Category Archives: North American New Right

National Socialism as Anti-Modernism?
Julius Evola’s Notes on the Third Reich

F. Roger Devlin

2,205 words

Julius Evola
Notes on the Third Reich
Trans. E. Christian Kopff
London: Arktos, 2013

Evola wrote this short assessment of Hitlerian National Socialism as a follow up to Fascism Viewed from the Right. The basic thrust of the study is that National Socialism is significantly inferior to its Italian cousin from a traditionalist perspective, Read more …

Published: May 17, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Adolf Hitler, book reviews, F. Roger Devlin, Julius Evola, National Socialism, North American New Right, Notes on the Third Reich, originals, Third Reich, Traditionalism | Comments closed

Remembering Julius Evola:
May 19, 1898–June 11, 1974

618 words

Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola was born on May 19, 1898 in Rome. Along with René Guénon, Evola is one of the writers who has most influenced the metapolitical outlook and project of Counter-Currents, which is reflected in the fact that Evola is one of the most-tagged writers on this website. In commemoration of his birthday, I wish to draw your attention to the following resources. Read more …

Published: May 17, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged commemorations, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, Traditionalism, videos | Leave a comment

Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
My Wagner Problem—and Ours

James J. O'Meara

1,880 words

“Your themes — they almost always consist of even values, of half, quarter, eighth notes; they are syncopated and tied, to be sure, but nonetheless persevere in what is often a machinelike, stamping, hammering inflexibility and inelegance. Read more …

Published: May 17, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alain Daniélou, articles, classical music, James J. O'Meara, North American New Right, originals, Richard Wagner, Traditionalism, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | 12 Responses

Zen & the West

Julius Evola

Crow Screen, Japan, 17th century, Seattle Art Museum

3,639 words

Translator anonymous, ed. by Greg Johnson

Zen may be regarded as the last discovery of Western spiritualistic circles in sympathy with Oriental wisdom. Read more …

Published: May 16, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, book excerpts, Buddhism, C. G. Jung, D. T. Suzuki, Dadaism, existentialism, Julius Evola, North American New Right, psychoanalysis, reprints, surrealism, Taoism, Traditionalism, Zen | 1 Response

Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
The Monster

Deems Taylor

1,717 words

He was an undersized little man, with a head too big for his body — a sickly little man. His nerves were bad. He had skin trouble. It was agony for him to wear anything next to his skin coarser than silk. And he had delusions of grandeur. Read more …

Published: May 16, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, classical music, Deems Taylor, North American New Right, opera, reprints, Richard Wagner, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | 5 Responses

Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
Evil Genius:
Constructing Wagner as Moral Pariah, Part 4

A night at the opera: Adolf Hitler with Winifred Wagner, the daughter-in-law of Richard Wagner

4,022 words

Part 4 of 4

Wagner and National Socialist Germany

Richard Wagner has long been reviled by Jews as the intellectual and spiritual precursor to Adolf Hitler who, according to William Shirer, once declared: “Whoever wants to understand National Socialist Germany must know Wagner.”[1] Read more …

Published: May 16, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | 3 Responses

The Trial of Socrates:
Antiphon the Sophist

A third century AD papyrus attributed to the first book of On Truth (P.Oxy. XI 1364 fr. 1, cols. v-vii)

Papyrus fragment of Antiphon’s “On Truth,” 3rd century A.D.

1,922 words

Author’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V. S. of the prefatory remarks on Antiphon the Sophist from the first part of my lecture on Aristophanes’ Clouds. As usual, I have edited this transcript to remove excessive wordiness. The quotes come from the first edition of A Presocratics Reader, ed. Patricia Curd.

Antiphon the Sophist was a younger contemporary of Socrates. He was the author of the treatise On Truth, only fragments of which survive. Read more …

Published: May 16, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Antiphon, Aristophanes, articles, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, presocratics, Socrates, the Sophists | Leave a comment

Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
Evil Genius:
Constructing Wagner as Moral Pariah, Part 3

Arno Breker, Bust of Richard Wagner

2,360 words

Part 3 of 4

Wagner’s Music Dramas as Coded Anti-Semitism

T. W. Adorno and Wagner biographer Robert Gutman began a modern Jewish intellectual tradition Read more …

Published: May 15, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Brenton Sanderson, classical music, commemorations, North American New Right, opera, originals, Richard Wagner, the Jewish question, Theodor Adorno, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

Race: The First Principle

Gregory Hood

2,004 words

It’s a common dodge for opponents of white nationalism, even sympathetic opponents, to charge that “race isn’t enough” to build a society. This misses the point. Of course “whiteness” in and of itself doesn’t solve all problems Read more …

Published: May 14, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, biological race differences, capitalism, Christianity, Gregory Hood, libertarianism, North American New Right, originals, religion, white nationalism | 11 Responses

Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
Evil Genius:
Constructing Wagner as Moral Pariah, Part 2

3,016 words

Part 2 of 4

Wagner’s Racial Thinking

In addition to his concern about the baleful Jewish influence on German culture, Wagner, under the influence of Darwinism and the French racial theorist Arthur de Gobineau, became increasingly concerned about the fate of the White race generally. Read more …

Published: May 14, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Arthur de Gobineau, articles, biological race differences, Brenton Sanderson, Christianity, classical music, commemorations, North American New Right, opera, originals, Richard Wagner, the Jewish question, Theodor Adorno, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

Robert E. Howard & the Heroic

Jonathan Bowden

8,124 words

Editor’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by John Morgan of a lecture by Jonathan Bowden, “Robert Erwin Howard: Pulpster Extraordinaire,” given at the 26th New Right meeting in London on Saturday, April 17, 2010. The audio is available on YouTube.

The Enlightenment from a New Right Perspective

Domitius Corbulo

Immanuel Kant, 1724–1804

6,399 words

“When Kant philosophizes, say on ethical ideas, he maintains the validity of his theses for men of all times and places. He does not say this in so many words, for, for himself and his readers, it is something that goes without saying. In his aesthetics he formulates the principles, not of Phidias’s art, of Rembrandt’s art, but of Art generally. But what he poses as necessary forms of thought are in reality only necessary forms of Western thought.” — Oswald Spengler Read more …

Published: May 13, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, biological race differences, Domitius Corbulo, Immanuel Kant, Kenan Malik, North American New Right, originals, the Enlightenment | Comments closed

Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
Evil Genius:
Constructing Wagner as Moral Pariah, Part 1

Richard Wagner, 1813–1883

4,763 words

Part 1 of 4

Richard Wagner was a one man artistic and intellectual movement whose shadow fell across all of his contemporaries and most of his successors. Other composers had influence; Wagner had a way of thinking named after him. It has been claimed that “never since Orpheus has there been a musician whose music affected so vitally the life and art of generations.”[1] Read more …

Published: May 13, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Brenton Sanderson, classical music, commemorations, North American New Right, opera, originals, Richard Wagner, the Jewish question, Theodor Adorno, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

The German Military Baton

Andrew Hamilton

German Luftwaffe General Field Marshal Göring reviews his troops, Berlin, March 1, 1939

1,897 words

A little-known but highly significant military symbol of Germany and the Third Reich was the personalized Marshal’s baton, a short, heavy, bejeweled emblem of authority carried only by Field Marshals (Generalfeldmarschall) of the Army (Heer) and Air Force (Luftwaffe) and Grand Admirals (Großadmiral) of the Navy (Kriegsmarine). Read more …

Published: May 10, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Andrew Hamilton, articles, German military batons, military batons, North American New Right, originals, the Third Reich, World War II | Comments closed

On Violence

2,896 words

Author’s Note:

The following essay is a reworking of two earlier essays for republication in my forthcoming book New Right vs. Old Right. I am publishing it now as it is something of a companion piece to my recent essay “Premature Populism.”

The Fundamental Trinity

Nicholas Slattery

1,598 words

The great majority of readers of Counter-Currents I am sure, feel that something is deeply wrong with the world in which they live. This view will be held even if, as may well be the case, they currently enjoy a standard of material living and perhaps health, Read more …

Published: May 10, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, environmentalism, Friedrich Nietzsche, metapolitics, Nicholas Slattery, North American New Right, originals, white nationalism | Comments closed

The Hollow Empire
The System Against Syria . . . & Russia

Gregory Hood

2,046 words

In the wake of the Boston bombing, there was some hope among the dwindling number of true believing conservatives that the long awaited Grand Alliance Against Jihad would finally come to fruition. Read more …

Published: May 9, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged article, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, capitalism, conservatism, globalism, globalization, Gregory Hood, modernity, Noam Chomsky, North American New Right, originals, Russia, the Jewish question, the Muslim question, Vladimir Putin | Comments closed

From Groundhog Day to Gilmore Girls

James J. O'Meara

5,120 words

Groundhog Day (1993); 101 minutes. Director: Harold Ramis; Writers: Danny Rubin (screenplay), Harold Ramis (screenplay); Stars: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky

Gilmore Girls (2000–2007) Created by Amy Sherman. Stars: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Edward Herrmann, Melissa McCarthy.

“She began to sing about trying over and over again until you succeeded. Read more …

Published: May 8, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Groundhog Day, James J. O'Meara, karma, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, The Gilmore Girls, TV reviews | Comments closed

R. H. S. Stolfi’s
Hitler: Beyond Evil & Tyranny, Part 2