Alain de Benoist

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“The Golden One,” a Metapolitical Influencer

Metapolitics in the discourse of “The Golden One” — or Marcus Follin, online fitness guru, entrepreneur and far-right YouTube personality — is dissimilar to the notion of metapolitics as expressed by Alain de…

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4 min

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Guillaume Faye, the “Golden One” and the Metapolitical Legion

March 7 marked two years since the death of Guillaume Faye, the former number two of the French nouvelle droite (new right). His death wasn’t big news in the media. In academic…

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7 min

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What WhatsApp Conversations Reveal About the Far Right’s Ideology

Forum for Democracy (FvD) is a political party on the rise in the Netherlands. Thierry Baudet, FvD’s conservative revolutionary leader, positions himself and his party as right-wing and as an acceptable ideological…

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5 min

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The French New Right 52 years On: Alive and Kicking as Ever

Once deemed to have become a marginal movement, the French New Right has gained new momentum. Its flagship think-tank, GRECE (Groupement de recherches et d’études pour la civilisation européenne), plans…

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9 min

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The Metapolitics of the Far Right

The far right wants metapolitics to simply go back to the past, restoring a thinly disguised form of fascism in the hijacked domain of contemporary conservative politics. Humans have always…

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6 min

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Not the Same Difference: How the New Right hijacked an essential postmodern concept

In this post, I discuss how the concept of “difference” is a surprising link between postmodern thought and the New Right. In New Culture, New Right: Anti-Liberalism in Postmodern Europe,…

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“The Golden One,” a Metapolitical Influencer

Guillaume Faye, the “Golden One” and the Metapolitical Legion

What WhatsApp Conversations Reveal About the Far Right’s Ideology

The French New Right 52 years On: Alive and Kicking as Ever

The Metapolitics of the Far Right

Not the Same Difference: How the New Right hijacked an essential postmodern concept

US Buffalo Shooting: The Depressing Predictability of Far-Right Terrorism and How to Stop It

Nasser Kurdy and David Tucker. A Reply to Hate: Forgiving My Attacker. Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2021.

Nathaniël D. B. Kunkeler. Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands: Myth-Creation and Respectability, 1931-40. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.

CARR Reform Statement

Webinar Series: The Future of Ideologies (Michael Freeden)