James J. O'Meara reviews the fiction of mulatto Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis, a writer whose background should make him the darling of today's woke crowd but who is oddly ignored by them, most likely because of his extremely un-woke depictions of Brazilian slavery. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/schopenhauer-as-novelist/

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There will be no Counter-Currents Radio stream on Christmas Day, but you can listen to Greg Johnson's Christmas Eve Millenniyule on Odysee. Tomorrow, Nick Jeelvy hosts Endeavour on The Writer's Bloc.

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William de Vere on the various pre-Christian midwinter celebrations and early Christian traditions that eventually combined and culminated in the celebration of Christmas across Europe as we know it today, and the importance for men of the West today to continue celebrating it, in this special Christmastime essay. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/christmas-the-yuletide/

The episode of The Writers' Bloc with Nick Jeelvy and the Zman, where they aired out their grievances, denounced the controlled opposition, and discussed Mr. Rittenhouse’s recent successes, has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2021/11/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-393-the-writers-bloc-with-nick-jeelvy-the-zman-on-rittenhouse-more/

Tonight on the Writers’ Bloc, we’ll be having Endeavour on to talk about the situation on the ground in Russia (pictured) and The Moral Equivalent of War - a 1904 speech by William James.

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​​Your politically-correct calendar may say Kwanzaa, but no one really celebrates Kwanzaa, even blacks.

So Merry Christmas and Happy Boxing Day!

Kwanzaa was created by American Negro Maulana Karenga (also known for founding the lesser-known black nationalist rivals to the Black Panthers) and is mysteriously similar to Hanukkah...

"To commemorate each day of Kwanzaa, a candle is lit in a seven-branch candelabrum called the 'Kinara.' Now 'Kinara' is supposed to sound like 'Menorah,' but with a 'k' for Kwanzaa."

Spencer J. Quinn responds to PhilosophiCat's accusation on Millenniyule that the Dissident Right is too focused on older issues such as immigration and not enough on resisting medical tyranny amidst the pandemic. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/a-polite-response-to-philosophicat/

William de Vere's review of the animated film WolfWalkers, a tale based on Irish folklore about wolves that take on their traditional significance as a symbol of the aristocrat, the outlaw, and the reactionary, has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2021/11/wolfwalkers-on-werewolves-outlaws-reactionaries/

Jim Goad on the black elementary school librarian who made third-graders reenact the Holocaust because "the Jews have ruined Christmas," an 18-year-old who recanted rape accusations that her father had been convicted for 13 years ago, two "defund the police" Democratic politicians who were carjacked within 16 hours of each other, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/the-worst-week-yet-62/

Beau Albrecht traces the destructive influence that the ideas of Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, an influential aristocrat of racially mixed heritage who envisioned a future racially-mixed Europe under Jewish rule, have had on the West in the century since he first formulated it. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/coudenhove-kalergis-destructive-legacy/

Find out how US citizens can make a tax deductible donation to Counter-Currents in the final week of our 2021 fundraiser. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/the-counter-currents-2021-fundraiser-how-any-american-can-make-a-tax-deductible-donation-this-year/

Find out how US citizens can make a tax-deductible donation to Counter-Currents in the final week of our 2021 fundraiser. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/the-counter-currents-2021-fundraiser-how-any-american-can-make-a-tax-deductible-donation-this-year/

Hubert Collins' Girls on Film: The Predominance of Pornography, now in Arabic. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/girls-on-film-the-predominance-of-pornography-in-arabic/

The idea of the "consensus gentium" (consensus of peoples) is that if widely different peoples apply their minds to the same problem and come up with the same conclusion, that conclusion is probably true. In a world in which there are distinct nations and competing geopolitical blocs, the best explanation for the fact that COVID policies are basically the same in the West, Russia, Iran, Syria, Israel, China, etc. is that (1) COVID is real, (2) COVID is a serious threat, & (3) vaccines and isolation measures (including lockdowns) are effective counter-measures.

In a world in which there are distinct nations and competing geopolitical blocs, and in which COVID is a real and serious threat that can be contained by harsh public health measures, one explanation for widespread COVID denialism and resistance to harsh public health measures in the West is that the West's geopolitical rivals are promoting such ideas to harm it. Thus it should come as no surprise that COVID denialism and resistance to public health measures are widespread on the far Right, in many cases promoted by the very same people who lionize Putin and China (e.g. Anglin). If COVID were not real, our geopolitical rivals would gain advantage by not imposing harsh public health measures on themselves but instead by promoting such measures in the West.