Tag: Rudyard Kipling

The wars the war party isn’t trying to run away from hide the greater horror

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Should what is too terrible to read be too terrible to do?

A new All Quiet on the Western Front movie is out. I read the book ages ago and saw the old 1930 movie, so I’ll probably download this one as well eventually. (more…)

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We gathered in Columbus, Ohio a few weeks ago to meet Counter-Currents author and fierce lawyer Rich Houck. The venue was not a Pizza Hut or a 7-11, which might have been appropriate for the author of “Homage to Pizza Hut” and “7-11 Nationalism.” (Or was it? Be there next time and find out!) (more…)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Kipling, 2020.

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Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling was born on this day in 1865. For an introduction to his life and works, see the following articles on this site. (more…)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Kipling, 2020.

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Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling was born on this day in 1865. For an introduction to his life and works, see the following articles on this site.

• William Pierce, “Rudyard Kipling: The White Man’s Poet” (French translation here)
• Andrew Hamilton, “Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Burden of Jerusalem’”

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The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon
Rudyard Kipling

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate. (more…)

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John Collier, Portrait of Rudyard Kipling, circa 1891

Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling was born on this day in 1865. For an introduction to his life and works, see the following articles on this site.

• William Pierce, “Rudyard Kipling: The White Man’s Poet” (French translation here)
• Andrew Hamilton, “Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Burden of Jerusalem’”
• Margot Metroland, “The Conundrum of the Kipling: Rudyard Kipling, 1865–1936”
• William Solniger, “The White Man’s Burden, 2013”

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John Collier, Portrait of Rudyard Kipling, circa 1891

Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling was born on this day in 1865. For an introduction to his life and works, see the following articles on this site.

• William Pierce, “Rudyard Kipling: The White Man’s Poet” (French translation here)
• Andrew Hamilton, “Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Burden of Jerusalem’“
• Margot Metroland, “The Conundrum of the Kipling: Rudyard Kipling, 1865–1936“
• William Solniger, “The White Man’s Burden, 2013“

(more…)

Percy Grainger, 1882–1961

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Percy Grainger was a polymath: a pianist, composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist, inventor, artist, polyglot, and man of letters. He was one of the most celebrated pianist-composers of the early twentieth century. His work and writings reflect a worldview marked by both racial consciousness and an opposition to modernity that coexisted alongside radical artistic modernism.  (more…)

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John Collier, Portrait of Rudyard Kipling, circa 1891

Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling was born on this day in 1865. For an introduction to his life and works, see the following articles on this site.

• William Pierce, “Rudyard Kipling: The White Man’s Poet” (French translation here)
• Andrew Hamilton, “Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Burden of Jerusalem’“
• Margot Metroland, “The Conundrum of the Kipling: Rudyard Kipling, 1865–1936“
• William Solniger, “The White Man’s Burden, 2013“

(more…)

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Disney has released yet another Jungle Book movie, for a total of at least five which Disney has been involved in, plus a few more from other sources. Why they would produce another adaptation of the writings of an imperialist white supremacist in the current year is unclear. In any case, watching the film in comparison with its earliest Disney incarnation still provides an interesting insight into the changing sensibilities of the audience to which the producers were presumably catering. (more…)

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Guglielmo Marconi

It is the fashion to divide recent history into Pre-War and Post-War conditions. I believe it is almost as essential to divide them into the Pre-Marconi and Post-Marconi days. It was during the agitations upon that affair that the ordinary English citizen lost his invincible ignorance; or, in ordinary language, his innocence […] I think it probable that centuries will pass before it is seen clearly and in its right perspective; (more…)

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born 150 years ago today in Bombay, India, to a cultivated English family of artists and academics. After an often unhappy childhood at school in England, he returned to his beloved India where he worked as a journalist, short story writer, and author of light verse (including the original Barrack-Room Ballads).  (more…)