More on “the Dark Enlightenment”

By Nicholas Stix

Six months ago, I’d never heard this phrase. Now, it appears that it represents certain intellectual and political churnings of which I am a part.

It is better known by the terms, “the Dissident Right” (John Derbyshire) and “the Alternative Right.”

I prefer Derbyshire’s term, because it carries none of the paganist baggage of the other two, though I have never identified myself as a member of the “Right,” or any other hand, though I am certainly right-of-center.

Actually, the political phrasing “Left” and “Right” is not only outdated, but was never helpful, to begin with. Its half-life is one of communism’s many wonderful legacies. Though I have neither the time nor the space to get into this just now, depicting political positions on a Left-Right schema is intellectually and politically misleading.

“The Dark Enlightenment Part II”: Ex-Army Libertarian Nationalist.”