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985 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

This exclamation is probably a bit simplistic, but it sums up the feeling of revulsion spreading today throughout the fair country of France. Read more …

Published: April 15, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged corruption, Dominique Venner, France, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, translations | 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

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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

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Othmar Spann:
A Catholic Radical Traditionalist

Lucian Tudor

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

4,964 words

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, Catholicism, Christianity, collectivism, conservative revolution, Edgar Julius Jung, elitism, Eric Voegelin, 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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The Communist Cell at Cambridge University, Part 2

Jonathan Bowden

2,388 words

Guy Burgess

Edited by Alex Kurtagić

Part 2 of 2

Editor’s Note:

The following is an excerpt from Jonathan Bowden’s Vermin. Read more …

Published: January 24, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anthony Blunt, Cambridge University, Communism, David Haden-Guest, Donald Maclean, E. J. Hobsbawn, England, Enoch Powell, espionage, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Guy Burgess, homosexuality, Jonathan Bowden, Kim Philby, Marxism, nihilism, Rajani Palme Dutt, The Apostles, the USSR | Comments closed

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The Communist Cell at Cambridge University, Part 1

Jonathan Bowden

Spy Kim Philby honored on Soviet postage stamp

3,017 words

Edited by Alex Kurtagić

Part 1 of 2

Editor’s Note:

The following is an excerpt from Jonathan Bowden’s Vermin. The book was written sometime between 1990 and 1991. The text has only been lightly edited for punctuation, spelling, and capitalization.

Published: January 23, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anthony Blunt, articles, Cambridge University, Communism, David Haden-Guest, Donald Maclean, E. J. Hobsbawn, England, Enoch Powell, espionage, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Guy Burgess, homosexuality, Jonathan Bowden, Kim Philby, Marxism, nihilism, North American New Right, Rajani Palme Dutt, reprints, The Apostles, the USSR | 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, freedom, 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, freedom, G. W. F. Hegel, Immanuel Kant, 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, freedom, liberalism, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, Prussianism and Socialism, Prussians, socialism | Comments closed

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Critique of Liberal Ideology

Alain de Benoist

Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1697

8,580 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Translator’s Note:

In “Critique of Liberal Ideology,” Alain de Benoist uses the term “liberalism” in the broad European sense of the term that applies not just to American liberalism but also to American libertarianism and mainstream conservatism, insofar as all three share a common history and common premises. Read more …

Published: May 28, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adam Smith, Alain de Benoist, articles, capitalism, Christianity, F. A. Hayek, liberalism, Louis Dumont, Marcel Gauchet, North American New Right, political philosophy, reprints, translations | Comments closed

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Podcast no. 2
Interview with Kevin MacDonald

Kevin MacDonald

43 minutes/6,038 words

To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as.”

To subscribe to our podcasts, click here (requires iTunes).

Published: January 24, 2012 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Anders Behring Breivik, conservatives, Emma West, ethnomasochism, Greg Johnson, interviews, Kevin MacDonald, mental illness, Michael Polignano, Nassir Ghaemi, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, Puritanism, Republicans, thumos, trust, white nationalism, xenophilia | Comments closed

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My Education, Part III

Anthony M. Ludovici

7,184 words

Editor’s Note:

What follows are selections from Confessions of an Anti-Feminist: The Autobiography of Anthony M. Ludovici, ed. John V. Day, ch. 5, “My Education, III (1916–1959).” The section headings are my creations. Unless otherwise indicated, all notes are by Ludovici. John V. Day’s notes are marked JVD. Mine are marked GJ. Read more …

Published: January 13, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Anthony M. Ludovici, book excerpts, Confessions of an Anti-Feminist, England, Friedrich Nietzsche, Heinrich Himmler, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Joseph Goebbels, National Socialism, North American New Right, The English Mistery, the Jewish question, World War I, World War II | Comments closed

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Protestantism, Capitalism, & Americanism

Edouard Rix

Martin Luther

1,050 words

Translated by M. P.

Many authors distinguish between, on the one hand Catholicism, which is supposed to be a negative Christianity incarnated by Rome and an anti-Germanic instrument, and, on the other hand, Protestantism, which is supposed to be a positive Christianity emancipated from the Roman papacy and accepting traditional Germanic values. Read more …

Published: September 2, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Americanism, capitalism, Christianity, Edouard Rix, Martin Luther, Max Weber, North American New Right, originals, Protestantism, religion, the United States, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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American “Civilization”

Julius Evola

2,388 words

The recently-deceased [in 1945] John Dewey was applauded by the American press as the most representative figure of American civilization. This is quite right. Read more …

Published: May 19, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American, articles, capitalism, conformism, John Dewey, Julius Evola, North American New Right, oligarchy, reprints, the United States, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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Against Individualism
Racethink

William Pierce

1,546 words

It has been opined in past issues of this magazine that man’s most dangerous myth is that of equality: the myth which, in its starkest form, says that every featherless biped, regardless of race, gender, or lineage, has essentially the same physical-psychical constitution and the same set of capabilities as every other, and that differences in performance are attributable solely to unequal environmental influences and unequal opportunities.

Published: January 25, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, collectivism, North American New Right, philosophy, racialism, reprints, white nationalism, William Pierce | Comments closed

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Nietzsche’s Critique of Modernity

Friedrich Nietzsche

Josef Thorak's portrait of Nietzsche

590 words

Czech translation here

Editor’s Note:

The following is section no. 39 of “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man” from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Twilight of the Idols.

Published: July 22, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, book excerpts, decadence, egalitarianism, family, feminism, freedom, Friedrich Nietzsche, hierarchy, liberalism, marriage, North American New Right, racial collectivism, reprints, translations | Comments closed

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Two Against Time:
Julien Hervier’s Deux individus contre l’histoire

Didier Marc

1,746 words

Translated by Michael O’Meara

Ernst Jünger

Julien Hervier
Deux individus contre l’histoire:
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Ernst Jünger
2nd ed.
Paris: Éds. Euredit, 2010

This book is a revised and corrected re-edition, with a new afterword, of a text originally published in 1978 (itself an abridgment of a doctoral thesis submitted to the Sorbonne).