Tag Archives: The Prisoner

6,139 words

A. E. Ellis (Derek Lindsay)
The Rack
London: Heinemann, 1958; Richmond, Va.: Valancourt, 2014 (with a new introduction by Andrew Sinclair)

Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! He hates him much
That would upon the rack of this tough world
Stretch him out longer. — King Lear, 5.3.314

Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner

Collin Cleary

8,581 words

Editor’s Note:

I am reprinting Collin Cleary’s classic essay on Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner as a sequel to Andrew Hamilton’s article on Danger Man. Cleary’s essay is available in print form in his Summoning the Gods: Essays on Paganism in a God-Forsaken World, Read more …

Published: June 16, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-modernism, articles, book excerpts, Christianity, Collin Cleary, individualism, James Bond, modernity, North American New Right, Patrick McGoohan, reprints, TV reviews | 7 Responses

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Danger Man

Andrew Hamilton

Danger Man star Patrick McGoohan

3,818 words

“Somewhere along the line I am going to meet with an arm of this octopus, and when I do it will lead me to a head, and when I find that I shall cut it off.” — John Drake in “You Are Not in Any Trouble, Are You?” (1965)

I recently watched the 1960s English television series Danger Man (1960–1962, 30 mins.; 1964–1968, 1 hour) starring Patrick McGoohan. It was a popular spy show that made McGoohan a star and enabled him to produce his cult television series The Prisoner (UK, 1967–1968). Read more …

Published: June 13, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andrew Hamilton, articles, North American New Right, originals, Patrick McGoohan, TV reviews | 9 Responses

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“All or Nothing”:
The Prisoner & Ibsen’s Brand

Collin Cleary

Patrick McGoohan in The Prisoner

6,769 words

A number of years ago I wrote an essay offering an interpretation of the cult TV series The Prisoner (anthologized in Summoning the Gods, published by Counter-Currents).

Introduction au livre de Collin Cleary: Summoning the Gods [L’appel aux dieux]

Greg Johnson

2,903 words

English original here

Collin Cleary – l’énigmatique sage de Sandpoint, dans l’Idaho – surgit sur la scène intellectuelle il y a presque dix ans, avec la publication du premier volume du journal TYR: Myth—Culture—Tradition. Read more …

Published: October 8, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alejandro Jodorowski, Asatru, book reviews, Collin Cleary, Eastern religion, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, Martin Heidegger, movie reviews, mysticism, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Summoning the Gods, Tantrism, theology | Leave a comment

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Introduction to Collin Cleary’s Summoning the Gods

Greg Johnson

Franz von Stuck, "Orpheus"

2,654 words

French translation here

Collin Cleary—the enigmatic sage of Sandpoint, Idaho—burst onto the intellectual scene almost ten years ago, with the publication of the first volume of the journal TYR: Myth—Culture—Tradition. Along with Joshua Buckley and Michael Moynihan, Cleary was one of the founding editors of TYR, having a hand in all aspects of the first volume and contributing three substantial articles and several reviews. Read more …