The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds Audio Book: Revilo P. Oliver

September 17, 2017

by Bradford L. Huie for The American Mercury RESPECTED PROFESSOR of the classics — co-founder of the John Birch Society — radical racial-nationalist — witness before the Warren Commission — and profound influence on William Luther Pierce: All of these things describe Revilo Pendleton Oliver, who is the subject of this week’s chapter of our new […]

New Audio Book: The American Mercury on Leo Frank – Arnold’s Closing Arguments, part 1

September 15, 2017

REUBEN ARNOLD’S closing arguments (part 1) for the defense of Leo Frank — on the charge of murdering his sweatshop employee Mary Phagan — are our presentation this week in our new audio book series, read by Vanessa Neubauer. (ILLUS.: Luther Rosser and Reuben Arnold headed Frank’s defense team.) This series encompasses the American Mercury’s coverage of […]

The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds Audio Book: The National Alliance

September 11, 2017

by Bradford L. Huie for The American Mercury WILLIAM LUTHER PIERCE was born 84 years ago today. The political organization he created, the National Alliance, is 47 years old if we count its earliest incarnation, the National Youth Alliance, which began in 1970. It is still making the news today in 2017, 15 years after Pierce’s […]

New Audio Book: The American Mercury on Leo Frank – Arnold’s Closing Arguments, part 2

September 20, 2017

REUBEN ARNOLD’S closing arguments (part 2) for the defense of Leo Frank — on the charge of murdering his sweatshop employee Mary Phagan — are our presentation this week in our new audio book series, read by Vanessa Neubauer. This series encompasses the American Mercury’s coverage of the 1913 trial and conviction of Jewish sex killer […]

New Audio Book: The American Mercury on Leo Frank – Hooper’s Closing Arguments

September 8, 2017

THIS WEEK our new audio book of the American Mercury’s coverage of the 1913 trial and conviction of Jewish sex killer Leo Frank moves into the closing arguments of the attorneys to the jury. We will be presenting these extensive arguments in order and in full — a monumental, book-length project that will add another sixteen […]

The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds Audio Book: George Lincoln Rockwell

September 4, 2017

by Bradford L. Huie for The American Mercury GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL (pictured) had a profound influence over the thinking and the destiny of William L. Pierce — and therefore, as Pierce’s colleague Kevin Alfred Strom once remarked, potentially over the future course of Life in the Universe. Was Rockwell a “Nazi clown” as some have called […]

New Audio Book: The American Mercury on Leo Frank – 100 Reasons Leo Frank Is Guilty

September 1, 2017

by Penelope Lee THIS WEEK, as we are preparing the (very long) audio book version of the Leo Frank defense team and prosecution team closing arguments, the American Mercury is proud to present the new audio book version — never before available in its entirety — of our editor Bradford L. Huie’s 100 Reasons Leo Frank is Guilty, […]

The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds Audio Book: The John Birch Society

August 27, 2017

by Bradford L. Huie for The American Mercury THE JOHN BIRCH Society was the most prominent anti-Communist group in America. Despite its professed philo-Semitism and “anti-racism,” it was a part of the lives of such White radicals as Revilo Pendleton Oliver, Richard Berkeley Cotten — and the subject of this audio book, Dr. William L. Pierce, […]

New Audio Book: The American Mercury on Leo Frank – Frank’s Trial, Week Four

August 25, 2017

TODAY our audio book of the American Mercury’s coverage of the 1913 trial and conviction of Jewish sex killer Leo Frank moves into the fourth exciting week of the trial, in which the defense brought forth young female witnesses who claimed that Frank had never made improper sexual advances toward them, rebutted by the defense with […]

The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds Audio Book: How Hitler Influenced William Pierce

August 20, 2017

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by Bradford L. Huie for The American Mercury HERE IS the latest installment of Vanessa Neubauer’s reading of Professor Robert S. Griffin’s masterful biography of Dr. William Luther Pierce, The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds. This week our presentation is likely to be more controversial than anything we have ever published in the Mercury before — […]

New Audio Book: The American Mercury on Leo Frank – Frank Takes the Stand

August 16, 2017

THIS WEEK our audio book of the American Mercury’s coverage of the 1913 trial and conviction of Jewish sex killer Leo Frank takes a particularly exciting turn. You can follow along with us by reading the original piece on which the new audio book is based. (ILLUSTRATION: Diagram of Leo Frank’s outer and inner office: How […]

Why Was Leo Frank Lynched?

August 14, 2017

WE ARE approaching the 102nd anniversary of the lynching of Leo Frank, which will take place on August 17. Why was Leo Frank lynched? — and why was he lynched, not by a mob of illiterate haters, but by an assemblage of community leaders and eminent citizens? Does the current media story about Leo Frank […]

Literature, US News »

Homeless Jack on “Grabbing Some Pussy”

November 7, 2016

We discovered this piece scrawled on some foolscap left on our doorstep, an all-lower-case Kerouac-style stream of consciousness rap, and offer it as we found it. by H. Millard trump is an american original and a throwback to the days when americans were bursting with confidence and energy and the sheer joy of freedom and […]

Africa, History »

‘The Choice of Achilles’: John Alan Coey Against the New World Order

January 3, 2013

by T.R. Bennington AS EVER, BUT ESPECIALLY in our present state of civilizational malaise, there is a need for figures with the power to inspire — men who in less confused and cynical times would have been unabashedly described as heroic. One such figure is Corporal John Alan Coey, a young soldier who has perhaps […]

Science »

Quarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth

March 2, 2015

“DOES the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth?” If you answered the latter, you’re among a quarter of Americans who also got it wrong, according to a new report by the National Science Foundation. A survey of 2,200 people that was released Friday revealed some alarming truths about […]

Vintage Mercury »

Jailbirds

June 7, 2017

by Jim Tully; from The American Mercury, September, 1928; transcribed by Kevin I. Slaughter THE jail room was thirty-five feet long, twenty-five feet wide, and seven feet high. In this large cage were fifty prisoners. Some had been sentenced and were serving jail terms; others awaited trial, or removal to the penitentiary. The floor was of […]

Opinion »

The Old Right and the Antichrist

June 7, 2017

by Richard Spencer (pictured) The following address was given to the H.L. Mencken Club’s Annual Meeting; November 21-23, 2008. BEFORE William F. Buckley settled on writing God and Man at Yale in 1951, the 25 year-old had something quite different in mind as a debut volume. Buckley planned, and may have begun drafting, a book caustically […]