Tag: George Hawley

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Most academic publishers — and all of the most prestigious ones — are affiliated with universities. Routledge is one of the largest private academic publishers. Routledge is fair-to-middling in terms of prestige but above average in production and marketing. Nobody places their best work there, but Routledge provides plenty of opportunities for established scholars to pad their resumes and young scholars on the make to get started. Counter-Currents, my work, and the work of my colleagues here are mentioned in a growing number of Routledge volumes. (more…)

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Recently, I discovered that Counter-Currents, my writing, and the writings of other Counter-Currents authors have been discussed — sometimes extensively, sometimes in passing — in a number of academic books. This is a rather exciting development, which I shall chronicle from time to time in a new series, The Battle of the Books. The purpose of this series is to document our progress in the battle of ideas. It shows your donations at work.

In 2018, I began to notice that the establishment’s reaction to White Nationalism was shifting. (more…)

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George Hawley
Making Sense of the Alt-Right
New York: Columbia University Press, 2017

George Hawley is an amazingly productive young political scientist at the University of Alabama. By my count, Making Sense of the Alt-Right is his fifth book in four years. Last year, I reviewed his Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism, for which I had high praise, although I complained that he had not dealt with populism, which was the animating force Trump’s ongoing rise to the White House.  (more…)

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Greg Johnson, John Morgan, and Michael Polignano reconvene for a new weekly Counter-Currents Radio podcast. The title of this week’s episode is “Devil’s Bargan”.

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Carlo Crivelli, Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1476

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Greg Johnson, John Morgan, and Michael Polignano reconvene for a new weekly Counter-Currents Radio podcast.

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English original here

George Hawley
Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism
Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2016

La mayoría de los estudios académicos sobre el Nacionalismo Blanco y la Nueva Derecha no sobresalen de las burlas y difamaciones políticamente correctas. (more…)

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George Hawley
Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism
Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2016

Most academic studies of White Nationalism and the New Right do not rise above politically correct sneers and smears. (more…)