Tag Archives: identity politics

A Trump Victory?
Don’t Blame White Guys

Jim Goad

1,346 words

In what might prove to be the most hilarious upset in electoral history, the “Nazi” candidate may have won a second term solely by increasing his support among every group except for white males — thus allowing all the “Nazis” the pleasure of blaming women and nonwhites even in victory!

Is this what they mean by a “win-win”? Read more …

Published: November 5, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 presidential election, articles, demographics, Donald Trump, Jim Goad, North American New Right, originals, white dispossession | 38 Responses

Wignat Whexit:
Why “Punishing” the Republicans Won’t Change Them

1,428 words

In 2016, Donald Trump ran as a populist and won. In 2020, his bid for re-election followed the standard Republican playbook. There was a lot of talk about the stock market, very little populist talk about immigration, globalization, and protectionism. Read more …

Published: November 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 presidential election, articles, censorship, Donald Trump, elections, free speech, Greg Johnson, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, the Republican party, white identity politics | 34 Responses

The Heroes We Need or the Heroes We Deserve?
Political Fiction in the Shadow of the 2020 Election

James J. O'Meara

2,386 words

Anonymous
Angry White Man
Free Future, 2020

Gerald McManus
Dark Millennium: A Visionary Tale
Ceshore Pub Co, 2001

Because he’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. Read more …

Published: October 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, culture, genocide, Gerald McManus, intelligence, James J. O'Meara, meritocracy, North American New Right, originals, political fiction, white dispossession | 8 Responses

Three Pillars of White Identity Politics:
Part 3: Love of One’s Own

2,582 words

Part 1, Part 2

“This is who we are” is the final argument of identity politics. “Who we are” is a compound of kinship and culture. But identity is politically impotent unless a people is willing to assert itself, to take its own side in a fight. Read more …

Published: October 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, borders, Greg Johnson, identity, immigration, meritocracy, North American New Right, objectivity, originals, reason, thumos, trade, white identity politics | 7 Responses

Trump, for Lack of Something Better

Alain de Benoist

Phil Eiger Newmann, Don’t Tread on Us, 2020.

971 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

The US presidential election is fast approaching. Personally, do you want Donald Trump to be re-elected? Would a second term of this president please you, if only to see the faces of his opponents, American and European?

Alain de Benoist: I would like his re-election, but by default, for lack of something better. As you know, this character doesn’t thrill me that much. Read more …

Published: October 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 presidential election, Alain de Benoist, articles, Donald Trump, Europe, Foreign Policy, France, geopolitics, in translation, Israel, North American New Right, reprints, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey | 13 Responses

Three Pillars of White Identity Politics:
Part 1: Kinship

2,386 words

Part 1 of 3

Author’s Note:

This lecture was written for the Scandza Forum in Zagreb, Croatia, on May 2, 2020. Unfortunately, the event was postponed due to Covid-19. Read more …

Published: October 7, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ethnonationalism, Greg Johnson, kinship, multiculturalism, nation-state, North American New Right, originals, race, the law | 5 Responses

Notes on Populism

Norman Rockwell, Study for “Freedom of Speech”

3,380 words

Populism seeks to rescue popular government from corrupt elites. Naturally, the elites strike back. The most common accusation from elite commentators is that populism is “anti-democratic.” As Yascha Mounk frames it, populism is “the people vs. democracy.” I argue that populism is not anti-democratic, but it is anti-liberal. (See Donald Thoresen’s review of Mounk’s The People vs. Democracy here.)

Many critics of populism accuse it of being a form of white identity politics, Read more …

Published: August 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, democracy, elitism, Greg Johnson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, populism | 6 Responses

How Plessy v. Ferguson Came About

Morris V. de Camp

1,629 words

Steve Luxenberg
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, And America’s Journey From Slavery to Segregation
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019

Steve Luxenberg is a Washington Post associate editor and protégé of the Watergate reporter Bob Woodward. In 2019, he published a book called Separate, which describes the Read more …

Published: June 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abolitionism, articles, book reviews, Civil Rights, desegregation, Jim Crow laws, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, segregation, the Civil War | 2 Responses

Rockefeller Foundation Declares Support for Black Riots

Kerry Bolton

3,811 words

It is fashionable, even among Rightist intelligentsia, to dismiss “conspiracy theories.” In doing so, one overlooks the covert forces that are funding — and always have funded — the forces of pseudo-revolt. These oligarchic sponsors are not fools or dupes, whose funds have been “taken over” by their anti-capitalist enemies, as was once assumed by conservatives during the Cold War. Since the establishment of the tax-exempt foundations over a century ago, the aims have been to promote what is now called a globalized “inclusive economy.” Read more …

Published: June 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, capitalism, globalization, identity, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right, oligarchy, originals, plutocracy, the civil rights movement, the Rockefeller Foundation, white privilege, woke capital | 13 Responses

They Do This Because They Can

2,239 words

On January 18th, 2016, a white police officer named Philip Brailsford shot and killed an unarmed man named Daniel Shaver in Mesa, Arizona. Shaver had been in a hotel room where he innocently pointed a pellet gun towards his window. A witness called the police, who arrived and found Read more …

Published: June 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, antifa, antifascists, articles, Black Lives Matter, Civil War, George Floyd, North American New Right, originals, polarization, racial polarization, riots, Spencer J. Quinn, violence | 42 Responses

Sexual Predators & Autistic Monkeys: Mary Eberstadt’s Primal Screams

Margot Metroland

2,339 words

Mary Eberstadt
Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics
West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2019

Mary Tedeschi Eberstadt is a onetime speechwriter for George Schultz, author of several books, sometime fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institute, and currently senior fellow at something called the Faith & Reason Institute. Read more …

Published: May 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged #MeToo, articles, atomization, book reviews, Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, Margot Metroland, morality, North American New Right, originals, sexual revolution, the family | 12 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 272
The Bernie Bro Question

Travis LeBlanc

Have I gotta deal for you!

152 words / 16:53, 21:12, 18:31

“The Bernie Bro Question, Part 1: Exit Stage Left“

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“The Bernie Bro Question, Part 2: Rebels Without a Candidate” Read more …

Published: May 6, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged 2020 Democratic primaries, 2020 presidential election, Alternative Left, Andrew Anglin, Anna Khachiyan, articles, Bernie Bros, Bernie Sanders, Chapo Trap House, class politics, Communism, Counter-Currents Radio, cultural Marxism, dirtbag left, entryism, Joe Biden, left-right alliance, Marxism, materialism, Mencius Moldbug, Mike Enoch, national bolshevism, neoliberalism, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, red-brown alliance, Richard Spencer, socialism, The Right Stuff, Travis LeBlanc | 6 Responses

The Bernie Bro Question, Part 2:
Rebels Without a Candidate

Travis LeBlanc

3,360 words

Some in the Dissident Right have pined for and predicted a mass defection from the materialist Left to the Dissident Right.

Of course, people have been talking about a theoretical Bernie Bro-to-Dissident Right pipeline since at least 2016, if not earlier. Read more …

Published: April 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alternative Left, Anna Khachiyan, articles, Bernie Sanders, class politics, Communism, dirtbag left, left-right alliance, Marxism, materialism, Mencius Moldbug, national bolshevism, North American New Right, originals, red-brown alliance, socialism, Travis LeBlanc | 15 Responses

The Plot Against America First
Part Two: Des Moines

Giles Corey

5,156 words

Lindbergh saw through the events of his day. In his speeches, all of which he spent hours carefully crafting by himself, he often spoke of an “organized minority” that was behind the war agitation. He saw that the dark forces swiftly forcing us into war had power, influence, and volume, Read more …

Published: April 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Charles Lindbergh, espionage, essays, geopolitics, Giles Corey, international relations, Jewish influence, Jews in the media, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, The Plot Against America | 11 Responses

Thoughts on the Moral Majority

Morris V. de Camp

1,422 words

Cal Thomas & Ed Dobson
Blinded by Might: Can the Religious Right Save America?
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1999

The late Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) [1] was a politically-involved preacher. He was not much different from the abolitionist ministers in New England active a century before his birth. In 1979, Falwell founded an organization called the Moral Majority. It would serve as the “far-right” in the mainstream American political ecosystem Read more …

Published: April 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, religion, the civil rights movement, the Republican party | 13 Responses

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

Beau Albrecht

1,721 words

If you’ve never heard of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, then you’re missing out on one of the leading lights of contemporary literature. If you don’t appreciate her, then you’re a bigger Philistine than the Biblical Goliath. If you’ve ever wondered what Dostoyevsky would be like if he was reincarnated as a Nigerian lady in modern times, or imagined Shakespeare with boobs and an Afro, then this is the one. Read more …

Published: April 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Africa, articles, Beau Albrecht, Blacks in America, book reviews, immigration, Nigeria, North American New Right, originals | 6 Responses

Tyler O’Neil’s Making Hate Pay

2,845 words

Tyler O’Neil
Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center
New York: Bombardier Books, 2020

There’s a moment in the film 300 in which the Spartan defenders at Thermopylae allow their allies, the Arcadians, to take on the Persians. Despite recognizing their weaknesses as soldiers, King Leonidas begrudgingly gives the Arcadians credit for taking part in the fight. This is about how I felt upon reading Tyler O’Neil’s Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Read more …

Published: March 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged antifa, articles, book reviews, Charlottesville, Christianity, Jews in America, Ku Klux Klan, North American New Right, originals, Southern Poverty Law Center, Spencer J. Quinn, SPLC, the Jewish question | 6 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 249
Immigration: Boon or Punishment?

Counter-Currents Radio

158 words / 59:16

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Greg Johnson, John Morgan, and Frodi reconvene our roundtable to discuss more “normie” questions and objections regarding white identity politics shared by our readers. Read more …

Published: September 23, 2019 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radion, immigration, miscegenation, podcasts, race-mixing, Scandza Forum, white activism | 8 Responses

We Can’t Go Back to the ‘80s:
White Delusions About Identity Politics

Robert Hampton

Obama and MLK, dreaming of America’s “post-racial” future.

1,467 words

“[I]dentity alone should neither uphold nor invalidate an idea, or we’ve lost the Enlightenment to pure tribalism.”

That’s the cry of journalist George Packer, a distraught liberal who can’t believe identity politics ruined his kids’ school system. Read more …

Published: September 19, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Barack Obama, cuckservatism, Martin Luther King, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton | 35 Responses

It’s Time to Wage “War” on Protein Wisdom

2,135 words

Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom hates identity politics. He would like to wage war against it; stamp it out, as it were. The problem, however, is that the weapons he would like to use in this war only point in one direction: against whites. He pretends otherwise, but he’s easy enough to see through.

Fukuyama on Civic Nationalism

3,801 words

In his new book Identity, Francis Fukuyama seeks to forestall the rise of white identity politics. Nevertheless, as I argue in “Fukuyama on Identity Politics,” Identity is a very useful book for White Nationalists because it concedes many of our most important premises. In “Fukuyama on Diversity,” I argue that Fukuyama admits that diversity is a problem and offers only very weak reasons to value it at all. Here I examine Fukuyama’s alternative to white identity politics, namely a conservative form of color-blind civic nationalism. Read more …

Published: January 17, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, book reviews, European Union, Francis Fukuyama, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, identity, North American New Right, originals, Plato, thumos, United States | 10 Responses

Fukuyama on Diversity

3,282 words

Francis Fukuyama’s latest book Identity was written to forestall the rise of Right-wing identity politics, but, as I argued in “Fukuyama on Identity Politics,” the book is actually very useful to White Nationalists because it concedes a number of our basic premises while offering weak reasons to resist our ultimate political conclusions. This is especially apparent in his discussion of diversity.

Fukuyama on Identity Politics

3,837 words

Francis Fukuyama
Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition
London: Profile Books, 2018[1]

Francis Fukuyama is the most eminent living neoconservative intellectual. I have admired and benefitted from his work since 1992, when he published his first book, The End of History and the Last Man. Read more …

Published: January 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, book reviews, Francis Fukuyama, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, identity, North American New Right, originals, Plato, thumos | 7 Responses

A Nice Book by a Nice Lady:
Heather Mac Donald’s The Diversity Delusion

2,922 words

Heather Mac Donald
The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018

How can a struggle be both righteous and meaningless?

The Identitarian Dispensation

2,587 words

Mark Lilla
The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics
New York: Harper, 2017

I have been reading Mark Lilla since the 1990s, when he published his first and best book, G. B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern.[1] Lilla has made a career of reading reactionary thinkers—Vico, Heidegger, Schmitt, Strauss, Voegelin, Read more …

Published: October 4, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, civic nationalism, Greg Johnson, identitarianism, Mark Lilla, neoconservatism, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question | 7 Responses

Now in Audio Version
Identity & the Problem with Christianity

C. B. Robertson

Andrea Mantegna, The Adoration of the Magi, circa 1495-1500

2,843 words / 19:06

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Race is a large component of identity that has been neglected in recent decades, so naturally, identitarians ought to care about race. Read more …

Published: June 25, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged articles, C. B. Robertson, Christianity, identitarianism, North American New Right, originals, podcasts | 78 Responses

The Based Jew Blues
Travis LeBlanc Interviews Frame Game

Frame Game

1,831 words

Who knew there were not one but two racist Jewish lawyers in New York?

Right now, Aaron Schlossberg is having his life ruined for telling some Hispanic restaurant workers to speak English, guilt-tripping them for spending his tax dollars (undoubtedly the most Jewish way to be racist), and then threatening to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement on them. Read more …

Published: May 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged interviews, political correctness, Saul Alinsky, the Jewish question, Travis LeBlanc, white nationalism | 13 Responses

The Nerve to Conserve:
Conservatism & the Right in the Age of Identity Politics

The Godfather of “respectable” conservatism, William F. Buckley, Jr.

1,633 words

Many on the Dissident Right these days like to deride conservatives. Conservatives are seen as the boobs who have been at least nominally in charge of the Republican Party since the end of the Cold War. We all know the names: Newt Gingrich, George W. Bush, John McCain, John Boehner, Mitt Romney, Mitch O’Connell, Paul Ryan, and many others.

Behind them all, pulling their ideological strings, was the Godfather of modern conservatism William F. Buckley and Jewish neocon writers such as William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer. Read more …

Published: February 27, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American politics, articles, boomer conservatism, Left vs. Right, North American New Right, originals, Spencer Quinn | 5 Responses