Classic Essays

Offices of the Duverus cult and The American Sunbeam circa 1977, from a collection by Jewish photographer Max Hirshfeld, who was allowed to spend three days photographing and interviewing the workers and residents there. by Revilo P. Oliver (1986) THE American Sunbeam has ceased publication. This…

Aztec sacrificial altar, Mexico by Kevin Beary FOR DECADES now, African-American leaders have been calling for a formal United States apology for the American role in the slave trade, with some even demanding reparations. Indian tribes proclaim their tax-exempt status as something they are owed…

an extract from Friedrich Nietzsche
introduced and translated by H.L. Mencken THE CIVILIZATION which existed in Europe before the dawn of Christianity was a culture based upon master-morality, and so we find that the theologians and moralists of those days esteemed a certain action as right only…

by Revilo P. Oliver I HAVE always felt sympathetic toward the “British Israel” and “Identity” cultists, who are trying so hard to salvage Christianity and make it safe for our race, and I have often wished their doctrine could be made at least superficially plausible. I hope…

This piece was originally written in November, 1997, just after the confrontation it describes. Mr. Williams shows how easy it is to repurpose an enemy event by inserting a little bit of incontrovertible truth into the discourse. by William White Williams (1997) HERE’S A talk you may have missed…

Himmler talks with an American journalist by Lothrop Stoddard (1940) “THE PARTY.” That is the commonest phrase in Germany today. It denotes that all-powerful organization, NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party) which dominates, energizes, and directs the Third Reich. Just what is the…

by Revilo P. Oliver ACCORDING TO the press, the Hare Krishna cult has established a rather ornate lair near Hillsborough, deep in the rural hills of Orange County, North Carolina. Most members of the cult are Hindus, part of a massive invasion of the United States that has generally gone unnoticed, even…

Totally realistic and spontaneous picture of real American patriots Whatever it may have stood for in the past, the Stars and Stripes is no longer a flag that represents the White people of America by Matt Koehl Note by Martin Kerr: Broadly speaking, there are two types of nationalism: racial nationalism…

Robert Welch by Revilo P. Oliver ON 26 January 1985, memorial services for the late Robert Welch were held in Belmont, Massachusetts, with the conventional funerary prayers to a god in whom the atheist did not believe, and a singing of the sinister “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” on which…

by Revilo P. Oliver I HAVE been sent a very interesting booklet, The 5th Kingdom, written and published by Elmer Arthur (4902 N.E. Thirtieth Avenue, Portland, Oregon). Properly considered, it is more significant than most of the books that are today spewed in such horrendous quantity from the presses…