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This is the transcript by V. S. of Greg Johnson’s interview with Laura Raim on the Alternative Right. To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.” Read more …

Published: September 28, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged civic nationalism, Counter-Currents Radio, democracy, elitism, ethnic nationalism, Frank Herbert, G. W. F. Hegel, Georges Bataille, globalization, Greg Johnson, interviews, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Laura Raim, metapolitics, National Socialism, Neo-Reaction, North American New Right, NRX, organicism, Paleoconservatism, Peter Sloterdijk, philosophy of culture, Plato, podcasts, populism, republicanism, Richard Spencer, the Alternative Right, the mixed regime, thumos, time preferences, white nationalism, William Pierce | Comments closed

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Greg Johnson Interviewed by Laura Raim about the Alt Right

Greg Johnson

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The Alt Right Means White Nationalism . . . or Nothing at All

Greg Johnson

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Hillary Clinton’s Alt Right speech was a complete dud. It probably did not harm Trump or help Hillary, since Trump voters either don’t care about the Alt Right or look favorably upon it, while the only people susceptible to Hillary’s scare-mongering were already going to vote for her.

I had, however, hoped that Hillary’s speech would at least bring new attention to Alt Right websites like Counter-Currents. Read more …

Published: August 30, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, Hillary Clinton, North American New Right, originals, Richard Spencer, the Alternative Right, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Leo Strauss, the Conservative Revolution, & National Socialism, Part 3

Greg Johnson

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Part 3 of 3

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Leo Strauss

In the previous installment of this series, I examined Leo Strauss’s argument that the roots of what he called “German nihilism” — including National Socialism — were not nihilistic. Instead, it is rooted in a moral critique of the modern world. In this installment, I examine his argument that these non-nihilistic motives gave rise to nihilism because of certain contingent historical circumstances. Read more …

Published: August 8, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservative revolution, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, historicism, Leo Strauss, Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, relativism, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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Paul Gottfried’s Leo Strauss & the Conservative Movement in America

Greg Johnson

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Paul Edward Gottfried
Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America: A Critical Appraisal
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Paul Gottfried’s admirable book on Leo Strauss is an unusual and welcome critique from the Right.

Leo Strauss (1899–1973) was a German-born Jewish political theorist who moved to the United States in 1937. Read more …

Published: January 24, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, conservatism, Greg Johnson, hermeneutics, historicism, John Locke, Leo Strauss, North American New Right, philosophy, political philosophy, reprints, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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“Politically Incorrect”

Andrew Hamilton

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I recently caught the December 3, 2012 rerun of the popular syndicated TV quiz show Jeopardy! hosted by Canadian-born half-Ukrainian/half-French Alex Trebek. In the Final Jeopardy round the question (technically, the answer) in the category “Phrase Origins” was: “This 2-word adjective for ‘going against accepted speech or conduct’ Read more …

Published: December 27, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andrew Hamilton, articles, Communism, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, the Frankfurt School, Theodore Dalrymple | Comments closed

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The Stark Truth
Robert Stark Interviews Paul Gottfried on the Frankfurt School

Counter-Currents Radio

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Robert Stark interviews Professor Paul Gottfried. Topics discussed include:

His recent speech at the Identitarian Ideas conference in Sweden
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Published: August 12, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged capitalism, Counter-Currents Radio, cultural Marxism, immigration, interviews, neo-conservatism, podcasts, Republicans, Robert Stark, the Frankfurt School, The Stark Truth | Comments closed

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Identity vs. Globalism in Stockholm:
The 2013 “Identitarian Ideas” Conference

John Morgan

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No American of European descent who sets foot on the sacred soil of Europe can help but feel a powerful connection back to his European heritage, no matter how far in the past it might be, nor can any such person who is not deluded escape the feeling of urgency that grips those who experience first-hand the death spiral in which this continent is currently locked. Such have been my feelings over the past several weeks, after I arrived for the first time on the European continent, specifically in Sweden. Read more …