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“Many no longer doubt the possibility of a world crisis. . .” These words seem entirely appropriate for our current interesting times, but were actually written almost exactly a hundred years ago. For the generation which produced the author, the great French metaphysician René Guénon, they would only have to wait just over a decade for their crisis, which took the form of World War 2. What will our crisis be? (more…)
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The word “technocracy” has recently become firmly established in Western political and media discourse. It’s tempting to define it as “rule by technology”, but that begs the question. The Ancient Greek word technē is the root of both modern words, “technology” and “technocracy”, and it means “to make or do, fashion or create.” (more…)
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Joseph Scotchie
Samuel T. Francis and Revolution from the Middle
Shotwell Publishing, 2025
Joseph Scotchie has produced a short, easily digested biography of Samuel T. Francis (1947-2005). It will be especially profitable reading for the many younger people now attracted to white racial defense and the dissident right, but not well-informed about their history. The author appears to have relied largely on published sources, and I have heard surprise expressed at his failure to conduct interviews with some of the people Sam worked most closely with, especially during his last years. (more…)
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Rita Abrahamsen, Jean-François Drolet, Michael C. Williams, Srdjan Vucetic, Karin Narita, & Alexandra Gheciu
World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024
If you ever try to convince a political “normie” that White Nationalism is the best political option, you are going to face some questions and objections: Who is white? Isn’t White Nationalism “racist,” i.e., evil? Do you envision one white state or many? How will you separate from non-whites? Etc. (more…)
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Patrick J. Deneen
Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future
Sentinel, 2023
Patrick J. Deneen, a professor of Political Science at Notre Dame, came to prominence as the author of Why Liberalism Failed (2018), a book that contrasted our present circumstances with the rosy promises of previous generations of liberals. (more…)
James Burnham
James Burnham
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In The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom,[1] James Burnham sets forth a Machiavellian method for interpreting political texts. (Methods of interpretation are also known as “hermeneutic” methods.) Burnham distinguishes between the “formal” and the “real” meanings of texts. The formal meaning of a text is “what it explicitly states when taken at face value” (p. 8). The formal meaning also expresses, albeit in an indirect and disguised manner, “what may be called the real meaning” (p. 8). (more…)
Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael
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To understand the term “institutional racism” as a political device, one needs to distinguish its natural from its anti-racist meaning. For most people it denotes pervasive racial discrimination in an institution, but in its anti-racist meaning it denotes the opposite: namely, an institution’s practice of treating all the same without regard to race. How can this be? (more…)
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Imperium Press has recently produced a brief, must-watch documentary entitled Why Capital is Woke (see below). It offers four in-depth explanations for the sharp left-turns which leading corporations have been making in the past decade. (more…)
Santi di Tito, Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli, ca. 1550.
Santi di Tito, Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli, ca. 1550.
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Gregory Hood was host Greg Johnson‘s guest on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and they discussed James Burnham and Machiavellianism, the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court, and answered YOUR QUESTIONS, and it is now ready for download and online listening. (more…)
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Neema Parvini
The Populist Delusion
Perth: Imperium Press, 2022
Neema Parvini, Ph.D., is the author of five books on Shakespeare who in recent years has turned his attention to political philosophy, including the broader Dissident Right. In our sphere, he is known as Academic Agent.
Parvini’s The Populist Delusion is a critique of populism and democracy from the Right. (more…)
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Beautiful Losers is a collection of essays by the late Samuel Francis, who influenced not only my work, but much of the Right in America today. The omnibus opens with an introduction and brief history of the post-World War II conservative movement in America up to 1993, when Beautiful Losers was published. (more…)
