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Withnail & I (1987) is a masterpiece of British dark-comic satire written and directed by actor, novelist, and screenwriter Bruce Robinson, who went on to write and direct How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989), another strong film in a similar vein. His career seems to have petered out, though, after a couple of flops, Jennifer 8 (1992) and The Rum Diary (2011).

Richard E. Grant made his film debut playing Withnail. (He was also the lead in How to Get Ahead in Advertising.) Paul McGann played Marwood, the “I” in the title. Read more …

Published: November 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged addiction, alcohol, articles, Britain in the 1960s, Bruce Robinson, coming of age, conservatism, drugs, high culture, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, Trevor Lynch | 7 Responses

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Brigitte Bardot’s B. B.

Scott Weisswald

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Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is a famed French actress, singer, pop culture icon, and accidental provocateur. Bardot’s marks on pop culture include her popularization of the bikini, the eponymous Bardot neckline, and her collection of absurdly fun and often intriguing slices of French pop music that feel both timeless in their replay value yet Read more …

Published: June 19, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged animal rights, articles, France, integrity, jazz, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, pop music, Scott Weisswald | 6 Responses

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From Massive to Passive:
George Lewis’s Massive Resistance

Morris V. de Camp

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George Lewis
Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement
London: Hodder Education, 2006

There are very few books that cover the white response to the “civil rights” movement very seriously. Professor George Lewis of the University of Leicester (UK) has done such a work. However, the book maintains the flaws of all histories of “civil rights,” Read more …

Published: March 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America in the 1960s, articles, book reviews, Civil Rights, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, segregation, the South | 9 Responses

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The Talented Mr. Ripley & Purple Noon

Trevor Lynch

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Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) has been one of my favorite films since I saw it on the big screen while living in darkest Atlanta. A few years later, post-red pill, I bought the DVD and was struck anew at the brilliance of the script, performances, and direction. But I was also struck by the sheer whiteness of this film, which is set in 1958 and 1959 in New York City and Italy (Rome, Venice, the Bay of Naples). There’s nothing new about the idea of “escapist” entertainment. Read more …

Published: March 6, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, crime dramas, Italy, movie reviews, reprints, sociopathy, Trevor Lynch | 19 Responses

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Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood

Morris V. de Camp

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Full text of Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood Speech here. One can hear it read here.

The single most talked-about Member of the British Parliament today was a lowly backbencher who was kicked out of the shadow government of his party. The cause of this strange situation is the farsightedness of the man combined with his extraordinary eloquence. The backbencher’s name: Enoch Powell. Read more …

Published: February 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Enoch Powell, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, race riots, Rivers of Blood | 12 Responses

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Race & Class in the Films of Basil Dearden

Margot Metroland

Dearden and his clapper.

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For decades now, I’ve been waiting for someone to package an oversized picture book called The Films of Basil Dearden. The 1970s would have been a good time for that, since Dearden died in ’71 (car accident), and this mid-rank British director was in need of appreciation. Read more …

Published: February 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, films, Margot Metroland, movies, North American New Right, originals | 11 Responses

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Target: The 1964 Civil Rights Act
Christopher Caldwell’s Age of Entitlement

Morris V. de Camp

1,643 words Cover of Christopher Caldwell's book, The Age of Entitlement.

Christopher Caldwell
The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020

In 2015, Kim Davis, a frumpy county clerk from a Nowheresville in Appalachia, refused to issue gay marriage licenses and was briefly jailed as a result. Additionally, Davis and her fellow office workers were subjected to the cruelest of internet jokes. Ironically, in the months before Davis was bullied on a nationwide scale, Read more …

Published: February 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Christopher Caldwell, Civil Rights, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, The Age of Entitlement | 12 Responses

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The Framing of Richard Jewell:
Kent Alexander & Kevin Salwen’s The Suspect

Morris V. de Camp

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Kent Alexander & Kevin Salwen
The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle
New York: Abrams, 2019

Richard Jewell was an obese Georgia homeboy who wanted to be a hero and serve in law enforcement. He got his wish: His short life was crowded with heroism. Read more …

Published: February 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, Richard Jewell, the civil rights movement | 4 Responses

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The World the Civil Rights Movement Wrought:
Caldwell’s The Age of Entitlement

Robert Hampton

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Christopher Caldwell
The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020

The 1960s forever transformed America. Race relations, sexual relations, popular culture, music, foreign policy, trust in government, and urban life were all dramatically changed. Read more …

Published: February 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged affirmative action, American conservatism, articles, book reviews, campus activism, Christopher Caldwell, Martin Luther King, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Robert Hampton, Ronald Reagan, The Age of Entitlement, the civil rights movement | 10 Responses

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Grateful Dead’s Workingman’s Dead

Scott Weisswald

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Few recording groups in human history have left behind a wholly worthless legacy. But then there’s the Grateful Dead, who are remarkable for their ability to poison an entire music scene with their catalog of half-baked, consumerizing, milquetoast wannabe-radical jam band masturbation — and then get praised by music journalists from 1960 to 2020.

Published: January 31, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, California, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, psychedelic drugs, psychedelic music, Scott Weisswald | 17 Responses

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Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats

Scott Weisswald

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One of the first albums to be recorded on 16-track tape, Hot Rats spawned a jazz standard, a sprawling meditation on prostitution, and some of Captain Beefheart’s best vocal work outside of Trout Mask Replica. It’s mostly instrumental, but does not lack any substance, and the sounds it contains are both timeless and reflective of the late 1960s. Read more …

Published: January 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, jazz, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, pop music, Scott Weisswald | 7 Responses

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Attack the System Interview with Robert N. Taylor

Robert N. Taylor

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The following is a transcript of a conversation which took place in November 2012. The transcription was made by Tyler Harding. The original audio is here.

Keith Preston: Good evening, and welcome to Attack the System. I’m your host, Keith Preston, here on Counter-Currents; with me tonight is Mr. Robert N. Taylor.

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The Ordeal of Superficiality

Margot Metroland

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James J. O’Meara
End of an Era: Mad Men and the Ordeal of Civility
San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing, 2015

Doing your Christmas shopping early? Here’s a great stocking-stuffer for you: James J. O’Meara’s End of an Era: Mad Men and the Ordeal of Civility. There are other books aimed at Mad Men fans, of course, but it’s a pretty safe bet that your friends and relatives haven’t seen anything that analyzes the Mad Men series at quite this cockeyed angle.

Published: September 11, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Advise and Consent, book reviews, fashion, James J. O'Meara, Mad Men, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question | 3 Responses

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Guy Ritchie’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Jef Costello

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Readers of this website are aware of the fact that I am an aficionado of the ’60s superspy series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. But I awaited Guy Ritchie’s “reimagining” of U.N.C.L.E. with some trepidation. A big screen adaptation of the series has been in the works for around 40 years. And an execrable TV movie was actually made in 1983. The theatrical film project has changed hands many times, and innumerable scripts have been written. After Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino announced that The Man From U.N.C.L.E. would be his next project (I reacted to this news with mixed feelings). Read more …