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Inheritors of the Earth:
Port, Plain, & Mountain in Western Culture

Caspar David Friedrich, Greifswald in Moonlight, 1817.

9,130 words

As men and women of the Right, we are searchers for Truth. We believe that by finding Truth and living by Truth, we might know Beauty, and we might know ourselves. Essence is our mission and with it, survival. And so this essay will try to surface and then sketch three fundamental “lifeways,” Read more …

Published: January 15, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ancient Greece, articles, borders, Carl Schmitt, cities, cosmopolitanism, culture, desire, folklore, folkways, geography, homelands, honor, imperialism, Kathryn S, Latin America, literature, Lord Byron, mountains, myth, North American New Right, originals, reason, rural life, the countryside, the Jewish question, the plains, the sublime, the supernatural, thumos, trade, tradition, tripartition, urban life | 1 Response

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Remembering Ludwig van Beethoven
(December 17, 1770-March 26, 1827)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Beethoven, 2020.

2,640 words

Today is the 250th anniversary of the christening of Ludwig van Beethoven, a titan of classical music and one of the greatest composers of all time. Beethoven transformed every genre in which he wrote and singlehandedly changed the trajectory of classical music. Rooted in the Classical idiom of Mozart and Haydn, he paved the way for the Romantic era and influenced composers such as Brahms, Liszt, and Wagner. His works remain cornerstones of the classical repertoire. Read more …

Published: December 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, articles, Austria, Black Invention Myths, classical music, commemorations, Germany, Ludwig van Beethoven, music, nationalism, North American New Right, opera, originals, symphonies, the Enlightenment | 3 Responses

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No Country for Old Ghosts:
A Literary Tour of Gothic America

8,232 words

As an American, I find European theories about this country and its character intriguing (or amusing) — particularly those formed from intimate experience. Of course, such theories presuppose that there is and has been such a thing as “the American people,” or “ethny” from which to draw an assessment. I submit two, not quite antithetical, but competing European judgments about the United States. Read more …

Published: December 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A Streetcar Named Desire, American literature, articles, Blacks in America, California, colonial America, Emily Dickinson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gothic literature, H. P. Lovecraft, horror, immigration, In Cold Blood, James Ellroy, Kathryn S, L. A. Confidential, literature, Los Angeles, Middle America, Nathaniel Hawthorne, New England, New York, noir, North American New Right, originals, Raymond Chandler, Southern Gothic, Susan Straight, Tennesee Williams, The Dunwich Horror, The Golden Gopher, The Great Gatsby, the Midwest, The Scarlet Letter, the South, Truman Capote, William Faulkner | 12 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, Ricardo Duchesne, structuralism, the Self | Leave a comment

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Scientific Truth, Scientific Pragmatism, & Human History

4,585 words

An important question for those on the Dissident Right to ask is how humans ought to relate to nature; both their own “human nature” as well as the “outside” world. Depending on one’s religious beliefs, this might be the most important question there is. History seems to indicate two conventional approaches to this question. Read more …

Published: May 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservatism, epistemology, Eumaios, ideology, Marxism, Mencius Moldbug, metaphysics, Morgoth, North American New Right, ontology, originals, philosophy, pragmatism, science, teleology, the left, the Right, truth, Vox Day | 6 Responses

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

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, Roger Scruton, romance, Romeo and Juliet, sex | 1 Response

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

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, Roger Scruton, romance, Romeo and Juliet | 1 Response

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Evropan Edward Elgar

1,568 slov

English original here

Evropan Edward Elgar: Vlastenec, Angličan a Evropan

Edward Elgar (2. června 1857–23. února 1934) patří k čelním představitelům poslední generace evropských romantických skladatelů. K této generaci bývají řazeni mj. Read more …

Published: December 5, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged classical music, Edward Elgar, Evropa, Greg Johnson, in Czech, music reviews, nationalism, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

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Lost Angels of a Ruined Paradise:
John Lauritsen’s The Shelley-Byron Men

James J. O'Meara

3,401 words

John Lauritsen
The Shelley-Byron Men: Lost Angels of a Ruined Paradise
Pagan Press, 2017

Ordinarily, I wouldn’t think of reviewing a book on Shelley, Byron & Co.; mainly because I know little about them, other than what used to be generally known among the educated (before English was replaced with gender studies and time off for anti-Trump demos), plus what I read from Camille Paglia. Read more …

Published: July 16, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, homosexuality, James O'Meara, literature, Lord Byron, North American New Right, originals, poetry | 3 Responses

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Friedrich Schleiermacher:
The Father of Modern Theology & a Prophet of German Nationalism, Part 2

4,506 words

Part 2 of 2. Part 1 here.

Schleiermacher’s Philosophy of Mind

According to Schleiermacher, the task of philosophy is the “immersion of the Spirit into the innermost depths of itself and of things in order to fathom the relations of their [spirit and nature] being-together.”[1] Schleiermacher’s philosophy, like German idealism in general, was very influenced by, and a reaction to, the critical transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Read more …

Published: October 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Asklepios, Christmas, Friedrich Schleiermacher, G. W. F. Hegel, German Idealism, German Nationalism, hermeneutics, Napoleonic Wars, nationalism, philosophy, Protestantism, the Jewish question, theology | 4 Responses

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Friedrich Schleiermacher:
The Father of Modern Theology & a Prophet of German Nationalism, Part 1

4,148 words

Part 1 of 2. Part 2 here.

“I feel sure that Germany, the kernel of Europe, will arise once more in a new and beautiful state, but when this will happen, and whether the country will not first have to experience even greater difficulties […] God alone knows.” — Friedrich Schleiermacher, 1806[1]

Published: October 20, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Asklepios, Christmas, Friedrich Schleiermacher, G. W. F. Hegel, German Idealism, German Nationalism, Napoleonic Wars, nationalism, philosophy, Protestantism, the Jewish question, theology | 8 Responses

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On the Sublime & the Numinous

Christopher Pankhurst

4,193 words

The words “sublime” and “numinous” have shifted in meaning somewhat over recent years. The word “sublime,” I presume, would now generally be interpreted to mean something of particularly great beauty, or an action particularly well executed. It would not be limited to a narrow usage but could be applied to any thing or action of particular excellence, perhaps with a slightly pretentious connotation of elegance. Read more …

Published: August 27, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abstract expressionism, aesthetics, articles, Christopher Pankhurst, Edmund Burke, modern art, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism, postmodernity, religion, Rudolf Otto, the numinous | 5 Responses

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Reflexões sobre a Estética e Figura Literária do Dândi

Robert Steuckers

4,384 words

English original: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Antes de entrar no assunto principal, eu gostaria de fazer três observações preliminares:

Eu hesitei em aceitar seu convite para falar sobre a figura do dândi, pois esse tipo de questão não é meu tema principal de interesse.

Eu finalmente aceitei porque redescobri um ensaio lúcido e magistral de Otto Mann, Read more …

Published: May 28, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged amoralism, Art Nouveau, Beau Brummell, bourgeois society, Charles Baudelaire, dandyism, decadence, drugs, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, in Portuguese, in translation, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jugendstil, Julius Evola, liberal education, modernity, nihilism, North American New Right, Oscar Wilde, Otto Mann, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, religion, Rene Guénon, reprints, Robert Steuckers, Stefan George, the Pre-Raphaelites, Traditionalism, Victor Segalen | Leave a comment

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Romanticism & Classicism

7,106 words

I want to maintain that after a hundred years of romanticism, we are in for a classical revival, and that the particular weapon of this new classical spirit, when it works in verse, will be fancy.[1] And in this I imply the superiority of fancy—not superior generally or absolutely, for that would be obvious nonsense, but superior in the sense that we use the word good in empirical ethics—good for something, superior for something. Read more …

Published: February 8, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art, articles, classicism, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, literary criticism, literature, North American New Right, reprints, T. E. Hulme, Victor Hugo | 6 Responses

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Classical Modernism & the Art of the Radical Right

Jonathan Bowden

Wyndham Lewis, "Red Duet," 1914

Wyndham Lewis, “Red Duet,” 1914

1,095 words

Edited by Alex Kurtagić

Editor’s Note:

The following is an excerpt from Jonathan Bowden’s Heat. Read more …

Published: January 14, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Arno Breker, art criticism, articles, classicism, fascism, Jonathan Bowden, modernism, National Socialism, North American New Right, reprints, Salvador Dalí, surrealism, T. E. Hulme, Wyndham Lewis | 4 Responses

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T. S. Eliot, Part 1

Wyndham Lewis, Portrait of T. S. Eliot, 1938

5,352 words

Part 1 of 2

The First World War brought to a climax a cultural crisis in Western Civilization that had been developing for centuries: money overwhelmed tradition, as Spengler would have put it[1] (or, to resort to the language of Marx, the bourgeoisie supplanted the aristocracy).[2] Industrialization accentuated the process of commercialization, with its concomitant urbanization and the disruption of organic bonds and social cohesion. This has thrown societies into a state of perpetual flux, with culture reflecting that condition.

It was—and is—a problem of the primacy of Capital. Read more …

Published: September 25, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. R. Orage, articles, Charles Maurras, Christianity, classicism, conservatism, Ezra Pound, fascism, Georges Sorel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Kerry Bolton, literary criticism, literature, modernism, monarchism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy of culture, poetry, Social Credit, socialism, syndicalism, T. E. Hulme, T. S. Eliot, the Jewish question | 6 Responses

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Nacionalismo & Racialismo na Filosofia Alemã:
Fichte, Hegel & os Românticos

Derek Hawthorne

3,733 words

English original here

1 – Fichte e o Destino da Nação Alemã

J. G. Fichte (1762-1814), o primeiro dos grandes idealistas alemães pós-kantianos, é uma figura importante na ascensão do nacionalismo alemão – e tem sido muitas vezes acusado de ser um dos pais fundadores do Nacional-Socialismo.

Published: August 31, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Derek Hawthorne, G. W. F. Hegel, German Idealism, Germany, Immanuel Kant, in Portuguese, in translation, J. G. Fichte, Johann Gottfried von Herder, Martin Heidegger, nationalism, philosophy, race, reprints, the Counter-Enlightenment | Leave a comment

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Nationalism & Racialism in German Philosophy:
Fichte, Hegel, & the Romantics

Derek Hawthorne

Philipp Veit, "Germania," 1848

Philipp Veit, “Germania,” 1848

4,354 words

Portuguese translation here

1. Fichte and the Destiny of the German Nation

J. G. Fichte (1762–1814), the first of the great post-Kantian German Idealists, is an important figure in the rise of German nationalism – and has often been accused of being one of the founding fathers of National Socialism.

Published: August 20, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Derek Hawthorne, G. W. F. Hegel, German Idealism, Germany, Immanuel Kant, J. G. Fichte, Johann Gottfried von Herder, Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, nationalism, originals, philosophy, race, the Counter-Enlightenment, the Jewish question | 20 Responses

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Úvahy o estetické a kulturní postavě dandyho, část 2

Robert Steuckers

Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867

1,772 words

English original here

Poslání umělce podle Charlese Baudelaira

Pro dandyho je nezbytné do současného barbarismu vetknout trochu estetiky. Read more …

Published: August 15, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Art Nouveau, Charles Baudelaire, dandyism, Ernst Junger, in Czech, in translation, Jugendstil, Julius Evola, liberal education, North American New Right, Oscar Wilde, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, religion, reprints, Robert Steuckers, Stefan George, the Pre-Raphaelites, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

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Paganism & Vitalism in
Knut Hamsun & D. H. Lawrence, Part 2

Robert Steuckers

Ludwig Fahrenkrog, “The Holy Fire”

1,311 words

Part 2 of 2

Translated by Greg Johnson

The Paganism of Hamsun and Lawrence

If Hamsun and Lawrence carry out their desire to return to a natural ontology by rejecting rationalist intellectualism, this also implies an in-depth contestation of the Christian message. Read more …

Published: July 17, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged alienation, articles, D. H. Lawrence, Friedrich Nietzsche, Growth of the Soil, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johnson translation, Knut Hamsun, literature, Martin Heidegger, Mircea Eliade, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, Robert Steuckers, The Rainbow, translations, vitalism | 3 Responses

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Paganism & Vitalism in
Knut Hamsun & D. H. Lawrence, Part 1

Robert Steuckers

Knut Hamsun

2,378 words

Part 1 of 2

Translated by Greg Johnson

The Hungarian philologist Akos Doma, educated in Germany and the United States, has published a work of literary interpretation comparing the works of Knut Hamsun and D. H. Lawrence: Read more …

Published: July 16, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged alienation, articles, D. H. Lawrence, Friedrich Schiller, Growth of the Soil, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johnson translation, Knut Hamsun, literature, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, Robert Steuckers, The Rainbow, translations, vitalism | 1 Response

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Elgar the European

1,501 words

Czech version here

Edward Elgar (June 2, 1857–February 23, 1934) was a leading figure in the last generation of European Romantic composers, which includes Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924), Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), Richard Strauss (1864–1949), Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), and Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943).

Published: April 11, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, classical music, Edward Elgar, Greg Johnson, music reviews, nationalism, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

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Reflections on the Aesthetic &
Literary Figure of the Dandy, Part II

Robert Steuckers

Charles Baudelaire, 1821–1867

1,790 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Part 2 of 3. Part I: here

Translations: Czech, Portuguese

The Mission of the Artist According to Baudelaire

Published: August 12, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Art Nouveau, Charles Baudelaire, dandyism, Ernst Junger, Henry de Montherlant, homosexuality, Johnson translation, Jugendstil, Julius Evola, liberal education, manliness, North American New Right, on Jünger, originals, Oscar Wilde, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, religion, Robert Steuckers, Stefan George, the Pre-Raphaelites, Traditionalism, translations | Leave a comment

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Nietzsche & His Century

Oswald Spengler

5,404 words

An address delivered on October 15, 1924, Nietzsche’s eightieth birthday, at the Nietzsche Archive, Weimar

Looking back at the nineteenth century and letting its great men pass before the mind’s eye, we can observe an amazing thing about the figure of Friedrich Nietzsche, something that was hardly noticeable in his own time. Read more …

Published: August 7, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, reprints, translations | Leave a comment

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