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To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I grew up in the final years of the Cold War. If you aren’t old enough to remember the Cold War, let me tell you that it was a trip.

In Defense of National Service

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

2,484 words

Over the past years, I’ve made some efforts to keep fit and educate myself in the manly arts. So far, I’ve been able to slim down, quit smoking, quit porn, moderate my caffeine and alcohol intake, Read more …

Published: April 5, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, individualism, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, paternalism, positive liberty, the Balkans, Yugoslavia | 14 Responses

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Epicurean Spiritual Exercises

Pierre Hadot

Bust of Epicurus

1,291 words

Trans. Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note:

The following is drawn from Pierre Hadot, Qu’est-ce que la philosophie antique ? (Paris: Gallimard, 1995), 191-96. Some non-English secondary sources have been removed from Hadot’s footnotes. The title is editorial.

To achieve the healing of the soul and a life in accord with the fundamental [Epicurean] choice, it is not enough to have learned the Epicurean philosophical discourse. Read more …

Published: December 14, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, asceticism, book excerpts, Epicureanism, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Pierre Hadot | Leave a comment

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You Never Live Once

Spencer J. Quinn

2,055 words

The other day, as I was wandering through an IKEA store as family members were finishing up shopping, I saw a young white woman with a striking T-shirt. She wasn’t overtly pretty, nor was she ugly. She wasn’t skinny and she wasn’t fat. But during the five or six seconds we shared in the same section of the store, I could determine a few things about her. Read more …

Published: November 10, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, China, collectivism, creativity, individualism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Spencer Quinn, white dispossession, white extinction, white genocide | 3 Responses

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Why Porn Makes You Pathetic

Alan Smithee

1,549 words

Imagine a world where people live so devoid of happiness that it becomes a popular pastime to compensate by simply watching recordings of people smiling. The need is so severe that when making these recordings, no one even bothers to build in a plot—they just get right to the action of depicting images of people smiling, utterly devoid of any further context or deeper meaning. Read more …

Published: November 1, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, North American New Right, originals, porn, transhumanism | 7 Responses

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Biological Youth & Political Youth

Julius Evola

1,299 words

Translated by G. A. Malvicini

A frequently discussed issue among Right-wing circles is the new generation and its relations with the previous one; “revolutionary” youth in relation to the men and ideas of the Fascist period. Some, in this regard, believe that the same phenomenon is met with here that can be observed more generally: the new generation no longer understands the generation that preceded it, the accelerated pace of events having interposed between the one and the other a mental distance much larger than that which in other times normally would have separated them. Read more …

Published: July 22, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, fascism, idealism, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, translations, youth | 2 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 149
The Pursuit of Happiness
Pleasure, Part 2: Epicureanism

Greg Johnson

40:21 / 156 words

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Beginning in August of 1999, I gave a series of eight lectures on “The Pursuit of Happiness: Philosophies East and West,” Read more …

Published: February 29, 2016 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, cynicism, Epicureanism, ethics, Greg Johnson, living well, philosophy, Pleasure, podcasts, The Pursuit of Happiness | 2 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 148
The Pursuit of Happiness
Pleasure, Part 1: Plato’s Gorgias

Greg Johnson

53:16 / 149 words

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Beginning in August of 1999, I gave a series of eight lectures on “The Pursuit of Happiness: Philosophies East and West,” Read more …

Published: February 26, 2016 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Callicles, Counter-Currents Radio, ethics, Gorgias, Greg Johnson, living well, philosophy, Plato, Pleasure, podcasts, Socrates, The Pursuit of Happiness | 1 Response

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Nowicki & Nulick:
Sex, Death, & the Other Death

Ann Sterzinger

2,198 words

Here’s a sign that the feces-slinging partisan playpen that is the Internet is getting to you: I caught myself feeling decidedly strange as I made plans to write this tandem review of an essay collection by Andy Nowicki—a devout Catholic—and Valencia, an autobiographical novel by James Nulick, whose protagonist catches AIDS during a gay-sex-and-crack binge.

“Who’s going to want to read about both of them?” said my stupid brain. Read more …

Published: November 4, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ann Sterzinger, book reviews, death, literature, North American New Right, originals, pessimism, sex | 1 Response

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Pulp Fiction in Czech

Trevor Lynch

7,661 words

English original here

Pulp Fiction Quentina Tarantina se řadí k mým nejoblíbenějším filmům. Nechtěl jsem, aby se mi líbil – původně jsem na něj dokonce ani nechtěl jít. Podle všeho co jsem o něm slyšel, jsem film měl za naprosto nihilistický a dosti odpudivý počin. Pak ale někdo na večírku popsal Pulp Fiction jako film o „velikosti duše na konci historie“, což mě zaujalo, protože jsem zrovna asi po tisící pročítal Platónovu Ústavu – Read more …

Published: March 18, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, in Czech, in translation, movie reviews, North American New Right, philosophy, Plato, postmodernism, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, reprints | Leave a comment

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Postmodernisme, hédonisme, et mort

Greg Johnson

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Hieronymus Bosch, « Le jardin des délices terrestres », panneau de droite, détail

1,285 words

English original here

« Postmodernisme » est l’un de ces mots passe-partout académiquement à la mode, comme « paradigme » qui s’est maintenant répandu dans le discours moyennement intellectuel et même peu intellectuel. Read more …

Published: January 16, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, culture, death, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism | Leave a comment

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 83
The Pursuit of Happiness
An Overview of the Course

Greg Johnson

28:24 / 154 words

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Beginning in August of 1999, I gave a series of eight lectures on “The Pursuit of Happiness: Read more …

Published: January 15, 2014 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Ayn Rand, Buddhism, Callicles, Confucius, detachment, duty, Epictetus, ethics, Friedrich Nietzsche, harmony, Immanuel Kant, living well, Michel de Montaigne, moral philosophy, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, Socrates, Stoicism, Taoism, The Pursuit of Happiness, William James | Leave a comment

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 68
What Socrates Knew:
Plato’s Gorgias, Part 10 of 10

Greg Johnson

32:49 / 334 words

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In August of 1999, I started an eight-week lecture course called “What Socrates Knew: Plato on Art, Wisdom, and Happiness.” Read more …

Published: December 4, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Callicles, ethics, Gorgias, Greg Johnson, living well, morality, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, rhetoric, self-actualization, Socrates, The Republic, the Sophists | 1 Response

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 66
What Socrates Knew:
Plato’s Gorgias, Part 9 of 10

Greg Johnson

49:17 / 335 words

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Published: November 27, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Callicles, ethics, Gorgias, Greg Johnson, living well, morality, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, rhetoric, self-actualization, Socrates, the Sophists | 1 Response

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 64
What Socrates Knew:
Plato’s Gorgias, Part 8 of 10

Greg Johnson

31:11 / 335 words

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Published: November 20, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Callicles, ethics, Gorgias, Greg Johnson, living well, morality, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, rhetoric, self-actualization, Socrates, the Sophists | Leave a comment

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 62
What Socrates Knew:
Plato’s Gorgias, Part 7 of 10

Greg Johnson

30:08 / 395 words

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Note: After a long hiatus, we will be running philosophy lectures on Wednesdays again. Read more …

Published: November 13, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Alcibiades, Ayn Rand, Callicles, egoism, ethics, evil, Gorgias, Greg Johnson, living well, morality, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, rhetoric, self-actualization, Socrates, the Sophists | Leave a comment

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Interview with Chip Smith on Anti-Natalism, Cosmic Pessimism, & his Plans for the Future

Greg Johnson

5,020 words

The conclusion of my interview with Chip Smith of Nine-Banded Books deals with anti-natalism, cosmic pessimism, H. P. Lovecraft, Hollister Kopp’s Gun Fag Manifesto, and other future 9BB publications.

Anti-natalism is the theme of two of your titles: Jim Crawford’s Confessions of an Antinatalist and the forthcoming title by Sarah Perry, Every Cradle is a Grave. What attracts you to anti-natalism? Read more …

Published: August 22, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ann Sterzinger, anti-natalism, Chip Smith, David Lynch, dysgenics, ethics, Greg Johnson, H. P. Lovecraft, interviews, Jim Goad, Murray Rothbard, Nine-Banded Books, North American New Right, NVSQVAM (nowhere), originals, pessimism, philosophy, Thomas Ligotti | 18 Responses

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Postmodernism, Hedonism, & Death

Greg Johnson

Hieronymus Bosch, “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” right panel, detail

1,155 words

French translation here

“Postmodernism” is one of those academically fashionable weasel words like “paradigm” that have now seeped into middlebrow and even lowbrow discourse. Those of us who have fundamental and principled critiques of modernity quickly learned that postmodernism is not nearly postmodern enough. Read more …

Published: March 14, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, culture, death, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism | 10 Responses

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Pulp Fiction, Part 2

Trevor Lynch

3,817 words

Part 2 of 2

Read Part 1 here

The Gold Watch

We first encounter boxer Butch Coolidge at the beginning of Part 3, “Vincent Vega and Marsellus Wallace’s Wife.” The setting is a tittie bar owned by Marsellus Wallace. Read more …

Published: July 6, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, honor, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, postmodernism, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, warrior ethics | 15 Responses

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Pulp Fiction

Trevor Lynch

8,354 words

Parts 1 & 2; Czech translation here

Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction is one of my favorite movies. I didn’t want to like it. I didn’t even want to see it. Everything I’d heard made me think it would be thoroughly nihilistic and quite unpleasant. But then someone at a party described Pulp Fiction as a movie about “greatness of soul at the end of history,” and that caught my attention, Read more …