Mar 30, 2010

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Against Nihilism: Julius Evola’s “Traditionalist” Critique of Modernity

With the likes of Oswald Spengler, whose Decline he translated for an Italian readership, and Jose Ortega y Gasset, Julius Evola (1898 – 1974) stands as one of the notably incisive mid-Twentieth Century critics of modernity. Like Spengler and Ortega, Evola understood himself to owe a formative debt to Friedrich Nietzsche, but more forcefully than Spengler or Ortega, Evola saw the...

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Jun 3, 2009

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E. Christian Kopff Defends America’s Genuine Right-Wing Tradition

“Is America Unconservative?”from Taki’s Magazine, June 2, 2009In a contribution to Takimag from last summer, Austin Bramwell asked “Why are movement conservative intellectuals so obsessed with refuting positions (e.g., that the United States is an inherently “liberal” regime) that nobody has actually believed in fifty years?” Those few, we band of...

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Jun 1, 2009

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Picking up the Torch

The Devil Knows Latin:Why America Needs the Classical TraditionE. Christian KopffWilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 1999E. Christian Kopff, classicist at the University of Colorado and occasional contributor to The Occidental Quarterly, has the knack of writing about difficult issues with an easy grace. The book under review is first of all a defense for our time of the value of...

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