Ab Aeterno & The Occidental Quarterly
The first issue of Ab Aeterno: Journal of the Academy of Social and Political Research has just appeared.Ab Aeterno (which means “from the most remote antiquity”) is a joint venture sponsored by nationalists of Greek, Italian, Australian, and New Zealand origins — Dimitris Michalopoulos, José Maria Ingrassia, Jim Saleam, and Kerry Bolton, respectively.The last...
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Kerry Bolton on Why We Write
I have been asked by Dr. Johnson to contribute to this series. It is ironic really because I have spent 30 years writing and mostly self-publishing, and I am barely heard of anywhere. A few days ago I was contacted by an Italian, a young doctor of philosophy, who asked why I am not well known in Italy despite what I suppose would seem to be quite a large output of articles, essays,...
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Filippo Marinetti
Filippo Marinetti is unlike most of the post-nineteenth Century cultural avant-garde who were rebelling against the spirit of several centuries of liberalism, rationalism, the rise of the democratic mass, industrialism, and the rule of the moneyed elite. His revolt against the leveling impact of the democratic era was not to hark back to certain perceived ‘golden ages’...
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Wyndham Lewis
Percy Wyndham Lewis is credited with being the founder of the only modernist cultural movement indigenous to Britain. Nonetheless, he is seldom spoken of in the same breath as his contemporaries, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and others. Lewis was one of the number of cultural figures who rejected the bourgeois liberalism and democracy of the nineteenth century that...
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Knut Hamsun
Editor’s Note: The following sketch of Knut Hamsun’s life and work should be supplemented by Mark Deavin’s discussion here of Hamsun’s greatest book, Growth of The Soil, for which he won the Nobel prize for literature. See also Robert Ferguson’s biography Enigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun. Also noteworthy is Knut Hamsun Remembers America: Essays and...
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Gabriele D’Annunzio
“We artists are only then astonished witnesses of eternal aspirations, which help raise up our breed to its destiny.”Gabriele D’Annunzio, unique combination of artist and warrior, was born in 1863 into a merchant family He was a Renaissance Man par excellence. This warrior bard was to have a crucial impact upon the rise of fascism despite his not always being in...
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Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima was born into an upper middle class family in 1925. Author of a hundred books, playwright, and actor, he has been described as the “Leonardo da Vinci of contemporary Japan,” and is one of the few Japanese writers to have become widely known and translated in the West.The Dark Side of the SunSince World War II, the West has forgotten the Shadow soul of...
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Nietzsche and Spengler:
Preface to Thinkers of the Right
Friedrich Nietzsche and Oswald Spengler loom large over the horizon of twentieth-century European thought. Nietzsche was influential in the thinking of Spengler, whilst either one or both had a major impact on the thinking of most of the writers we deal with herein.Both were primarily concerned with questions of decay and the possibilities of regeneration. Both held that Western...
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All Africans?
In 2008, 60 Minutes ran a story on Spenser Wells, Explorer in Residence for the National Geographic Society, who is mapping the genetic linkages of the world population. The media are naturally eager to plug Wells’ genetic mapping because it supports the “Out of Africa” or “African Eve” hypothesis put forward in recent times by some geneticists. The Liberal Establishment...
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“Faileocons” no More?
Race Realism Breaks Through at Taki’s Magazine
The Paleoconservatives at Takimag.com seem to be taking a courageous turn toward engaging race realism. On May 20, 2009, Takimag published Jared Taylor’s “Whiteout,” on anti-white discrimination, along with Steve Sailer’s “White Pride is Uncool,” about why victims of anti-white discrimination excite little sympathy. They also re-published Paul...
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