Tag Archives: liberalism

Black Lives MAGA:
Republicans are the Real Social Justice Warriors

Oliver Williams

2,924 words

A crime scene. The aesthetics of a horror movie. Sinister music. This is the latest Trump attack ad exposing Joe Biden’s “racism problem,” released a day after rioting in Chicago. The Trump campaign is engaging in offense archaeology, digging up a Biden statement from all the way back in 1973. Other Trump ads criticized Biden’s Read more …

Published: September 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged affirmative action, articles, Black Lives Matter, conservatism, critical race theory, cultural Marxism, Dinesh D'Souza, Donald Trump, Martin Luther King, North American New Right, Oliver Williams, originals, the civil rights movement, the Republican party | 15 Responses

Notes on Populism

Norman Rockwell, Study for “Freedom of Speech”

3,380 words

Populism seeks to rescue popular government from corrupt elites. Naturally, the elites strike back. The most common accusation from elite commentators is that populism is “anti-democratic.” As Yascha Mounk frames it, populism is “the people vs. democracy.” I argue that populism is not anti-democratic, but it is anti-liberal. (See Donald Thoresen’s review of Mounk’s The People vs. Democracy here.)

Many critics of populism accuse it of being a form of white identity politics, Read more …

Published: August 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, democracy, elitism, Greg Johnson, identity politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, populism | 6 Responses

Notre Dame des Fascistes,
Part III: Excursus on Evola

James J. O'Meara

3,927 words

Part 1, Part 2

All this anti-Masonry and TradCath stuff; there was something familiar with all this, until at some point I exclaimed again, “You’ve seen these films before, haven’t you, my man!” It’s Baron Evola’s doppelganger!

Although to be honest, it may have been Will herself who clued me in. Read more …

Published: August 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Archeofuturism, art, articles, Barbara Will, Bernard Faÿ, book reviews, Catholicism, Christianity, fascism, France, Freemasonry, Gertrude Stein, homosexuality, identity, James J. O'Meara, Jews in literature, Julius Evola, modernism, North American New Right, originals, Traditionalism, Vichy France | 8 Responses

The Quintessence of Mediocrity:
Ross Douthat’s The Decadent Society

Quintilian

1,023 words

Ross Douthat
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
New York: Simon & Schuster (2020)

Never-Trumper Ross Douthat is a faux-Christian, faux-conservative writer for leftist publications like The Atlantic and The New York Times. His presence at those publications is akin to that of the house Negro, Read more …

Published: August 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged antifa, articles, book reviews, bourgeois society, Christianity, crime, decadence, Hungary, Mexico, modernity, North American New Right, originals, Quintilian, Ross Douthat, The New York Times | 17 Responses

Take Your Choice, Part II:
Stop the Hate!

Beau Albrecht

4,912 words

Part 1

Senator Bilbo excerpts from a compilation of fourteen essays by black notables in one of the recent egalitarian books, What the Negro Wants, edited by Rayford W. Logan (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1944). He identifies one of the authors, W. E. B. DuBois, Read more …

Published: August 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American identity, anti-white propaganda, articles, Beau Albrecht, Black Nationalism, blacks and Jews, Blacks in America, book reviews, Christianity, communists, Franz Boas, integration, mixed-race individuals, North American New Right, originals, Overton window, post-war America, race-mixing, segregation, separation, the Jewish question, Theodore G. Bilbo | 3 Responses

Joe’s (Wagnerian) Garage

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

2,519 words

As you can see. . . girls, music, disease, heartbreak. . . they all go together. . .

About three months ago, I was asked to give one of those “four recommendations” type interviews for an eminent publication (an old buddy’s blog) in the old country. Read more …

Published: August 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America, American identity, articles, censorship, degeneracy, Frank Zappa, Gesamtkunstwerk, Joe's Garage, modernity, music reviews, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, Richard Wagner, rock music, rock opera | 6 Responses

We’re the Bad Guys?

Winston E. Bakewell

René Magritte, Golconda, 1953.

2,173 words

The twofold crises of the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic are perfect opportunities for modern nihilists and culture-destroyers of every stripe to let off all the brakes. It is not often that world events align so cleanly with the rhetoric and goals of our enemies, which presents some troubling developments Read more …

Published: July 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, amoralism, articles, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19 pandemic, George Floyd, ideology, individualism, leftism, lying, moral signaling, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, rhetoric, self-righteousness, virtue signaling, Winston E. Bakewell | 6 Responses

Chinese Handcuffs

John Wilkinson

922 words

Imagine, if you will, the perfect system of torture and restraint. A device so effective that the more forcefully you resist it, the tighter it grips you, and the more hopeless your chance of escape. Such a contraption does in fact exist. You might recognize it as the anodyne but frustrating toy called “Chinese handcuffs.” Read more …

Published: July 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, 2020 presidential election, articles, Black Lives Matter, democracy, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, John Wilkinson, North American New Right, originals | 15 Responses

Is Xenophilia a Mental Illness?

Alex Graham

1,583 words

A Vice article published on Tuesday has reignited the debate over whether racism (or “pathological bias,” to use the clinical term proposed by psychiatrists) should be considered a mental illness and included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. In turn, I would like to raise the question of whether pathological xenophilia should be considered a mental illness. Read more …

Published: July 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, articles, atheism, autism, Edward Dutton, health, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Jews in medicine, mental illness, North American New Right, originals, pathological altruism, psychology, religion, xenophilia | 6 Responses

Notes on Schmitt’s Crisis & Ours

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

3,994 words

Like many of his books, Carl Schmitt’s The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (1923) is a slender volume packed with explosive ideas.[1] The title of the English translation is somewhat misleading. The German title, Die geistesgeschichtliche Lage des heutigen Parlamentarismus, is more literally rendered The Intellectual-Historical Position of Contemporary Parliamentarism. But the word “crisis” is still appropriate, because parliamentary democracy in Weimar Germany really was in crisis. Read more …

Published: July 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, articles, Carl Schmitt, democracy, fascism, Georges Sorel, Greg Johnson, Juan Donoso Cortés, Marxism, Mikhail Bakunin, myth, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, political philosophy, syndicalism, violence, vitalism | 8 Responses

The Politics of Meat:
An Ecofascist Perspective

William de Vere

4,436 words

Jef Costello’s recent articles concerning the “Carnivore Diet” inspired me to ponder a subject that I had neglected for some time: the ethics and politics of diet.

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 280
Carl Schmitt’s The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy

Counter-Currents Radio

100 words / 2:03:28

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On the Counter-Currents Radio fundraiser livestream for July 5th, Greg Johnson and Nicholas Jeelvy discuss Carl Schmitt’s 1923 book The Crisis of Liberal Democracy and the light it throws on the crisis of liberal democracy in the white world today. We also answer questions from listeners. Read more …

Published: July 9, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged anarchism, Carl Schmitt, Counter-Currents Radio, democracy, Georges Sorel, Greg Johnson, Juan Donoso Cortés, Marxism, myth, nationalism, Nicholas Jeelvy, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, podcasts, syndicalism, violence, vitalism | 3 Responses

Placemaking

Winston E. Bakewell

1,494 words

What makes a place? Perhaps the best definition is simply where one feels they can linger. A “place” is a location that can be both a destination and a path. When we consider places, they invariably have a few attributes that make stopping there or passing through there a memorable experience. The opposite of a “place,” as it where, Read more …

Published: July 8, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, consumerism, globalization, homogeneity, individualism, North American New Right, originals, urbanism, white dispossession, Winston E. Bakewell | 7 Responses

A Long Time Coming

John Wilkinson

1,067 words

Much has been said in recent months about the cult of radical Leftism donning a veil of religious zealotry over the George Floyd death and Black Lives Matter protests. In truth, America’s excessively libertine, egalitarian idealism has always been a twisted morality play that relentlessly seeks to destroy the strong and healthy in favor of the Read more …

Published: July 6, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Americana, anti-racism, articles, Black Lives Matter, civic nationalism, conservatism, John Wilkinson, neoconservatism, North American New Right, originals, statues | 14 Responses

Everyone Hates Woodrow Wilson

1,363 words

Woodrow Wilson once stood as a hero to modern progressives. The 28th president’s moral idealism, disregard for constitutional fealty, and belief in the goodness of “big government” endeared him to liberals of the Barack Obama era. Commentators positively noted the similarities between Wilson and Obama Read more …

Published: July 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservatism, Foreign Policy, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, segregation, white dispossession, Woodrow Wilson | 11 Responses

Try, Try, Try Again

John Wilkinson

1,482 words

On the 15th of September, 1938, UK Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain famously flew across the English Channel (overcoming his fear of flying) for the monumental purpose of meeting Adolf Hitler at the Berghof in order to avert the Sudetenland crisis, and hopefully (yet futilely) avoid plunging Europe into a Second World War. Upon his departure, he gave an impromptu speech to the British press in which he offered his favorite childhood self-motivating pep talk, Read more …

Published: June 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, diversity, gentrification, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, integration, John Wilkinson, North American New Right, originals, social constructivism, taxation, white flight | 5 Responses

In Defense of Racist Liberalism

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

1,876 words

Give me racist liberalism, or give me death!

— Patrick Henry, probably.

To be in the Dissident Right is to be part of an informal initiatic society. There are various levels of being with it — there’s always another redpill to take. Read more …

Published: June 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, aristocratic individualism, articles, atheism, Christianity, egalitarianism, equality, Gnosticism, individualism, libertarianism, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism, religion, thumos | 42 Responses

How to Make a Libertarian Cry

Beau Albrecht

5,358 words

Those in the socially liberal, fiscally conservative (SLFC) spectrum of ideologies often have a naïve faith in unrestrained capitalism. This is especially so for the ones with the most panache (such as it is), like libertarians and Objectivists. These two, unlike the bland neoconservatives and certain kinds of liberals, are also quite skeptical about government. Read more …

Published: June 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Beau Albrecht, capitalism, censorship, controlled opposition, corporatism, globalization, Israel, journalists, libertarianism, mainstream media, neoliberalism, North American New Right, originals, spying, woke capital | 14 Responses

Blacks Are America’s Gods

1,184 words

Riots in America continue to blaze. Hundreds of stores have been looted and gutted. Police stations, city halls, and museums have been put to the torch. Monuments to the historic American people have been vandalized and torn down. Dozens of cities have been affected and the chaos is apparent in every riot clip. Read more …

Published: June 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, articles, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, negro worship, negrophilia, North American New Right, originals, religion, Robert Hampton | 61 Responses

Richard Polt’s Time & Trauma

5,714 words

Richard Polt
Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties
Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019

Richard Polt is one of the most distinguished and prolific Heidegger scholars active today. He is the author of one of the best introductory books on Heidegger, Heidegger: An Introduction, as well as a commentary on one of Heidegger’s most difficult texts, The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger’s “Contributions to Philosophy.”[1] Read more …

Published: June 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, hermeneutics, Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, New Right, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, political philosophy | 5 Responses

Tribal Denialism

1,615 words

Unless you’ve lived under a rock for the past five years, you’ve probably heard about the “dangerous” return of tribalism.

Before 2015 (or before Obama, depending on the source), Americans didn’t put themselves in tribes. They only saw red, white and blue. Everyone was judged as an individual. Civility and decency reigned supreme. Race relations and gender relations were all just fine. Americans were one nation, under God and indivisible. Read more …

Published: May 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservatism, identity, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, the Civil War, The Confederacy, the South, tribalism | 11 Responses

The Fine Art of Automotive Repair

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

2,086 words

Say you’re trying to fix a vehicle. You pop open the hood and find that someone threw a wrench in the gears, the relay is worn, and the battery needs replacing. How do you then fix the vehicle? Well, you remove the wrench from the gears, replace the relay and the battery and then check for additional damage (you never know with cars). Read more …

Published: March 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, individualism, materialism, monarchism, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, Plato, Platonism, religion, society | 6 Responses

Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition:
The Kinship Cut-Off

Ricardo Duchesne

William Dobson, Portrait of a Family, Probably that of Richard Streatfield, 1645.

1,921 words

Have you spent countless hours searching for the origins of individualism in the philosophical treatises of the Western Canon? Reading Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition may make you think this was wasted time: the origins of individualism lie in the pedestrian world of family life. Read more …

Published: March 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, collectivism, individualism, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, Kevin MacDonald, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Scandinavia, socialism, Sweden | 6 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 265
Thank You, Corona Chan

Counter-Currents Radio

141 words / 72:56

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Greg Johnson and Fróði Midjord talk about how the coronavirus outbreak has revealed the intellectual bankruptcy, corruption, and incompetence of the current system and how it creates an opening for sensible nationalist policies.

How Coronavirus Will Change the World

1,682 words

Coronavirus is going to change the world. I just hope that I live to see it, along with the people I care about.

I call the Coronavirus the “Globalvirus,” because globalism is the underlying condition that made it all possible.

Queen of the AWFLs

1,165 words

Affluent white female liberals (AWFLs) suffered their own personal 9/11 last week. Their queen Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the presidential race. Read more …

Published: March 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 Democratic primaries, 2020 presidential election, articles, AWFLs, Elizabeth Warren, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, the Democratic party, The New York Times | 11 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 262
Nostalgia for a Lost Future:
A Conversation with Xurious

Counter-Currents Radio

215 words / 70:38

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Greg Johnson talks to composer Xurious about his intellectual, political, and artistic journey and the censorship of his music by YouTube. Read more …

Published: February 28, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged anarchism, Carl Schmitt, Christianity, Counter-Currents Radio, deplatforming, electronic music, elites, futurism, Greg Johnson, hierarchy, interviews, Julius Evola, meditation, mysticism, nostalgia, podcasts, Rene Guénon, social media, sovereignty, Traditionalism, vaporwave | 11 Responses

R. R. Reno’s Return of the Strong Gods

Quintilian

1,694 words

R. R. Reno
Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West
Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 2019

Most of the people who come to the Dissident Right do so in spite of the Dissident Right. It is a common experience for those who become red-pilled to discover that the hatred they have experienced from the Establishment for the “sins” of being white or heterosexual or male Read more …

Published: January 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged atomization, Baby Boomers, book reviews, Christianity, F. A. Hayek, Frankfurt School, Karl Popper, Max Horkheimer, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, populism, Quintilian, Theodor Adorno, Transcendence | 28 Responses

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