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You can order Greg Johnson’s Loving Our Own here

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What is the place of love in politics? Given humanity’s long history of wars, revolutions, and civil strife, the place of love seems very small indeed. But if politics is filled with battles between “us” and “them,” then at least there is some room for love among “us.” I call this “loving our own.” Love of our own is the basis of nationalism, populism, and white identity politics.

Modern Political Thought

Modern political philosophy is cosmopolitan, materialist, and elitist due to its understanding of human nature. (more…)

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English original Part 1, Part 2; Czech, French, Spanish

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„Człowiek n i e dąży do szczęścia; czyni to tylko Anglik.”—Nietzsche

Najważniejsze pytania metapolityki dotyczą tożsamości, moralności oraz możliwości.

Jak dowodzi Carl Schmitt, polityczność oparta jest na rozróżnieniu pomiędzy „my” a „oni”. Pytanie dotyczące tożsamości brzmi: Kim jesteśmy? Oraz: Kim nie jesteśmy? (more…)

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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English original here, Estonian, French, Spanish

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„Czy możemy się po prostu dogadać?” – Rodney King

Krótka książka Carla Schmitta Pojęcie polityczności (1932) jest jednym z najważniejszych dzieł dwudziestowiecznej filozofii politycznej[1].

Głównym celem Pojęcia polityczności jest obrona polityki przed utopijnymi próbami jej porzucenia. Anty-polityczny utopizm zawiera wszystkie formy liberalizmu, jak również międzynarodowego socjalizmu, globalnego kapitalizmu, anarchizmu oraz pacyfizmu: w skrócie – wszystkie polityczne filozofie, których celem jest uniwersalny porządek, w którym porzucono wszelki konflikt. (more…)

The Apollo 11 liftoff.

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This is the second part of the notes for a lecture entitled “The Conquest of Nature: Ayn Rand,” from October 1999. This was the seventh lecture of an eight-lecture course called “The Pursuit of Happiness,” delivered to my adult education group, The Invisible College, in Atlanta.

Ayn Rand wasn’t always an advocate of laissez-faire capitalism. Indeed, the early Ayn Rand was a Nietzschean with an aristocratic disdain for commercial society. (more…)

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Part 1 here

If the family is a haven in the heartless world of global liberalism, so is the nation. What is the connection between family and nation? Both are related by blood. (more…)

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English original: Part 1, Part 2; Traducciones: Francés, Polaco

Capítulo 1 aquí, Capítulo 6 aquí, Capítulo 8 aquí

“El hombre no lucha por la felicidad; sólo el inglés lo hace.” – Nietzsche

Las cuestiones centrales de la metapolítica lidian con la Identidad, la moralidad y la posibilidad.

Como afirma Carl Schmitt, lo político está basado en la distinción entre nosotros y ellos. La cuestión de la Identidad es: ¿quiénes somos? (more…)

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English original here, Estonian translation here, French translation here, Polish translation here, Capítulo 6 aquí

Capítulo 1 aquí, Capítulo 4 aquí

“¿Podemos llevarnos todos bien?” — Rodney King

El librito de Carl Schmitt El concepto de lo Político (1932) es uno de los trabajos más importantes de la filosofía política del siglo XX.[1]

El objetivo de El concepto de lo Político es la defensa de la política contra las aspiraciones utópicas a favor de abolir la política. (more…)

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Shawn Bell
Post—: Short Stories by Shawn Bell
Quakertown, Pa.: Antelope Hill, 2022

Other than calling his work “dissident fiction,” it’s hard to categorize Shawn Bell’s short stories. In his recent Antelope Hill collection, entitled Post—, it’s mostly their cutting insights into the insidious façade of globalism — and their tremendously high quality — which link these stories together. Within Post— we have elements of dystopia, coming-of-age, romance, alternate history, family drama, tragedy, and the slice of life found in the faded Houckian suburbs of the American Midwest. (more…)

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Partie 1, Partie 2

“C’est ce que nous sommes” est l’argument final de la politique identitaire. “Qui nous sommes” est un composé de parenté et de culture. Mais l’identité est politiquement impuissante si un peuple n’est pas prêt à s’affirmer, à prendre parti pour son propre camp dans un combat. (more…)

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John Ford’s last great film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) enjoys the status of a classic. I find it a deeply flawed, grating, and often ridiculous film that is nonetheless redeemed both by raising intellectually deep issues and by an emotionally powerful ending that seems to come out of nowhere.  (more…)

Caspar David Friedrich, Greifswald in Moonlight, 1817.

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As men and women of the Right, we are searchers for Truth. We believe that by finding Truth and living by Truth, we might know Beauty, and we might know ourselves. Essence is our mission and with it, survival. And so this essay will try to surface and then sketch three fundamental “lifeways,” (more…)

Frank Herbert. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia  Commons

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Frank Herbert’s Dune (1965) is one of the masterpieces of science fiction, far eclipsing its five sequels in readership and reputation. But I wish to argue that the third and fourth Dune books, Children of Dune (1976) and God Emperor of Dune (1981), are equally audacious works of the imagination. [1] Both volumes tend to be underrated, partly due to the long shadow of Dune, partly because the sheer scope of Herbert’s vision boggles the mind, (more…)

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“This is who we are” is the final argument of identity politics. “Who we are” is a compound of kinship and culture. But identity is politically impotent unless a people is willing to assert itself, to take its own side in a fight. Thus the third pillar of white identity politics has to be that fighting spirit.  (more…)