Clarissa Schnabel reviews the 1986 movie, Of Pure Blood.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/of-pure-blood/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/of-pure-blood/
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Of Pure Blood
3,290 words I forgot who said it, but it went like this: There is a difference between best movies and favorite movies. You might know objectively that Citizen Kane is the best movie of all time (I happen to disagree), but few people would name it as their…
Morris van de Camp reviews the 2008 book, Erectus Walks Amongst Us.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/neanderthals-early-humans-the-origin-of-whites/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/neanderthals-early-humans-the-origin-of-whites/
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Neanderthals, Early Humans, & the Origin of Whites
2,000 words Richard D. Fuerle Erectus Walks Amongst Us New York: Spooner Press, 2008 Richard Fuerle (1941 – 2018), was a man with an extremely active mind. He was a Pennsylvanian and a lawyer who continuously sought out further education and learning. One…
Stephen Paul Foster identifies three causes of civilizational decline, both throughout history and in our time.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/the-desolate-march-of-the-twenty-first-century/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/the-desolate-march-of-the-twenty-first-century/
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The Desolate March of the Twenty-first Century
1,411 words The twenty-first century is nearly a quarter done, and things don’t look so good. It may be time to pause and contemplate the remarkable socially and morally transformative effects of three powerful, intermingling forces that have come into ascendancy.…
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Gunnar Alfredsson on the cost of fighting and funding Israel's wars.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/against-all-enemies-the-cost-of-israels-military-misadventures/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/against-all-enemies-the-cost-of-israels-military-misadventures/
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Against All Enemies: The Cost of Israel’s Military Misadventures
1,817 words When Israel resorts to extreme violence against its neighbors, the fallout is felt throughout the world, especially in the United States and the wider West. Iran, for instance, will activate its terror networks in Europe. We have already seen…
Mark Gullick is excited for Trump's return to the White House.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/the-return-of-the-king-2/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/the-return-of-the-king-2/
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The Return of the King?
3,112 words Aragorn: What do you fear, lady? Éowyn: To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King The Restoration did not so much restore…
Read Asier Abadroa’s refutation of the NAXALT fallacy.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/so-why-the-first-a-in-naxalt/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/so-why-the-first-a-in-naxalt/
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So, Why the First “A” in NAXALT?
2,821 words To claim that measures and precautions should not be taken towards a group of X’s just because NAXALT (Not All X’s Are Like That) is such an absurd argument that it is hardly used except to justify ―in an artificial, finalistic way― politically…
Part 7 of Collin Cleary's series on the philosophy of Heidegger and Schelling.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/heidegger-schelling-and-the-reality-of-evil-part-7/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/heidegger-schelling-and-the-reality-of-evil-part-7/
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Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil: Part 7
4,280 words Part 7 of 15 (Part 1 begins here. Part 6 here.) The Deepest Abyss and the Loftiest Sky We are now on the threshold of Schelling’s account of the nature of evil. He argues that in God the two wills – of the ground and of understanding/existence…
Jim Goad on The Donald’s McDonald’s publicity stunt.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/mcdonald-mctrumps-magnificent-french-fry-stunt/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/mcdonald-mctrumps-magnificent-french-fry-stunt/
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McDonald McTrump’s Magnificent French Fry Stunt
1,053 words As we head into the home stretch of the most recent Most Important Election of Our Lifetime, I find it impossible to avoid electoral chitchat no matter how hard I try. Perhaps it’s solipsism, or maybe it’s the sober realization that more important…
David Zsutty begins a 3-part series on Not Viable: An Autobiography of an American Nationalist.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/the-board-is-set-nick-taurus-not-viable/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/the-board-is-set-nick-taurus-not-viable/
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The Board Is Set: Nick Taurus’ Not Viable
1,137 words Nick Taurus Not Viable: An Autobiography of an American Nationalist Fulton Books, 2024 Part 1 of 3 Hoping to replicate the success of other first-time candidates such as Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nick Taurus ran for the 40th California…
Jef Costello on the Democrats' gayer than gay "White Dudes for Kamala" strategy.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/kamalas-will-blunderfield-strategy/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/kamalas-will-blunderfield-strategy/
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Kamala’s Will Blunderfield Strategy
1,778 words Admit it: our pumpkin spice-hurricane-election-World War III season is getting you down. You could use a good laugh. So, allow me to introduce you to Will Blunderfield, if you haven’t met him already. Blunderfield is a 39-year-old gay Canadian…
Beau Albrecht on why you should stop giving money to people who despise you, and give it to your friends instead.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/donate-to-your-friends-not-your-enemies/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/donate-to-your-friends-not-your-enemies/
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Donate to Your Friends, Not Your Enemies
1,156 words Looking back on a successful year, Counter-Currents has published 900 hard-hitting articles and podcasts at the time of writing, and we’re not even done with October yet! I’m proud to say that we’re a great educational resource enlightening the…
Chapter 7 of Mark Gullick's book, Unmourned Funeral, is paroled from the paywall.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/unmourned-funeral-chapter-7/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/unmourned-funeral-chapter-7/
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Unmourned Funeral: Chapter 7
5,103 words Chapter 7 SHADOWPLAY Escaping Plato’s Cave In the shadowplay, Acting out your own death, Knowing no more. Joy Division, Shadowplay We have seen the death of philosophy, or at the very least her mysterious disappearance, and thus the demise of…
Richard Parker takes on the commentators who argue that we should abstain from voting, or even vote for Kamala Harris.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/good-intentions-or-the-maddest-folly-dissident-voices-helping-kamala-harris-win-could-not-be-more-wrong/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/good-intentions-or-the-maddest-folly-dissident-voices-helping-kamala-harris-win-could-not-be-more-wrong/
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Good Intentions or the Maddest Folly? Dissident Voices Helping Kamala Harris Win Could Not Be More Wrong
1,564 words There has been increasing chatter and murmurings in right-wing circles denouncing the candidacy of Donald Trump, advocating for either abstention from voting or even voting for Kamala Harris. This commentary runs the gambit, from commentators…
The second part of David Zsutty's review of Not Viable.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/the-campaign-nick-taurus-not-viable/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/the-campaign-nick-taurus-not-viable/
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The Campaign: Nick Taurus’ Not Viable
2,118 words Nick Taurus Not Viable: An Autobiography of an American Nationalist Fulton Books, 2024 Part 2 of 3 Nick Taurus ran on an America First agenda of opposing immigration, anti-white racism, and interventionism. Taurus aimed at being the most “active…
Greg Johnson dismantles the oft-repeated claims made in favor of "diversity".
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/how-diversity-destroys/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/how-diversity-destroys/
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How Diversity Destroys
1,559 words In my lecture “What’s Wrong with Diversity,” I lay out some basic arguments for why it is a bad idea to make one’s society racially and ethnically diverse. But I didn’t discuss a problem that starts as soon as diversity becomes a goal that institutions…
F. Roger Devlin's review of Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future has been paroled from the paywall.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/rediscovering-a-politics-of-limits/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/rediscovering-a-politics-of-limits/
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Rediscovering a Politics of Limits
5,816 words Patrick J. Deneen Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future Sentinel, 2023 Patrick J. Deneen, a professor of Political Science at Notre Dame, came to prominence as the author of Why Liberalism Failed (2018), a book that contrasted our present…
Spencer J. Quinn on Bruce Springsteen’s incoherent politics, working class pretensions, and that awful performance at a Kamala Harris rally.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/this-guns-for-hire-even-if-hes-just-groping-in-the-dark/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/this-guns-for-hire-even-if-hes-just-groping-in-the-dark/
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This Gun’s For Hire (Even if He’s Just Groping in the Dark)
1,494 words This past Thursday, rock n’ roll icon Bruce Springsteen gave a solo acoustic performance during a Kamala Harris rally in Georgia. He famously did the same for Barack Obama back in 2008, and has been up front and consistent about his lefty politics…
So, if any of this is to be believed, a young white mother who seems to have made her living tending to and cleaning up after asylum-seeking boat people allegedly had her life cut short—sorry, punctured short—with a screwdriver to the neck by an 18-year-old seafaring national intruder who barely waited three months before killing one of his hosts over a biscuit-related contretemps.
Jim Goad reports on another Worst Week Yet in England.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/the-worst-week-yet-october-19-26-2024/
Jim Goad reports on another Worst Week Yet in England.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/10/the-worst-week-yet-october-19-26-2024/
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The Worst Week Yet: October 19-26, 2024
1,561 words Rumor has it that an alleged teenaged boat person with a weird-sounding name reputedly stabbed an indigenous British woman to death last Sunday. As if I were tiptoeing through a dictionary loaded with land mines, I’m choosing my words very carefully.…