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
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…
Morris van de Camp on Phyllis Schlafly, a woman and conservative activist who wrote one of the best critiques of what went wrong with the Republican Party in the post-war era. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/the-extraordinary-woman-from-the-midwest/
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The Extraordinary Woman from the Midwest
2,020 words Phyllis Schlafly A Choice Not an Echo Alton, Ill.: Pere Marquette Press, 1964 Many of the greatest pioneers of Right-wing political thought in the United States are women. Right-leaning men are often too busy with their jobs and putting out the…
The first part of Greg Johnson's "White Identity Politics: Inevitable, Necessary, Moral" is now in French. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/politique-identitaire-blanche-inevitable-necessaire-morale-partie-1/
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Politique identitaire blanche : inévitable, nécessaire, morale, Partie 1 | Counter-Currents
3,164 words Partie 1 sur 3 (Partie 2) English original here Qu’est-ce que la politique identitaire blanche ? La politique identitaire blanche est ce qui arrive quand les Blancs dans une société multiraciale commencent à se penser comme un groupe. Les Blancs
Yukio Mishima, the giant of Japanese literature and defender of the Japanese tradition, was born on this day in 1925. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/remembering-yukio-mishima-13/
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Remembering Yukio Mishima (January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970) | Counter-Currents
932 words Spanish translation here Yukio Mishima was one of the giants of 20th-century Japanese literature. He has exercised an enduring influence on the post-World War II European and North American New Right. In commemoration of his birth, I wish to draw…
The episode of Counter-Currents Radio where host Greg Johnson welcomed Karl Thorburn to talk about Bitcoin Nationalism, current events, and of course YOUR QUESTIONS is now sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-399-bitcoin-nationalism/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 399 Bitcoin Nationalism | Counter-Currents
124 words / 1:57:38 Counter-Currents Radio host Greg Johnson welcomed Karl Thorburn to talk about Bitcoin Nationalism, current events, and of course YOUR QUESTIONS on the latest stream, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed…
Robert Hampton on the decline of Christianity in America, even as secular liberals continue to adhere to same morality that we inherited from Christianity. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/is-america-a-more-christian-nation-than-ever-before/
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Is America a More “Christian Nation” than Ever Before? | Counter-Currents
1,109 words America is no longer “Jesusland.” Only 63% of Americans now identify as Christians, down from 75% just a decade ago. 29% of Americans now identify as non-religious, an increase of roughly ten points since 2011. Unsurprisingly, religious behavior…
Nicholas R. Jeelvy describes how the world we live in was enshrined into law at the Nuremberg trials, and what we can do to counteract it. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/the-nuremberg-moral-paradigm/
Julius Evola's review of Francis Parker Yockey's Imperium, "On the Spiritual and Structural Prerequisites for European Unity," is now in German. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/uber-die-geistigen-und-strukturellen-voraussetzungen-der-europaischen-einheit/
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Über die Geistigen und Strukturellen Voraussetzungen der Europäischen Einheit
3,983 words Übersetzt aus dem italienischen Original: “Sui presupposti spirituali e strutturali dell’unità europea.” Veröffentlicht in: Filippo Anfuso (Hrsg.): “Europa Nazione.” Rivista Mensile, Rom. 1. Jahrgang, Nr. 1, Januar 1951, Seiten 48–54. Durch die…