Stephen Paul Foster commemorates Edward Gibbon's 286th birthday by showing how his masterwork, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was one of the first historical studies to treat religion from a purely sociological perspective — something that was not entirely welcome in his own time. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/remembering-edward-gibbon/
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Remembering Edward Gibbon
5,714 words How fares the Truth now? — Ill? — Do pens but slily further her advance? May one not speed her but in phrase askance? Do scribes aver the Comic to be Reverend still? — Thomas Hardy, “Lausanne, In Gibbon’s Old Garden: 11-12 p.m.” The 110th anniversary…
Anthony Bavaria on (500) Days of Summer, a film that highlights the architectural glories of Los Angeles while ignoring the city's ever-worsening state of decay. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/500-days-of-summer/
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(500) Days of Summer | Counter-Currents
1,417 words (500) Days of Summer is a romantic comedy released in 2009. It is certainly a cut above the rest of modern rom-coms, but this review will focus on the story’s setting in lieu of the plot. Though there is only one mention of the city in its dialogue…
New writer D. H. Corax on why humor and embarrassment are important tools to use to bring normies to the dissident Right. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/info-parody-a-strategy-for-reaching-normies-part-1/
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Info-Parody: A Strategy for Reaching Normies, Part 1 | Counter-Currents
853 words Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here) There is an unfortunate bias on the dissident Right in general toward focusing their efforts and techniques on logic in the narrower sense: that is, on calmly and methodically pointing out the internal contradictions and…
Kenneth Vinther on how "democracy" today has become completely disconnected from the will of the people, and is a label the elites use to manipulate the masses into defending their own disenfranchisement. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/liberal-anti-democracy-part-1/
Greg Johnson's Introduction to New Right vs. Old Right is now in Spanish. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/nueva-derecha-vs-vieja-derecha-introduccion/
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Nueva Derecha vs. Vieja Derecha: Introducción | Counter-Currents
1.271 palabras INTRODUCCIÓN[*] Este libro fue escrito en medio de una apremiante sensación de peligro. Los Europeos, mi pueblo, tanto en nuestro continente originario como los esparcidos a lo largo de todo el globo, viven ahora bajo un sistema político, económico…
Counter-Currents presents a new video of Greg Johnson’s classic essay “Restoring White Homelands,” on how the slow ethnic cleanse is the path to establishing white homelands. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/restoring-white-homelands-video/
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Restoring White Homelands
26 words/18:40 Counter-Currents presents a new video of Greg Johnson’s classic essay “Restoring White Homelands,” on how the slow ethnic cleanse is the path to establishing white homelands. * * * Counter-Currents has extended special privileges to those…
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D. H. Corax on how breaking the liberals' monopoly over humor and social embarrassment could win normiecons over to our side. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/info-parody-a-strategy-for-reaching-normies-part-2/
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Info-Parody: A Strategy for Reaching Normies, Part 2 | Counter-Currents
1,305 words Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here) As I hope I've shown in the first part of this series, embarrassment and/or humor are operative with virtually all people under all circumstances. The heart of clown world in the present is no exception;…
Gunnar Alfredsson reviews Jonathan Bowden's Right, an early statement of his political beliefs that foreshadows many of the themes that would recur in his later speeches. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/visions-of-a-new-right-jonathan-bowdens-right/
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Visions of a New Right: Jonathan Bowden’s Right
1,964 words Jonathan Bowden ed. by Alex Kurtagić Right London: The Palingenesis Project, 2016 To commemorate the late Jonathan Bowden on what would have been his 61st birthday, Greg Johnson provided a thoughtful tribute essay, accompanied by a comprehensive…
Kenneth Vinther continues his critique of democracy by showing how the original formulators of liberal democracy in fact intended it as a means of preventing ordinary citizens from exercising power, contrary to popular belief. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/liberal-anti-democracy-part-2/
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Liberal Anti-Democracy, Chapter 2: The Plutocratic Origins of Representative Government
3,552 words Part 2 of 9 (Chapter 1 here) In all countries the rights of the majority take care of themselves, but it is only in countries like England, enjoying constitutional liberty, and safe from the tyranny of a single despot, or of an unbridled democracy…
Kenneth Vinther's essay on the porn industry as Jewish anti-fascist activism and cultural terrorism is now in Czech. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/orgasmus-coby-zbran-cast-1/
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Orgasmus coby zbraň? Pornografie jako židovský antifašistický aktivismus a kulturní terorismus, část 1
4.095 slov English original here Část druhá Po sérií incidentů, kdy byly na pornografických serverech odhalena videa zachycující znásilňování nezletilých dívek (která majitelé webů v některých případech odmítli smazat), podepsaly přes dva miliony lidí petici za…
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"No Way - Do not come to Europe" - GI Campaign in Africa
🔹GI Germany just launched in Uganda, Ghana, Somalia and many other African countries.
🔹These Ads were placed in urban Areas at crowded spots, to discourage Migrants from coming to Europe.
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🔹GI Germany just launched in Uganda, Ghana, Somalia and many other African countries.
🔹These Ads were placed in urban Areas at crowded spots, to discourage Migrants from coming to Europe.
👉 TG of GI Germany: https://t.me/IdentitaereDeutschland/1584
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Beau Albrecht's essay on the reasons why, and how, the Left has been able to set the agenda for so many years now, and what the Right can do to counteract them, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/why-does-cthulhu-always-swim-left-part-2/
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Why Does Cthulhu Always Swim Left? Part 2 | Counter-Currents
2,946 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Planning ahead When Leftists are out of power, they're figuring out how to get into power. One classic example is Vladimir Lenin's What is to Be Done? My take is that it's dreadfully boring, which is hardly unusual for…
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Jim Goad on the fact that Title 42, the law invoked by Donald Trump in 2020 to reduce immigration across the US-Mexico border in response to COVID, expires today — and no one seems to have a plan to replace it. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/the-barbarians-are-here-but-theres-no-gate/
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D. H. Corax offers an example of info-parody by presenting a comedy sketch about a transgender woman in a psychiatrist's office. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/info-parody-a-strategy-for-reaching-normies-part-3/
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Info-Parody: A Strategy for Reaching Normies, Part 3 | Counter-Currents
3,112 words Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) In the first two parts of this series we highlighted the power of humor and/or embarrassment in determining the course of human events -- sometimes blatantly and swiftly, as during the Battle of the Yarmuk…
Kenneth Vinther thoroughly documents the fact that the drafters of the US Constitution openly and deliberately designed a system that would thwart the will of the people in favor of the interests of wealthy property owners. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/liberal-anti-democracy-part-3/
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Liberal Anti-Democracy, Chapter 3: The Anti-Political US Constitution | Counter-Currents
6,140 words Part 3 of 9 (Chapter 1 here, Chapter 2 here, Chapter 4 Part 1 here) Of the things for which I summoned the people to assemble, was there one I compassed not? . . . This is how the people will best follow their leaders: If they are neither unleashed…
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Steven Clark reviews Polite Society, a comedy about Pakistanis in the UK which also shows that white dispossession is already at an advanced stage there. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/polite-society-a-film-for-the-coronation/
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Polite Society: A Film for the Coronation | Counter-Currents
1,547 words The recent coronation of Charles III was a bit of a relief for me: He finally made it! The old girl’s gone at last. That being said, it appears that much of the old girl’s Britain is gone as well. It seemed that every ethnicity in Britain was…
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New writer Jocelynn Cordes's essay on a student production of Sophocles' Antigone that she directed and that starred a black actress, and how she subsequently came to realize the damage that diversity casting is doing to white culture, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/the-new-story/
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The New Story | Counter-Currents
1,200 words After I graduated from college way back in the 1980s, I decided to return to my old high school to substitute teach for a while. Soon after beginning to sub, I asked the school’s theater director if at some point I’d be able to direct a play.…
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Mark Gullick on Ireland's new hate crimes bill, which will be the most draconian yet in any Western country and put an end to the famous gift that the Irish have for the gab. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/the-burial-of-the-blarney-stone-irelands-new-hate-speech-legislation/
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The Burial of the Blarney Stone: Ireland’s New Hate Speech Legislation | Counter-Currents
2,641 words The recent tilt towards authoritarianism across Europe and the Commonwealth, aided and abetted by the Covid-19 pandemic which, even if not intentionally manufactured was certainly deliberately manipulated, has a curious aspect. It seems to the…