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The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 5
The Decline & Rebirth of the West

4,071 words

Part 5 of 5

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011 Read more …

Published: April 5, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, book reviews, capitalism, Collin Cleary, democracy, G. W. F. Hegel, history, liberalism, modernity, North American New Right, originals, Ricardo Duchesne, sociology, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Thomas Hobbes | Comments closed

The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 4
The Construction of the Western Self

Clemency of Marcus Aurelius, detail, Capitoline Museum

3,381 words

Part 4 of 5

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011

The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 3
Hegel & the Struggle for Recognition

G. W. F. Hegel, 1770-1831

4,986 words

Part 3 of 5

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011

7. Hegel and the Struggle for Recognition

Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 2

3,686 words

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011

5. What about the East?

The revisionists’ favorite non-Western people seems to be the Chinese. Read more …

Published: April 2, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, book reviews, China, Collin Cleary, cultural relativism, Faustian man, G. W. F. Hegel, history, Marvin Harris, Marxism, Max Weber, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, political correctness, Ricardo Duchesne, sociology, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, William McNeill | Comments closed

The Beginning & the End of History

Greg Johnson

1,493 words

The duel to the death over honor is a remarkable phenomenon. Animals duel over dominance, which insures their access to mates. But these duels result in death only by accident, because the whole process is governed by their survival instincts, and their “egos” do not prevent them from surrendering when the fight is hopeless. Read more …

Published: March 15, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, articles, C. S. Lewis, capitalism, David Hume, Francis Fukuyama, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, honor, John Locke, liberalism, manliness, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, the bourgeoisie, Thomas Hobbes, warrior ethics | Comments closed

Counter-Currents Radio
Plato on Courage:
An Introduction to the Laches

Greg Johnson

71:41 / 198 words

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The following lecture is an introductory treatment of Plato’s dialogue Laches. It was given on December 20, 2000, to a circle of friends and students in Atlanta. Read more …

Published: January 24, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, courage, ethics, Greg Johnson, Laches, manliness, morality, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, Sigmund Freud, Socrates, warrior ethics, wisdom | Comments closed

Red Dawn (1984)

Gregory Hood

3,819 words

Successful action films come twice – the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Red Dawn is a classic of the Cold War, a near perfect encapsulation of the unique psyche of Conservativus Americanus during the long twilight struggle against Soviet Communism. Perhaps despite itself, it also contains Traditionalist themes that make it a true classic of the authentic Right.

Published: December 13, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Gregory Hood, gun control, guns, John Milius, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Red Dawn, Red Dawn (1984), warrior ethics | Comments closed

May the Whiter Man Win

2,306 words

Mitt Romney is my guy! Not that I actually intend to vote for him. I probably won’t – unless certain things stirring within me just overcome my better judgment Read more …

Published: October 15, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2012 US Presidential Election, articles, Barack Obama, Jef Costello, Mitt Romney, North American New Rights, originals, presidential debates, racism | Comments closed

Jack Donovan’s The Way of Men

5,809 words

Jack Donovan
The Way of Men
Portland, Or.: Dissonant Hum, 2012

1. The Way of Men is the Way of the Gang

How do you define masculinity? If you listen to today’s feminist-approved “authorities” on the subject you will be told either that masculinity means nothing at all — that it is “constructed” differently from place to place or time to time — or you will be told that masculinity is now being “redefined.” Read more …

Published: March 26, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, book reviews, Carl Schmitt, Christianity, courage, D. H. Lawrence, emasculation, ethics, feminism, Fight Club, Friedrich Nietzsche, honor, Jack Donovan, Jef Costello, manliness, neo-paganism, paganism, Plato, sex roles, sexuality, the Männerbund, The Way of Men, violence | Comments closed

Podcast no. 2
Interview with Kevin MacDonald

Kevin MacDonald

43 minutes/6,038 words

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Published: January 24, 2012 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Anders Behring Breivik, conservatives, Emma West, ethnomasochism, Greg Johnson, individualism, interviews, Kevin MacDonald, mental illness, Michael Polignano, Nassir Ghaemi, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, Puritanism, Republicans, trust, white nationalism, xenophilia | Comments closed

“You Are the All-Singing, All-Dancing Crap of the World”
Fight Club as Holy Writ

11,660 words

French translation here

1. I am Jack’s Most Devoted Space Monkey

I have hesitated to write an essay on Fight Club for some time, as it would mean breaking the first two rules of Fight Club. Read more …

Published: January 9, 2012 | 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, Jef Costello, manliness, movie reviews, philosophy, religion, the last man, the Männerbund, Tyler Durden | Comments closed

Dystopia is Now!

4,648 words

Whatever happened to the Age of Anxiety? In the post-war years, intellectuals left and right were constantly telling us — left and right — that we were living in an age of breakdown and decay. Read more …

Published: January 4, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1984, Aldous Huxley, articles, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Brave New World, dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, Francois Truffaut, George Orwell, Jean Raspail, Jef Costello, Nineteen Eighty-Four, North American New Right, originals, Ray Bradbury, The Camp of the Saints, white dispossession | Comments closed

Geldings

2,457 words

Swedish translation here

A few Sundays ago I was spending the latter part of my evening in my favorite bar. My bar doesn’t play any loud music and the bartender shushes people if they get too boisterous. Read more …

Published: March 15, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, emasculation, feminism, Jef Costello, manliness, modernity, North American New Right, originals, Plato | Comments closed

Reflections on Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political

Greg Johnson

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

2,158 words

“Why can’t we all get along?”–Rodney King

Carl Schmitt’s short book The Concept of the Political (1932) is one of the most important works of 20th century political philosophy.

The aim of The Concept of the Political is the defense of politics from utopian aspirations to abolish politics. Anti-political utopianism includes all forms of liberalism as well as international socialism, global capitalism, anarchism, and pacifism: in short, all social philosophies that aim at a universal order in which conflict is abolished.

Published: February 24, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, Aristotle, articles, book reviews, Carl Schmitt, Francis Fukuyama, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, liberalism, North American New Right, on Schmitt, originals, philosophy, Plato, political philosophy, The Concept of the Political, universalism, white nationalism | Comments closed