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Cosima emerged from mourning after the conclusion of the 1883 season of the Bayreuth Festival. Read more …

Published: May 23, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Bayreuth Festival, Cosima Wagner, Franz Liszt, homosexuality, Isolde Wagner, North American New Right, originals, Richard Wagner, Siegfried Wagner, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium, Winifred Wagner | Comments closed

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Behind Every Great Man . . .
Cosima Wagner, Part 2

James Holbeyfield

Cosima Wagner by Franz von Lenbach

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Cosima and Richard Wagner were married on August 25, 1870, five weeks after her divorce from Hans von Bülow received final sanction, four years after Minna Planer had died of a heart attack, and seven years and three children after they first fell in love with each other.

Exactly when von Bülow came to understand the full nature of the bond between Cosima and Richard is not known, Read more …

Published: May 22, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Bayreuth Festival, Cosima Wager, Franz Liszt, Hans von Bülow, Ludwig II of Bavaria, North American New Right, originals, Richard Wagner, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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Behind Every Great Man . . .
Cosima Wagner, Part 1

James Holbeyfield

Cosima and Richard Wagner

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Francesca Gaetana Cosima Liszt was born on Christmas Eve, 1837. Her father was Franz Liszt, the first romantic superstar of music. In addition to being genetic sire to Cosima and her siblings, Liszt was the spiritual father of every celebrated piano virtuoso to follow, and also in a sense, the rock stars of the late 20th century. A critical difference however, was that in contrast to the ’70s silliness that chokes every scene in Ken Russell’s Lisztomania, the real Liszt genuinely was the most talented pianist of his era, Read more …

Published: May 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Cosima Wagner, D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, female psychology, Franz Liszt, Frieda von Richthofen, Hans von Bülow, North American New Right, originals, Richard Wagner, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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A Dog’s Best Friend

James Holbeyfield

Adolf Hitler (far left, under X) and his terrier Fuchsl

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There was a time in America, within living memory, when Adolf Hitler was treated by the most popular magazines as a worthy man and a worthy leader, even after WWII had begun. And still today, a logical person ought to realize that Hitler could not have been wrong about everything, if only by accident. Read more …

Published: April 26, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, dogs, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Suckers!

James Holbeyfield

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Songwriter Serge Gainsbourg was born Lucien Ginsburg in France in 1928. He died in 1991. His parents were Ukrainian Jews. Actress Charlotte Gainsbourg is his daughter. Gainsbourg’s overriding musical agenda was to inject American popular culture and Jewish pornography into French popular music. His life was a series of deliberately engineered media scandals.

Charles Krafft:
The Enduring Power of Artists & Objects

James Holbeyfield

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Within aesthetics, one of my longstanding interests is the possibility that the sheer psychophysics of certain art forms, forms of enormous importance in the Western tradition, have been largely explored; at any rate, that portion with enduring appeal to the most highly developed human brains. When I first began thinking along these lines, I had quite a sense of loss, because the idea grew from consideration of the art that has touched me most deeply since infancy, dreamily listening to my mother play; Read more …

Published: April 1, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art, articles, Charles Krafft, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, revisionism, the holocaust, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Honoring Doug Christie

James Holbeyfield

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Douglas Hewson Christie died on March 11th, 2013 at the age of 66. He was among the greatest defense lawyers of his generation, in Canada or any other country, and his greatness was founded on two piers: courage and honor.

In his eulogy for his father, Doug’s son Cadeyrn has said that his father was meant for the battlefield, and in another age would have fought with sword and shield, but in our age, his battlefield was the courtroom.

Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World

James Holbeyfield

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Bavarian director Werner Herzog’s Antarctic odyssey Encounters at the End of the World was released in 2008. It is not a work of fiction, with all the inspirational, mythological, and crystallizing power of high art; it is a documentary. Read more …

Published: March 11, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Antarctica, Encounters at the End of the World, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, Werner Herzog | Comments closed

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A Fisherman’s Wake

James Holbeyfield

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My old skipper died not long ago. He had sold his last fishing boat almost twenty years before and gone on to other endeavors, and I had been out of touch with him for several years when I heard he’d become gravely ill. Read more …

Published: March 1, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Jack Donovan, manliness, North American New Right, oratory, originals, rhetoric | Comments closed

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Billy & Alexa Ray Joel

James Holbeyfield

Andy Warhol, “Before and After 4,” 1962

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I had a somewhat antagonistic discussion with my son when he was home from college this Christmas. I was trying to tell him about the need to be aware of Jewish influence on his life. We were arguing, not so much about the Jews per se, as about whether my ideas had done me any good. Read more …

Published: February 22, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexa Ray Joel, Billy Joel, Christie Brinkley, North American New Right, originals, popular music, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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