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Jan Vermeer, "The Art of Painting," detail. The woman is dressed as Clio, muse of history.

Jan Vermeer, “The Art of Painting,” circa 1666, detail. The woman is dressed as Clio, muse of history.

1,258 words

Translated by Cologero Salvo

In developing some considerations on the European meaning that can be attributed to Donoso Cortés, the Spanish thinker and an interesting type of the political man, who developed his activity in the period of the first European revolutionary and socialist movements, Read more …

Published: May 1, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Carl Schmitt, Donoso Cortés, historiography, Julius Evola, North American New Right, philosophy of history, reprints, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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Enlightenment & Global History

Domitius Corbulo

Heinrich Füger, “Prometheus Brings Fire to Mankind,” 1817

5,674 words

The history of Europe is undergoing a massive re-interpretation in the name of a World History for Us All. Europe and Asia are now regularly portrayed as “surprisingly similar” in their markets, standard of living, and scientific knowhow as late as 1750/1800. Jack Goldstone has even argued that there “were no cultural or institutional dynamics leading to a materially superior civilization in the West” before 1850,[1] except for the appearance in Britain, “due to a host of locally contingent factors,” of an “engineering culture.” Read more …

Published: April 18, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Domitius Corbulo, historiography, Marxism, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Sebastian Conrad, the Enlightenment, Western civilization | Comments closed

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The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 5
The Decline & Rebirth of the West

Collin Cleary

4,071 words

Part 5 of 5

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

Published: April 5, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, book reviews, capitalism, Collin Cleary, democracy, G. W. F. Hegel, liberalism, modernity, North American New Right, originals, Ricardo Duchesne, sociology, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Thomas Hobbes, thumos | Comments closed

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The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 4
The Construction of the Western Self

Collin Cleary

Clemency of Marcus Aurelius, detail, Capitoline Museum

3,381 words

Part 4 of 5

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

The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 3
Hegel & the Struggle for Recognition

Collin Cleary

G. W. F. Hegel, 1770-1831

4,986 words

Part 3 of 5

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

7. Hegel and the Struggle for Recognition

Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 2

Collin Cleary

3,686 words

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

5. What about the East?

The revisionists’ favorite non-Western people seems to be the Chinese. Read more …

Published: April 2, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, book reviews, China, Collin Cleary, cultural relativism, Faustian man, G. W. F. Hegel, Marvin Harris, Marxism, Max Weber, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, political correctness, Ricardo Duchesne, sociology, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, thumos, William McNeill | Comments closed

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Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization

Collin Cleary

4,940 words

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

1. Introduction: A Book for Our Times

Every few years I discover a book that is truly great. One that forces me to think in new ways about things familiar, teaches me things I never knew, and inspires in me scores of new ideas and insights. Such a book is Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Read more …

Published: April 1, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, book reviews, Collin Cleary, cultural relativism, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Richardo Duchesne, sociology, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization | Comments closed

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A Note on the Art of Political Conversion

T. E. Hulme

Thomas Ernest Hulme, 1883–1917

3,338 words

Some day a wonderful book will be written on the art of persuasion, a new sophistic. One may suppose that psychology will ultimately become as complete a science as geometry and mechanics are now. It will be possible then to predict the effect of an argument on a man’s mind as surely as one can now predict the eclipse of the moon. On the basis of this developed science will be built an infallible set of rules for converting a man to any opinion you like. Read more …

Published: December 3, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, elite psychology, elites, free trade, Gustave Le Bon, liberalism, mass psychology, North American New Right, propaganda, reprints, rhetoric, social psychology, T. E. Hulme | Comments closed

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Columbus Day Special
Life Styles: Native & Imposed

Kevin Beary

2,856 words

For decades now, African American leaders have been calling for a formal United States apology for the American role in the slave trade, with some even demanding reparations. Indian tribes proclaim their tax-exempt status as something they are owed for a legacy of persecution by the United States. Read more …

Published: October 8, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Africa, American Indians, Amerindians, articles, Bernal Diaz del Castillo, cannibalism, colonialism, Francis Parkman, human sacrifice, Kevin Beary, North American New Right, political correctness, reprints, slavery, the Aztecs, the Iroquois, the Noble Savage, Theophilus Canot, Theophilus Conneau | Comments closed

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Spring Comes Again

Jorian Jenks

Uckfield, Sussex: Historical Review Press, 2011
114 pages

only in paperback: $16

Jorian Jenks was a trusted senior member of Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists. He was also a pioneer of ecology and organic farming. Read more …

Published: April 2, 2012 | Posted in distributed title, ecology, politics | Also tagged agriculture, British Union of Fascists, ecology, jenks book, Jorian Jenks, politics, Sir Oswald Mosley, Spring Comes Again | Comments closed

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The Shock of History

Michael O'Meara

2,411 words

Corrected October 30, 2011

A propos:
Dominique Venner.
Le choc de l’Histoire. Religion, mémoire, identité.
Versailles: Via Romana, 2011.

“The future belongs to those with the longest memory.” — Nietzsche

Conservative thinking, Karl Mannheim notes, is essentially historical thinking Read more …

Published: November 3, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Dominique Venner, European identity, Le choc de l’Histoire, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, on Venner, philosophy of history, reprints, white dispossession | Comments closed

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Tacitus’ Germania

Andrew Hamilton

2,188 words

Übersetzt von Deep Roots

English original here

Tacitus’ Germania, eine kurze Monographie über die germanische Ethnographie, die ca. 98 n. Chr. geschrieben wurde, ist von großer historischer Bedeutung. Read more …

Published: October 9, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Rome, Andrew Hamilton, articles, Cornelius Tacitus, German identity, Germania, Germany, in German, in translation, North American New Right, Tacitus, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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Tacitus’ Germania

Andrew Hamilton

2,198 words

German translation here

Tacitus’ Germania, a short monograph on German ethnography written c. 98 AD, is of great historical significance. The transmission of the text to the present day, and certain adventures and tensions surrounding it, make for an interesting story.

Roman historian and aristocrat Cornelius Tacitus (c. 55–c. 117 AD) was the author of several works, more than half of which have been lost. Read more …

Published: September 30, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Rome, Andrew Hamilton, articles, Cornelius Tacitus, German identity, Germania, Germany, North American New Right, originals, Tacitus, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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Toward a North American New Right

Greg Johnson

Grant Wood, "Spring in the Country," 1930

2,885 words

Author’s Note:

This is the Editor’s Preface to North American New Right, vol. 1, which will be published in June 2012. I wish to thank F. Roger Devlin, Derek Hawthorne, and Matthew Peters for their helpful comments. Read more …

Published: September 30, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Antonio Gramsci, art, articles, Augustin Cochin, biological race differences, Counter-Currents, ethics, European New Right, French New Right, Greg Johnson, Guillaume Faye, literature, metapolitics, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, racialism, the Jewish question, Traditionalism, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Life Styles: Native & Imposed

Kevin Beary

2,856 words

Published: September 11, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Africa, American Indians, Amerindians, articles, Bernal Diaz del Castillo, cannibalism, colonialism, Francis Parkman, human sacrifice, Kevin Beary, North American New Right, political correctness, reprints, slavery, the Aztecs, the Iroquois, the Noble Savage, Theophilus Cano, Theophilus Conneau | Comments closed

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Can History Address the Problems of the Future?

Dominique Venner

876 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Men have always felt the need to peer into the future. The Greeks asked the Pythia of Delphi. The obscurity of the oracle’s pronouncements lent them to multiple interpretations. Read more …

Published: August 9, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Dominique Venner, North American New Right, originals, philosophy of history, translations | Comments closed

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History & Biology

Revilo Oliver

10,077 words

American Opinion, December 1963 (part 4 of 4 of History and the Historians)

History is the record of what men do. Scientific discoveries and technological applications of them are often events of historical importance, but do not affect our understanding of the historical process since they shed no light on the behavior of men in civilized societies. Read more …

Published: July 7, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged biological race differences, biology, dysgenics, egalitarianism, eugenics, globalism, North American New Right, philosophy of history, reprints, Revilo Oliver, socialism | Comments closed

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Greek & Barbarian

F. Roger Devlin

2,498 words

The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
Edited by Robert B. Strassler
New York: Pantheon, 2007

Independent scholar Robert Strassler has produced far and away the best English edition aimed at the general reader of the work which remains the fountainhead of the Western historical tradition. Let us hope there is still a fit audience out there for it—men, that is, capable of learning what Herodotus has to teach. Read more …