Tag Archives: Italy

Porco Rosso:
The Italian Batman

Buttercup Dew

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Porco Rosso is one of the more famous Studio Ghibli films, released in 1992. It is the midpoint of an unofficial Miyazaki trilogy examining flight as a method of personal and national liberation, beginning with 1989’s Kiki’s Delivery Service, and concluding with 2013’s The Wind Rises. Porco Rosso is the strongest of the three, being bright, bold, and easy to follow whilst touching on more serious themes than its premise might suggest. Read more …

Published: May 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, anime, articles, aviation, Batman, Buttercup Dew, movie reviews, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, piracy, self-actualization, the Balkans, the Joker, vigilantism, World War I | 1 Response

Approaching D’Annunzio

Margot Metroland

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Reviewing a story collection in 1925, an American critic compared Gabriele d’Annunzio’s influence on the Italian mindset to that of Rudyard Kipling in England. “[T]o understand him is to understand pre-war and immediately post-war Italy.” [1] That sort of remark is almost inaccessible to us today; when we think of the Great War, if we think of the Great War at all, we surely don’t automatically think of Kipling or d’Annunzio. That is one hurdle in approaching d’Annunzio today. Read more …

Published: March 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Artists of the Right, Benito Mussolini, commemorations, Ernest Hemingway, Fiume, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, poetry | Leave a comment

Remembering Gabriele D’Annunzio:
March 12, 1863–March 1, 1938

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Today is the birthday of Gabriele D’Annunzio, novelist, poet, playwright, aesthete, dandy, playboy, war hero, and the first fascist dictator, who from 1919 to 1920 ruled over the Adriatic city-state of Fiume, establishing many of the political and aesthetic forms followed by Mussolini a few years later.

To learn more about D’Annunzio’s life and accomplishments, see the following works on this site: Read more …

Published: March 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, fascism, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right | Leave a comment

La Dolce Vita

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“What is in store for my children tomorrow?”
— Steiner, from the movie La Dolce Vita (1961)

I was staying in Neive, a tiny red-roofed Piedmont village caught in a time-warp, where the traditions and ingrained habits of centuries, like the rolling vine-clad hills, remain unchanged. Read more …

Published: March 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, coronavirus, COVID-19, Fenek Solère, Giuseppe Conte, North American New Right, novel coronavirus, originals | 9 Responses

The Talented Mr. Ripley & Purple Noon

Trevor Lynch

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Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) has been one of my favorite films since I saw it on the big screen while living in darkest Atlanta. A few years later, post-red pill, I bought the DVD and was struck anew at the brilliance of the script, performances, and direction. But I was also struck by the sheer whiteness of this film, which is set in 1958 and 1959 in New York City and Italy (Rome, Venice, the Bay of Naples). There’s nothing new about the idea of “escapist” entertainment. Read more …

Published: March 6, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, crime dramas, movie reviews, reprints, sociopathy, the 1960s, Trevor Lynch | 19 Responses

Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & the Western Liberal Tradition:
Aristocratic Individualism

Ricardo Duchesne

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In Part 1 of my detailed examination of Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future (2019) I covered MacDonald’s argument in chapter one that Europe’s founding peoples consisted of three population groups: Read more …

Published: February 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, book reviews, citizenship, ethnicity, Greece, history, individualism, Kevin MacDonald, kinship, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne | 15 Responses

Et tu, Brute?

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In what is quite clearly emerging as a worldwide Deep State tactic to hamstring the rise of national populism wherever “the system” sees it raising its ugly head, we have — closely following the Trump impeachment saga and the arraignment of Marine Le Pen for posting violent ISIS images on her Twitter account — the withdrawal of the right to immunity for Matteo Salvini, Read more …

Published: February 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Fenek Solère, Giuseppe Conte, Lega, Matteo Salvini, migrant crisis, North American New Right, originals, the League | 14 Responses

Valentine’s Day Special:
Alessandra Mussolini’s Amore

Scott Weisswald

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It’s February 14th, and love is in the air. What better way to soundtrack today’s romantic escapades than with Alessandra Mussolini — the granddaughter of Il Duce himself — and her sultry, Japanese-released city-pop record, Amore?

Released in 1982 exclusively for the Japanese market, Read more …

Published: February 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Japan, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, pop music, romance, Scott Weisswald, Valentine's Day | 3 Responses

Veni, Vidi, Vici

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Piazza del Duomo de Milano, Italy

“The legionary spirit is that fire of one who will choose the hardest road, who will fight to the death even when all is already lost.” — Julius Evola Read more …

Published: February 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Fenek Solère, Giuseppe Conte, Italian fascism, Matteo Salvini, North American New Right, originals, ultras | 5 Responses

Crossing the Rubicon

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“Sardines” rally in Bologna. (Andreas Solaro, for AFP.)

“Ālea iacta est” — “The die has been cast” — Julius Caesar.

My heart sank when I saw the flash mob, nicknamed the Sardines, crowding the 15th-century Piazza Maggiore in Bologna to oppose Matteo Salvini’s Lega campaign launch in the PalaDozza, waving their banners and chanting their slogan: “Bologna non si Lega!” Read more …

Published: February 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Fenek Solère, illegal immigration, immigration, Lega, Matteo Salvini, North American New Right, originals, refugee crisis, the League | 10 Responses

Ash Donaldson’s Brother War

Spencer J. Quinn

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Ash Donaldson
Brother War: A Modern Myth for Those of European Descent
Independently published, 2019
More of Donaldson’s work is available through the White Art Collective.

Ash Donaldson’s latest novel Brother War: A Modern Myth for Those of European Descent combines the best of history, myth, and fantasy to spin an unforgettable story about World War I. Not only is it his best novel to date, but Brother War is also the first in his Mythology Series designed for an adult audience. Read more …

Published: February 6, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ash Donaldson, book reviews, European history, First World War, literature, myth, North American New Right, originals, Romania, Spencer Quinn, World War I | 10 Responses

Pinocchio: The Face of Fascism

Margot Metroland

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Extraordinary! There are three—maybe four—Pinocchio films now in development or newly released. They all promise to reveal dark, hitherto unexplored aspects of the famous marionette’s saga. One is a Robert Downey Jr. project that’s been hemming and hawing since about 2012. Initially Downey was planning to play both Geppetto and the title role. Now he’s older, so he’ll just play Geppetto. A new live-action Pinocchio premiered last month in Italy. Read more …

Published: January 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cartoons, children's literature, Disney, fascism, Guillermo del Toro, Margot Metroland, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals | 8 Responses

The Leopard

Trevor Lynch

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Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece is his 1963 historical epic The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, which actually refers to a smaller spotted wild cat, the serval, which is the heraldic animal of the princes of Salina in Sicily). Visconti’s film is a remarkably faithful adaptation of the 1958 novel of the same name by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. The Leopard became the best-selling Italian novel of all time, carrying off many critical laurels as well. Read more …

Published: August 27, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, Luchino Visconti, monarchy, movie reviews, National Populism, North American New Right, originals, Trevor Lynch | 5 Responses

Populism & Neo-Thatcherism:
Why Economics is Crucial for the Dissident Right

Eordred

Jair Bolsonaro

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Populism is an oft-discussed topic in political circles of all stripes, and us dissidents tend to look at it as the best chance at present to put any sort of identitarian ideas into the mainstream, or at the very least as the best chance of stopping mass migration. I wrote a report on the state of populism in Europe not long ago for that very reason.

As I said in that article, there is no “fixed” populist platform; merely a handful of ideas that unite parties under the populist label. These are mainly anti-elitism, anti-immigration, and an appeal in some form to disprivileged native populations. Quite often, it is also simply a matter of the media deciding to call someone or some party populist.

Published: May 2, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Brazil, debt, debt crisis, Donald Trump, economic policy, economics, Éordred, European Union, Matteo Salvini, North American New Right, originals, populism | 12 Responses

Of Arpeggios & Architecture

Venice Inflatable Refugee, an “art project” that was on display in Venice in 2016

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I loved her from my boyhood – she to me
Was as a fairy city of the heart
Rising like water-columns from the sea.
— Lord Byron

The cupola of St. Mark’s basilica glows against the midnight-blue sky as I follow in Monet’s wake, sailing on a bobbing gondola that is being showered by flickering light, reflecting outward across the windless lagoon through medieval arched windows. Read more …

Published: April 23, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Fenek Solère, mass immigration, migrant crisis, North American New Right, originals, Venice | 2 Responses

We Can’t Trust Conservatives

Robert Hampton

Martin Sellner

1,885 words

The center-right government of Austria persecutes Identitarians. The center-Right government of Poland bans Identitarians.

Both governments are seen by many Identitarians as models for nationalist governance, Poland in particular. Read more …

Published: April 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Austria, conservatives, cuckservatism, France, Identitarians, Law and Justice Party, North American New Right, originals, Poland, Robert Hampton, Russia, Sebastian Kurz, Vladimir Putin, white nationalism | 15 Responses

Remembering Gabriele D’Annunzio:
March 12, 1863–March 1, 1938

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Published: March 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, fascism, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right | 14 Responses

The State of European Populism

Eordred

Viktor Orbán & Matteo Salvini

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Since the American Alt Right fell apart, many commentators and outlets which formerly identified as “Alt Right” have started pointing towards European populism as an example to follow, and are often heard to say that the nationalist cause is much further ahead in Europe. As a European, I would like to comment on this, based on the Dutch populist movement, which is relatively strong for a Western European country. Read more …

Published: January 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alternative for Germany, articles, Austria, Belgium, Éordred, European Union, Euroskepticism, Fidesz, France, Front National, Geert Wilders, Germany, Hungary, Lega, Matteo Salvini, North American New Right, originals, Poland, populism, Sweden, Sweden Democrats, the Netherlands, UKIP, United Kingdom, Viktor Orbán | 11 Responses

Italy, Mussolini, & Fascism

Emil Cioran

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Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: This has been retranslated from a French translation. I have improved the paragraphing. The title is editorial. Source: Emil Cioran, Apologie de la barbarie: Berlin-Bucarest 1932–1941 (Paris: L’Herne, 2015), “L’Italie est-elle une grande puissance ?,” pp. 203-209. Originally published in Vremea, May 31, 1936.

Published: January 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Benito Mussolini, Emil Cioran, French translations, Guillaume Durocher, Italian fascism, North American New Right, originals | 2 Responses

Partying in Rome:
La Grande Bellezza

Guillaume Durocher

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I am always astounded by how bad the films playing in mainstream cinemas look and, when I occasionally go to see them, I often find that my initial impressions based on the ads or a synopsis were fully justified. So when I enjoy a fairly recent film, it is noteworthy. Read more …

Published: October 26, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Guillaume Durocher, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Rome | 2 Responses

Now in Audio Version!
Mussolini, or the Will to Power

Michael Walker

5,082 words / 33:16

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Werner Bräuninger
DUX: Mussolini, oder Der Wille zur Macht
Graz: Ares Verlag, 2018 Read more …

Published: July 20, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Benito Mussolini, book reviews, dictatorship, Italian fascism, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, war | 8 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 219
The Populist Wave in Europe

Counter-Currents Radio

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What Would Evola Do?

John Morgan

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The follow is the text of the talk that Counter-Currents editor John Morgan delivered to The New York Forum on May 20, 2017.

Tonight I thought I’d talk about Julius Evola, since yesterday (May 19) was his 119th birthday, and I have overseen the publication of many of Evola’s texts in English. Read more …

Published: May 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fascism, German Idealism, Italian fascism, John Morgan, Julius Evola, Kali Yuga, National Socialism, North American New Right, racialism, Rene Guénon, reprints, Second World War, The New York Forum, Traditionalism | 9 Responses

Remembering Gabriele D’Annunzio:
March 12, 1863–March 1, 1938

Mussolini with D’Annunzio

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Published: March 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, fascism, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right | 1 Response

Europe & Europa

John Bruce Leonard

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The embattled vote on Catalan independence in Spain has turned the thoughts of many to the spiny problem of peoples and fatherlands. This is a subject, of course, which frequently touches our discourses in the New Right. It is fitting this should be so, given the weight we tend to put on “identity,” “sovereignty,” “nationhood,” “peoples,” and like concepts. Read more …

Published: October 3, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Catalan Independence, ethnonationalism, European unity, John Bruce Leonard, New Right, North American New Right, originals, pan-Europeanism | 6 Responses

What Would Evola Do?

John Morgan

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The follow is the text of the talk that Counter-Currents editor John Morgan delivered to The New York Forum on Saturday.

Tonight I thought I’d talk about Julius Evola, since yesterday (May 19) was his 119th birthday, and I have overseen the publication of many of Evola’s texts in English. Read more …

Published: May 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fascism, German Idealism, Italian fascism, John Morgan, Julius Evola, Kali Yuga, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, racialism, Rene Guénon, Second World War, The New York Forum, Traditionalism | 7 Responses

Remembering Gabriele D’Annunzio:
March 12, 1863–March 1, 1938

Mussolini with D’Annunzio.

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Published: March 12, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, fascism, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right | 5 Responses

Ezra Pound’s Jefferson and/or Mussolini

Adam Franz

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Ezra Pound
Jefferson and/or Mussolini
London: Stanley Nott Ltd., 1935

Ezra Pound liked his books charged with meaning. “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand,” he wrote in his Guide to Kulchur, another one of his, shall we say, B-Sides.

Published: December 20, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Benito Mussolini, book reviews, Ezra Pound, fascism, Jefferson and/or Mussolini, North American New Right, originals, populism, Thomas Jefferson | 3 Responses