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Holiday Interlude
This blog will be on a short hiatus until sometime around the New Year.
But in the meantime, we’re experimenting with “microblogging”. You can check out the results here:
http://newright.tumblr.com/
And to all our readers: Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy & Prosperous New Year!!
Discussing Race In A Global World
by Welf Herfurth
The subject of race and racial difference is something a lot of people avoid. Some consider it bad manners or impolite. Others say it is offensive and discussion of it should be suppressed by legislation. One spin-off from that category goes as far as to deny the existence of races, claiming any number of religious, philosophic, scientific (sic) and moral theories in support of the proposition. Then, some fellow travellers might conclude that races exist in some narrow, almost meaningless sort of way and may conclude that, for ‘human-universalist’ reasons – they should be abolished. Read more…
The New Right in Europe by Mark Wegierski
The European New Right (ENR) presents itself as a contradictory phenomenon. While many of its arguments sound radical and original, they owe a great deal to traditional European thought — especially Catholic organicism. Although the ENR has rejected the far Right, some questionable links remain. Despite this, it may become the ideology of choice for those intellectuals still opposed to capitalism — a possible place for that intellectually-honest part of the Left attempting to come to terms both with the collapse of “really existing socialism” and a triumphant Western consumerist society predicated on managerial-therapeutic capitalism. Read more…
Fenris Will Devour Odin: An Examination of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thought by Jonathan Bowden
Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most remarkable philosophers of all time, irrespective or whether he happened to have written in the nineteenth century. In fact, he has more in common with pre-Socratic thinkers like Heraclitus, born two and a half thousand years ago on Ephesos in the Aegean. Did not Aristotle gloss his great work, On Nature, in order to inform us that seething beneath all agency is the reality of Fire … or pure energy? Yet another example of the fact that ancient theory and modern physics seem to run on parallel lines. Read more…