Re-Tribalize Now!

By Edred Thorsson Arcana Europa, 117 pages, ISBN: 979-8615990625 Anyone who follows the dreary spectacle of American politics will have noticed the recent tendency to denounce “identity politics” or the rise of “tribal moralities.” At the same time, the idea of “tribe”—when applied to small groups of friends, subcultures, or even gyms and other special-interest clubs—seems to be gaining in positive cultural currency. And although it may bear only a superficial relationship to any of these phenomena, real tribalism is both a far more dangerous (at least to the evil and corrupt Establishment) and far more meaningful component of the human experience than either its critics or its proponents might suppose. Tribalism is still the most important form of social organization in many parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East today, and it remains essential to the identity of North America’s indigenous populations. But as Edred Thorsson—a scholar of Germanic and Indo-European culture—demonstra