Tag Archives: Left vs. Right

Phil Eiger Newmann, The Arena, 2020.

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Any belief, no matter how desperately well-intentioned, in the efficacy and wisdom of democracy depends on the fundamentally flawed notion that the average voter is anything loftier than an easily frightened and brainwashed lab rat. Read more …

Published: December 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Craigslist, democracy, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Jim Goad, memes, North American New Right, originals, polarization, rhetoric, the political | 23 Responses

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

Spencer J. Quinn

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

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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, identity politics, North American New Right, originals, Spencer Quinn | 5 Responses

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Left of the Scotsman:
Answering Vox Day’s Disavowal of the “Fake Right”

C. B. Robertson

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What is a true right-wing position? What is truly on the left?

Recent debates between Vox Day and Greg Johnson, and with Andrew Anglin, have called into question the true political allegiance of the German National Socialist Party, as well as that of national socialism more generally. Read more …

Published: September 20, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andrew Anglin, articles, C. B. Robertson, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Vox Day | 24 Responses

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Beyond the Spectrum

John Bruce Leonard

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At the risk of courting redundancy, I would like to submit a few observations on the “left-right political spectrum” which has in late years been the subject of much debate in our quarters, and not only in our quarters. Read more …

Published: September 14, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, John Bruce Leonard, North American New Right, originals, political strategies, political theory, the Dark Enlightenment | 19 Responses

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Berkeley: This is Real

Donald Thoresen

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Everyone everywhere is living under the threat of violence; it is only the degree to which any given population is aware of this fact that differs. Americans who did not live through the civil turmoil of the 1960s have grown up with the idea of the political as being an abstraction Read more …

Published: April 17, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Battle of Berkeley, Donald Thoresen, liberalism, North American New Right, originals | 12 Responses

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The Antifa Distraction

James Dunphy

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A few weeks ago, the town bum wandered into a local coffee shop. He began telling a table full of high school girls about the dynamics of urine. Read more …