Margot Metroland reviews Standardbearers: British Roots of the New Right, an anthology on indigenous British thinkers who are useful to the contemporary nationalist Right. Jonathan Bowden was one of its editors. https://counter-currents.com/2022/04/the-search-for-a-usable-past-2/
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The Search for a Usable Past
1,659 words Standardbearers: British Roots of the New Right Edited by Jonathan Bowden, Eddy Butler, and Adrian Davies. With a Foreword by Professor Antony Flew Beckenham, Kent: The Bloomsbury Forum, 1999 Somewhere between the “hug-a-hoodie” Toryism of David…
Morris van de Camp on the Duggar family, a large, conservative white family that has attracted interest across America for its perfect image — and why it still failed to prevent one deviant child from failing spectacularly. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/when-perfect-families-go-wrong/
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When Perfect Families Go Wrong
1,723 words Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets (2023) Directed by Olivia Crist & Julia Willoughby Nason Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of…
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Robert Hampton's "Russia: An Exemplar of Christian Nationalism?" is now in Czech. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/je-rusko-vzorovym-prikladem-krestanskeho-nacionalismu/
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Je Rusko vzorovým příkladem křesťanského nacionalismu?
1.277 slov English original here Mnozí lidé v našich kruzích jsou podle všeho přesvědčeni, že tou správnou cestou pro naše hnutí má být křesťanský nacionalismus. Obvykle ukazují na Maďarsko, Polsko a Rusko jako na doklad toho, že zaštítit naši věci křížem…
The way out of Woke/DEI anti-whiteness is not to go back to "color-blind" individualism. If blacks were genuinely judged by their deeds and the contents of their character, they would be much poorer than now, and many more of them would be in jail. They'd notice that, and they'd demand an explanation. Telling them to evolve higher IQs, greater empathy, and longer time horizons won't cut it, either. We will NEVER have color-blind individualism + HBD realism in a multiracial society. Blacks will rebel against it, because reason and justice aren't their strong suits, and whites will go back to lying and placating them. The only way out of this is White Nationalism, which means an end to multiculturalism. Woke/DEI/PC will only end when white people have countries of our own.
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Mark Gullick reviews the latest novel by Counter-Currents' own Stephen Paul Foster, Fatal Friendship, about a man who discovers that his best friend may be a murderer. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/thought-criminal-stephen-paul-fosters-fatal-friendship/
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Thought Criminal: Stephen Paul Foster’s Fatal Friendship
1,987 words Stephen Paul Foster Fatal Friendship: A Philosophical Novel Foster & Dobson, 2023 To subtitle one’s fiction A Philosophical Novel throws down a weighty gauntlet. Some novels which could be described as philosophical slip in and out of the discipline…
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The French writer and fascist intellectual who died for his beliefs, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, was born on this day in 1893. You can discover more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2020/01/remembering-pierre-drieu-la-rochelle-7/
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Remembering Pierre Drieu La Rochelle: January 3, 1893–March 15, 1945
112 words Pierre Drieu La Rochelle was born on this day in 1893. In commemoration, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this site: Maurice Bardèche, “Bardèche’s Six Postulates of Fascist Socialism” (Ukrainian translation here) Alain de…
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The great fantasist and linguist J. R. R. Tolkien was born on this day in 1892. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/remembering-j-r-r-tolkien-12/
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Remembering J. R. R. Tolkien: January 3, 1892–September 2, 1973
594 words “I am in fact a Hobbit.” — J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is a favorite author of New Left “hippies” and New Right nationalists, and for pretty much the same reasons. Tolkien deeply distrusted modernization and industrialization, which…
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Travis LeBlanc reviews Frank Capra's 1941 film Meet John Doe, one of Capra's less popular films because instead of offering feelgood sentimentality, it deals with a darker theme about whether it is morally just to tell a lie in pursuit of doing good for the majority of society. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/meet-john-doe/
Christian Secor on why Rightists must reject reactionary conservatism and embrace futurism if they want to win. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/conservatism-is-doomed-to-fail-but-futurism-can-win/
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Conservatism is Doomed to Fail, but Futurism Can Win
2,518 words There were many factors that decided Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 Republican primary and general election: his panache (both figurative and literal), his appeal to independents, and his anti-establishment and national populist attitude all…
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Paroled from the Paywall: Travis LeBlanc on when liberal narratives spectacularly implode, such as those of the 1980s sitcom Diff'rent Strokes and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. https://counter-currents.com/2023/12/mike-johnson-and-diffrent-strokes/
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Mike Johnson and Diff’rent Strokes: When Liberal Narratives Collapse
1,905 words I recently wrote about the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, and his then-mysterious “adopted black son” whose existence Johnson only ever referenced for entirely cynical reasons. In 2019 he claimed before Congress that he had asked his…
Jim Goad on why he's going to be sitting out this year's presidential election. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/straining-to-care-about-this-years-election/
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Straining to Care About This Year’s Election
1,093 words / 7:27 Now that we’ve taken off our holiday party masks and furtively tiptoed into 2024, the presidential election looms only ten months away. I find myself violently uninterested in the whole sorry affair. I can’t recall a time in my life when…
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Spencer J. Quinn answers critics of his stance alleging that the current signs of a possible Jewish shift to the Right are a positive thing for the dissident Right. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/a-response-to-critics-of-my-stance-on-the-jewish-rightward-shift/
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A Response to Critics of My Stance on the Jewish Rightward Shift
1,557 words “I don’t believe in luck. I believe in being prepared.” — Olympic wrestling champion Dan Gable “I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.” — World chess champion Bobby Fischer Let’s do a thought experiment. Suppose a critical number…
Gunnar Alfredsson reviews Angel, the latest novel from Alex Kurtagić, which is the story of a young university student who exemplifies everything that is going wrong with Western civilization. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/fallen-angel/
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Fallen Angel
1,137 words Alex Kurtagić Angel London: Spradabach Publishing, 2022 Angel is a novel that follows the eponymous characters’ misadventures as he attempts failingly to negotiate life as an impoverished university student in the present-day United Kingdom. Angel…
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Jarosław Ostrogniew's "Across the Line: Why Nationalism Can Win" is now in Czech. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/jak-prekrocit-caru-aneb-proc-uz-verim/
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Jak překročit čáru aneb proč už věřím, že nacionalismus může zvítězit | Counter-Currents
1.419 slov English original here Je to tady. Domnívám se, že evropské nacionalistické hnutí prošlo první etapou svého vývoje a nyní vstupuje do další fáze. Nacionalistou jsem se stal ještě jako teenager a zapojil se do hnutí těsně před referenda o vstupu…
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Paroled from the Paywall: Mark Gullick on the relationship between fear and writing, and why the elites who rule us seem to be so afraid of writing that goes against their wishes. https://counter-currents.com/2023/12/the-fear-of-writing/
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The Fear of Writing
1,994 words I was carrying out a literary exercise of quite a different kind: this was the making up of a continuous ‘story’ about myself . . . — George Orwell, “Why I Write” Litera scripta manet. (That which is written, remains.) — John Dewey One of many…
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NJP: A Postmortem
I had no special access to the inner workings of the NJP. The higher ups always held me in contempt, and would have kept me at arm's length had I attempted to approach the project. I didn't ask. They didn't ask. I remained in my lane and, up until the last…
David M. Zsutty on what treason and loyalty mean in an age when the law has reversed their meanings. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/on-treason-and-loyalty/
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On Treason and Loyalty
1,452 words “There is only personal history, and consequently only personal politics.” — Oswald Spengler[1] The Leftists have an unending supply of tedious takes in regards to Charlottesville, the Confederacy, and January 6. These usually involve pontificating…
Greg Johnson on why the modern, liberal concept of the nation goes against the very essence of what "nation" originally meant. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/havens-in-a-heartless-world-part-2/
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Havens in a Heartless World, Part 2: The Homeland
1,506 words Part 1 here If the family is a haven in the heartless world of global liberalism, so is the nation. What is the connection between family and nation? Both are related by blood. Indeed, your nation is just your extended family. You enter your family…
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Travis LeBlanc offers his take on why Harvard President Claudine Gay has resigned. Hint: It's not because of "white supremacy." https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/losing-a-lose-lose-scenario/
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Losing a Lose-Lose Scenario | Counter-Currents
1,249 words It would appear that the saga of black female Harvard President Claudine Gay has come to an end with her resignation on January 2. The tale ended as it began: as a farce. One of the reasons that I find myself incapable of getting too emotionally…
Beau Albrecht on the 23 most shameless mainstream media stories he came across in 2023. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/the-23-most-shameless-stories-of-2023/
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The 23 Most Shameless Stories of 2023
4,967 words Although we’ve been through worse, 2023 was one of those years I’m happy to see in the rear-view mirror at last. Since the plandemic began, Clown World mutated into Scary as Hell Clown Like John Wayne Gacy World, and it hasn’t improved much. Throughout…
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