The Russian composer Igor Stravinsky was born on this day in 1882. Find out more about his life and work in Alex Graham's introductory essay. https://counter-currents.com/2018/06/stravinsky/
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Stravinsky
4,460 words Igor Stravinsky is justly regarded as one of the giants of twentieth-century music. His influence upon contemporary music has been enormous; composers influenced by him include Carl Orff, John Tavener, Aaron Copland, Edgard Varèse, Frank Zappa…
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Paroled from the Paywall: 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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Travis LeBlanc on why White Nationalism needs to rebrand, now that ordinary people can hear the same talking points they could once only hear from Alt Right figures from Conservative Inc. spokesmen. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/white-nationalism-3-0/
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White Nationalism 3.0
1,749 words What would become known as the Alt Right began to crystalize by the mid-2010s. The Alt Right introduced a style of White Nationalism that was so radically different than what came before that it was necessary to invent some terms to differentiate…
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Jim Goad on what the newly-released excerpts from the private journals of Nashville Covenant School mass shooter Audrey Hale, who is alleged to have been transsexual, tell us about her mentality. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/the-worst-week-yet-179/
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The Worst Week Yet: June 9-15, 2024 — Nashville Shooter Audrey Hale’s Imaginary Penis
2,431 words / 16:56 Ever since the dead-eyed, boyish-looking Audrey Hale blasted her way into the Nashville Covenant School on March 27, 2023 and killed three students and three adult staffers before two cops shot her dead, the unanswered question remains:…
Greg Johnson's series of lectures on Plato's Gorgias continues with Socrates proving to Gorgias that philosophy is the master over all the other arts. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/notes-on-platos-gorgias-part-4/
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Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 4: The Master Art
1,742 words Part 4 of 14 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 5 here) Ethics as an Afterthought Is Socrates right that sophistry is essentially amoral and technocratic? After all, the sophists were widely seen as not just teachers of rhetoric, but…
Steven Clark reviews The Dead Don't Hurt, the new Western made by Viggo Mortensen that depicts a Danish settler attempting to make a life for himself on the American frontier during the height of western expansion. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/the-dead-dont-hurt/
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The Dead Don’t Hurt: A Viking Western
2,075 words The Dead Don’t Hurt — the new Western directed, produced, written, and starring Viggo Mortensen, begins not with a showdown but a mounted knight in armor making his way through a forest. Then the camera cuts away — not to a showdown, but to Weston…
Jason Kessler was our guest on last weekend’s meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club, where he discussed his new book, Charlottesville and the Death of Free Speech, with panelists F. Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, and Anne Wilson Smith. The book recounts the full story of what happened at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia from the pen of the man who organized it. The recording is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-593-the-counter-currents-book-club-jason-kesslers-charlottesville-and-the-death-of-free-speech/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 593: The Counter-Currents Book Club — Jason Kessler’s Charlottesville and the Death of Free…
222 words / 59:04 Jason Kessler was our guest on last weekend’s meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club, where he discussed his new book, Charlottesville and the Death of Free Speech, which is available from Dissident Press, with panelists F. Roger Devlin…
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Jarosław Ostrogniew reports on the recent European parliamentary elections in Poland, which were held in the shadow of the death of Mateusz Sitek, a 21-year-old Polish soldier who died after being stabbed with a spear while defending the Polish border against migrants. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/voting-in-the-shadow-of-death/
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Voting in the Shadow of Death: The 2024 European Parliamentary Elections in Poland
1,848 words The European Parliament elections in Poland in 2024 were considered by all the main players and commentators as a follow-up to the Polish parliamentary elections of 2023 — so I encourage all readers to read my report on it, as well as my essay…
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Morris van de Camp reviews Matthew Bowman's book The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill, the story of an interracial couple who claimed to have been abducted by aliens and taken aboard a UFO in 1961 and what subsequent events say about the religious, racial, and political changes occurring in the US during the 1960s. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/a-heavenly-message-with-great-significance/
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A Heavenly Message with Great Significance?
3,847 words Matthew Bowman The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023 The decade of the 1960s began with American society on a high. That high was reflected in…
Mark Gullick on the truth about the Empire Windrush, a ship which brought Jamaican migrants to the UK in 1948 and which has since become part of the foundational myth of the country's "diversity." https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/the-empire-strikes-back-the-myth-of-the-empire-windrush/
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The Empire Strikes Back: The Myth of the Empire Windrush
2,724 words True myth may be defined as the reduction to narrative shorthand of ritual mime performed on public festivals . . . — Robert Graves, Greek Myths The word “narrative” has had something of a gain of function in recent years. Its Latin root is narrare…
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David M. Zsutty reports on the fact that while a Homeland Institute poll has confirmed that support for deportations of illegal immigrants is rising, support for legal immigration remains high. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/so-long-as-they-replace-us-legally/
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So Long as They Replace Us Legally
1,831 words The latest Homeland Institute poll corroborated mainstream polls showing that support for mass deportations of illegal immigrants is widespread. But support for legal immigration is still disturbingly high, even among young Republicans. Pundits…
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Greg Johnson's series of lectures on Plato's Gorgias continues as Socrates proves that politics is the true master art rather than rhetoric — and that politics is identical with philosophy. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/notes-on-platos-gorgias-part-5/
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Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 5: Rhetoric as Quackery
3,159 words Part 5 of 14 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 6 here) Setting the Stage Socrates’ conversation with Polus deals with three important philosophical issues. First, Socrates explains the true nature of rhetoric, which requires…
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Greg Johnson's "Our Fault?", on the claim that whites themselves are responsible for their own dispossession, is now in Polish. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/nowej-prawicy-przeciw-starej-prawicy-rozdzial-9/
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Nowa Prawica przeciw Starej Prawicy, Rozdział 9: Nasza wina?
2.675 słowa English original here; French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese Część 11 (Rozdział 1, Rozdział 8, Rozdział 10) Istniejący amerykański system doprowadził dzietność białych do ujemnego poziomu, a w tym samym czasie zalał kraj szybko rozmnażającymi się…
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Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the British state made great investment and painstaking efforts to try to restore Stonehenge from a disheveled heap to something resembling its original, enchanting beauty.
They didn’t have much information to work with, but from 1919 up to the 1960s, generations of British officers, archeologists, and labourers worked to set Stonehenge upright as best as possible.
Think of that. Think of living in a country that cherishes its heritage rather than scorning it. Think of how far we have fallen, now in current year, when the State consistently lets mental mutants and invaders desecrate historic patrimony, and gleefully subjects its people to disdain, hardship, and ethnic cleansing.
We don’t have to live like this. It isn’t normal. It isn’t progress. It isn’t “the right side of history.”
They didn’t have much information to work with, but from 1919 up to the 1960s, generations of British officers, archeologists, and labourers worked to set Stonehenge upright as best as possible.
Think of that. Think of living in a country that cherishes its heritage rather than scorning it. Think of how far we have fallen, now in current year, when the State consistently lets mental mutants and invaders desecrate historic patrimony, and gleefully subjects its people to disdain, hardship, and ethnic cleansing.
We don’t have to live like this. It isn’t normal. It isn’t progress. It isn’t “the right side of history.”
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The morally fraudulent libtards applauding the vandalism of Stonehenge or expressing indifference are all exposed for the cowards they are simply by asking them if they’d support JSO vandalising a Holocaust memorial or the statue of George Floyd.
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Paroled from the Paywall: Greg Johnson's series of lectures on Plato's Alcibiades I continues as Socrates tells tales of the Persian and Spartan kings to shame Alcibiades out of his complacency. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/notes-on-platos-alcibiades-i-part-4/
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Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I Part 4
2,744 words Part 4 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 5 here) In our previous installment, Socrates has convinced Alcibiades that he is ignorant of justice. Therefore, he should not go into politics until he is educated. But Socrates undermines…
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Dave Chambers reviews Emancipation Hell by Vermont secessionist Kirkpatrick Sale, which argues that the intent behind Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation to free the slaves was not in fact consistent with how it has since been mythologized, and that it in fact had a detrimental impact on both whites and blacks as well as US race relations. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/the-proclamation-from-hell/
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The Proclamation from Hell
3,204 words Kirkpatrick Sale Emancipation Hell: The Tragedy Wrought by Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation Columbia, S. C.: Shotwell Publishing, 2015 The emancipation of African slaves following the War Between the States is almost universally perceived as…
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Jim Goad on this year's round of Juneteenth-related violence, and why Juneteenth is growing to be so Junetiresome. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/juneteenth-its-all-so-junetiresome/
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Juneteenth: It’s All So Junetiresome
1,357 words / 9:57 Imagine existing as a distinct racial group on a continent for 400 years. Now imagine that your group’s greatest collective “achievement” is being freed from slavery — not rebelling against your slaveowners and freeing yourselves, but walking…
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