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4,866 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, Dangerous Minds, egalitarianism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, human dignity, Martin Heidegger, meaning, North American New Right, originals, Richard Spencer, Ronald Beiner, the holocaust | Comments closed

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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 | Comments closed

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Libertarian Fake Psychology
& Other Thoughts on Recent YouTube Debates

Aedon Cassiel

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 Aedon Cassiel, articles, assimilation, drug legalization, ethnocentrism, ethnonationalism, Greg Johnson, libertarianism, Mike Enoch, misanthropy, North American New Right, originals, Prohibition, welfare | Comments closed

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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, faith, modernity, North American New Right, originals, paganism, Protestantism, Veiko Hessler | Comments closed

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

A. 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, the bourgeois mind, warrior ethics, Yukio Mishima | Comments closed

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

A. 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, Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Yukio Mishima | Comments closed

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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 | Comments closed

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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, Brett Stevens, Christopher Pankhurst, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | Comments closed

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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, Mircea Eliade et la Redécouverte du Sacré, movie reviews, mythology, North American New Right, originals, religion, Romania, the numinous, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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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 | Comments closed

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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 | Comments closed

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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 Aaron Clarey, alienation, Ann Sterzinger, atheism, book reviews, economics, freedom of speech, IQ, liberal education, nerds, North American New Right, originals, The Curse of the High IQ, the manosphere | Comments closed

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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 Alfred North Whitehead, architecture, articles, Francis Parker Yockey, Friedrich Nietzsche, homosexuality, James J. O'Meara, modern architecture, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Philip Johnson, Ralph Adams Cram | Comments closed

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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 | Comments closed

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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 | Comments closed

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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 Aiming Higher Than Mere Civilization, book reviews, Emericus Durden, Friedrich Nietzsche, Julius Evola, philosophy, Plato, Plotinus, Rene Guénon, skepticism, Traditionalism, W. V. O. Quine | Comments closed

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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 …

Published: April 24, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Epicureanism, Eternal Recurrence, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, Stoicism, technology, will to power | Comments closed

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Heidegger on Nietzsche, Metaphysics, & Nihilism

Greg Johnson

3,292 words

Spanish translation here

Heidegger’s central philosophical topic has a number of names: the sense (Sinn) or meaning of Being, the truth (Wahrheit) of Being, the clearing (Lichtung) of Being, the “It” that “gives” Being, and the “Ereignis” (“event” or “appropriation”) of Being, referring to the mutual belonging of man and Being.[1] Read more …

Published: March 19, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Epicureanism, Eternal Recurrence, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, Stoicism, technology, will to power | Comments closed

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The Prophet of Exhaustion
Being Yet Another Remembrance of
Bill Hopkins (1927–2012), Part 2

Margot Metroland

4,109 words

Part 2 of 2

Bill Hopkins

3. “The corrupt vigour of fascism.”

In early 1958, Time magazine ran a humorous squib titled “Sloane Square Stomp.”[9] It told how Colin Wilson (and presumably Bill) had attended a premiere of their friend Stuart Holroyd’s new play at the Royal Court Theatre. Bill and Colin’s onetime friend Christopher Logue stood up in the stalls with Kenneth Tynan, denouncing Holroyd and Wilson as fascists. During the interval, this led to a shoving match in a nearby bar. The whole thing was a tempest in a teapot, Read more …

Published: March 5, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A Clockwork Orange, Angry Young Men, Angus Wilson, Anthony Burgess, articles, Ben Bagley, Bernard Kops, Bill Hopkins, Christine Keeler, Christopher Logue, Colin Wilson, David McCalden, Doris Lessing, fascism, Jonathan Bowden, literature, Margot Metroland, memoirs, North American New Right, Oliver Moxon, originals, Osbert Lancaster, Profumo Affair, religion, Revilo P. Oliver, Roberto Fiore, Simon Hoggart, Sir Oswald Mosley, Stuart Allsop, Stuart Holroyd, The Divine and the Decay, Tom Maschler, Tony Hancock | Comments closed

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Notas sobre el Nihilismo

Greg Johnson

3,318 words

English original here

Frecuentemente se dice que el nihilismo es una de las características de la era moderna pero, ¿qué es el nihilismo? El nihilismo significa algo así como la “muerte” de Dios, la negación del valor y del significado objetivo, la borradura de las distinciones morales y jerárquicas, la disolución de un mundo común a las perspectivas individuales, y la disolución de una cultura común a las “preferencias dadas” subjetivas. Read more …

Published: February 17, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ernst Cassirer, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, myth, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Søren Kierkegaard, Star Trek, technology, The Borg, values, will | Comments closed

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Notes on Nihilism

Greg Johnson

3,009 words

Translations: French, Spanish, Czech

It is often said that nihilism is one of the leading characteristics of the modern age, but what is nihilism? Nihilism means something like the “death” of God, the denial of objective meaning and value, the erasure of moral distinctions and hierarchies, the dissolution of a common world into individual perspectives, and the dissolution of a common culture into subjective “given preferences.” Read more …

Published: February 17, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ernst Cassirer, Ernst Junger, existentialism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, myth, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Søren Kierkegaard, Star Trek, technology, The Borg, values, will | Comments closed

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La Segunda Venida Pagana de Yeats

Greg Johnson

1,808 words

English original here

Luc Olivier Merson, Descanso en el viaje a Egipto, 1879

William Butler Yeats escribió su famoso poema, “La Segunda Venida”, en 1919, al mismo tiempo que ocurría la Gran Guerra y la Revolución Bolchevique, cuando las cosas realmente estaban “derrumbándose”, principalmente la civilización Europea. El título refiere, por supuesto, a la segunda llegada, segundo advenimiento, o segunda venida de Cristo. Pero a medida que la leo, el poema rechaza la idea de tal acontecimiento de forma literal. En su lugar, afirma dos sentidos no-cristianos de la segunda venida. Primero, hay un sentido metafórico del fin del presente mundo y la revelación de algo radicalmente nuevo. Segundo, hay un sentido de una segunda venida pero no de Cristo, sino del paganismo desplazado por el cristianismo. Read more …

Published: February 16, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, Luc Olivier Merson, North American New Right, originals, paganism, poetry, The Second Coming, W. B. Yeats | Comments closed

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Yeats’ Pagan Second Coming

Greg Johnson

1,646 words

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

Translations: German, Spanish

William Butler Yeats penned his most famous poem, “The Second Coming,” in 1919, in the days of the Great War and the Bolshevik Revolution, when things truly were “falling apart,” European civilization chief among them. The title refers, of course, to the Second Coming of Christ. But as I read it, the poem rejects the idea that the literal Second Coming of Christ is at hand. Instead, it affirms two non-Christian senses of Second Coming. First, there is the metaphorical sense of the end of the present world and the revelation of something radically new. Second, there is the sense of the Second Coming not of Christ, but of the paganism displaced by Christianity. Read more …

Published: February 16, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, Luc Olivier Merson, North American New Right, originals, paganism, poetry, The Second Coming, W. B. Yeats | Comments closed

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“Where are the People that Run this Place?”
Arch Hall, Jr., King of the ’60s Psychos

James J. O'Meara

4,944 words

The Sadist
1963; B&W, 93 minutes
Directed by James Landis
Starring Arch Hall, Jr., Helen Hovey, Richard Alden, Marilyn Manning, Don Russell

“The whole film is filled with a feeling of heat and agony, a constantly blazing sun shining down into a barren waste land of dead cars and dead bodies. Flashes of hope are rare and always beaten down with such hatred and force that the viewer almost hopes it won’t come back . . .” — (IMDb review)

The Unnamed Civil War:
An Interview with Richard Millet

Richard Millet

1,666 words

September 22, 2011

Translated by Giuliano Adriano Malvicini

Father G. de Tanoüarn: Richard Millet, you are one of the rare novelists today who can be said to already have produced a significant oeuvre. Read more …

Published: October 8, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged interviews, liberalism, multiculturalism, non-white immigration, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, racism, Richard Millet, the Muslim question, translations | Comments closed

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Richard Millet the Accuser:
The Éléments Interview

Richard Millet

2,410 words

Interviewed by Alain de Benoist, Fabrice Valclérieux, and Pierre Le Vigan

Translated by Giuliano Adriano Malvicini

Stewart Home:
Communism, Nihilism, Neoism, & Decadence

Jonathan Bowden

11,050 words

Editor’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V.S. of one of Jonathan Bowden’s most entertaining lectures, which was delivered to the 25th New Right meeting in London on February 13, 2010. Although Stewart Home is the principal subject, Bowden romps through a wide field of politically correct theories, ultra-Left sects, and decadent forms of modern art.

Leo Strauss, the Conservative Revolution, & National Socialism, Part 3

Greg Johnson

3,373 words

Part 3 of 3

Editor’s Note:

Leo Strauss

In the previous installment of this series, I examined Leo Strauss’s argument that the roots of what he called “German nihilism” — including National Socialism — were not nihilistic. Instead, it is rooted in a moral critique of the modern world. In this installment, I examine his argument that these non-nihilistic motives gave rise to nihilism because of certain contingent historical circumstances. Read more …