Jan 19, 2010

By 2

Empire of Liberty

Empire of LibertyA History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815by Gordon S. WoodNew York: Oxford University Press, 2009I have always enjoyed the escapism of reading a good book about the White Republic. It is a relief to return on occasion to an earlier chapter of American history when the racial and cultural foundations of our national identity were unquestioned. White men once...

Read More
Dec 4, 2009

By 1

Bonald’s Theory of the Nobility

Unlike Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre, Louis de Bonald devoted little space to analyzing the French Revolution itself. His focus instead was on understanding the traditional society which had been swept away. His review of Mme. de Staël’s Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution, e.g., ends up turning into a theory of the nobility and its function....

Read More
Nov 5, 2009

By 6

Secret Aristocracies

Translated by Greg JohnsonJean-Paul Sartre once said of Ernst Jünger: “I hate him, not as a German, but as an aristocrat . . .”Sartre had some grave defects. In his political impulses, he was mistaken with a rare obstinacy. Fairly cowardly during the Occupation, he turned into an Ayatollah of denunciations once the danger had passed, castigating his colleagues who did not...

Read More
Oct 13, 2009

By 0

Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald

The French statesman, writer, and philosopher, Louis Vicomte de Bonald belongs to the theologist school of the Traditionalists. Bonald was born on October 2nd, 1754 at Monna, near Millau a town in the Rouergue region (Aveyron) of southern France, into an aristocratic family. He studied at the Oratorian Collège de Juilly. As an aristocrat, military service was expected, so in 1773...

Read More
Oct 12, 2009

By 1

On the Secret of Degeneration

Anyone who has come to reject the rationalist myth of “progress” and the interpretation of history as an unbroken positive development of mankind will find himself gradually drawn towards the world-view that was common to all the great traditional cultures, and which had at its center the memory of a process of degeneration, slow obscuration, or collapse of a higher...

Read More
Oct 1, 2009

By 1

Ragnar Redbeard’s Might Is Right or the Survival of the Fittest

From The Occidental Observer, September 29, 2009Note: In biology, “adaptive” means (very precisely) promoting the survival and reproduction of an organism’s genes. “Natural selection” is the logical and empirical process whereby forces of nature affect the survival and reproduction of some genes over others. The terms, “natural selection” and “selection...

Read More
Aug 30, 2009

By 0

Vilfredo Pareto: The Karl Marx of Fascism
Part IV: Pareto and Fascism

Pareto and FascismBefore we enter into the controversy surrounding Pareto’s sympathy for Italian leader Benito Mussolini, let us take pains to avoid the error of viewing events of the 1920s through the spectacles of the post-World War II era, for what seemed apparent in 1945 was not at all evident twenty years before. Inarguably, throughout the whole of the 1920s, Mussolini...

Read More
Aug 26, 2009

By 0

Vilfredo Pareto: The Karl Marx of Fascism
Part I: The Critique of Socialism

Pareto is additionally important for us today because he is a towering figure in one of Europe’s most distinguished, and yet widely suppressed, intellectual currents.That broad school of thought includes such diverse figures as Burke, Taine, Dostoyevsky, Burckhardt, Donoso Cortés, Nietzsche, and Spengler and stands in staunch opposition to rationalism, liberalism,...

Read More
Aug 6, 2009

By 0

Nietzsche on the Code of Manu

Editor’s Note: The Code of Manu (circa. 200 BC – 200 AD) is the earliest known work of Hindu law. The following discussion is from section no. 57 of Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Anti-Christ. The translation is by H. L. Menken. The paragraph breaks have been introduced for online readability. The ellipses are Nietzsche’s.A book of laws such as the Code of Manu...

Read More
Jul 22, 2009

By 1

Nietzsche on Freedom

Editor’s Note: The following is section no. 38 of “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man” from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Twilight of the Idols. A discussion question: How might Nietzsche be used to explain why America’s founding generation and the presidents drawn from it were greater than every subsequent generation brought up under the system they...

Read More
Back to Top