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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, originals, presocratics, Socrates, the Sophists | Leave a comment

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What Socrates Knew:
Thirty Socratic Theses, Part 1 of 2

Greg Johnson

48:41 / 790 words

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In August of 1999, I started an eight-week lecture course called “What Socrates Knew: Plato on Art, Wisdom, and Happiness.” Read more …

Published: May 15, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged ethics, Greg Johnson, living well, morality, Plato, podcasts, self-actualization, Socrates | Comments closed

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The Trial of Socrates:
Plato’s Crito, Part 2 of 2

Greg Johnson

Jacque-Louis David, "The Death of Socrates," detail

Jacques-Louis David, “The Death of Socrates,” detail

35:07 / 428 words

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Published: May 1, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Aristophanes, Counter-Currents Radio, Crito, Greg Johnson, originals, Plato, podcasts, Socrates | Comments closed

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Deleuze, Guattari, & the New Right, Part 4:
Becoming-Revolutionary

Mark Dyal

Carlo Carra, “Interventionist Demonstration,” 1914

4,943 words

“The question is not, ‘Is it true?’ but, ‘Does it work?’ What new thoughts does it make possible to think? What new emotions does it make possible to feel? What new sensations and perceptions does it open in the body?” – Brian Massumi[1]

A Commentary on Deleuze, Guattari, and the New Right

“Deleuze, Guattari, and the New Right” was written for four reasons, equally ontological and epistemological. Read more …

Published: April 30, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, capitalism, Felix Guattari, Francis Parker Yockey, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, J. F. G. Fichte, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, originals, postmodernism, revolution | Comments closed

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Jonathan Bowden’s Last Interview, Part 2: Transcript

Jonathan Bowden

Jonathan Bowden, in the moment

4,643 words

Podcast here

Transcript by V. S. and S. F.

Greg Johnson: You are an author as well as a reader of comics and graphic novels. Read more …

Published: April 29, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ayn Rand, comics and graphic novels, Darwinism, devolution, film, film music, Friedrich Nietzsche, heroism, Jonathan Bowden, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Robert E. Howard, superheroes, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Deleuze, Guattari, & the New Right, Part 3:
Capitalism & Schizophrenia

Mark Dyal

5,738 words

“There are things which do not disturb thought and those which force us to think. The first are objects of recognition: thought and all its faculties may be fully employed therein, thought may busy itself thereby, but such employment and such activity have nothing to do with thinking. Read more …

Published: April 25, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A Thousand Plateaus, Anti-Oedipus, articles, book reviews, capitalism, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Felix Guattari, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, originals, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, psychology | Comments closed

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The Trial of Socrates:
The Presocratic Background to Aristophanes’ Clouds, Part 2

Greg Johnson

Lucca Signorelli, “Empedocles,” Orvieto Cathedral, 1502

Luca Signorelli, “Empedocles,” Orvieto Cathedral, 1502

6,530 words

Part 2 of 2

Author’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V. S. of a lecture on the presocratic background of Aristophanes’ Clouds. Read more …

Published: April 25, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anaxagoras, Aristophanes, articles, atheism, Counter-Currents Radio, Cynics, Diogenes, Diogenes of Apollonia, Empedocles, Greg Johnson, myth, originals, Plato, podcasts, presocratics, pythagoreanism, religion, science, Socrates, sophists, Xenophanes | Comments closed

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The Trial of Socrates:
Plato’s Crito, Part 1 of 2

Greg Johnson

Canova, “The Death of Socrates,” detail: Crito closing the eyes of Socrates

46:06 / 400 words

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Published: April 24, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Aristophanes, Counter-Currents Radio, Crito, Greg Johnson, originals, Plato, podcasts, Socrates | Comments closed

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The Trial of Socrates:
Plato’s Apology, Part 2 of 2

Greg Johnson

41:40 / 417 words

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This is the second of two parts of a lecture on the Platonic dialogue Apology of Socrates to the Jury, which I interpret in the light of Plato’s Euthyphro and Aristophanes’ Clouds.

Published: April 18, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Apology, Aristophanes, Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson, originals, Plato, podcasts, Socrates | Comments closed

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The Trial of Socrates:
The Presocratic Background to Aristophanes’ Clouds, Part 1

Greg Johnson

Thales, Union Station, Washington, D.C.

6,614 words

Author’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V. S. of a lecture on the presocratic background of Aristophanes’ Clouds. I have edited this transcript to remove excessive wordiness, and I have added section headings and transitions. I found it sobering to read this transcript, for I discovered just how widely the written and spoken word vary, and how flabby my lectures are compared to my writings.

Published: April 16, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anaximander, Anaximenes, Aristophanes, articles, atheism, Greg Johnson, myth, North American New Right, originals, Plato, presocratics, religion, science, Socrates, Thales | Comments closed

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Bryan Magee’s The Tristan Chord

Greg Johnson

4,085 words

Bryan Magee
The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000

Bryan Magee’s The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy (just Wagner and Philosophy in the UK) combines two of my favorite subjects into an informative, stimulating, and highly readable book. Creativity and critical reflection are two very different activities, and excellence in one is seldom accompanied by excellence in the other. Read more …

Published: April 12, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, Arthur Schopenhauer, book reviews, Bryan Magee, classical music, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, Ludwig Feuerbach, North American New Right, opera, originals, Parsifal, Richard Wagner, socialism, the Jewish question, The Ring of the Nibelung, The Tristan Chord, Tristan and Isolde | Comments closed

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Vedanta, Meister Eckhart, Schelling

Julius Evola

Friedrich Schelling, 1775–1854

3,778 words

Translation anonymous, edited by Greg Johnson

Editor’s Note:

The following essay was originally published in English in East and West, vol. 9, nos. 2 & 3 (1960): 182–86. This is chapter 18 of Julius Evola, East and West: Comparative Studies in Pursuit of Tradition, ed. Greg Johnson, forthcoming from Counter-Currents in the summer of 2013.

Published: April 10, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, F. W. J. Schelling, Julius Evola, Meister Eckhart, mysticism, North American New Right, religion, reprints, Traditionalism, Vedanta, Walter Heinrich | Comments closed

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The Trial of Socrates:
Plato’s Apology, Part 1 of 2

Greg Johnson

Plato, 1st century marble bust, Capitoline Museum, Rome

45:05 / 399 words

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This is the first of two parts of a lecture on the Platonic dialogue Apology of Socrates to the Jury, which I interpret in the light of Plato’s Euthyphro and Aristophanes’ Clouds.

Published: April 10, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Apology, Aristophanes, Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson, originals, Plato, podcasts, Socrates | Comments closed

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An Open Letter to Kurt Anderson on Charles Krafft

F. C. Stoughton

2,618 words

Dear Mr. Anderson,

Though you claim to have been “heartened to see the vigorous debate” following your interview with Charlie Krafft, your website curiously no longer accepts comments for that episode. Read more …

Published: April 9, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Charles Krafft, F. C. Stoughton, Kurt Anderson, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, reason, revisionism, skepticism, the holocaust | Comments closed

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The Liberating Influences of the Traditional East

Julius Evola

3,292 words

Translation anonymous, edited by Greg Johnson

Editor’s Note:

The following essay was originally published in English in East and West, vol. 2, no. 1 (April 1951): 23–27. This is chapter 1 of Julius Evola, East and West: Comparative Studies in Pursuit of Tradition, ed. Greg Johnson, forthcoming from Counter-Currents in the summer of 2013.

Published: April 8, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, C. G. Jung, Eastern philosophy, Julius Evola, North American New Right, religion, reprints, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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« Vous êtes la merde de ce Monde prête à servir à tout. »
Fight Club, comme vision sainte

Jef Costello

13,182 words

English original here

Je suis le singe de l’espace le plus dévoué de Jack

J’ai hésité à écrire un essai sur Fight Club pendant quelque temps, puisque cela signifierait le viol des deux premières règles du Fight Club. Read more …

Published: April 7, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Brad Pitt, Chuck Palahniuk, Edward Norton, emasculation, end of history, fascism, feminism, Fight Club, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Helena Bonham Carter, homosexuality, in French, in translation, Jef Costello, manliness, movie reviews, religion, the last man, the Männerbund, thumos, Tyler Durden | Comments closed

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Deleuze, Guattari, & the New Right, Part 2

Mark Dyal

3,479 words

“With Platonism, philosophy becomes a police operation.” – Miguel de Beistegui[1]

The Affect of Truth

Published: April 5, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Felix Guattari, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Mark Dyal, nominalism, North American New Right, originals, Plato, Platonism, postmodernism, the Counter-Enlightenment | 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 Trial of Socrates:
Plato’s Euthyphro, Part 2 of 2

Greg Johnson

46:12 / 416 words

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This is the second of two parts of a lecture on the Platonic dialogue Euthyphro, which deals with the nature of piety. As with the Theages, I interpret the Euthyphro as in part a reply to Aristophanes’ Clouds. Read more …

Published: April 3, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Aristophanes, Counter-Currents Radio, Euthyphro, Greg Johnson, originals, piety, Plato, podcasts, Socrates | Comments closed

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A Little Death:
Hegelian Reflections on Body Piercing & Tattoos

Greg Johnson

Antonio Canova’s “Amor and Psyche,” 1793, Louvre

887 words

It is safe to say that urban youth culture in the contemporary West is pretty much saturated with hedonism. Yet in the midst of all this hedonism, tattooing and body piercing are huge industries, and they hurt.

It is, moreover, shared pain, broadcast to and imposed upon all who see it. It is natural for human beings to feel sympathy for people in pain, or who show visible signs of having suffered pain. Perhaps this is a sign of morbid oversensitivity, but I believe I am not the only person who feels sympathy pains when I see tattoos and piercings, especially extensive ones. Read more …

Published: March 28, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, body piercing, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy of history, tattoos | Comments closed

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