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Graduate School with Heidegger

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Greg Johnson is publishing yet another new book:

Greg Johnson
Graduate School with Heidegger
San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing, 2020
220 pages

There are three formats for Graduate School with Heidegger: Read more …

Published: October 6, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Dugin, Edmund Husserl, ethnonationalism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, Julius Evola, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, modernity, National Socialism, phenomenology, philosophy, Plato, political philosophy, Richard Polt, Ronald Beiner, technology | 8 Responses

Sándor Márai’s Hungarian Classic: Embers

Kathryn S.

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He came from a world where soft music lilted through dining rooms and ballrooms and salons . . . it was played to make life sweeter and more festive, to make women’s eyes flash and men’s vanity throw sparks . . . [his] music on the other hand didn’t offer forgetfulness; it aroused people to the feelings of passion and guilt and demanded that [they] be truer to themselves . . . such music is upsetting . . . [1] Read more …

Published: September 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, Austria, Austro-Hungarian Empire, book reviews, class, Communism, conservatism, Embers, friendship, honor, Hungarian literature, Hungary, identity, imperialism, Kathryn S, Marai Sandor, music, North American New Right, nostalgia, originals, the middle class | 3 Responses

White “Civil Wars”:
Grinding Napoleon’s Axiom

Kathryn S.

Johann Peter Krafft, The Siege of Szigetvár, 1825.

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The bad news is the bad news — the stories we’ve seen and heard in the past few months, years, decades that all keep warning us of more to come. The good news is that these times of transition provide us with opportunities for clarity and fresh perspectives on historical and social phenomena Read more …

Published: September 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, civil wars, class, colonialism, empire, friend/enemy dichotomy, identity, Kathryn S, modernism, nation-state, North American New Right, originals, Traditionalism, war | 36 Responses

Tim Marshall’s Prisoners of Geography

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Tim Marshall
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
London: Elliot and Thompson (2015)

The physical realities that underpin national and international politics are too often disregarded in both writing about history and in contemporary reporting of world affairs. Geography is clearly a fundamental part of the “why” as well as the “what.” Read more …

Published: August 19, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America, articles, book reviews, demographics, ethnic identity, ethnic nationalism, Foreign Policy, geography, geopolitics, globalism, multiculturalism, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, pluralism, race replacement, Russia, the European plain, the state, Tim Marshall, trade, war | 16 Responses

Family Systems & History

F. Roger Devlin

8,561 words

Emmanuel Todd
Lineages of Modernity: A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus
Cambridge, England, and Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2019

Much of today’s dominant globalist ideology derives from development theory, a body of thought which shares with Marxism the view that economic relations are the basis of social life and sees the races of mankind as fundamentally equivalent beneath the superficial cultural differences which have arisen over history. Read more …

Published: July 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authoritarianism, book reviews, capitalism, Catholicism, demographics, economics, education, Emmanuel Todd, essays, F. Roger Devlin, family, family dynamics, hierarchy, higher education, history, identity, individualism, industrialization, language, Lineages of Modernity, literacy, memory of places, modernity, monogamy, North American New Right, patriarchy, Protestantism, religion, secularism, secularization, stem families, the nuclear family, tradition | 3 Responses

Notes on Schmitt’s Crisis & Ours

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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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, liberalism, Marxism, Mikhail Bakunin, myth, North American New Right, originals, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, political philosophy, syndicalism, violence, vitalism | 8 Responses

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

Counter-Currents Radio

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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, liberalism, Marxism, myth, Nicholas Jeelvy, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, podcasts, syndicalism, violence, vitalism | 3 Responses

Machine Gun Hail

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These fought, in any case,
and some believing, pro domo, in any case. . .
. . .some in fear, learning love of slaughter;
Died some pro patria, non dulce non et decor. . .

walked eye-deep in hell Read more …

Published: May 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, communitarianism, death, ennui, heroism, LARPing, modernity, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, war | 6 Responses

Network:
A Populist Classic

Trevor Lynch

4,642 words

Written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, Network (1976) is a sardonic, dark-comic satire of America at the very moment that its trajectory of decline became apparent (to perceptive eyes, at least).

Network has an outstanding script and incandescent performances, which were duly recognized. Chayefsky won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. Peter Finch won the Oscar for Best Actor Read more …

Published: May 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged alienation, articles, atomization, complacency, cynicism, media, movie reviews, Network, North American New Right, populism, reprints, satire, Sidney Lumet, television, Trevor Lynch | 3 Responses

Objective Fictions & Subjective Realities:
The Need for a Nationalist Postmodernism

Eumaios

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Perhaps the best way to think about “postmodernism” from the Right is not as a problematic philosophical tradition, but as a philosophical tradition with a problem. On the one hand, “postmodernism” may be loosely defined as a philosophical turn that delegitimized traditional aesthetic and moral standards, and “deconstructed” seemingly self-evident categories like ethnicity and culture. On the other hand, it could also be defined as a school of thought which delegitimized the scientific, materialist, Read more …

Published: May 5, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged deconstruction, essays, Eumaios, G. K. Chesterton, history, identitarianism, imperialism, Irish nationalism, language, Left-Right dichotomy, modernism, North American New Right, ontology, originals, philosophy, post-colonialism, postmodernism, teleology, Traditionalism | 30 Responses

Porco Rosso:
The Italian Batman

Buttercup Dew

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Porco Rosso is one of the more famous Studio Ghibli films, released in 1992. It is the midpoint of an unofficial Miyazaki trilogy examining flight as a method of personal and national liberation, beginning with 1989’s Kiki’s Delivery Service, and concluding with 2013’s The Wind Rises. Porco Rosso is the strongest of the three, being bright, bold, and easy to follow whilst touching on more serious themes than its premise might suggest. Read more …

Published: May 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, anime, articles, aviation, Batman, Buttercup Dew, Italy, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, piracy, self-actualization, the Balkans, the Joker, vigilantism, World War I | 1 Response

Nations, Not Projects:
A Response to Keith Woods

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Imagine drinking beer with your neighbor. Imagine your families having a barbecue. Imagine helping your neighbor fix his vehicle, which is notorious for breaking down at inopportune moments. Imagine your neighbor picking your kids up from school because you can’t get out of work.

Then imagine that the next day, you’re shooting your neighbor, burning his house down, killing his sons, and raping his daughters. Oh, and you appropriate his car for your use afterward. Read more …

Published: April 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American imperialism, articles, imperialism, language, Macedonia, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, petty nationalism, Serbia, Slovenia, the Balkans, the European Union, Yugoslavia | 30 Responses

The Plot Against America First
Part Two: Des Moines

Giles Corey

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Lindbergh saw through the events of his day. In his speeches, all of which he spent hours carefully crafting by himself, he often spoke of an “organized minority” that was behind the war agitation. He saw that the dark forces swiftly forcing us into war had power, influence, and volume, Read more …

Published: April 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Charles Lindbergh, espionage, essays, geopolitics, Giles Corey, identity politics, international relations, Jewish influence, Jews in the media, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, The Plot Against America | 11 Responses

They Don’t Want This to End

Jef Costello

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If any further proof were needed that our “experts” and “leaders” know nothing, the coronavirus crisis provides an abundance of it. While the media and certain public figures keep ladling on the doom and gloom with a trowel, projecting many more months of death and economic shutdown, all signs indicate that death and hospitalization rates in the US may have peaked and are now declining. Read more …

Published: April 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, elites, globalism, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals | 12 Responses

Plus Ultra:
The European Diaspora

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I’m gonna rise up,
I’m gonna kick a little ass,
Gonna kick some ass in the USA,
Gonna climb a mountain,
Gonna sew a flag,
Gonna fly on an eagle
I’m gonna kick some butt,
I’m gonna drive a big truck,
I’m gonna rule this world,
Read more …

Published: April 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Australia, Canada, diaspora communities, ethnic identity, European identity, geopolitics, imperialism, international relations, Latin America, New Zealand, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, South Africa, the United States | 11 Responses

Wilmot Robertson’s The Ethnostate

Spencer J. Quinn

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Wilmot Robertson
The Ethnostate: An Unblinkered Prospectus on the Art of Statecraft
Ostara Publications, 2018 (1992)

I’d call Wilmot Robertson’ The Ethnostate the Farmer’s Almanac of the Dissident Right, but that would make it seem too quaint. Really, it is an incisive and spot-on encapsulation of everything that is besieging white civilization in the West collected in a slim volume of sterling aphorisms and impeccable reasoning. Read more …

Published: April 8, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Instauration, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, Wilmot Robertson | 6 Responses

What About Diaspora Nationalism?

Robert Hampton

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Is political power too far out of our grasp? Are our nations doomed to collapse? Are party politics a rigged game we can never win?

These questions loom over many distraught nationalists. They see Donald Trump as a massive disappointment, they bemoan the persecution European identitarians suffer, they see no possible action to save their people from destruction. Read more …

Published: April 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, infighting, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, the Fifth Political Theory | 21 Responses

The Anti-Revolutionary Manifesto

Yukio Mishima

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Translated by Riki Rei

Translator’s note: Mishima penned this essay titled Anti-Revolutionary Manifesto in early 1969, almost two years before his suicide, at the peak of leftist protests, demonstrations, and riots, which were sweeping not just across Japan, but throughout the entire Western world. Read more …

Published: March 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Communism, essays, in English, Japan, North American New Right, Riki Rei, Traditionalism, translations, Yukio Mishima | 3 Responses

A Call to Arms:
The Final Speech of Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima

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Translated by Riki Rei.

Translator’s Note:

This text, entitled A Call to Arms, was left on the spot when Yukio Mishima committed seppuku in the General’s office of the East Japan Division of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force at the Ichigaya military base, Tokyo, on November 25, 1970. Read more …

Published: March 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged in English, Japan, North American New Right, Riki Rei, translations, Yukio Mishima | 6 Responses

Sympathy for the Dragon

Robert Hampton

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People want someone to blame for the coronavirus outbreak. The obvious culprit is China. It originated in China, China tried to cover up the outbreak for weeks, and the communist state has not been open with what it knows about the virus.

But liberals don’t want to blame China. They want to blame Donald Trump. Surprisingly, many on our side share this view. Read more …

Published: March 19, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, geopolitics, globalism, imperialism, North American New Right, originals, racism, Robert Hampton, the Chinese, Wuhan coronavirus | 44 Responses

Open Borders Caused the COVID-19 Pandemic

Richard Houck

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Coronavirus, or COVID-19, the virus which originated in China, has now swept the globe. People are sick, many have died, there is widespread panic, entire nations have been shut down, and daily life has been disrupted virtually everywhere at this point. Read more …

Published: March 19, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-racism, articles, borders, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, globalism, North American New Right, originals, racism, Richard Houck, Wuhan coronavirus | 13 Responses

The Last Words of Yukio Mishima to His Followers

Yukio Mishima

580 words

Translated by Riki Rei.

To the members of Tatenokai [Shield Society]:

Among you there are both those who have stayed with us consistently since the founding of our organization and those of the fifth class who have been with us for only nine months. Yet as far as I’m concerned, regardless of the degrees of your involvement and experience, we are all comrades of a shared identity who have gone beyond the difference of ages Read more …

Published: March 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fascism, Japan, North American New Right, originals, Riki Rei, speeches, the 1970s, translations, Yukio Mishima | 1 Response

Is Coronavirus the Wrath of God?

Jef Costello

John Martin, The Great Day of His Wrath, 1853.

2,901 words

The epidemic began in Australia and spread from there to other countries.

I am referring to the panic buying of toilet paper. Read more …

Published: March 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 presidential election, anti-globalism, articles, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Donald Trump, economics, globalism, Jef Costello, North American New Right, novel coronavirus, originals, paranoia, psychology, religion | 35 Responses

Fróði Midjord & Ruuben Kaalep:
Defending a Modern Ethnostate

Video of the Day

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Fróði Midjord sits down with Ruuben Kaalep, a member of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu) for EKRE, Read more …

Published: March 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Blue Awakening, Estonia, Etnofutur, Frodi Midjord, interviews, North American New Right, originals, Ruuben Kaalep, Scandza Forum, Tallinn, video of the day | 7 Responses

Guy Talk, Balkan Style

Fullmoon Ancestry

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Peter Delyan was a famous Balkan hero who led an uprising in 1040 against the Byzantine Empire. Comparisons to William Wallace or Braveheart wouldn’t be out of place, as Delyan was a larger-than-life character that was able to lead ordinary peasants into battle and revolt against a larger, occupying force. Read more …

Published: March 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ethnic identity, ethnicity, Fullmoon Ancestry, male bonding, North American New Right, originals, pan-Europeanism, race, racial identity, the Balkans, the Yugoslav wars, Yugoslavia | 9 Responses

Etnofutur Conference 2020:
For Estonia

Fullmoon Ancestry

Tallinn, Estonia.

1,514 words

When I think about Estonia, I think about Kalevipoeg, Estonia’s national epic by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald. To me, this poem best represents the Estonian people, whose history, language, and mythology are distinct compared to the rest of Europe. The Estonian Declaration of Independence, created on February 24th, 1918, even quotes an excerpt from the last chapter of Kalevipoeg. Read more …

Published: February 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conferences, Estonia, Etnofutur, European nationalism, Frodi Midjord, Fullmoon Ancestry, Kryptis, László Toroczkai, North American New Right, originals, Ruuben Kaalep, Tallinn | 4 Responses

No Greeks or Germans Allowed:
Yoram Hazony’s Anglo-Hebrew Nationalism

Robert Hampton

Horatio Greenough, George Washington

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Israeli scholar Yoram Hazony wants to define nationalism for the entire West.

And that nationalism leaves no room for our classical heritage.

Counter-Currents readers are probably familiar with Hazony, his book The Virtue of Nationalism, and his “National Conservatism” conferences. Greg Johnson’s recent series on Hazony’s book is recommended (parts one, two, three, and four).

This essay covers another aspect of the Israeli political theorist: Read more …

Published: February 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservatism, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, Robert Hampton, The Virtue of Nationalism, Yoram Hazony | 21 Responses

Hazony on National Self-Determination

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

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Read more on Yoram Hazony’s The Virtue of Nationalism here, here, and here.

The right of peoples to self-determination is one of the basic norms of contemporary international law. Read more …

Published: February 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, Johnson on Hazony, North American New Right, originals, rights, sovereignty, The Virtue of Nationalism, universal nationalism, Woodrow Wilson, Yoram Hazony | 14 Responses

“Resistance is Futile”:
Hazony on Nations, Empires, & Minorities