Entries by Guillaume Durocher

The Wisdom of the Ancients, Part 1: Greek City-States as Ethnostates

Like too many of our generation, I was raised and “educated” without acquiring any real knowledge of European identity or our Western tradition. The Classics lay unopened. Though I may have tried once or twice to read them, they always left me baffled. I was too ignorant to even attempt to lessen my ignorance through […]

“The Book and the Rifle”: Cultural and Racial Policy in Fascist Italy, Part 3

Eugenics and Racial Policy Tarquini devotes substantial attention to race and eugenics in Italian culture under Fascism. She notes that the Fascist government gave Italian eugenic scientists support and attention which they had never enjoyed under previous regimes: From 1922 to 1945 Italian scientists contributed to racial culture and policy. These included anthropologists, statisticians, demographers, […]

“The Book and the Rifle”: Cultural and Racial Policy in Fascist Italy, Part 2

Go to Part 1. Intellectual Debate in Fascist Italy Tarquini emphasizes that culture in Fascist Italy was by no means monolithic, but allowed considerable stylistic variation and intellectual debate so long as these respected core Fascist principles. Indeed, Fascists emphasized that being a Fascist was more about a certain manly mindset than about theoretical abstractions. […]

Plato’s Racial Republic

Plato Republic (Robin Waterfield Trans.) New York: Oxford University Press, 1994 Egalitarians have argued that notions of nation and race are largely modern constructs. Marxists in particular have typically claimed that Western ruling classes invented these ideas to consolidate the power of bourgeois states or as a mere pretext to divide the working class along […]

Take Those PC Blinders Off: How to Read Mainstream Books

As a rule, I encourage all people, and perhaps especially political heretics on the Alt Right, to read some mainstream books, especially history books. I am obviously not discouraging the reading of courageous dissident historians like Dominique Venner,[1] Anne Kling, or David Irving. But I also think it is important we do not create our own […]