Tag Archives: Roger Scruton

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 278
What Would We Do With a Billion Dollars & Other Reader Questions

Laura Towler

140 words / 1:57:06

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On the Counter-Currents Radio fundraiser livestream for Sunday, June 28, Greg Johnson and special guest Laura Towler discuss your questions and other topics, including:

What would we do with a billion dollars?
What can individuals do to redpill people during this time of increased polarization?

Roger Scruton’s Death-Devoted Heart
Part Two: The Sacred

Michael Walker

4,445 words

Why does Scruton not examine the role of Melot in Death-Devoted Heart more closely?

Tristan und Isolde echoes themes from Romeo and Juliet and Othello, so it is unlikely that Wagner did not have both plays in mind when he composed his opera. The Othello theme is especially clear in the regrets expressed by King Marke that he could not clearly see, just as Othello could not clearly see. Melot, like Iago, faces death if he cannot make good the claim of adultery; Read more …

Published: May 6, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, articles, collectivism, eros, Immanuel Kant, individualism, love, Michael Walker, North American New Right, opera, originals, Parsifal, religion, Richard Wagner, romance, Romanticism, Romeo and Juliet, sex | 1 Response

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Roger Scruton’s Death-Devoted Heart
Part One: The Personal

Michael Walker

5,223 words

Sir Roger Scruton, who died of cancer on January 12th, 2020 at the age of seventy-five, wrote more than fifty books, was the editor of the conservative publication The Salisbury Review, and in his final years was briefly chairman — dismissed and subsequently reinstated — of the Conservative Government’s “Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission.”

I once met Roger Scruton. He invited me to his flat in London in 1982 where I remember enjoying his excellent wine. Read more …

Published: April 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, eros, Immanuel Kant, love, Michael Walker, North American New Right, opera, originals, Parsifal, religion, Richard Wagner, romance, Romanticism, Romeo and Juliet | 1 Response

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The British Con-servative Party

Fenek Solère

2,295 words

“Stern and unbending Toryism has never paid dividends to the Conservative Party, nor in practice when in office has the party ever taken that line.”

— Robert Norman William Blake, The Conservative Party from Peel to Major (2011) Read more …

Published: April 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Boris Johnson, David Cameron, Fenek Solère, Margaret Thatcher, North American New Right, originals, the Conservatives, the United Kingdom, Theresa May | 12 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 257
Culture Jamming with Morgoth

Counter-Currents Radio

185 words / 59:55

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Greg Johnson talks to Morgoth of Morgoth’s Review on the web, Bitchute, and YouTube about White Nationalist culture jamming, the Eternal Anglo vs. Tolkienism, Arts & Crafts, and Aestheticism, Roger Scruton, whiteness in classical and pop music, the 2019 UK General Election, Read more …

Published: January 24, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged 2019 UK National Elections, aestheticism, Arts and Crafts movement, classical music, Counter-Currents Radio, culture jamming, Denis Villeneuve, Dune, England, Frank Herbert, implicit whiteness, interviews, J. R. R. Tolkien, Labour Party, liberal education, Morgoth, Oscar Wilde, pedophilia, podcasts, popular culture, popular music, rape, Rotherham, Scotland, Scottish Independence | 8 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 256
Remembering Roger Scruton + Reader Questions

Counter-Currents Radio

206 words / 73:53

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Greg Johnson talks to Rich Houck about the importance of the English conservative philosopher Roger Scruton, who died on January 12, 2020. Then they answer reader questions about how to persuade normies and hostiles of White Nationalism. Read more …

Published: January 17, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged architecture, conservatism, Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson, individualism, irony, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, podcasts, racial divorce, Richard Houck, sincerity, the Jewish question | 11 Responses

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The Battle of Britain

Fenek Solère

2,762 words

Let me make this very clear, Mr. Sassoli. You have no right to go and speak to the UK Speaker of Parliament, having conversations that are directly interfering in our domestic politics. Read more …

Published: October 16, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Brexit, Douglas Murray, European Union, Fenek Solère, North American New Right, originals, the United Kingdom | 11 Responses

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Roger Scruton’s Fools, Frauds & Firebrands

Theo Sonnenheim

1,266 words

Roger Scruton
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
New York: Bloomsbury, 2015

The recently published Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by the British conservative philosopher Roger Scruton is a revised and updated version of a book he wrote three decades ago. In the Introduction, he recalls how the previous publication was received with pure horror: Read more …

Published: January 22, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Frankfurt School, Marxism, New Left, North American New Right, originals, postmodernism, Slavoj Žižek, the left | 5 Responses

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Teaching Table Manners to Cannibals

Matt Parrott

René Magritte, “The Son of Man,” 1964

703 words

Despite its pretensions, Modernity presents at least as many taboos and behavioral limitations as the stuffiest Victorian ball. One must never discriminate, one must never judge, and one must never be a dreaded hypocrite. If America’s social and political trajectory should be summed up in a pithy phrase, perhaps it could be “a complete lack of judgment.” To judge is to ascribe value to things, an intrinsically hierarchical, discriminatory, and anti-egalitarian exercise.