Author: markdyal

Ph.D. in Anthropology from City University of New York Graduate Center (2011); M.A. in African-American and African Studies from The Ohio State University (2000); B.S. in Communications from Florida State University (1993). Published academic author. Research Interests include Race, Culture, and Racism in American and Italy; Liberalism and Global Capitalism; Classical History and Counter-Modern Ethics; American Hardcore Music and Ethics; Skinhead Culture; Traditionalism; The European New Right and Political Philosophy; Counter-Enlightenment Thought and the Morality of Truth; Sport and Ethics of Violence; Jazz, Black Power, and Bourgeois Liberation.

Recently published: Lycurgus and the Spartan State

Counter-Currents has published the second part of my series on vitality. Sparta is of interest to men like us for obvious reasons. But, while 300 has made it’s warrior culture a central romantic narrative of the New Right, little is actually known about the content of the Spartan warrior state. Although this paper primarily seeks […]

Comments as Ochlocracy

This morning provided yet another example of the depth and beauty of life in the company of Nietzsche. Even though I have a small-fortune in books – grad school was just another way to feed my voracious appetite for reading, you see – none of them provide a gratification as instant and profound as I […]

Recently Published: Mussolini’s New Fascist Man

Counter-Currents has agreed to serialize the paper I have been co-writing with Nick Fiorello on the links between bodily and conceptual vitality. Part One, examining the ideas of the Fascist ethical and organic state, is now available. Part Two, which details the lengths to which Lycurgan Sparta went to ensure the nobility of its citizenry, […]

In Honor of Nietzsche’s Birthday

In honor of Nietzsche’s birthday I wrote about Sparta and its transvaluation of decadent Greek values. I also treated myself to a tiny bit of harshness this morning, using my vital energy in a way that promotes a superabundance of strength, health, and vitality. I listened to non-decadent music and ate simple but wholesome food, […]

Brief Thoughts on the Arditi

This is a small excerpt from an upcoming paper. I just love the Arditi. They, along with the Decima Mas and Brigate Nere of the RSI, are the best examples of what a fascist man is supposed to be: courageous, strong, proud, violent, and honorable. In a pre-war attack on Socialist and bourgeois neutralists, Mussolini […]

Come on men! Be what you could have been!

Anyone looking for motivation to join us truly critical intellectuals in the New Right, consider this: the paper on the links between conceptual and bodily vitality, for which I’ve been diligently gathering notes for weeks, is finally being written. I just finished the introduction. (Anyone who has written an academic paper – no mere essay […]

Interview with Greg Johnson, Part Two

The second part of my Counter-Currents vocal debut is now available for downloading and listening. I’m not sure my profound intellect comes across any better in part two than it did in the rambling and inarticulate part one. Nevertheless, take a listen.

Beauty is for the Few, a Podcast for All and None

“Higher education and horde – these are in contradiction from the outset. Any higher education is only for the exceptions: you have to be privileged to have the right to such a high privilege. Nothing great or beautiful could ever be common property: pulchrum est paucorum hominum.” (Twilight of the Idols, What the Germans Lack […]

Interview with Greg Johnson, Part One

The responses seem positive enough thus far, so I will at least acknowledge that Part One of a recent interview with Greg Johnson is now available for listening and downloading at Counter-Currents. There are a million things I would say (or at least contextualize) differently today, but that’s how it goes with audio. Pondering and […]

Nietzsche from Rome, Cambridge, and Palo Alto

Dedicated to John Black Morgan IV In late-2006, while living amongst the fascists and Ultras of Rome, Italy, I made the most momentous decision of my life: to read the entire body of Friedrich Nietzsche’s work. I was prompted to do so by my main informant, a Roman fascist Ultra coincidently named Federico. His concern […]