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Editor’s Note:

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, Paul Gottfried, Peter Sloterdijk, philosophy of culture, Plato, podcasts, populism, 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 Darryl Cooper on White Nationalism, Pathological Altruism, the Jewish Question, & More

Greg Johnson

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I was interviewed for more than two hours by Darryl Cooper on his The Decline of the West podcast. To listen, click here. I want to thank Darryl for having me on, and I hope this is just first of many conversations. Read more …

Published: September 19, 2016 | Posted in news item | Also tagged biological race differences, conservatism, Darryl Cooper, Greg Johnson, interviews, libertarianism, Oswald Spengler, pathological altruism, Social Credit, technological progress, the Jewish question, the labor movement, the progressive movement, thumos, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Greg Johnson Interviewed by Laura Raim about the Alt Right

Greg Johnson

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American Patriotism

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Translated by Guillaume Durocher.

Editor’s Note:

Taken from Alexis de Tocqueville, De la Démocratie en Amérique (Paris: Gallimard, 1986), vol. 1, “Public Spirit in the United States,” 353-56. The title is editorial.

Natural Rights vs. Human Rights:
A Critique of Alain de Benoist

John Law

6,534 words

Introduction

This essay examines Alain de Benoist’s book Beyond Human Rights, translated into English in 2011 by Arktos, originally published in French in 2004. This book is a powerful condemnation of the Western idea of natural rights, which it claims to be intrinsically associated with the idea that all humans across the world have human rights. It objects to the imposition of human rights obligations on an otherwise multicultural humanity. Read more …

Published: August 13, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Ancient Greece, articles, Beyond Human Rights, book reviews, cosmopolitanism, David Gress, G. W. F. Hegel, Immanuel Kant, John Law, nationalism, North American New Right, philosophy, political theory, reprints, rights, Seyla Benhabib, universalism | Comments closed

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Sortition in Modern Republican Theory

Simon Lote

2,219 words

Republican theorists of the 16th and 17th centuries recognized the merits of sortition, and included the practice when drawing up their ideal constitutions.

Niccolò Machiavelli

In 1520, Niccolò Machiavelli, in a proposal to the Medicis, published the Discourse on the Government of Florence, arguing that none of the previous governments worked for the common good and merely represented the interests of one faction at the expense of the other, be they Medici, aristocratic, or popolo. Read more …

Published: June 20, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Commonwealth of Oceana, democracy, James Harrington, jury nullification, lot, Niccolò Machiavelli, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, Simon Lote, sortition, trial by jury | Comments closed

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Greek & Barbarian

F. Roger Devlin

2,498 words

The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories Edited by Robert B. Strassler
New York: Pantheon, 2007

Independent scholar Robert Strassler has produced far and away the best English edition aimed at the general reader of the work which remains the fountainhead of the Western historical tradition. Let us hope there is still a fit audience out there for it—men, that is, capable of learning what Herodotus has to teach.

An Aristocracy of Industry?
Andrew Fraser’s Reinventing Aristocracy

F. Roger Devlin

Titian, Doge Andrea Gritti, 1544

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Andrew Fraser
Reinventing Aristocracy:
The Constitutional Reformation of Corporate Governance
Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1998

If you own even a single share of stock, you have probably been pestered with letters requiring your opinion on matters of corporate policy well beyond your competence to decide. Read more …