Évariste Vital Luminais, Flight of King Gradlon, ca. 1884.
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This weekend Greg Johnson appeared as a guest on Kulchur Lodge Radio, which is the Ask Me Anything livestream on Guide to Kulchur. Topics discussed include: (more…)
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In the latest episode of Guide to Kulchur, Greg Johnson, Guillaume Durocher, and Ty E join Fróði Midjord to discuss the life and art of Yukio Mishima. On November 25th, 50 years ago, Mishima committed ritual suicide to inspire the Japanese to return to their aristocratic honor culture.
The episode is archived on BitChute (video) and Spreaker (audio only). Guide to Kulchur streams live on DLive every Tuesday at 2:00 PM Eastern Time / 20:00 CET.
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In the latest episode of Guide to Kulchur, Ty E and Martin Lichtmesz join Fróði Midjord to compare two very different depictions of the Arthurian legend: Robert Bresson’s Lancelot du Lac (1974) and John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981). (more…)
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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 (more…)
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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. (more…)
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In the latest episode of Guide to Kulchur, Professor Ricardo Duchesne joins Fróði Midjord to discuss Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Topics in this two-hour conversation include:
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In the latest episode of Guide to Kulchur, historian Mark Weber joins Fróði Midjord to discuss Pat Buchanan’s book Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World. The conversation sets the record straight about misunderstood aspects of the Second World War and reveals how the war ultimately resulted in the fall of the West. (more…)
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In the latest episode of Guide to Kulchur, Ty E and Fróði Midjord discuss Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive (2011), about the very Indo-European-looking “Driver” (Ryan Gosling) who is forced into a conflict with Jewish gangsters as he’s trying to help a, likewise blonde, single mom who has a child with a Mexican criminal. (more…)
Kevin MacDonald speaks at the Scandza Forum Stockholm, May 20, 2017
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Guide to Kulchur has invited Kevin MacDonald to discuss the extensive struggles between the Jewish immigration lobby and the American anti-immigration movement in the early parts of the twentieth century. The interview will take its starting point from topics in Daniel Okrent’s 2019 book, The Guarded Gate. (more…)
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Fróði Midjord was joined by guest Ty E on Guide to Kulchur yesterday to discuss the Alfred Hitchcock classic, Psycho. This episode of Guide to Kulchur is a bit different. (more…)
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Fróði Midjord’s DECAMERON Film Festival has been going on for close to two weeks now. Fróði and his range of special guests have been discussing the films and shows that light a fire inside our imagination, stories that we turn to for comfort and inspiration during trying times that keep us indoors, (more…)
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Inspired by Boccaccio’s 14th century classic, the DECAMERON Film Festival has invited an exciting lineup of guests to discuss one film each in a series of livestreams on the Guide to Kulchur YouTube channel, starting Saturday, April 11, and ending on May 10. (more…)
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Fróði Midjord is joined by Greg Johnson for this new episode of Guide to Kulchur, discussing the recently-released Clint Eastwood film Richard Jewell. It’s about the media witch hunt of eponymous security guard Richard Jewell, (more…)
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Fróði Midjord is joined by Survive the Jive once more in a new episode of Guide to Kulchur, where they discuss Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse, (more…)
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To kick off the new season of Guide to Kulchur, John Morgan and Survive the Jive rejoin Fróði Midjord to discuss David Cronenberg’s classic 1983 film, Videodrome, (more…)
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After a summer hiatus, John Morgan and Survive the Jive join Fróði Midjord on the latest Guide to Kulchur to discuss Midsommar, a recently-released movie about a group of American anthropology students and a deeply traumatized woman who visit a neo-pagan cult practicing a faith based on the ancient Nordic religion in present-day Hälsingland, Sweden, where they discover that the cult’s interest in them goes far beyond the merely academic. (more…)
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In the latest Guide to Kulchur, Fróði Midjord is joined by Greg Johnson, John Morgan, and RAMZPAUL to discuss the very last episode of Game of Thrones, (more…)
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In the latest Guide to Kulchur, Fróði Midjord and John Morgan discuss the current, penultimate episode of Game of Thrones (the fifth episode of the eighth season), which saw the resolution of many of the plotlines that have been developing from the beginning of the series — as well as new questions. (Spoilers ahead!) (more…)
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John Morgan and Survive the Jive join Fróði Midjord on the latest Guide to Kulchur to discuss the neo-pagan classic, The Wicker Man (the original, not the Nicolas Cage abomination). (more…)
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In the latest Guide to Kulchur, Fróði Midjord and John Morgan discuss the current episode of Game of Thrones (the fourth episode of the eighth season), which begins with cringey hookups at a drunken celebration. (more…)
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In the latest Guide to Kulchur, Fróði Midjord and John Morgan discuss the current episode of Game of Thrones, which saw the long-awaited battle between the good guys (or, at least, the living ones) and the Army of the Dead. (more…)
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In this Guide to Kulchur, Fróði Midjord and John Morgan discuss the latest (the second episode of the eighth season) episode of Game of Thrones, which marks Westeros’ entry into The Current Year as the series decides to go full SJW in nearly every scene. (more…)
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In this Guide to Kulchur, Fróði Midjord and John Morgan inaugurate a new series of programs in which they will will briefly discuss the episodes of the new (eighth) season of Game of Thrones as they are broadcast. In this installment, after discussing their impression of the series as a whole so far, they analyze the implications of the events of the first episode, particularly in light of the show’s increasing gravitation towards Social Justice Warrior themes and depictions over the years. (more…)
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In this Guide to Kulchur, John Morgan and Fróði Midjord discuss the widely-viewed and controversial video, Deutschland, that was recently released by the famous German metal band Rammstein. (more…)
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In the latest installment of Guide to Kulchur, John Morgan and Survive the Jive again join Fróði Midjord to talk about Sidney Lumet’s film Equus (1977), about a psychiatrist (played by Sir Richard Burton) questioning a seventeen-year-old stable boy who savagely blinded six horses with a metal spike, to find out the reason for his bizarre act. He discovers that the young man has been worshipping horses as an expression of a particularly pagan longing for the primordial forces of vitality. (more…)
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In the latest installment of Guide to Kulchur, Fróði Midjord and John Morgan discuss Andrei Tarkovsky’s Russian science fiction classic, Stalker, which is about three men living in an industrial wasteland who venture into a Zone that was left on Earth by mysterious extraterrestrials, a wilderness filled with deadly traps, at the center of which is a room that grants the innermost desires of anyone who enters. The duo discuss the film both as an allegory of a spiritual quest as well as an indictment of modernity. (more…)
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John Morgan and Survive the Jive join Fróði Midjord on the latest Guide to Kulchur to discuss the German filmmaker Werner Herzog’s masterpiece, Aguirre, the Wrath of God. After Fróði discusses the upcoming Scandza Forum conference in Stockholm, the three analyze the film, which is about a mad Spanish Conquistador, played by Klaus Kinski, in the sixteenth-century Amazon who is on a quest to locate the legendary city of El Dorado. (more…)
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Greg Johnson joins Fróði Midjord on the latest Guide to Kulchur to discuss Stanley Kubrick’s last movie, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which is about elite societies involved in occult sex rituals in modern-day New York. (more…)
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Ezra Pound’s Guide to Kulchur (1938) is one of those unfortunate great books (think Spengler’s Decline of the West and any book by Henry Adams) that is often mentioned but seldom read. The book was meant as a guide to the essential philosophy, art, economics, history, and ethics from Confucius to the 20th century as uniquely interpreted by Pound.
This and the ABC of Reading (1934) constituted the core texts of the “Ezra-versity,” the informal seminars that Pound held before World War II for those acolytes who came to visit him in Rapallo, Italy. (more…)
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John Morgan and Guillaume Durocher join Fróði Midjord on the latest Guide to Kulchur to talk about Francis Ford Coppola’s classic Vietnam War film, Apocalypse Now. They do a scene-by-scene analysis of it, and discuss the differences between the director’s cut and the original version of the film and its relationship to other films, as well as Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and also its relevance for politics and the Right. Available on both YouTube and Spreaker.