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The Word Liberals Can’t Stand to Hear

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Each summer, Hungary’s currently ruling party, Fidesz, holds its Bálványos Summer Open University and Student Camp in Tusnádfürdő (Băile Tuşnad), Transylvania. Read more …

Published: July 29, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2019 European parliamentary elections, articles, Christianity, European Union, Fidesz, Hungary, liberalism, North American New Right, reprints, Viktor Orbán | 2 Responses

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Can a New Elite Save Us?
Martin Gurri’s The Revolt of the Public & the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

Donald Thoresen

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Martin Gurri
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
San Francisco: Stripe Press, 2018

Though the recent wave of social media censorship has been particularly harsh, those active in Rightist politics are well aware that the struggle between corporate and governmental information controllers and political dissidents is not new. Read more …

Published: July 15, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authority, book reviews, Donald Thoresen, elites, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, social media | Leave a comment

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Video of the Day
Viktor Orbán: Say Goodbye to the Elite of ’68

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This a complete video, with English subtitles, of Viktor Orbán’s recent speech in Transylvania, in which he highlighted his accomplishments and outlined a vision of a renewed Central Europe pursuing its own geopolitical interests, but also being a region based on illiberalism, national sovereignty, and Christian values, as well as the rejection of non-European immigration and the values of the ’68 generation. Orbán’s annual summer speeches in Transylvania are always his clearest statements of his ideological goals. The text is here.

Published: September 14, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged European Union, Fidesz, Hungary, migrant crisis, video of the day, Viktor Orbán | 10 Responses

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Kulturkampf in Hungary:
Goodbye “Gender Studies” – & It’s Only the Beginning

Ferenc Almássy

Viktor Orbán with a copy of Douglas Murray’s anti-immigration book, The Strange Death of Europe.

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The teaching of “gender studies” is no longer allowed in Hungary. This is part of an important cultural and ideological war that is redrawing the political, cultural, and intellectual landscape of the country.

It happened in the middle of August: Students who have begun a course in “gender studies” at a Hungarian institution will be able to finish it, but no new courses will henceforth be permitted to start. Read more …

Published: August 28, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, culture war, Ferenc Almássy, Fidesz, Hungary, North American New Right, reprints, Viktor Orbán, Visegrád Post | 4 Responses

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Say Goodbye to the Entire Elite of ’68:
Viktor Orbán’s New Project

Viktor Orbán

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The following is a translation of the full text of the speech that was given by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the 29th Bálványos Summer Open University and Student Camp on July 28, 2018, in Tusnádfürdő (Băile Tuşnad), Transylvania. Read more …

Published: August 8, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, European Union, Hungary, mass immigration, North American New Right, reprints, Russia, Ukraine, Viktor Orbán | 8 Responses

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Démocrature:
Nazi Concept Welcomed into French Language

Guillaume Durocher

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It’s that time of year. The French dictionaries Le Petit Larousse and Le Petit Robert (don’t ask me why they are called “petit,” they are huge) are adding various neologisms and foreign loanwords to our beloved langue de Céline.

My interest was particularly piqued by the following new entry: Read more …