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Traditional Conservatism Can Never Defeat The Enlightenment Left

Ricardo Duchesne

White students pondering over a Herbert Marcuse lecture on the “one-dimensional mind” of the white race.

1,364 words

No one knows Friedrich Julius Stahl (1802-1861). He was a legal philosopher of Jewish parentage who converted to Christianity and became a defender of Prussian Lutheran conservatism against the imposition of Enlightenment values. He rejected Hegel’s argument Read more …

Published: December 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, conservatism, cultural Marxism, dogma, egalitarianism, ethnocentrism, evolutionary psychology, Friedrich Julius Stahl, G. W. F. Hegel, Herbert Marcuse, inequality, modernity, monarchism, North American New Right, philosophy, psychology, rationalism, reason, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, science, the Enlightenment, the middle class, tradition, Traditionalism | 12 Responses

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Five Minutes with the Average Voter

Phil Eiger Newmann, The Arena, 2020.

1,431 words

Any belief, no matter how desperately well-intentioned, in the efficacy and wisdom of democracy depends on the fundamentally flawed notion that the average voter is anything loftier than an easily frightened and brainwashed lab rat. Read more …

Published: December 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Craigslist, democracy, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Jim Goad, Left vs. Right, memes, North American New Right, originals, polarization, the political | 23 Responses

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I Want You to Hurt Like I Do

Spencer J. Quinn

1,340 words

With all the uncertainty surrounding the 2020 election, I’m reminded of the Randy Newman song “I Want You to Hurt Like I Do.” It’s a slow, depressing waltz about a self-centered person who’s cruel to others for no reason. And when asked why, he repeats the song title for an explanation. Read more …

Published: November 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 presidential election, articles, deplatforming, dogma, fascism, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, voter fraud | 3 Responses

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The Right Wing’s Got Talent

4,427 words

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, optimism, originals, personalities, Philippe-Joseph Salazar, philosophy, Supremacists, the alt right, Tomislav Sunić | 11 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 9: The Moral Argument for White Interests

Ricardo Duchesne

1,390 words

We have now reached the last chapter of Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition. This indispensable book argues that both the rise and decline of the West can be explained in terms of the genetically selected predisposition Europeans have for creating communities that emphasize the moral reputation Read more …

Published: July 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, ethnocentrism, identity, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, Kevin MacDonald, kinship, moral communities, morality, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, white identity | 8 Responses

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Wallet Lives Matter!
Or, Will the Real Racist Please Stand Up

Spencer J. Quinn

1,268 words

The anti-white, former ESPN personality Jemele Hill tweeted something stupid again recently. But it was inadvertently interesting, and so worthy of comment. She initially tweeted this: Read more …

Published: July 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Black Lives Matter, black supremacism, Donald Trump, identity, North American New Right, originals, racism, Spencer J. Quinn | 39 Responses

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We’re the Bad Guys?

Winston E. Bakewell

René Magritte, Golconda, 1953.

2,173 words

The twofold crises of the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic are perfect opportunities for modern nihilists and culture-destroyers of every stripe to let off all the brakes. It is not often that world events align so cleanly with the rhetoric and goals of our enemies, which presents some troubling developments Read more …

Published: July 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, amoralism, articles, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19 pandemic, George Floyd, ideology, individualism, leftism, liberalism, lying, moral signaling, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, self-righteousness, virtue signaling, Winston E. Bakewell | 6 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, optimism, originals, philosophy, self-righteousness, truth, Winston E. Bakewell | 5 Responses

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Self-Deception

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

2,248 words

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne Read more …

Published: July 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ann Coulter, articles, conformism, deplatforming, dignity, honor, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, propaganda, Tucker Carlson | 34 Responses

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Strange & Bitter Fruit

Winston E. Bakewell

1,215 words

Six black people have been found dead, hanging from trees, during the month of June so far. They were all ruled as suicides by local police. Black people refuse to believe that’s true, of course. The circumstances of these deaths too closely resemble the lynchings of yesteryear, right down to the surrounding social turmoil and the highly public spectacle of the corpses. Read more …

Published: June 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Black Lives Matter, civility, cynicism, death, debate, honesty, lynching, mainstream media, North American New Right, originals, polarization, suicide, truth, Winston E. Bakewell | 6 Responses

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The Language of Winners

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Words matter. Language matters. The lucid, sober expression of ideas through the paired lenses of science and reason matters. Unfortunately, to the detriment of white people in Western countries, there is a Left-wing monopoly on scientific and political language that has ostracized Right-wing dissidents. Read more …

Published: June 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged academia, articles, debate, deconstructivism, John Wilkinson, language, North American New Right, originals, social constructivism | 10 Responses

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White Nationalism 1.0

Morris V. de Camp

2,602 words

Kathleen Belew
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018

“The influence of key veterans upon the white power movement, therefore, is part of the longer story about veterans’ claims on society, and about the expansive aftermath of modern war.”– Kathleen Belew

Published: June 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged activism, America in the 1960s, articles, David Lane, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, radicalism, white nationalism | 18 Responses

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The “Revolutionary Vanguard” Trap

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Right-wingers often say they want to create an “elite” revolutionary vanguard.

This would supposedly attract the best and brightest of our society in order to overthrow it. This elite would be smarter, more dedicated, more athletic, and possibly better-looking than the cattle they wish to rule. “We’re attracting quality, not quantity! Elites, not the masses!” is the eternal response to those who doubt this strategy. Read more …

Published: May 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservatism, elitism, National Alliance, North American New Right, originals, radicalism, revolution, Robert Hampton, vanguardism | 16 Responses

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Richard Weaver’s The Ethics of Rhetoric

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Richard Weaver
The Ethics of Rhetoric
Muriwai Books, 2017 (1953).

The great task that lies ahead of us is to persuade our people of the rightness of our ideas. It behooves us, then, to study the art of rhetoric, or persuasion. Richard Weaver’s The Ethics of Rhetoric is a rigorous and intelligent introduction to this vanishing art. Read more …

Published: March 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, articles, dialectic, eros, logos, North American New Right, oratory, originals, Plato, Platonism, Richard Weaver | 6 Responses

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Remembering Richard M. Weaver:
March 3, 1910–April 1, 1963

Richard M. Weaver

671 words

America wasn’t always a liberal country. The founders drew more upon classical republicanism than liberalism. In the nineteenth century, the populist movement was decidedly anti-liberal. But the founders and the populists were never consistently anti-liberal, because consistency is the province of intellectuals, not statesmen.

America never had a genuinely anti-liberal intellectual movement until the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s. (The North American New Right is America’s second anti-liberal intellectual movement.) Read more …

Published: March 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American South, articles, commemorations, conservatism, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Richard Weaver, Southern Agrarianism | 6 Responses

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Richard Weaver’s Ideas & Their Consequences

James J. O'Meara

7,566 words

Richard M. Weaver
Ideas Have Consequences
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948
Expanded edition, with a Foreword by Roger Kimball and an Afterword by Ted J. Smith III, 2013.

The defeat of logical realism in the great medieval debate was the crucial event in the history of Western culture …. Read more …

Published: March 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Decline of the West, essays, European prehistory, Frankfurt School, Hegel, Herbert Marcuse, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, Richard Weaver | 3 Responses

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On Racial Ad Hominems

Spencer J. Quinn

1,427 words

My 4-part series on the recent Kevin MacDonald-Nathan Cofnas debate garnered quite a few comments at Counter-Currents and on social media. This was one of the most challenging and rewarding piece I have ever worked on at Counter-Currents, Read more …

Published: May 18, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, North American New Right, originals, persuasion, racial differences, Spencer J. Quinn, stereotypes | 7 Responses

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Rules for Writers, Part 2

1,976 words

Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

5. Pace Yourself.

Alas, most people in our cause are in no danger of burning themselves out. Read more …

Published: March 9, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, courage, drugs, Greg Johnson, honesty, living well, North American New Right, originals, self-sacrifice, why we write, writing | 18 Responses

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Video of the Day
Underneath the Mind:
Bowden on Oratory

Jonathan Bowden

4:11

Published: July 11, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Jonathan Bowden, oratory, persuasion, video of the day, videos | Leave a comment

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 179
The Morality of Hatred

C. B. Robertson

54 words / 23:54

To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.”

C. B. Robertson speaks at the Fourth Meeting of the Northwest Forum on Saturday, June 24th on themes discussed in his book In Defense of Hatred (reviewed here by Aedon Cassiel).

Published: June 26, 2017 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged C. B. Robertson, Counter-Currents Radio, hatred, In Defense of Hatred, love, morality, Northwest Forum, podcasts | 2 Responses

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With Vindictive Poise:
Dealing with the Mainstream Media

Spencer J. Quinn

2,459 words

In 2009, Ann Coulter gave a wonderfully civil interview to the New York Times, which was predictably entitled “And Now, a Moment of Civil Discourse With Ann Coulter.” The topic was her upcoming debate with liberal comedian and talk show host Bill Maher. She did not speak with her reporter, and instead answered his questions IN ALL CAPS in an email. Like a good Elvis Costello song, the tone of the interview could not have been more pleasant . . . Read more …

Published: December 19, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ann Coulter, articles, moral signaling, North American New Right, originals, Spencer Quinn, the media | 5 Responses

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Enlightened Patriarchy:
Frederick the Great’s Principles of Lawmaking, Part 2

Guillaume Durocher

2,925 words

Part 2 of 2; Russian translation here

Moderation & Humaneness

The sovereign has authority but, as with the father, this must be deserved. Frederick notes dispassionately that Publicola, one of the founders of the Roman Republic, had legalized tyrannicide. The laws must be fair and appropriate to the nation concerned, Read more …

Published: November 10, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abortion, articles, Frederick the Great, Guillaume Durocher, justice, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, Prussia, Sparta, usury | 4 Responses

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Expertos & Vendedores

1,393 words

English original here

De acuerdo al libro de Malcom Gladwell The Tipping Point (discutido aquí y aquí), los Conectores –la gente con amigos y conocidos en una variedad de mundos sociales – son cruciales en lograr viralizar la información. ¿Pero de dónde sacan esta información? Read more …

Published: January 17, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, charisma, connectors, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, Malcolm Gladwell, Mavens, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, Salesmen, The Tipping Point, virulence, white community organizing | Leave a comment

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Experts et vendeurs

1,538 words

English original here

D’après le livre de Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point [Le point de basculement] (discuté ici et ici), les Connecteurs – les gens ayant des amis et des connaissances dans de nombreux mondes sociaux différents – sont cruciaux pour faire en sorte que l’information devienne virale. Mais où obtiennent-ils leur information ? Read more …

Published: November 20, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, charisma, connectors, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, Malcolm Gladwell, Mavens, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, Salesmen, The Tipping Point, virulence, white community organizing | Leave a comment

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Mavens & Salesmen

1,393 words

Translations: French, Spanish

According to Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point (discussed here and here), Connectors — people with friends and acquaintances in many different social worlds — are crucial in making information go viral. But where do they get their information?

Published: September 11, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, charisma, connectors, duty ethics, Greg Johnson, Malcolm Gladwell, Mavens, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, Salesmen, The Tipping Point, virulence, white community organizing | 6 Responses

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Why I am Not a Conservative

Jonathan Bowden

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L. S. Lowry, "Our Town," 1943

L. S. Lowry, Our Town, 1943

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. Read more …

Published: October 13, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged conservatism, England, interviews, Jonathan Bowden, North American New Right, originals, poverty, the labor movement | 3 Responses

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It’s All In the Delivery

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Over the past few years I’ve pondered my communication technique. My style. It seems dated, or maybe just a product of the wrong time. But it’s important to talk, to engage with potentially like-minded people around who are looking for something else besides forced group-think unhappiness. Read more …

Published: May 27, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Jeff Frankas, North American New Right, originals, white nationalism | 4 Responses

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Plato’s Apology, Part 2

6,751 words

Part 2 of 2

Author’s Note:

The following text is based on a transcript by V. S. of a lecture on Plato’s Apology of Socrates. As usual, I have edited his transcript to remove excessive wordiness. I have also added a few lines and repositioned some paragraphs. Read more …

Published: February 11, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Apology, Aristophanes, articles, Clouds, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, Socrates, The Trial of Socrates | 1 Response

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Plato’s Apology, Part 1

7,093 words

Part 1 of 2

Author’s Note:

The following text is based on a transcript by V. S. of a lecture on Plato’s Apology of Socrates. As usual, I have edited his transcript to remove excessive wordiness. I have also added a few paragraphs and points based on my notes. Read more …

Published: January 29, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristophanes, articles, Clouds, Greg Johnson, irony, Jacques Derrida, magnanimity, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, religion, Socrates, The Trial of Socrates | 2 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 68
What Socrates Knew:
Plato’s Gorgias, Part 10 of 10

32:49 / 334 words

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In August of 1999, I started an eight-week lecture course called “What Socrates Knew: Plato on Art, Wisdom, and Happiness.” Read more …

Published: December 4, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Callicles, ethics, Gorgias, Greg Johnson, hedonism, living well, morality, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, self-actualization, Socrates, The Republic, the Sophists | 1 Response

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