Tag Archives: Catholicism

Clemency of Marcus Aurelius, detail, Capitoline Museum

3,381 words

Part 4 of 5

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011

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Othmar Spann:
A Catholic Radical Traditionalist

Lucian Tudor

Othmar Spann, October 1, 1878–July 8, 1950

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Othmar Spann was an Austrian philosopher who was a key influence on German conservative and traditionalist thought in the period after World War I, and he is thus considered a representative of the intellectual movement known as the “Conservative Revolution.” Spann was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Vienna, where he taught not only scientific social and economic theories, but also influenced many students with the presentation of his worldview in his lectures. Read more …

Published: March 19, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, Austria, Christianity, collectivism, conservative revolution, Edgar Julius Jung, elitism, Eric Voegelin, individualism, Julius Evola, liberalism, Lucian Tudor, Ludwig Clauss, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Othmar Spann, philosophy, philosophy of culture, populism, race, sociology, the Conservative Revolution, Third Way economics | Comments closed

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American Supremacism

Michael O'Meara

768 words

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, American history, Anglo-Saxons, articles, capitalism, Irish, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, originals, Protestantism, Puritans, the United States | Comments closed

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Podcast no. 3
Interview with Andy Nowicki

Andy Nowicki

7,325 words

Editor’s Note:

Due to technical problems with the recording, we have decided it best to release only the transcript of our interview with Andy Nowicki.

Mike Polignano: Welcome to Counter-Currents Radio. We’re joined here today by one of our authors, Andy Nowicki. Read more …

Published: February 1, 2012 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Andy Nowicki, Christianity, existentialism, Fight Club, Flannery O'Connor, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Greg Johnson, interviews, literature, Mike Polignano, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, The Columbine Pilgrim, Under the Nihil, Walker Percy | Comments closed

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Roy Campbell

Kerry Bolton

6,309 words

Editor’s Note:

This much-expanded version of a previously-published essay on Roy Campbell is chapter 10 of Kerry Bolton’s Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence, forthcoming from Counter-Currents.

Roy Campbell, 1901–1957, was born in the Natal District of South Africa. Read more …

Published: October 2, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Kerry Bolton, literature, poetry, Roy Campbell, Spain, Spanish Civil War | Comments closed

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Carl Schmitt’s Land & Sea, Part 7

Carl Schmitt

1,955 words

Part 7 of 9

Translated by Simona Draghici, revised by Greg Johnson

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Portuguese, Spaniards, Frenchmen, Dutchmen, and Englishmen fought one another for the division of the new Earth. The means, though, were not exclusively military; the struggle also entails diplomatic negotiations and suits for the best legal title.

Published: March 17, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Calvinism, Carl Schmitt, colonialism, geopolitics, Germany, Land and Sea, North American New Right, Protestantism, reprints, space, the Reformation, translations | Comments closed

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Cola di Rienzi & the Politics of Proto-Fascism:
Ronald F. Musto’s Apocalypse in Rome

Ted Sallis

Statue of Cola di Rienzi by Girolamo Masini, erected in 1877 near the Campidoglio, where he was killed

3,172 words

Ronald F. Musto
Apocalypse in Rome:
Cola di Rienzo and the Politics of the New Age
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003

A young Italian nationalist leads his followers on a march through Rome, seizing power from corrupt elites to establish a palingenetic regime. Declaring himself Tribune, his ultimate aim is to recreate the power and glory of Ancient Rome. However, a conspiracy of his enemies topples him from power, and he is imprisoned. Read more …

Published: August 16, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Apocalypse in Rome, Benito Mussolini, book reviews, Cola di Rienzi, Cola di Rienzo, elites, fascism, Italy, nationalism, reprints, Ronald F. Musto, Ted Sallis | Comments closed

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Roy Campbell

Kerry Bolton

4,736 words

Roy Campbell was born October 2, 1901 in the Natal District of South Africa. He enjoyed an idyllic childhood, growing up in South Africa and being imbued as much with Zulu traditions and language as with his Scottish heritage. He showed early talent as an artist but an interest in literature including poetry soon became predominant.

Published: July 23, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Kerry Bolton, literature, North American New Right, poetry, Roy Campbell, Spain, Spanish Civil War | Comments closed

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