Come out, 'tis now September, the hunters' moon's begun,And through the wheaten stubble we hear the frequent gun;The leaves are turning yellow, and fading into red,While the ripe and bearded barley is hanging down its head. September the 29th is the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, traditionally known as Michaelmas. Though not as widely … Continue reading Michaelmas: Of Harvest Festivals and Holy Warriors

As a student of ecological thought, particularly from a rightist or traditionalist perspective, I am well-acquainted with the arguments concerning veganism, hunting, factory farming, and so forth. But after a flurry of youthful idealism I mostly set these considerations aside and settled into a fairly comfortable compromise with the status quo. However, Jef Costello’s recent … Continue reading Politics of Meat: A Ecofascist Perspective

An earlier version of this essay was published at Counter-Currents Magazine on July 30, 2020. It was written during the worst days of iconoclastic fury precipitated by the George Floyd protests, and repeats verbatim various points made in earlier articles. My ancestors arrived in the Tidewater region of this continent around 400 years ago, and … Continue reading Living Monuments

While mankind suffers through the worst global crisis in recent memory, the rest of the world appears to be benefiting from our discomfiture. The quarantines, travel bans, and economic stagnation brought about by COVID-19 have had a number of unintended consequences for the natural environment: improvements in air quality resulting from the reduction of major … Continue reading Ecofascism Resurgent

In March 2020, the world declared war on COVID-19. The use of martial rhetoric with reference to peacetime political conflicts – the War on Drugs, the War on Poverty, the domestic arena of the War on Terror – has a long and dubious history in American politics. The appeal is obvious. Warlike language depicts every … Continue reading Dispatches from the Corona War

There is something sinister in the springtime this year. Rather than a serving as a yearly reminder of rebirth and natural beauty, the blooming trees and emergent grasses wear the face of some ancient enemy, awoken from its long slumber. The spreading pestilence makes one long for the dormancy and stasis of winter. This atmosphere … Continue reading The Purgative Fantasy: Reflections on Nihilism, Accelerationism, and the Apocalypse

Despite their many social ills, one might judge the decades prior to World War I to be the last period of sanity in the West. It was truly the last epoch in American history in which the values of old Europe still held any sway, when criticism of modernity by men of the Right still … Continue reading The WASP in the Wilderness

Few now remember them… yet still some go wandering, sons of forgotten kings walking in loneliness, guarding from evil things folks that are heedless. (Tom Bombadil, “Fog on the Barrow Downs,” The Fellowship of the Ring) In memory of Christopher Tolkien The Dúnedain were descended from the seafaring kings of ancient Númenor, who had settled … Continue reading The Rangers of the North

This time of year, when autumn fades into winter, has been particularly evocative to me ever since I was a child. Of course, “the holiday season” has a special meaning for many people, and their reasons are probably for the most part quite similar to mine. There is a shared seasonal nostalgia for the cold … Continue reading Autumnal Reflections