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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

Morris van de Camp on Whittaker Chambers, an American Quaker who worked as a high-ranking Soviet spy but who eventually soured on Communism. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/whittaker-chambers-the-quaker-who-exposed-communism-in-the-us-part-1/

Alain de Benoist examines the political meaning of the French Republic's classic slogan: Liberty—Equality—Fraternity. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/the-populist-moment-chapter-12/

Morris van de Camp on how Whittaker Chambers went from being a Soviet spy to blowing the lid off Communist espionage at the highest levels of the US government in the 1940s. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/whittaker-chambers-the-quaker-who-exposed-communism-in-the-us-part-2/

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Chris Stapleton absolutely killed it last night singing the National Anthem at the annual Super Bread & Circus display, there’s really no denying that. Especially if you’re a traditional Country Music respecter. They laid it on extra thick this year with the performative patriotism.

I haven’t checked but I’m sure the standard conservative explanation will go something like “See?!! Get woke go broke! The NFL has finally realized that the BLM stuff doesn’t fly with REAL America! The free market hurr durr duh durr hurr!”

The real explanation should be obvious to anyone who has been even casually paying attention. The regime is wheeling out the big guns of patriotic/Americana aesthetics and motifs to reel back in and mollify the heartlanders.

They’re hoping that by showcasing the troops saluting in their dress blues, the coaches and players brought to tears by Stapleton’s rendition of the Star Spangled Banner and the overall “America, Fuck Yeah!” atmosphere, that the right leaning “normies” will find it in their hearts to plug back in to the regularly scheduled programming.

Of course if you’re an American with even a modicum of self respect you will take this as an insulting display of whatever the word is for whenever someone is trying to feed you a line a bullshit, and they know YOU know they’re trying to feed you a line of bullshit, but they keep right on trying to feed you the line of bullshit.

The Stapleton performance was an instant classic imo. There’s no shame in enjoying it, but it’s best to take it for what it’s worth (something we can use to undermine them) than what it actually is (their attempt to undermine us).