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In which Nicholas R. Jeelvy demonstrates the insidiousness of 19th-century political leftism and its tendency to subvert culture and morality by tugging on the heartstrings of the impressionable and kind.

My own personal journey through Victor Hugo’s epic began at a very young age. Read more …

Published: January 31, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Charles Dickens, crime, literature, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, sexual liberation, the Leftist mind, the liberal mind | 19 Responses

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Frank Lloyd Wright/Frank Lloyd Wrong

Roy J. Street

June 8, 1867–April 9, 1959

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So long, Frank Lloyd Wright
I can’t believe your song is gone so soon.
I barely learned the tune
So soon, So soon.
Architects may come and
Architects may go and
Never change your point of view.
When I run dry
I stop awhile and think of you.

— Simon and Garfunkel, 1969 Read more …

Published: June 4, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged architecture, articles, Frank Lloyd Wright, modernism, North American New Right, originals, Roy J. Street, Tom Wolfe | 7 Responses

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Culture & “Engagement”:
French & English Perspectives

Adrian Davies

Henry Williamson

2,566 words

A talk by Adrian Davies to the Traditional Britain Group on October 18th, 2014

This morning I shall talk to you about differing perspectives upon the involvement of artists and writers in politics in France and England. Why France and England? Partly because it is necessary to keep this talk in some bounds, partly because I know a little more about the relationship between high culture and low politics in France than in Germany or Italy or Spain, and will stick to what I know, often a prudent course. Read more …

Published: January 29, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adrian Davies, Antonio Gramsci, articles, Charles Maurras, Dimitri Shostakovich, environmentalism, Ezra Pound, Henry Williamson, Jean-Paul Sartre, Joseph Stalin, literature, Maurice Barrès, metapolitics, nationalism, North American New Right, reprints, Roy Campbell, Spanish Civil War, Wyndham Lewis | 1 Response

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Romanticism & Classicism

T. E. Hulme

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I want to maintain that after a hundred years of romanticism, we are in for a classical revival, and that the particular weapon of this new classical spirit, when it works in verse, will be fancy.[1] And in this I imply the superiority of fancy—not superior generally or absolutely, for that would be obvious nonsense, but superior in the sense that we use the word good in empirical ethics—good for something, superior for something. Read more …

Published: February 8, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art, articles, classicism, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, literary criticism, literature, North American New Right, reprints, Romanticism, T. E. Hulme | 6 Responses

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Subversion, The Musical:
Les Misérables (2012)

Gregory Hood

3,090 words

“My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.” — Julius Evola, Read more …

Published: January 3, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged France, Gregory Hood, liberalism, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, the French Revolution | 17 Responses

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Animal Justice?

Greg Johnson

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During a recent trip to the Pacific Northwest, I followed coverage of an incident in which a grizzly bear killed a bear hunter on the Idaho-Montana border on September 18. Read more …