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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, morality, movie reviews, Network, Paddy Chayevsky, Patrick Buchanan, Plato, podcasts, popular culture, populism, Ross Perot, Ted Kaczynski, thumos | 5 Responses

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Nineteen Eighty-Four Revisited, Part II:
What Orwell Can Still Teach Us

Collin Cleary

2,995 words

Part 2 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

3. The Denial of Reality and the Control of Language

On the “Unreflected Substantiality” of the Chinese Mind

Ricardo Duchesne

7,688 words

As the Chinese “silent invasion” of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada continues, you may want to learn something about the Western academics who lay the intellectual groundwork for this invasion. In a prior article, “The Transcendental Mind of Europeans Stands Above the Embedded Mind of Asians,” we met two influential scholars calling upon whites to abandon their “failed” attempts to formulate transcendental truths for the sake of the more “profound” contextual approach of Chinese philosophers with their demonstration that all thinking is “embedded” to a time and a place. Read more …

Published: February 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Greeks, Aristotle, articles, China, Chinese philosophy, Confucius, Council of European Canadians, cultural relativism, East vs. West, G. W. F. Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Max Weber, North American New Right, Plato, reprints, self-consciousness, Taoism, the Axial Age, Thomas Hobbes, Western uniqueness | 5 Responses

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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, morality, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, self-consciousness | Leave a comment

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Thoughts on the European New Right, Part 3

John Law

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Part 3 of 4

The Power of Reason

The European New Right (ENR) agrees with Pareto, Spengler, and Schmitt that the West took a wrong turn in the eighteenth century by advocating a program for the enlightenment of the human mind Read more …

Published: December 29, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, critical theory, European New Right, Frankfurt School, G. W. F. Hegel, John Law, Max Horkheimer, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, reprints, the Enlightenment, Vilfredo Pareto | 1 Response

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The Axial Age & the European Discovery of Logos, Part 2

Ricardo Duchesne

3,055 words

Thinkers East and West

Part 1 here

The Presocratic Discovery of Logos

Part 2 of this essay goes beyond the quantitative observation that Presocratic Greece on its own produced more original thinkers than the rest of the Axial world combined, Read more …

Published: December 26, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ancient Greece, articles, China, Karl Jaspers, North American New Right, philosophy, presocratic philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, science, the Axial Age | 3 Responses

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The Axial Age & the European Discovery of Logos, Part I

Ricardo Duchesne

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. . . was the Presocratic discovery of logos.

The idea of an “Axial Age” was a boon to the ideological drive after WWII to envision the history of all cultures as a “collective” undertaking between “connected” peoples. The behavior of Germany during Second War was testimony, apparently, of what happens when an otherwise modern culture refuses to join with the world of cosmopolitanism in defense of its ethnic integrity. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ancient Greece, articles, China, history, Karl Jaspers, North American New Right, philosophy, political correctness, presocratics, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, science, the Axial Age | 1 Response

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An Open Letter to Kurt Anderson on Charles Krafft

F. C. Stoughton

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Dear Mr. Anderson,

Though you claim to have been “heartened to see the vigorous debate” following your interview with Charlie Krafft, your website curiously no longer accepts comments for that episode. Read more …