the precursors to fascism are to be found everywhere in Trump’s America, Read more …

Published: December 14, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Donald Thoresen, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question | 11 Responses

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Bernardo Bertolucci & The Conformist

Margot Metroland

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Reputation-wise, Bernardo Bertolucci (1941-2018) missed a good bet by not dying a quarter-century ago, rather than lingering on for years of illness and diminishing fame. Orson Welles spent his lengthy dotage introducing himself to new generations as a pitchman for Paul Masson wine, and that seemed pretty sad, but at least people knew who he was. When the equally talented Bertolucci died on November 26, he had almost no public profile at all. Read more …

Published: December 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged films, Francis Ford Coppola, Margot Metroland, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals | 2 Responses

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A Mainstream Primer on Populism

F. Roger Devlin

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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, F. Roger Devlin, North American New Right, originals, populism | 3 Responses

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Uncle Max & the Commie Hunters

Margot Metroland

Maxwell Knight (right) and friends.

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The spymaster’s fascist background is just one of the many obstacles in telling the Maxwell Knight story.

One of the oddest television projects now in development is a forthcoming series about master spy Maxwell Knight, the real-life “M” of MI5. Read more …

Published: November 30, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Benito Mussolini, espionage, homosexuality, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, William Joyce, World War II | 8 Responses

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Remembering Wyndham Lewis:
November 18, 1882–March 7, 1957

Greg Johnson

165 words

Kerry Bolton, “Wyndham Lewis” (French translation here)
Jonathan Bowden, “Classical Modernism and the Art of the Radical Right“
Jonathan Bowden, “Elitism, British Modernism, and Wyndham Lewis” (transcript) Read more …

Published: November 18, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals, painting, Percy Wyndham Lewis | Leave a comment

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Remembering Roy Campbell:
October 2, 1901–April 22, 1957

Greg Johnson

Roy Campbell

1,561 words

Published: October 2, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals, poems, poetry, Roy Campbell, South Africa | 2 Responses

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Remembering Maurice Bardèche:
October 1, 1907–July 30, 1998

Greg Johnson

643 words

Published: October 1, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Maurice Bardèche, North American New Right, originals, Robert Brasillach | 4 Responses

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The “New State” in Portugal, Spain, & Greece:
Fascist in Style, but Not in Reality

Dimitris Michalopoulos

Antonio De Oliveira Salazar of Portugal (left) and Francisco Franco of Spain (right).

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Dimitris Michalopoulos is a Greek historian. The present paper observes the rules of the US Library of Congress for the transliteration of Greek names.

The case of Stefan Zweig is a well-known one. He was born in Vienna, the capital of the Habsburg Empire, in 1881. Being of Jewish stock, and thanks to his talent as well as the patronage of Theodor Herzl,[1] he succeeded during the 1920s and ‘30s in becoming one of the most renowned authors throughout the world. Read more …

Published: September 7, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Dimitris Michalopoulos, Francisco Franco, Great Britain, Greece, North American New Right, originals, Portugal, Spain | 4 Responses

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A Third-Rate Mind “Examines” Fascism

Morris V. de Camp

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Madeline Albright
Fascism: A Warning
New York: Harper Collins Publishing, 2018

Although many on the Right saw Bill Clinton as the devil incarnate, I’d like to first point out that the Clinton Administration was not entirely evil. Clinton’s first crisis was the Haitian refugee swarm, which he turned back. Clinton also attempted the sort of immigration reform we could get behind[1] Read more …