Jim Goad on a Grindr date gone horribly wrong when a black man dismembers a transsexual in Pennsylvania, Chet Hanks going on a crusade against the "racists" who he claims have misappropriated White Boy Summer, and Coeur d’Alene in Idaho passing "hate crime" legislation. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/the-worst-week-yet-182/
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The Worst Week Yet: June 30-July 6, 2024
2,004 words / 13:40 Grindr Date Takes Grisly Turn: Black Male Charged With Murdering 14-Year-Old White Tranny & Dismembering Him with Electric Saw Using the homosexual hookup app Grindr, the star-crossed lovers arranged for a lakeside rendezvous in the middle…
David M. Zsutty on why Donald Trump's disavowal of Project 2025 doesn't bode well for a second Trump presidency. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/trumps-betrayal-of-project-2025/
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Trump’s Betrayal of Project 2025
2,784 words On July 4, Americans celebrated their supposed (now former) independence as the land of the free and the home of the brave. The very next day, Trump unequivocally disavowed Project 2025. So, what is Project 2025, what is the group’s goals, and…
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Forwarded from Thuletide
Too much demoralization porn being posted about the French and British elections.
Results were good for the "far-right" in both countries, especially France where two fifths of the population voted for nationalists.
Reform votes sextupled since 2019 and now they're the third largest party (in terms of vote share, not seats).
Results were good for the "far-right" in both countries, especially France where two fifths of the population voted for nationalists.
Reform votes sextupled since 2019 and now they're the third largest party (in terms of vote share, not seats).
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Greg Johnson's series of lectures on Plato's Gorgias continues as Socrates convinces Polus to change his view that escaping punishment for a crime is preferable to suffering in retribution for it. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/notes-on-platos-gorgias-part-8/
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Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 8
2,168 words Part 8 of 14 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here, Part 7 here) Polus Refuted Polus believes that it is better do injustice than to suffer it. Socrates claims that it is better to suffer injustice than…
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Paroled from the Paywall: Steven Clark concludes his look at conservative talk-radio host Jamie Allman by commenting on his response to the Gaza war. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/jamie-allman-and-talk-radio-or-the-missouri-listener-part-2/
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Jamie Allman and Talk Radio — or, the Missouri Listener, Part 2
2,582 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) October 7, 2023 was like both September 11, 2001 and January 6, 2021 for American conservatives. Hamas’ attack on Israeli settlements and troops unleashed an immediate fury from the Right, especially when there were reports…
Ondrej Mann tells the story of how he came to White Nationalism, and also gives advice on how to locate those people who can be useful to our cause. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/the-good-old-days/
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The Good Old Days?
2,584 words I came to racialism in a curious way. There is a well-known singer in our country, Daniel Landa, who sang in the skinhead band Orlik and then went on to a solo music career, where he recorded many albums and composed several musicals. Landa is…
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F. Roger Devlin reviews Eric Kaufmann's The Third Awokening, a book which shows how wokeism seized control of America and what can be done to reverse it. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/rolling-back-progressive-extremism/
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Rolling Back Progressive Extremism
3,199 words Eric Kaufmann The Third Awokening: A 12-Point Plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism New York, Nashville: Post Hill Press, 2024 Eric Kaufmann is best known as the author of Whiteshift (2019), a thick book on the future of white majorities…
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Richard Parker on Leonie Plaar, aka Frau Löwenherz, a far-Left German social media "influencer" who is typical of what is today considered a "good German." https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/culture-as-programming-part-1/
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Culture as Programming: A Case Study of Frau Löwenherz, aka Leonie Plaar, Part 1
1,782 words Part 1 of 2 Meet Leonie Plaar, who goes by the moniker Frau Löwenherz as well as Leonie Löwenherz: far-left, Lesbian, and antifa, she is a most grotesque figure who exemplifies many of our troubles. Quite regrettably, she has a TikTok account…
The first part of a new series by Morris van de Camp on how the South managed to beat the Reconstruction that was imposed on it by the US government in the aftermath of the US Civil War. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/how-the-south-beat-reconstruction-part-1/
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How the South Beat Reconstruction, Part 1
3,259 words Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here) On the evening of April 14, 1865, the actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth leaped onto the stage at Ford’s Theater and shouted “Sic semper tyrannis!”, followed by “The South is avenged!” Booth had just…
Greg Johnson's series of lectures on Plato's Gorgias continues as Dr. Johnson looks at whether Socrates views justice as an art. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/notes-on-platos-gorgias-part-9/
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Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 9
1,871 words Part 9 of 14 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here, Part 7 here, Part 8 here, Part 10 here) There is a deeper problem with Plato’s account of justice in the Gorgias. He treats it as an art (techne). But…
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Morris van de Camp on how the Grant administration's failings, as well as the tenacity of white Southerners, led to the end of Reconstruction. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/how-the-south-beat-reconstruction-part-2/
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How the South Beat Reconstruction, Part 2
1,797 words Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here) The Fourteenth Amendment, Foreign Policy, & Commander-in-Chief Grant With the South under the United States Army’s heel, the Radical Republicans turned the Civil Rights Act of 1866 into the Fourteenth Amendment…
Richard Parker concludes his essay on the far-Left German social media "influencer" Leonie Plaar, aka Frau Löwenherz, by showing how a destructive form of cultural programming can only be fought with a form of positive cultural programming. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/culture-as-programming-part-2/
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F. Roger Devlin's discussion of the theme of Alain de Benoist's The Populist Moment and how populism developed out of the traditional Left-Right dichotomy is now in Czech. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/alain-de-benoist-k-populismu/
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Alain de Benoist k populismu
2.552 slov English original here Následující text je překladem přednášky F. Roger Devlina z jarního setkání Counter-Currents 2023 Termín populismus se v Americe hojně rozšířil od vzestupu Donalda Trumpa, v Evropě pak ještě o něco dříve, jako negativně zabarvené…
The great political scientist and man of the Right Carl Schmitt was born 136 years ago today. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/remembering-carl-schmitt-13/
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Remembering Carl Schmitt (July 11, 1888–April 7, 1985)
1,099 words Carl Schmitt was born on July 11, 1888 in Plettenberg, Westphalia, Germany — where he died on April 7, 1985, at the age of 96. The son of a Roman Catholic small businessman, Carl Schmitt studied law in Berlin, Munich, and Strasbourg, graduating…
Paroled from the Paywall: Beau Albrecht concludes his examination of the African Queen Amanirenas by assessing how correct the woke Left's claims that she defeated the Roman Empire in war are. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/queen-amanirenas-part-2/
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Queen Amanirenas: The Black Lady Who (Allegedly) Opened a Can of Whup-Ass on the Roman Empire, Part 2
2,303 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Did the Romans chicken out, start a war of conquest and lose, or surrender to Cush? Often with twisted narratives, or the usual sort of pilpul, it takes considerable explanation to demonstrate that the argument is hollow…
Jim Goad on that motley group of various peoples and ethnicities who are collectively referred to as "Hispanics" in the US. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/hispanics-the-race-that-isnt/
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Hispanics: The Race that Isn’t
1,426 words / 10:04 In the all-white neighborhood of my youth, the faraway people who are now known as “Hispanics” . . . or, more dubiously, as “Latinos” . . . or, unforgivably, as “Latinx” . . . were referred to with the catchall slur “Spics.” It wasn’t…
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Morris van de Camp concludes his series of essays on Reconstruction by showing how the South beat the Northern occupation and subsequently unified as a voting bloc to defend itself via segregation and black disenfranchisement. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/how-the-south-beat-reconstruction-part-3/
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How the South Beat Reconstruction, Part 3
3,095 words Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) Creating & Expanding the Solid South The end of Reconstruction did not immediately lead to segregation or the disenfranchisement of sub-Saharans in the South or any other part of the country. In 1878, segregation…
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Mark Gullick on the good, the bad, and the ugly in the aftermath of the United Kingdom's recent General Election. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/england-swings-post-election-fallout/
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England Swings: Post-Election Fallout
2,607 words England swings like a pendulum do. Bobbies on bicycles two by two. Westminster Abbey, the tower of Big Ben. The rosy red cheeks of the little children. — Roger Miller, “England Swings” And so, as they say, it begins. Labour’s predicted landslide…
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Paroled from the Paywall: Greg Johnson inaugurates a series of lectures on Plato's dialogue Gorgias by describing its dramatic setting, and showing how Gorgias asserts the superiority of rhetoric over all other human endeavor. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/notes-on-platos-gorgias-part-1-setting-the-scene/
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Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 1: Setting the Scene
4,213 words Part 1 of 14 (Part 2 here) An ancient commentator on Aristotle tells a story about a farmer who got ahold of Plato’s Gorgias and was so stunned that he gave up the life of farming, trudged to Athens, looked up Plato, and put his soul in Plato’s…
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