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In the latest episode of Guide to Kulchur, Professor Ricardo Duchesne joins Fróði Midjord to discuss Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Topics in this two-hour conversation include:

The rise of the novel
The greater variety of personalities in Western culture
Marxist interpretation of Robinson Crusoe as the prototype capitalist persona
The history and nature of Western individualism
Protestant introspection

Published: September 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Frodi Midjord, Guide to Kulchur, North American New Right, video of the day | Leave a comment

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Project 1619:
When Will Conservatives Stop Begging Nonwhites to Love Western Civilization?

Ricardo Duchesne

1,366 words

Andrew Roberts is a renowned conservative, Visiting Fellow at Stanford University, and Visiting Professor at King’s College London, who believes that everyone in the world can be educated to love the democratic values of Western civilization. If only blacks and immigrants were taught to appreciate the immense value of Greek Read more …

Published: August 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1619 Project, American identity, Andrew Roberts, articles, conservatism, Council of European Canadians, higher education, history, identity, immigration, North American New Right, reprints, Western civilization, Western uniqueness | 20 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, rhetoric, white identity | 8 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 281
Kevin MacDonald & Ricardo Duchesne

Counter-Currents Radio

209 words / 1:44:42

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On the Counter-Currents Radio fundraiser livestream for July 12th, Greg Johnson is joined by special guests Kevin MacDonald and Ricardo Duchesne to discuss Kevin’s book Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, Ricardo’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, and the light they throw on contemporary anti-white hysteria. We also answer questions from listeners. Read more …

Published: July 15, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, interviews, moralism, podcasts, sociobiology, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization | 4 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 8: Why Are Whites Canceling Each Other?

Ricardo Duchesne

Whites cleaning up the mess blacks made of Minneapolis.

1,582 words

Do you know why Europeans across the political spectrum — liberals, conservatives, socialists — are morally committed to a politics that is leading to the dissolution of their millennial racial identities while promoting the racial identities of non-white immigrants within their own nations? Read more …

Published: July 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, ethnocentrism, history, identity, individualism, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Kevin MacDonald, morality, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints, reputation, sociology | 5 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 7: White Maladaptive Altruism

Ricardo Duchesne

Benjamin Haydon, The Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840, 1841.

5,142 words

The white race is uniquely altruistic. Why? This is a very difficult question to answer. It is easy to understand altruistic behavior for the benefit of one’s family members. This is common among animals. Mother bears will put their lives in danger to protect their cubs from attack. Sacrifices for one’s relatives and ingroup ethnic members Read more …

Published: June 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abolitionism, altruism, articles, civic nationalism, egalitarianism, empathy, German Idealism, individualism, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Kevin MacDonald, negative liberty, North American New Right, positive liberty, Quakers, reprints, Romanticism, structuralism, the Self | Leave a comment

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 6: From Puritan Individualism to Jewish Infiltration

Ricardo Duchesne

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (front, second from left) with his football team, 1899.

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Chapter 6, “Puritanism: The Rise of Egalitarian Individualism and Moralistic Utopianism,” of Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, claims that Puritanism and the intellectual movements descending from this religion were the “most important” forces shaping the culture of the United States “from the eighteenth century down to the mid-twentieth century.” Read more …

Published: May 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anglo-American culture, aristocratic individualism, articles, Christianity, immigration, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, Jews and immigration, Jews in America, Kevin MacDonald, multiculturalism, North American New Right, Puritans, reprints, the Jewish question, WASPs | 2 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & the Western Liberal Tradition:
Hail the Catholic Church!

Ricardo Duchesne

1,658 words

Since the beginning of his academic career in the early 1980s, Kevin MacDonald has been wondering why only in the West “wealthy, powerful men” have not sought “to control ever-larger numbers of women”. Evolutionary biology teaches that male reproductive success benefits greatly from the acquisition of multiple mates. In all societies, except those in which harsh ecological conditions limit the amount of surplus the society can generate, “it is expected that males with wealth and power” will employ their surpluses to “secure as many mates as possible.” This is Evolutionary Biology 101. Read more …

Published: April 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocratic individualism, articles, collectivism, incest, individualism, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, Kevin MacDonald, kinship, marriage, monogamy, North American New Right, reprints, the Catholic church, the church | 3 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition:
The Kinship Cut-Off

Ricardo Duchesne

William Dobson, Portrait of a Family, Probably that of Richard Streatfield, 1645.

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Have you spent countless hours searching for the origins of individualism in the philosophical treatises of the Western Canon? Reading Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition may make you think this was wasted time: the origins of individualism lie in the pedestrian world of family life. Read more …

Published: March 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, collectivism, individualism, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, Kevin MacDonald, liberalism, North American New Right, reprints, Scandinavia, socialism, Sweden | 6 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 3: The Origins of the Weird Whites

Ricardo Duchesne

2,069 words

The essence of liberalism is individualism, and the primordial evolutionary fact of individualism is the “the cutting-off from the wider kinship group,” and the origins of this cutting-off can be traced back to Northern hunter-gatherers in Europe during the last glacial age in the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods. Read more …

Published: March 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, aristocratic individualism, articles, evolutionary psychology, hunter gatherers, individualism, Indo-Europeans, Kevin MacDonald, North American New Right, reprints | 13 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & the Western Liberal Tradition:
Aristocratic Individualism

Ricardo Duchesne

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In Part 1 of my detailed examination of Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future (2019) I covered MacDonald’s argument in chapter one that Europe’s founding peoples consisted of three population groups: Read more …

Published: February 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, book reviews, citizenship, ethnicity, Greece, history, individualism, Italy, Kevin MacDonald, kinship, North American New Right, reprints | 15 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & the Western Liberal Tradition:
The Indigenous Europeans

Ricardo Duchesne

2,932 words

Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects For the Future (2019) is the first book that employs an evolutionary psychological approach to explain the rise of the West — actually, it is the first book that aims to comprehend the dynamics of the entire history of the West from prehistoric to current times to explain as well the decline of the West, the ways in which the “egalitarian individualism” originated by northwest Europeans in hunting and gathering times planted the seeds of the West’s current decision to destroy its genetic heritage through the importation of masses of immigrants. Read more …

Published: February 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Council of European Canadians, Europe, genetics, hunter gatherers, Kevin MacDonald, North American New Right, reprints | 5 Responses

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Pinkera Brzydzą Biali Nacjonaliści

Ricardo Duchesne

4,611 words

English original here

Steven Pinker
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
New York: Viking, 2018

Wraz z publikacją “Enlightenment Now” (Oświecenie Teraz) Steven Pinker zdecydowanie ustanowił się jako główny intelektualista publiczny w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Read more …

Published: November 5, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, cosmopolitanism, diversity, ethnonationalism, European identity, identitarianism, in Polish, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, populism, progress., social capital, Steven Pinker, trust, universalism | Leave a comment

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The Immense Revolution of the Presocratics

Ricardo Duchesne

Oil painting of Heraclitus by Etienne Parrocel (1696-1775)

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To understand why Europeans were the progenitors of the highest accomplishments in history – close to one hundred percent of the great ideas in philosophy, science, anthropology, sociology, economics, geography, geology, astronomy, mathematics, architecture, technology, dance, and music – you must understand the Presocratic self-conscious separation of the knowing “I” from the “not-I.” Read more …

Published: September 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Greeks, articles, Council of European Canadians, Heraclitus, North American New Right, Parmenides, presocratic philosophy, reprints, self-consciousness, Western uniqueness | 4 Responses

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Camille Paglia & the Consciousness-Light Day of Western Man

Ricardo Duchesne

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Camille Paglia infuriated feminists when she observed in Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) that males – as biological beings – are responsible for the development of civilized life and most of the world’s cultural creativity. What no one has wanted to say is that the implicit argument throughout Sexual Personae is that only white males have possessed the Apollonian rationality that “has taken us to the stars.”

Published: September 4, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, C. G. Jung, Camille Paglia, consciousness, Indo-Europeans, masculinity, North American New Right, reprints, white racial consciousness | 42 Responses

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The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part IV

Ricardo Duchesne

Georg Friedrich Kersting, Faust in his Study

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Part 4 of 4 (Part 3 here)

Definition of “Axial thought”

The Axial Age idea is the most concerted effort to retain aspects of the idea of progress while disallowing Western civilization from claiming to be the most progressive in the sciences, technology, cultural creativity, and forms of state organization. This idea has historical merits. Read more …

Published: July 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Greeks, anti-white propaganda, aristocracy, Aristotle, articles, Axial Age, China, Council of European Canadians, egalitarianism, India, individualism, Israel, North American New Right, Plato, pre-Socratic philosophy, reprints, ritual, Robert N. Bellah, Western uniqueness | 1 Response

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The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part III

Ricardo Duchesne

The Mask of Agamemnon

4,700 words

Part 3 of 4 (Part 2 here, Part 4 here)

Rituals in simple mythic cultures

According to Bellah, humans express their highest values and cultural practices in those activities we define as “play” and “ritual,” because these activities are performed when humans are in a “relaxed” state away from evolutionary pressures. Read more …

Published: July 9, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, Axial Age, Council of European Canadians, egalitarianism, individualism, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, North American New Right, reprints, ritual, Robert N. Bellah, Western uniqueness | 2 Responses

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The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part II

Ricardo Duchesne

2,468 words

Part 2 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

“New capacities” under conditions of “relaxed selection”

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The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part I

Ricardo Duchesne

Robert N. Bellah, theorist of the Axial Age

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Part 1 of 4

Only European peoples have made history and discovered the idea of time, and this is why the idea of progress is uniquely European: Only European history has been characterized by progress, and there can be no conception of historical time and no history without progression or without man becoming conscious of his role in the making of history, as well as the realization that only the mind can be the adjudicator of the truth. Read more …

Published: July 3, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged academia, anti-white rhetoric, articles, Axial Age, Council of European Canadians, cultural Marxism, evolution, Karl Jaspers, North American New Right, political correctness, reprints, Robert N. Bellah, Western uniqueness | Leave a comment

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 237
The Dishonest Campaign Against Ricardo Duchesne

Counter-Currents Radio

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Greg and John reconvene the weekly podcast to discuss the dishonest politically correct campaign against the courageous defender of the West, Professor Ricardo Duchesne. Read more …

Published: June 21, 2019 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged academia, Counter-Currents Radio, podcasts, political correctness | 6 Responses

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And Then They Came for Ricardo Duchesne

Collin Cleary

3,102 words

Several years ago, I published a mammoth review essay on Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization. I regard it as one of the most interesting and important books I have ever read. Duchesne is a valiant defender of Western civilization against the madness of politically correct academics – and now, it seems, he may be paying the price. Read more …

Published: May 29, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged academia, articles, censorship, Collin Cleary, Leftists in academia, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, the left | 7 Responses

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Reflections on the Supremacy of the West:
A Critique of Ricardo Duchesne & Niall Ferguson

Alexander Jacob

Niall Ferguson

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In 2011 there appeared two major scholarly works that attempted to investigate the sources of Western supremacy in the modern world, especially in view of the recent rise of China as a potential threat to this supremacy. These are the Puerto Rican-Canadian social historian Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization[1] and the British economic historian Niall Ferguson’s Civilization: The West and the Rest.[2] Read more …

Published: April 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Jacob, Alexandre Kojève, articles, book reviews, G. W. F. Hegel, hinduism, Indo-European culture, Max Weber, North American New Right, originals, the Indo-Europeans, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Western uniqueness | 10 Responses

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A Conversation with Ricardo Duchesne, Part 3

Gregoire Canlorbe

Plato’s allegory of the cave

3,629 words

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

Grégoire Canlorbe: It is not uncommon to claim the self-assertive longing for “prestige,” “respect,” and “fame” is fully intelligible within the framework of the selfish-gene theory, Read more …

Published: April 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged academia, anti-white rhetoric, articles, Council of European Canadians, Faustian man, G. W. F. Hegel, Grégoire Canlorbe, Indo-European culture, Indo-Europeans, North American New Right, originals, the Axial Age, Western uniqueness | Leave a comment

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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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A Conversation with Ricardo Duchesne, Part 1

Gregoire Canlorbe

3,796 words

Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here)

Grégoire Canlorbe: In your eyes, the European civilization of the white man has been systemically downsized by contemporary world historians – to name but a few, Patrick O’Brien, Sebastian Conrad, or Ian Morris. Could you develop?

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Michael Sandel’s Anti-White Populist Strategy to Defeat “Right-Wing Populism”

Ricardo Duchesne

Michael Sandel

1,999 words

The rise of nationalist populism has shaken the globalist establishment far more than the rise of Islamic radicalism did in the 1990s and after. Muslim terrorism merely encouraged globalists to bring more “moderate” Muslims to the West to show undisturbed confidence in the value of diversity. The more Muslims have bombed the West, the more power “moderate” Muslims have gained by way of grants, affirmative action, spread of businesses, regulations against “Islamophobia,” and endless eulogies about their “indispensable” contributions. Read more …

Published: March 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged academia, articles, Council of European Canadians, Democratic Party, globalism, mass immigration, neoconservatism, North American New Right, populism, reprints, socialism, welfare | 10 Responses

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The Higher Cognitive Fluidity of the European Mind

Ricardo Duchesne

Julian Jaynes

7,982 words

Half of my book, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, is about discrediting the multicultural claim that, as late as the mid-1700s, the West was no more advanced than the major civilizations of Asia, or China in particular, and that only a set of fortuitous circumstances gave the West a chance to industrialize first. The West did not “stumble” accidentally into the New World, I argued, and it was not “easy access” to the resources of the Americas, enslavement of blacks, or availability of cheap coal in Britain that made Britain’s takeoff possible.

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The Transcendental Mind of Europeans Stands Above the Embedded Mind of Asians

Ricardo Duchesne

7,002 words

Europeans were the first – and are still the only – race to become conscious of their consciousness, to identify the faculty of thinking as the point from which all knowledge must proceed in separation from all extra-intellectual sources and inclinations, be they conventions of the time, religious mandates, or emotional inclinations.

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Rock ‘n’ Roll & The European Soul

Jared George

Pink Floyd in 1968

4,096 words

“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, Oswald Spengler, rock music | 22 Responses

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Jean Piaget & the Superior Psychogenetic Cognition of Europeans, Part II

Ricardo Duchesne

Representatives of two stages of mental development: Rembrandt, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (1653)

6,358 words

Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Why did the West rise to become the most powerful civilization, the progenitor of modernity, the culture with the most prodigious creators? The answers are plenty. But it may be that a child psychologist, Jean Piaget, has offered the best theoretical framework to explain the difference between the West and the Rest. Read more …