AN INTERVIEW WITH RICARDO DUCHESNE

By C.J. Miller

How did an immigrant from Puerto Rico come to be Canada’s most outspoken advocate for immigration restriction and white identity?

How do you go from a self-described “liberal cultural Marxist” to a race realist and defender of Western civilisation?

Will rising standards of living and the proliferation of technology lead to development of consciousness in non-Western peoples similar to that undergone by Europeans?

How has the intellectual climate in academia changed over the last couple decades?

Dr. Ricardo Duchesne, author of The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Canada in Decay, and most recently Greatness and Ruin (at Antelope Hill Publishing) joins fellow author C.J. Miller for a wide-ranging, tell-all interview to answer all these questions and more. Find out how he went from a hard-partying, free-wheeling young man, to a well-read autodidact, to a Marxist PhD student, and finally to a dissident university professor. Learn the details about the witch-hunt that led to his early retirement from academia, his thoughts on the pitfalls of over-specialisation, and how the climate in academia has changed over the decades. We fact-check his Wikipedia Early Life, discuss his intellectual influences, and compare and contrast his early work with other scholarship on the subject of Western exceptionalism.

Then we take a deep dive into his bold new book Greatness and Ruin: Self-Reflection and Universalism Within European Tradition. We discuss Hegel’s influence and mainstream academia’s reticence to recognise Hegel as a philosopher of the European mind in particular. He outlines the evolution of his thinking on liberalism, from a sort of racially aware right-liberal conservatism, to his assessment that the progressive logic of liberalism is incompatible with ethnic self-preservation in the long term. He lays out his changing thoughts regarding Traditionalism and Alexander Dugin, and explains where Russia figures into his concept of Europe and Western Civilisation. We explore the interplay between culture, genetic heritage, and the cultural development of consciousness. He finishes off with his thoughts on whether it is possible for the West to walk back from the precipice it is on, and achieve a better balance between its universalist individualism and reverence for its unique heritage, and if so, what this might look like.

All this and much more is discussed in unprecedented depth and detail with one of the brightest minds on the Right today, with unlimited time and space to answer—no interruptions, tangents, ad reads, or time limit—in the most comprehensive interview Duchesne has ever given.

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