Jim Goad on Joe Biden's very public cognitive decline, a West Virginia couple who have been accused of keeping black slaves, a German woman who insulted a convicted migrant rapist and was in turn sentenced to more jail time than he received, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/the-worst-week-yet-181/
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The Worst Week Yet: June 23-29, 2024
1,948 words / 14:11 Joe Biden’s Cognitive Decline: A Symbol of America’s Deterioration In case you’re one of the three or four people left on the planet without an Internet connection, you’re aware that Joe Biden’s handlers didn’t pump him full of enough…
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A new interview with French New Right thinker Alain de Benoist, who discusses metapolitics, how politics is changing, the current elections in France, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/whoever-runs-culture-always-ends-up-dominating-the-state/
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Whoever Runs Culture Always Ends Up Dominating the State
1,737 words The following interview, which was first published on June 27, is being reprinted with the permission of the interviewer from the blog of the Turkish writer Eren Yesilyurt. Alain de Benoist is a French writer and thinker, one of the leading figures…
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Greg Johnson's series of lectures on Plato's Gorgias continues as Socrates shows that true freedom is not about having power over others, but rather about doing what is best for ourselves — even if we are compelled to do what is best against our will. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/notes-on-platos-gorgias-part-6/
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Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 6: Two Concepts of Freedom
1,702 words Part 6 of 14 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 7 here) Socrates the Pugilist After Socrates outlines why he thinks that rhetoric is not an art but rather merely a “knack” for pandering and corrupting, he apologizes…
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Paroled from the Paywall: Jocelynn Cordes on why it only makes sense to celebrate the national achievements of white peoples in the face of so much disdain in today's culture. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/national-cheerleading-makes-sense-for-some-cultures/
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National Cheerleading Makes Sense for Some Cultures
1,206 words Like many social-media junkies on the Right, I find it incredibly entertaining to read and respond to posts on Twitter/X written by grievance-mongering liberals or delusional Africanists if only because it gives me the opportunity to pounce on…
An essay on the evolution of France's Front National (today National Rally) from its origins as a radical party to its current state by Bruno Mégret, who was formerly one of Jean-Marie Le Pen's top lieutenants, is now being featured in Counter-Currents' Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2017/09/the-front-nationals-evolution/
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The Front National’s Evolution
Translated by Guillaume Durocher Translator’s Note: Bruno Mégret is a senior French civil servant, politician, and former right-hand man of Jean-Marie Le Pen until the notorious party split of 1998. The title is editorial. Is the conflict between Marine…
New writer Edmund Sigurdsson thanks Counter-Currents readers for their support as he is welcoming his first child into the world, and also discusses what fatherhood has taught him about White Nationalism. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/my-little-valentine/
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My Little Valentine
820 words In November of last year, I commented on a fundraising article by David Zsutty titled “Counter-Currents at the Crossroads.” I mentioned that I had just donated for the first time and that my wife was pregnant. I received several congratulatory messages…
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Mark Collett and Morgoth were Greg Johnson‘s guests on the first half of Counter-Currents Radio‘s most recent broadcast, where they discussed the upcoming national election in the United Kingdom. The broadcast is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-595-the-upcoming-uk-national-election-with-mark-collett-morgoth/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 595: The Upcoming UK National Election with Mark Collett & Morgoth
112 words / 1:12:32 Mark Collett of Patriotic Alternative and Morgoth (Substack, Odysee) were Greg Johnson‘s guests on the first half of Counter-Currents Radio‘s most recent broadcast, where they discussed the upcoming national election in the United Kingdom.…
Alain de Benoist is interviewed about this week's French elections, National Rally, and the future of politics in France. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/national-rally-is-not-uniting-the-right-but-absorbing-its-competitors/
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Morris van de Camp on George Van Horn Moseley, an old-stock American and veteran who was one of the first to realize the destructive course that the US was embarking upon in the first half of the twentieth century and undertook political activism to try to stop it. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/a-career-worth-reviewing-part-1/
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A Career Worth Reviewing: The Life of Lieutenant General George Van Horn Moseley, Part 1
3,231 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) Anglo–American whites were dispossessed in their own country in the two decades between 1913 and 1933.[1] The dispossession happened by degrees, and the it mostly went unnoticed. It wasn’t until the lead-up to the Second…
Millennial Woes and Morgoth were Greg Johnson‘s guests on the second half of Counter-Currents Radio‘s most recent broadcast, where they discussed the upcoming national election in the United Kingdom as well as other current events, and answered questions from the audience. The broadcast is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-596-the-upcoming-uk-national-election-with-millennial-woes-and-morgoth/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 596: The Upcoming UK National Election with Millennial Woes and Morgoth
147 words / 1:21:51 Millennial Woes (official website here) and Morgoth (Substack, Odysee) were Greg Johnson‘s guests on the second half of Counter-Currents Radio‘s most recent broadcast, where they discussed the upcoming national election in the United Kingdom…
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Clarissa Schnabel reviews Sacrificing Liberty, a new documentary miniseries that describes in depth the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967, as well as the US government's complicity as well as its attempts to prevent the survivors from telling the truth about what happened. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/a-million-questions-why-sacrificing-liberty/
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A Million Questions Why: Sacrificing Liberty
4,455 words Something that I see being referenced a lot on the dissident Right is the attack on the USS Liberty during the Six-Day War in June 1967 as an ironic statement on the “greatest ally” myth. It’s usually merely a mention: the Liberty. Everybody is…
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Morris van de Camp's biography of Lieutenant General George Van Horn Moseley concludes with a look at Moseley's attempts to expose Communist and Jewish subversion in America during the 1930s. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/a-career-worth-reviewing-part-2/
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A Career Worth Reviewing: The Life of Lieutenant General George Van Horn Moseley, Part 2
3,716 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) The Crisis Years The Roaring Twenties ended with a tremendous economic collapse which lasted for more than a decade. But all was not lost. Old-stock American patriots had been able to enact the 1924 Immigration Act, which…
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Free your mind and your nation will follow! Celebrate Independence Day at Counter-Currents by learning about the true meaning of the American Revolution. It wasn't to make people equal. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/celebrate-july-fourth-with-counter-currents-3/
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Celebrate July Fourth with Counter-Currents!
788 words Happy Independence Day to our American readers! It is easy for race-conscious Americans to become cynical about July 4th, which is now an occasion for celebrating an egalitarian civil religion fabricated from a misinterpreted line in the Declaration…
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Jim Goad on the fact that although he's widely considered a baseball legend in America, slugger Reggie Jackson still can't get over the racism he allegedly encountered in his youth. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/reggie-jacksons-tortured-negro-soul/
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Reggie Jackson’s Tortured Negro Soul
1,368 words / 8:35 On Thursday, June 20, Major League Baseball sponsored an event called “A Tribute to the Negro Leagues” at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, where Negro players used to vie against other Negro players back before the brave and holy…
Paroled from the Paywall: Thomas Steuben reviews John Michael Greer's The King in Orange, a book which looks at the role that magic plays in politics, especially in regard to the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/good-and-bad-magic-in-politics/
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Good and Bad Magic in Politics: John Michael Greer’s The King in Orange
2,210 words John Michael Greer The King in Orange: The Magical and Occult Roots of Political Power Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2021 In his book The King in Orange, John Michael Greer provides a magical perspective on the 2016 and 2020 elections which…
Mark Gullick introduces Plato's Timaeus, a text which summarizes Platonic cosmology and is one of his most opaque dialogues. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/in-the-beginning-platos-timaeus/
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In the Beginning: Plato’s Timaeus
2,882 words I am embarrassed by the world. I cannot believe that a watch exists and has no watchmaker. — Voltaire Which of the patterns had the artificer in mind when he made the world? — Plato Given the world we have created, or rather a world which has…
Gregory Hood's "The Meaning of July 4th for the White Man" is now being featured in Counter-Currents' Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2014/07/the-meaning-of-july-4th-for-the-white-man/
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The Meaning of July 4th for the White Man
3,013 words (with apologies to Frederick Douglass and the rhetoric of his century) Fellow citizens, He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation has stronger nerves than I have. I look over a people in its multitudes, and it seems presumptuous…
Richard Parker on why the tolerance of transgenderism encouraged by many conservatives is a dangerous delusion. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/leaping-into-delusion-death-and-personal-destruction/
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Leaping into Delusion, Death, and Personal Destruction: The Price of Tolerating Transgenderism
3,151 words Soon after the Superman movie was released in 1978, a small boy named Charles Green, after having watched this film, convinced himself that he, too, could fly like Superman. After having attempted to fly by jumping off tables and whatnot, at one…