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The Unbearable Smallness of Modernity

Quintilian

1,733 words

There is an old joke that has been variously ascribed to everyone from Leopold von Ranke to Henry Kissinger to the effect that “campus politics are the most vicious of all because the stakes are so low.” Everywhere I go now it seems that campus-style politics predominate. Sure, we face an existential crisis in the West, but to what end? Our enemies now seem more worthy of our pity than of our contempt. Dr. Faust sold his soul to the Devil for unlimited power and Helen of Troy. Read more …

Published: December 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged academia, articles, leftists, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Quintilian | 16 Responses

The Unknown Soldier:
Geoffrey Bache Smith, Tolkien’s Inspiration

Fenek Solère

Geoffrey Bache Smith

1,432 words

Dark is the world our fathers left us,
Wearily, greyly the long years flow,
Almost the gloom has hope bereft us,
Far is the high gods’ song and low:

Sombre the crests of mountains lonely,
Leafless, wind-ridden, moan the trees;
Down in the valleys is twilight only.
Twilight over the mourning sea;

Time was when earth was always golden,
Time was when skies were always clear;
Spirits and souls of the heroes olden,
Faint are cries from the darkness, hear!

Published: November 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, First World War, Geoffrey Bache Smith, J. R. R. Tolkien, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

Remembering Ezra Pound:
October 30, 1885 to November 1, 1972

707 words

“A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.” — Ezra Pound

One of the ongoing projects of the North American New Right is the recovery of our tradition. One does not have to go too far back before one discovers that every great European thinker and artist is a “Right Wing extremist” by today’s standards.

Published: October 30, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ezra Pound, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

Remembering Aleister Crowley:
October 12, 1875–December 1, 1947

Aleister Crowley by Charles Krafft

382 words

Aleister Crowley was an English poet, novelist, painter, and mountaineer who is most famous as an occultist, ceremonial magician, and founder of the religion and philosophy of Thelema. But ironically Crowley’s supposed Satanism and Black Magic are far less frightening to most people than his politics. For Aleister Crowley was also a man of the Right.

Published: October 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleister Crowley, articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, occultism, originals, political philosophy | 2 Responses

Remembering Roy Campbell:
October 2, 1901–April 22, 1957

Roy Campbell

1,561 words

Roy Campbell was a South African poet and essayist. T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Edith Sitwell praised Campbell as one of the best poets of the inter-war period. Unfortunately, his conservatism, Nietzscheanism, and Catholicism, as well as his open contempt for the Bloomsbury set and his participation in the Spanish Civil War on the Fascist side, have led his works to be consigned to the memory hole. Read more …

Published: October 2, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, fascism, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals, poems, Roy Campbell, South Africa | 2 Responses

Death & Rebirth: Three Poems

Juleigh Howard-Hobson

438 words

Rust Belt Hotel as Metaphor for America

It’s abandoned, it’s been abandoned for
About half a century now. Once it
Was impressive — vaulted ceilings, tall
Windows surrounded by a polished floor
Of marble, an art deco lobby . . . Bit
By bit, though, it all fell apart. Wall

Published: August 20, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, North American New Right, originals | 8 Responses

Hijacking Icons

Fenek Solère

Dylan Thomas

1,435 words

Not for the proud man apart
From the raging moon I write
On these spindrift pages
Nor for the towering dead
With their nightingales and psalms
But for the lovers, their arms
Round the griefs of the ages,
Who pay no praise or wages
Nor heed my craft or art.

— From Dylan Thomas, “In My Craft and Sullen Art”

Published: April 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Dylan Thomas, Dylan Thomas Prize, Fenek Solère, North American New Right, originals | 2 Responses

Lucifer

Mihai Eminescu

2,285 words

Nineteenth-century Romanian poet and editorialist Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889) studied in Bismarck’s Prussia, where he immersed himself in Schopenhauer and studied under Eugen Dühring. His essays attack liberalism, usury, immigration, and the prospect of Jewish civil rights in Romania. The tone of his philosophically-driven poems, which are modeled after the golden age of German Romantic poetry, ranges from endearing to brutal. Adored in Romania, but without much of a reputation outside of his own country, he was killed by medical malpractice at the age of 39. Read more …

Published: February 8, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Amory Stern, Lucifer, Mihai Eminescu, North American New Right, Romania, Romanian poetry | 1 Response

Remembering A. R. D. “Rex” Fairburn:
February 2, 1904–March 25, 1957

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Today is the birthday of New Zealand poet, essayist, Social Credit advocate, and social reformer Arthur Rex Dugard Fairburn, another Artist of the Right. In honor of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this site.

By Fairburn: Read more …

Published: February 2, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. R. D. Fairburn, commemorations, Greg Johnson, New Zealand, North American New Right, originals, Social Credit | 1 Response

Remembering Rudyard Kipling:
December 30, 1865 to January 18, 1936

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John Collier, Portrait of Rudyard Kipling, circa 1891

Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling was born on this day in 1865. For an introduction to his life and works, see the following articles on this site.

William Pierce, “Rudyard Kipling: The White Man’s Poet” (French translation here)
Andrew Hamilton, “Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Burden of Jerusalem’“
Margot Metroland, “The Conundrum of the Kipling: Rudyard Kipling, 1865–1936“
William Solniger, “The White Man’s Burden, 2013“

Published: December 30, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, originals, poems, Rudyard Kipling | Leave a comment

Remembering Ezra Pound:
October 30, 1885 to November 1, 1972

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“A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.” — Ezra Pound

Published: October 30, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ezra Pound, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals | 3 Responses

Remembering Aleister Crowley:
October 12, 1875–December 1, 1947

Aleister Crowley by Charles Krafft

364 words

Published: October 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleister Crowley, articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, occultism, originals, political philosophy | 9 Responses

Remembering Roy Campbell:
October 2, 1901–April 22, 1957

Roy Campbell

1,561 words

Published: October 2, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, fascism, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals, poems, Roy Campbell, South Africa | 2 Responses

Video of the Day
T. S. Eliot Recites “The Hollow Men”

Video of the Day

478 words / 3:57

To commemorate his 120th birthday, we offer this recording of T. S. Eliot reciting one of his greatest masterpieces, “The Hollow Men” – which is perhaps now timelier than ever. The text of the poem is below the video.

Published: September 26, 2018 | Posted in video of the day | Also tagged T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men, video of the day | Leave a comment

Longfellow’s Scandinavian Influences

Alex Graham

2,289 words

For a long time, the tales of Norse voyages to North America described in the Saga of Erik the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders were thought to be legends. It was not until the nineteenth century that historians and archaeologists began to investigate the subject of Pre-Columbian Norse exploration in earnest. The first to do so was the Danish historian Carl Christian Rafn, whose Antiquitates Americanæ (published in 1837) sought to ascertain the location of Vinland. Read more …

Published: September 20, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, articles, Carl Christian Rafn, Esaias Tegnér, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Norse mythology, Norse sagas, North American New Right, originals, Vikings | 1 Response

Five Poems & Two Translations

Leo Yankevich

679 words

The Marriage of Heaven & Hell

“I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the tilted rush to the lips and the slow swallowing down to the lapping belly, the salt on the tongue, the foam at the corners.”—Dylan Thomas Read more …

Published: August 23, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Leo Yankevich, North American New Right, originals, Rainer Maria Rilke, translations from German, translations from Polish, Wiesław Musiałowski | 3 Responses

Four Poems

C. B. Anderson

318 words

The Crime of Passion

Peculiar that, in these progressive times,
As ratified by the Almighty State,
The more impersonal cold-blooded crimes
Are deemed less heinous than those done from hate. Read more …

Published: August 21, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged C. B. Anderson, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

Pagan Pound

Stead Steadman

2,381 words

The following is the text of a talk given in London on May 27, 2018 at The Poet at War, an event convened by Vortex Londinium.

“We want an European religion. Christianity is verminous with semitic infections. What we really believe is the pre-Christian element which Christianity has not stamped out . . .”[1] Read more …

Published: July 31, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Cantos, Confucianism, Ezra Pound, Homer, Neoplatonism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, Stead Steadman | 1 Response

Lost Angels of a Ruined Paradise:
John Lauritsen’s The Shelley-Byron Men

James J. O'Meara

3,401 words

John Lauritsen
The Shelley-Byron Men: Lost Angels of a Ruined Paradise
Pagan Press, 2017

Ordinarily, I wouldn’t think of reviewing a book on Shelley, Byron & Co.; mainly because I know little about them, other than what used to be generally known among the educated (before English was replaced with gender studies and time off for anti-Trump demos), plus what I read from Camille Paglia. Read more …

Published: July 16, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, homosexuality, James O'Meara, John Lauritsen, literature, Lord Byron, North American New Right, originals, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Romanticism, The Shelley-Byron Men | 3 Responses

The Englishness of Nick Drake

Fenek Solère

3,550 words

‘I never felt magic crazy as this
I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea
But now you’re here
Brighten my northern sky’

Published: July 6, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, English identity, Fenek Solère, folk music, Nick Drake, North American New Right, originals, popular music | 5 Responses

Remembering William Butler Yeats:
June 13, 1865–January 28, 1939

William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939

170 words

William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet, playwright, and politician, was born on this day in 1865. One of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century, Yeats’ life and work straddle the great divide between Romanticism and Modernism. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

In life and in art, Yeats rejected modern rationalism, materialism, and egalitarianism. He saw them as coarsening and brutalizing.

Published: June 13, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, fascism, Greg Johnson, Ireland, literature, North American New Right, W. B. Yeats | 3 Responses

The Golden Swan

145 words

Towards the Sun he flies in his golden boat,
wings gleaming, born from time beyond time. Read more …

Published: April 26, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged North American New Right, originals, Robert Prospect | Leave a comment

Sur la Lune

Leo Yankevich

81 words

Let’s put on monocles, protract roll call,
and, in the tattered photo’s many greys,
count them in striped pajamas and berets,
these savant-frauds flogged by the wind of fall. Read more …

Published: March 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Leo Yankevich, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

Four Haikus

61 words

These are a continuation of this sequence.

HAIKU 4

She drifts from above,
lying on our resting place,
skin pearl, divine, dead. Read more …

Published: March 6, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged haikus, North American New Right, originals, Robert Prospect | Leave a comment

Three Poems

189 words

Crawl

Crawl across them, warrior!
The corpses are your own, the skulls
you stared in to the eyes of a week or
two ago, now nothing but death before
you. Their mothers weep, somewhere, Read more …

Published: February 14, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged North American New Right, originals, poems, Robert Prospect | Leave a comment

“I Shall Stand Against Them” & Three Haikus

152 words

I Shall Stand Against Them

I shall stand against them, whether I be like
the willow, or the ancient oak, trembling
or impersonally strong, I shall stand against them.
The sun may shine upon my corpse, and cause
the rot to quicken, but in my memory they
sing, and I shall stand again. Read more …

Published: February 6, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged North American New Right, originals, poems, Robert Prospect | Leave a comment

Remembering A. R. D. “Rex” Fairburn:
February 2, 1904–March 25, 1957