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My Top Three Non-Alt Right Books

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Sharing books, in my opinion, does more than almost anything to keep cultures vibrant. Thanks in part to the ascendancy of Donald Trump, we on the Alt Right are at present experiencing an uptick of culture which is both exciting and a bit daunting. Several years ago, I had written off many of the goals of white nationalism, but now, I am not so sure. It’s a good time to be on the Alt Right. Read more …

Published: December 28, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America in Black and White, articles, biological race differences, Blacks in America, Carnage and Culture, Civil Rights Movement, Lawrence H. Keeley, North American New Right, originals, Spencer Quinn, Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom, Victor Davis Hanson, war, War Before Civilization | 9 Responses

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An Introduction to Charles Maurras

Kerry Bolton

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Charles Maurras
The Future of the Intelligentsia, and For a French Awakening
Translated with an introduction by Dr. Alexander Jacob
London, Artkos Media Ltd., 2016

Given the seminal influence of Maurras on Rightist thinking, this translation of two of his essays, compiled into a single volume, is a significant contribution to the development of New Right thought especially for Anglophones. Read more …

Published: December 26, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Action Franҫaise, Charles Maurras, fascism, France, intellectuals, Kerry Bolton, nationalism, North American New Right, organicism, originals, syndicalism, The Future of the Intelligentsia and For a French Awakening, the media | 9 Responses

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In Defense of Japanese Internment

C. F. Robinson

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Michelle Malkin
In Defense of Internment: The Case for ‘Racial Profiling’ in World War II and the War on Terror
Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2004

The Alt Right is now a social movement whose adherents are moving close to being part of the governing class. The Alt Right would not be growing, however, if the problems stemming from immigration, “Civil Rights,” Mid-East Policy, birthright citizenship laws, and multi-culturalism weren’t apparent after 9/11. Read more …

Published: December 23, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Asian exclusion, C. F. Robinson, espionage, In Defense of Internment, Japan, Japanese in America, Japanese Internment, Michelle Malkin, North American New Right, originals, racial profiling, World War II | 3 Responses

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Ezra Pound’s Jefferson And/Or Mussolini

Adam Franz

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Ezra Pound
Jefferson And/Or Mussolini
London: Stanley Nott Ltd., 1935

Ezra Pound liked his books charged with meaning. “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand,” he wrote in his Guide to Kulchur, another one of his, shall we say, B-Sides.

Passing the Buck:
Spy, Dandy, Übermensch

James J. O'Meara

7,098 words

Derek Marlowe
A Dandy in Aspic
London: Victor Gollancz, 1966; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1966;
New edition, with Foreword by Tom Stoppard; Silvertail Books, 2015

“In the Land of The Blind, the one eyed-man is in a circus[1]“ — Alexander Eberlin

“You’ve got no past and he’s got no future” — Emmanuel Gatiss Read more …

Published: December 9, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Derek Marlowe, espionage, James J. O'Meara, karma, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Traditionalism | 1 Response

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Byron Roth’s The Perils of Diversity

Spencer Quinn

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Byron M. Roth
The Perils of Diversity: Immigration and Human Nature
Augusta, Ga.: Washington Summit Publishers, 2010

Incorporating all of the relevant knowledge about a subject into one volume can be a monumental task. It’s the author’s job to include only what is most important, to summarize appropriately, and to integrate disparate components to form a unified whole, a singular dissertation which can contribute to the evolution of ideas. Read more …

Published: December 2, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Byron Roth, Human Biodiversity, immigration, IQ, North American New Right, originals, Spencer Quinn, the Muslim question, The Perils of Diversity | Comments closed

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Redneck Squadrons & UFO Crashes!
Col. Joe Kittinger’s Come Up & Get Me

Bryan Christopher Sawyer

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Joe Kittinger and Craig Ryan
Come Up and Get Me: An Autobiography of Colonel Joe Kittinger
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010

“Fighter pilots and test pilots do not accept death. We accept the risks.” — Col. Joe Kittinger

Col. Joe Kittinger had been ballooning upward for two hours. Read more …

Published: November 30, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged adventure, articles, aviation, balloonists, Bryan Christopher Sawyer, Faustian man, Joe Kittinger, North American New Right, originals, Roswell New Mexico UFO incident, skydiving, space exploration, test pilots, Vietnam War | Comments closed

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Guillaume Faye’s Archeofuturism 2.0

Christopher Pankhurst

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Guillaume Faye
Archeofuturism 2.0
London: Arktos, 2016

Guillaume Faye’s new novel begins in the last few days before the outbreak of the First World War. A fashionable and rather aristocratic group of young people (nowadays we would call them “privileged”) consult a clairvoyant who gives an astonishingly accurate series of descriptions of increasingly distant futures. Read more …

Published: November 30, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Archeofuturism, Archeofuturism 2.0, Christopher Pankhurst, collapse scenarios, Guillaume Faye, North American New Right, originals, science fiction | Comments closed

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Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals

Lawrence Murray

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(((Saul Alinsky)))
Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
New York: Random House, 1971

Rules for Radicals is [in]famous for its purported influence, and that of author (((Saul Alinsky))), among liberal and Left-wing ideologues and politicians in the United States, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The political bent of this classic but reviled work by a community organizer from Chicago is shown on the very first page of the introduction by referencing “Joe McCarthy’s holocaust.” Read more …

Published: November 29, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Lawrence Murray, meme magick, North American New Right, reprints, Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky, trolling, white activism, white community organizing | Comments closed

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Lennart Svensson’s Science Fiction Seen from the Right

James J. O'Meara

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Lennart Svensson
Science Fiction Seen from the Right
Manticore Books, 2016

“Ursula Le Guin wrote about socialist utopias. Heinlein fought against them. There you have Science Fiction Seen from the Right in a nutshell.”

Readers of Counter-Currents will be familiar — and likely agreeable to — the notion that despite what you heard in school, most all the truly great writers of the XXth century were “men of the Right.” Read more …