Tag Archives: Jef Costello

Arno Breker sculptures in 1945

1,770 words

French translation here

I suppose I am a 45-year-old child. When you’re small, you think that all adults are good and have your best interests at heart. This innocence is one of the things that make children lovable. Read more …

Published: September 19, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ayn Rand, Ellsworth Toohey, ethics, evil, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, The Fountainhead | Comments closed

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My Real Life

Jef Costello

2,093 words

In Introduction to Magic, Julius Evola recommends a spiritual exercise to be carried out just before going to sleep at night. It involves imagining that you are climbing up a mountain. As you progress further and further upwards, you are supposed to imagine the sun gradually rising. Read more …

Published: August 24, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Julius Evola, living well, North American New Right, originals, the left hand path, Traditionalism, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Disingenuous Genius:
A Tribute to Leni Riefenstahl

Jef Costello

2,464 words

Leni Riefenstahl would be 109 today, had she lived. And if she had lived to such an advanced age, I would hardly have been surprised. For a while it seemed that she was indestructible. She released her final film (Impressionen unter Wasser) the year before her death, when she was 100. It consisted entirely of color footage she had shot while deep-sea diving over the course of many years. Read more …

Published: August 22, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Arnold Fanck, articles, commemorations, Leni Riefenstahl, movie reviews, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Nordic Rage:
Anders Behring Breivik’s Shots Across the Bow

Jef Costello

888 words

Predictably, the information about Anders Behring Breivik conveyed to us by the mainstream media has been a farrago of confusions and red herrings. He has been described as a “Christian fundamentalist” by some reporters. I would love for them to explain to me how somebody can be both a Christian fundamentalist and Freemason, given the antipathy of the former to the latter. But ignorance is epidemic these days, on both sides of the Atlantic, Read more …

Published: July 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anders Behring Breivik, articles, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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The King’s Speech is C-C-C-Crap

Jef Costello

1,633 words

I suppose I’m just about the last person to see this film, which won Oscars in all major categories (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay). This is odd considering my fascination with the British Monarchy (see my essay “In Defense of Royalty”). However, film audiences today annoy me so much I usually wait for things to come out on DVD. So it was with great anticipation that I awaited the arrival of The King’s Speech from Netflix. And I do love a good film about the British Royal Family. I thoroughly enjoyed 2006’s The Queen with Helen Mirren. Read more …

Published: July 20, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, egalitarianism, King Edward VIII, King George VI, monarchy, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, The King's Speech, Wallis Simpson | Comments closed

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Are You an Übermensch?
Take This Simple Test & Find Out!

Jef Costello

1,925 words

I suppose you’re reading this website because you care about the fate of Western culture and the race that produced it. Perhaps you are, in your own way, trying to do something to preserve your heritage and your people. Like me, you realize the terrible menace posed to the West by non-white immigration, and by all the isms that twine around each other in the noisome innards of Political Correctness: multiculturalism, egalitarianism, feminism, relativism, etc. Read more …

Published: June 22, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Counter-Currents, Friedrich Nietzsche, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, warrior ethics, white nationalism | Comments closed

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“The Flash in the Pan”:
Fascism & Fascist Insignia in the Spy Spoofs of the 1960s

Jef Costello

Dean Martin as Matt Helm

3,728 words

One of my guiltier pleasures is the “Matt Helm” films of the 1960s. There were four of these, all produced by Irving Allen and starring Dean Martin as secret agent Matt Helm. The first (The Silencers) appeared in 1966. The story behind these films is an interesting one. In the 1950s Irving Allen was partnered with Albert R. (“Cubby”) Broccoli. Things came to an end, however, when Broccoli announced that he was interested in purchasing the film rights to the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming. Read more …

Published: May 11, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America, articles, British Union of Fascists, Derek Flint, egalitarianism, fascism, In Like Flint, James Bond, Matt Helm, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Our Man Flint, S.P.E.C.T.R.E., Sir Oswald Mosley, spy spoofs, superheroes, supervillains, television reviews, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Yankee Schwein | Comments closed

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Snöpingar

Jef Costello

2,612 words

English original here

Jef Costello skriver om manlighet, avmaskulinisering och ideal. Texten publicerades ursprungligen på Counter Currents och är översatt av Ulf Larsen. Read more …

Published: April 30, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, emasculation, feminism, in Swedish, in translation, manliness, modernity, North American New Right, originals, Plato, thymos | Comments closed

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In Defense of Royalty

Jef Costello

1,753 words

In recent months, when I would think ruefully of the peculiar life I lead, I took some solace in the thought that soon my invitation to Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding would arrive.

Alas it did not, and I am writing these words hours after the nuptials ended – apparently without a hitch (if we don’t count the fashion disaster that was Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie of York). Read more …

Published: April 29, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, elitism, manners, monarchy, North American New Right, originals, the royal wedding, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Against Happiness

Jef Costello

Hieronymus Bosch, "The Haywain," after. 1510

1,673 words

A few days ago I had dinner with a co-worker. She knows nothing of my secret identity (i.e., Jef Costello) and I have never clued her in to the full extent of my political incorrectness. Nevertheless, as I do with so many others, I relish little opportunities to slip something into the conversation to make her think. Usually it consists in unfurling a bit of my colossal pessimism – my sense that everything is going to complete and utter hell. On this particular occasion she listened to me for awhile and then said, wearing a look of grave concern, “Are you happy?”

Published: April 1, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ethics, happiness, living well, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | Comments closed

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Geldings

Jef Costello

2,457 words

Swedish translation here

A few Sundays ago I was spending the latter part of my evening in my favorite bar. My bar doesn’t play any loud music and the bartender shushes people if they get too boisterous. Read more …

Published: March 15, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, emasculation, feminism, manliness, modernity, North American New Right, originals, Plato, thumos | Comments closed

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The Art of Manliness

Jef Costello

1,804 words

Brett and Kate McKay
The Art of Manliness: Classic Skills and Manners for the Modern Man
Cincinnati: How Books, 2009

It’s hard not to like this book. However, it’s really the idea of the book that I like, rather than the book itself. In fact, I almost hesitate to write this review (which will not be wholly positive) because I think the authors have their hearts in the right place, and because I like their website http://artofmanliness.com/

Published: March 6, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Brett and Kate McKay, emasculation, feminism, homosexuality, manliness, modernity, North American New Right, originals, The Art of Manliness | Comments closed

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The View from Hippie Hill

Jef Costello

2,575 words

A number of years ago I went through a long period of depression, and when I found myself coming out the other end of it, I developed an interest in “Eastern Philosophy.”

Published: February 26, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alan Watts, articles, drugs, Eastern philosophy, mysticism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, West Coast White Nationalism | Comments closed

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How I Found My Mission in Life

Jef Costello

2,477 words

Since I am not all right, I sometimes find myself reading self-help books. I am not proud of this. There is something pathetic about a man almost forty-five who is still trying to straighten himself out. There is something still more pathetic about such a man relying on mass-market paperbacks in order to do so.

Published: February 21, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, North American New Right, originals, self-help, white activism, white nationalism | Comments closed

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I Am All Right (A Cry for Help)

Jef Costello

2,145 words

I am all right. I tell myself this at the grocery store when, in the midst of an apparent manic episode I begin chatting inanely with the mixed-race store clerk in the designer frames. He is cordial, but it is clear that he thinks I am not quite right. But I am.

Sometimes I blurt things out on the subway. I might be having an imaginary argument with a co-worker, or with Barack Obama, or with someone I’ve just dreamed up. “Pigs!” I mutter. Read more …

Published: February 12, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, autonomy, egalitarianism, G. W. F. Hegel, Human Biodiversity, madness, manliness, modernity, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, philosophy of history, sex differences, sexuality | Comments closed

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