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4,673 words

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I grew up in the final years of the Cold War. If you aren’t old enough to remember the Cold War, let me tell you that it was a trip.

Machine Gun Hail

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

2,433 words

These fought, in any case,
and some believing, pro domo, in any case. . .
. . .some in fear, learning love of slaughter;
Died some pro patria, non dulce non et decor. . .

walked eye-deep in hell Read more …

Published: May 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, communitarianism, death, ennui, heroism, LARPing, modernity, nationalism, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, war | 6 Responses

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Philosophical Psychopathy:
Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro”

Beau Albrecht

3,841 words

Norman Mailer became a much-celebrated author of several novels, some quite dreadful, as well as a founder of The Village Voice. He wrote numerous essays, of which “The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster” became the most famous. It essentially served as an iconic manifesto for the nascent Counterculture. The following is a distillation and analysis of its ponderous sentences and floating abstractions. Read more …

Published: May 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1960s counterculture, America in the 1960s, articles, Beau Albrecht, hippies, miscegnation, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism, psychopathy | 13 Responses

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Heidegger without Being

Greg Johnson

2,101 words

The following brief introduction to Martin Heidegger’s philosophy does not discuss the concept of Being (Sein), simply because there’s no need to.

The Purgative Fantasy

William de Vere

Albertus Pictor, Death Playing Chess, 1480-90.

2,823 words

There is something sinister in the springtime this year. Rather than a serving as a yearly reminder of rebirth and natural beauty, the blooming trees and emergent grasses wear the face of some ancient enemy, awoken from its long slumber. The spreading pestilence makes one long for the dormancy and stasis of winter.

This atmosphere of dread has infected every dimension of our lives. Read more …

Published: March 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged accelerationism, apocalypse, articles, coronavirus, COVID-19, ecology, extinction, Kali Yuga, nature, North American New Right, originals, religion, Rene Guénon, Savitri Devi, William de Vere | 5 Responses

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Vision Quest

Stan the Man

905 words

I recently went with a friend to deliver some groceries to a guy who had a medical problem and couldn’t get to the store. We went to this person’s house and found him on his couch, watching The Breakfast Club on video. Read more …

Published: March 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, atomization, mysticism, New Age, North American New Right, originals, religion, Stan the Man | 4 Responses

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The Strange Legacy of Crack Rock Steady

Howe Abbott-Hiss

Leftover Crack, live in Cologne, 2006.

1,207 words

“You cannot edit strength and beauty out of life.” — Bronze Age Pervert

Punk music is often connected with left-wing anarchism. In connection with this philosophy, it ostensibly rejects traditional aesthetics and order, but in reality, practically everyone still prefers harmony over chaos, and this is reflected in the music. Read more …

Published: February 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Howe Abbott-Hiss, North American New Right, originals, punk music, spirituality | 6 Responses

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R. R. Reno’s Return of the Strong Gods

Quintilian

1,694 words

R. R. Reno
Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West
Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 2019

Most of the people who come to the Dissident Right do so in spite of the Dissident Right. It is a common experience for those who become red-pilled to discover that the hatred they have experienced from the Establishment for the “sins” of being white or heterosexual or male Read more …

Published: January 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged atomization, Baby Boomers, book reviews, Christianity, F. A. Hayek, Frankfurt School, Karl Popper, liberalism, Max Horkheimer, North American New Right, originals, paganism, populism, Quintilian, Theodor Adorno, Transcendence | 28 Responses

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Mishima’s Life for Sale

Alex Graham

1,153 words

Yukio Mishima
Life for Sale
Translated by Stephen Dodd
London: Penguin Books, 2019

This past year has seen three new English translations of novels by Yukio Mishima: The Frolic of the Beasts, Star, and now Life for Sale, a pulpy, stylish novel that offers an incisive satire of post-war Japanese society. Read more …

Published: August 28, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, book reviews, Japan, literature, masochism, North American New Right, originals, satire, suicide, Yukio Mishima | Leave a comment

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Can a New Elite Save Us?
Martin Gurri’s The Revolt of the Public & the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

Donald Thoresen

5,290 words

Martin Gurri
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
San Francisco: Stripe Press, 2018

Though the recent wave of social media censorship has been particularly harsh, those active in Rightist politics are well aware that the struggle between corporate and governmental information controllers and political dissidents is not new. Read more …

Published: July 15, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authority, book reviews, Donald Thoresen, elites, illiberal democracy, North American New Right, originals, social media | Leave a comment

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Cioran:
Aesthete of Despair

Alain Soral

Emil Cioran

495 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note:

The following is Alain Soral’s negative assessment of Emil Cioran, as contained in his “dictionary” of aphorisms. While this appraisal is not exactly fair, the text expresses some understandable frustration with the nihilist Cioran and gives one a sense of the oppressive atmosphere, for Right-wingers, of the postwar French literary scene. Read more …

Published: January 15, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aestheticism, Alain Soral, articles, Emil Cioran, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, pessimism, translations | Leave a comment

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The Counter-Currents 2018 Fundraiser
Assimilation = Nihilism

Greg Johnson

991 words

In the last week, we have received 16 donations totaling $2,605 for which we are enormously grateful. Our goal this year is to raise $70,000. So far, we have received 125 donations totaling $19,152.27. Read more …

Published: August 31, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2018 Fundraiser, assimilationism | Leave a comment

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Sky King

Richard Houck

Richard Russell

921 words

Around 9 PM Pacific Time on August 10th, a 29-year-old man named Richard Russell, stole a Q400 airplane from Seattle Tacoma International Airport and went for a joyride into the abyss. Two F-15 fighter planes were scrambled to follow Rich, who eventually crashed into a wooded area a little over an hour after takeoff, killing only himself.

Ronald Beiner’s Dangerous Minds

Greg Johnson

4,862 words

Ronald Beiner
Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018

Ronald Beiner is a Canadian Jewish political theorist who teaches at the University of Toronto. I’ve been reading his work since the early 1990s, starting with What’s the Matter with Liberalism? (1992). Read more …

Published: April 23, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Dugin, book reviews, cyclical history, egalitarianism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, Martin Heidegger, meaning, North American New Right, originals, Richard Spencer, the holocaust | 22 Responses

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Poznámky k nihilismu

Greg Johnson

3,758 slov

English original here

Často se říká, že nihilismus je jednou z nejvýraznějších charakteristik naší moderní doby – co to ale vlastně nihilismus vůbec je? Nihilismus znamená cosi jako „smrt“ Boha, popření objektivního smyslu a hodnot, rozostření morálních kategorií a hierarchií, rozklad společného světa na individuální náhledy i společné kultury do subjektivních „osobních preferencí.“ Read more …

Published: March 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ernst Cassirer, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, in Czech, myth, North American New Right, philosophy, religion, reprints, Søren Kierkegaard, Star Trek, technology, The Borg, values, will | Leave a comment

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Libertarian Fake Psychology
& Other Thoughts on Recent YouTube Debates

Alan Smithee

2,097 words

Good and Evil

One of the most popular lines of argument against our recent arguments in defense of paternalism (see here, here and here) goes something like this: “If evil doesn’t meaningfully exist as a choice, then neither does good.”

Where does anyone get off with such nonsense? Read more …

Published: January 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, assimilation, drug legalization, ethnocentrism, ethnonationalism, Greg Johnson, libertarianism, Mike Enoch, misanthropy, North American New Right, originals, Prohibition, welfare | 15 Responses

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Men of Janus

Veiko Hessler

2,342 words

We are living in an age of dissolution. Every institution of government and society is in a state of seemingly terminal decline. At the individual level the notions of honor, personal responsibility, and self-sacrifice have largely vanished from public life. The cause of this malaise is not material inequality, but the collapse of faith. Read more …

Published: December 7, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, atheism, Catholicism, Christianity, modernity, North American New Right, originals, paganism, Protestantism, Veiko Hessler | 7 Responses

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Yukio Mishima’s The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Alex Graham

1,416 words

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea remains imprinted upon the mind long after one has read it. It is one of Mishima’s shorter novels, but its tightly-woven narration heightens the intensity of the atmosphere, simulating a taut bowstring upon readying an arrow.

The novel takes place in Yokohama, Japan’s leading port city, during the American occupation, and unfolds mainly from the perspective of a 13-year-old boy by the name of Noboru Kuroda. Read more …

Published: December 4, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, articles, book reviews, bushido, Japan, literature, manliness, modernity, North American New Right, originals, warrior ethics, Yukio Mishima | 4 Responses

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Beauty & Destruction in Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Alex Graham

2,042 words

In 1950, the Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Kinkaku-ji) in Kyoto was burned to the ground by a young monk. The temple had been built in the fourteenth century and was the finest example of the architecture of the Muromachi period. Covered in gold leaf and crowned with a copper-gold phoenix, it projected an image of majesty and serene beauty. It had been designated a National Treasure in 1897 and was considered a national symbol in Japan. Read more …

Published: November 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, articles, book reviews, egalitarianism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Japan, literature, North American New Right, originals, resentment, Yukio Mishima | 3 Responses

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Q&A about Heidegger

Jonathan Bowden

1,527 words

Editor’s Note:

This is the transcription by V. S. of the Q&A session after Jonathan Bowden’s lecture on Martin Heidegger, which has recently been published in Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics. — Greg Johnson

Q: I’ve noticed that Leftists systematically completely misunderstand what Heidegger meant by “nihilism.” Read more …

Published: August 28, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Giovanni Gentile, interviews, Jonathan Bowden, Julius Evola, Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Theodor Adorno, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

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Between Pragmatism & the Transcendent:
A Review of Brett Stevens’ Nihilism

Christopher Pankhurst

1,956 words

Brett Stevens
Nihilism: A Philosophy Based in Nothingness and Eternity
Colac, Australia: Manticore Press, 2016

The title of Brett Stevens’ new book, Nihilism: A Philosophy Based in Nothingness and Eternity, inclined me to think that this work would be in the same vein as other works of pessimist philosophy such as Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, or Eugene Thacker’s Horror of Philosophy trilogy. Read more …

Published: January 5, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Christopher Pankhurst, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | 5 Responses

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Mircea Eliade & the Rediscovery of the Sacred

Guillaume Durocher

1,409 words

Mircea Eliade et la Redécouverte du Sacré (YouTube, Romanian subtitles)

Mircea Eliade was a traditionalist Romanian novelist and philosopher. Following the disaster of the Second World War, he moved to Paris and Chicago, becoming a respected and influential historian of religions. He acquired something of the status of a guru, as poignantly told in the 1987 documentary Mircea Eliade et la Redécouverte du Sacré. Read more …

Published: September 20, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, documentaries, Guillaume Durocher, Mircea Eliade, movie reviews, mythology, North American New Right, originals, religion, Romania, the numinous, Traditionalism | 8 Responses

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Albion’s Hidden Numina
Joy Division

Christopher Pankhurst

3,156 words

Joy Division left us with the most relentlessly depressing body of songs since Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder. In some ways, though, this singularity of approach, this lack of light touches to add color to the palate, is responsible for making them enduringly fascinating. Read more …

Published: August 15, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Albion's Hidden Numina, articles, Christopher Pankhurst, Joy Division, North American New Right, originals, popular music, post-punk, the numinous, the occult | 15 Responses

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Francis Bacon:
The Dark Theology of Meat

Christopher Pankhurst

2,046 words

Francis Bacon, 1909–1992

Francis Bacon was an extraordinary and extreme artist and one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century. He was also a Right-wing elitist and individualist who approached the problem of creating art in the twentieth century with an honesty and intensity that have not really been matched. Generally speaking, it is probably true to say that most of the Right dismiss Bacon along with other contemporary artists mainly because of his unique treatment of the human form. But in my view his art enunciates a violent assault on the complacency of conventional thinking and perception that should be seen as deeply consonant with the project of the Alt Right. Read more …

Published: June 9, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art criticism, articles, Christopher Pankhurst, exhibition reviews, Francis Bacon, modern art, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

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How to Be Grumpy:
Aaron Clarey’s The Curse of the High IQ

Ann Sterzinger

2,491 words

Aaron Clarey
The Curse of the High IQ
CreateSpace, 2016

What’s it like to have nothing to lean on in this bleak world but nihilism?

Aaron Clarey’s new book, The Curse of the High IQ, takes an exceedingly unromantic look at the misfit misery of being too smart. Read more …

Published: April 18, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged alienation, Ann Sterzinger, atheism, book reviews, economics, freedom of speech, IQ, liberal education, North American New Right, originals, the manosphere | 8 Responses

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A Waste of Space:
Some Thoughts on the Fabulous Career of Philip Johnson, Architect

James J. O'Meara

5,595 words

“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.” — Philip Johnson[1]

“You know I’ve always wanted to pretend to be an architect.” — George Costanza [2]

“Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party” — Mel Brooks, The Producers

Damn you, Philip Johnson! Read more …

Published: December 10, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged architecture, articles, Francis Parker Yockey, Friedrich Nietzsche, homosexuality, James J. O'Meara, modern architecture, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Ralph Adams Cram | 3 Responses

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Notes sur le nihilisme

Greg Johnson

3,263 words

English original here

On dit souvent que le nihilisme est l’une des principales caractéristiques de l’âge moderne, mais qu’est-ce que le nihilisme ? Le nihilisme signifie quelque chose comme la « mort » de Dieu, la négation du sens et de la valeur objectifs, l’effacement des distinctions morales et des hiérarchies, la dissolution d’un monde commun en perspectives individuelles, et la dissolution d’une culture commune en « préférences données » subjectives. Read more …

Published: September 23, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ernst Cassirer, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, myth, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Søren Kierkegaard, Star Trek, technology, The Borg, values, will | Leave a comment

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Yeats’ heidnisches „Second Coming“

Greg Johnson

Luc Olivier Merson, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1879

Luc Olivier Merson, Rast auf der Flucht nach Ägypten, 1879

1,760 words

English original here

Übersetzung: Lichtschwert

(Auf AdS nachveröffentlicht anläßlich des heutigen 150. Geburtstages von William Butler Yeats.)

William Butler Yeats verfaßte sein berühmtestes Gedicht, „The Second Coming“, im Jahr 1919, in der Zeit des Großen Krieges und der bolschewistischen Revolution, als die Dinge wahrlich „auseinanderfielen“, darunter hauptsächlich die europäische Zivilisation. Der Titel bezieht sich natürlich auf die Wiederkunft Christi. Read more …

Published: June 17, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, in German, in translation, Luc Olivier Merson, North American New Right, paganism, poetry, reprints, The Second Coming, W. B. Yeats | Leave a comment

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Aiming Higher Than Mere Civilization

James J. O'Meara

6,375 words

Emericus Durden
Aiming Higher Than Mere Civilization: How Skeptical Nihilism Will Remind Humanity Of Its Long Forgotten Purpose (Emericus Durden Philosophy Series Book 1)
Radical Academic Press, 2014

“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.”

— “Frank Costello,” The Departed Read more …

Published: May 8, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Friedrich Nietzsche, Julius Evola, philosophy, Plato, Plotinus, Rene Guénon, skepticism, Traditionalism | 5 Responses

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Heidegger sobre Nietzsche, Metafísica y Nihilismo

Greg Johnson

3,431 words

English original here

El tema central de la filosofía de Heidegger tiene un gran número de nombres: el sentido (Sinn) o significado del Ser, la verdad (Wahrheit) del Ser, el claro (Lichtung) del Ser, el “sujeto indefinido”[1] que “da” Ser, y el “Ereignis” (“evento” o “apropiación) del Ser, refiriéndose a la pertenencia mutua del Ser y del hombre.[2] Read more …