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Like her near-contemporary Gore Vidal (both were born in 1925), the fiction writer Mary Flannery O’Connor had her first brush with fame via a Pathé movie newsreel. She had a pet chicken whom she’d taught to walk backward. Gore’s fame came a few years later when he piloted an airplane, age ten. Read more …

Published: March 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Catholicism, commemorations, Flannery O'Connor, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, religion, Southern Agrarianism, the South | 16 Responses

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Tito Perdue’s The Node

Buttercup Dew

2,058 words

Tito Perdue
The Node
Charleston, W.V.: Nine-Banded Books, 2011

The Node is Tito Perdue’s debut in speculative science fiction. It is a tour de force of postmodern storytelling, examining the extremes of white fragility and resilience, apathy and defiance through the travels of an unnamed narrator: “Our boy.” Read more …

Published: January 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Buttercup Dew, literature, North American New Right, originals, The Node, Tito Perdue, white nationalism | 7 Responses

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Go Down, William Faulkner

Spencer J. Quinn

William Faulkner

4,880 words

A novelist can have tremendous influence beyond his own time if he depicts major historical trends and invents characters that react in conflicting ways to these trends. If a story is vivid enough, readers might come to identify with or even emulate such characters, since the historical pressures bearing down on them bear down on the readers as well. William Faulkner accomplishes such a feat in his 1942 novel of interrelated short stories, Go Down, Moses.

Remember Thomas Nelson Page

Spencer J. Quinn

4,734 words

Shortly after the Civil War, the American South found itself in ruins. Much has been written about the devastation of the war and the indignities and strife which followed during Reconstruction. Beyond the poverty and oppression and the rapid demise of the old regime with its “outdated” culture of honor, loyalty, and heroism, the inheritors of the former Confederacy found themselves without defense in the national and international courts of moral opinion. Read more …

Published: April 21, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Civil War, American South, antebellum South, Blacks in America, Negro slavery, North American New Right, originals, postbellum South, race realism, Reconstruction, Spencer Quinn, Thomas Nelson Page | 4 Responses

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Atticus in Bizarro World:
Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman

Margot Metroland

1,996 words

Harper Lee
Go Set a Watchman: A Novel
Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2015

As nearly everyone knows by now, Atticus Finch, that steadfast attorney from Maycomb, Alabama, led the local Citizens’ Council in the 1950s. When agitators from the NAACP and Communist Party came south to stir up trouble after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown decision, he fought the good fight for segregation. Read more …

Published: July 23, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee, James J. O'Meara, Ku Klux Klan, literature, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, segregation, the American South, To Kill a Mockingbird | 2 Responses

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Y’all Can Kill That Mockingbird Now

Margot Metroland

2,446 words

One of these days Harper Lee is going to kick off and have great big posthumous laugh at our expense. Bwah-hah-hah! Because right there in her Last Notes and Testament, we will find an answer to that puzzlement that has troubled the publishing biz for a half-century or more.

Namely, why didn’t Harper Lee write any more novels after To Kill a Mockingbird?

Turning the World Around:
Tito Perdue’s The Node

Greg Johnson

1,336 words

Tito Perdue
The Node
Charleston, W.V.: Nine-Banded Books, 2011

Tito Perdue’s The Node is a futuristic, dystopian satire on our anti-white system with an explicitly White Nationalist and New Rightist message.

Satire is easy – just pick a few trends and extrapolate to absurdity. Any idiot can do that, and quite a few have. Which, of course, means that good satire is very hard to do and hard to find. The Node, however, is satire of the highest order: Read more …

Published: August 16, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, feminism, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, satire, The Node, Tito Perdue, white nationalism | 7 Responses

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Tito Perdue’s Morning Crafts

Greg Johnson

1,943 words

Tito Perdue
Morning Crafts
London: Arktos, 2012

At the end of After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre concludes that modern civilization is bankrupt, and modern intellectual and political traditions are incapable of understanding and rectifying this decadence. He does not, however, counsel generalized pessismism, for once modernity expires of its own corruptions a new age will begin. Read more …

Published: August 1, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Greg Johnson, Leo Strauss, liberal education, literature, North American New Right, originals, Rene Guénon, Tito Perdue, Traditionalism | 4 Responses

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A Posthumous Revenge

Dominique Venner

The death mask of Robert E. Lee

467 words

Translator’s Note:

The following excerpt is taken from the concluding chapter of Venner’s Gettysburg, one of two books he’s written on the War of Southern Secession. Like Maurice Bardèche’s Sparte et les sudistes [Sparta and the Confederates], it reflects the other side of that European anti-liberalism which crusades against everything contemporary America has come to represent. Read more …