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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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Introduction to Aristotle’s Politics

Greg Johnson

Aristotle, 384–322 BCE, marble portrait bust, Roman copy (2nd century BCE) of a Greek original (c. 325 BCE); in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome

Part 1: 4,099 words

Part 2: 4,933 words

Author’s Note:

The following introduction to Aristotle’s Politics focuses on the issues of freedom and popular government. It is a reworking of a more “academic” text penned in 2001.

Part I: The Aim and Elements of Politics

1. The Necessity of Politics

Aristotle is famous for holding that man is by nature a political animal. But what does this mean? Read more …

Published: June 21, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, philosophy, political philosophy, the mixed regime | Comments closed

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Prussians & Englishmen, Part 3

Oswald Spengler

5,639 words

Part One, Part Two

17.

This brings us to the political aspects of the English-Prussian antithesis. Read more …

Published: June 5, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, capitalism, collectivism, duty, English, individualism, liberalism, Napoleon, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, party politics, Prussianism and Socialism, Prussians, socialism, war | Comments closed

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Prussians & Englishmen, Part 2

Oswald Spengler

4,216 words

Frederick the Great, King of Prussia

First installment here

In order to overcome man’s inborn lethargy, the Prussian socialist ethic maintains that the chief aim of life is not happiness. Read more …

Published: June 1, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, capitalism, collectivism, duty, English, G. W. F. Hegel, Immanuel Kant, individualism, liberalism, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, Prussianism and Socialism, Prussians, socialism, utilitarianism | Comments closed

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Prussians & Englishmen

Oswald Spengler

4,018 words

Editor’s Note:

The following is a selection from chapter 3, “Prussians and Englishmen,” of Oswald Spengler’s Prussianism and Socialism, Read more …

Published: May 30, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, capitalism, collectivism, duty, English, individualism, liberalism, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, Prussianism and Socialism, Prussians, socialism | Comments closed

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Rethinking Democracy:
Alain de Benoist’s The Problem of Democracy

F. Roger Devlin

4,271 words

Alain de Benoist
The Problem of Democracy
Arktos Media, 2011

This deceptively brief study of democracy begins from the familiar point that the term can no longer mean much in an age when all regimes claim to be democratic. Read more …

Published: October 14, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged about Benoist, Alain de Benoist, ancient Rome, Athens, book reviews, equality, European New Right, F. Roger Devlin, French New Right, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, political theory, Sparta, The Problem of Democracy | Comments closed

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Home Economics, Part 5

F. Roger Devlin

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1849–1921, "Virgin Enthroned," 1891

3,071 words

Part 5 of 5

10. Deliberate Erosion of Male Role by Feminism

To these intrinsic male disadvantages in the modern workplace must be added those directly created by feminism. Read more …

Published: June 3, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, economics, F. Roger Devlin, female pyschology, feminism, marriage, North American New Right, reprints, sex roles, sexuality, the family, women | Comments closed

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Home Economics, Part 4

F. Roger Devlin

Arnold Böcklin, "Vita Somnium Breve," 1888

3,325 words

Part 4 of 5

7. Consequences of “Unlimited Choice”

Most leftist utopias involve enjoying all the benefits of tightly knit communities while paying none of the costs in individual freedom such communities demand. Thus, feminists propose to liberate women from “domestic drudgery” and replace it with unrestricted personal choice. Yet the drudgery of marriage and its duties are, quite obviously, the indispensable basis of the family, the model and source for all real community. Read more …

Published: June 2, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, economics, F. Roger Devlin, female pyschology, feminism, marriage, North American New Right, reprints, sex roles, sexuality, the family, women | Comments closed

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D. H. Lawrence on America’s Libertarian Spirit
The Spirit of Place

D. H. Lawrence

2,765 words

“Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, Organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.” — D. H. Lawrence

Published: January 18, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America, articles, D. H. Lawrence, libertarianism, literature, negative liberty, North American New Right, positive liberty, reprints, Studies in Classic American Literature | Comments closed

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D. H. Lawrence on Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Novels

D. H. Lawrence

Andrew Wyeth, The Last of the Mohicans, 1919

5,821 words

Chapter 5 of Studies in Classic American Literature

In his Leatherstocking books, Fenimore is off on another track. He is no longer concerned with social white Americans that buzz with pins through them, buzz loudly against every mortal thing except the pin itself. The pin of the Great Ideal.

Published: December 28, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America, American Indians, American sham democracy, aristocracy, book excerpts, book reviews, D. H. Lawrence, Deerslayer, democracy, egalitarianism, high culture, James Fenimore Cooper, leatherstocking tales, literature, North American New Right, Pioneers, reprints, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Prairie | Comments closed

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Liberalism as the Ideology of Consummate Meaninglessness, Part 3

Michael O'Meara

Martin Heidegger, 1889–1976

1,233 words

Part 1 here, Part 2 here

In ancient and medieval philosophy, “to be” meant to be an enduring presence, the Eternal Being being God. For moderns, “it” (the enduring presence) becomes a being, an object, in time and space or else a self-conscious subject.

Published: September 19, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, liberalism, Martin Heidegger, Michael O'Meara, modernity, North American New Right, on Heidegger, philosophy, René Descartes, rights, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Liberalism as the Ideology of Consummate Meaninglessness, Part 2

Michael O'Meara

Immanuel Kant, 1724–1804

1,305 words

Part 1 here, Part 3 here

Immanuel Kant, the first to philosophize the “question of freedom,” approaches the world like Descartes. He begins with Cartesianism’s dehistoricized, peopleless subject, which is seen as an “ends in itself,” something that is to be “freed” for the sake of its “self-assured self-legislation.”

Published: September 18, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Immanuel Kant, liberalism, Martin Heidegger, Michael O'Meara, modernity, North American New Right, on Heidegger, philosophy, René Descartes, rights, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Liberalism as the Ideology of Consummate Meaninglessness, Part 1

Michael O'Meara

Martin Heidegger, 1889–1976

1,324 words

Part 2 here, Part 3 here

They’re killing us with their freedom.

Every dissolution of social order, every assault on the family, the unrelenting denigration of authority and heritage, and now our biological replacement by the Third World’s refuse–all justified, legislated, and celebrated in freedom’s hallowed name.

Published: September 17, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, John Gray, liberalism, Martin Heidegger, Michael O'Meara, modernity, North American New Right, on Heidegger, philosophy, René Descartes, rights, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Nietzsche on Freedom

Friedrich Nietzsche

512 words

Editor’s Note: The following is section no. 38 of “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man” from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Twilight of the Idols.

38. My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. I shall give an example. Read more …