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Francis Parker Yockey was born 103 years ago today, September 18, in Chicago. He died in San Francisco on June 16, 1960, an apparent suicide. Yockey is one of America’s greatest anti-liberal thinkers and an abiding influence on the North American New Right. In honor of his birthday, I wish to draw the reader’s attention to the following works on this site.

Published: September 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Francis Parker Yockey, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, philosophy of history, political philosophy | 4 Responses

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Remembering Oswald Spengler
(May 29, 1880–May 8, 1936)

Greg Johnson

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Oswald Spengler was born on this day in 1880. For his contributions to the philosophy of history and culture, Spengler is one of the most important philosophical influences on the North American New Right, largely by way of his disciple Francis Parker Yockey. Spengler is often wrong, but even when he errs, he does so magnificently.

Published: May 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history | 2 Responses

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Changes’ Fire of Life

Scott Weisswald

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Changes can be considered the very first example of a neofolk band. Formed in 1969 by cousins Robert N. Taylor and Nicholas Tesluk, Changes has its roots in the earliest days of the folk revival and hippie scenes in the United States. Read more …

Published: April 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged apocalyptic folk, articles, Changes, esotericism, Faust, Francis Parker Yockey, hermeticism, music reviews, neofolk, North American New Right, originals, paganism, psychedelic music, Robert N. Taylor, Scott Weisswald, the occult | 1 Response

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 256
Remembering Roger Scruton + Reader Questions

Counter-Currents Radio

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Greg Johnson talks to Rich Houck about the importance of the English conservative philosopher Roger Scruton, who died on January 12, 2020. Then they answer reader questions about how to persuade normies and hostiles of White Nationalism. Read more …

Published: January 17, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged architecture, conservatism, Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson, individualism, irony, philosophy, podcasts, racial divorce, Richard Houck, Roger Scruton, sincerity, the Jewish question | 11 Responses

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Remembering Francis Parker Yockey:
September 18, 1917–June 16, 1960

Greg Johnson

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Francis Parker Yockey was born 102 years ago today, September 18, in Chicago. He died in San Francisco on June 16, 1960, an apparent suicide. Yockey is one of America’s greatest anti-liberal thinkers and an abiding influence on the North American New Right. In honor of his birthday, I wish to draw the reader’s attention to the following works on this site.

Published: September 18, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Francis Parker Yockey, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, philosophy of history, political philosophy | 4 Responses

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Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness

Alex Graham

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H. P. Lovecraft’s novella At the Mountains of Madness, serialized in Astounding in 1936, is one of his greatest works. The tale recounts an expedition to Antarctica in 1930 in which scholars from Miskatonic University stumble upon the ruins of a lost city. Read more …

Published: August 20, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, articles, book reviews, decadence, H. P. Lovecraft, North American New Right, science fiction, weird fiction, white dispossession | 8 Responses

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Decline of the West, Part 2

Greg Johnson

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Part 2 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

Darryl Cooper: Something that you just said, definitely it’s something I’ve observed. I think maybe ten, fifteen, or twenty years ago, a lot of the time when you would think of a White Nationalist, you’re not necessarily thinking of a savory character. And I think there was probably some justice to that stereotype. Read more …

Published: July 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservatism, Darryl Cooper, Decline of the West podcast, Greg Johnson, immigration, North American New Right, originals, race, race realism, spiritual race, transcripts, white nationalism | 3 Responses

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Spengler on Unfruitfulness

Quintilian

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Perhaps Oswald Spengler’s greatest contribution to the philosophy of history is his removal of history from the mechanistic realm of cause and effect and placing it instead within the sphere of biology. Human societies are, after all, composed of living human beings, and so it is only logical that cultures and civilizations are themselves subject to biological, rather than mechanical, laws. Read more …

Published: June 13, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cultural decline, North American New Right, originals, Quintilian | 12 Responses

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Spengler on Causation

Quintilian

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One of the most interesting and original aspects of Oswald Spengler’s philosophy is his separation of history from causality. For Spengler, history is an examination of the fulfillment of a particular group’s destiny that is not necessarily subject to the strictures of cause and effect: Read more …

Published: June 6, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Decline of the West, destiny, fate, North American New Right, originals, philosophy of culture, Quintilian | 5 Responses

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Spengler on Fate

Quintilian

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Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) is one of the thinkers most admired by the Dissident Right, yet it is obvious that this admiration largely stems from Spengler’s portrayal of Western civilization as being “Faustian” in nature, that Western man (i.e., the white man) is a seeker of the infinite, which can be expressed by analytical mathematics, instrumental polyphony, perspective painting, etc. Read more …

Published: June 5, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Darwinism, destiny, fate, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, North American New Right, originals, philosophy of culture, Quintilian | 5 Responses

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Remembering Oswald Spengler:
May 29, 1880–May 8, 1936

Greg Johnson

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Published: May 29, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history | 2 Responses

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Historicizing the Historicists:
Notes on Leo Strauss’ “The Living Issues of German Postwar Philosophy,” Part 1

Greg Johnson

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Part 1 of 2

Leo Strauss is widely known as a critic of historicism and an advocate of classical philosophy. Historicism holds that philosophical ideas are relative to culture, whereas classical philosophy aims for knowledge of nature, which is not relative to culture. But what is Strauss’s own point of view? Does he base his arguments on historicist or classical philosophical premises? Read more …

Published: May 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservative revolution, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, hermeneutics, historicism, Leo Strauss, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, relativism | 3 Responses

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A Conversation with Ricardo Duchesne, Part 2

Gregoire Canlorbe

An idol of the Celtic god of thunder, Taranis, a common deity in the Indo-European pantheons

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Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

Grégoire Canlorbe: Western civilization, originating from the Indo-European heroic ethos, turned out to be both the most creative and Faustian civilization and the most war-ridden and war-dominated one. Islamic civilization has been equally militaristic and expansionist; yet it quickly became frozen and hostile towards innovation and individual genius, despite the fact that praising Muhammad’s heroic lifetime has permeated Islamic societies to this day. How do you explain this duality?

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Our Marx, Only Better:
Vico & Modern Anti-Liberalism

Greg Johnson

Giambattista Vico

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Author’s Note:

This is the transcript by V.S. of my speech “Vico and Modern Anti-Liberalism,” given at The London Forum on Saturday, September 27, 2014. I have heavily edited it, rewriting it in places. I want to thank Jez Turner and The London Forum team for a memorable event.

Today I’m going to talk about a topic that’s somewhat esoteric. Read more …

Published: April 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cyclical history, Darwinism, Epicureanism, Ernst Cassirer, Georges Sorel, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, myth, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, Plato, progress., religion, the Counter-Enlightenment, the Enlightenment, the social sciences, Traditionalism | 7 Responses

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Biospenglerianism

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

Dr. Edward Dutton

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We know from Spengler that each great civilization goes through a cycle: hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men. On the Dissident Right, our belief is in personal responsibility, in taking ownership for who and what we are. If we accept this intellectually, it gives us a blind spot with regard to biology and just how immutable heritability is, however. Blood trumps culture and policy, even naked power. Heritability is the ultimate red-pill, and in some ways the ultimate black-pill (and then a white-pill).

Published: March 21, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, dysgenics, Edward Dutton, eugenics, genetic determinism, genetic inheritance, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals | 24 Responses

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Mark Sedgwick’s Key Thinkers of the Radical Right

Greg Johnson

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Mark Sedgwick, ed.
Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019

Mark Sedgwick is an English scholar of Western Esotericism and Islam. He is Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark. Read more …

Published: March 6, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Alexander Dugin, Carl Schmitt, Daniel Friberg, Ernst Junger, European New Right, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, Guillaume Faye, Jack Donovan, Jared Taylor, Julius Evola, Kevin MacDonald, Martin Heidegger, Mencius Moldbug, metapolitics, neoreaction, New Right, NRX, Patrick Buchanan, Paul Gottfried, Rene Guénon, Richard Spencer, Samuel Francis, Traditionalism, white nationalism | 24 Responses

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Australian Artists of the Right
Norman Lindsay, Part II

Kerry Bolton

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1)

Homosexuality not conducive to creativity

Norman rejected the faddish view that homosexuality is associated with the creative individual. He regarded homosexuality as “destructive” to the creative impulse, which is based on unisexuality. He stated that the male homosexual is dominated by a split of either all-male or all-female:

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Australian Artists of the Right
Norman Lindsay, Part I

Kerry Bolton

Norman Lindsay

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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

Norman Alfred Williams Lindsay (1879-1969) was the brother of Lionel Lindsay, recently profiled at Counter-Currents. Like his brother, Norman excelled in a variety of artistic media. While Lionel’s primary contribution to art theory and history was a slender but informative volume, Addled Art (1942, 1946), Norman was also a notable author of an impressive number of novels, as well as books on history and aesthetics. Read more …

Published: December 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, art, articles, Australia, Australian Artists of the Right, Christianity, elitism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right, originals, P. R. Stephensen, Western civilization | 1 Response

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Rock ‘n’ Roll & The European Soul

Jared George

Pink Floyd in 1968

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“White culture is Family Ties and Led Zeppelin and Guns N’ Roses – like, this is white culture. This is all we have.”
–Christian Lander[1]

Rock music’s descent mirrors the recent late-stage decline of confidence in the West.

Yes, rock music is complicated – cue the liberals retorting with, “It’s all just black blues, man!” and certain conservatives contesting, “But it’s degenerate!” Read more …

Published: December 4, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, implicit whiteness, implicitly white music, Jared George, North American New Right, originals, Ricardo Duchesne, rock music | 22 Responses

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Remembering Francis Parker Yockey:
September 18, 1917–June 16, 1960

Greg Johnson

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Francis Parker Yockey was born 101 years ago today, September 18, in Chicago. He died in San Francisco on June 16, 1960, an apparent suicide. Yockey is one of America’s greatest anti-liberal thinkers and an abiding influence on the North American New Right. In honor of his birthday, I wish to draw the reader’s attention to the following works on this site.

Published: September 18, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Francis Parker Yockey, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, philosophy of history, political philosophy | 4 Responses

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Between the Heroic & the Immeasurable:
The Historical Background of Oswald Spengler’s Philosophy of Science

A. E. Stern

Oswald Spengler

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Oswald Spengler’s writings on the subject of the philosophy of science are very controversial, not only among his detractors but even for his admirers. What is little understood is that his views on these matters did not exist in a vacuum. Rather, Spengler’s arguments on the sciences articulate a long German tradition of rejecting English science, a tradition that originated in the eighteenth century. Read more …

Published: July 31, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Franz Boas, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, materialism, North American New Right, originals | 2 Responses

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A Lost Interview

Greg Johnson

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In December of 2016, I did an interview with Darryl Cooper’s The Decline of the West podcast. Read more …

Published: July 21, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged biological race differences, capitalism, Darryl Cooper, ethnonationalism, globalization, Greg Johnson, interviews, labor movement, podcasts, Social Credit, the Jewish question, white nationalism | 8 Responses

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Remembering Oswald Spengler:
May 29, 1880–May 8, 1936

Greg Johnson

Painting by Michael Kunze

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Published: May 29, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history | Leave a comment

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 218
Rolf Peter Sieferle’s Epochenwechsel

Michael Walker

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Audio version: To listen in a player, use the one above or click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” To subscribe to the CC podcast RSS feed, click here. Read more …

Published: May 25, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, capitalism, environmentalism, free market, Germany, globalization, human rights, mass immigration, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, Rolf Peter Sieferle, sustainability | 3 Responses

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Re-Kindling Alan Watts, Part Two

James J. O'Meara

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Part 2 of 2. Part 1 here.

Partings II – Watts and The Church Today: Real Presence or Real Estate?

Watts was quite successful in his attempt to express the religio perennis in the language of Christian theology; not just in my opinion today, but among his Episcopal peers at the time (one bishop even called it “the most important book on religion in this century”[1]), Read more …

Published: January 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alan Watts, Anglicanism, articles, book reviews, Brideshead Revisited, Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, Evelyn Waugh, Frithjof Schuon, James O'Meara, mysticism, New Age, North American New Right, originals, philosophy of history, Protestantism, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism, Vedanta | 3 Responses

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Re-Kindling Alan Watts, Part One

James J. O'Meara

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Part 1 of 2

Alan W. Watts
Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion
New York: Pantheon, 1947; reissued with a new Preface, 1971
Kindle, 2016

“For God is not niggardly in his self-revelation; he exposes himself right before our eyes.” — Alan Watts Read more …

Published: January 4, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alan Watts, Anglicanism, articles, book reviews, Brideshead Revisited, Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, Evelyn Waugh, Frithjof Schuon, James O'Meara, mysticism, New Age, North American New Right, originals, philosophy of history, Protestantism, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism, Vedanta | 10 Responses

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Grey December Zeitgeist:
Shades of Spengler, Evola, Nietzsche, & Bukowski

J. J. Przybylski

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I’m old. I’m grey as December. I’m thinking about moving to a Senior Citizen’s Home that sits near the Liberty Bell and Independence Mall. Read more …

Published: December 19, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Friedrich Nietzsche, J. J. Przybylski, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, trust, urban life, white dispossession | 12 Responses

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Ditching the Black Pill;
Or, How I Freed Myself from the Shekel

Chad Crowley

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As of late, many in the movement have been both advocating and adopting the deleterious philosophy of the so-called “Black Pill.” Those held in thrall by the nihilistic tendrils of the “Black Pill” ideology posit that — quite bluntly — hope is futile, change a fleeting mirage, and White racial preservation improbable. Read more …

Published: November 17, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Chad Crowley, Faustian man, Friedrich Nietzsche, North American New Right, originals, self-overcoming | 8 Responses

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Decline of the Western Male, Part 2

Martin Spengler

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Part 2 of 2. Part 1 here

Transhumanism — The Final Showdown

The West, in its essence, is neither a human nor a natural society. The current debate – is gender real? – is not directed at finding truth but is instead a program of action – “we will make it so that there is no such thing as gender.” Masculinity and femininity, their polarity, will be abolished. Read more …

Published: October 20, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, civilization, decadence, equality, femininity, feminism, freedom, globalization, manliness, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, subjectivism, technology, transhumanism | 5 Responses

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Decline of the Western Male, Part 1

Martin Spengler

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Part 1 of 2

Martin Heidegger, Oswald Spengler – “Martin Spengler” – these two 20th-century thinkers provide the main source of inspiration behind this project. Both sought to understand the times we live in, and to bring into view the deeper historical and philosophical significance underlying many of the political, economic, social, and cultural issues before us today. Read more …