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Racial Satire: An American Mirror

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Sometime in the early 2000s, the retail chain Urban Outfitters began selling a board game based on a Hasbro classic, called Ghettopoly. The box cover, made to look like a hoodlum had graffiti-painted its title across an alley wall, also featured a black “gangsta” holding a bottle of ‘shine in one paw and a gun loaded with an extra magazine Read more …

Published: November 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Blacks in America, comedy, Horace, humor, Juvenal, Kathryn S, literature, North American New Right, originals, political cartoons, satire, tragedy | 19 Responses

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The Specter of Saint-Domingue
Part I: White Genocide

Pierre-Jean Boquet, The Burning of Cap Français, 1791.

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The monumental significance of the fall of Saint-Domingue, the crown jewel of the French colonial empire, and its ensuant descent into the African savagery of Haiti cannot be overstated. The terrible birth of Haiti as a mangled, stillborn phoenix from a river of white blood Read more …

Published: October 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred N. Hunt, articles, colonialism, France, Giles Corey, H. D. de Saint-Maurice, Haiti, Jeremy D. Popkin, Leonora Sansay, Lothrop Stoddard, Makandal, Michel-Etienne Descourtilz, North American New Right, originals, post-colonialism, revolution, Saint-Domingue, San Domingo, Sir Spenser St. John, slave revolt, slavery, the French Empire, the French Revolution, Toussaint Louverture, violence, white genocide | 27 Responses

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Hendrik de Man, The Right, & Ethical Socialism

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“Socialism” is intrinsic to the “Right.” When journalists and academics refer in one breath to “liberalism, neoliberalism, and the Right-wing,” that attests to their ignorance, not to the accuracy of any such bastardization. Even at its most basic level of understanding, it seems to have been forgotten that in Britain there were Tories and Whigs in opposition. Now, Toryism has become so detached from its origins Read more …

Published: October 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfredo Rocco, articles, Christopher Lasch, conservatism, corporatism, economics, Enrico Corradini, fascism, Fascist Italy, free trade, Friedrich List, Giambattista Vico, guilds, Henrik de Man, heroism, Joseph de Maistre, Julius Evola, Karl Marx, Kerry Bolton, liberalism, mercantilism, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, Otto Strasser, philosophy, scientific socialism, socialism, spirit, syndicalism, the bourgeoisie, the French Revolution, Thomas Carlyle, Traditionalism, Werner Sombart, World War I | 7 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 270
Your Questions & a Conversation with Endeavour

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This week Greg Johnson talks to video blogger Endeavour on topics ranging from Thomas Hobbes to Steven Pinker to Pixar movies, answers questions from our Entropy donors, Read more …

Published: April 24, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, interviews, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, podcasts, religion, Steven Pinker | 3 Responses

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Our Marx, Only Better:
Vico & Modern Anti-Liberalism

Giambattista Vico

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Author’s Note:

This is the transcript by V.S. of my speech “Vico and Modern Anti-Liberalism,” given at The London Forum on Saturday, September 27, 2014. I have heavily edited it, rewriting it in places. I want to thank Jez Turner and The London Forum team for a memorable event.

Today I’m going to talk about a topic that’s somewhat esoteric. Read more …

Published: April 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cyclical history, Darwinism, Epicureanism, Ernst Cassirer, Georges Sorel, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, myth, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, Plato, progress., religion, the Counter-Enlightenment, the social sciences, Traditionalism | 7 Responses

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Thoughts on the European New Right, Part 3

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Part 3 of 4

The Power of Reason

The European New Right (ENR) agrees with Pareto, Spengler, and Schmitt that the West took a wrong turn in the eighteenth century by advocating a program for the enlightenment of the human mind Read more …

Published: December 29, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, critical theory, European New Right, Frankfurt School, G. W. F. Hegel, John Law, Max Horkheimer, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, reason, reprints, Vilfredo Pareto | 1 Response

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Anissimov’s Critique of Democracy

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Michael Anissimov
A Critique of Democracy: A Guide for Neoreactionaries
Zenit Books, 2015

Neoreaction is a philosophical movement, which emerged from social media in the past few years, seemingly in response to the hordes of social justice warriors that haunt the realms of message boards, blogs, and Twitter. Read more …

Published: March 17, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Claus Brinker, democracy, equality, fascism, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, hierarchy, leadership, monarchy, neoreaction, North American New Right, NRX, originals, political theory, the Dark Enlightenment, the Jewish question | 29 Responses

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Nenávisť zrodená na Sinaji:
Assmannov Mojžiš Egyptský

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Jan Assmann
Mojžiš Egyptský: Spomienka Egypta v západnom monoteizme
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Keď som prvýkrát čítal knihu Mojžiš Egyptský od Jana Assmanna v júni 1997, tak išlo o skúsenosť, ktorá zmenila môj život. Mojžiš Egyptský patrí k najvzácnejším akademickým knihám : odvážnym i vzrušujúcim zároveň. Read more …

Published: January 10, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akhnaton, articles, book reviews, Christianity, cosmotheism, Freemasonry, Greg Johnson, hermeticism, in Slovak, in translation, Islam, Jan Assmann, Judaism, monotheism, Moses, Moses the Egyptian, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, pantheism, philosophy, religion, religious tolerance, Rene Guénon, the Jewish question, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

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The Straussian Assault on America’s European Heritage

Ricardo Duchesne

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Grant Havers
Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy: A Conservative Critique
Northern Illinois University Press, 2013

A main pillar sustaining the practice of mass immigration is that Western nations are inherently characterized by a “civic” form of national membership. Western nations express the “natural” wishes of “man as man” for equal rights, rule of law, freedom of expression, and private property. Read more …

Published: December 4, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Canada, Christianity, civic nationalism, classical liberalism, conservatism, ethnonationalism, Frank Salter, Leo Strauss, nationalism, neoconservatism, North American New Right, philosophy, political philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, the American founding, the Jewish question, the United States | 5 Responses

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The European New Right & its Animus against Western Civ

Ricardo Duchesne

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My knowledge of the European New Right (ENR) is very scarce, no more than a few short articles and three books: Guillaume Faye’s Why We Fight, Alexander Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory, and Pierre Krebs’ Fighting for the Essence, Western Ethnosuicide or European Renaissance? I found Faye’s metapolitical dictionary substantively insightful and Dugin’s dissection of liberalism penetrating.

Published: November 25, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Dugin, articles, biological race differences, Christianity, Faustian man, Guillaume Faye, Julius Evola, North American New Right, paganism, Pierre Krebs, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Traditionalism, Western civilization, white racial consciousness | 14 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 94
Vico & the New Right

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This is my lecture “Giambattista Vico and Modern Anti-Liberalism,” delivered at the London Forum on Saturday, September 27, 2014. Read more …

Published: October 23, 2014 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged conservatism, Counter-Currents Radio, cyclical history, Darwinism, duty, Epicureanism, Ernst Cassirer, Georges Sorel, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, myth, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, Plato, podcasts, progress., religion, the Counter-Enlightenment, the social sciences, Traditionalism, warrior ethics | 5 Responses

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La haine née sur le Sinaï :
Moïse l’Egyptien, par Jan Assmann

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Jan Assmann
Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997

[Tr. fr.: Jan Assmann, Moïse l’Egyptien, Paris, Flammarion, coll. Champs, 2003.]

Published: July 29, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akhnaton, articles, book reviews, Christianity, cosmotheism, Freemasonry, Greg Johnson, hermeticism, in French, in translation, Islam, Jan Assmann, Judaism, monotheism, Moses, Moses the Egyptian, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, pantheism, philosophy, religion, religious tolerance, Rene Guénon, the Jewish question, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

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Now in Stock!
Proofs of a Conspiracy

429 words

John Robison
Proofs of a Conspiracy
Edited with an Introduction by Alex Kurtagić
Abergele: The Palingenesis Project, 2014
530 pages

hardcover only: $50

Published: July 2, 2014 | Posted in Legacy Book Product, North American New Right | Also tagged conspiracy theories, Freemasonry, the French Revolution | Comments closed

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El odio nacido en el Sinaí:
Moisés el Egipcio de Jan Assmann

2,684 words

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Jan Assmann
Moises el Egipcio
Translated by Javier Alonso López
Madrid: Oberon, 2003

Cuando leí por primera vez Moisés el Egipcio de Jan Assmann en Junio de 1997, fue una experiencia que cambió mi vida. Read more …

Published: June 30, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akhnaton, articles, book reviews, Christianity, cosmotheism, Freemasonry, Greg Johnson, hermeticism, in Spanish, in translation, Islam, Jan Assmann, Judaism, monotheism, Moses, Moses the Egyptian, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, pantheism, philosophy, religion, religious tolerance, Rene Guénon, the Jewish question, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

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The Hatred Born on Sinai:
Jan Assmann’s Moses the Egyptian

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Translations: French, Slovak, Spanish

Jan Assmann
Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997

When I first read Jan Assmann’s Moses the Egyptian in June of 1997, it was a life-changing experience. Moses the Egyptian belongs to the rarest genre of academic books: the bold and exciting ones. Read more …

Published: June 28, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akhnaton, articles, book reviews, Christianity, cosmotheism, Freemasonry, Greg Johnson, hermeticism, Islam, Jan Assmann, Judaism, monotheism, Moses, Moses the Egyptian, mysticism, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, pantheism, philosophy, religion, religious tolerance, Rene Guénon, the Jewish question, Traditionalism | 48 Responses

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Hitler as Enlightenment Intellectual:
The Enduring Allure of Hitlerism

Graphic by Harold Arthur McNeill

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Lawrence Birken
Hitler as Philosophe: Remnants of the Enlightenment in National Socialism
Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1995.

A specter is haunting the world — the specter of Hitlerism. That, in short, is the stern warning of this provocative book, written by an Assistant Professor of History at Ball State University (Indiana), and published by Praeger, a leading US academic publisher.

Published: April 28, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, book reviews, Hitler article, Mark Weber, miscegenation, multiculturalism, North American New Right, philosophy, political philosophy, race-mixing, reprints | 9 Responses

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The Culture of Critique & the Pathogenesis of Modern Society

Michael O'Meara

3,201 words

Reinhart Koselleck
Critique and Crises: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988

La politique, c’est le destin. — Napoleon

Koselleck’s Critique and Crisis (1959) is one of the great dissertations of the 20th-century German university system.

Published: February 24, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Carl Schmitt, liberalism, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, philosophy, political philosophy, reprints | 3 Responses

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