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My relationship with the band Iron Maiden has been one of love and hate over the years (“The thin line between love and hate”?). My first conscious encounter with the band’s music (their name was already familiar to me because someone had taken the liberty of spray-painting “Iron Maiden” across the street from my school in the early ’90s) was through the album Virtual XI (yes, with Blaze Bayley on vocals), which to this day is one of my favorites. (more…)
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Sebastian Junger
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Simon & Schuster, 2016
Since its first edition in 2016, this book had been on my list of books to read. Eight years later, I finally read it this weekend, coinciding with a conversation with friends about the drama of war and how it brings out both the best and worst in human behavior. In Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, Sebastian Junger once again showcases his prose, marked by clarity and precision—the same qualities evident in War and Fire. (more…)
Discobolus, a Roman copy of the Greek original from the fifth century BC. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.
Discobolus, a Roman copy of the Greek original from the fifth century BC. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.
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From a liberal perspective, there exists a logical (and also emotional) resistance to the use of concepts, terminologies, and ideas that are foreign to modernity, since for liberalism, being born detached from the latter, such foreign concepts, terminologies, and ideas would a priori be anti-modern and therefore anti-liberal.
A significant problem that has arisen for liberalism, as well as for the more conservative Right detached from modernity, is that the Left(s) have shifted the political battleground, relocating to new terrains and implementing new rules of engagement, where individuals and social groups are addressed and bombarded on different planes than were imaginable a few decades ago. (more…)
Heinrich Füger, “Prometheus Brings Fire to Mankind,” 1817
Heinrich Füger, “Prometheus Brings Fire to Mankind,” 1817
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Follows “Goethe’s Prometheus”
Hier sitz ich, forme Menschen
Nach meinem Bilde,
Ein Geschlecht, das mir gleich sei,
Zu leiden, zu weinen,
Zu genießen und zu freuen sich,
Und dein nicht zu achten,
Wie ich! (more…)
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Stephen E. Flowers
The Occult in National Socialism: The Symbolic, Scientific, and Magical Influences on the Third Reich
Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2022
In the realm of the occult and its intersection with the Third Reich, Stephen E. Flowers’ The Occult in National Socialism: The Symbolic, Scientific, and Magical Influences on the Third Reich stands out as perhaps the most comprehensive, profound, and objective investigation to date. (more…)
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Deep ecology represents a significant shift in the way humans understand and interact with the environment. This movement is rooted in the belief that our current models of human engagement with nature are unsustainable and destructive. Arne Naess, a Norwegian philosopher, first developed the concept of deep ecology in the 1970s, and it has since grown into a powerful environmental and philosophical movement that has inspired many to adopt a more holistic and sustainable approach to environmental issues. (more…)
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English original here
Traducción por Francisco Albanese
Un preocupante dato curioso apareció por mi escritorio hoy: por primera vez en la historia de Estados Unidos, los blancos están disminuyendo no sólo como porcentaje de la población, sino también en términos de números brutos. (more…)
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Traducción por Francisco Albanese
Nota del Traductor: Este artículo está extraído de la historia del s.XX por Dominique Venner, Le Siècle de 1914 (París: Pygmalion, 2006), 397-98.
En los días del poder europeo, el cristianismo (de todas las denominaciones) (more…)
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For years, contemporary Chile was considered a remarkable demonstration of the inevitable triumph of economic and political liberalism. (more…)
Salvador Dalí, The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, 1959
Salvador Dalí, The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, 1959
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In Latin America, the voices that seek to give a poetic tinge to the past so as to legitimize their chosen future decided to name Columbus Day, October the 12th, Día de la Raza, the “Day of the Race.”
Expressions and meanings are not always univocal, and what in Iberia could be understood as the presence of the same race both on the peninsula and on the other side of the sea, in America came to carry a brand new meaning. Anything could result from the clash of one culture against many, as well as the interaction between two races, but never a race, (more…)
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I’m a big fan of the seventh art, so the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes premiere was mandatory for me.
Gustave Moreau, Prometheus
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Gustave Moreau, Prometheus
Prometheus is, probably, one of the most enduring characters in universal mythology and, in addition, one of the most frequent subjects of artistic, literary, or philosophical interpretation. Aeschylus’ version, Prometheus Bound, has generated different symbolic interpretations across the centuries. Starting with the Renaissance, Prometheus has been seen as a symbol of consciousness struggling against arbitrary power.[1]
This was captured in essence by Goethe, circa 1771, who presented the image of the Promethean Man who, decades later, Friedrich Nietzsche would write about in his Birth of Tragedy. (more…)
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English original here
Die Südspitze Südamerikas durchquert Chile, Argentinien und Uruguay, die Landschaften und Klimazonen aufweisen, die denen in Europa und Nordamerika sehr ähnlich sind.
Ebenso ist die Südspitze auch die Heimat vieler Europäer. Obwohl Chile mehrheitlich nicht-weiß (mestizisch) ist, sind Argentinien und Uruguay vor allem europäisch, insbesondere spanisch geprägt. (more…)