Ferenc Almássy describes the Hungarian progressive: how he is different from the progressives of the US and Western Europe, and why he is so useful for Western liberals. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/on-the-hypocrisy-of-progressives/
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On the Hypocrisy of Progressives | Counter-Currents
1,337 words If there's one fascinating thing about the progressives, it's that they never really pause on the road to progress. And even when the discovery of their new advances leads us to believe that their model is not sustainable, so devoid of common…
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Beau Albrecht brings us a special Lammas Full Moon report on all the lunacy we're currently seeing among feminists, the People of Capitalization, the LGBTQ crowd, and transsexuals. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/the-lammas-full-moon-special/
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The Lammas Full Moon Special | Counter-Currents
3,874 words The first day of August is one of the four cross-quarter solar holidays. It's known as either Lammas or Lughnasadh, depending on whether you're of the Saxon or the Celtic persuasion. (If "Blessed be!" is a common greeting for you, then you get…
A review of a new book by Polish historian Andrzej Nowak which argues that the current conflict in Ukraine is not a clash between the liberal West and the conservative East, but is rather between the concept of a world dominated by nation-states and one dominated by empires. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/understanding-the-evil-empire/
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Understanding the “Evil Empire” | Counter-Currents
2,148 words The following was originally published in Polish in July 2023 in the Do Rzeczy weekly magazine. This translation was published at the English-language Polish conservative site Sovereignty.pl. In 2002, Vladimir Putin was asked in an interview how…
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Alain de Benoist on how liberalism evolved out of Christianity and gradually came to displace the holistic traditional societies that preceded it. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/against-liberalism-chapter-i-part-i/
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Against Liberalism: Society Is Not a Market, Chapter I, Part 1: What Is Liberalism? | Counter-Currents
3,856 words Part 1 of 3 (Introduction Part 1 here, Introduction Part 3 here, Chapter 1 Part 2 here) Translated by F. Roger Devlin Not being the work of a single man, liberalism has never presented itself as a unified doctrine. The authors who have laid claim…
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Kerry Bolton's review of Stephen Mitford Goodson's Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd: South Africa’s Greatest Prime Minister is now in Czech. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/hendrik-verwoerd-jihoafricky-hrdina/
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Hendrik Verwoerd, jihoafrický hrdina
1.385 slov English original here Stephen Mitford Goodson Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd: South Africa’s Greatest Prime Minister Jedná se o citacemi důsledně vybavený a přesvědčivý životopis „muže ze žuly“, jehož bych si troufl označit nejen za „největšího premiéra“…
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Asier Abadroa shows how examining the differences in measurable statistics between nations proves that racial biology is the ultimate determining factor of a nation's qualities. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/the-nation-is-a-biological-group/
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The Nation Is a Biological Group, Part 1
3,096 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) Spanish version here After discussing the distinction between identity and culture, and explaining why culture is not what creates nations (it is nations that create culture), let us now talk about what a nation is. For…
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Alain de Benoist on how the dominance of civilization by the market has transformed human relations, something of which its early theoreticians were already well aware. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/against-liberalism-chapter-i-part-2/
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Against Liberalism: Society Is Not a Market, Chapter I, Part 2: What Is Liberalism? | Counter-Currents
3,287 words Part 1 of 3 (Introduction Part 1 here, Chapter I Part 1 here, Chapter I Part 3 here) Translated by F. Roger Devlin Liberalism must, however, recognize the fact of society. But instead of asking why the social realm exists, liberals are mainly…
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Mark Gullick on the '90s American indie rock band Pavement. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/destined-for-the-paupers-grave-pavement/
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Destined for the Pauper’s Grave: Pavement | Counter-Currents
2,252 words In rock ’n’ roll it wasn’t the winners but the losers who made for the most compelling stories. -- English rock journalist Nick Kent You’ve been chosen as an extra In a movie adaptation Of the sequel to your life. -- Pavement, “Shady Lane” What…
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F. Roger Devlin's story of how he came to become a writer for the race-realist Right is now in Czech. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/proc-pisi-f-roger-devlin/
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Proč píši: F. Roger Devlin | Counter-Currents
1.257 slov English original here K otázkám obvykle probíraným na stránkách The Occidental Quarterly jsem dospěl až dosti pozdě. V mládí jsem se totiž o politiku nezajímal, za což jsem při pohledu zpět vděčný. Stejně jako většina Američanů jsem měl za to,…
Jim Goad on the recent drowning death of the Obamas' personal cook, Tafari Campbell, outside their residence in Martha's Vineyard. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/black-men-cant-float/
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Black Men Can’t Float | Counter-Currents
1,540 words / 10:34 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." Around 20 years ago, when the Somali pirates started popping up in the news, I…
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The second half of Greg Johnson and Richard Houck's discussion and critique of Ted Kaczynski's infamous manifesto, Technological Society and Its Future, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/ted-talk-an-analysis-of-ted-kaczynskis-manifesto-part-2/
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Ted Talk: An Analysis of Ted Kaczynski’s Manifesto, Part 2
6,122 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Rich Houck: There’s also other parts I find a small problem with. Ted Kaczynski seems to think that without these modern technologies, people cannot be controlled or subverted or treated poorly, but it seems to me that…
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Gunnar Alfredsson summarizes a selection of stories from the litany of black criminality that has plagued the United States in recent weeks. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/a-summer-of-black-criminality/
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A Summer of Black Criminality | Counter-Currents
1,288 words A Detroit reporter resigned when she allegedly used a racial epithet while in conversation with a colleague in 2016. The allegations against her were dodgy at best, but it nonetheless prompted her to hang up her microphone in favor of less violent…
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Asier Abadroa concludes his look at measurable differences between nations by showing how this proves that the only valid subject for nationalism is race. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/the-nation-is-a-biological-group-part-2/
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The Nation Is a Biological Group, Part 2 | Counter-Currents
2,961 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Spanish version here Certainly in the past the birth rate in our countries was much higher than it is now, but it was also higher in the countries of other races, so this gap is not something new and it has been maintained…
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Alain de Benoist on how the holistic society of the Middle Ages began to be broken down by the rise of the marketplace in conjunction with the development of nation-states in Europe. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/against-liberalism-chapter-i-part-3/
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Against Liberalism: Society Is Not a Market, Chapter I, Part 3: What Is Liberalism?
4,142 words Part 3 of 3 (Introduction Part 1 here, Chapter I Part 2 here) Translated by F. Roger Devlin This strictly economic representation of society has considerable consequences. Finishing off the process of secularization and “disenchantment” of the…
The Nobel prizewinning author and man of the Right Knut Hamsun was born on this day in 1859. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/remembering-knut-hamsun-10/
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Remembering Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859–February 19, 1952)
554 words Knut Hamsun was born Knut Pedersen in Lom, Norway on August 4, 1859. He died in Grimstad, Norway, on February 19, 1952. The author of more than twenty novels, plus poems, short stories, plays, and essays, Hamsun was one of the twentieth century’s…
Spencer J. Quinn reviews Knut Hamsun's Mysteries, a novel about a brilliant yet mentally unstable young man who arrives at a small town in coastal Norway. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/mysteries-knut-hamsuns-brilliant-misfire/
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Mysteries: Knut Hamsun’s Brilliant Misfire | Counter-Currents
1,476 words The following is being published in honor of Knut Hamsun's 164th birthday on August 4. It’s one thing to attempt to write a great novel. It’s something else entirely to write a novel to prove a point. The latter is what the young Knut Hamsun attempted…
Michael Walker's review of Alexander Bätz's Nero: Madness and Truth, a biography of the Roman Emperor that reassesses his legacy as one of history's most notorious tyrants, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/everyone-liked-the-baths-part-1/
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Everyone Liked the Baths: Alexander Bätz’s Nero: Madness and Truth, Part 1 | Counter-Currents
4,287 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) Alexander Bätz Nero: Wahnsinn und Wirklichkeit Hamburg: Rowohlt Buchverlag, 2023 Among those able to name any Roman emperors, Nero is likely to be on their list. Although he was Roman Emperor for only 14 years, from…
Collin Cleary on what Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality has to teach us about the psychology of the Left, especially about how morality went from being about "good and bad" to "good and evil." https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/nietzsche-and-the-psychology-of-the-left-part-one/
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Nietzsche and the Psychology of the Left, Part One
3,604 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) 1. Introduction: An Extremely Impious Book Perplexed, as so many of us are, by the utter mindlessness and malevolence of today’s Leftists, I decided several years ago to undertake an ambitious project: developing a comprehensive…
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Stephen Paul Foster on how psychiatrists and lawyers came together with angry women to produce the anti-white male regime we have in the United States today. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/thoughts-on-an-unfortunate-convergence/
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Thoughts on an Unfortunate Convergence: Doctors, Lawyers, and Angry Women | Counter-Currents
2,762 words We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. -- Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States And different statistics for violent crime. Almost…
This Saturday on Counter-Currents Radio:
Pox Populi and American Krogan on Being Lost in the Metaverse
https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/lost-in-the-metaverse/
Pox Populi and American Krogan on Being Lost in the Metaverse
https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/lost-in-the-metaverse/