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Part 3 of 3

Cosima emerged from mourning after the conclusion of the 1883 season of the Bayreuth Festival. Read more …

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Demonstrace 26. května a Heidegger

Dominique Venner

380 words

English version here

Protestující na demostraci 26. května (proti schválení “homosexuálních sňatků” francouzskou vládou dne 23. března) budou jistě dávat hlasitě najevo svoje znechucení a vztek. Jakýkoli hanebný zákon, který byl kdy schválen, může být vždy zrušen.

Nedávno jsem poslouchal jednoho alžírského blogera. “Na každý pád budou islamisté ve Francii do 15 let u moci a tento zákon zruší,” prohlásil. Read more …

Published: May 22, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dominique Venner, France, gay marriage, in Czech, in translation, Martin Heidegger, non-white immigration, North American New Right, reprints, suicide | Comments closed

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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
Remembering Richard Wagner:
May 22, 1813–February 13, 1883

Greg Johnson

269 words

Richard Wagner was born 200 years ago today in Leipzig in the kingdom of Saxony. He died on February 13, 1883 in Venice. As an artist, intellectual, author, and cultural force, Wagner has left an immense metapolitical legacy, which is being evaluated and appropriated in the North American New Right’s Wagner Bicentennial Symposium, which will continue through the end of May with articles by Collin Cleary, Christopher Pankhurst, and others. Read more …

Published: May 22, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, Richard Wagner, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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Behind Every Great Man . . .
Cosima Wagner, Part 2

James Holbeyfield

Cosima Wagner by Franz von Lenbach

1,364 words

Part 2 of 3

Cosima and Richard Wagner were married on August 25, 1870, five weeks after her divorce from Hans von Bülow received final sanction, four years after Minna Planer had died of a heart attack, and seven years and three children after they first fell in love with each other.

Exactly when von Bülow came to understand the full nature of the bond between Cosima and Richard is not known, Read more …

Published: May 22, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Bayreuth Festival, Cosima Wager, Franz Liszt, Hans von Bülow, James Holbeyfield, Ludwig II of Bavaria, North American New Right, originals, Richard Wagner, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | 1 Response

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The May 26 Protests & Heidegger

Dominique Venner

551 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

French original; translations: Czech, Spanish

Editor’s Note:

On May 21, 2013, French author Dominique Venner, whose writings have featured prominently at Counter-Currents/North American New Right, entered the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, placed a sealed envelope on the altar, and shot himself in the head.

Published: May 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dominique Venner, France, gay marriage, Martin Heidegger, non-white immigration, North American New Right, originals, suicide, translations | 14 Responses

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La manif du 26 mai et Heidegger

Dominique Venner

431 words

Translations: English, Spanish

Les manifestants du 26 mai auront raison de crier leur impatience et leur colère. Une loi infâme, une fois votée, peut toujours être abrogée.

Published: May 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dominique Venner, France, gay marriage, in French, Martin Heidegger, non-white immigration, North American New Right, reprints, suicide | 1 Response

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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
Rage Against the Machine:
A Very American Ring Cycle

Jef Costello

The great Wagner Machine--Siegfried and Brunnhilde in Goetterdaemmerung

The great Wagner Machine–Siegfried and Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung

2,427 words

It heaves and groans. It shimmies and clicks. One holds one breath during the best parts, hoping it will not malfunction and ruin the whole evening. One fears for the performers, halfway expecting it to devour them.

Published: May 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged bad taste, classical music, Jef Costello, Metropolitan Opera, North American New Right, opera, originals, Peter Gelb, Richard Wagner, Robert Lepage, The Ring Cycle, The Ring of the Nibelung, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | 3 Responses

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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
Never Surrender:
Wagner on War & Culture

Richard Widmann

Richard Wagner by Arno Breker, Haus Wahnfried, Bayreuth

Richard Wagner by Arno Breker, Bayreuth

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Not symphonic music, but rather the shattering roar of cannon announced the birth of Richard Wagner on May 22, 1813 in Leipzig. The German kingdom of Saxony had been overrun by the French troops of Napoleon Bonaparte as he made a last-ditch effort to reassert dominance over Europe.[1]

Published: May 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged France, Franco-Prussian War, Germany, North American New Right, originals, Richard Wagner, Richard Widmann, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium, war | 1 Response

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Behind Every Great Man . . .
Cosima Wagner, Part 1

James Holbeyfield

Cosima and Richard Wagner

1,500 words

Part 1 of 3

Francesca Gaetana Cosima Liszt was born on Christmas Eve, 1837. Her father was Franz Liszt, the first romantic superstar of music. In addition to being genetic sire to Cosima and her siblings, Liszt was the spiritual father of every celebrated piano virtuoso to follow, and also in a sense, the rock stars of the late 20th century. A critical difference however, was that in contrast to the ’70s silliness that chokes every scene in Ken Russell’s Lisztomania, the real Liszt genuinely was the most talented pianist of his era, Read more …

Published: May 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Cosima Wagner, D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, female psychology, Franz Liszt, Frieda von Richthofen, Hans von Bülow, James Holbeyfield, North American New Right, originals, Richard Wagner, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Leave a comment

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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
Wagner as Metapolitical Revolutionary

Kerry Bolton

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Karl Marx reserved a special place of contempt for those he termed “reactionists.” These comprised the alliance that was forming around his time among all classes of people, high-born and low, who aimed to return to a pre-capitalist society. These were the remnants of artisans, aristocrats, landowners, and pastors, who had seen the ravages of industrialism and money-ethics then unfolding. Read more …

Published: May 20, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Karl Marx, Kerry Bolton, metapolitics, Mikhail Bakunin, North American New Right, originals, revolution, Richard Wagner, the Jewish question, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | 1 Response

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The Hunt for the Goebbels Diaries

Andrew Hamilton

Portrait of Goebbels by Wilhelm Otto Pitthan

3,231 words

In terms of a serious approach to the Jewish problem, the NS movement in Germany is clearly of primary historical significance. At the highest echelons, perhaps the three most important figures in this regard are Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels. These three men probably had a better grasp of the problem, and came closest to reciprocating the Jews’ unbending hostility, than any whites before or since.

Published: May 20, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andrew Hamilton, David Irving, Joseph Goebbels, Lochner, Louis, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, the Third Reich, World War II | 4 Responses

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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 | Also tagged Alain Daniélou, classical music, James J. O'Meara, North American New Right, originals, Richard Wagner, Traditionalism, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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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 | Also tagged book excerpts, Buddhism, C. G. Jung, D. T. Suzuki, Dadaism, existentialism, Julius Evola, North American New Right, psychoanalysis, reprints, surrealism, Taoism, Traditionalism, Zen | Comments closed

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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 | Also tagged classical music, Deems Taylor, North American New Right, opera, reprints, Richard Wagner, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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

Brenton Sanderson

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

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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 | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Brenton Sanderson, classical music, commemorations, North American New Right, opera, originals, Richard Wagner, the Jewish question, the Third Reich, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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The Trial of Socrates:
Antiphon the Sophist

Greg Johnson

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 | Also tagged Antiphon, Aristophanes, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, presocratics, Socrates, the Sophists | Comments closed

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

Brenton Sanderson

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 | Also tagged Brenton Sanderson, classical music, commemorations, North American New Right, opera, originals, Richard Wagner, the Jewish question, Theodor Adorno, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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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 | Also tagged biological race differences, capitalism, Christianity, Gregory Hood, libertarianism, North American New Right, originals, religion, white nationalism | Comments closed

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

Brenton Sanderson

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 | Also tagged Arthur de Gobineau, 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

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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.

Published: May 14, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Conan the Barbarian, fantasy literature, heroism, Jack London, Jonathan Bowden, manliness, North American New Right, originals, Protestantism, Puritanism, Robert E. Howard, Solomon Kane | Comments closed

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