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Published: March 11, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, culture, folk art, Jonathan Bowden, oratory, podcasts, Punch and Judy, theater | Comments closed

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A Fisherman’s Wake

James Holbeyfield

2,099 words

My old skipper died not long ago. He had sold his last fishing boat almost twenty years before and gone on to other endeavors, and I had been out of touch with him for several years when I heard he’d become gravely ill. Read more …

Published: March 1, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Jack Donovan, James Holbeyfield, manliness, North American New Right, oratory, originals | Comments closed

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Politicized Science vs. Scientific Politics

Alex Kurtagić

Gabriel von Max, “The Vivisectionist,” 1883, detail

2,731 words

It may seem ironic for those who are said to have “far Right views,” but perhaps one of the biggest obstacles in the struggle for the West is the far Right’s obsession with the scientific understanding of human races. It is not so much that scientific knowledge about race is irrelevant to our political purpose (which is the struggle for the West), but, rather, that this science is thought to possess a political utility it does not and will never have.

Published: December 17, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, biological race differences, egalitarianism, ethics, liberalism, metapolitics, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, political philosophy, science, social psychology, white nationalism | Comments closed

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A Note on the Art of Political Conversion

T. E. Hulme

Thomas Ernest Hulme, 1883–1917

3,338 words

Some day a wonderful book will be written on the art of persuasion, a new sophistic. One may suppose that psychology will ultimately become as complete a science as geometry and mechanics are now. It will be possible then to predict the effect of an argument on a man’s mind as surely as one can now predict the eclipse of the moon. On the basis of this developed science will be built an infallible set of rules for converting a man to any opinion you like. Read more …

Published: December 3, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, elite psychology, elites, free trade, Gustave Le Bon, history, liberalism, mass psychology, North American New Right, propaganda, reprints, social psychology, T. E. Hulme | Comments closed

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Hitler as Orator

Andrew Hamilton

Hitler practicing oratory by Heinrich Hoffman

3,006 words

“I know that men are won over less by the written than by the spoken word, that every great movement on this earth owes its growth to orators and not to great writers.” — Adolf Hitler, “Author’s Preface,” Mein Kampf (James Murphy trans., 1939)

Houston Peterson, compiler of A Treasury of the World’s Great Speeches (1965), believed that “eloquent speech” (oratory) originated deep in the prehistoric past among men “who cast spells over their fellows with the magic of words. Read more …

Published: June 1, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Andrew Hamilton, articles, North American New Right, oratory, originals | Comments closed

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Avant-garde, esthétique, révolution

Alex Kurtagić

Eugène Delacroix, « La Liberté Guidant le peuple », 1839

3,357 words

English original here

J’ai critiqué à diverses occasions la tendance parmi un sous-groupe de nationalistes raciaux à s’autoriser des fantaisies révolutionnaires improbables : Read more …

Published: June 1, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, Alex Kurtagic, articles, in French, in translation, mainstreamers, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, revolution, social psychology, utopianism, vanguardism | Comments closed

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Hitler’s Speeches

Andrew Hamilton

Adolf Hitler, Sportpalast, Berlin, Germany, September 14, 1930

2,882 words

I read that Hitler delivered about 5,000 major speeches during his lifetime running to many thousands of pages. I am unaware whether a comprehensive listing of his speeches, or any reliable word count, exists. I suspect they do not. Read more …

Published: May 30, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Andrew Hamilton, articles, Jonathan Bowden, North American New Right, oratory, originals, William Pierce | Comments closed

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On Oratory

Andrew Hamilton

Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, "Demosthenes Practicing Oratory," 1870

3,389 words

There is a vast gulf between oratory, on the one hand, and public speaking on the other.

By oratory I mean the art of speaking in the style we associate with great orators of the Western past, not elaborate, formal, public discourses treating important topics in a stiff, formal, or dignified manner.

Published: May 18, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Andrew Hamilton, articles, Cicero, Daniel Webster, David Hume, Demosthenes, Henry Clay, Jonathan Bowden, North American New Right, oratory, originals, Patrick Henry, public speaking, Thomson Jay Hudson | Comments closed

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Vanguard, Aesthetics, Revolution

Alex Kurtagić

Eugène Delacroix, "Liberty Leading the People," 1839

3,377 words

German translation here

I have on various occasions criticized the tendency among a subset of racial nationalists to indulge in improbable revolutionary fantasies, where the liberal system collapses, Read more …

Published: May 1, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, Alex Kurtagic, articles, mainstreamers, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, revolution, social psychology, utopianism, vanguardism, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Maîtres de l’Univers

Alex Kurtagić

4,750 words

English original here

Note de la Rédaction :

Voici le discours d’Alex Kurtagic Durant la conférence du National Policy Institute à Washington D.C., le 10 septembre 2011.

Il y a deux ans, j’ai posé la question : « Que faudra-t-il ? » Read more …

Published: October 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, fashion, in French, in translation, North American New Right, originals, political psychology, social identity theory, style, subcultures, white activism, white nationalism, white racial consciousness | Comments closed

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Masters of the Universe

Alex Kurtagić

4,401 words

French translation here

Editor’s Note:

This is Alex Kurtagic’s speech from the National Policy Institute conference in Washington, D.C., September 10, 2011.

Two years ago I asked the question, “What will it take?” Read more …

Published: September 23, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, fashion, North American New Right, political psychology, reprints, social identity theory, style, subcultures, white activism, white nationalism, white racial consciousness | Comments closed

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American Restorationist Fashion

Matt Parrott

Fascist Fashion

932 words

Alex Kurtagic’s recent article, “Mastery of Style Trumps Superiority of Argument,” underlines the importance of developing an attractive image for our movement, one that appeals to our aesthetic tastes and offers a true alternative to the hostile establishment’s status indicators. But what would that style actually be?

Published: September 14, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, fashion, manliness, Matt Parrott, North American New Right, originals, social psychology, status consciousness, style, the Tea Party, white activism, white racial consciousness, white subcultures | Comments closed

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Mastery of Style Trumps Superiority of Argument

Alex Kurtagić

1,203 words

Douglas Olson is also correct in pointing out in “Whites – Are We Still Worthy?” that much of the reason for white inaction is the fact that, notwithstanding the decades of concessions to the Left, whites are still relatively comfortable; they are still wealthy and they are still able to find, albeit admittedly in diminishing quantities, geographical refuge and juridical sanctuary. Read more …

Published: September 7, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, Douglas Olson, fashion, political psychology, social identity theory, style, subcultures, white activism, white nationalism, white racial consciousness, white subcultures | Comments closed

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