Matt Parrott reviews rising conservative star and former Counter-Currents writer Richard Hanania's new book, The Origins of Woke, which offers a comprehensive strategy on how the American Right can combat wokeness. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/richard-hananias-the-origins-of-woke/
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Richard Hanania’s The Origins of Woke
2,052 words Richard Hanania’s The Origins of Woke is Christopher Caldwell’s excellent book, The Age of Entitlement, but in a less sober and more opinionated tone, and with more speculation on what’s to be done about the predicament. While both books get the…
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Steven Clark reviews Howie Carr's Paper Boy, the autobiography of a long-time conservative journalist whose career has spanned print, radio, television, and now independent broadcasting. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/paper-boy-the-life-and-times-of-an-ink-stained-wretch/
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Paper Boy: The Life and Times of an Ink-Stained Wretch | Counter-Currents
1,525 words If Holden Caulfield did battle with the phonies, Howie Carr does it with hacks. Howie is a Boston journalist whose mischievous face is a combination of Jimmy Cagney and Mephistopheles, offering Irish bravado and tempting the reader, listener,…
Michael Walker reviews Anselm Jappe's Concrete, a book which shows that reinforced concrete, which is literally everywhere despite being introduced less than a century ago, perfectly suits both the capitalist project as well as the progressives' drive for ugliness in everyday life. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/the-matter-with-concrete/
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The Matter with Concrete, Part 1
4,509 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) Anselm Jappe Béton: Arme de construction massive du capitalisme Paris: Éditions L’échappée, 2020 Ask any thinking people what they consider to be the most dramatic and long-lasting changes in the world over the last…
The great poet and man of the Right T. S. Eliot was born on this day 135 years ago. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2022/09/remembering-t-s-eliot-9/
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Remembering T. S. Eliot:September 26, 1888–January 4, 1965 | Counter-Currents
231 words Thomas Stearns Eliot was one of the 20th century's most influential poets, as well as an essayist, literary critic, playwright, and publisher. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, from old New England stock…
The giant of twentieth-century philosophy who has also been a profound influence on Counter-Currents, Martin Heidegger, was born on this day in 1889. Greg Johnson offers an extensive overview of Heidegger's life and work, including starting points for beginners, and a list of the voluminous resources pertaining to Heidegger available at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/remembering-martin-heidegger-13/
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Remembering Martin Heidegger: September 26, 1889–May 26, 1976
4,812 words Translations: Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian Martin Heidegger is one of the giants of twentieth-century philosophy, both in terms of the depth and originality of his ideas and the breadth of his influence in philosophy, theology, the human…
Greg Johnson's "Why Race Is Not a 'Social Construct'" is now being featured in Counter-Currents' Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2015/07/why-race-is-not-a-social-construct/
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Why Race is Not a “Social Construct”
3,137 words Translations: Czech, French, Slovak, Spanish Race realism is one of the intellectual foundations of White Nationalism. Race realism is the thesis that racial differences are objective facts of nature, which pre-exist human consciousness, human…
This month's selection of news highlights from the UK by The Union Jackal includes the cancellation of Russell Brand, a white London shopkeeper who was attacked and then picketed for racism because he wouldn't give a cash refund to a black woman, the English countryside being subjected to government scrutiny for signs of "rural racism," and more. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/the-union-jackal-september-2023/
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2,329 words A toxic Brand The biggest story currently distracting the British public is the fall of Russell Brand. American readers may not be familiar with Brand, an English comedian and actor who has recently reinvented himself as a YouTube influencer.…
Endeavour on how the dissident Right can turn the explosion in popularity of the term "woke" to its own advantage. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/the-metapolitics-of-woke/
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The Metapolitics of “Woke”
2,662 words The word “woke” was first used as an adjective, as opposed to “awake,” in a political context by black Americans during the twentieth century to describe someone who is “alert to racial prejudice and discrimination.” Starting in 2014, the progressive…
Michael Walker concludes his review of Anselm Jappe's Concrete by tracing how concepts that began as revolutionary theories developed by radical artists with a disdain for tradition — and in some cases people — ended up becoming the norm in modern architecture. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/the-matter-with-concrete-part-2
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The Matter with Concrete, Part 2 | Counter-Currents
4,453 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) It is during and after the First World War that reinforced concrete was incorporated into political programs as a “progressive” building material. The Futurist Antonio Sant'Elia inspired an entire generation of so-called…
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The latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio featured guest hosts Pox Populi and Endeavour, and the first half was a discussion of yet another migrant invasion in Lampedusa, Douglas Murray’s analysis of power, Substack versus videos, and much more. It is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-553-endeavour-pox-populi-on-the-latest-migrant-invasion-more/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 553 Endeavour & Pox Populi on the Latest Migrant Invasion & More
112 words / 1:04:24 The latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio featured guest hosts Pox Populi (Telegram, YouTube) and Endeavour (Substack, Telegram, YouTube), and the first half was a discussion of yet another migrant invasion in Lampedusa, Douglas Murray’s…
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Gunnar Alfredsson recounts a disaster that hit his neighborhood that saw everyone pull together in an act of genuine white solidarity. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/white-altruism-revealed/
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White Altruism Revealed | Counter-Currents
880 words A severe thunderstorm tore through our city in the spring of 2022. In our predominantly white suburban neighborhood, several trees were shattered by the vicious wind, including the Norway maple in our front yard. Half of the trunk split with a deafening…
Steven Clark reviews A Haunting in Venice, a new film directed by starring Kenneth Branagh featuring Agatha Christie's famed detective Hercule Poirot. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/a-haunting-in-venice-agatha-christie-is-back/
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A Haunting in Venice: Agatha Christie Is Back | Counter-Currents
797 words A Haunting in Venice is a Halloween movie and also sees the return of the detective Hercule Poirot to the screen, as most recently played by Kenneth Branagh, who directed this film. The story is lifted from Hallowe’en Party, a 1969 Christie novel…
Stephen Paul Foster on how Trumpism went from the mouthpiece of the "deplorables" to Trump himself becoming the American Left's own Leon Trotsky. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/the-treasonous-trajectory-of-trumpism/
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The “Treasonous” Trajectory of Trumpism | Counter-Currents
3,428 words The Rise of Trumpism 1.0 “But we -- Communists, the party -- will not divide power with anyone.” Thus spoke Anatoly Lukyanov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1987, four years before the Soviet workers’…
Jim Goad examines the age-old debate over who drinks more, the rich or the poor. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/who-drinks-more-the-rich-or-the-poor/
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Who Drinks More, the Rich or the Poor?
1,230 words / 9:17 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.” Statistics have shown, again and again, that whites have higher per-capita levels…
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The last lecture in Greg Johnson's five-week course on Plato’s Gorgias for Counter-Currents Radio has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-546-greg-johnson-on-platos-gorgias-lecture-5/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 546 Greg Johnson on Plato’s Gorgias, Lecture 5 | Counter-Currents
246 words / 1:05:43 Greg Johnson is teaching a five-week course on Plato's Gorgias on Counter-Currents Radio, and the last lecture is now available. See below. Topics discussed include: 1. How we can secure ourselves against doing injustice but not really…
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The second half of the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio was an Ask Us Anything with guest hosts Pox Populi and Endeavour, and it is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-554-how-often-does-pox-think-about-the-roman-empire-other-matters/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 554 How Often Does Pox Think About the Roman Empire? . . . & Other Matters
155 words / 53:18 The second half of the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio was an Ask Us Anything with guest hosts Pox Populi (Telegram, YouTube) and Endeavour (Substack, Telegram, YouTube), and it is now available for download and online listening.…
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Morris van de Camp reviews Jeff Flynn-Paul's Not Stolen, a book which shows that the idea that the United States was built on land that was "stolen" from the American Indians only emerged from a small number of Leftist historians in the twentieth century. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/the-stolen-land-narrative/
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The Stolen Land Narrative
2,951 words Jeff Flynn-Paul Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World New York-Nashville: Bombardier Books/Post Hill Press, 2023 . . . [N]early all the stereotypes about American Indians that the Left holds dear are traceable to the…
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Mike Maxwell of Imperium Press reviews Neema Parvini's new book The Prophets of Doom, which offers an overview of the great theorists of cyclical history as opposed to the idea of linear progressivism. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/neema-parvinis-prophets-of-doom/
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Neema Parvini’s Prophets of Doom: Cyclical History as Alternative to Liberal Progressivism
2,321 words The following is reprinted from the Imperium Press Substack. Neema Parvini The Prophets of Doom Societias, 2023 In polite circles today, you have two choices: You are either a progressive, or a complete reprobate. This is because “progress” is…
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Paroled from the Paywall: Ondrej Mann interviews Frank Kraemer, the German author, metapolitical activist, and member of the band Stahlgewitter about his musical tastes, the situation in Germany today, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/metapolitics-in-germany-part-1/
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Metapolitics in Germany, Part 1: An Exclusive Interview with Frank Kraemer of Stahlgewitter
3,127 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) Frank is now 46 years old and has been politically active for more than 30 years. He was once more active in politics, but since 2016 he has been exclusively engaged in metapolitics. Frank is a musician in two bands,…
Jef Costello reflects on rereading Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead after nearly 40 years, finding that it holds up while also offering new insights. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/the-fountainhead-80-years-later/
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The Fountainhead: 80 Years Later
4,270 words It’s been 80 years since Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead was published by Bobbs-Merrill, and almost exactly 37 years since I first read it. I was in college at the time and, although I did not realize it, searching for some source of meaning…