Author Archives: Michael Walker

Michael Walker

Michael Walker is the editor of The Scorpion, http://thescorp.multics.org/.

Alain de Benoist’s Against Liberalism

7,429 words

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Alain de Benoist
Contre le libéralisme: La Société n’est pas un Marché
Monaco: Éditions du Rocher, 2019

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Ailis

Michael Walker

Henry Holiday, Dante and Beatrice (1883)

4,395 words

Google threw up no results and that surprised him. She had been ambitious, determined to become a famous actress, but he had not heard anything about her since she disappeared. Disappeared? That seemed a hard word . . . The Internet told him nothing, or rather by telling him nothing, it told him that in that respect she had failed. Read more …

Published: September 30, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, fiction, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, short story | 12 Responses

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What Capitalism Has Left to Say

Michael Walker

4,996 words / 32:13

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Charles Robin
La gauche du capital: libéralisme culturel et idéologie du Marché
Paris: Krisis, 2014

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Confronting the Ethnomasochists on the High Seas:
Alexander Schleyer’s Defend Europe

Michael Walker

3,363 words / 22:05

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Alexander Schleyer
Defend Europe: Eine Aktion an der Grenze
Steigra: Antaios Verlag, 2018

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National Masochism

Michael Walker

5,736 words

Martin Lichtmesz & Michael Ley (eds.)
Nationalmasochismus
Steigra: Antaios Verlag, 2018

In the Platz der deutschen Einheit (German Unity Square) in Düsseldorf, someone has covered the street name with Simone de Beauvoir Platz. This is one example among many that anyone living in the Federal Republic of Germany may encounter – evidence of the hatred of their country which some Germans feel. Evidence is all around. Read more …

Published: April 18, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Antaios Verlag, articles, book reviews, Caroline Sommerfeld, denazification, ethnomasochism, Germany, Martin Lichtmesz, Michael Klonovsky, Michael Ley, Michael Mannheimer, Michael Walker, Nationalmasochismus, North American New Right, originals, Tilman Nagel | 4 Responses

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Don’t Get Mixed Up with Racism

Michael Walker

Martin Lichtmesz

4,895 words / 31:48

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Martin Lichtmesz
Rassismus: Ein amerikanischer Alptraum
Steigra: Antaios Verlag, 2018

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 227
Baby, Where Did Our Love Go?
Observations on the Unfolding Brexit Drama

Michael Walker

5,280 words/ 34:08

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One thing was obvious about the referendum result of June 23, 2016 – namely, that neither side had expected it. Read more …

Published: February 15, 2019 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, Brexit, David Cameron, European Union, Euroskepticism, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, Theresa May, UKIP, United Kingdom | 10 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 225
Now for My Next Writer . . .

Michael Walker

5,673 words / 36:48

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Tarmo Kunnas
Faszination eines Trugbildes: Die europäische Intelligenz und die faschistischeVersuchung 1919-1945
Brienna Verlag, 2017

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In the Valley of the Fat & Impotent

Michael Walker

4,955 words / 32:02

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The political system of the German Republic is so fashioned as to favor long periods of stable rule under the same head of state, but even by its own standards the term of office of Angela Merkel (uninterrupted since 2005) has been very long. Read more …

Published: November 12, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged Alternative for Germany, Angela Merkel, articles, Christian Democratic Union, Christian Social Union, German politics, Germany, greens, Grundgesetz, mass immigration, Michael Walker, migrant crisis, North American New Right, originals, race replacement | 21 Responses

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Now in Audio Version!
British Politics Today:
Optimism, Pessimism, & Realism

Michael Walker

Theresa May trying (and failing) to be the multicultural Dancing Queen, a clear case of too much optimism.

3,745 words / 25:20

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Counter-Currents readers may be familiar with the name Tai Lopez. Tai Lopez runs commercials which regularly appear on YouTube. He is a self-made millionaire and latter-day preacher of the “God helps those who help themselves” school of economics: Read more …

Published: October 15, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, Brexit, British politics, Conservative Party, environmentalism, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Michael Walker, North American New Right, optimism, originals, pessimism, populism, realism, Theresa May, UKIP, United Kingdom | 5 Responses

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Now in Audio Version!
Environmentalism & White Nationalism:
A Shared Destiny

Michael Walker

4,558 words / 28:30

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Andreas Meißner
Mensch, was nun? Wie wir der ökologischen Krise begegnen können
Münster: Edition Octopus, 2009 Read more …

Published: September 10, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged Andreas Meißner, articles, book reviews, ecology, economic policy, environmentalism, green movement, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, white nationalism | 9 Responses

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Now in Audio Version!
Mussolini, or the Will to Power

Michael Walker

5,082 words / 33:16

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Werner Bräuninger
DUX: Mussolini, oder Der Wille zur Macht
Graz: Ares Verlag, 2018 Read more …

Published: July 20, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, Benito Mussolini, book reviews, dictatorship, Italian fascism, Italy, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, war, Werner Bräuninger | 7 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 218
Rolf Peter Sieferle’s Epochenwechsel

Michael Walker

10,814 words / 1:06:43

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Published: May 25, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, capitalism, environmentalism, Epochenwechsel, free market, Germany, globalization, historical cycles, human rights, mass immigration, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, podcasts, Rolf Peter Sieferle, sustainability | 3 Responses

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Now in Audio Version!
Europe’s Dams are Cracking: A Review

Michael Walker

9,362 words / 59:49

Konrad Windisch, ed.
Europas Dämme bersten: Ursachen, Hintergründe und Folgen des Flüchtlings-Tsunamis
Pähl: Hohe Warte, 2017 Read more …

Published: April 18, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, Christian Social Union, Europas Dämme bersten, European Union, George Soros, Germany, globalization, Konrad Wndisch, mass immigration, Michael Walker, migrant crisis, North American New Right, originals, populism, white ethnocide | 12 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 213
Populism: Beyond Left & Right?
Alain de Benoist’s The Populist Moment

Michael Walker

The faces of European populism today: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.

8,406 words

Alain de Benoist
Le Moment Populiste: Droite-Gauche c’est Fini!
Paris: Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, 2017 Read more …

Published: February 21, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged Alain de Benoist, anti-fascism, articles, book reviews, Brexit, David Goodhart, Donald Trump, education, elitism, European New Right, European Union, Euroskepticism, French New Right, Front National, globalization, GRECE, identity, ideology of progress, Jeremy Corbyn, Le Moment Populiste, Left/Right divide, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, populism, referenda | 6 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 210
Interview with Michael Walker

Michael Walker

550 words / 90:54

Greg Johnson, John Morgan, and Michael Polignano reconvene for a new weekly Counter-Currents Radio podcast. This week, we interview author and founder of the British New Right magazine The Scorpion, Michael Walker. Read more …

Published: January 26, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Tagged anti-intellectualism, Austrian People's Party, Brexit, Counter-Currents Radio, Counter-Currents Radio Weekly, Greg Johnson, Hitler's Temptation, John Morgan, metapolitics, Michael Polignano, Michael Walker, ÖVP, podcasts, populism, Sebastian Kurz, The Return of Odysseus, The Scorpion | 9 Responses

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The Sound of Music:
The Outcome of the Austrian Elections

Michael Walker

Sebastian Kurz

2,416 words

One of the few things which can be stated with any certainty about the consequences of the recent Austrian elections on October 15 is that they are unpredictable, both for Austria and for European politics. The hard Left is out of parliament, the Social Democrats are in disarray, the anti-immigration course of the conservatives under a new, young leader has reaped dividends, and the “far Right” FPÖ has entered a coalition government. Read more …

Published: January 18, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, Austria, Austrian Freedom Party, Austrian People's Party, European Union, Euroskepticism, FPÖ, mass immigration, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, ÖVP, populism, Sebastian Kurz | 1 Response

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Going Somewhere?
A Review of David Goodhart’s The Road to Somewhere

Michael Walker

6,100 words

David Goodhart
The Road to Somewhere: The New Tribes Shaping British Politics
London: Penguin, 2017 Read more …

Published: January 4, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, Brexit, British politics, Conservative Party, David Goodhart, Donald Trump, Labour Party, Left/Right divide, liberal elite, Michael Walker, New Labour, North American New Right, originals, populism, The Road to Somewhere | 2 Responses

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The Devil in the Detail:
A Review of Ryszard Legutko’s The Demon in Democracy

Michael Walker

5,650 words

Published: November 24, 2017 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, Communism, European Union, human rights, language, liberal democracy, liberalism, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, Ryszard Legutko, The Demon in Democracy, totalitarianism | 5 Responses

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Not Going Gentle into That Good Night:
A Review of Two Books on Brexit, Part Two

Michael Walker

2,588 words

Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Published: November 3, 2017 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, Brexit, Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union, David Cameron, European Union, Euroskepticism, Michael Walker, Nigel Farage, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, populism, referenda, UKIP, United Kingdom, valence theory | 1 Response

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Not Going Gentle into That Good Night:
A Review of Two Books on Brexit, Part One

Michael Walker

3,411 words

Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

Published: November 2, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged All Out War, articles, book reviews, Brexit, David Cameron, European Union, Euroskepticism, Michael Walker, Nigel Farage, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, populism, Tim Shipman, UKIP, United Kingdom | 6 Responses

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Defeating Defeatism:
A Review of Derek Turner’s Sea Changes

Michael Walker

4,007 words

Derek Turner (Foreword by Tito Perdue)
Sea Changes
Whitefish, Mt.: Washington Summit Publishers, 2012 Read more …

Published: October 24, 2017 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, defeatism, Derek Turner, England, Jean Raspail, journalists, liberals, mass immigration, Michael Walker, mutliculturalism, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, Sea Changes, The Camp of the Saints, United Kingdom | 3 Responses

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Now in Audio Version!
Understanding Brexit:
A Review of The Bad Boys of Brexit

Michael Walker

4,098 words

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Arron Banks
The Bad Boys of Brexit: Tales of Mischief, Mayhem & Guerrilla Warfare in the EU Referendum Campaign
London: Biteback Publishing, 2017

When I was asked last year by the German-language weekly Junge Freiheit to contribute to their “portrait” series with a piece on Arron Banks, I was in the embarrassing position of having to admit that I had never heard of him. Read more …

Published: October 13, 2017 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged Arron Banks, articles, book reviews, Brexit, Conservative Party, European Union, Euroskepticism, Jo Cox, Michael Walker, Nigel Farage, North American New Right, originals, populism, UKIP, United Kingdom | 2 Responses

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Between Capital & Archaic Socialism

Michael Walker

Jean-Claude Michéa

3,163 words

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Jean-Claude Michéa
Notre Ennemi, le Capital
Paris: Climats, 2016

Following the election of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth President of the United States, there was a flood of YouTube clips of Clinton supporters, mostly female, throwing tantrums of biblical proportions (the reader will know the sort of thing: he rent his garments and covered himself with sackcloth, etc.) which afforded this writer both amusement and bewilderment. The tearful outbursts of grief were without insight or intelligence of any kind, with one exception. Read more …

Published: September 27, 2017 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged 2016 US Presidential Election, book reviews, Brexit, capital, capitalism, centralization, globalization, Jean-Claude Michéa, liberal elite, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, populism, socialism | 5 Responses

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The Spotted Owl & the Elephant in the Room

Michael Walker

3,308 words

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In 1814, the Russian writer Ivan Krylov wrote a fable entitled “The Inquisitive Man”: a man visits a museum and observes all sorts of exhibits while completely overlooking an elephant on show. Read more …

Published: September 19, 2017 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Tagged capitalism, ecology, economics, environmentalism, hunting, Michael Walker, natural resources, North American New Right, originals, overpopulation | 18 Responses

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Left Fault Lines

Michael Walker

2,883 words

Die Politik ist die Lehre vom Möglichen said Otto von Bismarck, Politics is the art of the possible being the usual English translation, although it can also read as Politics is the training of the possible. Read more …

Published: July 17, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, leftists, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, political parties, political strategies, politics | 2 Responses

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The Brexit Precedent

Michael Walker

2,388 words

Direct democracy is usually not favored by those whose priority is stability. An appeal to the voters to decide on specific issues has the virtue of cutting short party division on the issue in question but is notorious for exacerbating old cross-party divisions. The first referendum in Britain was in 1973 and the first nationwide referendum in 1975. Read more …

Published: July 4, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Brexit, Conservative Party, direct democracy, European Union, Great Britain, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, parliamentary democracy, populism, referenda, Theresa May, United Kingdom | 2 Responses

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Thriving in the Populist Matrix

Michael Walker

3,673 words

Five hundred years ago this year (2017), Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to the church door of Wittenberg. It was not the first time that theologians and teachers had protested against certain doctrines and dogma of the Roman Church. There had been, to take two notable examples preceding Luther, John Wycliffe and Jan Hus. Read more …

Published: June 13, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Brexit, Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, Front National, ideological purity, ideology, Marine Le Pen, Martin Luther, mass media, mass movements, Michael Walker, Nigel Farage, North American New Right, originals, populism, social media, UKIP | 2 Responses

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Triumph des Willens

Michael Walker

259 words

“nein Nein Nein!
ich will und werde es nicht
kein Lust dazu, wirklich nicht
Weiß ganz ganz genau, daß ich
niemals Beamter werden will
Nein Papi!
Ich will es einfach nicht, oh nein
Ich will, ich will Künstler sein!”

Published: April 20, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Adolf Hitler, Michael Walker, North American New Right, poems, reprints | Comments closed

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Homage to Robert Brasillach

Michael Walker

294 words

Comme le temps passe
Robert Brasillach

My homage is for the way you lived to die
That I a coward cannot emulate
You knew and wrote
Reason turns malevolent
after childhood disperses
And slumps into mature consideration
You could not have lived with yourself after failing.
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