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Other than living near types like Faÿ, Toklas, and the guys, Stein had “indirect ties, notably through her close friendship with a French personalist philosopher named Henri Daniel-Rops.” (more…)

Joséphin Péladan, as painted by Marcellin Desboutin in 1891
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France gave the world the French Revolution in 1789. It was an epochal event, albeit a symptom of a line of cultural decadence that gave birth to both liberalism and Communism, and which remains a pall over the entire West and wherever the West reaches. It is ironic that those who were condemned as “collaborators” in France during and after the Second World War were for years prior to the war the most vociferous in their lamentations regarding the decadence of the French Republic. (more…)
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Greg Johnson talks to Patrick Le Brun about the players in the upcoming French presidential elections, the factors that might influence the outcome, and things that you can do to help meme Marine Le Pen into power.
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Editor’s Note:
This is the transcript by V. S. of Richard Spencer’s Vanguard Podcast interview of Jonathan Bowden about the Left. You can listen to the podcast here.
Richard Spencer: Hello, everyone! Today, it is a great pleasure to welcome to the program Jonathan Bowden. (more…)
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Translated by G. A. Malvicini
Elsewhere (in La Destra, in May 1972), we have discussed the necessary relationship of an authentic, non-makeshift Right with the concept of Tradition. In the sense discussed there, references to authors with a traditional orientation may be useful in dealing with certain complex problems. Here, however, we wish to provide an account of the ideas of René Guénon (1886-1951), who was regarded as the proponent of “integral Traditionalism.” (more…)
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Neagu Djuvara
A Brief Illustrated History of Romanians
Bucharest: Humanitas, 2014
I recently came across a very pleasant read in the form of Neagu Djuvara’s A Brief Illustrated History of Romanians.[1] The book is in fact a series of transcribed lectures meant to introduce young Romanians (or, in translation, the curious foreigner) to the broad sweep of Romanian history. (more…)
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) bol nemecký filozof, dramatik a esejista. A bol tiež slobodomurár. Dňa 14. októbra 1771 bol zasvätený do slobodomurárstva v lóži Troch zlatých ruží v Hamburgu. Lessing mal očividne veľké nádeje v slobodomurárstvo, ale pomerne rýchlo ich stratil. V rokoch 1776-77 napísal dielo Ernst a Falk: Rozhovory pre slobodomurárov, ktoré bolo venované vojvodovi Ferdinandovi z Brunswicku, jednému z najvýznamnejších slobodomurárov. (more…)
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Marco Pasi
Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics
Translated by Ariel Godwin
Durham, UK: Acumen Publishing, 2013
Well, no sooner had I completed a rather lukewarm review of one book on Aleister Crowley,[1] another, far more simpatico one pops up. (more…)
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Otto Abetz
Translated by Guillaume Durocher
Translator’s Note:
The following is translated from Dominique Venner’s Histoire de la Collaboration (Paris: Gérard Watelet/Pygmalion, 2000), 160-62, under the heading “Weakening the defeated to better get along with him.” The title is editorial, and refers to German Ambassador to Paris Otto Abetz, who was said to rule like “King Otto” over the French capital and in particular its vibrant cultural scene.
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The draft Statute on Jews of October 3, 1940, apparently toughened by the hand of Marshal Pétain.
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Translated by Guillaume Durocher
Translator’s Note:
The following extracts are translated from Dominique Venner’s Histoire de la Collaboration (Paris: Gérard Watelet/Pygmalion, 2000), 118-22. The title is editorial.
Before creating something new, to ensure that the old regime is genuinely laid low, one begins by driving out those who represent a potential counter-revolution, the risk of a lapse backwards. (more…)
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Translated by Guillaume Durocher
Translator’s Note:
The following extracts are translated from Dominique Venner’s Histoire de la Collaboration (Paris: Gérard Watelet/Pygmalion, 2000), 103-12. (more…)
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Note de l’auteur :
Le texte suivant est la base d’un discours prononcé à New York le 5 Avril 2015 et à nouveau au Forum de Londres le 11 Avril 2015. Comme l’enregistrement le montrera, au Forum de Londres, je me suis rapidement écarté du texte et je l’ai condensé spectaculairement pour avoir plus de temps pour les Q&A [Questions & Answers]. (more…)
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Dieter Schwarz
Freemasonry: Ideology, Organization, and Policy
6th edition
Berlin: Central Publishing House, NSDAP, 1944
Freemasonry in Europe has long been suspected as a tool of Jewish influence. Masonic organizations were outlawed in Germany after the ascent of the Nationalists to power in 1933. (more…)
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Nota del autor:
El siguiente texto está basado en una lección dada el 5 de abril de 2015 en Nueva York y nuevamente en El Foro de Londres el 11 de abril del mismo año. Como la grabación mostrará, en Londres, rápidamente me separé del texto y lo condensé dramáticamente para dejar lugar a preguntas y respuestas. Publicaré el audio entero cuando lo reciba y tenga la posibilidad de editarlo. (more…)
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Translation: French, Slovak, Spanish
Author’s Note:
The following text is the basis of a lecture delivered in New York City on April 5, 2015 and again at The London Forum on April 11, 2015. As the recording will show, at The London Forum, I rapidly departed from the text and condensed it dramatically to leave time for Q&A. The audio is available on the London Forum’s YouTube channel.
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 1729–1781
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On Easter Sunday, April 5th, I will be giving a talk entitled “Lessing’s Eternal Conservative Freemasonry” at a luncheon in Manhattan. The topic is Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Ernst and Falk: Dialogues for Freemasons and its implications for politics and culture today.
This event is not open to the public, but if you are someone I know, you will be in the area, and you are interested in attending, please contact me (more…)
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Charlie Hebdo staff picture. Victims of the massacre are circled in red.
The staff of Charlie Hebdo was and is perhaps the most representative collection of culture-distorters and culture-retards ever assembled at one place. “They” are all there: communists, Grand Orient Freemasons, apostate Jews, each committed to a neo-Jacobin ridicule of everything traditional, every form of morality, any vestige of faith. (more…)
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Jan Assmann
Mojžiš Egyptský: Spomienka Egypta v západnom monoteizme
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Keď som prvýkrát čítal knihu Mojžiš Egyptský od Jana Assmanna v júni 1997, tak išlo o skúsenosť, ktorá zmenila môj život. Mojžiš Egyptský patrí k najvzácnejším akademickým knihám : odvážnym i vzrušujúcim zároveň. (more…)
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Jeff Koons’ Balloon Dog at Versailles, Property of François Pinault
For most of my lifetime, the visual culture of France was not in dispute. It is not like in the United States, where nativity scenes were only recently ripped from the public square. Perhaps there was not a mutually accepted border, but for decades there has been a kind of line of control between all that was rooted in our culture and traditions and all garbage of the culture distorters. (more…)
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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. (more…)
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John Robison
Proofs of a Conspiracy
Edited with an Introduction by Alex Kurtagić
Abergele: The Palingenesis Project, 2014
530 pages
hardcover only: $50
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Jan Assmann
Moises el Egipcio
Translated by Javier Alonso López
Madrid: Oberon, 2003
Cuando leí por primera vez Moisés el Egipcio de Jan Assmann en Junio de 1997, fue una experiencia que cambió mi vida. (more…)
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Translated by Bruno Cariou
Evola’s “Conclusion” to La Guerra occulta
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David Roberts, “Portico of the Temple of Horus at Edfou,” 1846
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Translations: Estonian, French, Polish
Part 2 of 4
Guénon and Evola believe that the occult war is carried on by secret initiatic societies. Just as Tradition is propagated through initiatic societies, the Counter-Tradition is propagated through counter-initiatic societies, (more…)
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The Masons are the focus of intense curiosity and at times controversy in France. Our main weekly news magazines have cover stories on Masonry at least twice a year, typically their best-selling editions. France is probably the only country in the world in which lodge membership is growing at a steady pace and the average age of members is stable.
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Alfred Rosenberg
The Track of the Jew through the Ages
Translated with Notes and Introduction by Alexander Jacob
Uckfield, Sussex: Historical Review Press, 2012
English language translations of any of Alfred Rosenberg’s works are going to be of value to scholars and laymen with an interest in the Third Reich or the philosophy of National Socialism. (more…)