The Eldritch Evola & Others by James O'Meara

Author:James O'Meara
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: H. P. Lovecraft, Owen Wister, Julius Evola, Henry James, Olaf Stapledon, Harry Partch, Scott Walker
ISBN: 9781935965695
Publisher: Counter-Currents Publishing
Published: 2014-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

—Michael O’Meara, New Culture, New Right 277

Robert Crunden’s The Superfluous Men: Conservative Critics of American Culture, 1900–1945

278 is a valuable collection of representative works—essays, chapters, letters, reviews—by the usual suspects of the “Old Right”—Mencken, Nock, Santayana, Davidson, Tate. It’s a great second-hand bargain at Amazon, which makes up for the annoying little “introductions” Crunden contributes, which dismiss his, and his reader’s, supposed objects of interest in such terms as “emotional extremism masquerading as cultural analysis” or “hardly rates as good political science,” whatever that means; for someone with such PC contempt for those who dare to wade outside the “mainstream,” it’s puzzling why he felt the need to spend the time on this anthology—which was supposedly originally twice as large.

One name was unfamiliar to me, at least, and even Crunden calls him “the most neglected” of his subjects: Ralph Adams Cram. And imagine my excitement when reading on and finding Cram described as: “[A]n Anglo-Saxon racist, an connoisseur of Oriental art forms, a decadent homosexual, an apostle of ‘anti-modernism,’ a hopeless political reactionary [hopeless? What other kind is there?] and the most gifted Gothic architect in [early XXth century America].” Sounds like Cram was one of the originals of what I’ve called, on my blog and in my book The Homo and the Negro, Wild Boys!

Apparently, there’s only one “serious study” of Cram, a two volume work by Douglass Shand-Tucci279 who, as you can guess from his fancy name, has “a very trendy obsession with issue of sexuality,” although that’s just Crude Crunden sticking his nose up again.

Since our first essay for Counter-Currents featured Noël Coward280 as an exemplar of the “Bohemian Tory” ideal promoted by Russell Kirk, it’s only appropriate that a far more positive review of the recently published second volume of Shand-Tucci’s biography can be found in Kirk’s journal The University Bookman.281

According to the Amazon listing, Cram basically built America’s church and college landscape:

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