ABSTRACT
My focus in this chapter is on the “regenerative” mission of the far right. In particular, I examine what is meant by regenerative politics for the authors of the far right who are part of Arktos Media. Employing posts from the Arktos journal by John Bruce Leonard and D. F. Williams, and the work of Alain de Benoist, Guillaume Faye, and Daniel S. Forrest, I show that their regenerative vision is one that demands the reconstitution of the current “monolithic” liberal world order grounded in universal rights. While one might want to label their demands for regeneration fascistic, I argue that we ought instead to rethink the origins, and potentials, of regenerative politics itself, seeing it as a broader idea that encompasses all suggestions for political transformation or change—whether for good or for ill. In so doing, we can better isolate the aspects of the far right that we find problematic, deplorable, or immoral while also potentially employing a regenerative politics for the Left (broadly construed) in the interest of transformative political betterment.
