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Hellboy II: The Golden Army

The Angel of Death

1,511 words

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) looks like director Guillermo del Toro’s audition for The Hobbit. (He got the job, but backed out because of scheduling problems with the studio.) The root mythology is Tolkienesque: In remotest antiquity, elves, trolls, and other beings shared the earth with mankind. The visual style is pure Peter Jackson: The elves look like Tolkien/Peter Jackson elves; the trolls look like Tolkien/Peter Jackson trolls; etc.

Published: August 20, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged anthropocentrism, ecology, environmentalism, graphic novels and comics, Guillermo del Toro, Hellboy, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, humanism, movie reviews, originals, superheroes, Trevor Lynch | Comments closed

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Why I Write

Jonathan Bowden

610 words

This is always difficult to assess, but from this distance three different spear-points become discernible through the mist.

The first is an obvious desire for self-expression–yet, as always, the nihilism of Samuel Beckett needs to be avoided, where, during one part of the Trilogy, such as Molloy, he declares: nothing to express, no need to express, a blinding desire to stain the silence. I think that the aporia whereby post-modernism eats itself needs to be avoided.

Published: August 18, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, originals, why we write | Comments closed

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Community of Destiny or Community of Tribes?:
Alain de Benoist’s Nous et les autres

Michael O'Meara

2,270 words

Alain de Benoist
Nous et les autres:
Problèmatique de l’identité
Paris: Krisis, 2006

Distinct to modernity — particularly to Europe and the European world of the last 200 years — is the question of identity.

Published: August 18, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged about Benoist, Alain de Benoist, book reviews, communitarianism, destiny, European New Right, identity, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, Nous et les autres | Comments closed

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Race & War

2,459 words

One of the most serious obstacles to a purely biological formulation of the doctrine of race is the fact that cross-breeding and contamination of the blood are not the only cause of the decline and decay of races. Races may equally degenerate and come to their end because of a process – so to speak – of inner extinction, without the participation of external factors. Read more …

Published: August 17, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, book excerpts, degeneration, Julius Evola, North American New Right, race, Traditionalism, translations, war | Comments closed

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Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk:
New Zealand Poet, “Polish King,” & “Good European”
Part III

Potocki in Wellington, New Zealand, 1984

3,102 words

Part 3 of 3. Part 1 here. Part 2 here.

Post-War Fascism

Directly after the war Potocki was defiantly not only pro-fascist but also expressed overtly pro-Nazi sympathies. His 1945 Christmas card To Men of Goodwill, 1945, had the “X” of “Xmas” printed as a swastika, and included a six verse poem including the words “to save his life, our William Joyce.” Read more …

Published: August 16, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Count Potocki de Montalk, fascism, Kerry Bolton, monarchism, National Socialism, New Zealand, originals, poetry, Poland | Comments closed

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Cola di Rienzi & the Politics of Proto-Fascism:
Ronald F. Musto’s Apocalypse in Rome

Statue of Cola di Rienzi by Girolamo Masini, erected in 1877 near the Campidoglio, where he was killed

3,172 words

Ronald F. Musto
Apocalypse in Rome:
Cola di Rienzo and the Politics of the New Age
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003

A young Italian nationalist leads his followers on a march through Rome, seizing power from corrupt elites to establish a palingenetic regime. Declaring himself Tribune, his ultimate aim is to recreate the power and glory of Ancient Rome. However, a conspiracy of his enemies topples him from power, and he is imprisoned. Read more …

Published: August 16, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Apocalypse in Rome, Benito Mussolini, book reviews, Catholicism, Cola di Rienzi, Cola di Rienzo, elites, fascism, Italy, nationalism, reprints, Ronald F. Musto, Ted Sallis | Comments closed

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Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk:
New Zealand Poet, “Polish King,” & “Good European”
Part II

Potocki and Franco, London, circa. 1939

2,608 words

Part 2 of 3. Part 1 here.

Right Review

Potocki returned to England in 1935. The outbreak of the Civil War in Spain in 1936 polarized the intelligentsia and literati. Some, such as Potocki and in particular Roy Campbell,[1] identified with the rebel cause. In 1936, with funds from Aldous Huxley and Brian Guinness, Potocki bought a printing press, and began publishing his long-running literary and political journal, Right Review. Read more …

Published: August 15, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Count Potocki de Montalk, fascism, Kerry Bolton, monarchism, National Socialism, New Zealand, originals, poetry, Poland | Comments closed

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The Art of Jonathan Bowden, Vol. 2: 1968–1974

1,565 words

Jonathan Bowden
The Art of Jonathan Bowden, vol. 2: 1968–1974
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2009

Last time I saw Jonathan Bowden, I asked him how he was. His answer, delivered with bared teeth and so typical of him, elicited peals of laughter from Bowden himself, “I am always superb and getting stronger!” Bowden, you see, loves an audience, but he is quite able to entertain himself without one, as the second volume of his art eloquently shows.

Published: August 15, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, art, art criticism, book reviews, graphic novels and comics, Jonathan Bowden, North American New Right, painting, reprints, The Art of Jonathan Bowden vol. 2 | Comments closed

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Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk:
New Zealand Poet, “Polish King,” & “Good European”
Part I

Count Potocki de Montalk, 1903–1997, age 21, 1924

3,446 words

Part 1 of 3

“The course of my life is an indictment of the whole
dishonest racket which calls itself democracy.”
—Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk[1]

Count Geoffrey Wladislas Vaile Potocki de Montalk (1903–1997) was one of the generation of the Golden Age of New Zealand Culture. Read more …

Published: August 14, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Count Potocki de Montalk, fascism, Kerry Bolton, monarchism, National Socialism, New Zealand, North American New Right, originals, poetry, Poland | Comments closed

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The “Withering White Rose”:
J. D. Pryce’s Mansions of Irkalla

1,265 words

J. D. Pryce
Mansions of Irkalla
Charleston: BookSurge Publishing, 2008

In this ambitious first collection, J. D. Pryce undertakes an unusual project—a nearly 400 page volume consisting of two surprisingly consonant sections: the first a shocking and diverse assortment of original poems, and the second a tasteful selection of translated verse. Read more …

Published: August 14, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, J. D. Pryce, John Howard, Mansions of Irkalla, poetry, reprints | Comments closed

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Spengler: Criticism & Tribute

Revilo Oliver in 1938

2,856 words

Editor’s Note:

Oswald Spengler’s Man and Technics and Revilo Oliver’s America’s Decline: The Education of a Conservative and The Origins of Christianity are available for purchase on this website.

Conceived before the First World War is Oswald Spengler’s magisterial work, Der Untergang des Abendlandes (Munich, 1918). Read more …

Published: August 14, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, cultural renewal, decadence, Decline of the West, Man and Technics, on Spengler, optimism and pessimism, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of history, race, Revilo Oliver, The Year of Decision | Comments closed

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Leadership & the Vital Order:
Selected Aphorisms by Hans Prinzhorn, Ph.D., M.D.

Hans Prinzhorn, 1886–1933

1,681 words

Translated and edited by Joseph D. Pryce

The enduring fame of German psychotherapist Hans Prinzhorn (1886–1933) is based almost entirely upon one book, Bildnerei der Geisteskranken (Artistry of the mentally ill), that brilliant and quite unprecedented monograph on the artistic productions of the mentally ill, which appeared in 1922. Sadly, it is too often forgotten that Hans Prinzhorn was the most brilliant and independent disciple of Germany’s greatest 20th-Century philosopher, Ludwig Klages (1872–1956). Read more …

Published: August 14, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged egalitarianism, genetic determinism, Hans Prinzhorn, J. D. Pryce, Ludwig Klages, North American New Right, philosophy, psychology, reprints, socialism, translations | Comments closed

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Burn Notice

Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Westen

825 words

Burn Notice is now more than half-way into its fourth season on the USA Network. It is one of my favorite TV shows.

Published: August 13, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Burn Notice, fourth generation warfare, implicit whiteness, Jeffrey Donovan, John Robb, manliness, Michael Westen, movie reviews, North American New Right, open-source insurgency, originals, television reviews, Trevor Lynch, TV reviews | Comments closed

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Reflections on the Aesthetic &
Literary Figure of the Dandy, Part III

Robert Steuckers

1,332 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Part 3 of 3. Part I: here. Part II: here.

Czech translation here

Chandala Figures of Decadence

The existential crisis that began around the middle of the 18th century led to nihilism, quite judiciously defined by Nietzsche as an “exhaustion of life,” Read more …

Published: August 13, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged amoralism, dandyism, decadence, drugs, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Frithjof Schuon, Julius Evola, manliness, nihilism, North American New Right, on Jünger, originals, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, religion, Rene Guénon, Robert Steuckers, Traditionalism, translations, Victor Segalen | Comments closed

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Henry Paulson’s On the Brink

Andrew Hamilton

1,828 words

Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
On the Brink:
Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
New York: Business Plus, 2010

Most people, including most members of the elite, are unaware that the financial system of the United States—and through it the global economy—nearly collapsed in 2008. Read more …

Published: August 12, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged American sham democracy, Andrew Hamilton, book reviews, Henry Paulson, North American New Right, On the Brink, originals, the economic crisis, the Jewish question, who rules America | Comments closed

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Reflections on the Aesthetic &
Literary Figure of the Dandy, Part II

Robert Steuckers

Charles Baudelaire, 1821–1867

1,790 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Part 2 of 3. Part I: here

Czech translation here

The Mission of the Artist According to Baudelaire

Published: August 12, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Art Nouveau, Charles Baudelaire, dandyism, Ernst Junger, Henry de Montherlant, homosexuality, Jugendstil, Julius Evola, liberal education, manliness, North American New Right, on Jünger, originals, Oscar Wilde, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, religion, Robert Steuckers, Romanticism, Stefan George, the Pre-Raphaelites, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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Right-Wing Anarchism

Karlheinz Weißman

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1984–1961

789 words

Czech translation here

The concept of right-wing anarchism seems paradoxical, indeed oxymoronic, starting from the assumption that all “right-wing” political viewpoints include a particularly high evaluation of the principle of order. . . . In fact right-wing anarchism occurs only in exceptional circumstances, when the hitherto veiled affinity between anarchism and conservatism may become apparent.

Published: August 11, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged anarchism, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Charles Baudelaire, dandyism, decadence, Ernst Junger, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Henry de Montherlant, Julius Evola, Karlheinz Weißman, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Maurice Barrès, North American New Right, on Jünger, reprints, Stefan George, Traditionalism, translations, Yukio Mishima | Comments closed

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Reflections on the Aesthetic &
Literary Figure of the Dandy, Part I

Robert Steuckers

1,416 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Part 1 of 3

Czech translation here

Before getting to the quick of the subject, I would like to make three preliminary remarks:

Published: August 11, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Beau Brummell, bourgeois society, dandyism, decadence, Ernst Junger, homosexuality, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Julius Evola, liberal education, manliness, modernity, North American New Right, on Jünger, originals, Otto Mann, Rene Guénon, Robert Steuckers, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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Opening Pandora’s Box:
An Elitist Defence of Modernism

Jonathan Bowden

Shy Titan

657 words

I would like to take this opportunity to respond to various postings which have been placed on the website ‘Stormfront’ in recent weeks. I would like to thank those people who have been supportive of my efforts. [. . .] Other correspondents have been less charitable however. [. . .] But amidst all of the silliness and abuse these people are contriving to make a serious point, and this is: the status of modern or modernist art.

Published: August 11, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, decadence, elitism, film, Jonathan Bowden, modern art, North American New Right, painting, reprints | Comments closed

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The Art of Jonathan Bowden, Vol. 1, 1980–2007

Medusa Now Ventrix

1,692 words

Jonathan Bowden
The Art of Jonathan Bowden, volume 1, 1980–2007
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2007

The first time my wife saw Jonathan Bowden’s art she thought he was insane. I had some days before attended a meeting where he spoke about the German filmmaker Hans-Jürgen Syberberg and his epic, 7-hour production Hitler: A Film from Germany. Read more …

Published: August 10, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, art, art criticism, book reviews, Jonathan Bowden, painting, reprints, The Art of Jonathan Bowden vol. 1 | Comments closed

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