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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Alain de Benoist
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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…
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…
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…
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,…