Spencer J. Quinn reviews Knut Hamsun's classic The Woman at the Pump, a novel about the lives of ordinary Norwegians in a small town during the early twentieth century. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/knut-hamsuns-the-women-at-the-pump/
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Knut Hamsun’s The Women at the Pump | Counter-Currents
1,624 words If George Costanza of Seinfeld were a real person, he probably would have committed suicide sometime during the show’s fifth season. Much of the humor behind George is how, through an utter lack of self-awareness and shame, he constantly developed…
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Mark Gullick says that while those on the Right bicker among themselves, the Left stands in lockstep while the world seems to be plagued by an increasing number of problems that may soon culminate in disaster. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/the-overload/
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The Overload | Counter-Currents
2,306 words A terrible signal. Too weak to even recognize. -- Talking Heads, "The Overload" The social democratic welfare state, founded on the myth of progress, will collapse just as surely as, but with a much louder crash than the Communist system. -- Guillaume…
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Jim Goad on the latest explosion of white supremacy in America: theme-park mascots ignoring black children. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/mau-mauing-the-theme-park-mascots/
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Mau-Mauing the Theme-Park Mascots | Counter-Currents
1,693 words As if black children didn’t already suffer a tremendous disadvantage merely by, you know, being born as black children, now they must suffer the unbearable agony of being snubbed by Muppets and giant cartoon mice. About two weeks ago, a black…
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James Dunphy's analysis of what three recent songs and their music videos have to say about the decline of modern America has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/a-white-golden-age-descending-into-exotic-dystopian-consumerism/
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A White Golden Age Descending into Exotic Dystopian Consumerism | Counter-Currents
1,653 words Golden Age nostalgia STRFKR, short for “Starfucker,” is a Portland-based indie/electronica band. Their lead singer is a cross-dresser, but during performances they have an astronaut crowd surf in an inflatable raft, which is pretty cool, so you…
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James J. O'Meara continues plumbing the depths of Hunter S. Thompson by, of course, looking for elements of Neville's power of positive thinking in his career. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/hunter-s-thompson-the-father-of-fake-news-part-5/
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Hunter S. Thompson: The Father of Fake News, Part 5 | Counter-Currents
1,621 words Part 5 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 4 here, Part 6 here) 5. Gonzo is the Secret: The Power of Positive Gonzo Constant Readers will know that I love to find me some traces of Neville in any iconic figure, and sure enough, it turns out there’s plenty…
Gunnar Alfredsson reviews Andrew Lawton's book The Freedom Convoy, which presents the participants of Canada's trucker protest as they really were and also describes the extraordinary and frightening lengths the Canadian authorities went to in order to shut them down. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/the-freedom-convoy-its-enemies/
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The Freedom Convoy & Its Enemies | Counter-Currents
2,161 words Andrew Lawton The Freedom Convoy: The Inside Story of Three Weeks that Shook the World Toronto: Sutherland House, 2022 Andrew Lawton is a senior journalist with the Canadian conservative news website True North, founded by Candice Malcolm. Lawton…
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Nicholas R. Jeelvy on why China is an enemy of race-conscious white people. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/the-china-question/
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The China Question | Counter-Currents
3,485 words Nancy Pelosi’s flight landed in Taiwan on August 2 despite very loud and vigorous protests from the People’s Republic of China. For the time being, the Chinese have done little but whine impotently, rattle their sabers, and announce military exercises…
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Greg Johnson's interview with Alain de Benoist on Christianity is now in Slovak. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/rozhovor-s-alainom-de-benoistom-o-krestanstve/
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Rozhovor s Alainom de Benoistom o kresťanstve | Counter-Currents
2,290 slová English original: Part 1, Part 2 V roku 2005 poskytol Alaine de Benoist rozhovor pre The Occidental Quarterly, ktorý bol publikovaný pod titulom „Syn Európy: Rozhovor s Alainom de Benoist.“ Rozhovor bol veľmi obšírny a nakoniec sa pristúpilo k…
When people start talking about geopolitics, I reach for my revolver, because I am about to hear a 4 d chess argument for why an obviously immoral act (or just a "take") would be a smart political move.
In truth, though, even nationalists envision a world order.
The key thing is that people are only willing to sacrifice unimportant principles and minor players in the great game. Anything else is self-defeating.
When putative white nationalists are willing to drop the ethnonationalist principle and defame agents like Azov to parrot Russian imperialist talking points, they are revealing either that they have fundamentally incompatible values or that they have never given the matter any serious thought.
In truth, though, even nationalists envision a world order.
The key thing is that people are only willing to sacrifice unimportant principles and minor players in the great game. Anything else is self-defeating.
When putative white nationalists are willing to drop the ethnonationalist principle and defame agents like Azov to parrot Russian imperialist talking points, they are revealing either that they have fundamentally incompatible values or that they have never given the matter any serious thought.
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The broadcast of The Writers' Bloc with Cyan Quinn where they celebrated the Best Month Ever at Counter-Currents by reviewing a selection of published articles from the auspicious month of June has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-462-the-best-month-ever-on-the-writers-bloc-with-cyan-quinn/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 462 The Best Month Ever on The Writers’ Bloc with Cyan Quinn
410 words / 2:09:03 Cyan Quinn was host Nick Jeelvy’s guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, and together they celebrated the Best Month Ever at Counter-Currents by reviewing a selection of published articles from the auspicious month of June.…
At the top of the hour:
Greg Johnson will do a solo Ask Me Anything on Counter-Currents Radio and maybe revisit some classics from the vault.
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Greg Johnson will do a solo Ask Me Anything on Counter-Currents Radio and maybe revisit some classics from the vault.
DLive: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents
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Send questions & donations to Entropy: entropystream.live/countercurrents
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Tonight on the Writers’ Bloc, we’ll be hosting Anthony Bavaria for The Best Month Ever, a review of Counter-Currents articles published in July.
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Spencer J. Quinn's essay on when it is and isn't a good idea to use profanity in debates about matters of culture and politics has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/on-the-use-abuse-of-language-in-debates/
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On the Use & Abuse of Language in Debates | Counter-Currents
1,709 words When arguing on social media -- especially over political or cultural matters -- the point should not be to convince your interlocutor of anything. The point should be to convince those reading your exchange that your position is the more desirable…
The second part of Alain de Benoist's essay on the ideology of sameness, contending that egalitarianism and the rule of profit inevitably lead to the destruction of differences, has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/what-is-the-ideology-of-sameness-part-2/
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What Is the Ideology of Sameness? Part 2 | Counter-Currents
2,620 words Part 2 of 4 (Part 1 here) Translated by F. Roger Devlin The Ideology of Sameness “I think the entire history of the world and of societies can be fully interpreted according to two great principles,” writes the sociologist Paul Yonnet, “viz.,…
Jim Goad on a white dude at the University of Kansas who is teaching a class on "Angry White Male Studies," two women who could not get impregnated if their lives depended on it — Whoopi Goldberg and Stacey Abrams — debating the ethics of abortion, more fast-food related violence, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/the-worst-week-yet-91/
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The Worst Week Yet: July 31-August 6, 2022 | Counter-Currents
2,484 words Whoopi Goldberg and Stacey Abrams Say God Gave Women Free Will to Abort Their Fetuses Have there ever been two more pugnaciously undesirable black women on this multicolored planet than Stacey Abrams and Whoopi Goldberg? Although one can thank…
Greg Johnson did a solo Ask Me Anything on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-473-ask-me-anything-with-greg-johnson/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 473 Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson | Counter-Currents
204 words / 1:21:49 Greg Johnson did a solo Ask Me Anything on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:01:05 What are your thoughts on the Alex Jones/Sandy Hook…
James J. O'Meara's study of Hunter S. Thompson continues with a look at his oft-overlooked influences, such as J. P. Donleavy, as well as the similarity of his career to H. P. Lovecraft's. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/hunter-s-thompson-the-father-of-fake-news-part-6/
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Hunter S. Thompson: The Father of Fake News, Part 6 | Counter-Currents
5,490 words Part 6 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 5 here) 6. Gonzo: Paleocon, Neocon, or Just Con? I had just begun to doubt some of my strongest convictions when I stumbled upon [Colin Wilson’s The Outsider]. But rather than being wrong, I think that I just don’t…
Steven Clark on several classic films on Russian history starring Yul Brenner that may shed light on the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/the-journey-russian-views-part-one/
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The Journey: Russian Views, Part One | Counter-Currents
3,983 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) Is Putin Yul Brenner with hair? I first saw the 1959 film The Journey on TV when I was a kid watching NBC’s Saturday Night at the Movies. With recent events in Russia, it seemed timely, so I looked it up on YouTube. It…
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