Today is the birthday of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: novelist, historian, Nobel laureate, anti-Communist crusader, and man of the Right. Learn more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2023/12/remembering-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-2/
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Jim Goad on the passing of Norman Lear, the Jewish television producer who was behind many of the classic sitcoms of the 1970s, and who may have done more to foster the notion that "white supremacy" is the source of all of America's problems than any other media figure. https://counter-currents.com/2023/12/the-worst-week-yet-155/
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The Worst Week Yet: December 3-9, 2023
1,966 words Culture-Critiquing Sitcom Mogul Norman Lear Finally Gives Up the Ghost It took 101 years, but television producer Norman Lear — who probably influenced American culture more than any other single figure in the 1970s — finally decided last Tuesday…
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F. Roger Devlin reviews David Hoggan's The Forced War, a groundbreaking study that presents a very different picture of World War II's origins that was recently republished by the Institute for Historical Review. https://counter-currents.com/2023/12/hitler-the-peacemaker-part-1/
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Hitler the Peacemaker, Part 1: David L. Hoggan’s The Forced War
2,781 words Part 1 of 5 (Part 2 here) David L. Hoggan The Forced War: When Peaceful Revision Failed, 2nd ed. Newport Beach, Calif.: Institute for Historical Review, 2023 David Hoggan (1923-1988) was an American historian who received his doctorate from Harvard…
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Travis LeBlanc concludes his review of Ich Klage an (I Accuse), a film produced in the Third Reich about the morality of euthanasia, by comparing it to a very similar film that was made in Hollywood a few years later. https://counter-currents.com/2023/12/ich-klage-an-part-2/
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Ich Klage an Pro-Genocide Nazi Propaganda or Humanitarian Masterpiece? Part 2
1,757 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) A trial is held and several witness are called. Hanna inherited a substantial sum when her father died, and Hanna’s brother Edward — who never liked Thomas and thought he himself should have received the money — accuses…
Today is the 80th birthday of Alain de Benoist, the leading thinker of the French "New Right" who redefined the Right in post-war Europe, and ultimately transcended the Left/Right divide altogether in his effort to oppose and surpass liberalism. His thought is also central to the Counter-Currents project. Counter-Currents has published many essays by and interviews with him over the years, all of which can be found here: https://counter-currents.com/author/adebenoist/
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A brief tribute to Alain de Benoist, the founder of the French New Right, on his 80th birthday, as well as links to the many books and essays both by and about him that are available at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2023/12/happy-birthday-alain-de-benoist/
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Happy Birthday, Alain de Benoist! | Counter-Currents
567 words Today is the 80th birthday of Alain de Benoist, the founder and leading thinker of the French "New Right" who redefined the Right in post-war Europe, and ultimately transcended the Left/Right divide altogether in his effort to oppose and surpass…
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F. Roger Devlin's review of David L. Hoggan's The Forced War continues, this part focusing on the fact that, contrary to popular wisdom, Hitler did a great deal during the months before the outbreak of World War II to avoid hostilities. https://counter-currents.com/2023/12/hitler-the-peacemaker-part-2/
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Hitler the Peacemaker, Part 2: David L. Hoggan’s The Forced War | Counter-Currents
4,041 words Part 2 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here) Given that both the United States and the Soviet Union were far larger and more powerful than Germany, and that the British themselves were still presiding over an enormous empire, one may wonder why Britain’s…
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Travis LeBlanc on Elon Musk's surprising reinstatement of Alex Jones on Twitter/X, and what it means for the dissident Right. https://counter-currents.com/2023/12/the-alex-jones-question/
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The Alex Jones Question | Counter-Currents
1,132 words Elon Musk-era Twitter/X has been a hell of a ride so far, and we got another big curveball this week with the unbanning of Alex Jones. This came as a surprise for several reasons. First, a lot of people -- including me -- were under the impression…
Gunnar Alfredsson on the Israelis harvesting the sperm of those of their men who have been killed in the ongoing fighting in Gaza, and on why Jews are as fiercely committed to eugenic policies for themselves as they are opposed to them for everyone else. https://counter-currents.com/2023/12/israeli-war-zone-genetics/
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Israeli War Zone Genetics | Counter-Currents
1,404 words The unprecedented use of artillery, airstrikes, tanks, and a whole arsenal of other weapons have destroyed much of the infrastructure in Gaza, but the war rages on, as the Palestinian fighters are well entrenched. The pattern has been that, after…
Beau Albrecht reflects on an Indian pow-wow he recently attended in Salt Lake City. https://counter-currents.com/2023/12/paleface-go-injun-pow-wow/
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Paleface Go Injun Pow-Wow | Counter-Currents
2,412 words I was downtown in Salt Lake City in 2002 to watch the Pioneer Day parade, also known as "Days Of '47" -- as in 1847, of course. I got to see the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ President Gordon B. Hinckley heading up the column.…
Alain de Benoist's "A Brief History of the Idea of Progress" is now being featured in Counter-Currents' Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2012/05/a-brief-history-of-the-idea-of-progress/
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A Brief History of the Idea of Progress
3,641 words Translated by Greg Johnson The idea of progress seems one of theoretical presuppositions of modernity. One can even regard it, not without reason, as the real “religion of Western civilization.” Historically, this idea was formulated earlier than…
F. Roger Devlin's review and summary of David Hoggan's The Forced War continues with an examination of the political machinations in Europe in the weeks before the invasion of Poland in 1939 and the German-Soviet non-aggression pact. https://counter-currents.com/2023/12/hitler-the-peacemaker-part-3/
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Hitler the Peacemaker: David L. Hoggan’s The Forced War, Part 3 | Counter-Currents
1,852 words Part 3 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 4 here) By August 1939, everyone understood that a war between Germany and Poland was extremely probable. The great question was whether it might still be prevented from developing into a general European…
Greg Johnson was joined by accomplished authors John Derbyshire, Jim Goad, James J. O’Meara, Fred Reed, and Kathryn S. on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio in order to share their advice for aspiring writers. It is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2023/12/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-562-advice-for-aspiring-writers/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 562: Advice for Aspiring Writers | Counter-Currents
204 words / 2:10:22 Greg Johnson was joined by accomplished authors John Derbyshire (website), Jim Goad, James J. O’Meara, Fred Reed, and Kathryn S. on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio in order to share their advice for aspiring writers. It…
Saddam Hussein was captured by US forces on this day 20 years ago. Morris van de Camp looks back at Saddam and the Ba'ath Party, finding that it was a much more effective system than what the Americans ended up replacing them with. https://counter-currents.com/2023/12/baathism-and-saddam-hussein-part-1/
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Ba’athism and Saddam Hussein: A System that Worked, Part 1 | Counter-Currents
2,835 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) It’s been 20 years since the United States military captured Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi dictator was captured by the American 4th Infantry Division along with commandos from a special forces unit, Task Force 121, at the…
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James J. O'Meara reviews Counter-Currents' own Beau Albrecht's book Space Vixen Trek Episode XIII: The Final Falafel, which offers its own absurdist take on the never-ending crisis that is the Middle East. https://counter-currents.com/2023/12/beavis-and-butthead-solve-the-middle-east-crisis/
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Beavis and Butthead Solve the Middle East Crisis | Counter-Currents
1,408 words Rainbow Albrecht Space Vixen Trek Episode XIII: The Final Falafel Smashwords, 2015 "Must you overly-nostalgic Judeans revive every old custom around here?" Tired and depressed by what’s happening -- again -- in the Middle East? Wish someone would…
Jim Goad on how punk went from toying with Nazi imagery to becoming intensely anti-fascist — and becoming a lot less interesting in the process. https://counter-currents.com/2023/12/the-punk-rock-roots-of-punching-nazis/
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The Punk Rock Roots of Punching Nazis | Counter-Currents
1,946 words / 12:43 Blacks make up nearly a third of United States postal workers, and I don’t care if someone tries to punch me for suspecting that this is one of the main reasons our postal service is going to hell. I make part of my living by selling my…
Paroled from the Paywall: Spencer J. Quinn explains why it is not only warranted for whites to adopt a sense of victimhood when it comes to interracial crime, but absolutely essential for our survival. https://counter-currents.com/2023/11/on-white-victimhood/
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On White Victimhood
2,300 words A strong sense of victimhood might not come naturally to the majority of whites in the West, but if they wish to compete politically with non-whites as the demographic winds keep blowing against them, it had better start coming naturally — and…