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

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

480 words

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, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of history | 8 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, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, populism | 6 Responses

Remembering Carl Schmitt
(July 11, 1888–April 7, 1985)

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

1,036 words

Carl Schmitt was born on July 11, 1888 in Plettenberg, Westphalia, Germany — where he died on April 7, 1985, at the age of 96. The son of a Roman Catholic small businessman, Carl Schmitt studied law in Berlin, Munich, and Strasbourg, graduating and taking his state exams in Strasbourg in 1915. In 1916, he earned his habilitation in Strasbourg, qualifying him to be a law professor. He taught at business schools and universities in Munich, Greifswald, Bonn, Berlin, and Cologne.

Published: July 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Carl Schmitt, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | 2 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, liberalism, Marxism, Mikhail Bakunin, myth, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, syndicalism, violence, vitalism | 8 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, liberalism, Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, New Right, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology | 5 Responses

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

Robert Hampton

Horatio Greenough, George Washington

1,547 words

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, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, The Virtue of Nationalism, Yoram Hazony | 21 Responses

The Vices of The Virtue of Nationalism
Hazony on Ethnic vs. Civic Nationalism

Yoram Hazony

2,530 words

In my review of Yoram Hazony’s The Virtue of Nationalism, I focused on the book’s virtues. Here I wish to examine some of its vices.

The positions I defend in The White Nationalist Manifesto (San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2018) are broadly compatible with the main arguments of The Virtue of Nationalism. We both hold that nations are ethnic groups and that the best political system is the nation-state, because it promotes peace between peoples and leaves them free to become who they are, to live according to their unique identities. Read more …

Published: February 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, civic nationalism, ethnic genetic interests, ethnic nationalism, family, genetic similarity theory, Greg Johnson, Johnson on Hazony, Judaism, marriage, North American New Right, originals, The Virtue of Nationalism, Yoram Hazony | 20 Responses

Yoram Hazony’s The Virtue of Nationalism

3,095 words

Yoram Hazony
The Virtue of Nationalism
New York: Basic Books, 2018

Yoram Hazony is an Israeli political theorist. He has a BA in East Asian studies from Princeton and a Ph.D. in political theory from Rutgers. While at Princeton, he founded a conservative publication, the Princeton Tory. An orthodox Jew and a political Zionist, he is the president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem. Read more …

Published: January 31, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, civic nationalism, Greg Johnson, imperialism, Johnson on Hazony, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, The Virtue of Nationalism, tribalism, Yoram Hazony | 18 Responses

Remembering Aleister Crowley:
October 12, 1875–December 1, 1947

Aleister Crowley by Charles Krafft

382 words

Published: October 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleister Crowley, articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, occultism, originals, poetry | 2 Responses

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

406 words

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, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of history | 4 Responses

Remembering Carl Schmitt:
July 11, 1888–April 7, 1985

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

988 words

Published: July 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Carl Schmitt, commemorations, geopolitics, Greg Johnson, law, originals | 4 Responses

What Populism Isn’t

3,641 words

Jan-Werner Müller
What is Populism?
Penguin, 2017

When a political establishment feels threatened by a growing force like National Populism, Plan A is to defend the establishment and attack its opponents by dispatching middle-brow journalists to sneer and jeer and middle-brow political hacks to construct partisan talking points. Read more …

Published: December 28, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Carl Schmitt, democracy, Greg Johnson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, liberalism, National Populism, North American New Right, originals, populism | 10 Responses

Remembering Aleister Crowley:
October 12, 1875–December 1, 1947

Aleister Crowley by Charles Krafft

364 words

Published: October 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleister Crowley, articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, occultism, originals, poetry | 9 Responses

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

394 words

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, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of history | 4 Responses

Remembering Carl Schmitt:
July 11, 1888–April 7, 1985

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

884 words

Published: July 11, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Carl Schmitt, commemorations, geopolitics, Greg Johnson, law, originals | 1 Response

The Aryan Ethos:
Loyalty to One’s Own Nature

Julius Evola

2,384 words

Today, more than ever, one must understand that social problems, in their essence, are rooted in problems of ethics and world-view. Anyone who thinks that social problems can be solved through purely technical means, is like a doctor who only wants to treat the patent symptoms of a disease, rather than examining and treating its deep causes. Read more …

Published: June 15, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, caste, class, ethics, guilds, individualism, Julius Evola, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, self-actualization, translations | 2 Responses

Superhrdinové, suverenita a stát ve státě

3,027 slov

English original here

Poznámka autora:

Poněkud zkrácenou verzi následujícího textu jsem přednesl na druhém setkání New York Forum 16. července 2016. Rád bych tímto poděkoval týmu NY Forum i všem přítomným. Read more …

Published: March 8, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Batman, Carl Schmitt, deep state, in Czech, North American New Right, reprints, sovereignty, superheroes, the Jewish question, vigilantism | Leave a comment

Francis Parker Yockey at 100

474 words

Francis Parker Yockey was born 100 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, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Francis Parker Yockey, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of history, white nationalism | 2 Responses

State, Movement, People, Part 4

7,776 words

Part 4 of 4

Translated with notes by Simona Draghici

IV. Leadership and Ethnic Identity as Basic Concepts of National Socialist Law

1. National Socialism does not think abstractly and stereotypically. It is an enemy of every normativist and functionalist concoction. Read more …

Published: July 24, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged bureaucracy, Carl Schmitt, dictatorship, ethnonationalism, leadership, liberalism, National Socialism, National Socialist Germany, philosophy of law, reprints, the Third Reich, translations, Weimar Republic | 1 Response

State, Movement, People, Part 3

5,569 words

Part 3 of 4

Translated with notes by Simona Draghici

III. The Binary State Construction of Liberal Democracy and the German State of the Civil Service

1. The new triadic state structure of the twentieth century has long superseded the binary statal constitutional schema of the liberal democracy of the nineteenth century. Read more …

Published: July 21, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged bureaucracy, Carl Schmitt, G. W. F. Hegel, liberalism, National Socialism, National Socialist Germany, reprints, the Third Reich, translations, Weimar Republic | Leave a comment

State, Movement, People, Part 2

5,850 words

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

Part 2 of 4

Translated with notes by Simona Draghici

II. The Triadic Structure of the Political Unity

1. The political unity of the present-day state is a three-part summation of state, movement, and people. It is radically different from the liberal-democratic state schema that has come to us from the nineteenth century, and not only with respect to its ideological presuppositions and its general principles, but also in the essential structural and organizational lines of the concrete edifice of the state. Read more …

Published: July 20, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Carl Schmitt, law, National Socialism, National Socialist Germany, North American New Right, reprints, the Third Reich, translations | Leave a comment

State, Movement, People, Part 1

5,666 words

Part 1 of 4

Translated with notes by Simona Draghici

Editor’s Note:

Carl Schmitt published State, Movement, People (Staat, Bewegung, Volk) near the end of 1933. Like many of his most important works, it is short and pithy (less than 25,000 words). Read more …

Published: July 19, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Carl Schmitt, law, National Socialism, National Socialist Germany, North American New Right, reprints, the Third Reich, translations, Weimar Republic | Leave a comment

The Question of Legality (1950)

3,544 words

Translated by Simona Draghici

The Reverend Oratorian Father Laberthonnière, who died in 1932, left behind the voluminous work of a lifetime, which is being edited by his friend Louis Canet. Between 1933 and 1948, six impressive volumes were published. Quite recently, another book of his was added to them, and which is of particular interest to us, namely, a Critique of the Notion of the Sovereignty of the Law.[1] Read more …

Published: July 11, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, bureaucracy, Carl Schmitt, law, Max Weber, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints, the Third Reich, translations | 1 Response

Remembering Carl Schmitt:
July 11, 1888–April 7, 1985

924 words

Published: July 11, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Carl Schmitt, commemorations, geopolitics, Greg Johnson, law, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | Leave a comment

Notes on Philosophical Dialectic

4,276 words

Socrates

Part 1 of 2

The concept of philosophical dialectic is quite mysterious and intimidating. Even among professional philosophers, dialectic often has connotations of mysticism, obscurantism, and slight of hand. I wish to dispel this aura. I will lay out the elements of philosophical dialectic by looking at specific arguments in Plato’s Republic[1] and Hegel’s Philosophy of Right[2] and then employ Heidegger’s account of the hermeneutic circle Being and Time and Husserl’s account of the logic of parts and wholes in his Logical Investigations to clarify the dialectical process. Read more …

Published: December 26, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, dialectic, free will, freedom, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, justice, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, Socrates, The Republic | 5 Responses

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Принципы законотворчества Фридриха Великого, часть 2

Guillaume Durocher

2,457 words

English original here

Умеренность & гуманность

Хотя монарх и обладает властью, но подобно отцу, он должен эту власть заслужить. Фридрих беспристрастно отмечает, что Попликола, один из основателей Римской республики узаконил тираноубийство. Read more …

Published: December 17, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Frederick the Great, Guillaume Durocher, in Russian, in translation, justice, North American New Right, originals, Prussia, Sparta | Leave a comment

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Принципы законотворчества Фридриха Великого

Guillaume Durocher

2,521 words

English original here

Возможно, самая впечатляющая западная традиция государственного строительства, по крайней мере в Новое время, принадлежит Пруссии. Разумеется, либерально-демократическая традиция, начатая Соединенными Штатами и Францией крепка, и она недаром сегодня господствует в нашем мире. Read more …

Published: December 17, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Frederick the Great, Guillaume Durocher, in Russian, in translation, North American New Right, originals, Prussia, Sparta | Leave a comment