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In the fall of 2000, I taught an adult education class entitled Philosophy on Film, where we discussed The Matrix, American Beauty, Ground Hog Day, Network, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Gattaca, and Crimes and Misdemeanors.

On the “Unreflected Substantiality” of the Chinese Mind

Ricardo Duchesne

7,688 words

As the Chinese “silent invasion” of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada continues, you may want to learn something about the Western academics who lay the intellectual groundwork for this invasion. In a prior article, “The Transcendental Mind of Europeans Stands Above the Embedded Mind of Asians,” we met two influential scholars calling upon whites to abandon their “failed” attempts to formulate transcendental truths for the sake of the more “profound” contextual approach of Chinese philosophers with their demonstration that all thinking is “embedded” to a time and a place. Read more …

Published: February 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Greeks, Aristotle, articles, China, Chinese philosophy, Confucius, Council of European Canadians, cultural relativism, East vs. West, G. W. F. Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Max Weber, North American New Right, Plato, reason, reprints, self-consciousness, Taoism, the Axial Age, Western uniqueness | 5 Responses

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Creating a Place to Be

C. B. Robertson

1,469 words

Matthew Crawford
The World Beyond Your Head
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016

Matthew Crawford is a new but powerful intellectual. His debut in the public sphere began in 2009 with his book Shop Class as Soulcraft, which was affectionately dubbed “Heidegger and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” by Slate, and positively reviewed by Francis Fukuyama. Crawford’s second polemic, however, is more far-reaching, and stands to supplant his first work as his philosophical masterpiece. Read more …

Published: February 9, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged addiction, articles, C. B. Robertson, Immanuel Kant, modernity, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

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Carl Schmitt is Right:
Liberal Nations Have Open Borders Because They Have No Concept of the Political

Ricardo Duchesne

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

3,509 words

Before World War II liberal rights were understood among Western states in a libertarian and ethno-nationalistic way. Freedom of association, for example, was understood to include the right to refuse to associate with certain members of certain ethnic groups, even the right to discriminate in employment practices. This racial liberalism was still institutionalized right up until the 1960s. The settler nations of Australia, Canada, United States, and New Zealand enjoyed admission and naturalization policies based on race and culture, intended to keep these nations “White.”

The Secret of Laughter

Anthony M. Ludovici

9,356 words

Editor’s Note:

Since humor is one of the New Right’s most powerful weapons, we should welcome anything that might sharpen our attack, including a theoretical explanation of the nature of humor itself. Anthony M. Ludovici’s 1932 book The Secret of Laughter presents an entirely convincing theory of humor inspired by Thomas Hobbes and Charles Darwin. Read more …

Published: January 8, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anthony M. Ludovici, book excerpts, Charles Darwin, humor, North America New Right, reprints | 3 Responses

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El Filósofo está dentro
Fuerza y Derecho

Greg Johnson

Albrecht Dürer, hombres salvajes de los paneles del Retrato de Oswald Krell, 1499

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English original here

Nota del Traductor:

“Might is Right” se conoce generalmente como “la ley del más fuerte”, pero por una cuestión de concordancia traducimos “como fuerza y derecho”.

Un lector me preguntó mis pensamientos sobre la relación entre la fuerza y el derecho. (Dicho sea de paso, yo soy feliz de responder cuestiones filosóficas).

The Philosopher is In
Might & Right

Greg Johnson

Albrecht Dürer, wild men from the side panels of the Portrait of Oswald Krell, 1499

524 words

Spanish translation here

A reader has asked me for my thoughts on the relationship between might and rights. (By the way, I am happy to entertain philosophical questions.)

What are rights? Rights are principles defining political freedoms and obligations. If rights are political, what makes rights “natural” as opposed to conventional? What makes rights natural is an argument deriving them from human nature. Thus natural rights are socially instituted, protected, and enforced freedoms and obligations that are rationally grounded in nature, Read more …

Published: January 20, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ethics, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, political theory, rights, social Darwinism, The Philosopher is In | 16 Responses

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Aristokratia II

James J. O'Meara

1,404 words

Aristokratia II
Edited by K. Deva
Manticore Press
322 pages
Available for purchase from Amazon here

Readers of Aristokratia I that were eagerly awaiting more — and who wouldn’t? — will be pleased that this esoteric but accessible project is continuing, with the latest results appearing in a new volume, Aristokratia II. Read more …

Published: March 11, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, book reviews, Colin Liddell, corporatism, elitism, fascism, Fernando Pessoa, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gwendolyn von Taunton, H. P. Lovecraft, hinduism, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, Kerry Bolton, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, Plato, Traditionalism | 3 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 87
The Pursuit of Happiness
Harmony, Inner & Outer, Part 2

Greg Johnson

25:03 / 184 words

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Beginning in August of 1999, I gave a series of eight lectures on “The Pursuit of Happiness: Read more …

Published: January 29, 2014 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged desire, ethics, Greg Johnson, harmony, living well, luxury, moral philosophy, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, rationality, Socrates, thumos | 1 Response

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Tom Sunić Interviews Jonathan Bowden (Transcript)

Jonathan Bowden

7,927 words

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The following text is a transcript by V. S. of Tomislav Sunić’s interview with Jonathan Bowden. Click here to listen to the audio. A couple of words have been marked as unintelligible. If you can make them out, please post a comment below.

Tom Sunić: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen! Good afternoon, dear friends! Read more …

Published: December 19, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, British National Party, conservatism, egalitarianism, elitism, Enoch Powell, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Bernard Shaw, hegemony, interviews, Jonathan Bowden, metapolitics, mind-body dualism, modern art, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, paganism, podcasts, propaganda, religion, the left, The Passion of the Christ, the racially conscious left, Tom Sunic | 1 Response

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 73
Tom Sunić interviews Jonathan Bowden

Jonathan Bowden

49:49 / 76 words

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The following interview of Jonathan Bowden by Tom Sunić was first released on Voice of Reason on May 25, 2010. Read more …

Published: December 13, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged aesthetics, British National Party, conservatism, Counter-Currents Radio, egalitarianism, elitism, Enoch Powell, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Bernard Shaw, hegemony, interviews, Jonathan Bowden, metapolitics, mind-body dualism, modern art, movies, paganism, podcasts, propaganda, religion, the left, The Passion of the Christ, the racially conscious left, Tom Sunic | 2 Responses

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The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 5
The Decline & Rebirth of the West

Collin Cleary

4,071 words

Part 5 of 5

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011 Read more …

Published: April 5, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, book reviews, capitalism, Collin Cleary, democracy, G. W. F. Hegel, history, liberalism, modernity, North American New Right, originals, Ricardo Duchesne, sociology, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, thumos | Comments closed

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The Beginning & the End of History

Greg Johnson

1,493 words

The duel to the death over honor is a remarkable phenomenon. Animals duel over dominance, which insures their access to mates. But these duels result in death only by accident, because the whole process is governed by their survival instincts, and their “egos” do not prevent them from surrendering when the fight is hopeless. Read more …