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The Scorpion

THE SCORPION was an English language magazine of metapolitics and culture which appeared roughly yearly, each issue dealing with a particular subject (e.g., imperialism, ecology, regionalism) from a perspective opposed to modernism and globalism. We can be reached by email.

If you wish, you can download a pdf of Issues 1-19 (517 MB).

Or on a smaller scale, here are some articles from the most recent and past issues:

Issue 24

Presumptions of Democracy

"Democracy We Presume?" by Dominic Campbell. What is it, in theory and practice?
Reviews:
- "Only Connect". A review by Dominic Campbell of Critiques Théoriques, by Alain de Benoist.
- "Behind the Demos". A review by Andrew Webster of The French Revolution: A Study in Democracy, by Nesta Webster.
- "Paint It Black", a review of Many Shades of Black: Inside Britain's Far Right, by John Bean.

Issue 23

Justice

"Justice: Who is She?" by Dominic Campbell. Crime and Punishment and the Meaning of Natural Balance.
Reviews:
- "Happy Families". A review by Tony Glaister of The Politics of Human Nature, by Thomas Fleming.
- "Peace of Resistance", a review by Dominic Campbell of Gandhi and Godse A Review and a Critique, by Koenraad Elst.
- "Traditional Emancipation", a review by Troy Southgate of Man and Woman in Revolt against the Modern World by Baron Julius Evola.
- "Being at that Time" a review by Paul Shepherd of Martin Heidegger: A Political Life, by Hugo Ott.
- "Killing the Messenger", a review by Jared Taylor of Race, Intelligence and Bias in Academe, by Roger Pearson.
- "Legendary Feasts", a review by Troy Southgate of Tyr- Myth Culture and Tradition (Volume 1, 2002).

Issue 22

Ecce Homo

Editorial.
"Courage Style Aristocracy," by Dominic Campbell. An attempted reckoning with Friedrich Nietzsche.
Nietzsche's Main Works: A bibliographical sketch.
"Dynamic Optimism," by Michael Young. Another view of a man who defies neutrality.
In his own Words: Quotations from Nietzsche's works.
It happened one Gloomy Night
Points taken
On the wall
Reviews
- Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson, reviewed by Dominic Campbell.
- S. M. Stirling's Draka series, reviewed by Paul Charnock.
- Ward and Larson on evolution, reviewed by Paul Charnock.
- Nobilitas: A Study of European Aristocratic Philosophy from Ancient Greece to the Early Twentieth Century, by Dr Alexander Jacob, reviewed by Dominic Campbell.
- Garcia Aguilar on the Chapitas, reviewed by Dominic Hampshire.
- American History X, reviewed by Dominic Campbell.
The Grape Vine, by Loki.

Issue 21

The Darwin Inheritance

Editorial
"The Darwin Inheritance," by Dominic Campbell. A look at the issues involved in the unending "Darwin Debate."
"Ludwig Woltmann & German Darwinism," by Alain de Benoist. A look at the life and thought of an early proponent of social Darwinism.
"'Races do not Exist,'" by Charles Champetier. Scientific responses to a widespread sophism.
Readers' Symposium
"On the Wall" -- News Items from around the world.
Points Taken
"German Socialism as an Alternative to Marxism", by Dr. Alexander Jacob. The political thought of the "cultural pessimist" Oswald Spengler and the socialist writer Werner Sombart.
Manifestos
Reviews
- "Back to the Future", a review of L’archeofuturisme, by Guillaume Faye.
- Other reviews cover Civil War Two by Thomas Chittum, The Impulse of Power by Michael W. Kelley, Gabriele D'Annunzio by John Woodhousey, A History of Pagan Europe by Prudence Jones and Nigel Pennick, Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Post-war Fascist International by Kevin Coogan, Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley.
"The Grape Vine," by Loki.

Issue 20

The Name of Frailty?

Editorial
"In Praise of Fair Women," by Dominic Campbell. A comprehensive and accepted view of the future role of Man and Woman in a future society is essential to anyone who rejects the modern world.
"The Case of Isaac Newton". Alexander Jacob points to a little known but influential source of philosemitism and egalitarianism in the man who explained the falling apple.
On the Wall
Manifestos
Readers Symposium
Reviews:
- "Who's a Genius?", a review by Dominic Campbell of Hitler's Priestess, by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke.
- "Right On!", a review by Christian Rogler of Deutschlands Rechte-Ordnungs und Gestaltungsauftrag, by Rolf-Josef Eibicht.
- "The Man Behind It All", a review by Jim Harraway of Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich, by James Lubinskas
- "A Page in My Life," a review by Dominic Campbell of The Books in My Life, by Colin Wilson.
- "Green Leaf", a review by Dominic Campbell of A Mirror of England, an Anthology of the Writings of HJ Massingham, by Dominic Campbell.
"The Grape Vine", by "Loki."

Issue 19

For an New Education

Editorial
"For a New Education", by Dominic Campbell.
"The Neo-conservative Reich of Edgar Julius Jung", by Alexander Jacob.
Manifestos
On the Wall
Readers Symposium
Reviews:
- "Who's a Genius", a review by Mark Ashton of Schockley on Eugenics and Race, by Roger Pearson.
- Review by Mark Ashton of The Social Meaning of Modern Biology from Social Darwinism to Sociobiology, by Howard Kaye.
- "A Deeper Shade of Green", a review by Dominic Campbell of Environmentalism and Political Theory, by Robyn Eckersley.
- "Where do you come from? Where do you go?", a review by Peter White of The Thirteenth Tribe, by Arthur Koestler.
- "Do you Remember me?", a review by Jim Harraway of Diaries, by Alan Clark, and Storm Command, by General Peter de la Billiere.
- "Teaching by Numbers", a review by Robin Waterfield of The Great Triad, by Rene Guenon.
- "How right is right?", a review by Dominic Campbell of Enoch Powell: A Biography, by Robert Shepard.
"The Grape Vine", by "Loki."

Issue 18

The Power and the Glory

"The Power and the Glory", Dominic Campbell on the nature of power.
"Carl Schmitt and Democracy", Paul Gottfried on the German antiliberal thinker.
"Dry and Brown Greens", review of a book on the connection between ecological thought and the far right.
"Space Invaders", review of Peter Brimelow's Alien Nation.
"The Greening of the West", review of Qathafi's Green Book.
"Erkenne Dich Selbst", review of Richard Wagner and the Antisemitic Imagination, by Marc A. Weiner.
"Empire Invisible", short notice of renewed availability of in German of Evola's The Mystery of the Grail.
"Bed Time Book of Famous Beasts", review of Fascism in the Oxford Readers series.
"Cross Purposes", review of Alan Morrison's The Serpent and the Cross: Religious Corruption in an Evil Age.
"Corsets and Old Hat", review of Volk, Nation, der Westen und die Neue Rechte by Mark Terkessidis.
"Animal Farm", review of Die McDonaldisierung der Gesellschaft by George Ritzer.
"Siege Mentality", review of Siege: The Collected Writings of James Mason by George Ritzer.
"Canonballs", review of Harold Bloom's The Western Canon: The Books and Schools of the Ages.
"Life after West", review of Alain de Benoist's Europe, Tiers Monde Meme Combat.

Issue 17

To Dream of Empires

"Dream of Empires", Dominic Campbell on the nature of empires and imperialism.
"The Grapevine", a column by "Loki", with his own reflections on Empire.
"The Peoples of Europe: Corsica", by Giuse Centophani.
"Capital Culture", an account of Northern European aesthetics in the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.
"Tradition in Revolt", Karl Richter's review of Revolt against the Modern World, the major work of Julius Evola.
"European Blues", a review-essay on The Making of the Old Southern Sound, Bluegrass Blues, by Robert Cantwell.
"A Hell of a Journey", a review of A Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Fawn Brodie.
"War Games", a review of Churchill's War, by David Irving.
"Eclectics in Perspective", a review of the publications Perspectives and Fourth World Review.
"See no Evil", a review of Spoken in Darkness by Ann E. Imbrie.
"Peaceful German Empire?", a review of Friedensmacht Deutschland, Plaedoyer fuer einen neuen Patriotismus, by Alfred Mechtersheimer.
"Murder, He Said", a review of Who Murdered my Father, Rudolph Hess, by Ruediger Hess.
"Just an Ordinary Muse", a review of two volumes of collected poems and letters by Philip Larkin.
"You will be Harmonised!", a review of Merrie England-2000 by Colin Jordan.
"Out of Order", reviews of Hunter and A Candidate for the Order.
"Loquacious to Effect", a review of two poetry books.
"The Right Set", a review of the journals of Anthony Powell.
"Prayer before Birth?", a review of God, a self-published book by "Prometheus".
"Bayreuth Revisited", a review of Richard Wagner: Visionen, Werk, Weltanschaung, Deutung by Professor Karl Richter.
"Romantic Reich", a review of the music of Frank Rennicke.
Letters from readers.

Issue 15

The State?

"The State", by Dominic Campbell.
"Between the Gods and the Titans", Alain de Benoist's review of the life and achievement of Ernst Juenger, part I (Issue 15) and part II (Issue 17).

Other Publications

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