Tag Archives: morality

A Dissident’s Guide to Blacks & Africa:
A Review

Spencer J. Quinn

2,254 words

Jared Taylor, ed.
A Dissident’s Guide to Blacks and Africa
Oakton, Virginia: New Century Foundation, 2020

More than any of the required reading produced by American Renaissance, A Dissident’s Guide to Blacks and Africa captures the essence of what American Renaissance is all about. Racial differences lead to racial preferences, and Jared Taylor has built a career Read more …

Published: September 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A Dissident's Guide to Blacks and Africa, Africa, American Renaissance, articles, black criminality, Blacks in America, book reviews, Dan Roodt, demographic transition, ethics, F. Roger Devlin, Frances Cress Welsing, Gedaliah Braun, Heinrich B. Zaayman, Jared Taylor, language, Marian Evans, North American New Right, originals, Paul Theroux, Sade Adebayo, Spencer J. Quinn, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Jackson, Zora Wheatley | 24 Responses

The Rise & Fall of the Second Klan

Giles Corey

8,516 words

Thomas R. Pegram
One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2011

The Ku Klux Klan suffers from a positively radioactive reputation, even among fellow Rightists. During the infamous family dinner scene in American History X, at which Edward Norton’s Derek Vinyard assaults his sister and displays his swastika tattoo to the Jewish teacher dating his widowed mother, Read more …

Published: August 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America in the 1920s, articles, book reviews, Catholicism, D. C. Stephenson, family values, fraternal organizations, Giles Corey, Hiram Evans, institutions, Ku Klux Klan, law enforcement, moral communities, Nathan Bedford Forrest, North American New Right, originals, political infrastructure, political organizing, Protestantism, Reconstruction, the Second Klan, white activism, white community building, William Simmons | 12 Responses

Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 9: The Moral Argument for White Interests

Ricardo Duchesne

1,390 words

We have now reached the last chapter of Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition. This indispensable book argues that both the rise and decline of the West can be explained in terms of the genetically selected predisposition Europeans have for creating communities that emphasize the moral reputation Read more …

Published: July 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, ethnocentrism, identity, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, Kevin MacDonald, kinship, moral communities, North American New Right, reprints, rhetoric, Ricardo Duchesne, white identity | 8 Responses

Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 8: Why Are Whites Canceling Each Other?

Ricardo Duchesne

Whites cleaning up the mess blacks made of Minneapolis.

1,582 words

Do you know why Europeans across the political spectrum — liberals, conservatives, socialists — are morally committed to a politics that is leading to the dissolution of their millennial racial identities while promoting the racial identities of non-white immigrants within their own nations? Read more …

Published: July 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, ethnocentrism, history, identity, individualism, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Kevin MacDonald, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints, reputation, Ricardo Duchesne, sociology | 5 Responses

The Spark of the Stoics

Fullmoon Ancestry

Epictetus.

1,447 words

Philosophy is a subject that never really sparked my interest. While I understand that philosophy is important to living a virtuous life, I simply think that virtue and morality are useless if you are forced to live around people that do not share your same morals and virtues. This is the situation that white people are now facing in our own countries. Read more …

Published: June 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Rome, articles, Epictetus, ethics, Fullmoon Ancestry, Marcus Aurelius, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Stoicism | 10 Responses

Meditations on the Mysticism of Yomawari: Night Alone

Buttercup Dew

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Yomawari: Night Alone is a survival horror videogame from Nippon Ichi Software, released in fall 2015 in Japan before being rapidly localized into English in 2016. It has enjoyed commercial success across multiple platforms (PC, Nintendo Switch, and PS Vita) and spawned a sequel, Midnight Shadows. The player character is a little girl with a red bow drawn in simple anime style; a sort of Minnie Mouse from a more mature world. Read more …

Published: June 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Buttercup Dew, censorship, coming of age, folklore, Japan, North American New Right, originals, paganism, sexuality, spirituality, Traditionalism, video game reviews, video games, violence | 2 Responses

Is & Ought:
Lorraine Daston’s Against Nature

John Wright

2,530 words

Lorraine Daston
Against Nature
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019

Loraine Daston’s Against Nature has two qualities that make it a good book. First, it is physically a good book: slim but well-bound, it fits comfortably in the hand and slides easily into the pocket. And there is more than tactile pleasure to be had. Read more …

Published: May 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged altruism, articles, book reviews, David Hume, logos, nature, North American New Right, originals, society | 2 Responses

Philosophical Psychopathy:
Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro”

Beau Albrecht

3,841 words

Norman Mailer became a much-celebrated author of several novels, some quite dreadful, as well as a founder of The Village Voice. He wrote numerous essays, of which “The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster” became the most famous. It essentially served as an iconic manifesto for the nascent Counterculture. The following is a distillation and analysis of its ponderous sentences and floating abstractions. Read more …

Published: May 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1960s counterculture, America in the 1960s, articles, Beau Albrecht, hippies, miscegnation, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism, psychopathy | 13 Responses

Sexual Predators & Autistic Monkeys: Mary Eberstadt’s Primal Screams

Margot Metroland

2,339 words

Mary Eberstadt
Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics
West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2019

Mary Tedeschi Eberstadt is a onetime speechwriter for George Schultz, author of several books, sometime fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institute, and currently senior fellow at something called the Faith & Reason Institute. Read more …

Published: May 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged #MeToo, articles, atomization, book reviews, Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, identity politics, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, sexual revolution, the family | 12 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 267
Network

145 words / 60:58

To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.”

In the fall of 2000, I taught an adult education class entitled Philosophy on Film, Read more …

Published: April 3, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, capitalism, Counter-Currents Radio, cynicism, desire, end of history, globalization, Greg Johnson, idealism, movie reviews, Network, Paddy Chayevsky, Patrick Buchanan, Plato, podcasts, popular culture, populism, reason, Ross Perot, Ted Kaczynski, thumos | 5 Responses

The Good Kind of Nationalism

Immanuel Kant

2,092 words

Part 3 of 3. Part 1 here; part 2 here.

Author’s Note:

The following text is based on a talk delivered at the Northwest Forum in Seattle on June 9, 2018. I want to thank the organizers, the audience, and James B. for the transcription.

Universalizability

Love of one’s own and self-actualization are all about the unique, individual, and particular: Read more …

Published: February 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ethics, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, universalism, utilitarianism, white identity politics | 12 Responses

Why White Identity Politics is Moral

Aristotle. Line engraving by P. Fidanza after Raphael’s School of Athens

2,635 words

Part 2 of 3. Part 1 here.

Author’s Note:

The following text is a heavily edited transcript of an extemporaneous talk delivered at the Northwest Forum in Seattle on June 9, 2018. I want to thank the organizers, the audience, and James B. for the transcription.

The biggest question that we have to deal with before people are going to accept white identity politics is not whether it is inevitable or whether it is necessary but whether it is right. Read more …

Published: February 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ethics, ethnocentrism, Greg Johnson, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, self-actualization, white identity politics, white nationalism | 50 Responses

Alain de Benoist: O křesťanství

Alain de Benoist

Auguste Migette – Svatý Klement a Graoully (1850). Klement Métský bojuje v římském amfiteátru s (métským drakem) Graoullym. Obraz má symbolizovat vítězství křesťanství nad pohanstvím.

2,339 slov

English original Part 1, Part 2

Poznámka Grega Johnsona:

V roce 2005 poskytl Alain de Benoist rozhovor americkému The Occidental Quarterly, který vyšel pod titulem “European Son: An Interview with Alain de Benoist,” v The Occidental Quarterly, Roč. 5, č. 3 (podzim 2005): str. 7–21. (Mezi březnem a červnem 2018 vyšel na tři části i na našich stránkách: díl první, druhý a třetí.)

What is the Metaphysics of the Left? Part Two

The face of today’s Left

4,645 words

Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

2. A Will to Nothingness: The Essence of Leftist Metaphysics

We are now in a position to step back from these observations and draw some general conclusions about the metaphysics of Leftist ideology. I trust the reader understands, however, that I am identifying the metaphysics that underlies Leftist ideology. Read more …

Published: June 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, Friedrich Nietzsche, gender politics, metaphysics, North American New Right, originals, race, reality, the left, the Leftist mind, transgenderism, truth | 24 Responses

What is the Metaphysics of the Left? Part One

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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

Metaphysics is the science of what is real. It is the most fundamental branch of philosophy; other philosophical ideas are derived from or based upon metaphysical convictions. For example, the Epicurean principle that pleasure is the highest good follows from its materialism and rejection of belief in an afterlife. However, it is also possible to speak of metaphysics outside of the context of philosophical systems. Read more …

Published: June 24, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, gender politics, metaphysics, North American New Right, originals, race, reality, social constructivism, subjectivism, the left, the Leftist mind, transgenderism, truth | 19 Responses

Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind, Part Two

Jonathan Haidt

4,946 words

Part 2 of 2; part 1 here

Jonathan Haidt
The Righteous Mind: How Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
New York: Pantheon Books, 2012

In Part One of this review I discussed Jonathan Haidt’s argument that morality has evolved in response to a number of “adaptive challenges.” Read more …

Published: March 5, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Collin Cleary, conservatives, ethics, ethnocentrism, human nature, individualism, Jonathan Haidt, liberals, North American New Right, originals, the liberal mind | 3 Responses

Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind, Part One

4,101 words

Part 1 of 2

Jonathan Haidt
The Righteous Mind: How Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
New York: Pantheon Books, 2012

Jonathan Haidt is a former liberal who is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Read more …

Published: February 27, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, collectivism, Collin Cleary, communitarianism, conservatives, ethics, human nature, individualism, Jonathan Haidt, liberals, North American New Right, originals, the liberal mind | 6 Responses

Guide to Kulchur, Episode 9
Apocalypse Now

Counter-Currents Radio

153 words / 2:07:25

John Morgan and Guillaume Durocher join Fróði Midjord on the latest Guide to Kulchur to talk about Francis Ford Coppola’s classic Vietnam War film, Apocalypse Now. They do a scene-by-scene analysis of it, and discuss the differences between the director’s cut and the original version of the film and its relationship to other films, as well as Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and also its relevance for politics and the Right. Available on both YouTube and Spreaker.

Published: January 14, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, Francis Ford Coppola, Frodi Midjord, Guide to Kulchur, Guillaume Durocher, John Morgan, Vietnam War | 1 Response

Moralsk alvor

1,119 words

English original here

Forfatterens bemærkninger:

Dette er et uddrag fra ‘New Right vs. Old Right’. Hvis du ikke allerede har læst det, så skal du læse det. Hvis du allerede har læst det, så læs det igen og igen, til det bundfælder sig.

“This ain’t no party. This ain’t no disco.
This ain’t no foolin’ around.”
—Talking Heads, “Life During Wartime”

Moral Seriousness

1,061 words

Translations: Czech, Danish, Spanish

Author’s Note:

This is an excerpt from New Right vs. Old Right. If you haven’t read it, you need to. If you have, read it again and again until it sinks in.

“This ain’t no party. This ain’t no disco.
This ain’t no foolin’ around.”
—Talking Heads, “Life During Wartime”

Published: December 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, ethics, Greg Johnson, New Right vs. Old Right, North American New Right, originals, the bourgeoisie, white nationalism | 24 Responses

Ted Kennedy Did Nothing Wrong:
Chappaquiddick, a Review

Spencer J. Quinn

2,251 words

Chappaquiddick (2017)
Directed by John Curran
Written by Taylor Allen & Andrew Logan
Starring Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, Ed Helms, & Jim Gaffigan

Whenever I contemplate the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident, the Republican in me always asks in anguish, “Why couldn’t it have been Teddy Kennedy who drowned and not the girl?” Read more …

Published: August 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, Ted Kennedy | 23 Responses

The Masculine Preconditions of Individualism, Part 2

Ricardo Duchesne

1,893 words

Part 2 of 4

Conventional vs. Postconventional Morals

Europeans will never become tribal and collectivist in the manner and degree of non-Europeans. Having an individual identity, an awareness of one’s inner being, that one’s actions can be causally dependent on one’s free will rather than on preceding events, Read more …

Published: June 6, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ethnocentrism, European identity, Immanuel Kant, individualism, Jacob Burckhardt, North American New Right, philosophy, reason, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, self-consciousness | Leave a comment

What Socrates Knew
Plato’s Alcibiades I

Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Socrates Tears Alcibiades from the Embrace of Sensual Pleasure, 1791

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Author’s Note:

What follows is a transcription by V.S. of a lecture on Plato’s Alcibiades I. The translation of Alcibiades I referenced is by Carnes Lord in The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues, ed. Thomas L. Pangle (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987). To listen to the audio in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target as.”

Today, we’re going to be looking at Plato’s dialogue Alcibiades I. Read more …

Published: January 2, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alcibiades, articles, ethics, Greg Johnson, living well, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, self-actualization, self-knowledge, Socrates, Xenophon | 3 Responses

What Socrates Knew:
Socratic Ignorance, Eros, & the Daimonion, Part 2 of 2

7,345 words

Part 2 of 2

Author’s Note:

On August 31st, 1999 I gave the second lecture course called “What Socrates Knew.” What follows is a transcription of the second half of that lecture by V.S. The readings referred to are passages from Plato’s dialogues Euthydemus, Apology, Theages, and Symposium. The thirty Socrates theses referred to are listed below, as are links to the audio of the lecture.

Published: December 26, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ethics, Greg Johnson, living well, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, self-actualization, Socrates | Leave a comment

What Socrates Knew:
Socratic Ignorance, Eros, & the Daimonion, Part 1 of 2

8,733 words

Part 1 of 2

Author’s Note:

On August 31st, 1999 I gave the second lecture course called “What Socrates Knew.” What follows is a transcription of the first half of the lecture by V.S. The readings referred to are passages from Plato’s dialogues Euthydemus, Apology, Theages, and Symposium. The thirty Socrates theses referred to are listed below, as are links to the audio of the lecture.

The “Thirty Socratic Theses” are: Read more …

Published: December 22, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ethics, Greg Johnson, living well, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, self-actualization, Socrates | Leave a comment

What Socrates Knew:
Thirty Socratic Theses, Part 2 of 2

Reyer van Blommendael, Xantippe Dousing Socrates, c. 1665

6,643 words

Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Author’s Note:

On August 24th, 1999 I began a lecture course called “What Socrates Knew” with a lecture called “Thirty Socratic Theses.” What follows is a transcription of the second half of the lecture by V.S. The thirty theses are listed below, as are links to the audio of the lecture.

Published: December 18, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ethics, freedom, Greg Johnson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, living well, North American New Right, originals, paternalism, philosophy, Plato, self-actualization, Socrates | Leave a comment

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 179
The Morality of Hatred

C. B. Robertson

54 words / 23:54

To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.”

C. B. Robertson speaks at the Fourth Meeting of the Northwest Forum on Saturday, June 24th on themes discussed in his book In Defense of Hatred (reviewed here by Aedon Cassiel).

Published: June 26, 2017 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged C. B. Robertson, Counter-Currents Radio, hatred, In Defense of Hatred, love, Northwest Forum, podcasts, rhetoric | 2 Responses

https://youtu.be/PCgZTAH6P0w

Video of the Day
A Poem for Our People

Way of the World

10:16

A reading and brilliant exposition of the relevance of Rudyard Kipling’s “If” to the White Nationalist struggle.

Published: June 22, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged manliness, poems, Rudyard Kipling, Stoicism, videos, white nationalism | 2 Responses