Beyond The Ordinary
Arktos (or Arktoss, Ark-Toss etc.) most commonly refers to Arktos Media, a controversial, Budapest-based publishing house established in 2009–2010 that specializes in far-right, "identitarian," and Traditionalist literature. It is often described as a major distributor of alt-right and European New Right literature in English.
About Arktos Media (Publishing House).
🔹️ Mission:
▪️ Founded by Swedish businessman
Daniel Friberg and American editor John Morgan, it aims to promote a "renaissance of European thought" and challenge the mainstream Western Overton window.
🔹️ Content:
▪️ Publishes and translates works
focused on topics such as anti-globalism, white nationalism, Traditionalism, and the European New Right.
🔹️ Key Authors:
▪️ It has published works by
Aleksandr Dugin, Alain de Benoist, Julius Evola, Guillaume Faye, Paul Gottfried, and Richard Spencer.
🔹️ Controversy:
▪️ Identified by the Southern Poverty
Law Center and Hope Not Hate as a key player in spreading extremist ideologies. In 2023, it was "deplatformed" by major distributor Ingram, leading it to transition towards a subscription-based, online think-tank model.