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El documental de Joseph Dorman, Arguing the World (1998), y el respectivo libro (Arguing the World: The New York Intellectuals in their Own Words, 2000) cuentan la historia de cuatro intelectuales judíos de Nueva York. — Daniel Bell (1919–2011), Nathan Glazer (1923), Irving Kristol (1920–2009), y Irving Howe (1920–1993) — quienes tuvieron un impacto tremendo y duradero en ámbitos académicos, decisiones políticas y la cultura en general. Read more …

Published: November 26, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1960s counterculture, Arguing the World, Daniel Bell, documentaries, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, Irving Howe, Irving Kristol, metapolitics, movie reviews, Nathan Glazer, Neocons, neoconservatives, New Left, New York Intellectuals, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, Theodor Adorno, Trotskyism | Comments closed

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The Northwest Forum
What’s Wrong with the Arts

Charles Krafft

Charles Krafft in his bunker

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Published: November 24, 2016 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged abstract expressionism, Charles Krafft, CIA, Counter-Currents Radio, hobby crafts, modern art, originals, podcasts, political correctness, the arts, The Northwest Forum | Comments closed

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What the Neocons Got Right:
A Review of Arguing the World

Greg Johnson

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Spanish translation here

Joseph Dorman’s documentary Arguing the World (1998) and its companion book (Arguing the World: The New York Intellectuals in their Own Words, 2000) tells the story of four New York Jewish intellectuals — Daniel Bell (1919–2011), Nathan Glazer (b. 1923), Irving Kristol (1920–2009), and Irving Howe (1920–1993) — who went on to have a tremendous and enduring impact not just on academia, but on political policy and the culture at large. Read more …

Published: October 10, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Arguing the World, Daniel Bell, documentaries, Greg Johnson, Irving Howe, Irving Kristol, metapolitics, movie reviews, Nathan Glazer, Neocons, neoconservatives, New Left, New York Intellectuals, North American New Right, originals, the 1960s counter-culture, the Jewish question, Theodor Adorno, Trotskyism | Comments closed

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All Bark, No Bite:
Michael Walsh on the Frankfurt School

Spencer Quinn

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Michael Walsh
The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West
New York: Encounter Books, 2015

I had high hopes for Michael Walsh’s The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: a mini-history of the Frankfurt School and its pernicious effects on Western Civilization. This is a story that definitely needs to be told, even if the horse we’re beating has been dying for a while now. Read more …

Published: June 24, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, conservatives, cuckservatives, Michael Walsh, neo-conservatism, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Spencer Quinn, The Devil's Pleasure Palace, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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Frankfurt School Revisionism

Jonathan Bowden

Max Horkheimer & Theodor Adorno

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This is the transcript by V. S. of Richard Spencer’s Vanguard Podcast interview of Jonathan Bowden about the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism, released on February 16, 2012. You can listen to the podcast here.

Richard Spencer: Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Vanguard! And welcome back, Jonathan Bowden, Read more …

Published: June 3, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged classical music, cultural criticism, cultural Marxism, elitism, Herbert Marcuse, interviews, Jonathan Bowden, Marxism, Max Horkheimer, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Richard Spencer, Richard Wagner, the 1960s counter-culture, Theodor Adorno | Comments closed

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Roger Scruton’s Fools, Frauds & Firebrands

Theo Sonnenheim

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Roger Scruton
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
New York: Bloomsbury, 2015

The recently published Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by the British conservative philosopher Roger Scruton is a revised and updated version of a book he wrote three decades ago. In the Introduction, he recalls how the previous publication was received with pure horror: Read more …

Published: January 22, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Fools Frauds and Firebrands, György Lukács, Marxism, New Left, North American New Right, originals, postmodernism, Roger Scruton, Slavoj Žižek, the left, Theo Sonneheim | Comments closed

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Ezra Pound on Endless Trial

Alex Fontana

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Robert Casillo
The Genealogy of Demons: Anti-Semitism, Fascism, and the Myths of Ezra Pound
Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 1988.

Robert Casillo’s The Genealogy of Demons is unique in Pound studies because the explicit purpose of it is to give critical insight into Pound’s anti-Semitism, and it accomplishes this by way of multiple techniques, which it must employ, because Pound’s anti-Semitism is prismatic. Read more …

Published: October 10, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Fontana, Argentina, book reviews, C. G. Jung, collectivism, Ezra Pound, fascism, individualism, North American New Right, originals, Robert Casillo, Sigmund Freud, Social Credit, The Genealogy of Demons, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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Speaking Freely

Jonathan Bowden

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The following text is the transcript by V.S. of the question and answer session following Jonathan Bowden’s lecture “T. S. Eliot” at the 34th New Right Meeting in London on Saturday, August 6, 2011. Read more …

Published: September 8, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged deconstruction, Herbert Marcuse, interviews, Jonathan Bowden, literary criticism, literature, North American New Right, originals, Paul de Man, political correctness, Protestantism, T. S. Eliot, the Jewish question, Theodor Adorno | Comments closed

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Forgetting Max Horkheimer:
February 14, 1895 to July 7, 1973

Alex Kurtagić

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Max Horkheimer died 41 years ago today. Director of the Institute of Social Research from 1930 till 1953, Horkheimer was a leader of the Frankfurt School, a group that became identified with Critical Theory, a wholly speculative concoction blending Marxism and Freudian psychoanalysis.

“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 …