Mark Gullick offers a paean to his love of books and reading, and mentions some of his favorite books. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/why-i-read/
Greg Johnson was once again joined by David Zsutty of the Homeland Institute on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio to discuss the Institute’s latest poll, on attitudes toward natalism and proposed pro-natal policies. The recording is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-587-the-homeland-institutes-poll-on-pro-natal-policies-part-1/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 587: The Homeland Institute’s Poll on Pro-Natal Policies, Part 1
225 words / 1:14:07 Greg Johnson was once again joined by David Zsutty (Counter-Currents, Telegram, Twitter) of the Homeland Institute (website, Telegram) on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio to discuss the Institute’s latest poll, on attitudes…
Lipton Matthews presents some examples of statistics which show that racial disparities in social outcomes cannot be explained by prejudice or other liberal canards alone. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/statistics-show-racial-disparities-in-social-outcomes/
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Statistics Show Racial Disparities in Social Outcomes
1,325 words Statistics communicating racial gaps in earnings convey nothing about the depth of racial discrimination in society. Invariably, inequalities in socioeconomic outcomes are an ineluctable consequence of group differences in ability and aptitude.…
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Morris van de Camp reviews Gregory Delaney's The Monsters of Babylon, which traces the history of Jewish treachery back to their origins as a people. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/the-swindlers-of-ur-part-1/
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The Swindlers of Ur, Part 1
2,771 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) Gregory Delaney The Monsters of Babylon: How the Jews Betrayed Mankind (Vols. 1 & 2) Sspress, 2024 The subversive Jewish angle in Norman Lear’s tawdry sitcoms went mostly unrecognized in the 1980s and ‘90s. Few in mainstream…
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In the second half of our latest broadcast, Greg Johnson and David Zsutty of the Homeland Institute turned to a more general discussion of politics, current events, and Counter-Currents’ recent movement poll. The recording is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-588-the-future-of-the-movement-part-2/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 588: The Future of the Movement, Part 2
158 words / 1:15:29 In the second half of our latest broadcast, Greg Johnson and David Zsutty (Counter-Currents, Telegram, Twitter) of the Homeland Institute (website, Telegram) turned to a more general discussion of politics, current events, and Counter…
Margot Metroland on Tom Wolfe's takedown of the modern art and art criticism establishment, The Painted Word. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/tom-wolfes-the-painted-word/
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Tom Wolfe’s The Painted Word
2,547 words Tom Wolfe The Painted Word New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1975 (many editions since) Long before he died, Tom Wolfe deeded his archives to the New York Public Library (NYPL). When he passed on in 2018, the NYPL put up a little “pop-up” exhibition…
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Today marks the 211th birthday of the giant of European culture, Richard Wagner. Celebrate the occasion by learning more about his life, work, and legacy. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/remembering-richard-wagner-11/
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Remembering Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813-February 13, 1883)
580 words Richard Wagner was born on May 22, 1813 in Leipzig in the Kingdom of Saxony. He died on February 13, 1883 in Venice. As an artist, intellectual, author, and cultural force, Wagner has left an immense metapolitical legacy, which is being evaluated…
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Morris van de Camp concludes his review of Gregory Delaney's The Monsters of Babylon by tracing Jewish treachery against both the ancient Greeks and the Romans. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/the-swindlers-of-ur-part-2/
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The Swindlers of Ur, Part 2
2,243 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) The Gospel of Christ The Roman Army, led by Pompey, conquered Syria and the Levant in 63 BC. Less than three decades later, Julius Caesar conquered Egypt. The Romans indirectly ruled Judea through a client king, Herod…
Paroled from the Paywall: Greg Johnson's series of lectures on Plato's Alcibiades I continues by looking at how Socrates demonstrates his interlocutor's need for instruction by pointing out his ignorance of the nature of justice. https://counter-currents.com/2024/04/notes-on-platos-alcibiades-i-part-2/
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Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I Part 2
2,359 words Part 2 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here) In the first part of this series, Socrates accuses Alcibiades of wanting to be a tyrant and argues that if he wishes to fulfill this ambition, he must study philosophy. Alcibiades won’t admit that he aspires…
Hunter Wallace reports on this year's conference that was held to mark The Political Cesspool's 20th anniversary. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/the-political-cesspool-20th-anniversary-conference/
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The Political Cesspool: 20th Anniversary Conference
1,768 words When James Edwards asked me to speak at The Political Cesspool’s 20th Anniversary Conference in South Carolina earlier this year, I accepted on the spot and cleared my schedule. I knew that it would be a fantastic event. I knew that the finest…
Jim Goad on Rylo Huncho, the aspiring rapper who accidentally killed himself while showing off a gun on a livestream. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/the-aspiring-rapper-to-expired-rapper-pipeline/
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The Aspiring-Rapper-to-Expired-Rapper Pipeline
1,143 words / 8:44 The news reports agree: Last Wednesday’s self-inflicted accidental gunshot death of a 17-year-old Virginia rapper was a tragic event. MSN reprints an article from something called Hip Hop Vibe: Virginia’s drill rap scene was shaken by the…
Gunnar Alfredsson on the frustrations of dealing with bureaucracy. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/the-bureaucracy-of-life/
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The Bureaucracy of Life
1,166 words I normally consider myself to be rather mild-mannered. I hadn’t been angry in ages, but today, I could feel the ire rise in my gorge like volcanic heartburn after too many bad chimichangas at a Chinese-Mexican restaurant. Not that I would go to…
Angelo Plume on a recent trip to Rome, where he found the city's famous tourist sites mobbed by migrants while tourists walk around them and yet never asked the question: Why are they here? https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/eternal-city-blues/
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Eternal City Blues
1,581 words Last week, for the first time in too long a time, I found myself again in Rome. Europe is changing so rapidly that returning to once-familiar places no longer feels like a homecoming. It feels like entering an alien terrain for the first time.…
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Paroled from the Paywall: Christian Secor outlines all the demographic and cultural trends which show that, despite its homogeneous population, Japan is not the ethnonationalist utopia that some imagine. https://counter-currents.com/2024/04/notes-on-japan-not-the-nationalist-utopia-some-imagine/
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Notes on Japan: Not the Nationalist Utopia Some Imagine
2,112 words Japan is considered something of a utopia on the world stage today, standing among the lauded Nordic countries and wealthy microstates in terms of its civilizational level. Japan has virtually eliminated violent crime, has a high standard of living…
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Greg Johnson replies to Jared Taylor's recent video in which he claimed that "It's over" and that the United States is beyond saving for whites at this point. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/is-america-doomed/
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Is America Doomed?
2,516 words On May 9, 2024, Jared Taylor released a video entitled “What Is Our Goal?” that, quite frankly, surprised me. After a litany of well-chosen illustrations of America’s decline, he declares: It doesn’t matter who is elected President this year or…
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Greg Johnson's essay "American Ethnic Identity" is now being featured in Counter-Currents' Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2016/10/american-ethnic-identity/
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American Ethnic Identity
1,043 words / 7:40 Translations: French, Russian, Spanish Audio Version: To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.” A common opinion among both White Nationalists and our critics is that a…
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Clarissa Schnabel reports on a US Congressional hearing on how the Morgenthau Plan was doing in promoting starvation and deindustrialization in Germany. At one point, a Representative suggested importing Germans to replace Mexicans as transient farm laborers. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/when-germans-almost-replaced-mexicans-in-the-us/
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When Germans Almost Replaced Mexicans in the US
3,161 words One of the most fascinating documents I’ve read in recent months is the proudly-titled “Hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives. Eighteenth Congress. First session on the Urgent Deficiency…
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Guillaume Faye compares and contrasts the organic economy with modern societies based solely on economics and trade. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/the-organic-economy-and-the-society-based-on-trade/
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The Organic Economy and the Society Based on Trade
5,236 words All liberal, socialist, and Marxist societies, regardless of their specific economic system, have one thing in common: They are all tied to the economy. Such social forms, based exclusively on an economic worldview — as Louis Pauwels said, “economy…
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Paroled from the Paywall: Greg Johnson's Introduction to his book New Right vs. Old Right is now in Polish. https://counter-currents.com/2024/04/nowej-prawicy-przeciw-starej-prawicy-wprowadzenie/
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Nowa Prawica przeciw Starej Prawicy: Wprowadzenie
1.126 słowa Spanish version here Część 2 (Przedmowa, Rozdział 1) Wprowadzenie[1] Książka ta została napisana w poczuciu palącej konieczności i zagrożenia. Europejczycy, mój naród, zarówno na naszym ojczystym kontynencie jak i rozrzuceni po całym świecie,…
Paroled from the Paywall: Morris van de Camp on the life and work of Gordon “Jack” Mohr, an American veteran of the Korean War who began as an anti-Communist crusader and ultimately awoke to the dangers of Jewish power. https://counter-currents.com/2024/04/crusading-for-christ-and-country/
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Crusading for Christ and Country: The Life and Work of Lieutenant Colonel “Jack” Mohr
3,264 words War shapes societies. The so-called “forgotten war,” the Korean War of 1950 to 1953, shaped America in many ways. It was the first genuinely hot conflict between the free world, led by the United States, and the Communist world, led by the Soviet…
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