Mark Gullick's essay on what Hannibal Lecter from The Silence of the Lambs and Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men can teach us about morality has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/05/morality-death-match/
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Morality Death Match: Lecter vs. Chigurh | Counter-Currents
2,640 words To regard the immorality of the will as an imperfection of it would be a fundamentally false point of view. -- Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea Say goodnight to the bad guy. -- Al Pacino’s character Tony Montana in Brian de Palma’s…
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Counter-Currents pinned «Twelve Years ago today, Counter-Currents went online. Thank you for twelve great years. Here's to many more! https://counter-currents.com/2022/06/year-twelve/»
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Tonight on the Writers’ Bloc, we’ll be welcoming Muhammad Izadi, sometimes known as Muhammad Aryan to discuss what the Muslim faith and its associated philosophy can offer to White Nationalists and dissidents in the West.
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The second part of James J. O'Meara's examination of the life and work of Salvador Dalí, this part focusing in particular on his return to Spain and support for Franco, has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/05/make-art-great-again-the-good-optics-of-salvador-dali-part-2/
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Make Art Great Again: The Good Optics of Salvador Dalí, Part 2 | Counter-Currents
5,672 words Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here) This excursus has prematurely broached The Gala Situation, so let’s go back to where we started, with Dalí beginning to apply his method: “For the next few years Dalí’s paranoiac process remained preoccupied
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Our continent-wide strip mall is deeply ill.
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Nicholas R. Jeelvy's essay on Babette's Feast, a film about the wondrous power of good food to inspire noble thoughts which also has a lesson for those whose talents go underutilized in a time and place that are not advantageous for them, has ben sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/05/babettes-feast/
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Babette’s Feast
1,566 words Recently, a friend who has rubbed elbows with the highest echelons of haute cuisine recommended that I see Babette’s Feast, a 1988 Danish film about a French lady chef coming to a quiet Danish village. This film has apparently been a cult classic…
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William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet, playwright, and politician, was born on this day in 1865. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2022/06/remembering-william-butler-yeats-8/
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Mark Gullick reviews the forgotten psychological thriller, Dead Man's Shoes. https://counter-currents.com/2022/06/look-what-you-made-me-do/
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Look What You Made Me Do: Dead Man’s Shoes | Counter-Currents
2,120 words I read a lot and always have, but there is only one book I have ever finished and immediately gone from its last line straight back to page one and started reading it again. It was Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The movie…
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Jim Goad on a white teen who was beaten to death in Ohio for shooting at a group of blacks with a water gun, a woman who received millions from insurance giant GEICO for catching genital warts after having sex in a car, a wife who spent hours scrolling on a dating app immediately after murdering her husband, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2022/06/the-worst-week-yet-84/
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The Worst Week Yet: June 5-11, 2022 | Counter-Currents
2,948 words White Teen Beaten to Death after Schoolyard Water-Gun Prank Goes Horribly Wrong When an interracial murder occurs, why do so many people assume that
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James A. on how Belarus has been weaponizing migrants in its conflict with the EU by attempting to send them into neighboring countries. https://counter-currents.com/2022/06/how-belarus-uses-migrants-as-weapons/
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How Belarus Uses Migrants as Weapons
1,055 words There are recent reports about Finland strengthening its borders with Russia not just militarily, but with regard to illegal entry. Finland is taking this precaution because they fear Russia will employ the same tactic that Belarus has employed…
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Aquilonius on the proper attitude for a dissident living in America today as it collapses around him. https://counter-currents.com/2022/06/the-new-dissident-zeitgeist/
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The New Dissident Zeitgeist | Counter-Currents
1,010 words In my last article, I wrote on the question of whether politics should be abandoned or not. My conclusion was that no, it should not be. However, those who wish to improve themselves and those in their immediate vicinity should also be heeded…
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Greg Johnson reviews Christopher Lasch's classic The Revolt of the Elites, a book which traces how the American middle and working classes came to be saddled with a ruling elite that does everything opposed to their interests. https://counter-currents.com/2022/06/our-prophet-christopher-laschs-the-revolt-of-the-elites/
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Our Prophet: Christopher Lasch’s The Revolt of the Elites, Part 1
2,180 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) Christopher Lasch The Revolt of the Elites & the Betrayal of Democracy New York: W. W. Norton, 1995 Christopher Lasch (1932–1994) was an American historian who taught for many years at the University of Rochester, authored…
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We at Counter-Currents celebrated our 12th birthday on last weekend’s broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, which was a three-hour all-star streamathon with many of our writers, friends, and some ordinary readers who decided to get involved, and they answered listener questions. The first half is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2022/06/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-453-the-counter-currents-12th-birthday-celebration-part-1/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 453 The Counter-Currents 12th Birthday Celebration, Part 1 | Counter-Currents
272 words / 1:50:54 We at Counter-Currents celebrated our 12th birthday on last weekend's broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, which was a four-hour all-star streamathon with many of our writers, friends, and some ordinary readers who decided to get involved…
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Nicholas R. Jeelvy on why those who see a symbol of masculinity in American Psycho's Patrick Bateman seriously misunderstand the film — and manhood. https://counter-currents.com/2022/06/patrick-bateman-is-a-tranny/
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New writer Gunnar Alfredsson about what the recent spate of high-profile carjackings in Toronto shows about law enforcement's unwillingness to recognize racial realities in addressing the problem. https://counter-currents.com/2022/06/hockey-playoff-losses-violent-carjackings-race-in-toronto/
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Hockey Playoff Losses, Violent Carjackings, & Race in Toronto | Counter-Currents
2,009 words On Saturday, May 14, 2022, the Toronto Maple Leafs were eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs by the Tampa Bay Lightning after a hard-fought seven-game series. Shortly thereafter, on May 16, Maple Leafs forward Mitch Marner was carjacked. Police…
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The second part of Greg Johnson's review of Christopher Lasch's The Revolt of the Elites, a book which shows that today's populism hearkens back to older and long-forgotten traditions in American politics, is now up. https://counter-currents.com/2022/06/our-prophet-christopher-laschs-the-revolt-of-the-elites-part-2/
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Our Prophet: Christopher Lasch’s The Revolt of the Elites, Part 2 | Counter-Currents
2,263 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) The Question of Public Virtue When Lasch wonders whether American democracy can survive crime, drugs, and urban decay, he is sounding another populist theme that harks back to classical republicanism: the dependence of…
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New writer Raymond E. Midge reviews Joseph Conrad's classic novel, The Nigger of the "Narcissus," and explores what it tells us about the effect the presence of blacks has on whites as well as about the use of a word that rhymes with trigger. https://counter-currents.com/2022/06/white-fragility-joseph-conrads-the-nigger-of-the-narcissus/
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White Fragility & Joseph Conrad’s The Nigger of the “Narcissus” | Counter-Currents
2,294 words First, a word on words. (No, not what you are thinking.) How can you take the following sentence seriously: “Captain Allistoun could be seen on the poop, watching the sky . . .”? (p. 233)[1] If you are familiar with archaic nautical terminology…
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Muhammad Izadi, sometimes known as Muhammad Aryan, was host Nick Jeelvy‘s special guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc. They discussed what the Muslim faith and its associated philosophy can offer to White Nationalists and dissidents in the West, and it is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2022/06/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-454-muhammad-aryan-on-the-writers-bloc/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 454 Muhammad Aryan on The Writers’ Bloc
365 words / 2:01:13 Muhammad Izadi, sometimes known as Muhammad Aryan, was host Nick Jeelvy‘s special guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc. They discussed what the Muslim faith and its associated philosophy can offer to White Nationalists and…
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