Alain de Benoist is the leading thinker behind the European ‘New Right’ movement, a metapolitical school of thought he helped found in France in 1968 with the establishment of GRECE (Research and Study Group for European Civilisation). To this day, he remains its primary representative, even while rejecting the label ‘New Right’ since he considers himself to fall outside the Left/Right dichotomy. He lives in Paris and continues to write and give lectures and interviews.
”One can destroy a civilization with the stroke of a pen. The French know this from having experienced it several times in their history since 1789 and even before. They also know from experience that it takes centuries of effort to rebuild a civilization.