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Richard Rudgley
The Return of Odin: The Modern Renaissance of Pagan Imagination
Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2018

Richard Rudgley is a British author who has published several books offering unconventional interpretations of the ancient and prehistorical eras of Northern European history, as well as works on psychedelics. Read more …

Published: February 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Asatru Folk Assembly, book reviews, C. G. Jung, Denis Duclos, Germanic paganism, Germanic tradition, John Morgan, Nazi occultism, neopaganism, North American New Right, Odin, Odinism, originals, Richard Rudgley, The Return of Odin, Wotan | 4 Responses

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Attack the System Interview with Robert N. Taylor

Robert N. Taylor

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The following is a transcript of a conversation which took place in November 2012. The transcription was made by Tyler Harding. The original audio is here.

Keith Preston: Good evening, and welcome to Attack the System. I’m your host, Keith Preston, here on Counter-Currents; with me tonight is Mr. Robert N. Taylor.

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Rune Scrape

Robert Hampton

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Sweden may ban the runes to curb racism.

Justice Minister Morgan Johansson is investigating the proposal to see if the ban would stifle “incitement of ethnic hatred.” Along with the runes, several other Norse pagan symbols could be banned under the proposal, such as Mjolnir (Thor’s Hammer) and the Valknut. The move is clearly directed at the Nordic Resistance Movement, which uses a tiwaz rune as its logo, and other White Nationalists. Read more …

Published: May 28, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, North American New Right, originals, paganism, political correctness, Robert Hampton, runes, Sweden, white dispossession | 7 Responses

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What Does It Mean to be True to the Aesir?

Collin Cleary

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, “Aesir Gathered Around the Body of Baldr” (1817)

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“Ásatrú” is a modern coinage meaning “true to the Aesir.” In Old Norse, Aesir is the plural of áss, which is usually translated “god.” In order to understand what it means to be “true to the Aesir,” we must put into question this translation into “god” and “gods.” Indeed, ultimately we must liberate ourselves from the idea of “god” in order to understand who the Aesir are, and our relationship to them. Read more …

Published: March 15, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aesir, apotheosis, articles, Collin Cleary, Germanic paganism, Germanic tradition, heroism, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

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The Ancients on Speaking Rightly

Guillaume Durocher

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We are all faced with the challenge of speaking, and living, truths which are felt to be offensive by a great many of our countrymen, not to mention the powers that be. This is not a new problem. By definition, the natural diversity of men means that knowledge of the truth is highly unequally distributed and those who know most about the truth are necessarily a tiny minority. This minority must alone face the prejudices and ignorance of the masses and the violence of the state. Read more …

Published: June 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, Buddhism, cynicism, Guillaume Durocher, Hesiod, honesty, Julian the Apostate, living well, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

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An Academic Study of the North American New Right

Greg Johnson

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Damon T. Berry
Blood and Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism
Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2017

When I was in graduate school, one of my professors likened grading undergraduate exams to fever dreams, in which the events of the day — or, in his case, a whole semester’s worth of lectures — come back in garbled form. I have had the same experience reading about my ideas in the mainstream media. Read more …

Published: December 31, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ben Klassen, Blood and Faith, book reviews, Christianity, Damon Berry, European New Right, Greg Johnson, metapolitics, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, Revilo Oliver, Savitri Devi, Stephen Flowers, Stephen McNallen, the Christian Question, Tyr, white nationalism, William Pierce | 8 Responses

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Percy Grainger:
Artist of the Right

Alex Graham

Percy Grainger, 1882–1961

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Percy Grainger was a polymath: a pianist, composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist, inventor, artist, polyglot, and man of letters. He was one of the most celebrated pianist-composers of the early twentieth century. His work and writings reflect a worldview marked by both racial consciousness and an opposition to modernity that coexisted alongside radical artistic modernism. Read more …

Published: December 12, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, agrarianism, anti-modernism, articles, Australia, classical music, Edward Grieg, electronic music, folk music, Nordicism, North American New Right, Norway, originals, Percy Grainger, Rudyard Kipling, vegetarianism | 7 Responses

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Kniha Stephena A. McNallena Ásatrú: Původní evropská duchovnost

Collin Cleary

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Stephen A. McNallen
Asatru: A Native European Spirituality
Runestone Press, 2015

Dobrý kazatel

Steva McNallena není radno brát na lehkou váhu. Read more …

Published: June 21, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Collin Cleary, in Czech, in translation, North American New Right, religion, reprints, Steve McNallen | Leave a comment

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La quadrité

Collin Cleary

5,838 words

English original here

1. Introduction

Ceci est le premier de deux essais traitant de la cosmologie germanique. Read more …

Published: February 24, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, in French, in translation, Martin Heidegger, neo-paganism, neopaganism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, phenomenology, philosophy, poetry, religion, the fourfold, the world | Leave a comment

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Greg Johnson Interviews Paul Waggener

Paul Waggener

8,010 words / 45:13

Editor’s Note:

The following text is the transcription by V.S. of Greg Johnson’s interview with Paul Waggener. To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” To subscribe to our podcasts, click here.

Greg Johnson: I’m Greg Johnson. Welcome to Counter-Currents Radio. My guest today is Paul Waggener. Read more …

Published: February 3, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson, interviews, Jack Donovan, North American New Right, Operation Werewolf, originals, paganism, Paul Waggener, physical fitness, podcasts, self-improvement, tribalism, Wolves of Vinland | 2 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast 143
Greg Johnson Interviews Paul Waggener

Paul Waggener

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Greg Johnson interviews Paul Waggener, musician, artist, author, founding member of the folkish pagan group Wolves of Vinland, and head of Operation Werewolf.

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To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” Read more …

Published: January 7, 2016 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson, interviews, Jack Donovan, Operation Werewolf, paganism, Paul Waggener, physical fitness, podcasts, self-improvement, tribalism, Wolves of Vinland | 4 Responses

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Asatru as a Living Tradition

Collin Cleary

New Grange Hall

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Author’s Note:

This essay was an address delivered to the members of the Asatru Folk Assembly on Friday October 16th, at the AFA’s Winter Nights in the Poconos. I wish to thank Steve and Sheila McNallen, Brad Taylor-Hicks, et al., for inviting me, and for their hospitality and friendship. Hail the AFA!

Last month I celebrated the AFA’s acquisition of New Grange Hall with a short essay entitled “What New Grange Hall Means for Us.” Read more …

Published: October 22, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Asatru Folk Assembly, Collin Cleary, creedal religion, Eddas, folk religion, North American New Right, originals, religion, Richard Wagner, Sagas | 26 Responses

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What NewGrange Hall Means for Us

Collin Cleary

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Where should we honor the ancestral gods?

Tacitus wrote of the ancient Germans, “they think it proper neither to confine their gods within walls nor to give them any likeness of human appearance: they consecrate groves and glades and call by the names of gods that intangible quality they see with the eye of reverence alone.”[1] Read more …

Published: September 8, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Asatru Folk Assembly, Collin Cleary, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals | 8 Responses

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Les cadeaux d’Ódhinn et de ses frères

Collin Cleary

La Pierre d’Odin, Gotland, Suède

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English original here

Survol de l’anthropologie germanique

Qu’est-ce que la nature humaine ? C’est peut-être bien la plus importante question philosophique, parce que la philosophie elle-même est singulièrement humaine, et que les « problèmes » philosophiques se présentent seulement aux êtres humains. Tous les grands philosophes ont des réponses explicites ou implicites à cette question. Read more …

Published: August 6, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, in French, in translation, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, Odin, originals, philosophy, religion | Leave a comment

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Stephen A. McNallen’s Asatru: A Native European Spirituality

Collin Cleary

4,882 words

Czech translation here

Stephen A. McNallen
Asatru: A Native European Spirituality
Runestone Press, 2015

The Good Preacher

Steve McNallen is a serious character. Read more …

Published: August 6, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Collin Cleary, North American New Right, originals, religion, Steve McNallen | 10 Responses

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Now Available from Counter-Currents!
Asatru: A Native European Spirituality

Stephen A. McNallen

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Stephen A. McNallen
Asatru: A Native European Spirituality
Runestone Press, 2015
212 pages

Paperback: $17

When Steve McNallen pledged his loyalty to the Gods and Goddesses of Northern Europe in the late 1960s, he could have hardly imagined the far-reaching implications of this personal act of devotion. Read more …

Published: June 18, 2015 | Posted in distributed title, news item, religion | Also tagged distributed title, McNallen book, news item, Stephen A. McNallen | Leave a comment

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On What is a Rune?

Jack Donovan

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Collin Cleary
What is a Rune? and Other Essays
San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing, 2015

As a lifetime “non-believer” who has been delving into Germanic heathen worldviews and traditions for the past year or so, Collin Cleary’s What is a Rune? pulled a few ideas together for me at the right time, introduced some evocative concepts that I’d like to revisit in visual art, and inspired some new questions. Read more …

Published: May 29, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Collin Cleary, Jack Donovan, neo-paganism, North American New Right, paganism, philosophy, religion, reprints, ritual, What is a Rune? | 2 Responses

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La philosophie de Collin Cleary

Greg Johnson

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English original here

Note de l’auteur :

L’essai suivant est mon Introduction éditoriale à la nouvelle anthologie de Collin Cleary What is a Rune? and Other Essays [Qu’est-ce qu’une rune ? et autres essais] à paraître chez Counter-Currents.

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James O’Meara reviews TYR, vol. 4

James J. O'Meara

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TYR: Myth, Culture, Tradition, vol. 4
Ed. Joshua Buckley and Michael Moynihan
North Augusta, SC.: Ultra Press, 2014

Finally receiving the new issue of TYR, one feels torn between wishing that each volume could appear more frequently, or at least more regularly, and on the other hand, appreciation for the time and attention devoted to bringing out such unparalleled collections of articles, interviews and reviews of books and music devoted to the “Myth – Culture – Tradition” of the North by Messrs. Buckley and Moynihan.[1] Read more …

Published: October 27, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Black Metal, book reviews, Collin Cleary, Faustian man, G. I. Gurdjieff, James J. O'Meara, John Michell, Julius Evola, neo-paganism, neofolk, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, popular music, religion, Traditionalism, Tyr | 4 Responses

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Paganism & Christianity, Nietzsche & Evola

Jonathan Bowden

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Editor’s Note:

This text continues the transcript by V. S. of Jonathan Bowden’s interview at the Union Jack Club in London on Saturday, November 21, 2009, after his lecture/performance on Punch and Judy. The title is editorial. Read more …

Published: October 20, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Christianity, ethics, Friedrich Nietzsche, interviews, Jonathan Bowden, Julius Evola, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, religion | 3 Responses

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Ásatrú a politično

Collin Cleary

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English original here

Věnováno Georgi Hockingovi

1. Úvod

Published: August 31, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, in Czech, in translation, neopaganism, North American New Right, Odinism, paganism, philosophy, religion, reprints, white nationalism | Leave a comment

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The Philosophy of Collin Cleary

Greg Johnson

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French translation here

Author’s Note:

The following essay is my Editor’s Introduction to Collin Cleary’s new anthology What is a Rune? and Other Essays, forthcoming from Counter-Currents.

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Jack Donovan’s A Sky Without Eagles

Jef Costello

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Jack Donovan
A Sky Without Eagles: Selected Essays and Speeches 2010-2014
Milwaukie, Or.: Dissonant Hum, 2014

A Sky Without Eagles is Jack Donovan’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to The Way of Men (2012) – which has now sold an astonishing ten thousand copies. This anthology collects a number of essays and talks Donovan has given since 2010. Read more …

Published: July 15, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A Sky Without Eagles, book reviews, emasculation, Hans-Peter Hasenfratz, infantilization, Jack Donovan, Jef Costello, manliness, neo-paganism, North American New Right, Odinism, originals, paganism, Robert E. Howard, the Männerbund | 15 Responses

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The Presence of the Past:
From Ancestor Worship to Hauntology

Christopher Pankhurst

William Blake, “Hamlet and his Father’s Ghost”

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We never manage to bury the dead completely. Their words still echo down to us from beyond life’s event horizon in direct contravention of physical law. Our stance towards death is a determining factor in how the dead return to us; in what form and with what significance they haunt the living. Although they are always there, the ways in which they interact with us vary and shift through time. And, at the present time, there is a strange blend of residual religious funerary rites and atheistic materialism. It feels very much as though we go through the motions of dispatching the dead to the next world without believing a word of it. Read more …

Published: June 9, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancestor worship, Anglo-Saxons, articles, Beowulf, capitalism, Christopher Pankhurst, Frederick Jameson, Freyr, funeral rites, ghosts, Hamlet, hautology, Jacques Derrida, literature, M. R. James, Marxism, North American New Right, nostalgia, originals, Spectres of Marx, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, The Shining, William Shakespeare | 6 Responses

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Traitor to the Gods

Gregory Hood

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“Odinist” Glenn Miller wearing Christian emblem of the KKK

The purpose of contemporary political debate is not to discover truth, but to tag your opponent with positions he can’t defend. Like in other marketplaces, the man who profits most in the “marketplace of ideas” isn’t the one with the best product, but the one who is the best salesman, the slickest talker, and the best psychological manipulator.

Published: April 17, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Frazier Glenn Miller, Glenn Miller, Gregory Hood, metapolitics, neo-paganism, North American New Right, Odinism, reprints, spree killers | 9 Responses

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The Poetry of D. Jonathan Jones

Christopher Pankhurst

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D. Jonathan Jones
3 Paths Through Midgard: A Rune Poem
Portland, Or.: Ravenshalla Arts, 2010

D. Jonathan Jones
The Songs
Read more …

Published: January 15, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 3 Doors of Midgard, book reviews, Christopher Pankhurst, D. Jonathan Jones, North American New Right, originals, poetry, runes, The Songs | 1 Response

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 67
Labors of Love:
Greg Johnson interviews Juleigh
Howard-Hobson on Poetry & Life

Counter-Currents Radio

45:40 / 146 words

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Greg Johnson interviews poetess Juleigh Howard-Hobson, author of “I do not belong to the Baader-Meinhof Group” and Other Poems. Read more …

Published: November 29, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson, higher education, homeschooling, interviews, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, neo-paganism, podcasts, poetry, World War I | 3 Responses

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Asatro och det politiska

Collin Cleary

7,420 words

English original here

Denna uppsats är tillägnad George Hocking.

1. Inledning

Finns det ett samband mellan asatro och vit nationalism? Read more …

Published: August 31, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, in Swedish, in translation, neopaganism, North American New Right, Odinism, paganism, philosophy, religion, reprints, white nationalism | Leave a comment

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Vad är en Runa?

Collin Cleary

Viking rune stone and grave mounds at Anundshog

3,713 words

English original here

Författarens kommentar:

Den här artikeln presenterades vid en nyligen hållen sammankomst av Rune-Gild i Bastrop, Texas. Den är med respekt och tillgiven dedikerad till Edred Thorsson och hans fru Crystal Dawn. Read more …

Published: August 31, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, in Swedish, in translation, myth, neo-paganism, North American New Right, philosophy, religion, reprints, runes | Leave a comment

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Gåvorna från Oden och hans bröder

Collin Cleary

Odin Stone, Gotland, Sweden

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Dr. Collin Cleary tolkar här den germanska skapelseberättelsen (antropogenin) ur ett filosofiskt perspektiv. Vad säger Eddornas berättelser om hur Oden och hans bröder skapade människorna i Midgård utav två träd – Ask och Embla – om oss nordeuropéer, vår mänskliga natur, vår strävan och vår nuvarande situation? Read more …