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This is the transcript by V. S. of Greg Johnson’s interview with Laura Raim on the Alternative Right. To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.” Read more …

Published: September 28, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged civic nationalism, Counter-Currents Radio, elitism, ethnic nationalism, Frank Herbert, G. W. F. Hegel, Georges Bataille, globalization, Greg Johnson, interviews, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Laura Raim, metapolitics, National Socialism, Neo-Reaction, North American New Right, NRX, organicism, Paleoconservatism, Paul Gottfried, Peter Sloterdijk, philosophy of culture, Plato, podcasts, populism, republicanism, Richard Spencer, the Alternative Right, the mixed regime, thumos, time preferences, white nationalism, William Pierce | Comments closed

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Greg Johnson Interviewed by Laura Raim about the Alt Right

Greg Johnson

1:54:07 / 302 words

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Tocqueville and/or Hitler?

Guillaume Durocher

"Ushering in Banality," by Jeff Koons, 1988

Jeff Koons, Ushering in Banality, 1988

1,562 words

A quick quiz: who said the following, the great interpreter of American democracy Alexis de Tocqueville or the German dictator Adolf Hitler:

“In general, only simple ideas can take hold of the mind of the people. Read more …

Published: August 23, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Alexis de Tocqueville, articles originals, egalitarianism, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right | Comments closed

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The Eternal Anglo:
Tocqueville’s Prophetic History of the United States, Part 3

Guillaume Durocher

2,074 words

Part 3 of 3

The American Empire: Triumph & Expansion of the Federal State

The story of America is also one of the steady fall of Jeffersonian democracy and the rise of Hamiltonian plutocracy, with an all-powerful federal government in symbiosis with a ruling oligarchy. This was not a given however, because the Republic created by the Constitution was actually a regime of divided sovereignty. Read more …

Published: July 31, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, American character, American conformism, aristocracy, articles, capitalism, freedom of speech, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, oligarchy, originals, political correctness, sovereignty, United States | Comments closed

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The Eternal Anglo:
Tocqueville’s Prophetic History of the United States, Part 2

Guillaume Durocher

Alexis de Tocqueville

2,545 words

Part 2 of 3

The American Nightmare: A Stifling Middlebrow Dictatorship of Political Correctness

The talents of Anglo-Americans and the material wealth of North America predestined that nation for great power. But power is nothing, or worse, without wisdom. This raises the question: What is the character of the American? Read more …

Published: July 30, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, American character, American conformism, aristocracy, articles, capitalism, freedom of speech, Guillaume Durocher, lawyers, North American New Right, oligarchy, originals, political correctness, Protestantism, social pricing, United States | Comments closed

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The Eternal Anglo:
Tocqueville’s Prophetic History of the United States, Part 1

Guillaume Durocher

2,544 words

Part 1 of 3

An important project for the Alternative Right is the reclaiming of the ethno-nationalist and inegalitarian strands in Western thinking. This is often fairly easy to do: almost everything written before the 1960s was in some way or another politically-incorrect by the standards of today. I have previously attempted to do this regarding aristocratic, racial, and nationalist thought in Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic study, Democracy in America.[1] Read more …

Published: July 28, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, American character, American conformism, aristocracy, articles, capitalism, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, United States | Comments closed

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Democracy:
The God That Failed

Jonathan Bowden

John McNaughton, Obamanation (detail)

8,196 words

Editor’s Note:

This is the transcript by V. S. of Richard Spencer’s Vanguard Podcast interview of Jonathan Bowden about democracy. You can listen to the podcast here.

Richard Spencer: Hello, everyone! Today it’s a great pleasure to welcome back Jonathan Bowden. Read more …

Published: July 18, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged interviews, Jonathan Bowden, North American New Right, originals, Richard Spencer | Comments closed

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American Patriotism

Alexis de Tocqueville

1,223 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher.

Editor’s Note:

Taken from Alexis de Tocqueville, De la Démocratie en Amérique (Paris: Gallimard, 1986), vol. 1, “Public Spirit in the United States,” 353-56. The title is editorial.

Subliminal Influences

Julius Evola

2,924 words

Translated by G. A. Malvicini

We have already had the occasion to point to the illusoriness of the claim that modern man, in general, has achieved an autonomy and self-consciousness he previously lacked. This illusion can in part be explained by the fact that attention today is primarily directed towards external conditions, to the disappearance of certain material limits to the freedom of the individual — Read more …

Published: May 3, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged advertising, articles, Catholicism, Christianity, feminism, freedom, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, paternalism, philosophy of history, political correctness, progress., propaganda, social mobility, Teilhard de Chardin, the family, translations, Vatican II | Comments closed

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Politics, Politics

Jonathan Bowden

7,537 words

Editor’s Note:

This is the transcript by V. S. of Richard Spencer’s Vanguard Podcast interview of Jonathan Bowden about the 2012 US Republican Presidential Primaries. You can listen to the podcast here.

Richard Spencer: Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Vanguard and welcome back as well, Jonathan Bowden! Read more …