Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 161
Greg Johnson Interviewed by Laura Raim about the Alt Right

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On August 22, I was interviewed about the Alternative Right by French Marxist writer Laura Raim, who was doing research for an article. As with all interviews, I made a reference copy. I think this interview turned out well, so I am making it available. The topics we covered include:

• The origins of the Alternative Right
• The Alt Right and paleoconservatism
• The Alt Right and post-libertarianism
• The Alt Right and White Nationalism (“The Alt Right Means White Nationalism . . . or Nothing at All ^[6]“)
• Jews and the Alt Right
• Allies of Color
• Ethnonationalism vs. alienation
• “The Slow Cleanse ^[7]” as a path to the ethnostate
• The Alt Right and National Socialism
• William Pierce (“Remembering William Pierce ^[8]“)
• “New Right vs. the Old Right ^[9]”
• Left-wing oligarchy
• “The End of Globalization ^[10]”
• The Neo-Reactionaries
• Frank Herbert’s Dune (“Archeofuturist Fiction: Frank Herbert’s Dune ^[11]“)
• The politics of time horizons
• Technological utopianism
• Richard Spencer and “Grandiose Nationalism ^[12]”
• “Notes on Populism, Elitism, and Democracy ^[13]”
• Classical republicanism
• The mixed regime (“Introduction to Aristotle’s Politics ^[14]“)
• The will of the people
• Rousseau and Plato on the general will (“Forced to be Free: The Case for Paternalism ^[15]“)
• Why the Neo-Reactionaries have not had much influence on the Alt Right
• Modernity, traditionalism, and the nation state
• Liberty and equality are not more important than justice, identity, and order
• The organic state and the common good
• The Trump campaign
• Civic vs. ethnic nationalism
• Artificial vs. organic civic unity
• Why I am not a Marxist
• Historical Idealism vs. Historical Materialism
• Hegel and thumos
• Peter Sloterdijk on thumos
• Carl Schmitt, thumos, and the political (“Reflections on Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political ^[16]“)
• Georges Bataille’s philosophy of culture