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The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Four

4,672 words

We ended our last installment in the midst of the pivotal scene in the Tides Restaurant. There, we met Mrs. Bundy, a droll parody of modern, Western, pig-headed scientism. With arch condescension, she refuses to believe Melanie’s stories about the bird attacks. “Impossible!” Mrs. Bundy declares. “Their brain pans aren’t large enough. . . Really, let’s be logical about this,” Read more …

Published: June 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, art, articles, being, das Ereignis, Derek Hawthorne, destiny, Martin Heidegger, modernity, movie reviews, nature, North American New Right, originals, paradigm shifts, philosophy, psychology, scientism, The Birds, Transcendence | 4 Responses

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Heidegger without Being

Greg Johnson

2,101 words

The following brief introduction to Martin Heidegger’s philosophy does not discuss the concept of Being (Sein), simply because there’s no need to.

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Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards:
Revisiting Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard Address

Spencer J. Quinn

Solzhenitsyn at Harvard, 1978

2,508 words

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s address at Harvard in June 1978 (video here), which was initially entitled “The Exhausted West” before being renamed “A World Split Apart” when it was published in book form, caused quite a stir among the Americans. Read more …

Published: June 21, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, articles, freedom, human rights, materialism, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, the United States, white guilt | 11 Responses

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Temný rytíř

Trevor Lynch

3,028 words

English original here

Ve své recenzi Nolanova Batman začíná (Batman Begins, 2005) jsem napsal, že film dosahuje dramatického konfliktu navýšením sázek až do krajnosti: zničení moderního světa (ztělesněného Gotham City) tradicionalistickou Ligou stínů vs. jeho zachování a „progresivní“ vylepšení, o něž usiluje Batman.

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Plato’s Crito, Part 1

Greg Johnson

6,489 words

Antonio Canova, “Crito Closes the Eyes of Socrates,” detail

Part 1 of 2

Author’s Note:

The following text is based on a transcript by V. S. of a lecture on Plato’s Crito. As usual, I have edited his transcript to remove excessive wordiness. I have also added a few lines. Read more …

Published: February 26, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Crito, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, Socrates, The Trial of Socrates | Leave a comment

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 58
Bill Hopkins & the Angry Young Men

Jonathan Bowden

Bill Hopkins, 1928–2011

59:34 / 9,640 words

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Editor’s Note:

The following text is transcript by V. S. of a lecture by Jonathan Bowden given at the 7th New Right meeting in London on April 8, 2006 entitled “Bill Hopkins: An Anti-Humanist Life.” Read more …

Published: July 26, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Albert Camus, articles, Bill Hopkins, Colin Wilson, egalitarianism, fascism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jonathan Bowden, modern art, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, political correctness, Robert Brasillach, Stuart Holroyd, the Angry Young Men, The Divine and the Decay, white dispossession | 3 Responses

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The Dark Knight

Trevor Lynch

3,987 mots

English original here

Dans ma critique du Batman Begins de Christopher Nolan, j’ai affirmé que le film génère un conflit spectaculaire autour des enjeux les plus élevés qui soient : la destruction du monde moderne (symbolisé par Gotham City) par la “Ligue des Ombres” Traditionaliste contre sa préservation et son amélioration “progressive” par Batman.

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The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 4
The Construction of the Western Self

Collin Cleary

Clemency of Marcus Aurelius, detail, Capitoline Museum

3,381 words

Part 4 of 5

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011

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Christopher Nolan’s Batman Movies:
Weaponizing Traditionalism, Transvaluing Values

Trevor Lynch

Christopher Nolan

4,936 words

Editor’s Note:

Unless you’re living in Tora Bora, you probably know that Christopher Nolan’s third Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, is coming out this week. Read more …

Published: July 16, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged artistocracy, Batman, Batman Begins, Batman movie review, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, cyclical history, Dark Knight Trilogy, death, egalitarianism, ethics, Friedrich Nietzsche, Guillermo del Toro, Heath Ledger, Hellboy, Hellboy II, Julius Evola, Martin Heidegger, Miguel Serrano, modernity, morality, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Rene Guénon, Savitri Devi, superheroes, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, The Dark Knight Rises review, the Joker, the League of Shadows, Traditionalism, Trevor Lynch | 22 Responses

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The Dark Knight

Trevor Lynch

3,650 words

Translations: Czech, French

In my review of Christoper Nolan’s Batman Begins, I argued that the movie generates a dramatic conflict around the highest of stakes: the destruction of the modern world (epitomized by Gotham City) by the Traditionalist “League of Shadows” versus its preservation and “progressive” improvement by Batman.

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Humanflood

Pentti Linkola

2,025 words

Translated by Harri Heinonen and Michael Moynihan

Introduction by Michael Moynihan:

Is Pentti Linkola posing the most dangerous thoughts mankind has ever considered? Or is he this planet’s only remaining voice of sanity? Living an ascetic existence as a fisherman in a remote rural region of his frigid homeland, the Finnish philosopher has pondered mankind’s position vis-à-vis the earth it inhabits and dares to utter the unspeakable. Read more …

Published: September 1, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropocentrism, articles, ecology, environmentalism, Michael Moynihan, North American New Right, Pentti Linkola, philosophy, reprints, translations | 11 Responses

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Trevor Lynch

The Angel of Death

1,511 words

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) looks like director Guillermo del Toro’s audition for The Hobbit. (He got the job, but backed out because of scheduling problems with the studio.) The root mythology is Tolkienesque: In remotest antiquity, elves, trolls, and other beings shared the earth with mankind. The visual style is pure Peter Jackson: The elves look like Tolkien/Peter Jackson elves; the trolls look like Tolkien/Peter Jackson trolls; etc.

Published: August 20, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropocentrism, ecology, environmentalism, graphic novels and comics, Guillermo del Toro, Hellboy, movie reviews, originals, superheroes, Trevor Lynch | Comments closed

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Pentti Linkola’s Can Life Prevail?

Diord Fionn

1,020 words

Pentti Linkola
Can Life Prevail? A Radical Approach to the Environmental Crisis
Trans. Eetu Rautio and Olli S.
London: Arktos, 2009

Little known outside of Scandinavia, Pentti Linkola is a voice that deserves a wide audience. He is revered amongst radical environmentalists for his uncompromising stance on a variety of issues and for his works that show the breadth of his vision.