Welcome to À Rebours.
There are a great many Substacks that are devoted to political affairs and current events. This isn’t really one of them. At least, that’s not its main thrust.
The truth is, I wanted to talk about matters that are “bigger picture,” and less faddish, less contingent and subject to the daily news cycle. I really wanted to discuss and explore the changes that I—and many more diligent and perceptive observers—have noticed are lately convulsing the Right, and contributing to the growth of a New Right. Now, whether this is a good thing or a bad is not for me to say; though, I am rather inclined to think that it is certainly healthy, given the insupportable stagnation and ossification of political structures in the liberal-democratic West, which has been greatly to the benefit of the Left at the expense of the Right.
The result, perhaps predictably, has been a realignment, and a great revolutionary ferment that has shaped a New Right that is aggressive, aspirational, unafraid of questioning once-cherished shibboleths, and is full of a great deal of newfound intellectual vim and vigor after languishing in a decades-long, post-Cold War torpor that saw it ceding ever more territory to an increasingly unhinged Left.
Wherefore, I give you my new Substack, À Rebours, in which we shall explore together the contours of this New Right, including its more interesting figures, movements, intellectual undercurrents, and literary productions.
I hope you enjoy the ride!
N. Dexia
