Endeavour concludes his essay on quixotism in politics by explaining through examples why practicality must always take precedence over ideology. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/the-folly-of-quixotism-part-3/
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The Folly of Quixotism, Part 3
2,216 words Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) The simple answer to the question of how quixotism can be avoided is that we shouldn’t allow romantic idealism to dissuade us from practicality. This is easier said than done, however, as it’s often difficult…
Clarissa Schnabel on the dragon that has been ritualistically slain in a small Bavarian town annually for the past 500 years. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/where-dragons-still-walk-the-earth/
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Where Dragons Still Walk the Earth: The Drachenstich in Furth im Wald
1,189 words Everybody has heard of the Oberammergau Passion Play that has been performed almost continuously every ten years since 1634. But there is a lesser-known, even older German folk play: the Drachenstich, or “spearing of the dragon,” in Furth im Wald…
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Michael Walker concludes his review of the neurologist Dr. Michael Nehls' book The Indoctrinated Brain by summarizing Nehls' view of how planned neurological damage fits into the Great Reset, as well as pointing out some aspects that Nehls left out of his argument. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/think-about-it-part-3/
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Think about It: Michael Nehls’ The Indoctrinated Brain, Part 3
3,150 words Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) It is a thesis of Das indokrinierte Gehirn that one purpose of the Great Reset is to reduce the individual to a condition in which he no longer believes the evidence of his senses. Owing to his mental exhaustion…
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The opportunity to take the Counter-Currents movement poll ends today!
Wouldn’t it be nice if our movement could conduct strategic planning based on facts, not anecdotes and intuitions? Wouldn’t it be nice for the most important cause in the universe to take itself as seriously as the people doing market research to sell bottled water? The purpose of this poll is to get a clear picture of our readers. Follow the link for details. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/final-reminder-to-take-the-counter-currents-movement-poll/
Wouldn’t it be nice if our movement could conduct strategic planning based on facts, not anecdotes and intuitions? Wouldn’t it be nice for the most important cause in the universe to take itself as seriously as the people doing market research to sell bottled water? The purpose of this poll is to get a clear picture of our readers. Follow the link for details. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/final-reminder-to-take-the-counter-currents-movement-poll/
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Final Reminder to Take the Counter-Currents Movement Poll!
914 words As of this writing, 464 people have taken the Counter-Currents reader poll. Thank you! We have already learned a lot, as David Zsutty reported last week. We have sent a total of 4985 invitations out. We would like to get at least 500 responses —…
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The Counter-Currents Reader Poll: 5,053 invitations, 540 completed.
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Paroled from the Paywall: Mark Gullick concludes his review of James M. MacPherson's history of the US Civil War, Battle Cry of Freedom, by looking at the underlying driving forces behind the conflict. https://counter-currents.com/2024/04/james-m-mcphersons-battle-cry-of-freedom-part-2/
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James M. McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom, Part 2
2,538 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) [The present constitutional crisis over slavery] embraces the fearful issue whether the Union shall stand, and slavery, under the steady, peaceful action of moral, social, and political causes, be removed by gradual voluntary…
The second half of the most recent broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio continued with the discussion of 1990s British pop culture before moving on to more general topics about politics, current events, and the movement today. Host Greg Johnson was joined by Millennial Woes, Morgoth, and Travis LeBlanc, and it is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-586-british-pop-culture-in-the-1990s-part-2/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 586: British Pop Culture in the 1990s, Part 2
216 words / 1:12:00 The second half of the most recent broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio continued with the discussion of 1990s British pop culture before moving on to more general topics about politics, current events, and the movement today. Host Greg…
Jim Goad on the recent arrest of Joshua Cobb, a black US Marine who was planning a mass shooting of white people — and which is being largely ignored by the media. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/fear-of-calling-a-spade-a-spade/
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Fear of Calling a Spade a Spade
1,370 words / 9:35 One would think that news the FBI has arrested an active US Marine for threatening to go on a shooting rampage against US citizens would be a major news story. But one would think wrong. As is so often the case, we have ourselves an inconvenient…
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Gunnar Alfredsson on the intensifying Israeli campaign of genocide in Gaza, which shows in an extreme form the choice that all non-Jewish peoples who fall under Jewish domination face: death or exile. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/death-or-exile-the-only-choices-for-the-palestinians-and-all-other-non-jews/
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Death or Exile: The Only Choices for the Palestinians — and All Other Non-Jews
1,578 words The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operation against the city of Rafah has begun in earnest after weeks of deliberation and delays. After driving a captive Palestinian population toward the city, located in Gaza’s south, Palestinian civilians are…
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Greg Johnson's essay "White Genocide," on the motivations and justifications given for the phenomenon, is now being featured in Counter-Currents' Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2015/09/white-genocide/
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White Genocide
2,239 words Translations: French, German, Slovak, Spanish White Nationalists are united in the belief that our race is threatened with simple biological extinction. This is often dismissed as alarmism, but, as I have shown, one can make a very simple and…
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Mark Gullick on how British satirist Chris Morris got away with mocking Muslim terrorists in his film Four Lions without getting his head cut off. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/four-lions-and-the-satire-of-chris-morris/
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Four Lions and the Satire of Chris Morris
2,356 words Satire is a lesson. Parody is a game. — Vladimir Nabokov The devil, the proude spirit, cannot endure to be mocked. — Thomas Moore In 2005, a London production of Christopher Marlowe’s sixteenth-century play Tamburlaine the Great was subject to…
Paroled from the Paywall: Dominque Venner's essay "The Warrior and the City" is now in German in an original translation. https://counter-currents.com/2024/04/der-krieger-und-der-stadtstaat/
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Der Krieger und der Stadtstaat
770 Wörter English version here, also Portuguese, Spanish Übersetzt von Le Fauconnier. Als die Napoleonischen Kriege 1814 endeten, schrieb der prominente Schriftsteller Benjamin Constant erleichtert: “Wir sind im Zeitalter des Handels angekommen, einem Zeitalter…
Beau Albrecht on how to communicate with Christian fundamentalists. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/notes-on-getting-through-to-fundamentalists/
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Notes on Getting Through to Fundamentalists
2,844 words Christian evangelicals — or fundamentalists, to be a little less precise — are in the unenviable position of catching flak from both the Left and the Right. There are some points which have already been discussed quite a bit already on our side…
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Spencer J. Quinn comments on Donald Trump's recent interview with Time magazine, showing it to be a return to the 2016 Trump who is unafraid to speak frankly about pro-white issues. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/donald-trumps-time-interview/
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Donald Trump’s Time Interview: The Return of the 2016 Trump
3,046 words Donald Trump sat down for an extended interview with Time magazine reporter Eric Cortellessa on April 12 to discuss what a second Trump administration would look like. Two weeks later the pair talked again over the phone, and Time published the…
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An essay on the surprising relationship between the Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci and the Right by Serhiy Zaikovsky, a Ukrainian scholar who was killed in action in March 2022. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/gramsci-and-fascism/
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Gramsci and Fascism
3,281 words The following essay was written by Serhiy Zaikovsky, a Ukrainian historian, translator, and writer who was one of the founders of the Plomin publishing house. Born in 1994, Zaikovsky also served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and was killed in…
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Greg Johnson's "The Moral Factor," on the place of morality in White Nationalism, is now in Polish. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/nowej-prawicy-przeciw-starej-prawicy-rozdzial-7/
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Nowa Prawica przeciw Starej Prawicy, Rozdział 7: Czynnik moralny
4.276 słowa English original Part 1, Part 2; Czech, French, Spanish Część 9 (Rozdział 1, Rozdział 6, Rozdział 8) „Człowiek n i e dąży do szczęścia; czyni to tylko Anglik.”—Nietzsche Najważniejsze pytania metapolityki dotyczą tożsamości, moralności oraz możliwości.…
An update on our fundraiser in light of the latest round of deplatforming, some final results of the Counter-Currents Movement Poll, and news of Saturday's livestream, where Greg Johnson will be joined by David Zsutty of the Homeland Institute to discuss another poll, the Homeland Institute’s recent poll on attitudes toward natalism and proposed pro-natal policies. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/editors-update/
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Editor’s Update
530 words Dear Friends of Counter-Currents, There’s a lot going on at Counter-Currents, so I thought I would combine several announcements into a single post. The 2024 Fundraiser We started the 2024 Fundraiser at the end of March. Our goal is $300,000. We…
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Paroled from the Paywall: Guest host Angelo Plume led a conversation with Endeavour, Greg Johnson, Karl Thorburn, and David Zsutty on formative experiences that got them to question whether multiculturalism can work on Counter-Currents Radio. This led to a wide-ranging discussion of a number of issues, and there were of course questions from the audience. The broadcast is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2024/04/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-582-when-did-you-first-notice-the-problems-of-multiculturalism/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 582: When Did You First Notice the Problems of Multiculturalism?
262 words / 1:57:14 Guest host Angelo Plume (Telegram, YouTube) led a conversation with Endeavour (Substack, Telegram, YouTube), Greg Johnson, Karl Thorburn (Telegram), and David Zsutty on formative experiences that got them to question whether multiculturalism…
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Coming at the top of the hour:
On Saturday’s Counter-Currents Radio livestream, Greg Johnson will be joined by David Zsutty of the Homeland Institute to discuss the Homeland Institute’s recent poll on attitudes toward natalism and proposed pro-natal policies. The second hour will be an AMA.
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On Saturday’s Counter-Currents Radio livestream, Greg Johnson will be joined by David Zsutty of the Homeland Institute to discuss the Homeland Institute’s recent poll on attitudes toward natalism and proposed pro-natal policies. The second hour will be an AMA.
Join us at noon PST/3 PM EST/9 PM CET on:
DLive: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/ccradio
Send questions & donations to Entropy: entropystream.live/countercurrents
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Today is the 126th birthday of the great Italian philosopher of Tradition and man of the Right, Julius Evola. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/remembering-julius-evola-12/
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Remembering Julius Evola (May 19, 1898–June 11, 1974)
1,215 words Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola was born on May 19, 1898 in Rome. Along with René Guénon, Evola is one of the writers who has most influenced the metapolitical outlook and project of Counter-Currents, which is reflected in the fact that Evola…
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Paroled from the Paywall: Greg Johnson begins a commentary on Plato's dialogue Alcibiades I, where Socrates attempts to turn a young man away from hubris and the path toward becoming a tyrant by stoking his interest in philosophy. https://counter-currents.com/2024/04/notes-on-platos-alcibiades-i-part-1/
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Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I Part 1
2,700 words Part 1 of 5 (Part 2 here) Author’s Note: I am typing up and editing my lecture notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I and Gorgias to incorporate them into a new book tentatively entitled Tyranny and Wisdom: An Introduction to Platonic Philosophy. The Phoenician…