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Canaletto, The Return of the Bucentaur to the Molo on Ascension Day, 1730.

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On the train ride home this weekend, I ended up talking with a drunk woman about the concept of happiness. Although brief, the conversation reminded me of Giacomo Casanova’s memoir The Story of My Life. As I have gotten older, this memoir has reminded me not to let certain vices ruin my life. While each person Read more …

Published: November 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Casanova, degeneracy, discipline, Fullmoon Ancestry, happiness, hedonism, North American New Right, originals, self-actualization, travel | 7 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 232
Then They Came for Arktos

Counter-Currents Radio

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Greg Johnson and John Morgan reconvene the weekly Counter-Currents Radio Podcast to read and discuss Tess Owen’s dumb and inaccurate hit piece on Arktos Media, “How a Small Budapest Publishing House is Quietly Fueling Far-Right Extremism.” Read more …

Published: May 31, 2019 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Arktos Media, Counter-Currents Radio, Daniel Friberg, Greg Johnson, John Morgan, podcasts, political correctness | 3 Responses

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Socrates Versus the Bugmen

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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I’ve mentioned before on this site and elsewhere that being part of the Dissident Right is an initiatory experience, as far as I’m concerned. Read more …

Published: February 13, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, asceticism, bugmen, leadership, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, Socrates, Xenophon | 1 Response

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Too Clever by Half:
A Review of Adam McKay’s Vice

Spencer J. Quinn

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Like an ingeniously designed, iridescent funhouse, Adam McKay’s latest film, Vice, will sneer at you from multiple directions. It’s as dishonest as it is clever, yet its uncanny cultural relevance makes it worth discussing regardless of its checkered merits.

More of a rehash of Democratic talking points than a biopic, Vice intends most of all to kick dirt on the career and character of former Vice President Dick Cheney. Read more …

Published: January 3, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, George W. Bush, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn | 7 Responses

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Of Beer, Bestiality, & Cloven-Hooved Bastards
An Ode to Canada Itself!

James J. O'Meara

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While Americans tend to talk up their country — “We’re Number One!” etc. — Canadians are all too willing to throw Canada under the bus and assert their personal superiority to both. “Yeah, it’s really lame around here, eh, but the neighbourhood [Canadian spelling!] where my cousin lives in T-O[ronto], it’s really happening!”

The Decay of Words, Part 2:
Work & Leisure

Julius Evola

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Part 2 of 3

Trans. G. A. Malvicini from L’Arco e la Clava [The Bow and the Club] (Milan: Scheiwiller, 1968)

10. Labor. Regarding changes in the value attached to words, changes that clearly indicate a radical change in world view, the most typical case is perhaps that of the term labor. In Latin, this word had a mainly negative meaning. Read more …

Published: March 15, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, contemplation, education, ethics, Julius Evola, language, Latin, nobility, North American New Right, originals, philology, philosophy, translations, virtue, work | 2 Responses

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The Decay of Words, Part 1:
Virtue & Vice

Julius Evola

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Part 1 of 3

Trans. G. A. Malvicini from L’Arco e la Clava [The Bow and the Club] (Milan: Scheiwiller, 1968)

One of the signs of the fact that the course of history has, outside of the purely material plane, been anything but one of progress, is the poverty of modern languages compared to many ancient languages. Read more …