Tag Archives: The Fountainhead

3,820 words

Chuck Palahnuik
Adjustment Day: A Novel
London: Jonathan Cape, 2018

“Ears, gentlemen. Sandinista ears.”[1]

I had almost reached the massive iron door, hidden behind a construction dumpster, that serves as the entrance to the abandoned glove factory that has been my squat for the past several years Read more …

Published: September 7, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adjustment Day, Ayn Rand, book reviews, Chuck Palahniuk, Colin Wilson, James J. O'Meara, Jef Costello, literary criticism, Neville Goddard, New Thought, North American New Right, originals, white nationalism | 8 Responses

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She’s So High, High Above Me:
Watching The Fountainhead on TCM

James J. O'Meara

2,176 words

You know I always wanted to pretend that I was an architect.
–George Costanza[1]

The Fountainhead is something of a rite of passage or gateway drug on the Right. Back in the 1960s/’70s it was more likely the movie than the book that one stumbled upon. I suppose I must have seen it on some afternoon movie show back in the ‘60s. Was it the Bill Kennedy at the Movies show on CKLW out of Windsor, Ontario on Saturday afternoons? Read more …

Published: August 14, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ayn Rand, James J. O'Meara, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals | 9 Responses

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Ayn Rand, Before Capitalism

Greg Johnson

5,078 words

Editor’s Note:

This essay was written in 2000 and published online at a long-defunct website. It contains some good ideas and good writing, so I believe it deserves to live again.

“The capitalistic world is low, unprincipled and corrupt.”

—Ayn Rand, Journals of Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand & Ortega y Gasset

Greg Johnson

6,280 words

Editor’s Note:

This essay was written in 2000 and published online at a long-defunct website. It is really a sketch of a more detailed research project that somebody else might wish to carry out. Even as such, I think it deserves a new lease on life. I do not regret a single hour spent reading Ortega.

Essential Films . . . & Others

James J. O'Meara

Edward Hopper, New York Movie, 1939

3,774 words

Looking over Trevor Lynch’s list of his “Ten Favorite Films” in his forthcoming collection, Son of Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies, it occurred to me that I couldn’t possibly put together such a list, even if I could decide on a criterion or two.

La réalité du Mal

Jef Costello

Arno Breker sculptures in 1945

1,950 words

English original here

Je suppose que je suis un enfant de 45 ans. Quand vous êtes petit, vous pensez que tous les adultes sont bons et ont vos intérêts à cœur. Read more …

Published: January 26, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ayn Rand, ethics, evil, in French, in translation, Jef Costello, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | Leave a comment

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Gangway for a Führer!
Proto-Fascist Cinema of the Great Depression

Jef Costello

6,933 words

1. “Brother, can you spare a Duce?”

Apparently, that was the question on the lips of many Americans during the early years of the Great Depression. Read more …

Published: February 14, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ayn Rand, Benito Mussolini, fascism, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jef Costello, movie reviews, North American New Right, Prohibition, Third Way economics | 7 Responses

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The Reality of Evil

Jef Costello

Arno Breker sculptures in 1945

1,770 words

French translation here

I suppose I am a 45-year-old child. When you’re small, you think that all adults are good and have your best interests at heart. This innocence is one of the things that make children lovable. Read more …