I first saw him in London, in April 2008, at one of the bimonthly New Right meetings—a metapolitical forum he’d been chairing for three years. I had never previously attended the meetings and I had never previously heard of Jonathan Bowden. Due to railway network delays, we arrived late. It was a gloomy day. The room was dark, steamy, pre-Victorian, crammed with middle-aged men—serious and angry to the last. As all seats were taken, we took a standing position. Lady Michelle Renouf stood up front, holding some fifty printed pages in her hand, performing an exegesis of the Treaty of Lisbon’s legalese. My gaze wandered around the room.

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The dominant ideology of modern Western societies upholds equality as an absolute moral good, which must, therefore, be pursued for its own sake. The morality of egalitarianism is never questioned by the establishment power structure or by the vast majority of citizens; it is, in fact, a taken-for granted assumption that exists outside the scope of acceptable debate. Predicated on the arbitrary assertion that all humans are born equal in dignity and rights, and bearer of such rights by the mere fact of being human, able to reason, or endowed with dignity (note the circular reasoning) it makes of anyone questioning the moral goodness of equality into an individual of questionable humanity. Even conservatives dare not question the moral goodness . . .

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Beyond the link lies an adaptation of the speech I delivered at the 2012 American Renaissance conference, held in Nashville, Tennessee, last March. The text is nearly identical, only with a few syntactical adjusments to make it suitable for reading as an article, rather than for oral delivey.

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Evidently, John Derbyshire’s “Talk” column for Takimag last week detonated the ire of commentators on the lunatic fringes of the extreme Left. Ulcers flared with a vengeance. Torrents of bile swamped the internet. Fevered, politically correct brains flickered with scenes of John Derbyshire’s decapitation. Across the Atlantic, one could almost hear the roar of computer keyboards being simultaneously machinegunned by furibund digits. Actually—the roar was, in fact, heard across the Atlantic, for the Guardian weighed in, wondering on Sunday why Derbyshire’s piece was still online. By Monday I was perplexed to find that, amidst the still raging sandstorm of prose, not one journalist or commentator appeared to have sought Mr. Derbyshire for comment (though Gawker finally published an interview later that day). What follows is my effort to rectify this omission.

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We have recently witnessed how, thanks to the craven capitulation of editor and author of ‘Al Sharpton is Right’ Rich Lowry, the now former National Review columnist, John Derbyshire, is no longer among the dead. And we have also witnessed how, in their inimitably self-righteous, prissy style, equality zealots in the pay of ideological ‘news’ sources have exploded with jubilation, spewing gleeful venom into rants about Derbyshire’s ‘racism’ and conservative ‘hate’. One could almost hear the corks shooting out from champagne bottles, drumming the neon tubes, formica, PVC, and suspended ceiling panels of the various Marxist propaganda offices across the Anglosphere, as the malodorous scribblers therein celebrated Rich Lowry’s meek obedience. For, having demonstrated . . .

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In case anyone needed any proof of the degree to which mainstream political parties are all the exact same product under differently coloured labels, the new incredibly invasive law to be announced by the coalition government in the United Kingdom should provide proof, again, of what has been obvious for decades.

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Having spent a few days with the author in his native Alabama, I decided it was high time to tackle his best-known work: Lee. Lee was, apparently, originally to be titled, The Book of Lee, and it was the first of Perdue’s books to be published (in 1991), though not the first to be written. Not long after publication, a Publisher’s Weekly reviewer wrinkled his nose at Perdue, and pronounced him ‘a reactionary snob’. It seems Perdue always looked forward to being a cantankerous misanthrope in his seventies, because in this novel his alter ego, Leland Pefley, Lee, is a cantankerous misanthrope in his seventies. Now 73, with menacingly cantilevered black eyebrows, Perdue must be loving every minute of the . . .

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Sergei Eisenstein's second installment of his intended film trilogy about Ivan the Terrible began production in 1945. When finished, a year later, Stalin's censors harshly criticised the film on account of its ambivalent depiction of state terrorism. This led to a decision not to release the film, which, in turn, caused production of Part III to cease. Part II tells the story of Ivan's crushing of the boyars, and is remarkable, among other things, for its sudden switch to colour film during the last ten minutes. This was intended to symbolise the transition from good to bad, and is part of the general array of symbols used by Eisenstein to convey meaning or the nature of the main characters, who are likened to various animals. . .

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While spending a few days in Alabama with misanthropic novelist Tito Perdue, the latter insisted I watch Sergei Eisenstein's 1944 film, Ivan the Terrible. This was the most user-friendly of an unrelentingly stern and serious collection of black and white films he had in store, all made for deathly serious men of 40 and above, all in DVD with covers depicting 40-and-above male faces unvaryingly creased with grief, rage, and despair. Made in the Soviet Union during Stalin's rule, Ivan is nevertheless an extraordinary production, as one would expect, albeit incomplete, since only Parts I and II out of an intended trilogy were ever made. (Stalin objected to Part II and funding was withdrawn, causing Part III never to leave the production stage.) Part I is the best of the surviving . . .

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How is it that a shadowy 'human rights' organisation gets to advise the United Nations on one of Italy's national treasures, and arrogates to itself the privilege of deciding what Italians may or may not read in libraries or study in their schools. I was curious and decided to look into the aforementioned organisation, only what I found was . . .

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In the wake of the recent Oxford University study that sought to identify psychopharmacological cures to White racism (see my previous article on the subject), and in view of the study’s links to a modern advocate of eugenics, we are left with the question of what the anticipated resurgence of eugenics will mean for European-descended peoples in a cultural climate dominated by the liberal equality ideology. Until now we have not associated eugenics with liberal egalitarianism, even though the eugenics movement of the early twentieth century had a notable progressive component, as best exemplified by pacifist eugenicist David Starr Jordan. (Jordan’s 1915 book, War and the Breed . . .

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My comments on a recent proposal to have school exams checked for 'equality', ensuring that all the illustrations and diagrammes depict all races, religions, and sexual orientations equally.

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When Spengler wrote about Cæsarism as a manifestation of decline in a mature civilisation, and later when Francis Parker Yockey wrote about the ‘resurgence of Authority’ in ‘the Age of Absolute Politics’, most imagined a future where liberal democracy in the West gave way to some form of fascism. It turns out that this view is also shared by egalitarians. Julian Savulescu, of Oxford University’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, argues that the human biological and psychological makeup is incompatible with the type of society we live in and that unless we find ways genetically to enhance our species humanity faces extinction within the next one hundred years.

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Press reports about a pill that cures racism will have no doubt fired the imagination of egalitarians across the Western world, from the Kapital-thumping theologian burrowed in the catacombs of university humanities departments to the orangutanaceous brick-throwing Marxist of balaclava and combat boots. It appears that Propranolol, a drug normally prescribed for heart disease, has the unexpected side effect of suppressing implicit racial attitudes. Tests showed that subjects on the pill exhibited lower levels of subconsciously cautious attitudes towards members of another race than subjects on a placebo. According to the Press . . .

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The BBC liked my comments on Sarkozy's declarations so much that they invited me to appear in one of their radio programmes further to comment on the issue. Unfortunately, the reporter communicated via Twitter and I did not see the tweet until a day later, so the programme came and went without my contribution. My comments were . . .

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Conservatism: many are frustrated and exasperated by it. The radical Left (Marxism) because it sees conservatives as almost always winning; the less radical Left (conservatism itself) because it sees conservatives as almost always losing. In my article for Alternative Right, I dissect the carcass of conservatism and submit my postmortem report. There is life out there, but it is beyond conservative necrophiles.

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Those who put modern studies on 'prejudice' under the microscope are already aware of their pseudo-scientific nature: tendentious and methodologically weak, they are conducted with a view to prove a pre-determined conclusion that self-servingly defines the design of the entire study. Said studies are uncritically reported in the media, of course, since they exist to serve an ideology. It took no effort to take appart the juvenile . . .

 

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The popular imagination conceives Marxism and capitalism as opposing forces, imagining that—obviously—Marxists want the capitalists’ money and capitalists do not want Marxists to take it from them. Kerry Bolton’s Revolution from Above disproves this notion. As it turns out, and as many readers probably already know, the Marxist revolutions in the East succeeded in many places thanks to the ample funds supplied to them—consciously and voluntarily—by finance-capitalists in the West. With access to all the money they could wish for and more, the finance-capitalists in Bolton’s narrative were, and are, primarily motivated by a desire for power, and their ultimate aim was not even more money per se, but . . .

 

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My first contact with Kerry Bolton occurred on the back of my first article for The Occidental Observer, 'Memoirs of a Dissident Student in Post-Modern Academia', where I recounted my experiences in postgraduate school. At the time, and as we will see in the interview, Dr. Bolton was having a few unpleasant experiences of his own, so it is easy to see now why my piece resonated with him. A fellow at the Academy of Social and Political Research and of the Centre of Independent Studies, an extraordinarily prolific essayist and writer, publisher of the journal Ab Aeterno, and a contributor to publications such as Alternative Right, The Occidental Quarterly, Counter-Currents, and the Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies among others, Dr. Bolton is the author of Thinkers of the Right and, more recently, Revolution from Above, which was published by Arktos last year. He holds two doctorates: one in Theology and another in Historical Theology, while his writing deals with . . .

 

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I think of electoral politics as irrelevant, since their purpose is simply to legitimise the existing order and prevent fundamental change. But given that Ron Paul is perceived as an anti-establishment candidate for the American presidential elections of later this year, I thought it opportune to ventilate my thoughts on this phenomenon, which is now on its second iteration, and which is likely to remain a much-talked-about one in the weeks and months to come, until the Republicans choose their candidate to feign a contest against Barack Obama. Some themes from my review of Pat Buchanan's Suicide of a Superpower have recurred. You . . .

 

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This year marks one hundred years since Robert Falcon Scott and his party planted the British flag on the South Pole, a month after the Norwegian rival, Roald Amundsen, did the same with his country's flag. This being as good a time as any, I partly review Beau Riffenburgh's book an earlier bid for the pole by Scott's predecessor and former member of the latter's first Antarctic expedition, Ernest Shackleton. This leads to some Spengler-accented reflections as to the significance of such extraordinary feats of exploration. You . . .

 

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Happy New Year 2012. On one of my favourite days of the year (because it is new), I would like to thank my readers for following my work online over the past twelve months. If you enjoy my writing, you will be pleased to know that I am aiming to write even more articles, blogs, and reviews in 2012 than I did in the year just ended. I will also be speaking at the American Renaissance conference in March (other engagements to be confirmed), and I will be doing more book covers (those I did in 2011 can be found on Lothrop Stoddard's The Revolt Agaisnt Civilization and The French Revolution in San Domingo, Francis Parker Yockey's The Proclamation of London, and Tito Perdue's The Node . . .

 

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My predictions for 2012 are now available to view at Alternative Right. As is now my tradition, it is a largely but not wholly satirical piece and a close replica of last year's entirely predictable and safe bets. In fact, when I wrote my predictions for 2011 did so with the view of making nearly identical predictions for this year, . . .

 

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The University of the West Indies in Kingston is having the Christian Bible translated into Jamaican patois. Although based on English, the West African pronounciation and variant grammar and spelling make it sound like another language. With the rise of Singlish and Hinglish, could this text be a glimpse of Europe's future, rather than an emblem of the island's divergence from Britain and convergence with West Africa?

 

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Christmas is as good as time as it gets to examine the origins of our dating system. Various facts will be surprising to most, among them the calendar's being neither accurate nor 2011 yeard old. How was the dating system before we began enumerating the years from Jesus's navitity or conception? What will future calendars will look like in a post-Christian West?

 

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A journalist writing for the Copenhagen Post, 'Denmark's leading source for news in English', is so preoccupied about the feelings of a Somali rapist and about the safety of the immigrants residing the same town, that he completely forgets about the the feelings of the 10-year-old girl he raped at knifepoint, her parents, or their neighbours, who may have girls of similar age. What . . .

 

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More than ever, the mainstream Western media seem preoccupied with racists and Nazis. Not a day goes by without two or three dozen reports being posted online. On Sunday 11 December the Daily Mail posted an epic and immensely detailed report uncovering the existence of Nazi sympathisers at the heart of the Conservative Party and close to David Cameron. There is no escaping it: the presence of Nazis in front of an unperturbed Conservative MP, Aidan Burley, documented by Daily Mail reporters in video and digital photography, confirms it conclusively. It seems the Nazi . . .

 

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My previous article about the media coverage triggered by the YouTube video of Emma West elicited responses from Asian media professionals—individuals with a platform, degrees, successful careers, and in one case a scholarship, who painted a picture of Britain as in the grip of endemic, pervasive, ubiquitous, multifarious racism. I was in turn sent links to a obnoxious blogs adding to the media commentary. In all cases, the same stale ideological clichés concerning immigration, diversity, and multiculturalism were reheated, invariably with self-righteousness, sometimes with meanspirited snobbery and glee . . .

 

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Pat Buchanan's latest book, Suicide of a Superpower, is an epic indictment of the United States political leadership since the Cold War. It is brave and necessary, and welcome from a prominent conservative commentator and former politician of the mainstream establishment; although the book is not without flaws. My review for Alternative Right goes in depth, tackling the pluses and the minuses.

 

 

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I was initially reluctant to comment on the incident involving Emma West aboard the Croydon tramlink, but thought the media reporting and commentary may be worth commenting upon. And, indeed, so it proved to be. Sadly, but wholly predictably, the incident has been exploited to push the ideology underpinning the state-sponsored policy of immigration, diversity, and multiculturalism, which enjoys great favour among media folk, many of whom, being non-European immigrants or their descendants, benefit and have much to gain from it. Examination of possible causes for West's explosion: notably absent.

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Having been asked to do the cover for Tito Perdue's latest novel, and having since met the author, it seemed appropriate that I also write a review. The Node, a mixture of literary and science fiction and comedy, is set in dysfunctional America later this century, where present trends have been allowed to reach their logical consequences. The target is liberalism and its human product.

 

 

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The mayor (now former) of Naas, in Ireland, fed up with the bad manners, bad faith, and aggressive behaviour of his Black constituents, revealed that, after seven years of that, he had decided not to put up with the abuse any longer, and to direct the abovementioned to colleagues better equipped to take up their concerns. A Muslim Labour MP immediately took advantage of the revelation to eliminate a Conservative rival by reporting him to the police. The media witchhunt swiftly ensued, deploying the 'r'-word with abandon, crying for blood. I explore the consequences to Mr. Scully. My comments . . .

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I have said before that identitarian political parties will have limited success, and will remain marginal, until such time the West regenerates itself culturally in a manner more congenial with tradition—that is, until there is a paradigm shift at the cultural level. Having said this, The Netherland's ban on Halal and Kosher butchery indicates that there is scope for the abovementioned parties to contain the damage caused by the egalitarian project by exploiting ideological contradictions, and turning Leftists against themselves. It's not a solution by any means, but it is good exercise for mind and body.

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I met Tito Perdue at the NPI Conference in Washington DC, where I spoke last September. He was kind enough to bring along with him a few copies of his novels. I had specificially requested this one, his first, because it was largely autobiographical, and tells of how he met his beloved wife Judy during the Autum of 1957. I greatly enjoyed the book, which I read in the evenings, seated in my leather armchair, by a crackling fire. I am now working on the cover for another novel of his, Morning Crafts, which will be published by Arktos. Read this review and buy this and all his other books—Perdue is a wonderful author.

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It says something about how much better Bienvenu must have it in his chosen place of residence, Belgium, that he has the tranquility of mind to get himself ensnared in a legal crusade to ban an 80-year-old comic book, thus effectively presuming to tell his hosts what they may or may not read. Bienvenu would face an entirely different order of difficulties had he remained in Congo, where, incidentally, his tribesmen have been enslaving and even eating Pygmies in a campaign of extermination. Where is his outrage about that?

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In what has turned out to be a series of critiques of the Right, this article, written for The Occidental Observer, deals with the conceptualisation of Aryanism as a struggle for the 'preservation' of Western culture, or Western civilisation, or the West. As such the idea is analogous in its conservationist outlook as racial preservationism, which I discussed in an earlier article, published earlier in The Occidental Quarterly Online.

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A report in The Guardian about Morrissey's feud with the New Musical Express, following the latter's accusing him of racism on account of criticisms by the singer of the effects of successive governments' immigration policy in the United Kingdom, needed some comment and some delectation. It is pleasant to see these self-righteous Leftists depleting their coffers, and fattening those of their lawyers, in their quest to see who is racist and who is not. May the search for the truth be long and leave no stone unturned.

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The BBC has returned with a third shockumentary about the British National Party. In a change of tactics, instead attacking the party on its ideology, programme makers decided to attack its financial management, portraying Nick Griffin as a criminal surounded by thieves and thugs. Whatever misdeeds the current leadership of that party may be guilty of, the programme is still a crude attempt to keep voters away from a party not approved of by the establishment, and this alone requires comment. I have tried to be fair.

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I met Jared Taylor again recently at the National Policy Institute’s 2011 conference in Washington D.C., where we were both speakers. We then coincided at a brunch that was held the morning after the event. As I was to take a flight back to the United Kingdom in the afternoon, and as his base is on the way to the airport, he suggested I take an early cab and stop by for a visit later in the day. I accepted his invitation, and ordered a cab to collect me from the hotel at the appointed time. The cab driver was a 46-year-old immigrant from Egypt, tall, slender, dark, with a lightbulb head. He had been in the United States for 16 years, during which time . . .

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For decades now White Americans have been subjected to demands from Blacks, who have sought apologies, compensation, and reparations for slavery. Yet, in a country where there is a 'one-drop' rule for racial classification, and where Blacks have on average 18-20% White ancestry, this raises some interesting questions, as a Black man with seven White great-grandparents, and even fifteen White great-great-grandparents is classified as Black, and is therefore considered eligible. . .

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In a piece written for Alternative Right, I return to a topic that elicited heated discussion some months ago, there and elsewhere, and which comentators on the Left have sought to capitalise on, with their usual disingenuousness and lack of self-awareness. I turn the electron microscope on women on the Left, and examine what they are like and whether they have delivered on their grandiose promises of liberation. You can . . .

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In an article for TOQ Online, I decided to pronounce an argument I have heard used countless times within the racialist Right. This argument, essentially a pathetic plea to let the White race exist, has only served to confirm the enemy's position since implicitly accepting that a case needs to be made the act represents an abdication of power, an acceptance of the enemy's legitimacy and a willingness to play the enemy's game rather than flip the table. I analyse the reasons why the argument, like most such arguments, is useless and suggest a different approach that does away with arguments altogether.

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As part of my continuing series of extensive interviews with daring authors and publishers, I interviewed Professor Richard Lynn, author of IQ and Global Inequality, Race Differences in Intelligence, Eugenics: A Reassessment, and Dysgenics, recently published in a new and updated edition. As with earlier interviews in the series, I wanted to get a sense of the subject's personality, not simply ask questions about his work, which can be found elsewhere. Professor Lynn, otherwise keen on prose efficiency and Lacedaemonian brevity, kindly provided substantial answers to my questions and afforded us some insights into his early life and memories. You can . . .

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Tapes containing remarks recorded during an interview with Jackie Kennedy were recently released, revealing, to the great wide-eyed scandal of commentators on the Left, that the First Lady had non-adulatory opinions of Martin Luther King. Glee at the Lefties' horror, as well as contempt for their scramble to remind the reading public that Martin Luther King's status as a secular saint is a line that must never be crossed, prompted me to comment on the news coverage concerning the release of . . .

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It never ceases to amuse one how equality zealots, when confronted with an inconvenient fact, always manage to square the circle with their unique brand of tortive logic. In fact, one has to marvel at the ingenuity displayed from time to time, because contriving politically correct explanations for observed events in order to force them into compliance with ideology is not always easy. . .

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While watching the BBC's coverage of the U.K. riots (by then the disturbances that began in an area of London had spread to other parts of the capital as well as other enriched cities in the country), I was intrigued by the marked specialisation among human residents, who appeared to have adapted to each other by occupying . . .

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Having submitted a piece on another topic, Kevin MacDonald asked whether I would like to comment on the London riots for The Occidental Observer. I said had plenty of ironic comments to make on the events unfolding. My reflections on diversity's strength and how London has been feeling that strength, having gone on a course of anabolic steroids during the Blair years . . .

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While reviewing news reports of the Tottenham riots in London, I found the media, not unexpectedly, in full damage-limitation mode, seemingly seeking to drown the citizenry in a morass of theories, all typically managing to combine convolution and excess verbiage with incompleteness and superficiality. The most amusing by far, to me, was the attempt to blame the fact of Black residents in the affected area . . .

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