Coming Soon: A Peek into the mind of a Nietzschean thinker

Needing to explain the relationship between bodily and conceptual vitality for my upcoming paper with Nick Fiorello, I spent yesterday with The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, and Twilight of the Idols, then moved to the mighty Zarathustra, and ended with On the Genealogy of Morality and Christopher Middleton’s Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche. This little visit […]

Matt Parrott Responds, and New Work in Progress

Many of you may have noticed Matt Parrott’s Counter-Currents essay, “Epistemology, Race, and the Bazaar,” in response to my “Epistemology and the New Right”. Considering his pedigree as a materialist/racialist, his essay was quite flattering and respectful of the “problem of knowledge” that I identified in North American New Right thought. However, there are numerous […]

Further Thoughts on “Epistemology and the New Right” – Recently Published

As promised, Counter-Currents has published an essay, “Epistemology and the New Right”. The essay was a dusting off of some academic theory I had produced in 2004. It was prompted by a Counter-Currents reader posting a poem by Kahil Gibran in response to a comment I had made about limiting my son’s influences to those […]

Epistemology and the New Right, Upcoming Paper

I am preparing a new paper for Counter-Currents, on the foundation of a New Right epistemology. It is quite apparent that many of us have no conception of how knowledge works to motivate human behaviors. This paper – to be published next week (Aug 20-24) – seeks to rectify that. If we want to destroy […]

Paganism Without Swords? – Recently Published

Counter-Currents has published an essay, Paganism Without Swords?, which begins by explaining the skill of artisan knife and sword making as a Nietzschean critique of modern economic man. I then move to a discussion of the links between pagan ethics and weaponry. While other authors have failed to note this link, a consequence of the […]

The Homeric Gods – Recently Published

My review essay of Walter F. Otto’s The Homeric Gods is now available at Counter-Currents/North American New Right. In it, I demonstrate the links between Otto’s understanding of the life-affirming Homeric religion, the Nietzschean critique of modernity and Judeo-Christianity, and the mythic/ideological bases of fascism. Although I do not much enjoy writing reviews of this […]

Recently Published

RECENTLY PUBLISHED: “The Ultras, the State, and the Legitimacy of Violence,” in Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development (Volume 41, number 1 – Spring 2012). If you only read one article on the Ultras and youth political extremism, read this one. In it I present, not only a coherent and […]

Ceremony ZOO Review Essay, Part Three

Having discussed the hardcore scene’s ethic of violence that puts it at odds with the bourgeois prohibition against interpersonal violence, I must say that not all bands or fans adhere to such an ethic. In fact, the slightly rightist politics I presented above cannot even be assumed for the bands used as examples. None of […]

Ceremony ZOO Review Essay, part two

Death Before Dishonor is a Boston band. They champion what I call “muscular hardcore,” more metal than punk, and utilize breakdowns and even verse-chorus song structures. Politically, the band, and others like them (Agnostic Front, Hatebreed, Terror, Palehorse, Lionheart, Death Threat, etc.) are hard to categorize in an American context. This […]

Ceremony ZOO Review Essay, part one

I embraced hardcore music in 2008. After having lived amongst Romans, Ultras, skinheads, and fascists for more than year, a return to normal/bourgeois/American life was simply not possible. Even for my wife such a return was impossible. (Anyone who dissuades you from having your spouse in the field is misleading you. Of course, my wife […]