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George Bellows, Stag at Sharkey’s, 1909

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The Battle to the Death for Pure Honor

Tomislav Sunic writes:

In the eyes of the New Right, unlike continental Europeans, Anglo-Saxon peoples fail to perceive the importance of organic community Read more …

Published: December 30, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, Christianity, collectivism, European New Right, G. W. F. Hegel, heroism, individualism, Indo-Europeans, Nordic man, North American New Right, Protestantism, reprints, Scandinavia, warrior ethics, WASPs | 3 Responses

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Thoughts on the European New Right, Part 3

John Law

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Part 3 of 4

The Power of Reason

The European New Right (ENR) agrees with Pareto, Spengler, and Schmitt that the West took a wrong turn in the eighteenth century by advocating a program for the enlightenment of the human mind Read more …

Published: December 29, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, critical theory, European New Right, Frankfurt School, G. W. F. Hegel, Max Horkheimer, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, reason, reprints, the Enlightenment, Vilfredo Pareto | 1 Response

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Thoughts on the European New Right, Part 2

John Law

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Part 2 of 4

On Faustian Technology

Thoughts on the European New Right, Part 1

John Law

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Part 1 of 4

Overview

The European New Right (ENR), born in 1968 in France, is the only school of thought that offers a comprehensive philosophical alternative to both the Left and the mainstream Right; not a political alternative or a cohesive popular movement, but a body of thought, an interpretative framework with distinctive concepts, major texts and authors pointing to a solid intellectual alternative to the establishment. Read more …

Published: December 25, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, articles, Carl Schmitt, European New Right, Georges Sorel, liberalism, neo-paganism, North American New Right, paganism, reprints, Tomislav Sunić, universalism | 18 Responses

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The Invention of Civic Nationalism Against Europeans

John Law

Languages, peoples and ethnopolitical divisions of Europe 1815-1914

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Separation of Ethnicity from Civic Identity

Western nation-states should be based on civic values alone, individual rights, private property, and equality under the law, without any reference to ethnicity. This is one of the most powerful contemporary tenets. Read more …

Published: August 21, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ethnic nationalism, Marxism, multiculturalism, North American New Right, reprints | Leave a comment

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Natural Rights vs. Human Rights:
A Critique of Alain de Benoist

John Law

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Introduction

This essay examines Alain de Benoist’s book Beyond Human Rights, translated into English in 2011 by Arktos, originally published in French in 2004. This book is a powerful condemnation of the Western idea of natural rights, which it claims to be intrinsically associated with the idea that all humans across the world have human rights. It objects to the imposition of human rights obligations on an otherwise multicultural humanity. Read more …