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A French dragoon harassing a Huguenot.

1,585 words

The Third Amendment is, unsurprisingly, the least litigated out of all Constitutional amendments. Its effect on Constitutional law is almost nonexistent. While everyone may be glad that “no soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law,“ it probably would not have been an issue Read more …

Published: May 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, constitutional law, dignity, law, North American New Right, originals, Thomas Steuben | 5 Responses

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Hazony on National Self-Determination

Greg Johnson

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

2,104 words

Read more on Yoram Hazony’s The Virtue of Nationalism here, here, and here.

The right of peoples to self-determination is one of the basic norms of contemporary international law. Read more …

Published: February 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, Johnson on Hazony, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, sovereignty, The Virtue of Nationalism, universal nationalism, Woodrow Wilson, Yoram Hazony | 14 Responses

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Natural Rights vs. Human Rights:
A Critique of Alain de Benoist

John Law

6,534 words

Introduction

This essay examines Alain de Benoist’s book Beyond Human Rights, translated into English in 2011 by Arktos, originally published in French in 2004. This book is a powerful condemnation of the Western idea of natural rights, which it claims to be intrinsically associated with the idea that all humans across the world have human rights. It objects to the imposition of human rights obligations on an otherwise multicultural humanity. Read more …

Published: August 13, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Ancient Greece, articles, book reviews, cosmopolitanism, G. W. F. Hegel, Immanuel Kant, John Law, nationalism, North American New Right, philosophy, political theory, reprints, republicanism, universalism | 1 Response

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El Filósofo está dentro
Fuerza y Derecho

Greg Johnson

Albrecht Dürer, hombres salvajes de los paneles del Retrato de Oswald Krell, 1499

624 words

English original here

Nota del Traductor:

“Might is Right” se conoce generalmente como “la ley del más fuerte”, pero por una cuestión de concordancia traducimos “como fuerza y derecho”.

Un lector me preguntó mis pensamientos sobre la relación entre la fuerza y el derecho. (Dicho sea de paso, yo soy feliz de responder cuestiones filosóficas).

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The Philosopher is In
Might & Right

Greg Johnson

Albrecht Dürer, wild men from the side panels of the Portrait of Oswald Krell, 1499

524 words

Spanish translation here

A reader has asked me for my thoughts on the relationship between might and rights. (By the way, I am happy to entertain philosophical questions.)

What are rights? Rights are principles defining political freedoms and obligations. If rights are political, what makes rights “natural” as opposed to conventional? What makes rights natural is an argument deriving them from human nature. Thus natural rights are socially instituted, protected, and enforced freedoms and obligations that are rationally grounded in nature, Read more …

Published: January 20, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ethics, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, political theory, social Darwinism, The Philosopher is In, Thomas Hobbes | 16 Responses

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The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 4
The Construction of the Western Self

Collin Cleary

Clemency of Marcus Aurelius, detail, Capitoline Museum

3,381 words

Part 4 of 5

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011

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Human Rights between Ideology & Politics:
Alain de Benoist’s Beyond Human Rights

F. Roger Devlin

2,055 words

Alain de Benoist
Beyond Human Rights: Defending Freedoms
London: Arktos Media, 2011

The work under review is the third by French philosopher Alain de Benoist to be translated into English, and the second translation to be published by Arktos Media. Like its predecessor The Problem of Democracy, it is a short, dense book written to challenge the authority of one of the most pompous god-terms of our age.

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Liberalism as the Ideology of Consummate Meaninglessness, Part 3

Michael O'Meara

Martin Heidegger, 1889–1976

1,233 words

Part 1 here, Part 2 here

In ancient and medieval philosophy, “to be” meant to be an enduring presence, the Eternal Being being God. For moderns, “it” (the enduring presence) becomes a being, an object, in time and space or else a self-conscious subject.

Published: September 19, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, freedom, liberalism, Martin Heidegger, Michael O'Meara, modernity, North American New Right, on Heidegger, philosophy, René Descartes, white nationalism | Leave a comment

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Liberalism as the Ideology of Consummate Meaninglessness, Part 2

Michael O'Meara

Immanuel Kant, 1724–1804

1,305 words

Part 1 here, Part 3 here

Immanuel Kant, the first to philosophize the “question of freedom,” approaches the world like Descartes. He begins with Cartesianism’s dehistoricized, peopleless subject, which is seen as an “ends in itself,” something that is to be “freed” for the sake of its “self-assured self-legislation.”

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Liberalism as the Ideology of Consummate Meaninglessness, Part 1

Michael O'Meara

Martin Heidegger, 1889–1976

1,324 words

Part 2 here, Part 3 here

They’re killing us with their freedom.

Every dissolution of social order, every assault on the family, the unrelenting denigration of authority and heritage, and now our biological replacement by the Third World’s refuse–all justified, legislated, and celebrated in freedom’s hallowed name.