Anthony M. Ludovici, the passionate, principled defender of aristocracy and conservatism; a fierce, uncompromising critic of egalitarianism in all its manifestations; and translator of Nietzsche was born on this day in 1882. Find out more about his life and works at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/remembering-anthony-m-ludovici-10/
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Remembering Anthony M. Ludovici: January 8, 1882–April 3, 1971 | Counter-Currents
452 words Anthony Mario Ludovici was born on January 8, 1882. Ludovici was one of the first and most accomplished translators of Nietzsche into English and a leading exponent of Nietzsche’s thought. Ludovici was also an original philosopher in his own right.…
The Best Month Yet on The Writers’ Bloc, where host Nick Jeelvy was joined by Counter-Currents writer Kathryn S. to review a selection of Counter-Currents articles published in steel-skied November , as well as answer YOUR QUESTIONS, has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-398-the-best-month-ever-on-the-writers-bloc-with-nick-jeelvy-kathryn-s/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 398 The Best Month Ever on The Writers’ Bloc with Nick Jeelvy & Kathryn S. | Counter-Currents
133 words / 2:17:08 The latest episode of The Writers’ Bloc saw host Nick Jeelvy joined by Counter-Currents writer Kathryn S. to review a selection of Counter-Currents articles published in steel-skied November in The Best Month Yet, as well as answer YOUR…
Today's Counter-Currents Radio livestream with Neil Kumar has been rescheduled for Saturday, January 29th. There will be no stream today. Tune in tomorrow for The Writers' Bloc with Nick Jeelvy.
Thomas Steuben's challenge to the myth that justice in a law-abiding society is supposed to be blind, the notion of which has led to the predicament that whites are now in, has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/themis-unblinded/
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Themis Unblinded | Counter-Currents
1,885 words With the Charlottesville and Rittenhouse trials both having recently concluded, it seems appropriate to discuss an important aspect of “Lady Justice” and her true, glorious identity that lurks behind the modern pseudo-myth. The modern, normie…
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Tonight on the Writers’ Bloc, we’re having Edward Slavsquat, sometimes known as Riley Waggaman, an ex-Russia Today journalist to discuss Covid in Russia as well as the recent developments in Kazakhstan.
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Spencer J. Quinn review of Kenneth Branagh's new film Belfast, a story about an Irish family caught up in the Troubles and showing what it's like to be part of a family as large as a nation, has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/kenneth-branaghs-belfast/
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Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast | Counter-Currents
1,450 words What is it like to be part of a family as large as a nation? If that family is the city of Belfast and that nation is the Irish, then Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast gives us quite the clue. Effectively, this film is a love letter to the Irish people…
In the latest installment of Jim Goad's The Worst Week Yet, we learn about Varg Vikerenes' views on what The Lord of the Rings films might look like if they were made today, Ahmaud Arbery's mother saying she wishes her son had cleaned his toenails before he died, the first all-POC expedition to Mount Everest, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/the-worst-week-yet-64/
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The Worst Week Yet: January 2-8, 2022 | Counter-Currents
3,063 words Norwegian Metalhead Who Murdered Another Norwegian Metalhead in 1993 Tweets about What Lord of the Rings Would Look Like in 2022 The very fact that he was born Kristian Vikernes, performed as Count Grishnackh, is best known to the world as Varg…
Travis LeBlanc on the strange case of Garrett Smith, who was arrested last week as he was running away from a Right-wing January 6 rally that Baked Alaska was speaking at, after which the cops found explosives in his car. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/on-the-alleged-assassination-attempt-on-baked-alaska/
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On the Alleged Assassination Attempt on Baked Alaska | Counter-Currents
2,352 words The Right-wing internet has been abuzz these last few days after the arrest of antifa terrorist Garrett James Smith, who was caught outside a Florida rally in support of January 6 prisoner Jeremy Brown. Because Baked Alaska was in attendance at…
The great American poet and Nietzschean man of the Right Robinson Jeffers was born on this day in 1887. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/remembering-robinson-jeffers-4/
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Remembering Robinson Jeffers: January 10, 1887–January 20, 1962 | Counter-Currents
317 words Robinson Jeffers was born on January 10, 1887. Once regarded as one of the greatest American poets, Jeffers is largely forgotten by the literary establishment today, no doubt because of his politically incorrect subjects and views. A Nietzschean…
Margot Metroland reviews Sabrina Strings' "Fearing the Black Body," which postulates that Europeans were so horrified and fascinated by the forms of the plump black women during colonial times that they began to pressure white women into looking more fit and slim — which in turn led to black women being pressured to do the same, of course. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/intersectional-beauty-tips/
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Intersectional Beauty Tips | Counter-Currents
1,302 words Sabrina Strings Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia New York: New York University Press, 2019 This was a yummy, provocative idea for a book that didn’t quite work out. Its proposition is that fat-shaming and racism and white…
Stephen Paul Foster on the unifying characteristic of all Leftists throughout history: an aversion to work and yet absolute certainty of their own brilliance. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/where-have-all-the-grown-ups-gone/
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Where Have All the Grown-Ups Gone? | Counter-Currents
1,543 words If I ruled the world, Every day would be the first day of Spring --Tony Bennett, “If I Ruled the World” When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.…
Kathryn S. offers a dramatic and poetic account of two blazes which altered the course of the Roman Empire: the Great Fire of Rome during the Emperor Nero's reign in 64 AD, and the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/a-tale-of-two-fires-the-fall-of-old-rome/
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A Tale of Two Fires & the Fall of Old Rome | Counter-Currents
6,722 words It was the summer of 79 AD. The celebrated naturalist and Roman navy admiral Pliny the Elder sat on an outcrop and looked toward the western sea, lit with the fires of a setting Sun as if he was taking stock of a life well-lived, and the once…
Collin Cleary on how the German Idealist J. G. Fichte deals with the problem of the external world, and how this affects our understanding of ethics and the modern Left. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/fichte-the-primacy-of-practical-reason/
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Fichte & the Primacy of Practical Reason | Counter-Currents
6,194 words 1. “The circumference of my world is equivalent to the limits of my will.” In my last essay, we established that for Fichte self-consciousness is an ultimate fact. We saw via our own experiments in introspection that the “I” -- this “presence”…
Beau Albrecht on My 600-lb Life, a reality TV show about patients with extreme obesity that can motivate others to address their own bad habits. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/my-600-lb-life/
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My 600-lb Life | Counter-Currents
3,572 words I seldom have occasion to say nice things about television shows. I'll make an exception for My 600-lb Life, which has a great deal of cautionary and educational value about a growing problem in society. As the name implies, it's a reality TV…
Host Nick Jeelvy was joined by Edward Slavsquat, sometimes known as Riley Waggaman, an ex-Russia Today journalist to discuss Covid in Russia as well as recent developments in Kazakhstan on last weekend’s episode of The Writers’ Bloc, and it is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-406-the-writers-bloc-on-kazakhstan-the-russian-vaxx/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 406 The Writers’ Bloc on Kazakhstan & The Russian Vaxx | Counter-Currents
107 words / 2:03:07 Host Nick Jeelvy was joined by Edward Slavsquat, sometimes known as Riley Waggaman, an ex-Russia Today journalist to discuss Covid in Russia as well as recent developments in Kazakhstan on last weekend's episode of The Writers' Bloc, and…
The great American writer, journalist, adventurer, and racialist Jack London was born on this day in 1876. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/remembering-jack-london-11/
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Remembering Jack London (January 12, 1876–November 22, 1916) | Counter-Currents
492 words Spanish version here Jack London was born John Griffith Chaney in San Francisco on January 12, 1876. An adventurer and Jack of all trades in his youth, London achieved fame and fortune as a fiction writer and journalist. But he never forgot his…
Travis LeBlanc on why Gettr and other attempts at Right-wing "free speech" alternatives to Twitter are merely grifts by Conservatism Inc., whereas Gab is the real deal. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/the-gettr-grift/
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The Gettr Grift | Counter-Currents
1,681 words Nothing has given me more respect for the social media site Gab than watching other people try to do what Andrew Torba has done. For many years, Gab was sort of a joke. Its reputation was as a cesspool of the Alt Right’s most socially dysfunctional…
Spencer J. Quinn pays tribute to Colin Flaherty, a writer who tirelessly reported on the realities of black crime and who passed away recently at the age of 66. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/colin-flaherty-rip/
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Colin Flaherty, RIP | Counter-Currents
592 words Colin Flaherty, author, journalist, and tireless reporter on black crime, has died. This is tragic in and of itself, of course, since, at the age of 66, the man was taken by cancer before his time. But for dissidents today, his passing has an even…
Beau Albrecht's review of "Bolshevism on Trial," an early American anti-Communist film from 1919 that made some surprising predictions about how socialism would play out in the future, has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/bolshevism-on-trial/
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Bolshevism on Trial | Counter-Currents
2,823 words The prolific writer Thomas Dixon wrote a number of books that were adapted into early cinema. The most famous was The Clansman,[1] adapted into the iconic movie The Birth of a Nation. He often wrote about Fraternity Tri Kappa and the Radical Reconstruction.…
Jim Goad on the dominance of white men as kickers in the NFL, and what this says about the claim that race is a social construct. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/black-men-cant-punt/
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Black Men Can’t Punt | Counter-Currents
2,014 words A long time ago, in a magical kingdom tucked safely away from the flaming hell we currently inhabit, there used to be this crazy, hate-filled idea that if some groups performed better on average than other groups regarding
Mark Gullick on the Left's insidious abuse of language as a weapon in its cultural war, which they use to distort the meaning of words and phrases that originally developed organically over the course of Western history. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/weaponizing-language/
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Weaponizing Language | Counter-Currents
2,459 words What stood out was the magical notion that the mere pronunciation of words in a ritual manner could effect a change in the character of material objects. -- Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter’s…