Kathryn S. on Napoleon's disastrous occupation of and then retreat from Moscow, and how Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker retold the story in the form of fantasy. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/the-french-emperor-the-german-nutcracker-the-russian-ballet-part-2/

The great fantasist and linguist J. R. R. Tolkien was born on this day in 1892. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/remembering-j-r-r-tolkien-11/

Alex Graham reviews Janusz Bugajski's Failed State, which describes the various internal ethnic tensions that may eventually cause the Russian Federation to come apart. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/russia-as-failed-state/

Beau Albrecht on how the mainstream media just gave you the perfect reason to honor that New Year's resolution to hit the gym. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/another-reason-to-hit-the-gym/

The latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio was a cozy New Year’s Eve livestream Ask Me Anything hosted by Greg Johnson, and with special guests Tim Murdock (Horus the Avenger), Jim Goad, Sam Dickson, Cyan Quinn, Nick Jeelvy, and Stephen Paul Foster, and it is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-516-the-new-years-special/

Stephen Paul Foster on the age-old question first posed by the Roman poet Juvenal: "Who guards the guardians?" — in today's case, our ruling class? https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/the-guardians/

The next part of James Dunphy's guide to psychopaths, this one focusing on their appearance, communication styles, and tastes. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/a-womans-guide-to-identifying-psychopaths-part-3/

Alain de Benoist on the emergence of a form of conservatism among some Leftists. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/the-populist-moment-chapter-9-part-1/

Nicholas R. Jeelvy's essay on the problem of white Zionists, and why Globalist American Empire (GAE) is a lousy term to refer to our enemies, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/12/the-problem-of-gentile-zionism/

The lads were nursing their hangovers on Nick Jeelvy‘s special hangover edition of The Writers’ Bloc with good friends Pox Populi, Hwitgeard, American Krogan, and Greg Johnson. It was a broad-ranging, free-form discussion on the year that passed and a look ahead at what 2023 is going to be like — and it’s now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-517-special-hangover-stream-on-the-writers-bloc/

Alain de Benoist continues his discussion of "conservatives of the Left" by examining how Left-wing parties ultimately departed from the principles and goals they had when they first emerged by getting in bed with capitalism. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/the-populist-moment-chapter-9-part-2/

The transcript and video of the lecture Bowden gave on W. B. Yeats to the New Right in October 2011 has been added to The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/speeches/w-b-yeats/

Jim Goad on UFC president Dana White doing the apology tour after slapping his wife after she hit him, and the wider belief that a man striking a woman is never acceptable under any circumstances. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/she-hit-him-first-but-nobody-cares/

The transcript and video of the lecture Bowden gave on T. S. Eliot to the New Right in August 2011 has been added to The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/speeches/t-s-eliot/

James W. continues his examination of the recently-passed US government omnibus spending bill for 2023 by looking at how much was allocated to Israel, Jewish interests, and blacks. (Hint: a lot.) https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/the-2023-us-omnibus-spending-bill-part-2/

The Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson and Gaddius Maximus from last month has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/12/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-509-new-ask-me-anything-with-greg-johnson/

The great popularizer of comparative religions and man of the Right Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/remembering-alan-watts-8/

Mark Gullick reflects on 2022 and makes some predictions for 2023 — both for Britain, and for himself personally. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/catch-2022-that-was-the-year-that-was/

Lipton Matthews on why both liberal and conservative dreams of finally integrating blacks into Western civilization are unrealistic given black behaviors, which have evolved out of a completely different cultural context. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/blacks-will-be-blacks/

Three references to Savitri’s arrest for distributing National Socialist leaflets in Germany in 1949, including an extensive report on her trial, have been discovered, and scans, transcriptions, and English translations of each have been added to The Savitri Devi Archive. https://savitridevi.org/about_her/savitris-arrest-reported-in-german-newspapers/