Monthly Archives: February 2011

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Editor’s Note:

The following MP3 podcast is a recording of the first of two talks given by Kevin MacDonald in the greater San Francisco Bay Area on February 19th and 20th, 2011. To preserve the privacy of the hosts and guests, I have edited out voices other than Kevin MacDonald’s. I also kept my own brief introduction. The running time is just over 34 minutes. So, without further ado, I give you Kevin MacDonald . . .

http://www.counter-currents.com/audios/KMac02192011-SantaCruzEdited.mp3

Published: February 28, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged eugenics, explicit whiteness, Geert Wilders, implicit whiteness, John Glad, Kevin MacDonald, Lothrop Stoddard, multiculturalism, non-white immigration, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, the Islamic Question, the Jewish question, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Alain de Benoist’s The Problem of Democracy

Brett Stevens

1,343 words

Alain de Benoist
The Problem of Democracy
Translator anonymous
Foreword by Tom Suni?
Arktos Media, 2011

In an acrimonious and unstable political season it is refreshing to find a book as level-headed as The Problem of Democracy. This short, dense tome bucks the modern trend of taking a “strong thesis” and arguing it like a machine in order to litter cocktail-party conversation with high culture trinkets.

Published: February 28, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged about Benoist, Alain de Benoist, book reviews, Brett Stevens, democracy, European New Right, French New Right, North American New Right, political philosophy, reprints, The Problem of Democracy | Comments closed

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Recollections of Ungern-Sternberg

Ferdinand Ossendowski

4,492 words

Editor’s Note:

Ferdinand Ossendowski, 1876–1945

The following two chapters from Ferdinand Ossendowski’s Beasts, Men, and Gods give a good sense of Baron Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg’s qualities and vision. Ossendowski joined the baron’s army as a commanding officer of one of his self-defense troops. He also briefly became Ungern-Sternberg’s political advisor and chief of intelligence. Ungern-Sternberg sent Ossendowski on a diplomatic mission to Japan and the United States, and when the baron’s regime collapsed, Ossendowski stayed on in the United States and wrote Beasts, Men, and Gods, which was published in 1922.

Published: February 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Baron von Ungern-Sternberg, book excerpts, Buddhism, Ferdinand Ossendowski, Mongolia, North American New Right, Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution, weaponized Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Baron von Ungern-Sternberg

Julius Evola

1,598 words

Baron Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg, 1885–1921, photographed in 1921

Translated by Greg Johnson

Czech translation here

Translator’s Note:

The following text, published in 1942 or 1943 under the title “Baron von Ungern Venerated in Mongolian Temples,” deals with one of the 20th century’s most enigmatic figures whom I first encountered in the pages of Ferdinand Ossendowski’s brilliant Beasts, Men, and Gods.

Published: February 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Baron von Ungern-Sternberg, Buddhism, Eastern philosophy, Ferdinand Ossendowski, Julius Evola, Mongolia, originals, Rene Guénon, Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution, Traditionalism, translations, weaponized Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Scarface

Gregory Hood

2,131 words

White Nationalists spend a lot of time analyzing the themes in movies and the impact they have on our people. However, we often ignore what lessons non-whites take. Blacks and Hispanics might be missing the point of some films, probably because they are making so much noise in the theater.

Published: February 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Gregory Hood, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Scarface | Comments closed

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Have You Enlisted Yet?

Greg Johnson

88 words

On the Counter-Currents mailing list, that is.

I am starting work on the fourth monthly Counter-Currents/North American New Right Newsletter, which contains information on our web traffic, upcoming books, the usual fund-raising telethon, etc.

Published: February 26, 2011 | Posted in news item | Tagged Greg Johnson, mailing list, news item | Comments closed

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The View from Hippie Hill

Jef Costello

2,575 words

A number of years ago I went through a long period of depression, and when I found myself coming out the other end of it, I developed an interest in “Eastern Philosophy.”

Published: February 26, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alan Watts, articles, drugs, Eastern philosophy, Jef Costello, mysticism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, West Coast White Nationalism | Comments closed

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Now Available for Pre-Order:
The Columbine Pilgrim

Andy Nowicki

590 words

We are pleased to announce our fourth title and our first work of fiction:

Andy Nowicki
The Columbine Pilgrim
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2011
112 pages

Published: February 25, 2011 | Posted in fiction, news item | Tagged Andy Nowikci, fiction, news item, The Columbine Pilgrim | Comments closed

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A Bottom Up Solution:
Culture Hacking & the Cultivation of Everyday Genius

Andrei Kievsky

1,536 words

My mentor is a very productive but anonymous activist with a 160 IQ. He told me many years ago that the White nationalist movement isn’t going anywhere if it is dominated by people making clownish and unserious incitements to violence.

The worst thing about clownish and unserious incitements to violence is not the bad image it projects; bad as this is, the worst thing is that it is a short-circuit from what really needs to be done.

Published: February 25, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Andrei Kievsky, articles, iving well, North American New Right, reprints, white self-sufficiency, white survivalism | Comments closed

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Reflections on Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political

Greg Johnson

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

2,158 words

“Why can’t we all get along?”–Rodney King

Carl Schmitt’s short book The Concept of the Political (1932) is one of the most important works of 20th century political philosophy.

The aim of The Concept of the Political is the defense of politics from utopian aspirations to abolish politics. Anti-political utopianism includes all forms of liberalism as well as international socialism, global capitalism, anarchism, and pacifism: in short, all social philosophies that aim at a universal order in which conflict is abolished.

Published: February 24, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alexandre Kojève, Aristotle, articles, book reviews, Carl Schmitt, Francis Fukuyama, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, liberalism, North American New Right, on Schmitt, originals, philosophy, Plato, political philosophy, The Concept of the Political, thumos, universalism, white nationalism | Comments closed

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The Culture of Critique & the Pathogenesis of Modern Society

Michael O'Meara

3,201 words

Reinhart Koselleck
Critique and Crises: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988

La politique, c’est le destin. — Napoleon

Koselleck’s Critique and Crisis (1959) is one of the great dissertations of the 20th-century German university system.

Published: February 24, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, Carl Schmitt, liberalism, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, philosophy, political philosophy, Reinhart Koselleck, reprints, the Enlightenment | Comments closed

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Plato & Indo-European Tripartition

Edouard Rix

Plato, detail of Raphael's "The School of Athens," 1509–1510

1,125 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

In 1938, Georges Dumézil discovered, the existence of a veritable Indo-European “ideology,” a specific mental structure manifesting a common conception of the world. He writes:

Published: February 23, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Edouard Rix, Georges Dumézil, hierarchy, Indo-European culture, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, political philosophy, thumos, translations | Comments closed

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Florence or Athens:
The Word as the Weaving of Worlds

Lancelot

1,798 words

Translated by Michael O’Meara

The Revolution, despite appearances, is not a democratic phenomenon. There are good reasons why the birth of a world symbolizing the dawn of a new human era is born from a minority – and a minority not easily defined. For it’s the fringes that produce the cultures of the world, their symbolic oceans, Christ as well as the Red Flag.

Published: February 23, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Lancelot, North American New Right, originals, revolution, translations, vanguardism | Comments closed

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Sex Differences

Michael Polignano

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "A Vision of Fiametta," 1878

1,198 words

This essay is from Michael Polignano’s book Taking Our Own Side, available in hardcover, paperback, and PDF download here.

October 21, 2003

A few days ago I had a heated discussion about sex differences with a female friend of mine who calls herself a feminist. Read more …

Published: February 22, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, book excerpts, feminism, Michael Polignano, North American New Right, reprints, sex differences, sexuality | Comments closed

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Interview with Jared Taylor of American Renaissance

Brett Stevens

1,130 words

Editor’s Note:

I have omitted Brett Stevens’ introductory remarks since they were directed at readers of his website and are not necessary for our readers. You can read his full text here: http://www.amerika.org/politics/interview-with-jared-taylor-of-american-renaissance/

Read more …

Published: February 22, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged American Renaissance, Brett Stevens, interviews, Jared Taylor, North American New Right, race, reprints, Samuel Huntington, white nationalism | Comments closed

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How I Found My Mission in Life

Jef Costello

2,477 words

Since I am not all right, I sometimes find myself reading self-help books. I am not proud of this. There is something pathetic about a man almost forty-five who is still trying to straighten himself out. There is something still more pathetic about such a man relying on mass-market paperbacks in order to do so.

Published: February 21, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, self-help, white activism, white nationalism | Comments closed

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James O’Meara on Henry James & H. P. Lovecraft
The Lesson of the Monster; or, The Great, Good Thing on the Doorstep

James J. O'Meara

2,000 words

The Annunciation by Simone Martini, 1333

We’ve been very pleased by the response to our essay “The Eldritch Evola,” which was not only picked up by Greg Johnson (whose own Confessions of a Reluctant Hater is out and essential reading) for his estimable website Counter-Currents, but even managed to lurch upwards and lay a terrible, green claw on the bottom rung of the “Top Ten Most Visited Posts” there in January.

Published: February 21, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged H. P. Lovecraft, Henry James, horror, James & Lovecraft, James O'Meara, Julius Evola, literature, Oswald Spengler, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Raising Consciouness, Building Community:
Kevin MacDonald Visits the Bay Area

Greg Johnson

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On Saturday, February 19th and Sunday, February 20th Professor Kevin MacDonald spoke on “Nationalist Strategies” and signed copies of his book Cultural Insurrections at two luncheons in the greater San Francisco Bay Area.

Published: February 20, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Greg Johnson, Kevin MacDonald, news items, North American New Right, originals, West Coast White Nationalism, white activism, white community, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Comeuppances

Andrew Hamilton

605 words

Mississippi circuit court Judge Robert “Bobby” DeLaughter is going to federal prison.

Published: February 20, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged academia, Andrew Hamilton, anti-white propaganda, articles, North American New Right, reprints, Robert "Bobby" DeLaughter, the Jewish question, white activism | Comments closed

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How Feminism Negates Folkways

Juleigh Howard-Hobson

3,863 words

“Women, I allow, may have different duties to fulfill; but they are HUMAN duties, and the principles that should regulate the discharge of them, I sturdily maintain, must be the same. To become respectable, the exercise of their understanding is necessary, there is no other foundation for independence of character; I mean explicitly to say that they must only bow to the authority of reason, instead of being the modest slaves of opinion.”

–Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792 [1]

Published: February 20, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Asatru, family, feminism, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, North American New Right, reprints, sex roles | Comments closed

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