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Andrew Roberts is a renowned conservative, Visiting Fellow at Stanford University, and Visiting Professor at King’s College London, who believes that everyone in the world can be educated to love the democratic values of Western civilization. If only blacks and immigrants were taught to appreciate the immense value of Greek Read more …

Published: August 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1619 Project, American identity, Andrew Roberts, articles, conservatism, Council of European Canadians, higher education, history, identity, immigration, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Western civilization | 20 Responses

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Video of the Day
Kevin MacDonald at The Scandza Forum

Video of the Day

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Kevin MacDonald introduces the ideas behind his latest book, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, in his talk at the recent Scandza Forum conference in Oslo. Read more …

Published: November 14, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged individualism, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, Kevin MacDonald, Scandza Forum, video of the day | 1 Response

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White Conservationism & Why Race Matters

Richard Houck

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Conserving the white race – more specifically, the people who hail from Europe – should be the highest goal of conservatism, for without a strong white race, nothing else so-called conservatives want to conserve is even remotely possible.

Western civilization is synonymous with white civilization. The two are inextricably linked and inseparable. Grecian thought, Roman statecraft, German Idealism, English law – these pillars of humanity rest squarely on the shoulders of the European peoples. Read more …

Published: November 8, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, North American New Right, originals, race replacement, Richard Houck, Western civilization, white preservationism | 33 Responses

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The Immense Revolution of the Presocratics

Ricardo Duchesne

Oil painting of Heraclitus by Etienne Parrocel (1696-1775)

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To understand why Europeans were the progenitors of the highest accomplishments in history – close to one hundred percent of the great ideas in philosophy, science, anthropology, sociology, economics, geography, geology, astronomy, mathematics, architecture, technology, dance, and music – you must understand the Presocratic self-conscious separation of the knowing “I” from the “not-I.” Read more …

Published: September 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Greeks, articles, Council of European Canadians, Heraclitus, North American New Right, Parmenides, presocratic philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, self-consciousness | 4 Responses

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The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part IV

Ricardo Duchesne

Georg Friedrich Kersting, Faust in his Study

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Part 4 of 4 (Part 3 here)

Definition of “Axial thought”

The Axial Age idea is the most concerted effort to retain aspects of the idea of progress while disallowing Western civilization from claiming to be the most progressive in the sciences, technology, cultural creativity, and forms of state organization. This idea has historical merits. Read more …

Published: July 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Greeks, anti-white propaganda, aristocracy, Aristotle, articles, Axial Age, China, Council of European Canadians, egalitarianism, India, individualism, Israel, North American New Right, Plato, pre-Socratic philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, ritual, Robert N. Bellah | 1 Response

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The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part III

Ricardo Duchesne

The Mask of Agamemnon

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Part 3 of 4 (Part 2 here, Part 4 here)

Rituals in simple mythic cultures

According to Bellah, humans express their highest values and cultural practices in those activities we define as “play” and “ritual,” because these activities are performed when humans are in a “relaxed” state away from evolutionary pressures. Read more …

Published: July 9, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, Axial Age, Council of European Canadians, egalitarianism, individualism, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, ritual, Robert N. Bellah | 2 Responses

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The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part II

Ricardo Duchesne

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Part 2 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

“New capacities” under conditions of “relaxed selection”

The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part I

Ricardo Duchesne

Robert N. Bellah, theorist of the Axial Age

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Part 1 of 4

Only European peoples have made history and discovered the idea of time, and this is why the idea of progress is uniquely European: Only European history has been characterized by progress, and there can be no conception of historical time and no history without progression or without man becoming conscious of his role in the making of history, as well as the realization that only the mind can be the adjudicator of the truth. Read more …

Published: July 3, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged academia, anti-white rhetoric, articles, Axial Age, Council of European Canadians, cultural Marxism, evolution, Karl Jaspers, North American New Right, political correctness, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Robert N. Bellah | Leave a comment

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Reflections on the Supremacy of the West:
A Critique of Ricardo Duchesne & Niall Ferguson

Alexander Jacob

Niall Ferguson

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In 2011 there appeared two major scholarly works that attempted to investigate the sources of Western supremacy in the modern world, especially in view of the recent rise of China as a potential threat to this supremacy. These are the Puerto Rican-Canadian social historian Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization[1] and the British economic historian Niall Ferguson’s Civilization: The West and the Rest.[2] Read more …

Published: April 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Jacob, Alexandre Kojève, articles, book reviews, G. W. F. Hegel, hinduism, Indo-European culture, Max Weber, North American New Right, originals, Ricardo Duchesne, the Indo-Europeans, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization | 10 Responses

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A Conversation with Ricardo Duchesne, Part 3

Gregoire Canlorbe

Plato’s allegory of the cave

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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)

Grégoire Canlorbe: It is not uncommon to claim the self-assertive longing for “prestige,” “respect,” and “fame” is fully intelligible within the framework of the selfish-gene theory, Read more …

Published: April 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged academia, anti-white rhetoric, articles, Council of European Canadians, Faustian man, G. W. F. Hegel, Grégoire Canlorbe, Indo-European culture, Indo-Europeans, North American New Right, originals, Ricardo Duchesne, the Axial Age | Leave a comment

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A Conversation with Ricardo Duchesne, Part 2

Gregoire Canlorbe

An idol of the Celtic god of thunder, Taranis, a common deity in the Indo-European pantheons

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Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

Grégoire Canlorbe: Western civilization, originating from the Indo-European heroic ethos, turned out to be both the most creative and Faustian civilization and the most war-ridden and war-dominated one. Islamic civilization has been equally militaristic and expansionist; yet it quickly became frozen and hostile towards innovation and individual genius, despite the fact that praising Muhammad’s heroic lifetime has permeated Islamic societies to this day. How do you explain this duality?

A Conversation with Ricardo Duchesne, Part 1

Gregoire Canlorbe

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Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here)

Grégoire Canlorbe: In your eyes, the European civilization of the white man has been systemically downsized by contemporary world historians – to name but a few, Patrick O’Brien, Sebastian Conrad, or Ian Morris. Could you develop?

On the “Unreflected Substantiality” of the Chinese Mind

Ricardo Duchesne

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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 …