Fascism as Anti-Modernism: Julius Evola’s Fascism Viewed from the Right.
. . In the time and place Evola was writing, as in the US today, partisans of these ideas had to devote most of their effort protecting their ideologies from […]
. . In the time and place Evola was writing, as in the US today, partisans of these ideas had to devote most of their effort protecting their ideologies from […]
. . The basic thrust of the study is that National Socialism is significantly inferior to its Italian cousin from a traditionalist perspective, and this even though Germany presented a far […]
. . A small but telling example of Gottfried’s acumen: his explanation of why mainstream conservatives such as Jonah Goldberg calleveryone and everything they don’t like “fascist:” 1) It allows self-styled conservatives to have […]
. . Alain de Benoist is descended, on his father’s side, from an ancient Belgian lineage traceable ultimately to a ninth-century Italian captain who defended Apulia from Saracen pirates. His […]
. . It is interesting to observe how revolutionary ideologies are never able to express themselves in ordinary language. Being based upon a partial and distorted view of reality, they […]
. . From a nationalist or anti-PC perspective, Wilson’s most interesting admission is that “tribalism is a fundamental human trait”—indeed, this is the title of the book’s seventh chapter: Experiments conducted over many years have […]
. . Manliness rated high on ancient lists of the virtues; indeed, for the Romans, virtus designated both the general concept of virtue and manliness in particular. Today, as author Jack Donovan […]
. . The current vogue for “human rights” can be traced back to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations in 1948. Before this famous declaration was […]
. . Krebs’ nomenclature, original with him so far as I know, draws a sharp contrast between “Europe” and “the West.” “Europe” refers to the great racial and cultural tradition […]
. . Back in 1992, only about 8 percent of illegal entry into the United States occurred at the Arizona border. Three quarters occurred near either San Diego or El Paso. The people of those border […]
. . Under US law, almost all speech in public settings is protected by the First Amendment. There are exceptions—fighting words, incitement, harassment, threats and intimidation, obscenity and defamation—but case […]
. . The people who had risen to the top in 1963 had little in common except their success. Most had grown up in middle-class or working-class families, and […]
. . If we really want to start at the beginning, I suggest we consider the word school. As some of you no doubt are aware, it derives from the Greek word […]
. . Athens is the only ancient democracy of which we have considerable knowledge. We know enough of Sparta and Rome to draw useful comparisons, but these states were mixed […]
. . A Cameroonian albino explains: “People think we are magical creatures, that we’ve come back from the dead as a punishment from God for something we did in our […]
. . In the European Union, the murder rate is about 1.6 per 100,000 people per year; in American it is 6 (whites: 3.5; blacks: 26.5). The South African rate […]
. . The seismic shift now transforming the demographics of Europe and the United States is likely to leave a more permanent mark on our civilization than even the two […]
. . Liberal ideology has propounded a utopian ideal of universal “development,” whereby every last African hellhole is supposed to become an affluent, tolerant, democratic, and efficient consumerist society. The […]
. . At the Restoration, the now sixty year old Bonald returned to political life. He was elected to the French Chamber of Deputies of 1815, known as the chambre introuvable—the […]
. . As with his account of desegregation, Wolters provides vignettes from several particular places to illustrate what actually happened in the name of integration. One of the most striking […]
. . Vanhanen’s basic hypothesis is that a country’s climate and average IQ level will tend to correlate with its IPR and ID. More specifically, he expects that democracies […]
. . Sojourners’ founder Jim Wallis calls the U.S. “the great seducer, the great captor and destroyer of human life, the great master of humanity in its totalitarian claims and designs”. In past […]
. . There was a brief outburst of anti-immigration sentiment in the late 1790s as a belated response to the threat from revolutionary France. This found expression in the Alien […]
. . I had no interest in politics during my early adult years, a circumstance for which I am now grateful. Like most Americans, I assumed that “politics” meant electoral […]
. . The days are past when an open frontier encouraged entrepreneurial illusions of “limitless” natural resources. Even in Roosevelt’s day some lumber companies were beginning to adopt, in their […]
. . Apartheid was based on reciprocity that was to guarantee its essential justice; whites were granting blacks everything they demanded for themselves: schools, churches, homelands and (eventually) governments, each […]
. . “I am still embarrassed to admit,” writes the author, “that I learned true liberal intellectual exchange from a declared Marxist-Leninist.” The Herbert Marcuse with whom Gottfried crossed paths […]
. . The contemporary educated Christian will have much to say in response to the views here expressed, views reminiscent of John Addington Symonds and Nietzsche. But knowledge of Christian […]
. . Nock’s educational thought rests upon a fundamental distinction between education and training. Training means the learning of information relevant to the accomplishment of specific goals. Education in the […]
. . His central thesis is that the public would be better served by a smaller, more committed “shareholder aristocracy.” The term aristocracy is “a metaphor for the civic virtues […]
. . During the Cold War, many were inclined to cite the greater efficiency of the market economy as the fundamental distinguishing trait of the West, proudly pointing to our […]
. . Before deciding the Brown case, the Supreme Court asked the NAACP’s lawyers for evidence that the framers of the 14thAmendment had contemplated school desegregation. The Court, it seems, wanted to […]
. . If we are to restore a sense of identity and belonging, there must be something which holds us together as a nation. For a long time we could […]
. . Besides changing our diets, the adoption of agriculture brought about a host of new challenges: crowding, the accumulation of garbage, difficulties with human waste disposal, and increased numbers […]
. . Without the understanding that marriage is an inherently irreversible covenant, both men and women succumb to the illusion that divorce will solve the “problem” of dissatisfaction in marriage. They […]
. . Young Barry Obama—the name he went by until he decided to use the more alien Barack—fully believed his mother’s ludicrously inaccurate portrayal of his father: “The brilliant scholar, the […]
. . Having worked to save buffaloes, antelopes, eagles and bears, it seemed only natural to him to turn to the preservation of his own kind, viz., Americans threatened by […]
. . One of the hallmarks of Western civilization is the unusually high status it has accorded women. That has often been attributed to the influence of Christianity, which prizes […]
. . The author discusses some of the arguments used by Jewish apologists to excuse or palliate Jewish involvement in Bolshevik rule. He accepts the common argument that the Jewish […]
. . Apparently, Jewish involvement in the revolutionary movement was notorious enough by 1881 to be taken for granted by many ordinary Russians. How extensive was it, though, and how […]