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The Elephant Man

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David Lynch’s second feature film, The Elephant Man (1980), is one of his finest works. In many ways, The Elephant Man is Lynch’s most conventional “Hollywood” film. (Dune too is a “Hollywood” film, but a failed one.) The cast of The Elephant Man is quite distinguished, including John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Sir John Gielgud, Dame Wendy Hiller, and Anne Bancroft. The film was produced by Mel Brooks, who left his name off so that people would not expect a comedy. Read more …

Published: January 22, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, articles, compassion, Dame Wendy Hiller, David Lynch, disgust, evil, fear, Freddie Jones, John Hurt, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, religion, Sir John Gielgud, The Elephant Man, Trevor Lynch, Victorian era | 6 Responses

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Rock Bottom Blackpills

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

Charles Le Brun, The Suicide of Cato of Utica, 1646.

3,354 words

So, in fact, this is not a humiliating defeat at all, but a rare species of victory.

— Cato the Younger, blackpiller.

In this amazing modern world that we’ve built for ourselves, the shower is the only place we’re not surrounded by electronics, at least for now. Read more …

Published: January 21, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, blackpills, conspiracy theories, depression, epistemology, ideology, Joe Biden, losers, neoreaction, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, political organizing, QAnon, redpills, spirit, the Jewish question, winners | 50 Responses

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Truth Doesn’t Win Wars

Phil Eiger Newmann, Walk of Shame, 2020.

1,836 words

I fell asleep early on Election Eve because I lost faith in the federal government — and the very idea that the United States was a sustainable nation — years ago. Ever since November 3, I’ve been disinterested in the issue of election fraud because I don’t think there’s much of an “America” that’s left to save. My gut feeling is that no matter who got elected president, we’re already well into a post-American phase and that the USA is a bankrupt and irredeemable enterprise. What good is one last round of chemo if the patient is already terminal? Read more …

Published: January 11, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Capitol occupation, censorship, crime, deplatforming, Donald Trump, Jim Goad, North American New Right, optics, originals, Right-wing terrorism, terrorism, the political | 80 Responses

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Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics:
Platonism

Plato and Aristotle

Plato and Aristotle, detail from Raphael’s The School of Athens, 1510-1511.

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1. Introduction

In my essay “Heidegger Against the Traditionalists,” I sketched a critique of Guénon and Evola from a Heideggerian perspective. Although I raised several objections to Traditionalism, the crucial one was this: Guénon and Evola are thoroughly (and uncritically) invested in the Western metaphysical tradition. According to Heidegger, however, it is precisely the Western metaphysical tradition that is responsible for all the modern ills decried by the Traditionalists. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged alētheia, ancient Greeks, anti-modernism, Aristotle, articles, being, Collin Cleary, concealment, Dasein, Edmund Husserl, knowing, Martin Heidegger, meaning, metaphysics, modernism, myth, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, phusis, Plato, Platonism, presence, primordial metaphysics, Socrates, the Forms, tradition, Traditionalism, Western philosophy | 13 Responses

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Living in Truth:
A Yuletide Homily

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Philippe de Champaigne, Saint Augustin, 1645-1650

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The key problem of our age is disconnection from truth. This takes several distinct forms. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of lies. As everyone knows, modern, Western civilization is founded upon lies about human nature, culture, and history. The most significant of these — underlying, in one form of another, most of the rest — is the equality lie; the myth of human equality, which is the chief myth of our age. (“Myth,” as most of my readers know, can have a positive or a negative connotation, as there are salutary myths; here, obviously, I am using the term in its purely negative sense.) Read more …

Published: December 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authenticity, Christmas, ethics, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, Parmenides, philosophy, relativism | 7 Responses

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The Prison Plays of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Spencer J. Quinn

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Known mostly as a novelist, memoirist, and historian, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had actually completed four plays before his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, was published in 1962. He composed his first two, Victory Celebrations and Prisoners, while a zek in the Soviet Gulag Read more …

Published: August 5, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, articles, conservatism, corruption, dissidence, gulags, honor, idealism, identity, ideology, Jews in literature, life, love, loyalty, North American New Right, originals, play reviews, plays, radicalism, romance, Russia, Russian literature, Soviet Union, Spencer J. Quinn, the Jewish question | 1 Response

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You Know You’re Right

Winston E. Bakewell

Mars, ca. 2nd century AD.

2,096 words

You are here because you are convinced of the rightness of your ideas. This is not meant in a specific, epistemological sense; as in, your ideas have been verified by some kind of universal truth or that they are backed by data drawn from rigor, though these things could be applied to many of the ideas we hold on the Right. I mean that you are convinced enough of what you hold to be true that you are taking a risk in upholding it, even in the face of great adversaries. Read more …

Published: July 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, debate, deplatforming, discipline, North American New Right, objectivity, optimism, originals, philosophy, rhetoric, self-righteousness, Winston E. Bakewell | 5 Responses

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Strange & Bitter Fruit

Winston E. Bakewell

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Six black people have been found dead, hanging from trees, during the month of June so far. They were all ruled as suicides by local police. Black people refuse to believe that’s true, of course. The circumstances of these deaths too closely resemble the lynchings of yesteryear, right down to the surrounding social turmoil and the highly public spectacle of the corpses. Read more …

Published: June 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Black Lives Matter, civility, cynicism, death, debate, honesty, lynching, mainstream media, North American New Right, originals, polarization, rhetoric, suicide, Winston E. Bakewell | 6 Responses

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Scientific Truth, Scientific Pragmatism, & Human History

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An important question for those on the Dissident Right to ask is how humans ought to relate to nature; both their own “human nature” as well as the “outside” world. Depending on one’s religious beliefs, this might be the most important question there is. History seems to indicate two conventional approaches to this question. Read more …

Published: May 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservatism, epistemology, Eumaios, ideology, Marxism, Mencius Moldbug, metaphysics, Morgoth, North American New Right, ontology, originals, philosophy, pragmatism, Romanticism, science, teleology, the left, the Right, Vox Day | 6 Responses

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All the News Fit to Forget

Samuel T. Francis.

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Have you ever heard of Drew Pearson? I grew up in the 1970s and 80s and vaguely remember a football player by that name. But a different Drew Pearson (1897-1969) was mentioned briefly in Wilmot Roberson’s classic The Dispossessed Majority (1972). I had never heard of him, but according to Robertson, his columns were once syndicated in 650 newspapers — twice as many as any other columnist at that time. Read more …

Published: April 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Francis Parker Yockey, history, journalism, journalists, North American New Right, originals, Peter Bradley, Sam Francis | 6 Responses

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Searching for Transcendentals & True Knowledge:
The Enduring Legacy of Richard M. Weaver’s Ideas Have Consequences

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There are great thinkers, and then there are great thinkers whose prescience is so acute that they seem to operate on a precognitive, almost prophetic level. Included among the latter category is Richard M. Weaver (1910-1963). Weaver was a professor of English at the University of Chicago when the humanities were taken seriously, and nowhere were they taken more seriously than at UC in the two decades following the end of the Second World War. Read more …

Published: March 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, metaphysics, North American New Right, originals, Quintillian, Richard Weaver, Transcendence | 2 Responses

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Christmas at Counter-Currents
Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

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Philippe de Champaigne, “Saint Augustin,” 1645-1650

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The key problem of our age is disconnection from truth. This takes several distinct forms. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of lies. As everyone knows, modern, western civilization is founded upon lies about human nature, culture, and history. The most significant of these – underlying, in one form of another, most of the rest – is the equality lie; the myth of human equality, which is the chief myth of our age. (“Myth,” as most of my readers know, can have a positive or a negative connotation, as there are salutary myths; here, obviously, I am using the term in its purely negative sense.) Read more …

Published: December 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authenticity, Christmas, ethics, Jef Costello, living well, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | Leave a comment

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What is the Metaphysics of the Left? Part Two

The face of today’s Left

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

2. A Will to Nothingness: The Essence of Leftist Metaphysics

We are now in a position to step back from these observations and draw some general conclusions about the metaphysics of Leftist ideology. I trust the reader understands, however, that I am identifying the metaphysics that underlies Leftist ideology. Read more …

Published: June 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, Friedrich Nietzsche, gender politics, metaphysics, morality, North American New Right, originals, race, reality, the left, the Leftist mind, transgenderism | 24 Responses

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What is the Metaphysics of the Left? Part One

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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

Metaphysics is the science of what is real. It is the most fundamental branch of philosophy; other philosophical ideas are derived from or based upon metaphysical convictions. For example, the Epicurean principle that pleasure is the highest good follows from its materialism and rejection of belief in an afterlife. However, it is also possible to speak of metaphysics outside of the context of philosophical systems. Read more …

Published: June 24, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, gender politics, metaphysics, morality, North American New Right, originals, race, reality, social constructivism, subjectivism, the left, the Leftist mind, transgenderism | 19 Responses

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Masterpieces of Aryan Thought 4
Ezra Pound’s Guide to Kulchur

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Ezra Pound’s Guide to Kulchur (1938) is one of those unfortunate great books (think Spengler’s Decline of the West and any book by Henry Adams) that is often mentioned but seldom read. The book was meant as a guide to the essential philosophy, art, economics, history, and ethics from Confucius to the 20th century as uniquely interpreted by Pound.

This and the ABC of Reading (1934) constituted the core texts of the “Ezra-versity,” the informal seminars that Pound held before World War II for those acolytes who came to visit him in Rapallo, Italy. Read more …

Published: January 15, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Calvinism, Confucius, education, Ezra Pound, Guide to Kulchur, honesty, North American New Right, originals, Quintilian, Social Credit, usury | 1 Response

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Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

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Philippe de Champaigne, Saint Augustin, 1645-1650

2,587 words

The key problem of our age is disconnection from truth. This takes several distinct forms. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of lies. As everyone knows, modern, western civilization is founded upon lies about human nature, culture, and history. The most significant of these – underlying, in one form of another, most of the rest – is the equality lie; the myth of human equality, which is the chief myth of our age. (“Myth,” as most of my readers know, can have a positive or a negative connotation, as there are salutary myths; here, obviously, I am using the term in its purely negative sense.) Read more …

Published: December 21, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authenticity, ethics, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, Parmenides, philosophy, relativism | 4 Responses

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The Secret to the West

Grant Wood, Parson Weems’ Fable (George Washington and the Cherry Tree), 1939

987 words

Truth Telling Regardless of Cost

The rise of the West is due to a single accident: we discovered truth telling. We are the only people who discovered it, and we paid the high cost to establish it as a commons – as normative infrastructure – in manners, ethics, morality, law, philosophy and science. Read more …

Published: October 30, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Curt Doolittle, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Propertarianism | 4 Responses

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Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

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Philippe de Champaigne, “Saint Augustin,” 1645-1650

2,587 words

The key problem of our age is disconnection from truth. This takes several distinct forms. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of lies. As everyone knows, modern, western civilization is founded upon lies about human nature, culture, and history. The most significant of these – underlying, in one form of another, most of the rest – is the equality lie; the myth of human equality, which is the chief myth of our age. (“Myth,” as most of my readers know, can have a positive or a negative connotation, as there are salutary myths; here, obviously, I am using the term in its purely negative sense.) Read more …

Published: December 22, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authenticity, ethics, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, Parmenides, philosophy, relativism | 2 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 129
Interview with Curt Doolittle

Counter-Currents Radio

54:37 / 191 words

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Published: June 25, 2015 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Aristotle, Counter-Currents Radio, Curt Doolittle, deception, European identity, Greg Johnson, interviews, Karl Popper, philosophy, podcasts, political correctness, Propertarianism, science, trust | 5 Responses

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Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

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Philippe de Champaigne, “Saint Augustin,” 1645-1650

2,587 words

The key problem of our age is disconnection from truth. This takes several distinct forms. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of lies. As everyone knows, modern, western civilization is founded upon lies about human nature, culture, and history. The most significant of these – underlying, in one form of another, most of the rest – is the equality lie; the myth of human equality, which is the chief myth of our age. (“Myth,” as most of my readers know, can have a positive or a negative connotation, as there are salutary myths; here, obviously, I am using the term in its purely negative sense.) Read more …

Published: December 23, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authenticity, ethics, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, Parmenides, philosophy, relativism | 2 Responses

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Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

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Philippe de Champaigne, “Saint Augustin,” 1645-1650

2,587 words

The key problem of our age is disconnection from truth. This takes several distinct forms. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of lies. As everyone knows, modern, western civilization is founded upon lies about human nature, culture, and history. The most significant of these – underlying, in one form of another, most of the rest – is the equality lie; the myth of human equality, which is the chief myth of our age. (“Myth,” as most of my readers know, can have a positive or a negative connotation, as there are salutary myths; here, obviously, I am using the term in its purely negative sense.) Read more …

Published: December 23, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authenticity, Christmas, ethics, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, Parmenides, philosophy, relativism | 5 Responses

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