Today is the birthday of the renowned writer from America’s South, William Faulkner. Read Spencer J. Quinn’s review of Faulkner’s novel Go Down, Moses.
https://counter-currents.com/2019/04/go-down-william-faulkner/
https://counter-currents.com/2019/04/go-down-william-faulkner/
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Go Down, William Faulkner
4,880 words A novelist can have tremendous influence beyond his own time if he depicts major historical trends and invents characters that react in conflicting ways to these trends. If a story is vivid enough, readers might come to identify with or even emulate…
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Cemil Kerimoglu offers his insight on why Russian civilization has bewildered so many Western historians, and what the future holds for Russian-Western relations.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/russian-culture-as-pseudomorphosis/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/russian-culture-as-pseudomorphosis/
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Russian Culture as Pseudomorphosis
6,331 words Western historians and analysts have always failed to comprehend Russia. Among many other things, its imperial nature has been puzzling to Westerners. For obvious reasons, there has been a tendency to compare it to Western colonial empires. As…
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Beau Albrecht shares a "conversation" that he had with Pi, the artificial intelligence that wants to be your friend.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/a-conversation-with-a-literal-npc/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/a-conversation-with-a-literal-npc/
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A Conversation with a Literal NPC
5,040 words There has been much speculation about how humans and artificial intelligence might interact. There is much cultural precedent. From the beginning, these included many cautionary tales. The spiritual precursor goes back to the evocative golem stories…
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Forwarded from Endeavour
Two chronic woes plaguing the right are on display in whole Alex Jones/Sandy Hook Saga.
1) The default assumption that everything is part of some conspiracy.
2) The idea that we should have solidarity with any anti-social moron as long as they hold mildly right-wing views.
1) The default assumption that everything is part of some conspiracy.
2) The idea that we should have solidarity with any anti-social moron as long as they hold mildly right-wing views.
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The giant of 20th century philosophy, Martin Heidegger, was born on this day in 1889. Counter-Currents has published a massive collection of articles and books about him, as well as some of his very own words.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/remembering-martin-heidegger-12/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/remembering-martin-heidegger-12/
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Remembering Martin Heidegger: September 26, 1889–May 26, 1976
4,791 words Translations: Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian Martin Heidegger is one of the giants of twentieth-century philosophy, both in terms of the depth and originality of his ideas and the breadth of his influence in philosophy, theology, the human…
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Anglo-American poet and writer, T.S. Eliot, was born on this day. Read more about his life and works here:
https://counter-currents.com/2017/09/remembering-t-s-eliot-4/
https://counter-currents.com/2017/09/remembering-t-s-eliot-4/
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Remembering T. S. Eliot:September 26, 1888–January 4, 1965
223 words Thomas Stearns Eliot was one of the 20th century’s most influential poets, as well as an essayist, literary critic, playwright, and publisher. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, from old New England stock…
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"Friends Stab You in the Front", Angelo Plume's article on how the Donald Trump campaign and the Italian center-right have similarly betrayed their voters and their values, has been paroled from the paywall.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/08/friends-stab-you-in-the-front/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/08/friends-stab-you-in-the-front/
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Friends Stab You in the Front
2,073 words The same boring drama has been playing out on the political stage for decades: the progressive liberal left already gets everything it wants, yet it demands more; the useless “conservative” “right” either puts up no resistance, or gleefully sides…
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Jim Goad on the demographic change and replacement migration which has transformed Portland, Oregon.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/the-city-formerly-known-as-americas-whitest-city/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/the-city-formerly-known-as-americas-whitest-city/
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The City Formerly Known As “America’s Whitest City”
1,225 words For years, Portland, OR had an unshakable reputation as America’s whitest city: “How the whitest city in America appears through the eyes of its black residents” (Washington Post, 2015) “Portland is the Whitest U.S. City – Why Demographics are…
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Listen to Greg Johnson's speech at the Institute for Historical Review.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/will-american-survive-to-2040/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/will-american-survive-to-2040/
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Will America Survive to 2040?
41 words On September 14th, 2024, Greg Johnson spoke to the Institute for Historical Review on the question, “Will America Survive to 2040?” This is his talk. To listen in a player, click here or below. To download, right-click the link and click “save as.”…
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Chapter 3 of Mark Gullick's book on the downfall of Western philosophy has been paroled from the paywall.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/08/unmourned-funeral-chapter-3/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/08/unmourned-funeral-chapter-3/
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Unmourned Funeral: Chapter 3
5,495 words CHAPTER 3 DENAISSANCE Reverse-engineering the West But what of those decadent ages in which no ideal either grows or blossoms? Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution. The toxification of the universities, the poisoned wells of academia, will have…
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Part 3 of Collin Cleary’s series on Heidegger, Schelling, and the nature of good and evil.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/heidegger-schelling-and-the-reality-of-evil-2/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/heidegger-schelling-and-the-reality-of-evil-2/
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Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil
3,695 words Part 3 of 15 (Part 1 here. Part 2 here.) Self-Affirmation as Being We have seen that Schelling claims “there is no being other than will. Will is primal being [Ursein] to which alone all predicates of being apply: groundlessness, eternality, independence…
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Read Greg Johnson's "Editor's Update" for this week. There has been a great leap forward in CC's fundraiser.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/editors-update-20/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/editors-update-20/
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Editors Update
580 words 1. Our 2024 Fundraiser Update Last week our fundraiser total was $105,232.86. A generous patron offered us a $10,000 matching grant to move things forward. It worked, bigly. I am pleased to announce that our total is now $140,554.92. Our goal this…
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Forwarded from Millennial Woes
Stages of "send them back":
> We can't do that. The food is terrific!
> Actually, we can have the food without the people being here. We can make it ourselves. After all, we've got the recipes now. [Rowan Atkinson stage]
> In fact, we make their food better than they do.
> Actually, we could have obtained the recipes without them EVER coming here.
> We DID!
> We can't do that. The food is terrific!
> Actually, we can have the food without the people being here. We can make it ourselves. After all, we've got the recipes now. [Rowan Atkinson stage]
> In fact, we make their food better than they do.
> Actually, we could have obtained the recipes without them EVER coming here.
> We DID!
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Ondrej Mann's "Ten Questions for the Left" is paroled from the paywall.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/08/ten-questions-for-the-left/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/08/ten-questions-for-the-left/
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Ten Questions for the Left
2,583 words Enough people on the real right demonize people on the left. Some see the comprehensive left-Cathedral conspiracy (a conspiracy of universities, media, corporations, and high politics). Some people describe a leftist “long march through the institutions”…
Time is running out for you to send in your NAXALT articles and memes! The deadline is October 2.
Counter-Currents will award a first prize of $500 to the best refutation of the NAXALT objection.
We will also award $100 each to four runners up.
Entries should take the form of short essays — the shorter the better — explaining what NAXALT is, giving examples, and then offering arguments, analogies, and other talking points to counter it.
Since memes are one of the most effective ways to combat liberal dogma, we are also having a NAXALT meme contest. You can create your own original memes or just clean out your meme folders. For every meme you submit, you will be entered into a drawing for a prize of $100.
There is a total of $1000 in prize money for the contest as a whole.
Counter-Currents will award a first prize of $500 to the best refutation of the NAXALT objection.
We will also award $100 each to four runners up.
Entries should take the form of short essays — the shorter the better — explaining what NAXALT is, giving examples, and then offering arguments, analogies, and other talking points to counter it.
Since memes are one of the most effective ways to combat liberal dogma, we are also having a NAXALT meme contest. You can create your own original memes or just clean out your meme folders. For every meme you submit, you will be entered into a drawing for a prize of $100.
There is a total of $1000 in prize money for the contest as a whole.
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Read Morris van de Camp’s submission to the NAXALT contest.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/naxalt-is-a-meaningless-tautology/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/naxalt-is-a-meaningless-tautology/
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NAXALT is a Meaningless Tautology
758 words One the stumbling blocks keeping ordinary whites from becoming white advocates is the idea that not all of “X” are like that – NAXALT. This usually refers to the fact that not all sub-Saharan Africans in America are prone to serious criminal mischief.…
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Tibor Zorodin on the absolute clown show that is this year’s US presidential election.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/commander-in-queef-of-the-neuroconvergent-left/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/commander-in-queef-of-the-neuroconvergent-left/
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Commander-in-Queef of the neuroconvergent Left
1,685 words The most processed, stage-managed, and synthetic candidate in political history may just be the Frankensteinian perfection that America’s machine politics deserve. The cackle of Hillary, the tan of Obama, and the perspicacity of Biden, have all…
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https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/remembering-savitri-devi-14/
Today is the birthday of the charismatic, enigmatic philosopher and esotericist, Savitri Devi. Counter-Currents has a wealth of essays and articles about her and her works, and we have also reprinted and published her books, including her magnum opus, The Lightning and the Sun, which you can purchase here.
Today is the birthday of the charismatic, enigmatic philosopher and esotericist, Savitri Devi. Counter-Currents has a wealth of essays and articles about her and her works, and we have also reprinted and published her books, including her magnum opus, The Lightning and the Sun, which you can purchase here.
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Remembering Savitri Devi (September 30, 1905–October 22, 1982)
873 words Savitri Devi was a philosopher, a religious thinker, and a tireless polemicist and activist for the causes of animal rights, European pagan revivalism, Hindu nationalism, German National Socialism, and — after the Second World War — pan-European…
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This "Worst Week Yet" features a case of pre-meditated black-on-white violence, liberal judges in Britain cucking for African criminals, and a suicide pod. Oh my!
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/the-worst-week-yet-september-22-28-2024/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/the-worst-week-yet-september-22-28-2024/
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The Worst Week Yet: September 22-28, 2024
1,794 words It was just another day for two teenage girls attending class at Arizona State University. One of the girls was black and overweight. Her name is Kaci Lenise-Charlie Sloan. Hey, don’t kill the messenger—I didn’t name her, I’m only reporting her…
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"A Few Small Victories" Gunnar Alfredsson's article on some positive develops for the nationalist cause, is now available to all readers.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/08/a-few-small-victories/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/08/a-few-small-victories/
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A Few Small Victories
1,127 words Even though the metaphoric passenger airliner of Western civilization is plummeting at speed towards its ultimate destruction on the craggy peaks of the multi-cult, it’s disconcerting to look around at our fellow passengers who are completely…