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Roy Morris, Jr.
Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013

Oscar Wilde arrived in America in January 1882 as a young man of 27. Over the course of the next eleven months he would travel 15,000 miles across the country, delivering a total of 140 lectures primarily on the English Renaissance, the Pre-Raphaelites, and the decorative arts. Read more …

Published: October 24, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, aestheticism, book reviews, dandyism, liberal education, North American New Right, originals, Oscar Wilde, populism, Social Credit | 4 Responses

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Verdi in the Gold Rush

Alex Graham

Giuseppe Verdi in Golden Gate park, San Francisco

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George Martin
Verdi at the Golden Gate: Opera and San Francisco in the Gold Rush Years
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993

George Martin is an independent historian who has written a number of books about the history of opera (including a great biography of Verdi). His account of how opera and in particular Verdi’s operas rose to prominence in San Francisco during the Gold Rush years describes a fascinating but not widely known episode in the history of the American West. Read more …

Published: October 19, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged opera, popular music | 1 Response

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Robinson Jeffers

Jonathan Bowden

Robinson Jeffers, 1887–1962

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The following text is the transcript by V.S. of Jonathan Bowden’s lecture “Robinson Jeffers: Misanthrope Extraordinaire” at the 9th New Right Meeting in London on January 13, 2007. You can listen below. If you can make out the passages marked unintelligible, please post comments below.

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 22
Robinson Jeffers & the Other America

Jonathan Bowden

Robinson Jeffers, January 10, 1887–January 20, 1962

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This lecture, “Robinson Jeffers: Misanthrope Extraordinaire,” was recorded at the 9th New Right meeting in London, on January 13, 2007.

Published: September 27, 2012 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged American identity, California, Counter-Currents Radio, Enoch Powell, Friedrich Nietzsche, isolationism, Jonathan Bowden, metapolitics, neo-paganism, outlaws, paganism, podcasts, poetry, Protestantism, Robinson Jeffers | 3 Responses

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Wild Boys vs. “Hard Men”

James J. O'Meara

Buffalo Bill Cody

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The following text is excerpted from chapter 5 of James J. O’Meara’s book The Homo and the Negro: Masculinist Meditations on Politics and Popular Culture, forthcoming from Counter-Currents.

Many of today’s “alternative” Rightists aspire to a pre-modern, even Traditional worldview that they hope will return us to the vital sources of our civilization. Read more …

Published: September 20, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, book excerpts, capitalism, dandyism, fashion, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, manliness, North American New Right, originals, Oscar Wilde, philosophy of culture, Plato, the family, the Männerbund, Traditionalism | 25 Responses

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A Posthumous Revenge

Dominique Venner

The death mask of Robert E. Lee

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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 …