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
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An update on the Counter-Currents fundraiser, plus Beau Albrecht explains why your support is so important within the larger struggle to take back the narrative and ensure the survival of our people. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/how-to-win-a-war-of-narratives/
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The Counter-Currents 2023 Fundraiser: How to Win a War of Narratives | Counter-Currents
3,376 words Like all journals of dissident ideas, Counter-Currents depends on the support of our readers. So far this year, we’ve raised $67,367.84 of our $300,000 goal. I want to thank everyone who has donated so far. (Please donate here!) Now, Beau Albrecht…
My favorite part of Eward Luttwak's book Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook is his description of the universal "passing out cookies" phase.
A partial transcript of a BNP stump speech Bowden gave in Liverpool in November 2008, sometimes called "British Power and British Glory" as well as by other titles, has been added to The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/speeches/the-liverpool-speech/
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The Liverpool Speech
4,655 words / 26:35 Editor’s Note: The following is a transcript by John Morgan of a British National Party stump speech, once thought lost, that Jonathan Bowden gave in Liverpool on November 28, 2008. The title is editorial, and versions of the speech online…
The complete audio recording of Richard Spencer’s Vanguard Podcast interview with Bowden, “The Essence of the Left,” has been added to The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/speeches/the-essence-of-the-left/
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The Essence of the Left
6,048 words / 41:59 Editor’s Note: This is the transcript by V. S. of Richard Spencer’s Vanguard Podcast interview with Jonathan Bowden about the Left. The original audio is available here as well. To listen to the audio recording in a player, click here…
A feature film produced by Bowden and also starring him, Venus Flytrap, which is about a misanthropic scientist who wants to replace humans with plants, has been added to The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/film/venus-flytrap-2005/
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Venus Flytrap (2005)
59:21 https://jonathanbowden.org/wp-content/uploads/videos/JonathanBowden-VenusFlytrap.mp4
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Former Counter-Currents writer makes it big then gets doxed because of Disqus:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817
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The conclusion of Michael Walker's review of Alexander Bätz's Nero: Madness and Truth, examining whether the legends of Nero fiddling while Rome burned and persecuting the early Christians are true — as well as his ignominious end — has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/everyone-liked-the-baths-part-2/
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Everyone Liked the Baths: Alexander Bätz’s Nero: Madness & Truth, Part 2 | Counter-Currents
5,133 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Nero was only 16 when he became Emperor. His coming to power had nevertheless been enabled by several murders and/or suspiciously timely deaths. Claudius may or may not have died accidentally, but Narcissus, who favored…
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