Steven Clark's review of the 1944 German film Grosse Freiheit Nummer 7, a romantic drama about a sailor who performs at a cabaret in Hamburg, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/grosse-freiheit-nummer-7-the-best-german-film-on-world-war-ii/
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Grosse Freiheit Nummer 7: The Best German Film on World War II?
1,998 words When we think about Third Reich films, we always go to the usual: Triumph of the Will, Der Ewige Jude, Jud Süß, and Kolberg, Goebbels’ final, fist-shaking epic call to resistance as the Reich crumbled. Yet, German film a the time was quite varied…
Spencer J. Quinn on why whites will never be safe until they stop taking the frequently baseless complaints that blacks make against them in everyday situations seriously. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/we-need-to-stop-taking-black-complaints-seriously/
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We Need to Stop Taking Black Complaints Seriously
1,338 words During the Summer of Floyd, on July 1, 2020, a white couple accidentally bumped into a black family at the entrance of a Chipotle restaurant in Orion Township, Michigan, which is in Oakland County near Detroit — and their lives were changed forever.…
F. Roger Devlin on how the "Sexual Revolution" has damaged Western societies — which is not for the reasons conservatives think. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/sexual-utopia-in-stockholm/
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Sexual Utopia in Stockholm | Counter-Currents
2,962 words F. Roger Devlin delivered this talk in Stockholm on May 27, 2023 to mark the publication of the Swedish translation of Sexual Utopia in Power (Den sexuella utopin vid makten) by Logik Förlag. If you have any familiarity with my work, you know…
Steven Clark reviews Serpent's Walk, a novel about a future race war that was published by the National Alliance in 1991. It was written by an author whose identity remained unknown until recently — and which was quite a surprise when it was revealed. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/serpents-walk/
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Serpent’s Walk
2,298 words Randolph D. Calverhall Serpent’s Walk Hillsboro, W. Va.: National Vanguard Books, 1991 After I read The Turner Diaries in the early 1990s, I looked for other examples of White Nationalist literature. At around this time I also began listening…
Stephen Paul Foster on Joe Biden's recent very public pratfall at the US Air Force Academy, which seems emblematic of the entire ruling class' decrepitude. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/the-fall-of-the-house-of-biden/
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The Fall of the House of Biden | Counter-Currents
1,406 words Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. -- Proverbs 16:18 (King James) The video of Joe Biden’s “I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!” moment has gone viral. That swath of the populace whose recurring nightmare is a rerun…
James J. O'Meara reviews the new White Nationalist fantasy novel The White Huns of Identaria by Bulgarian author Nikolay Pavlov. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/meet-the-hunburgers/
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Meet the Hunburgers
4,002 words Nikolay Pavlov The White Huns of Identaria Self-published, 2023 The air was heavy with a unique admixture of common nationalism, alcohol fumes and the smell of men’s sweat. If Bronze Age Pervert wrote a novel along the lines of The Iron Dream…
Asier Abadroa on the true definition of a nation, as opposed to the illogical conceptions that go by that name today. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/what-a-nation-is-not/
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What a Nation is Not | Counter-Currents
3,055 words A Nation is not a language The fact that language is a secondary criterion of no importance is demonstrated by the simple observation that learning and mastering a new language does not make you a different person. In fact, almost all languages…
Greg Johnson discusses Plato's Phaedo, the dialogue which contains the conversations Socrates had with his students the day of his execution, in this excerpt from the upcoming book The Trial of Socrates. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/platos-phaedo-part-i/
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Plato’s Phaedo, Part I | Counter-Currents
4,171 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) The following is an excerpt from Greg Johnson's forthcoming book, The Trial of Socrates, which is available for pre-order at a $5 discount from now until its release on June 30. See here for details. Plato’s Phaedo depicts…
F. Roger Devlin on the case of Thomas Achord, formerly a headmaster at a private school dedicated to Christian Classical Education who was recently doxed for his "racist" views by Rod Dreher and then fired from his job as a result. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/anti-racism-comes-for-the-church/
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Anti-Racism Comes for the Church: The Case of Thomas Achord
1,918 words A year or two ago, I received a large, unsolicited, and apparently self-published book in the mail: Who Is My Neighbor? An Anthology in Natural Relations, edited by Thomas Achord and Darrell Dow. Neither name was familiar to me. Since my available…
Ricardo Duchesne on how the West's current fixation on viewing itself as merely one among many numerous world cultures has destroyed its ability to understand that it alone gave rise to a form of critical historiography relying on objective sources. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/western-civilization-is-destroying-its-historical-heritage-part-i/
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Western Civilization Is Destroying Its Historical Heritage, Part I | Counter-Currents
6,611 words Part 1 of 7 (Part 2 here) One of the most startling historical truths is that Europeans invented the writing of history as “a method of sorting out the true from the false,” as a conscious search for a rational explanation of the causes of events…
The concluding part of Greg Johnson's commentary on Plato's Phaedo, in which Socrates accepts his sentence of execution and teaches his students how to die a good death by example. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/platos-phaedo-part-ii/
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Plato’s Phaedo, Part II | Counter-Currents
4,731 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) The following is an excerpt from Greg Johnson's forthcoming book, The Trial of Socrates, which is available for pre-order at a $5 discount from now until its release on June 30. See here for details. Socrates’s Flight…
Rolf Peter Sieferle's "Learning from Auschwitz" is now in Czech. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/uryvky-z-finis-germania-rolfa-petera-sieferleho-cast-4/
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Úryvky z Finis Germania Rolfa Petera Sieferleho, část 4 | Counter-Currents
1.157 slov Část 1, Část 3 English original here Jak vlastně zní poučení z Osvětimi? Že člověk je schopen toho nejhoršího, dostane-li k tomu příležitost? Pokud někdo k tomuto poznání potřebuje Osvětim, ať ji k tomu využije. Nebo že lze v prostředí technologické…
Jim Goad on YNW Melly, a rapper who may soon become the first major rap star to be sentenced to death, as he stands convicted of murdering two of his closest childhood friends. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/when-life-imitates-rap/
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When Life Imitates Rap | Counter-Currents
1,404 words / 10:59 Audio version: To listen in a player, use the one below or click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose "save link as" or "save target as." On February 11, 2019, a 19-year-old rapper who calls himself YNW Melly -- the “YNW”…
Anthony Bavaria's review of (500) Days of Summer, a film that highlights the architectural glories of Los Angeles while ignoring the city's ever-worsening state of decay, has been paroled from the paywall. 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…
Greg Johnson's essay on hegemony — its various forms, and the need for White Nationalist 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…
Gunnar Alfredsson brings us a short story about a man in the trenches who is suddenly overwhelmed by a primordial compulsion. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/the-storm/
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The Storm
709 words The mud, the rain, the water, the earth, the corrugated iron, the barbed wire, the clouds, and the noise. We are here, in this place, this trench, our sanctuary, our Hell. The world was mud, rain, and sporadic machine gun and artillery fire. We…
Ricardo Duchesne on how early Christianity shaped the development of a modern, critical historical consciousness. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/western-civilization-is-destroying-its-historical-heritage-part-ii/
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Western Civilization Is Destroying Its Historical Heritage, Part II | Counter-Currents
4,344 words Part 2 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here) The Emerging of a Christian Historical Consciousness For all we have said about Greek and Roman historiography (and there were other historians, such as Suetonius, Appian, and Casius Dios), contemporary scholars…
F. Roger Devlin's "Rolf Peter Sieferle: The Man & the Scandal" is now in Czech. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/rolf-peter-sieferle-a-skandal-kolem-jeho-osoby/
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Rolf Peter Sieferle a skandál kolem jeho osoby | Counter-Currents
818 slov English original here Rolf Peter Sieferle (1949–2016) byl německý historik, jehož posmrtně vydaná kniha Finis Germania vyvolala v zemi během léta 2017 morální paniku. Coby příslušník generace osmašedesátníků byl v mladí radikálem: svou doktorskou…
New writer D. H. Corax's essay on why humor and embarrassment are important tools to use to bring normies to the dissident Right has been paroled from the paywall. 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…
Mark Gullick on George MacDonald Fraser's novel Flashman, an extremely politically incorrect adventure story set in the days of British colonialism. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/the-gentleman-rogue-george-macdonald-frasers-flashman/
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The Gentleman Rogue: George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman
1,750 words I had different ideas about soldiering. — Flashman In 1965, in the English town of Ashby in Leicestershire, a great literary find was made at a simple household furniture sale. Several oilskin packages containing the memoirs of an old soldier…
Morris van de Camp on why the Left seems to be growing increasingly irrational and desperate as there are more and more signs of ordinary Americans rejecting their agenda. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/the-lefts-ghost-dancers/
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The Left’s Ghost Dancers | Counter-Currents
1,257 words The recent overwhelmingly hostile public response to this year’s Pride Month is encouraging. Pushback against the LGBTQ agenda should not be entirely surprising, as it’s been a long time in coming. Two years ago, governors from socially conservative…