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Part 3 of 3

Apropos of Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White (New York and London: Routledge, 1995)

Published: December 28, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, capitalism, How the Irish Became White, Marxism, Michael O'Meara, Noel Ignatieff, North American New Right, originals, Protestantism, secession, the Irish, the labor movement, white dispossession, white nationalism, whiteness studies | Comments closed

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How the Irish Became White, Part 2

Michael O'Meara

Thomas Nast cartoon asserting the equal worth of Irish and blacks

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Part 2 of 3

Apropos of Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White (New York and London: Routledge, 1995)

What are here called the ‘whiteness historians’ ought not to be confused with ‘Whiteness Studies’ (WS) or ‘critical race studies’ (or certain other new ‘disciplines’ favored by ‘the New Know-Nothings’), Read more …

Published: December 27, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, How the Irish Became White, Marxism, Michael O'Meara, Noel Ignatieff, North American New Right, originals, the Irish, the labor movement, white dispossession, whiteness studies | Comments closed

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How the Irish Became White, Part 1

Michael O'Meara

4,478 words

One of Thomas Nast’s 19th-century anti-Irish cartoons

Part 1 of 3

Apropos of Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White (New York and London: Routledge, 1995)

‘We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English’. – Winston Churchill

Published: December 26, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, How the Irish Became White, Marxism, Michael O'Meara, Noel Ignatieff, North American New Right, originals, the Irish, the labor movement, white dispossession, white genocide, whiteness studies | Comments closed

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Two Puritan Commonwealths in Massachusetts

Andrew Hamilton

Plymouth Colony, 1620–1691

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Plymouth Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony were two distinct Puritan commonwealths. Because this fact is not widely known, it is useful to understand some of the distinctions.

Published: November 23, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andrew Hamilton, articles, Christianity, Massachusetts Bay Colony, North American New Right, originals, Plymouth Colony, Puritanism, tolerance | Comments closed

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Social Aristocracy

Andrew Hamilton

John Singleton Copley, “The Copley Family,” 1776

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In the United States and England there has long existed the loose idea of a white social aristocracy arising from birth, old money, and social position that exercises a kind of fascination over people’s minds.

Published: September 21, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andrew Hamilton, articles, North American New Right, originals, WASPs | Comments closed

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American Supremacism

Michael O'Meara

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Author’s Note:

The following short excerpt is from a forthcoming essay titled ‘How the Irish Became White’, which makes an ethnonationalist critique of the ‘whiteness historians’ (Ignatiev, Roedeger, Allen, etc.) and their treatment of Irish-America.

Published: September 13, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American exceptionalism, Anglo-Saxons, articles, capitalism, Catholicism, Irish, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, originals, Protestantism, Puritans, the United States | Comments closed

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American Transcendentalism:
An Indigenous Culture of Critique

Kevin MacDonald

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Philip F. Gura
American Transcendentalism: A History
New York: Hill and Wang, 2007

Philip Gura’s American Transcendentalism provides a valuable insight into a nineteenth-century leftist intellectual elite in the United States. This is of considerable interest because Transcendentalism was a movement entirely untouched by the predominantly Jewish milieu of the twentieth-century left in America. Read more …

Published: June 29, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abolitionism, American Transcendentalism: A History, Amos Bronson Alcott, book reviews, Brook Farm, egalitarianism, George Ripley, Kevin MacDonald, North American New Right, Orestes Brownson, Philip Gura, Puritanism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, reprints, Theodore Parker, Transcendentalism, white dispossession, William Henry Channing | Comments closed

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An Introduction to the Economic Nature of the United States

Ezra Pound

Wyndham Lewis, Portrait of Ezra Pound

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This is not a SHORT History of the Economy of the United States. For forty years I have schooled myself, not to write the Economic History of the U.S. or any other country, but to write an epic poem which begins “In the Dark Forest,” Read more …

Published: March 28, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, C. H. Douglas, economics, Ezra Pound, money, North American New Right, reprints, Social Credit, Third Way economics | Comments closed

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Podcast no. 8
Greg Johnson, “The End of Globalization”
Mark Weber, “Reasons for Hope”

Counter-Currents Radio

Graphic by Harold Arthur McNeill

time: 61:45/6,734 words

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Segment One

Greg Johnson reads “The End of Globalization” (12:00 minutes) Read more …

Published: March 17, 2012 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged articles, Counter-Currents Radio, economics, George Soros, globalism, globalization, Greg Johnson, Johnson on economics, Mark Weber, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, protectionism, the Jewish question, the racially conscious left, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Ethnic Hegemonies in American History, Part 3

George Hocking

Norman Rockwell, "The Problem We All Live With," 1963

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Part 3 of 3

The Rising Tide of Color

The Civil Rights Movement opened doors for some African-Americans, especially those with some European ancestry. Read more …

Published: March 16, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged affirmative action, articles, Civil Rights Movement, E. O. Wilson, George Hocking, neo-conservatism, neoconservatism, non-white immigration, North American New Right, reprints, Ronald Reagan, sociobiology, the Frankfurt School, the Jewish question, the New Left, universalism, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Ethnic Hegemonies in American History, Part 2

George Hocking

Thomas Hart Benton, "Bootleggers," 1927

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Part 2 of 2

The First World War and the Great Depression

In 1912 Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, became president for eight years when regular and Progressive Republicans split. Read more …

Published: March 15, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George Hocking, North American New Right, reprints, the 60s counterculture, the Frankfurt School, the Great Depression, the Jewish question, the New Deal, the New Left, WASPs, Woodrow Wilson, World War I, World War II | Comments closed

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Ethnic Hegemonies in American History, Part 1

George Hocking

Grant Wood, "Parson Weems' Fable," 1939

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Part 1 of 3

Political Philosophy and Human Genetic Diversity

Western political philosophy tends toward moral and political universalism: the idea that norms are valid for all human beings. Read more …

Published: March 14, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Civil War, American Indians, articles, capitalism, George Hocking, North American New Right, populism, progressivism, reprints, the Scotch-Irish, universalism, WASPs | Comments closed

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Klansmen, Irishmen, & Nativists:
The Origins of Racial Nationalism in America

Michael O'Meara

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The heterogeneity of America’s European population has always posed a challenge to its national identity. Only late in the nineteenth century was this identity extended to European immigrants assimilated in its Anglo-Protestant values and, in the twentieth century, to Catholics, whose Church (the “Whore of Babylon”) had learned to accommodate the Protestant contours of American life (or what John Murray Cuddihy called its “civil religion”). From this ethnogenesis, the original Anglo-Protestant identity of the American people gradually evolved into a more inclusive European Christian identity, though one closely tied to its Anglo-Protestant antecedents.

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What is the American Nation?

Michael O'Meara

John Singleton Copley, Portrait of Paul Revere, 1768

2,669 words

The following is part of a larger series of articles that was written for an audience of French “revolutionary nationalists” whose image of America is almost categorically negative. Its ostensible aim was to highlight the positive in the heritage we White Nationalists claim. But at a deeper level, it was also an effort to convince myself that America has not been a historical disaster for the white race. The negative interpretation opposed here can be found in the chapter “Anti-Europe” in my New Culture, New Right: Anti-Liberalism in Postmodern Europe.

Published: February 15, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, reprints, white nationalism | Comments closed

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The Cold War on Whites

Michael O'Meara

Selling the Cold War: A Racially-Integrated America Menaced by White Russian Communists

5,371 words

“The world is white no longer.”
– James Baldwin

For white nationalists — whose cyber-based “movement” is still in its infancy — simple explanations tend to be the rule.

The reductionist “anti-Semitism” that dominates WN ranks and serves as a catch-all explanation for the predicament white people find themselves in today, to cite the most prominent example, is wont to attribute every assault on white life to Jewish perfidy.

Published: February 13, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, racial integration, reprints, the Cold War, the Jewish question, white dispossession, white nationalism, World War II | Comments closed

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Hinton Rowan Helper:
Harbinger of America’s New Dawn

Jack Pershing

Hinton Rowan Helper, 1829–1909

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For most readers having a nodding acquaintance with American history, the term “abolitionist” conjures up a vision of a sentimental housewife like Harriet Beecher Stowe, a homicidal psychopath in the mold of John Brown, or some stone-faced Puritan negrophile. Read more …