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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Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “The Aspiring-Rapper-to-Expired-Rapper Pipeline,” 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-video/
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The Aspiring-Rapper-to-Expired-Rapper Pipeline
35 words / 8:50 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “The Aspiring-Rapper-to-Expired-Rapper Pipeline,” on Rylo Huncho, the aspiring rapper who accidentally killed himself while showing off a gun on a livestream. See below. https://counter…
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Today is the 130th birthday of the French novelist, essayist, physician, and racial nationalist Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/remembering-louis-ferdinand-celine-12/
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Remembering Louis-Ferdinand Céline (May 27, 1894–July 1, 1961)
238 words Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French novelist, essayist, and physician Louis-Ferdinand-Auguste Destouches, who was born on this day in 1894. Céline is one of the giants of twentieth-century literature. And, like Ezra Pound and so many…
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Mark Mazari on what the fate of Charlotte York in the Sex and the City television series tells us about multiculturalism, WASP displacement, and Jewish power in America. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/charlotte-york-and-globalisms-orgasm-machine/
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Charlotte York and Globalism’s Orgasm Machine
811 words I gave the Sex and the City revival series And Just Like That . . . a fair chance, but after three hours of diversity, wokeness, and “body positivity,” I found myself returning to binge on the original series with its almost universally white —…
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Spencer J. Quinn on how well some classic rock songs that dealt with transgenderism have aged in today's world, where it has become part of liberal orthodoxy. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/on-lola-dick-and-jane/
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On Lola, Dick, and Jane
2,333 words The Kinks have been one of my favorite rock bands for many years. I have written about them for Counter-Currents on three occasions, most recently in my review of their great 1969 album Arthur. I also included their 1978 reggae number “Black Messiah”…
Jim Goad responds to those who are accusing Steve Sailer of being a Jewish-Satanist secret agent of the Deep State. Includes an audio version read by Jim, who will be including them each week from now on. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/the-worst-week-yet-176/
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Including audio version by Jim Goad! The Worst Week Yet: May 19-25, 2024
2,185 words / 15:04 I used to edit Steve Sailer’s articles at Taki’s Mag from around 2010 to 2014. His points were always impeccably argued and perfectly sourced. I can’t ever recall running across a typo or even a wisp of illogic. This was back in the “essayist”…
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Forwarded from David Zsutty
Happy Memorial Day!
Friendly reminder from a veteran to not enlist for a regime that hates you, shredded the Constitution, tortures political prisoners, and condones Israeli war crimes.
This is NOT what our ancestors fought for.
Friendly reminder from a veteran to not enlist for a regime that hates you, shredded the Constitution, tortures political prisoners, and condones Israeli war crimes.
This is NOT what our ancestors fought for.
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Angelo Plume on the unstoppable explosion of Germans singing Ausländer raus! ("Foreigners out!") across their country in spite of the establishment's efforts to clamp down on it. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/rebel-yell/
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Rebel Yell
2,055 words The hit song for summer 2024 is here, and who could have guessed that it would come not from the contemporary assortment of scantily-clad bimbos and dress-wearing soyboys whom the music industry promotes as the ‘‘artists’’ of our time, but from…
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