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 […]

ROMVLAE GENTI, an Explanation

“Romans! I need only remind you of the name you bear that you may realize how different we are from the men we fight!” TITVS VESPASIANVS, JVDEA 70 BC. ROMVLAE GENTI was created in Rome, Italy on December 2, 2007. On that date, the hardest, strongest, and most ideologically committed Ultras of AS Roma’s Curva […]

Jack Donovan’s “Start the World”

For years I have used Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality as the introductory text for potential ROMVLAE GENTI members. Although the text is difficult for those unfamiliar with either Nietzsche or philosophical writing, I find it to be a good litmus test for the type of people who I believe worthy of joining the […]

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 […]

TITVS and Tisha B’av 2012

“Romans! I need only remind you of the name you bear that you may realize how different we are from the men we fight!” TITVS VESPASIANVS, JVDEA 70 BC. The purpose of ROMVLAE GENTI is to create an environment wherein a Nietzschean revaluation of modern Judeo-Christian values can occur. As adults with as much as […]

Classical versus Modern, a Visual Encounter

In the Greek Heroic Age there was a shared set of values, based, one, upon war as the most noble of activities; and two, of honor and courage as the sublime values of the warrior – that a warrior was brave in battle but magnanimous, generous, giving great gifts and expecting nothing in return. Being […]

Thoughts on Walden, Unabombing, and Anthropology

(Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins; Trash Talk Collective’s Awake; Tim Hecker’s Dropped Pianos; a Made for Vancouver day; Thoreau’s Walden, Kaczynski’s Technological Slavery.) It’s an odd thing when work gets in the way of actual intellectual pursuit. However, that is the nature of being an academic (even one who is ‘unemployed’). Papers have been refereed […]