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Jerry Rubin
Do It! Scenarios of the Revolution
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970

Much to my surprise, Jerry Rubin has exceeded my expectations. To some, he was the voice of a generation. To others, he’s a symbol of everything that went wrong with some of the Boomers, and in particular the faults of the hippy-dippy counterculture. Read more …

Published: September 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1960s counterculture, anti-capitalism, articles, Beau Albrecht, book reviews, Communism, drugs, hypocrisy, infighting, Jerry Rubin, Jews in America, Jews in literature, North American New Right, originals, political organizing, radicalism, the Jewish question, the left, yippies | 12 Responses

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Philosophical Psychopathy:
Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro”

Beau Albrecht

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Norman Mailer became a much-celebrated author of several novels, some quite dreadful, as well as a founder of The Village Voice. He wrote numerous essays, of which “The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster” became the most famous. It essentially served as an iconic manifesto for the nascent Counterculture. The following is a distillation and analysis of its ponderous sentences and floating abstractions. Read more …

Published: May 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1960s counterculture, America in the 1960s, articles, Beau Albrecht, miscegnation, morality, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism, psychopathy | 13 Responses

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The Ideas of Paul Weyrich

Morris V. de Camp

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Paul M. Weyrich & William S. Lind
The Next Conservatism: Paul Weyrich’s Last Testament
South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine’s Press, 2009

Paul Weyrich (1942 — 2008) was a profoundly influential conservative, dare I say, right-wing activist. He was born and raised in Wisconsin and was a Catholic who rejected the Vatican II reforms. His last book before his death is called The Next Conservatism. It was published in 2009, Read more …

Published: April 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America in the 1960s, articles, book reviews, Civil Rights Movement, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals | 3 Responses

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Tragedy as Comedy:
The Downfall of Jim Ignatowski

Spencer J. Quinn

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I remember being fascinated by an episode of the TV series Taxi as a kid. It was the one which offers the origin story of the frazzled, drug-addled cabbie Jim Ignatowski, who was memorably played by Christopher Lloyd. Even at such a young age, I was aware of hippies, drugs, and their prominence in the 1960s. Read more …