Mark Gullick on the Chinese spy balloon, and on how he spotted one in Costa Rica several days before the US media picked up on the story. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/around-the-world-in-80-days/
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Around the World in 80 Days: The Tale of a Chinese Spy Balloon | Counter-Currents
2,482 words A minimum put to good use is enough for anything. -- Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days Up, up and away In my beautiful balloon. -- The 5th Dimension, “Up, Up and Away,” 1967 The curious thing about the Chinese spy balloon (which would be…
Greg Johnson interviews Pox Populi in a pre-recorded episode of Counter-Currents Radio, getting to know him better and discussing political hipsterism, and it is available for both download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-523-greg-johnson-interviews-pox-populi/
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James Dunphy introduces and presents a text by the American pioneering eugenicist Paul Popenoe on the role that religion plays in eugenics. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/religion-eugenics/
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Religion & Eugenics | Counter-Currents
3,778 words Foreword James Dunphy Paul Popenoe (1888-1979) was a leading figure in the American eugenics movement, publishing his book Applied Eugenics in 1918. The following chapter, “Religion and Eugenics,” is taken from it. After writing Applied Eugenics…
James Dunphy concludes his examination of psychopaths by looking at their relationship to religion and virtue. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/a-womans-guide-to-identifying-psychopaths--part-8/
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A Woman’s Guide to Identifying Psychopaths, Part 8 Religion & Virtue | Counter-Currents
2,975 words Part 8 of 8 (Part 1 here, Part 7 here) There is joy in danger. -- Napoleon Psychopathy seems like the epitome of evil. As we’ll see, however, one characteristic of psychopathy is associated with at least one virtue. Psychopathy can’t be cured;…
Jim Goad on why Biden's latest State of the Union has little to do with the actual state of the United States. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/state-of-what-union/
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State of What Union? | Counter-Currents
1,364 words Over the past few years I’ve steadfastly avoided paying attention to anything that mentions Republicans and Democrats. As a result, my dark and cynical soul has felt the faint stirrings of mental health like blossoms budding on a cherry tree in…
Greg Johnson's essay on the final two books in Frank Herbert's Dune series of novels, which attempt to expand upon the earlier books with mixed success, but also offer interesting meditations on history, initiatic orders, anti-liberalism, and other ideas, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/the-bene-gesserit-books/
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The Bene Gesserit Books: Frank Herbert’s Heretics of Dune & Chapterhouse: Dune | Counter-Currents
3,667 words Frank Herbert’s six Dune novels fall into three pairs. Dune (1965) and Dune Messiah (1969) chart the rise and fall of Paul “Muad’Dib” Atreides, a man who becomes a superman and the God Emperor of the known universe. Children of Dune (1976) and…
Gunnar Alfredsson offers a rundown of recent events in Canada that highlight the country's rapid decline into chaos. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/more-chaos-in-the-north/
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More Chaos in the North | Counter-Currents
1,556 words FOX News host Tucker Carlson recently said that Canada ought to be liberated from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s globalist, authoritarian tyranny: “Why should we stand back and let our biggest trading partner, the country with which we share…
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Spencer J. Quinn reviews Polish author Czesław Miłosz's classic work on how Communism transforms and destroys individuals, The Captive Mind. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/the-captive-mind-a-reactionary-review/
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The Captive Mind: A Reactionary Review | Counter-Currents
2,059 words When today’s dissident Right looks back at Communism, they will object to its atheism, anti-nationalism, unsound economics, and the utter falsehoods behind the class romanticism. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn offers many examples of this in his vast…
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Howe Abbott-Hiss reviews The Eggs Benedict Option by Raw Egg Nationalist, a guide to why our food is so poor today, what the globalists have planned for our diet, and healthier alternatives anyone can adopt today. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/the-eggs-benedict-option/
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The Eggs Benedict Option
2,360 words Raw Egg Nationalist The Eggs Benedict Option Quakertown, Pa.: Antelope Hill Publishing, 2022 An anonymous Twitter character going by the name of Raw Egg Nationalist has released a new book which is outselling globalist literature on Amazon. Unlike…
The Writers' Bloc with Blair Cottrell and Josh Neal discussing Thomas Szasz’s The Myth of Mental Illness, a controversial 1961 book challenging the medical character of mental illness, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-518-blair-cottrell-josh-neal-on-the-myth-of-mental-illness/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 518 Blair Cottrell & Josh Neal on The Myth of Mental Illness
109 words / 2:08:28 Host Nick Jeelvy welcomed back Blair Cottrell and Josh Neal to discuss Thomas Szasz’s The Myth of Mental Illness, a controversial 1961 book challenging the medical character of mental illness, on The Writers’ Bloc, and it is now available…
Nicholas R. Jeelvy on why developing an alt-grid may be better than going off-grid for a dissident Rightist who wants to escape the modern world's clutches. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/off-grid-vs-alt-grid/
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Off-Grid vs. Alt-Grid
1,616 words We’re in a bad economic period and we’re feeling it. Due to a combination of factors, mostly related to the inflationary policies of the world’s governments during the COVID lockdowns and ongoing lockdowns in China, we’ve seen price inflation…
The audio and transcript of Bowden’s lecture “Credo: A Nietzschean Testament,” which he gave to the New Right in September 2007, has been added to The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/speeches/credo-a-nietzschean-testament/
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Credo: A Nietzschean Testament
8,365 words / 57:28 Editor’s Note: The following text is a transcript by Michael Polignano of a lecture by Jonathan Bowden given at the 11th New Right meeting in London on September 8, 2007. The original title of the presentation was “The Art and Philosophy…
American Krogan on the truth about Wounded Knee: widely described as a genocidal massacre perpetrated by whites against American Indians, the facts reveal a very different historical reality. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/the-truth-about-wounded-knee/
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The Truth about Wounded Knee
2,634 words Many historical events have been twisted and distorted over the years in order to convince white Americans that we’re the most hostile and violent people on the planet. One such event is the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. The supposed perpetrators…
A Swedish translation of Bowden’s lecture “Credo: A Nietzschean Testament” has been added to The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/speeches/credo-ett-nietzscheanskt-testamente/
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Credo — Ett nietzscheanskt testamente
8.133 ord Jonathan Bowden (f. 12 April 1962, d. 29 Mars 2012) var en brittisk konstnär och nationalistisk politiker. Bowden tillhör utan tvekan en av den nutida politiska högerns absolut mest fängslande talare. För den som inte har lyssnat på något av Jonathan…
Collin Cleary begins a new series tracing the roots of today's woke ideology to the German Idealist philosopher, J. G. FIchte. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/forgotten-roots-of-the-left-part-i/
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Forgotten Roots of the Left: Fichte’s Moral & Political Philosophy, Part I
6,359 words Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here) 1. “I am what I freely make myself to be” This is the sixth essay I have written for Counter-Currents on the German idealist J. G. Fichte (see the introductory essay here), and it is effectively a continuation of my series…
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Just in time for Valentine's Day, Alex Graham compares and contrasts the pick-up artist and White Nationalist approaches to finding a mate. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/pua-vs-white-nationalist-perspectives-on-mating/
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PUA vs. White Nationalist Perspectives on Mating
1,480 words One of the main tenets of pick-up artistry (PUA) is that women are attracted to psychopathic traits and that men should therefore cultivate such traits in order to attract women. There is a kernel of truth to this claim. However, White Nationalist…
Morris van de Camp's essay on how the circumstances of the time contributed to liberals attributing the Kennedy assassination to a conspiracy, and on how influential Quakers were on the US during the 1960s, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/the-kennedy-assassination-misreading-data/
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The Kennedy Assassination & Misreading Data
3,562 words American culture is still spinning wildly from the assassination of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963 by a self-radicalized antifa gunman acting alone. American liberals and Leftist sympathizers in particular…
Nicholas R. Jeelvy's essay on why faith, whether religious or ideological, is absolutely essential in our struggle has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/the-eternal-fedora/
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The Eternal Fedora
2,359 words In the distant and ancient era we now call the “mid-2000s,” there arose a phenomenon we now call New Atheism. New Atheism was militant; its adherents not only rejected religion, but actively sought to expurgate it from society, usually by haranguing…
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Jim Goad on Joe Rogan being accused of anti-Semitism for saying that Jews like money, a black woman who shot and killed a 12-year-old white boy for trespassing in her yard, a compilation of anti-white slurs used by blacks, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/the-worst-week-yet-115/
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The Worst Week Yet: February 5-11, 2023 | Counter-Currents
2,331 words Joe Rogan Accused of Being an Anti-Semitic Nut for Saying That Jews Love Money As a perpetually persecuted people who can’t catch a break no matter where they wind up after being kicked out of the previous country that learned to dislike them…
Just in time for Valentine's Day, James Dunphy presents an excerpt from Charles Darwin on the qualities one should look for in a significant other. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/charles-darwin-on-choosing-a-significant-other/
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Charles Darwin on Choosing a Significant Other | Counter-Currents
1,489 words Charles Darwin’s main thesis in The Descent of Man is that mankind shares traits with animals and must have evolved from them via natural selection. Part of natural selection is sexual selection, which is competition within the species to impress…
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Alain de Benoist's juxtaposition of the reemergence of communitarian social ideas with the reigning ideology of absolute individualism, which rests on flawed philosophical foundations, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/the-populist-moment-chapter-10-part-1/
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The Populist Moment, Chapter 10, Part 1: The Ambiguity of “Communitarianism” | Counter-Currents
3,903 words Introduction here, Chapter 9 Part 2 here, Chapter 10 Part 2 here Translated by F. Roger Devlin Communities, whether ancient or recent, and whether of a historical, ethnocultural, linguistic, religious, sexual, or other nature, are natural dimensions…
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