Nerd Socialism

"The Needs of the Many. . ."

Beyond space travel, aliens, and various layers of camp and nerdism lies the true essence of the Star Trek universe—idealized socialism.  Andy, Colin, and Richard discuss the franchise that has, perhaps more than Marx, informed the contemporary West's vision of egalitarianism. 

Fight the future!

Notes: 

Joseph Campbell and Star Wars
Star Trek, "The Enemy Within"
The Prime Directive 
Samantha Power 
James Doohan
Paul Gottfried, "How the Left Won the Cold War"
The Occident Observer, "Star Trek and the Multiracial Future"
AlternativeRight, "Resistance is Futile: The Borg as Modernity"
Star Trek, "Return of Archons" 
Star Trek, "Space Seed" 
"The Needs of the Many..." (utilitarianism) 
Alexandre Kojeve 
Leonard Nimoy on the Orthodox Jewish origins of Vulcan symbolism
Richard Spencer, "Star Trek and the Jews"
Raiders of the Lost Arc, final scene 
Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The Neutral Zone"
Communism in Star Trek
The Venus Project 
Star Trek, "This Side of Paradise"
Gene Roddenberry

Taking a Stand

Image: Counter-Currents

Richard talks with Matthew Heimbach, a college student and activist, who took a stand against an army of foul-smelling communists.  

Videos from May Day Rally:

Heimbach speaks reason to a protestor
Footage of the melee

The Richwine Affair

"Witch trial at Salem Village" (1692) 

Andy Nowicki and Richard Spencer discuss the recent controversy surrounding Jason Richwine, a former Heritage Foundation scholar who was forced to resign over allegations of "racism" and his associations with . . . Richard Spencer. 

Notes:

Background articles:

"The Jason Richwine Affair"
"Rachel Maddow and the Rage of the Ruling Class"
"Final Thoughts on Richwine Affair"

Become Who You Are

Roman Bernard, Colin Liddell, Andy Nowicki, and Richard Spencer discuss how they became who they are. They discuss their intellectual influences and the personal journeys to nationalism and the heretical Right.  

Notes: 

The Man Who Wasn't There
The Third Man
"The Ugly Duckling"
Ségolène Royal 
Roman Bernard's interview with Alexander Forrest
Fabrice Robert
Keith Preston, "Evola--Beyond Prudery and Perversion"
Adorno Minima Moralia
Richard Spencer, "Rotten in Durham"
Morton Blackwell 
The Onion, "Zombie Reagan Raised From Grave To Lead GOP"
Depeche Mode in Basildon
Tomislav Sunic on "What Europeans Can Learn from Americans" 

Man & Superman

In this installment of Masterpieces in Right-Wing Cinema, Andy, Colin, and Richard discuss two iconic films of Science Fiction: Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972).  

Notes:

2001: A Space Odyssey 
Solaris
Rembrandt, The Return of the Prodigal Son 
The Black Hole (1979)
HAL = IBM?
Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End 

Conservative Phantasms

Pictured: Clear and Present Danger

Colin, Andy, and Richard discuss the career and legacy of Margaret Thatcher and the political motivation of Kim Jong Un. 

Notes:

Democratic People's Republic of Korea
David Frum and Richard Perle, An End to Evil
Colin Liddell on Margaret Thatcher
Brezhnev, Thatcher, and the "White race must survive" anecdote
Tony Blaire and "rubbing the Right's nose in Diversity"  

Bourgeois Tyranny

Free at last!

Jack Donovan joins Andy, Colin, and Richard to discuss "marriage equality" and how it became the world's favorite social cause.  Does monogamy for homosexuals mark a step closer to "equality"? Or is it a means of controlling and regularizing gays socially, politically, and sexually?  Wasn't the whole point of being gay to avoid marriage?    

Notes:
Corporate world and gay marriage
Facebook meme
HRC Logo
Andy Nowicki, "Murderous Equality" 
Gallup polling on interracial marriage
Michael Swift, The Gay Manifesto
Andrew Sullivan, Virtually Normal
Warren Farrell, The Myth of Male Power
Scott Locklin, "Nerds Behaving Badly"
Andy Nowicki, "A Tales of Two Bitches"
Adria Richard has discovered a way of connecting a printer to a network!
Twitter and the French anti-Semitism controversy

Big-Gulp Nationalism

Sarah Palin fights the liberal elite by drinking a sugary beverage. 

Kevin DeAnna joins Richard to discuss the recent Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, DC.  They debate whether the conservative movement is evil, or just stupid.  

Notes:

CPAC straw poll
#StandwithRand
Justin Raimondo on Rand Paul
Rand Paul's speech at CPAC
Lew Rockwell on "Red State Fascism"
Ann Coulter's CPAC comedic routine
Ann Coulter "bomb and Christianize" foreign policy
Ann Coulter and Joe Sobran
Coulter call libertarians "Pussies"
Marco Rubio, "We don't a need new idea!"
Rand Paul's Hispandering
Lindsey Graham's strangely good position on birth-right citizenhsip
Gays at CPAC
David Weigel onCPAC White Nationalists
Buckley and segregation

Popes: Black, Red, & Brown

Was the selection of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope a "safe" choice, a signal that the Church's future lies in the "global south," or a victory by the economic progressives within the Vatican.  

Notes:

Jorge Mario Bergoglio 
Vatican II
Pope Benedict's Regensburg Address
Paul Gottfried on Bishop Williamson
Sarah Palin's Big Gulp
Thomas W. Woods on the Vatican and global governance
George Weigel: "If only the Pope knew!" (part I and II) 
Roman Bernard's "Smoke Screen."

Papabile

Francis Bacon, Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953)

Andy, Colin, and Richard discuss the election of the new Pope—and what a African Pontiff would mean—as well as Italy's new comedic fascist, Bepe Grillo, and Rand Paul's farcical filibuster.  

Notes:

The New York Times on papal odds-makers
BBC Guide to Papal candidates
Sexual abuse allegations in Church
John Paul II, Socialism, and Capitalism 
Rerum Novarum
Americanism as a Hersey
Vatican's call for a global bank
Brazilian "Papabile" (who's a white guy)
Bepe Grillo 
Mario Monte's appointment as Italy's Prime Minister
Italy's Party of Love
Justin Raimondo on Rand Paul

Future Shock

Futureworld (1976)

Will evolution produce creatures of great beauty, intelligence, and spirit. . . or brainless cockroaches with an uncanny knack for survival? If man were to give evolution a purpose, might this entail leaving his humanity behind?  Humanity+'s Rachel Haywire joins Andy, Colin, and Richard to discuss Transhumanism, Futurism, and the Singularity.   

Notes:

Rachel Haywire
Humanity+
Idiocracy
Rachel Haywire's Acidexia
Madison Grant and conservationism
The Beijing Genomics Institute
Leon Trotsky's egalitarian superman 
F.T. Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto
Alain de Benoist on Left, Right, and the periphery

The Village People

Ivy (Bryce Dallas Howard) in The Village

Andy, Colin, and Richard discuss M. Night Shyamalan's mystery thriller The Village. Is the film subversive and "paleoconservative," in that it sympathetically depicts Americans escaping the 21st century in favor of an older, more traditional and innocent way of life?  Is a "gated community" a worthy goal for traditionalists, or a delusion and distraction?         

Notes: 

The Village (2004)
Road Along the Mohawk
Drums Along the Mohawk
Andy Nowicki's "Hollywood's Last White Nationalist" 
David Lynch, Dune, and The Empire Strikes Back 
Gregory Hood article on the ironic power of "White Nationalism"
Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities
Rod Dreher's "Benedict Option" 

The Other Democrats

The unspeakable empire.

Long-time activist and organizer Kevin Scott joins Richard and Andy for a discussion of British nationalism and the creation of the British Democratic Party (which is designed as a successor to the British National Party.) Scott serves as Chairman of the BDP's steering committee.   

Notes:  
Andrew Brons
John Bean 
Adrian Davies
Nick Griffin on Question Time
Many Shades of Black 
Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood 
UKIP
Nationalist Unity Forum

Re-Generation

Génération Identitaire occupies the roof of the Great Mosque of Poitiers

Journalist and "wandering European" Roman Bernard joins Richard, Andy, and Colin to discuss France's promising new youth group "Génération Identitaire."  The conservation then transitions to the importance of "generations" in the traditionalist Right.  Below the surface, groups like GI aren't so rebelling against a Muslim invasion as the generation of 1968.  

Audio Note: 

For reasons that are still unclear, a crackling sound appears on the recording whenever I (Richard) speak.  I've run the file through noise-reducing software, which has improved matters, though the recording is still not ideal.  I don't want to do any greater noise reduction, since this subtracts information from the overall sound wave and, eventually, makes the entire recording inaudible.  

I apologize.  The problem will be fixed before next week's program.  ~RS

Show Notes: 

In French-Canada, what Americans call the French-Indian War is referred to as the "War of Conquest."
Génération Identitaire official website.
Text and video of GI's "Declaration of War" 
Report on GI's storming of the Mosque
Battle of Tours
Interview with GI at AltRight
Roman Bernard's report on conference of Bloc Identitaire
Anti-gay marriage demonstration 
Ted Cruz defends Israel
"Paleoconservativism" wikipedia page
Pat Buchanan's Right From the Beginning
Buchanan's home parish was "Blessed Sacrament"
"The Last Man"
Alex Kurtagic speech at NPI conference

Alien Nation, Redux

Pictured: Future Republicans

With the tedious inevitability of an unloved season, "amnesty" for illegal immigrants has returned as a political issue. VDARE.com's Peter Brimelow joins Richard, Colin, and Andy to discuss America's ongoing immigration disaster.   

Notes:

VDARE.com
Romney's response to immigration at Hofstra debates
Romney didn't get enough of the White vote 
Report on National Review Institute delusional and embarrassing conference
Rand Paul's unusual plan to halt legal immigration to help assimilate undocumented workers

Cleaning Up the Streets

Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver (1976)

Pauline Kael called Dirty Harry "fascist Medievalism."  Colin, Andy, and Richard debate whether the film deserves such high praise. In this edition of Masterpieces of (Bad) Right-Wing Cinema," Vanguard Radio delves into genre of 1970s vigilante films.   

Music: The Cure, "At Night" + Death Wish

Notes:

Dirty Harry (1971)
Death Wish (1974)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Paul Kael called Dirty Harry (1971) "
Roger Ebert's review of Dirty Harry.
Pauline Kael's review (1,2) of Dirty Harry.  
Robert Prechter on Social Mood
Bernie Goetz
John Hinkly Jr. and Jodie Foster 
Rorschach in Watchmen 
Writer Paul Schrader and Black pimps
New York City policing methods 
Freekanomics and abortion

God-Sized

Joel Osteen spreads the good news of self-esteem.

Is America a "Christian nation"?  Will traditional Christianity die in the West and flourish in the Third World? What's the significance of the self-esteem religion of Joel Osteen?  These and other questions are explored as Andy, Colin, and Richard discuss Christ in the modern world.

Music:

:Wumscut: + Joel Osteen

Notes:

Ullr—The Skiing Germanic God of Snow 
Jacques Ellul
The Subversion of Christianity 
Propaganda 
Philip Jenkins, The Next Christendom
John Sentamu, The Archbishop of York
Richard's notion of "PC Judo" 
Pew Forum survey of religious knowledge 
Pew Forum's online quiz
Søren Kierkegaard
Joel Osteen
Osteen "Living in Total Victory"
Critical background on Osteen
Rick Warren
Warren's godly attire
Eric Kaufmann, Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?

Project Mayhem

Fight Club (1999)

Jack Donovan joins Colin, Andy, and Richard in order to break the first rule of Fight Club: they discuss Fight Club (1999), and its themes of nihilism, anti-modernity, and paleo-masculinity.

NOTES:

Fight Club (1999), IMDb
Jack-Donovan.com
Andy's Fight Club-inspired article at AltRight
Summary of Nietzsche's concepts of "Passive" and "Active" Nihilism
David Fincher filmography
Francis Fukuyama's End of History and the Last Man (1992) 
Jack Donovan "Something Worth Doing"
Mark Steyn, "In the Absence of Guns"
Attack The System — Pan-secessionism from Empire

"Red Pill" State

A Mind-Blowing Question

In this first installment of "Masterpieces of Bad Right-Wing Cinema," Andy, Colin, and Richard discuss two "paranoid" films that bookend the 1990s: They Live (1988) and The Matrix (1999).  Topics of discussion include the "conspiratorial" impulse, the nature of reality and the virtual, trans-humanism, and anti-Semitism and the  "power elite."

Show Notes: 

David Icke, official website 
Alex Jones, official website 
Anti-Semitism and They Live!, background
Slavoj Žižek, "Welcome to the Desert of the Real"  
George Berkeley, Wikipedia
Vigilant Citizen
The Wizard Oz as political allegory
Steve Sailer's review of Django Unchained
Transhumanism 
Siri Apocalypse 

It's the End of the World As We Know It (2012 Edition)

To celebrate 2013, Andy, Colin, and Richard look back on the year that was and forward to that which will be.  Highlights include a tribute to Jonathan Bowden, lists of favorite books and movies of 2012, and predictions for 2013—as well as a discussion of the nature of prediction itself.     

Notes: 

Larry Auster on liberalism and the danger of wild animals
Guillaume Faye's trilogy from Arktos
Andy Nowicki, Heart Killer
Derek Turner, Sea Changes
Tom Wolfe, Back to Blood
Richard Spencer on The Dark Knight
Mark Hackard on The Dark Knight Rises
James Glassman & and Kevin Hassett, Dow Jones 36,000 
Robert Precter and socionomics; "History's Hidden Engine"
Norman Angell, The Great Illusion