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Having followed Mad Men from the start, with initial enthusiasm[1] gradually tempered by the increasingly exposed triumphalist agenda,[2] I found the series finale, pumped (or pimped) by the network as “the end of an era,” Read more …

Published: May 18, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alan Watts, James J. O'Meara, Mad Men, North American New Right, originals, the 1960s counter-culture, the Jewish question, TV reviews | 1 Response

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The Corner at the Center of the World:
Traditional Metaphysics in a Late Tale of Henry James

James J. O'Meara

J. P. Morgan

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“The human individual is, at one and the same time, much more and much less than is ordinarily supposed in the West; he is greater by reason of his possibilities of indefinite extension beyond the corporeal modality, . . . but he is also much less since, far from constituting a complete and sufficient being in himself, he is only an exterior manifestation, a fleeting appearance clothing the true being, which in no way affects the essence of the latter in its immutability.” Read more …

Published: October 31, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, H. P. Lovecraft, James J. O'Meara, literature, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Traditionalism | 4 Responses

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More on Henry James & H. P. Lovecraft
The Princess & the Maggot

James J. O'Meara

Henry James, in a 1913 charcoal sketch by John Singer Sargent.

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Although apparently written back in 2008, long before I began writing about James and Lovecraft, I only recently stumbled across this quote from pioneer Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi, which might be said to encapsulate my concern in this series of articles:

The history of Lovecraft’s reputation—his initial rejection by Edmund Wilson and others as a pulp hack; the championing of his work by Derleth, Fritz Leiber, and George T. Wetzel; Read more …

Published: October 17, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, H. P. Lovecraft, James & Lovecraft, James J. O'Meara, literature, New York City, North American New Right, reprints, the Jewish question, white racial consciousness | 4 Responses

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James O’Meara on Henry James & H. P. Lovecraft
The Lesson of the Monster; or, The Great, Good Thing on the Doorstep

James J. O'Meara

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The Annunciation by Simone Martini, 1333

We’ve been very pleased by the response to our essay “The Eldritch Evola,” which was not only picked up by Greg Johnson (whose own Confessions of a Reluctant Hater is out and essential reading) for his estimable website Counter-Currents, but even managed to lurch upwards and lay a terrible, green claw on the bottom rung of the “Top Ten Most Visited Posts” there in January.