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Anthony Mario Ludovici was born on January 8, 1882.

Ludovici was one of the first and most accomplished translators of Nietzsche into English and a leading exponent of Nietzsche’s thought. Ludovici was also an original philosopher in his own right. Read more …

Published: January 8, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, John V. Day, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | 8 Responses

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Raising Aristocrats

William de Vere

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O my brothers, I dedicate and direct you to a new nobility: you shall become procreators and cultivators and sowers of the future — verily, not to a nobility that you might buy like shopkeepers and with shopkeepers’ gold: for whatever has its price has little value. Read more …

Published: October 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, childhood, children, education, heroism, innocence, liberal education, nobility, North American New Right, originals, parenthood, parenting, philosophy, spirit, William de Vere, youth | 6 Responses

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Remembering Friedrich Nietzsche
(October 15, 1844–August 25, 1900)

Greg Johnson

Phil Eiger Newmann, Friedrich Nietzsche, 2020.

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Friedrich Nietzsche was born this day in 1844 in the small town of Röcken, near Leipzig, Saxony, in the Kingdom of Prussia. He died in August 25, 1900, in Weimar, Saxony, in the Second German Reich. The outlines of Nietzsche’s life are readily available online.

Nietzsche is one of the most important philosophers of the North American New Right because of his contributions to the philosophy of history, culture, and religion.

Published: October 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | 4 Responses

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Now Available!
Graduate School with Heidegger

Greg Johnson

Greg Johnson
Graduate School with Heidegger
San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing, 2020
220 pages

There are three formats for Graduate School with Heidegger:

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American Gods & Their Shadows

Kathryn S.

Winslow Homer, The Woodcutter, 1891.

6,121 words

I read Neil Gaiman’s American Gods sometime in college. I found it more Flannery O’Connor than Marvel Studios, but it’s hardly surprising that the latter interpretation seems to have driven the new television series’ production team (but I haven’t watched). Read more …

Published: October 5, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged archetypes, articles, Carl Jung, collective unconscious, cultural decline, ethos, heroes, heroism, hierarchy, Kathryn S, modernity, mysticism, myth, mythology, national epics, North American New Right, originals, psychology, religion, Sigmund Freud, Symbolism, the American founding, the East, the Orient, the West | 7 Responses

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Video of the Day:
Nietzsche’s Historical Vitalism

Video of the Day

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In the latest episode of Guide to Kulchur, Greg Johnson joins Fróði Midjord for a conversation on Nietzsche’s second essay in the Untimely Meditations, On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life (1874). Topics include civilizational decline, nihilism, vitalism, Christianity, and Nietzsche’s critique of Hegel’s philosophy of history.

The episode is archived on BitChute (video) and Spreaker Read more …

Published: September 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Christianity, Frodi Midjord, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, Guide to Kulchur, nihilism, North American New Right, philosophy, video of the day, vitalism | 4 Responses

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Today’s Livestream:
Nietzsche’s Second Untimely Meditations

Video of the Day

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Greg Johnson will be joining Fróði Midjord on Guide to Kulchur today at 11:00 AM PDT / 2:00 PM EDT / 20:00 CET to discuss Friedrich Nietzsche’s Second Untimely Meditations as part of a series called First Principles, devoted to books central to a Right-wing understanding of the world. You can watch the stream on the official Guide to Kulchur YouTube and DLive channels. Read more …

Published: September 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Frodi Midjord, Greg Johnson, Guide to Kulchur, philosophy, video of the day | Leave a comment

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Richard Polt’s Time & Trauma

Greg Johnson

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Richard Polt
Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties
Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019

Richard Polt is one of the most distinguished and prolific Heidegger scholars active today. He is the author of one of the best introductory books on Heidegger, Heidegger: An Introduction, as well as a commentary on one of Heidegger’s most difficult texts, The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger’s “Contributions to Philosophy.”[1] Read more …

Published: June 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Greg Johnson, hermeneutics, liberalism, Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, New Right, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, political philosophy | 5 Responses

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Might is Right:
Damned by Amazon Since March 2020

Kevin Slaughter

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On March 12th, 2020, Amazon.com swept all editions of Might is Right into the digital dustbin and suppressed the sale of the 123-year-old book. They did not merely stop selling the book, they completely removed any trace that they ever sold them in the first place. While the 19th-century text had stirred up controversy over those years, the publishers of the most scholarly edition have never heard of it being banned before now. Read more …

Published: March 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Amazon.com, articles, censorship, egoism, Max Stirner, Might is Right, North American New Right, Ragnar Redbeard, reprints | 14 Responses

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Remembering Anthony M. Ludovici:
January 8, 1882–April 3, 1971

Greg Johnson

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Anthony Mario Ludovici was born on January 8, 1882.

Published: January 8, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, John V. Day, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | Leave a comment

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Alexandre Kojève a konec dějin

Greg Johnson

Alexandre Kojève

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English original here

Poznámka autora: Následuje přepis řeči, kterou jsem v roce 2000 přednesl v Atlantě. Odstranil jsem příliš košaté větné konstrukce, stejně jako občasnou interakci s publikem.

Žijeme v době bohaté na předpovědi konce věků. Loni, na konci roku 1999, oslavovala drtivá většina silvestrovských hýřilů o rok předčasně konec milénia. Read more …

Published: December 2, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, articles, cyclical history, end of history, Francis Fukuyama, G. W. F. Hegel, Georges Bataille, Greg Johnson, in Czech, Leo Strauss, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, Slavoj Žižek, Zbigniew Brzezinski | Leave a comment

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Remembering Friedrich Nietzsche:
October 15, 1844–August 25, 1900

Greg Johnson

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Published: October 15, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | 4 Responses

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What is the Metaphysics of the Left? Part Two

Collin Cleary

The face of today’s Left

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

2. A Will to Nothingness: The Essence of Leftist Metaphysics

We are now in a position to step back from these observations and draw some general conclusions about the metaphysics of Leftist ideology. I trust the reader understands, however, that I am identifying the metaphysics that underlies Leftist ideology. Read more …

Published: June 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, gender politics, metaphysics, morality, North American New Right, originals, race, reality, the left, the Leftist mind, transgenderism, truth | 24 Responses

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There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be Alive
The Ultimate White Pill

Jef Costello

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My friends on the Right bemoan the fact that we’re not living in Leave It To Beaver. They play the “what era would you like to live in?” game, picking any time other than this one. Because this is the End Time, you see; the Kali Yuga, the Wolf Age. Hell, yes! It is all those things and more. But I, for one, feel privileged to live in Dystopia. Truly, there has never been a better time to be alive. Read more …

Published: June 7, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cultural renewal, decadence, Jef Costello, living well, North American New Right, originals, the left, the liberal mind, white activism | 32 Responses

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Historicizing the Historicists:
Notes on Leo Strauss’ “The Living Issues of German Postwar Philosophy,” Part 2

Greg Johnson

Max Weber

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Part 1 here

The Intellectual Bankruptcy of the Present Age

Not only does Strauss claim that historicism is a healthy reaction to the intellectual bankruptcy of the modern world, in the next section of his essay, he also attributes this bankruptcy to non-historicist causes.

First, Strauss talks about Max Weber’s Learning and Science as Vocation. He specifically objects to Weber’s claim that reason cannot speak about the ultimate aims of life: Read more …

Published: May 13, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Carl Schmitt, conservative revolution, Ernst Junger, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, hermeneutics, historicism, Leo Strauss, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, relativism | 2 Responses

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Historicizing the Historicists:
Notes on Leo Strauss’ “The Living Issues of German Postwar Philosophy,” Part 1

Greg Johnson

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Part 1 of 2

Leo Strauss is widely known as a critic of historicism and an advocate of classical philosophy. Historicism holds that philosophical ideas are relative to culture, whereas classical philosophy aims for knowledge of nature, which is not relative to culture. But what is Strauss’s own point of view? Does he base his arguments on historicist or classical philosophical premises? Read more …

Published: May 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservative revolution, Greg Johnson, hermeneutics, historicism, Leo Strauss, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, phenomenology, philosophy, relativism | 3 Responses

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Mark Sedgwick’s Key Thinkers of the Radical Right

Greg Johnson

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Mark Sedgwick, ed.
Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019

Mark Sedgwick is an English scholar of Western Esotericism and Islam. He is Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark. Read more …

Published: March 6, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Alexander Dugin, Carl Schmitt, Daniel Friberg, Ernst Junger, European New Right, Greg Johnson, Guillaume Faye, Jack Donovan, Jared Taylor, Julius Evola, Kevin MacDonald, Martin Heidegger, Mencius Moldbug, metapolitics, neoreaction, New Right, NRX, Oswald Spengler, Patrick Buchanan, Paul Gottfried, Rene Guénon, Richard Spencer, Samuel Francis, Traditionalism, white nationalism | 24 Responses

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Remembering Anthony M. Ludovici:
January 8, 1882–April 3, 1971

Greg Johnson

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Anthony Mario Ludovici was born on January 8, 1882.

Published: January 8, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anthony M. Ludovici, articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, John V. Day, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | Leave a comment

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Australian Artists of the Right
Norman Lindsay, Part II

Kerry Bolton

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1)

Homosexuality not conducive to creativity

Norman rejected the faddish view that homosexuality is associated with the creative individual. He regarded homosexuality as “destructive” to the creative impulse, which is based on unisexuality. He stated that the male homosexual is dominated by a split of either all-male or all-female:

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Australian Artists of the Right
Norman Lindsay, Part I

Kerry Bolton

Norman Lindsay

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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

Norman Alfred Williams Lindsay (1879-1969) was the brother of Lionel Lindsay, recently profiled at Counter-Currents. Like his brother, Norman excelled in a variety of artistic media. While Lionel’s primary contribution to art theory and history was a slender but informative volume, Addled Art (1942, 1946), Norman was also a notable author of an impressive number of novels, as well as books on history and aesthetics. Read more …

Published: December 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, art, articles, Australia, Australian Artists of the Right, Christianity, elitism, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, P. R. Stephensen, Western civilization | 1 Response

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The Enemy of my Enemy:
Vox Day’s Jordanetics

Buck Daniels

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Vox Day
Jordanetics: A Journey Into the Mind of Humanity’s Greatest Thinker
Castalia House, 2018

I have a confession: I was once a fan.

I was recommending the works and lectures of Dr. Jordan Peterson to friends, strangers, and family. Read more …

Published: November 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Buck Daniels, Christianity, Jordan Peterson, living well, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, political correctness, religion, self-help, the occult, Vox Day | 36 Responses

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The Tyrannical Essence of Liberalism

Hewitt E. Moore

Megyn Kelly & Don Lemon in happier times. One still has a career.

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The problem that arises when you’re the greatest nation in the history of the world is that there’s no real problems to deal with. There’s no war. Anybody who wants a job can get one. Nobody starves to death. Everybody has access to medical care. Even beggars can make six figures a year.

But happily ever after breeds complacency. Once people get what they want, they tend to want something else. So, if life is good, and there’s no legitimate problems in paradise, abstract ones are created in La-La Land. Read more …

Published: November 6, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-white racism, articles, liberalism, North American New Right, originals | 3 Responses

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Remembering Friedrich Nietzsche:
October 15, 1844–August 25, 1900

Greg Johnson

Nietzsche, on the right, with friends Lou-Andreas Salomé & Paul Rée in 1882.

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Nietzsche is one of the most important philosophers of the North American New Right because of his contributions to the philosophy of history, culture, and religion. Read more …

Published: October 15, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | 4 Responses

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An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part IV

Collin Cleary

Willy Pogany, Sigmund & the Wolf (1920)

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Part I here, Part II here, Part III here, Part V here

In our last installment, we saw how King Volsung marries his daughter Signy off to the loathsome King Siggeir of Götaland, a man she “was not eager to marry.” Read more …

Published: October 9, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, Germanic paganism, Germanic tradition, Norse sagas, North American New Right, Odin, originals, paganism, Sigmund, Signy, Volsung Saga, Volsunga Saga, Wotan | 5 Responses

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Alexandre Kojève & the End of History

Greg Johnson

Alexandre Kojève

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Czech version here

Author’s Note:

This is transcript by V. S. of a talk that I gave in Atlanta in 2000. As usual, I have eliminated some wordy constructions and some back-and-forth with the audience.

We live in a time when there’s a lot of talk about the ends of ages. Read more …

Published: September 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, articles, cyclical history, end of history, Francis Fukuyama, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, liberalism, North American New Right, originals | 13 Responses

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The Trial of Socrates:
Introduction, Part 2

Greg Johnson

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Jacques-Philippe-Joseph de Saint-Quentin, The Death of Socrates, 1762

Part 2 of 2

Author’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V. S. of the conclusion of the introductory lecture of an eight-lecture course called The Trial of Socrates. As usual, I have edited this transcript to remove excessive wordiness and filled in the gap between the two sides of the tape.
Read more …

Published: August 3, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Cicero, ethics, Greg Johnson, irony, moral philosophy, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, Socrates, The Trial of Socrates | 1 Response

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Video of the Day
Jonathan Bowden on Absolute Standards

Video of the Day

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A video made to accompany some excerpts from talks by Jonathan Bowden on the subject of the power of belief. We are hardwired for philosophical and religious belief, but as a society, many white people have a severe lack of it. Bowden talks about Nietzsche, nature, mental strengthening, and the absence of belief.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txRL32-JPuQ

Published: June 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged belief, Jonathan Bowden, video of the day | 1 Response

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Evola’s Nietzschean Ethics:
A Code of Conduct for the Higher Man in Kali Yuga

Collin Cleary

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The subtitle of the English translation of Julius Evola’s Ride the Tiger (Cavalcare la Tigre) promises that it offers “A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul.”[1] As a result, one comes to the work with the expectation that it will constitute a kind of “self-help book” for Traditionalists, for “men against time.” Read more …

Published: April 30, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, ethics, happiness, Immanuel Kant, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, the superman, Traditionalism | 11 Responses

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Ronald Beiner’s Dangerous Minds

Greg Johnson

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Ronald Beiner
Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018

Ronald Beiner is a Canadian Jewish political theorist who teaches at the University of Toronto. I’ve been reading his work since the early 1990s, starting with What’s the Matter with Liberalism?[1] I have always admired Beiner’s clear and lively writing and his ability to see straight through jargon and cant to hone in on the flaws of the positions he examines. Read more …

Published: April 23, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Dugin, book reviews, cyclical history, egalitarianism, Greg Johnson, Martin Heidegger, meaning, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, Richard Spencer, the holocaust | 22 Responses

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Zardoz: Natural Order Against the Left

David Yorkshire

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John Boorman’s films are implicitly white, as they address themes that pertain to people of white European descent, whether historical, philosophical, or mythical. For the latter, an example would be the film Excalibur that I recently reviewed. Zardoz is a film that addresses the philosophical. This is another of Boorman’s films that the critic Roger Ebert neither understands nor cares for – and I suspect more the latter, for the film is a biting satire directed at creamy bourgeois Leftists. Read more …