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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
Remembering Richard Wagner:
May 22, 1813–February 13, 1883

269 words

Richard Wagner was born 200 years ago today in Leipzig in the kingdom of Saxony. He died on February 13, 1883 in Venice. As an artist, intellectual, author, and cultural force, Wagner has left an immense metapolitical legacy, which is being evaluated and appropriated in the North American New Right’s Wagner Bicentennial Symposium, which will continue through the end of May with articles by Collin Cleary, Christopher Pankhurst, and others. Read more …

Published: May 22, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, Richard Wagner, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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

James Holbeyfield

CosmiaWagner2

Cosima Wagner by Franz von Lenbach

1,364 words

Part 2 of 3

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, Cosmia Wagner, Franz Liszt, Hans von Bülow, James Holbeyfield, Ludwig II of Bavaria, North American New Right, Richard Wagner, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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Las razones para una Muerte Voluntaria

Dominique Venner

370 words

English version here

Estoy saludable en cuerpo y mente, y lleno de amor por mi esposa e hijos. Amo la vida y no espero nada más allá, si no perpetuar mi raza e ideas. Sin embargo, en el ocaso de mi vida, encarando enormes peligros a mi patria francesa y europea, siento el deber de actuar mientras aún tengo fuerzas. Creo que es necesario sacrificarme para romper con el letargo que nos azota. Read more …

Published: May 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dominique Venner, in Spanish, in translation, North American New Right, suicide | Leave a comment

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The Reasons for a Voluntary Death

Dominique Venner

390 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Translations: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

I am healthy in body and mind, and I am filled with love for my wife and children. I love life and expect nothing beyond, if not the perpetuation of my race and my mind. However, in the evening of my life, facing immense dangers to my French and European homeland, I feel the duty to act as long as I still have strength. Read more …

Published: May 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dominique Venner, North American New Right, suicide, translation | 30 Responses

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The May 26 Protests & Heidegger

Dominique Venner

560 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

French original, Spanish translation

Editor’s Note:

On May 21, 2013, French author Dominique Venner, whose writings have featured prominently at Counter-Currents/North American New Right, entered the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, placed a sealed envelope on the altar, and shot himself in the head.

Published: May 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Dominique Venner, France, gay marriage, Martin Heidegger, non-white immigration, North American New Right, suicide, translations | 10 Responses

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La Protesta del 26 de Mayo & Heidegger

Dominique Venner

537 words

English translation, French original

Nota del editor:

El 21 de Mayo de 2013, el autor francés Dominique Vennner, cuyos escritos han tenido un lugar destacado en Counter-Currents/North American New Right, entró a la Catedral de Notre Dame en París, dejó un sobre sellado en el altar y se disparó en la cabeza. Read more …

Published: May 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dominique Venner, gay marriage, in Spanish, in translation, non-white immigration, North American New Right, suicide | Leave a comment

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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
Rage Against the Machine:
A Very American Ring Cycle

The great Wagner Machine--Siegfried and Brunnhilde in Goetterdaemmerung

The great Wagner Machine–Siegfried and Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung

2,427 words

It heaves and groans. It shimmies and clicks. One holds one breath during the best parts, hoping it will not malfunction and ruin the whole evening. One fears for the performers, halfway expecting it to devour them.

Published: May 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, bad taste, classical music, Jef Costello, Metropolitan Opera, North American New Right, opera, Peter Gelb, Richard Wagner, Robert Lepage, The Ring Cycle, The Ring of the Nibelung, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | 3 Responses

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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
Never Surrender:
Wagner on War & Culture

Richard Widmann

Richard Wagner by Arno Breker, Haus Wahnfried, Bayreuth

Richard Wagner by Arno Breker, Bayreuth

4,743 words

Not symphonic music, but rather the shattering roar of cannon announced the birth of Richard Wagner on May 22, 1813 in Leipzig. The German kingdom of Saxony had been overrun by the French troops of Napoleon Bonaparte as he made a last-ditch effort to reassert dominance over Europe.[1]

Published: May 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, France, Franco-Prussian War, Germany, North American New Right, Richard Wagner, Richard Widmann, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium, war | Leave a comment

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

James Holbeyfield

Cosima and Richard Wagner

Cosima and Richard Wagner

1,500 words

Part 1 of 3

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, James Holbeyfield, North American New Right, Richard Wagner, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Leave a comment

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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
Wagner as Metapolitical Revolutionary

7,638 words

Karl Marx reserved a special place of contempt for those he termed “reactionists.” These comprised the alliance that was forming around his time among all classes of people, high-born and low, who aimed to return to a pre-capitalist society. These were the remnants of artisans, aristocrats, landowners, and pastors, who had seen the ravages of industrialism and money-ethics then unfolding. Read more …

Published: May 20, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Karl Marx, Kerry Bolton, metapolitics, Mikhail Bakunin, North American New Right, revolution, Richard Wagner, the Jewish question, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | 1 Response

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Godfather

131 words

He’ll part this world with feathers on his feet,
the ton of five & dime cement no longer heavy,
his battered brow resembling morning wheat
as sunup blesses rusty Dodge and Chevy.

And hipsters coming out saloon and church
will mark a glimmer of unworldly light
when for a second he climbs walls to perch
by Jesus, having left for good the night.

Published: May 20, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Leo Yankevich, North American New Right, poems | Comments closed

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The Hunt for the Goebbels Diaries

Andrew Hamilton

Portrait of Goebbels by Wilhelm Otto Pitthan

Portrait of Goebbels by Wilhelm Otto Pitthan

3,231 words

In terms of a serious approach to the Jewish problem, the NS movement in Germany is clearly of primary historical significance. At the highest echelons, perhaps the three most important figures in this regard are Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels. These three men probably had a better grasp of the problem, and came closest to reciprocating the Jews’ unbending hostility, than any whites before or since.

Published: May 20, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andrew Hamilton, articles, David Irving, Joseph Goebbels, Lochner, Louis, North American New Right, the Jewish question, the Third Reich, World War II | 3 Responses

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The Stark Truth
Greg Johnson on Wealth Redistribution

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Frans Francken the Younger (Antwerp 1581 - 1642), "Death and the Miser"

Frans Francken the Younger (Antwerp 1581 – 1642), “Death and the Miser”

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Paleolibertarianism and the Tea Party as attempts to channel white political and economic anxieties into race-neutral, free market policies that undermine white racial interests Read more …

Published: May 18, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, distributism, elitism, Greg Johnson, interviews, Johnson on economics, podcasts, populism, real estate, Robert Stark, Social Credit, The Stark Truth, wealth redistribution | 13 Responses

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National Socialism as Anti-Modernism?
Julius Evola’s Notes on the Third Reich

F. Roger Devlin

2,205 words

Julius Evola
Notes on the Third Reich
Trans. E. Christian Kopff
London: Arktos, 2013

Evola wrote this short assessment of Hitlerian National Socialism as a follow up to Fascism Viewed from the Right. The basic thrust of the study is that National Socialism is significantly inferior to its Italian cousin from a traditionalist perspective, Read more …

Published: May 17, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, book reviews, F. Roger Devlin, Julius Evola, National Socialism, North American New Right, Notes on the Third Reich, Third Reich, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Remembering Julius Evola:
May 19, 1898–June 11, 1974

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Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola was born on May 19, 1898 in Rome. Along with René Guénon, Evola is one of the writers who has most influenced the metapolitical outlook and project of Counter-Currents, which is reflected in the fact that Evola is one of the most-tagged writers on this website. In commemoration of his birthday, I wish to draw your attention to the following resources. Read more …

Published: May 17, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Julius Evola, North American New Right, Traditionalism, videos | Comments closed

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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
My Wagner Problem—and Ours

James J. O'Meara

1,880 words

“Your themes — they almost always consist of even values, of half, quarter, eighth notes; they are syncopated and tied, to be sure, but nonetheless persevere in what is often a machinelike, stamping, hammering inflexibility and inelegance. Read more …

Published: May 17, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain Daniélou, articles, classical music, James J. O'Meara, North American New Right, Richard Wagner, Traditionalism, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
Evil Genius:
Constructing Wagner as Moral Pariah, Part 4

Brenton Sanderson

A night at the opera: Adolf Hitler with Winifred Wagner, the daughter-in-law of Richard Wagner

A night at the opera: Adolf Hitler with Winifred Wagner, the daughter-in-law of Richard Wagner

4,022 words

Part 4 of 4

Wagner and National Socialist Germany

Richard Wagner has long been reviled by Jews as the intellectual and spiritual precursor to Adolf Hitler who, according to William Shirer, once declared: “Whoever wants to understand National Socialist Germany must know Wagner.”[1] Read more …

Published: May 16, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, Brenton Sanderson, classical music, commemorations, North American New Right, opera, Richard Wagner, the Jewish question, the Third Reich, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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The Trial of Socrates:
Antiphon the Sophist

A third century AD papyrus attributed to the first book of On Truth (P.Oxy. XI 1364 fr. 1, cols. v-vii)

Papyrus fragment of Antiphon’s “On Truth,” 3rd century A.D.

1,922 words

Author’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V. S. of the prefatory remarks on Antiphon the Sophist from the first part of my lecture on Aristophanes’ Clouds. As usual, I have edited this transcript to remove excessive wordiness. The quotes come from the first edition of A Presocratics Reader, ed. Patricia Curd.

Antiphon the Sophist was a younger contemporary of Socrates. He was the author of the treatise On Truth, only fragments of which survive. Read more …

Published: May 16, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Antiphon, Aristophanes, articles, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, philosophy, presocratics, Socrates, the Sophists | Comments closed

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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
Evil Genius:
Constructing Wagner as Moral Pariah, Part 3

Brenton Sanderson

Arno Breker, Bust of Richard Wagner

Arno Breker, Bust of Richard Wagner

2,360 words

Part 3 of 4

Wagner’s Music Dramas as Coded Anti-Semitism

T. W. Adorno and Wagner biographer Robert Gutman began a modern Jewish intellectual tradition Read more …

Published: May 15, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Brenton Sanderson, classical music, commemorations, North American New Right, opera, Richard Wagner, the Jewish question, Theodor Adorno, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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Race: The First Principle

2,004 words

It’s a common dodge for opponents of white nationalism, even sympathetic opponents, to charge that “race isn’t enough” to build a society. This misses the point. Of course “whiteness” in and of itself doesn’t solve all problems Read more …

Published: May 14, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, biological race differences, capitalism, Christianity, Gregory Hood, libertarianism, North American New Right, religion, white nationalism | Comments closed

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