Nicholas R. Jeelvy on how the luxury to walk the streets of a city in flip-flops and earbuds reveals how safe a country is for its citizens. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/flip-flop-nationalism/
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Flip-Flop Nationalism
2,009 words Several years ago, I was walking around town while listening to music or maybe a podcast on my phone earbuds when a friend recognized me from behind and approached me. He was in good fooling, so he grabbed my shoulders roughly and gave me a proper…
Greg Johnson's "Reflections on Carl Schmitt's The Concept of the Political" is now being featured in Counter-Currents' new Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2011/02/reflections-on-carl-schmitts-the-concept-of-the-political/
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Reflections on Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political
2,166 words Translations: Estonian, French, Polish, Spanish “Why can’t we all get along?”–Rodney King Carl Schmitt’s short book The Concept of the Political (1932) is one of the most important works of 20th century political philosophy. The aim of The Concept…
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Kerry Bolton on how the sudden popularity of rock 'n' roll and Elvis in the 1950s was part of a concerted effort by the elites to Africanize white youth. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/elvis-presley-professor-quigley-the-africanization-of-youth/
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Elvis Presley, Professor Quigley, & the Africanization of Youth
5,113 words The recent movie on Elvis Presley[1] is exceptional in its acting, script, and production. For those interested in such matters, it is also excellent as cultural history. The movie deals to a significant extent with the African influences on Presley’s…
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Kathryn S. contributes to Counter-Currents' 2022 fundraiser by showing how supporting us is a form of sacrifice in the name of a deeply-felt and transcendent European nationalism that has deep roots in our collective history. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/the-counter-currents-2022-fundraiser-viva-la-nazione/
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The Counter-Currents 2022 Fundraiser Viva la nazione! | Counter-Currents
485 words The dog days of summer are a slow time for movement activity and fundraising, but over the last week, our fundraiser still crept 1% closer to the goal. This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000. Since our fundraiser started on March 10th,…
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We White people are perpetually stuck inside that Rick and Morty episode "Total Rickall."
That is to say, we are surrounded by aliens carving out fictitious spaces for themselves in our collective family memories, as they work toward overwhelming and replacing us.
That is to say, we are surrounded by aliens carving out fictitious spaces for themselves in our collective family memories, as they work toward overwhelming and replacing us.
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Nicholas R. Jeelvy's essay on how even the trashiest elements of white culture can represent a sort of revolt against the modern world has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/literal-human-garbage/
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Literal Human Garbage: Trashiness as a Revolt Against the Modern World
4,696 words Prologue: “I had no idea white people live like this” It was ten or more years ago now, but I still vividly remember the first time I felt my class privilege. I was visiting a friend — and it was my first time visiting a poor house in a poor neighborhood.…
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This weekend’s broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. On Sunday, Nick Jeelvy welcomes longtime friend of the show Karl Thorburn to The Writers’ Bloc to discuss the problem of unlimited power, starting at 1:00 pm PST, 4:00 pm EST, and 10:00 CET.
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Anthony Bavaria's review of Arthur Nersesian's The Fuck-Up, a novel about an alienated white male drifter in New York City during the 1990s, has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/arthur-nersesians-the-fuck-up/
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Arthur Nersesian’s The Fuck-Up | Counter-Currents
1,092 words Arthur Nersesian The Fuck-Up New York: Pocket Books, 1997 Published in 1997, Arthur Nersesian’s The Fuck-Up might be the spark that ignited the explosion of what came to be known as urban hipster culture in the 2000s and beyond. The biography…
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John Morgan comments on two notable recent speeches given by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, here discussing the more controversial one he gave to his domestic supporters in Transylvania, including his remarks against race-mixing. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/a-tale-of-two-speeches-part-1/
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A Tale of Two Speeches, Part 1 | Counter-Currents
4,373 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, made international headlines in recent weeks with two speeches, the first in Tusványos, Transylvania and the second at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas…
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Alain de Benoist's critique of nationalism and ethnocentrism as false opponents of the globalist ideology of Sameness has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/what-is-the-ideology-of-sameness-part-3/
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What Is the Ideology of Sameness? Part 3 Ethnocentrism, or the Principle of Diversity | Counter-Currents
1,783 words Part 3 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 4 here) Translated by F. Roger Devlin Just as it would be vain to oppose to abstract equality a similarly abstract inequality, it would in my opinion be mistaken to try to oppose nationalism or ethnocentrism…
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Greg Johnson's article on how White Nationalists can achieve hegemony is now being featured in Counter-Currents' Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2011/08/hegemony/
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Hegemony
2,603 words Translations: French, German, Polish, Spanish In September of 2001, just after the September 11 terrorist attacks, I flew to Paris to attend the Front National’s Fête des Bleu–blanc–rouge, a political rally and fair attended by tens of thousands…
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Alex Graham critiques the Metropolitan Museum of Art's African Origin of Civilization exhibit, which attempts to prove that sub-Saharan Africa was the source of all culture but in fact proves the opposite. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/the-african-origin-of-civilization/
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The African Origin of Civilization
1,411 words The Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently staging an exhibition entitled “The African Origin of Civilization.” Inspired by Cheikh Anta Diop’s eponymous book, one of Afrocentrism’s central texts, it juxtaposes African artifacts dating mostly…
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Jim Goad checks in with stories of an Ohio man who was recently killed in a completely unsuspicious incident while attempting to attack an IRS office after calling for others to rise up against the US government; the IRS looking to hire new staff who are willing to kill people; a Muslim serial killer who it turns out is a Muslim himself, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/the-worst-week-yet-92/
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The Worst Week Yet: August 7-13, 2022 | Counter-Currents
2,676 words Salman Rushdie Finally Gets Stabbed Apparently, Allah gets very upset when people disrespect him. Apparently, Allah is more thin-skinned than Frank Sinatra. I’ve never quite understood how a divine entity can have his feelings hurt by mere mortals…
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Nick Jeelvy welcomed longtime friend of the show Karl Thorburn to the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc to discuss unlimited energy and its applications. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-475-the-writers-bloc-with-karl-thorburn-on-unlimited-power/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 475 The Writers’ Bloc with Karl Thorburn on Unlimited Power
563 words / 2:02:23 Nick Jeelvy welcomed longtime friend of the show Karl Thorburn to the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc to discuss unlimited power and its applications. Topics discussed include: 00:06:30 What has Karl Thorburn been up to since his…
Greg Johnson's interview with Chip Smith of Nine-Banded Books is now in Czech. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/rozhovor-s-chipem-smithem-z-nine-banded-books/
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Rozhovor s Chipem Smithem z Nine-Banded Books | Counter-Currents
3.097 slov English original here Chip Smith provozuje nezávislé a ikonoklastické nakladatelství Nine-Banded Books se sídlem v Charlestonu v Západní Virginii. Dále je editorem Hoover Hog, dříve „zinu“, nyní blogu. Knižní nabídka i zájmy Nine-Banded Books a…
Morris van de Camp reviews Jeffrey M. Bale and Tamir Bar-On's book
Fighting the Last War, which argues that by treating the Right-wing opposition as fascists the Left is helping to make the divide in America grow yet more. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/its-always-1939-to-the-establishment/
Fighting the Last War, which argues that by treating the Right-wing opposition as fascists the Left is helping to make the divide in America grow yet more. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/its-always-1939-to-the-establishment/
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It’s Always 1939 to the Establishment | Counter-Currents
2,406 words Jeffrey M. Bale & Tamir Bar-On Fighting the Last War: Confusion, Partisanship, and Alarmism in the Literature on the Radical Right Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2022 Professors Jeffrey M. Bale and Tamir Bar-On have taken a look at the response…
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Greg Johnson's "Introduction to Aristotle's Politics" is now being featured in Counter-Currents' Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2012/06/introduction-to-aristotles-politics-part-1/
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Greg Johnson, "Introduction to Aristotle's Politics," Part 1 | Counter-Currents
8,881 words Parts 1 & 2 Author's Note: The following introduction to Aristotle's Politics focuses on the issues of freedom and popular government. It is a reworking of a more "academic" text penned in 2001. Part I: The Aim & Elements of Politics 1. The Necessity…
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Richard Houck presents the statistics which prove that homeownership, always a cornerstone of the American dream, has been steadily growing increasingly out of reach even for hardworking Americans in recent years due to circumstances beyond their control. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/the-fading-memory-of-american-homeownership/
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The Fading Memory of American Homeownership
2,459 words Several trends in the United States related to home ownership are developing that I find rather startling. Some of those trends have been slow, taking decades to mature, and perhaps have been noticed by many. Other trends are more acute temporally…
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Thomas Steuben on why the blood pact should supersede the social contract, the easily refutable concept on which the modern liberal state is founded. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/blood-pact-vs-social-contract/
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Blood Pact vs. Social Contract
2,089 words Most classical liberal thinking, which is still ultimately liberal and thus subversive, is based on the idea of the Lockean social contract. But what if the idea of a social contract is a complete farce? Given that classical liberalism underpins…
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Harriet Hagemann, who primaried Lynn Cheney, is actually a very intelligent and thoughtful political figure who wishes to dismantle the administrative state.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/running-to-unchain-wyoming/
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Running to Unchain Wyoming - The American Conservative
Hageman is a reemergence of an older and rarer type: a local elite, rooted in the provinces rather than the capital.