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Philippe-Joseph Salazar
Suprémacistes: L’enquête Mondiale chez les Gourous de la Droite Identitaire
Paris: Plon, 2020

This book results from interviews with leading thinkers of the race-conscious right — the so-called alternative right — which seeks to bring race to the forefront of political debate. The title Suprémacistes is, however, misleading; for the author, Philippe-Joseph Salazar, nowhere describes the people who are the subject of this study as supremacists Read more …

Published: October 6, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, articles, book reviews, European New Right, Francois Bosque, French New Right, Greg Johnson, Guillaume Faye, interviews, Jared Taylor, journalism, messaging, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, personalities, Philippe-Joseph Salazar, philosophy, rhetoric, Supremacists, the alt right, Tomislav Sunić | 11 Responses

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Are Things as Bad as They Seem?

Beau Albrecht

Franz Geffels, The Relief of Vienna, 1683-1694.

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How bad are things now? “Pretty bad” is a decent answer, though a brief one. We’re faced with daunting challenges, quite obviously, though it’s a mischaracterization to say that all is lost. This has some very practical considerations. Read more …

Published: August 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged activism, anti-white censorship, apathy, articles, Beau Albrecht, censorship, culture, history, mainstream media, metapolitics, North American New Right, Old Right, optics, originals, political correctness, strategy, tactics, the internet, whitepills | 23 Responses

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You Know You’re Right

Winston E. Bakewell

Mars, ca. 2nd century AD.

2,096 words

You are here because you are convinced of the rightness of your ideas. This is not meant in a specific, epistemological sense; as in, your ideas have been verified by some kind of universal truth or that they are backed by data drawn from rigor, though these things could be applied to many of the ideas we hold on the Right. I mean that you are convinced enough of what you hold to be true that you are taking a risk in upholding it, even in the face of great adversaries. Read more …

Published: July 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, debate, deplatforming, discipline, North American New Right, objectivity, originals, philosophy, rhetoric, self-righteousness, truth, Winston E. Bakewell | 5 Responses

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A Case for Optimism

Wilmot Robertson

Eli Lotar, Hôpital des Quinze-Vingts, 1928.

1,129 words

Editor’s Note: The following is a subchapter from Wilmot Robertson’s book, The Ethnostate. It may provide some encouragement in these trying times. For more on Robertson, see Spencer J. Quinn’s review of The Ethnostate and all posts tagged Wilmot Robertson.

Pessimism is a vital ingredient of tragedy, which is the highest form of drama and the dominant theme in great literature, art, and music. No optimist could possibly have created characters like Oedipus, Lear, and Faust. Still, optimism is a major force for great deeds in the real world. Few will struggle to perform heroic feats unless they feel that “the world,” Read more …

Published: July 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, history, North American New Right, reprints, Struggle, the death of the west, the future, time, whitepills, Wilmot Robertson | 4 Responses

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Hope & the Red Dragon

Fullmoon Ancestry

1,501 words

I have always wanted to visit Wales. Ever since I was a kid I was fascinated with the Welsh flag, known in Welsh as “Y Ddraig Goch,” which means “the red dragon.” The red dragon on the Welsh flag has become a symbol of Wales and all things Welsh. Read more …

Published: April 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Fullmoon Ancestry, inspiration, North American New Right, originals, positive thinking, travel, whitepills | 19 Responses

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Video of the Day
Against Right-Wing Terrorism

Greg Johnson

71 words / 29:42

Here is the video of Greg Johnson’s talk at the Scandza Forum in Stockholm last Saturday, March 30. Greg discusses the many trends which indicate why those on the Right should be feeling optimistic about the future, given that our metapolitical efforts are beginning to bear fruit, and why the desperate situation that Right-wing terrorists and their supporters feel that they have been forced into simply isn’t borne out by the facts. Read more …

Published: April 3, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Greg Johnson, Right-wing terrorism, Scandza Forum, video of the day | 13 Responses

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Historical Optimism & Historical Perspective

Quintilian

John William Waterhouse, Destiny, 1900

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It is traditional around New Year’s Day to be reflective of the year past and to anticipate the events of the coming year. First of all, I would like to commend Spencer Quinn for his excellent article “No Goal More Noble: Thoughts for the New Year” that appeared yesterday on Counter-Currents. Mr. Quinn’s eschewal of the black pill at the end of this most blackpilling of years represents an act of moral will that is truly inspiring. Read more …

Published: January 1, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2018 Roundups, articles, North American New Right, originals, philosophy of history | 5 Responses

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Now in Audio Version!
British Politics Today:
Optimism, Pessimism, & Realism

Michael Walker

Theresa May trying (and failing) to be the multicultural Dancing Queen, a clear case of too much optimism.

3,745 words / 25:20

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Counter-Currents readers may be familiar with the name Tai Lopez. Tai Lopez runs commercials which regularly appear on YouTube. He is a self-made millionaire and latter-day preacher of the “God helps those who help themselves” school of economics: Read more …

Published: October 15, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Brexit, British politics, Conservative Party, environmentalism, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, pessimism, populism, realism, Theresa May, UKIP, United Kingdom | 5 Responses

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The Revolutionary Conservative Critique of Oswald Spengler

Lucian Tudor

Oswald Spengler

2,727 words

Oswald Spengler is by now well-known as one of the major thinkers of the German Conservative Revolution of the early 20th Century. In fact, he is frequently cited as having been one of the most determining intellectual influences on German Conservatism of the interwar period – along with Arthur Moeller van den Bruck and Ernst Jünger – to the point where his cultural pessimist philosophy is seen to be representative of Revolutionary Conservative views in general (although in reality most Revolutionary Conservatives held more optimistic views).[1] Read more …

Published: November 14, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, articles, conservative revolution, cyclical history, European New Right, Hans Freyer, Julius Evola, Lucian Tudor, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, pessimism, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, Pierre Krebs, reprints, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

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“Everything is Still Possible”

Jonathan Bowden

Fortunato Depero, Skyscrapers and Tunnels (Gratticieli e tunnel), 1930

2,770 words

Editor’s Note:

This text continues the transcript by V. S. of Jonathan Bowden’s interview at the Union Jack Club in London on Saturday, November 21, 2009, after his lecture/performance on Punch and Judy. The title is editorial.

Renewing the Radical Right

Jonathan Bowden

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Editor’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V. S. of part of Jonathan Bowden’s interview at the Union Jack Club in London on Saturday, November 21, 2009, after his famous lecture/performance on Punch and Judy. The title is editorial. Read more …

Published: October 2, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged biological determinism, biological race differences, bourgeois man, conformism, conservatism, courage, cowardice, interviews, Jonathan Bowden, liberalism, Marxism, metapolitics, morality, North American New Right, originals, the European Union, tragedy, UKIP | 2 Responses

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Kraft durch Freude

Jef Costello

Fidus, „Gebet an die Sonne“, 1913

2,320 words

Übersetzt von Deep Roots

English original here

Als ich jünger war, hatte ich, wenn ich niedergeschlagen war, immer spontane kleine Erlebnisse, die mich sofort aufbauten. Ich hörte ein Lied im Radio. Ich schaute über ein Feld, als plötzlich die Sonne hinter den Wolken hervorkam. Ich spähte über jemandes Zaun und sah eine Rose blühen. In diesen Momenten hatte ich eine Erfahrung, die schwer in Worte zu fassen ist. Der Grund dafür ist teilweise, daß die Erfahrung überhaupt nicht aus Worten bestand, die mir durch den Kopf gingen. Read more …

Published: September 2, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, articles, in German, in translation, Jef Costello, living well, North American New Right, reprints | Leave a comment

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Strength Through Joy

Jef Costello

Fidus, “Prayer to the Sun,” 1913

2,327 words

German translation here

When I was younger and things were getting me down, I used to have spontaneous little epiphanies that would instantly lift me up. I would hear a song on the radio. I would look across a field when suddenly the sun emerged from behind the clouds. I would peer over someone’s fence and see a rose blooming. In these moments, I had an experience difficult to put into words. Read more …