Tag Archives: Counter-Modernism

Gustave Le Bon: secular reactionary

by Aschwin de Wolf Posted on May 17, 2011

Gustave Le Bon (1841- 1931) is among the most undeservedly neglected modern social writers. It is not hard to see why this is the case. Gustave Le Bon was not a religious man but he was skeptical of top-down social … Continue reading →

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James Burnham on liberalism and decline

by Aschwin de Wolf Posted on October 11, 2009

James Burnham’s Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism proposes the thesis that modern liberalism is the ideology of a society in decline; its doctrines motivate and justify the contraction of Western civilization and … Continue reading →

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John Derbyshire’s hard-headed realism

by Aschwin de Wolf Posted on September 18, 2009

Paul Gottfried reviews John Derbyshire’s latest book We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism, which appears to make a secular, empirical case for “hard-headed realism.” Although We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism would appear to be a light read, brimful of … Continue reading →

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Counter-modernism

by Aschwin de Wolf Posted on May 26, 2009

In my review of Jonathan Bowden’s book Mad I  discussed the possibility of “a unique and coherent Nietzschean/Lovecraftian worldview that is strictly positivist in its epistemology, and  distinctly reactionary in its rejection of egalitarianism and democracy, as an alternative to … Continue reading →

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