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The Man of the Twentieth Century:
Remembering Ernst Jünger,
March 29, 1895–February 17, 1998

3,554 words

Hungarian translation here; Czech translation here

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Risen from the Ashes
David Hoggan’s The Forced War

Morris V. de Camp

2,386 words

Despite nearly being lost following the destruction of its manuscript in a terrorist attack, David Hoggan’s The Forced War continues to be a relevant tome in our era. Hoggan details how the Second World War was certainly not inevitable, and how the propaganda machine that succeeded in pushing the nations of the West to war in the 1940s set a dangerous precedent that echoes in the foreign policy of nations to this very day.

Published: December 18, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Austria, Czechoslovakia, Europe, historical revisionism, literature, Poland, Second World War, World War II | 14 Responses

Aspects of the German Soul

Emil Cioran

1,472 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: This article is translated from the French version in Emil Cioran, Apologie de la Barbarie: Berlin–Bucharest (1932-1941) (Paris: L’Herne, 2015). Read more …

Published: May 9, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Emil Cioran, French translations, Germany, Guillaume Durocher, messianism, North American New Right, originals, Romania | 4 Responses

Letter from the Third Reich

Emil Cioran

1,016 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: This article is translated from the French version in Emil Cioran, Apologie de la Barbarie: Berlin – Bucharest (1932-1941) (Paris: L’Herne, 2015), pp. 67-71. Read more …

Published: April 24, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, democracy, Emil Cioran, French translations, Germany, Guillaume Durocher, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, vitalism | 7 Responses

The Man of the Twentieth Century:
Remembering Ernst Jünger,
March 29, 1895–February 17, 1998

3,553 words

Hungarian translation here; Czech translation here

Video of the Day
“Ernst Jünger, 102 Years in the Heart of Europe”
(Swedish documentary with English subtitles)

Video of the Day

32 words / 57:32

A Swedish documentary, with English subtitles, about the life and ideas of Ernst Jünger, including extensive interviews with him that were made only a year prior to his death at age 102. Read more …

Published: March 29, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, conservative revolution, Ernst Junger, First World War, national bolshevism, North American New Right, psychedelic drugs, Second World War, video of the day | 1 Response

Between Buddha & Führer:
The Young Cioran on Germany

1,980 words

Emil Cioran
Apologie de la Barbarie: Berlin – Bucharest (1932-1941)
Paris: L’Herne, 2015

This is a very interesting book released by the superior publishing house L’Herne: a collection of Emil Cioran’s articles published in Romanian newspapers, mostly from before the war. Read more …

Published: March 7, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Buddhism, Emil Cioran, fascism, Guillaume Durocher, National Socialism, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Romania | 3 Responses

Gina Puica Vincent Piednoir

Cioran, Germany, & Hitler

1,761 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: The following are excerpts from the preface to a collection of early articles by Emil Cioran translated from Romanian into French. I found this very interesting concerning the young Cioran’s embrace of fascism as embodying the “barbarism” he considered necessary to halt decadence. I have broken up some of the paragraphs. Read more …

Published: January 29, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Emil Cioran, fascism, French translations, Guillaume Durocher, Iron Guard, North American New Right, originals, Romania | 3 Responses

A Guide to Primary Sources on Hitler for Researchers

1,740 words

There is no disputing Adolf Hitler was of tremendous importance in determining the course of the twentieth century. Thus, whether one believes the German Führer was the most evil man to have ever lived or if one takes a more nuanced perspective, it is important to try to understand him both as a personality and as representing a world-historical phenomenon. Read more …

Published: August 3, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, Guillaume Durocher, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals | 4 Responses

Hitler as Artist & Patron

Alex Graham

3,042 words

Frederic Spotts
Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics
New York: The Overlook Press, 2003

Leaders throughout history have frequently deployed the arts as a means by which to display their power. Hitler is unusual, however, in that art was central to his political vision. He was intensely interested in the arts (painting, sculpture, music, and architecture) and dreamed of forging a state whose artistic and cultural achievements would rival those of ancient Greece and Rome. Read more …

Published: July 25, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, architecture, art, book reviews, classical music, North American New Right, opera, originals | 1 Response

Reassessing Otto Dix

David Yorkshire

Otto Dix, Self-Portrait with My Son

2,221 words

Otto Dix was a German artist who is now celebrated as one of the great painters of the twentieth century, probably in no small part because he was put on the National Socialists’ list of degenerate artists, as, to the unthinking postmodern Left, anything the National Socialists hated is automatically considered good. Equally though, the postmodern cultureless cartoon Nazis of today’s corrupted Right consider him a degenerate artist also simply because his artworks were deemed Entartete Kunst by the NSDAP. Read more …

Published: June 6, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-Semitism, articles, David Yorkshire, degenerate art, German art, Mjolnir Magazine, modern art, North American New Right, painting, reprints, Weimar Republic | 7 Responses

The Man of the Twentieth Century:
Remembering Ernst Jünger,
March 29, 1895–February 17, 1998

3,545 words

Hungarian translation here; Czech translation here

Published: March 29, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, articles, commemorations, conservative revolution, Ernst Junger, First World War, John Morgan, national bolshevism, North American New Right, psychedelic drugs, reprints, Second World War | 4 Responses

Muž dvacátého století: vzpomínáme na Ernsta Jüngera (1895-1998)

2,860 slov

English original here; Hungarian translation here

Kdybych mohl být kýmkoliv z dvacátého století, ani na vteřinu bych neváhal s volbou Ernsta Jüngera. Tento muž totiž ve svém vymezeném čase vyzkoušel takřka všechno a napnul hranice toho, čeho může jednotlivec v životě dosáhnout, až na úplné maximum. Jeho nesmírně dlouhý život (zemřel měsíc před svými 103. narozeninami) překlenul Kaiserreich, německou revoluci, Výmarskou republiku, Třetí říši, Spolkovou republiku Německo a konečně v poslední dekádě jeho života také sjednocené Německo – a v každém z těchto období aktivně působil. Read more …

Published: March 29, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, articles, commemorations, conservative revolution, Ernst Junger, First World War, in Czech, national bolshevism, North American New Right, psychedelic drugs, reprints, Second World War | Leave a comment

Video of the Day
“Ernst Jünger, 102 Years in the Heart of Europe”
(Swedish documentary with English subtitles)

Video of the Day

32 words / 57:32

A Swedish documentary, with English subtitles, about the life and ideas of Ernst Jünger, including extensive interviews with him that were made only a year prior to his death at age 102.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ju5HFoD20U

Published: March 29, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, conservative revolution, Ernst Junger, First World War, national bolshevism, North American New Right, psychedelic drugs, Second World War, video of the day | 1 Response

De Mythen Waarnaar Wij Leven

Jef Costello

Franz von Stuck, Sisyphus

4,024 words

Vertaald door Otharus; English original: here

Noot van de redacteur:

Wat volgt is de tekst van een toespraak die dhr. Costello hield voor een kleine groep not-fully-red-pilled nieuwelingen. – Greg Johnson

Men vroeg mij aandacht te besteden aan de vraag, “wat is de leidende mythe van de moderne tijd?” Om deze vraag te beantwoorden, moeten we onderscheid maken tussen twee betekenissen van het woord “mythe”. Read more …

Published: October 1, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, biological race differences, equality, in Dutch, in translation, Jef Costello, myth, North American New Right, originals, white nationalism, World War II | Leave a comment

Férfi a XX. században
Ernst Jünger emlékezete 1895. március 29. — 1998. február 17.

English original; Czech version

2,721 words

Ha választhatnék, hogy melyik XX. századi személyiség életét éljem újra, nem kellene sokáig gondolkodnom. Ernst Jünger szinte mindent átélt, amit a században lehetett, és elment a végső határig abban, amit valaki egy földi pályafutás során elérhet. Egy hónappal a százharmadik születésnapja előtt halt meg – elképesztően hosszú életkora átfogta a Német Császárság, az I. világháború utáni német forradalom, a Weimari Köztársaság, a Harmadik Birodalom és a Német Szövetségi Köztársaság korszakát. Végül élete utolsó évtizedében láthatta az újraegyesült Németországot is, és mindvégig aktívan tevékenykedett.

The Myths We Live By

Jef Costello

Franz von Stuck, Sisyphus

4,063 words

Dutch translation here

Editor’s Note:

The following is the text of a talk Mr. Costello recently delivered to a small group of not-fully-red-pilled neophytes. — Greg Johnson

I have been asked to address the question, “what is the prevailing myth of the modern era?” In order to answer that question, we first have to distinguish between two senses of “myth.” Read more …

Published: September 25, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, biological race differences, egalitarianism, equality, Homer, inequality, Jef Costello, myth, North American New Right, occultism, originals, political correctness, white guilt, white nationalism, World War II | 16 Responses

The Man of the Twentieth Century:
Remembering Ernst Jünger,
March 29, 1895-February 17, 1998

3,524 words

Hungarian translation here; Czech translation here

If I could choose to be anyone from the twentieth century, I would not hesitate for a moment to pick Ernst Jünger. The man did just about everything it was possible to do in his time, and stretched the limits of what one individual can accomplish in a lifetime to their breaking point. His incredible lifespan alone (he died a month shy of his 103rd birthday) spanned the Kaiserreich, the German Revolution, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the Federal Republic of Germany, and finally, reunited Germany in his final decade – Read more …

Published: March 29, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, articles, commemorations, conservative revolution, Ernst Junger, First World War, John Morgan, national bolshevism, North American New Right, originals, psychedelic drugs, Second World War | 12 Responses

Hitler & Clausewitz:
The Philosopher as War Cry, Part Four

An East German soldier guards Clausewitz’s grave in the 1980s.

1,982 words

Part 4 of 4 (Part One here; Part Two here; Part Three here)

Conclusion: Freedom or Death

After his death, Clausewitz had a public destiny rare for generals, let alone theorists. He was not only enthusiastically celebrated in the Third Reich, a regime firmly dedicated to many of the Prussian virtues, but, for better and for worse, his words proved to be of foundational importance for Hitler and his own life’s work. Read more …

Published: March 10, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Carl von Clausewitz, Guillaume Durocher, Napoleonic Wars, North American New Right, originals, Prussia, Second World War, strategy, war | 2 Responses

Hitler & Clausewitz:
The Philosopher as War Cry, Part Three

Allegedly the last photo ever taken of Hitler, in the ruins of the Reich Chancellery, April 1945.

3,368 words

Part 3 of 4 (Part One here; Part Two here)

Hitler & the Bekenntnis: A Mantra of Resistance & Renewal

Perhaps more significant still than Hitler’s use of the Formule, is his citing of Clausewitz to assert the ethical validity of resistance at any price, even doomed resistance. Read more …

Published: March 9, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Carl von Clausewitz, Guillaume Durocher, Napoleonic Wars, North American New Right, originals, Prussia, Second World War, strategy, war | Leave a comment

Hitler & Clausewitz:
The Philosopher as War Cry, Part Two

3,960 words

Part 2 of 4 (Part One here)

Clausewitz in the Third Reich I: A National Hero

Clausewitz’s presence in this period of German history cannot be reduced to Hitler. As a Prussian patriot and the preeminent theorist of modern war, Clausewitz was unsurprisingly enthusiastically celebrated in the Third Reich. Read more …

Published: March 8, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Carl von Clausewitz, Guillaume Durocher, Napoleonic Wars, North American New Right, originals, Second World War, strategy, war | 3 Responses

Hitler & Clausewitz:
The Philosopher as War Cry, Part One

Young Clausewitz.

4,080 words

Part 1 of 4

All intellectuals dream that their ideas will not be confined to the dead letters of books accumulating dust on library shelves, but should possess the world. An underexplored but highly fertile field in this respect is the influence of the great Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz upon the German dictator and warlord Adolf Hitler. This is an extremely controversial issue. Clausewitz is the preeminent military theorist, rivaled in fame only by the ancient Chinese sage Sun Tzu. Read more …

Published: March 7, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Carl von Clausewitz, Guillaume Durocher, Napoleonic Wars, North American New Right, originals, Second World War, strategy, war | 9 Responses

Collaboration & Adaptation in Axis Europe
A review of Mark Mazower’s Hitler’s Empire, Part 2

4,269 words

Part 2 of 2

Mark Mazower
Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
New York: Penguin Press, 2008

The New Order in the West: A Still-Born European Revolution

The heady days after Germany’s defeat of France in 1940, leaving her for all intents and purposes mistress of the Continent, are quite fascinating. Read more …

Published: May 5, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, book reviews, ethnic cleansing, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, World War II | 3 Responses

Collaboration & Adaptation in Axis Europe
A review of Mark Mazower’s Hitler’s Empire

4,351 words

Part 1 of 2

Mark Mazower
Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
New York: Penguin Press, 2008

I like to think I am not an uncritical person. Before reading a “heretical” book, I almost always read a mainstream book on the topic first, so I know how to situate the possibly more outlandish claims Read more …

Published: May 4, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Allied atrocities, book reviews, Czechoslovakia, ethnic cleansing, Guillaume Durocher, imperialism, North American New Right, originals, Poland, Slavs, World War II, Yugoslavia | 10 Responses

German Cinema Classics
Heimat (1938)

Derek Hawthorne

9,830 words

Heimat is one of the finest productions of Third Reich cinema, and by any standard it is an excellent film. The title means “homeland,” and in the minds of many the word Heimat is closely associated with National Socialist ideology. Indeed, a close study of this film can give us priceless insights into the true nature of that ideology. But the results may surprise you.

Published: June 23, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Derek Hawthorne, G. W. F. Hegel, individualism, movie reviews, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, the bourgeoisie | 3 Responses

Pensées sur le 4 Juillet

William Pierce

3,077 words

Il y a deux semaines, nous avons célébré le 4 juillet, le plus important jour patriotique de l’Amérique. C’est un jour où nous célébrons notre force, où nous nous vantons de nos réussites, où nous nous souvenons de nos victoires, etc. Cela m’a amené à penser à la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et je vais partager quelques-unes de mes réflexions avec vous. Read more …

Published: March 19, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, homosexuality, in French, in translation, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, William Pierce, World War II | Leave a comment

The Stark Truth
Robert Stark Interviews Monetary Reformer Ellen Brown

Counter-Currents Radio

49:44 / 388 words

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Now In Stock!
Notes on the Third Reich

Julius Evola

Trans. with Foreword by E. Christian Kopff
London: Arktos Media, 2013
94 pages

paperback: $17

Read F. Roger Devlin’s review here

In the same manner as he critiqued Italian Fascism in Fascism Viewed from the Right, in this volume Evola analyses the German National Socialist movement, Read more …

Published: October 21, 2013 | Posted in Legacy Book Product, North American New Right | Also tagged distributed title, Evola book, Julius Evola, National Socialism, philosophy, political philosophy, Traditionalism | Leave a comment