1 Regeneration on the Right: Visions of the Future, Past and Present Emma Planinc University of Notre Dame Proofs DO NOT CITE Please contact for referencing information: eplaninc@nd.edu Abstract: My focus in this chapter is on the “regenerative” mission of the far right.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 re-think 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. Arktos Media is the publishing house of the European “New Right” 1 and far right school of political thought, printing and distributing the works of authors Alain de Benoist, Alexander Dugin, Julius Evola, Guillaume Faye, and the Iranian-American thinker Jason Reza Jorjani, among many others. The Editor-in-Chief of Arktos, John Bruce Leonard, also uses the Arktos platform to host a podcast, Interregnum, and to run the online Arktos Journal, which contains posts by Arktos’s in-house authors, guest writers, and Leonard himself. The journal consists of free and quickly digestible accounts of the broad themes of Arktos Media, with entries typically written as multi-part essays designed for popular consumption. This publishing house’s vision, and the journal in particular, serves as fertile ground with which to assess what Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg call the “broad field of the far right.” 2