Author: seanv2

  • Adolf Hitler, magic yoga spaceman

      So here’s a first (but hopefully not last!) guest piece from good friend, and great writer, V. Charm.  Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity, by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, New York University Press (2002). Few things are more tedious in political discussion than accusations that some politician or party is analogous…

  • Ridgeway’s Blood In The Face

    Blood In The Face: Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads and the Rise of New White Culture James Ridgeway Published in 1995 (the year of the Oklahoma City Bombing), Ridgeway’s Blood in the Face was, was the first serious book I read on the rise of post-war neo-Nazi formations like Aryan Nations and Skinhead…

  • Coogan’s Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International

    Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International  Kevin Coogan When this book came out, I reviewed it for Maximum RockNRoll. I wish I could find that review now, but alas, it seems to have been lost in the pre-digital fog. However, with Evola and other post-war fascists back in the…

  • Leonard and Gallagher’s Heavy Radicals

    Heavy Radicals: The FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists Revolutionary Union / Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980 Aaron J. Leonard In the late sixties and early seventies, many young American leftists began drifting away from the amorphous politics of the mainstream anti-war movement and towards a sort of militant leftism influenced by Moa. They formed first…

  • Review: Elbaum’s Revolution in the Air

    Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che Max Elbaum In the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Students for a Democratic Society dissolved, some young leftists took the path of nihilistic armed struggled and joining weatherman, and other such groups. Others decided to take their lessons from Lenin ad Mao…

  • Your Occasional Stoic — You May Die Today

    It is possible you may die today. Regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to die, if there are gods, is not a thing to be afraid of, for the gods will not involve you in evil. But if indeed the gods do not exist, or if they have no concern about human affairs, what…

  • The BQ(Q) Joann Y

    When I started this project years and years ago, many of the early respondents came from the great website Running Ahead. Very pleased to add another RAer to the story here. Thanks Joann for sharing your story! Name Joann Y Sex: Female Age (at the time of first BQ): 43 Height: 5’5″ Weight (at the…

  • The BQ(Q) – Shawn

    Name Shawn Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 38 Height: 5’11” Weight (at the time of first BQ): 170 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Philly   Tell us a little about the race. Trained using the Hanson plan with some mods. Trained for a 3:12 to get under…

  • Ahmed, My Old Bodega Guy

    I was inspired by last night’s demonstration by Brooklyn’s Yemeni bodega owners and thought I’d share a little about my local guy, Ahmed from New Dubai Mart. Ahmed and his brother left Yemen more than a decade ago, first working as laborers in Dubai to save up enough money to make the trip to the…

  • In Defense of A Private Life

    From his days as an artillery captain, Hamilton had kept a paybook with blank pages in the back, while on Washington’s staff, he filled up 112 pages with note from his extra-curricular reading. Hamilton fit the type of the self-improving autodidact, employing all his spare time to better himself […] thanks to his paybooks, we…