James J. O'Meara's review of Robert M. Price's Judaizing Jesus, a book which debunks modern attempts to construct an ecumenical Jesus based on the idea that he was a conventional Jew by pointing to a wealth of textual evidence that contradicts it, has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/jesus-we-hardly-know-ye/
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Jesus, We Hardly Know Ye | Counter-Currents
5,383 words Robert M. Price Judaizing Jesus: How New Testament Scholars Created the Ecumenical Golem Durham, N.C.: Pitchstone Publishing, 2021 “[The] Christian faith, sprung from the wisdom of India,[1] overspreads the old trunk of rude Judaism, a tree of…
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Tonight on the Writers’ Bloc, we’re having The Best Year Ever extravaganza, where 12 audience favorites will recount their successes and lessons learned in the year 2021. Beginning with the brainy Posh Crew at 10pm CET (4pm EST, 1pm PST), moving on to the hardy Action Crew at 10:40pm CET (4:40pm EST, 1:40pm PST) and rounding it out with the rowdy Boozy Crew at 11:20pm (5:20pm EST, 2:20 PST), we’ll be giving The Best Year Ever a proper sendoff.
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The great fantasist and linguist J. R. R. Tolkien was born on this day in 1892. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/remembering-j-r-r-tolkien-10/
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Remembering J. R. R. Tolkien: January 3, 1892–September 2, 1973 | Counter-Currents
528 words "I am in fact a Hobbit."—J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is a favorite author of New Left "hippies" and New Right nationalists, and for pretty much the same reasons. Tolkien deeply distrusted modernization and industrialization, which…
Andrew Hamilton's essay on the curious absence of blacks in anti-Southern playwright Tennessee Williams' works, and the possibility that Williams himself may have been of mixed-race heritage, has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/blacks-in-tennessee-williams-works/
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Blacks in Tennessee Williams’ Works | Counter-Currents
2,002 words In a recent essay about playwright Tennessee Williams and Greek-American director Elia Kazan’s flagrantly anti-Southern motion picture Baby Doll (1956), I observed in passing that blacks are present as furniture, but there is no major subplot…
The French writer and fascist intellectual who was martyred for his beliefs, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, was born on this day in 1893. You can discover more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2020/01/remembering-pierre-drieu-la-rochelle-7/
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Remembering Pierre Drieu La Rochelle: January 3, 1893–March 15, 1945
112 words Pierre Drieu La Rochelle was born on this day in 1893. In commemoration, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this site: Maurice Bardèche, “Bardèche’s Six Postulates of Fascist Socialism” (Ukrainian translation here) Alain de…
Trevor Lynch reviews the new installment in The Matrix franchise, The Matrix Resurrections, and finds it continues the trend of each film being worse than the one before it. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/the-matrix-resurrections/
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The Matrix Resurrections | Counter-Currents
1,457 words Larry and Andy Wachowski’s The Matrix (1999) is a science fiction classic. The setting is a devastated Earth in the far future. The premise is that humanity has been enslaved by artificial intelligences. Human beings spend our lives in what are…
Jim Goad brings us his first of the new year, writing about Jack Murphy, an allegedly conservative “masculinity coach” who will get very angry with you if you suggest he’s gay, even though he’s said publicly that he’s had sex with men and has made videos while using a dildo on himself, and who used to frequently interact with a recent mass shooter on Twitter; Bambi as harbinger of the Holocaust; E. O. Wilson, who argued in a landmark study that culture follows genetics; and more. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/the-worst-week-yet-63/
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The Worst Week Yet: December 26, 2021-January 1, 2022
3,608 words Lyndon McLeod, Jack Murphy, & the Perils of Performative Masculinity As a wee beardless youth in the brick-and-cement ’burbs of Philadelphia, I found myself watching an old Robert Mitchum film on TV one night and wondering how he managed to be…
Petr Hampl on why the West's elites today are actively undermining the very same societies that gave them their wealth and power in the first place, and how it relates to the Great Replacement. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/the-time-of-lackeys-the-time-of-kings-the-time-of-the-republic/
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The Time of Lackeys, the Time of Kings, & the Time of the Republic | Counter-Currents
2,491 words If you think about things that are not very important to you, there is no significant difference between repair, upgrade, and replacement. But if you yourself are what's at issue, there's a huge difference depending on if they‘re enriching you…
Robert Hampton on why Kwanzaa, despite being promoted by all of America's major institutions, is no longer the holiday of choice for black America. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/the-kwanzaa-absurdity-will-be-dwarfed-by-juneteenth/
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The Kwanzaa Absurdity Will Be Dwarfed by Juneteenth
1,401 words Public officials still pretend Kwanzaa is a real holiday. It’s taught to schoolchildren as one of the holidays of the “holiday” season, even though nobody knows anyone who actually celebrates it. It’s a day we’re all forced to pretend that being…
Beau Albrecht on the new Coen brothers film of Shakespeare's Macbeth, featuring a mostly sub-Saharan cast. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-macbeth/
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The Tragedy of the Tragedy of Macbeth | Counter-Currents
2,182 words Hollywood gave Shakespeare fans a Christmas present: a new version of one of the Bard's most iconic and gripping tragedies. Although the plandemic delayed production by four months or so, Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth was released on Apple+…
On the special New Year’s Day broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, which is dedicated to all our donors, host Greg Johnson was joined by two new members of the Counter-Currents team, Cyan Quinn and Robert Wallace, to talk about what is coming in 2022. As always, we also answered YOUR QUESTIONS and made the BIG REVEAL of the total for the Counter-Currents 2021 Fundraiser. The broadcast is now available for download and online streaming. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-404-the-new-years-day-special/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 404 The New Year’s Day Special | Counter-Currents
307 words / 2:07:16 On the special New Year’s Day broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, which is dedicated to all our donors, host Greg Johnson was joined by two new members of the Counter-Currents team, Cyan Quinn and Robert Wallace, to talk about what is…
Anthony Bavaria reviews Counter-Currents writer Mark Gullick's novel Bestest Boys, a story about subversive non-conformists trying to live off the grid in London. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/mark-gullicks-bestest-boys/
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Mark Gullick’s Bestest Boys | Counter-Currents
864 words Bestest Boys is Mark Gullick’s first novel, released in 2015. If you’ve ever spent any time in London, the book is a must-read. It’s clearly written with the city’s grit, history, and culture in mind. The protagonist, Mickey Glasspool, and his drinking…
Ondrej Mann reviews the Austrian band Der Blutharsch's 2019 album Wish I Weren't Here, finding it a sharp departure from their early martial-industrial work, but not an unpleasant one. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/der-blutharschs-wish-i-werent-here/
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Der Blutharsch’s Wish I Weren’t Here | Counter-Currents
1,074 words The Austrian band Der Blutharsch will certainly be familiar to Counter-Currents readers, whether through their neofolk influences, distinctive music, or musical collaborations. The latter include their 2003 split album with the classic Italian…
Host Nick Jeelvy put together The Best Year Ever extravaganza on The Writer’s Bloc last weekend, where audience favorites Fullmoon Ancestry, Jim Goad, Mark Gullick, Richard Houck, Greg Johnson, Gaddius Maximus, James J. O’Meara, Kathryn S., Thomas Steuben, Karl Thorburn, and the Z Man recounted their successes and the lessons they learned in 2021, and it is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-405-the-best-year-ever-extravaganza-on-the-writers-bloc/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 405 The Best Year Ever Extravaganza on The Writers’ Bloc | Counter-Currents
109 words / 2:09:40 Host Nick Jeelvy put together The Best Year Ever extravaganza on The Writer's Bloc last weekend, where audience favorites Fullmoon Ancestry, Jim Goad, Mark Gullick, Richard Houck, Greg Johnson, Gaddius Maximus, James J. O'Meara, Kathryn…
Mark Gullick describes the impact of mass immigration on London through his own personal experiences. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/a-different-black-pill/
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A Different Black Pill
2,568 words At the start of the millennium in the United Kingdom, an accusation of racism in the workplace might have led to a few cold shoulders in the office. Now, it is more likely you will be clearing out your desk, possibly with a police officer in attendance…
Travis LeBlanc on what the recent Jack Murphy blowup and the ensuing fallout can teach the Right about the need to identify and getting rid of sociopaths early on, before they get into a position where they can do serious damage. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/what-jack-murphy-teaches-the-right-about-sociopaths/
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What Jack Murphy Teaches the Right about Sociopaths | Counter-Currents
2,781 words Drama gets a bad rap in dissident circles. You always hear people say, “I’m not getting myself involved in drama,” as if drama is inherently a bad thing. But I say drama can be a good thing. For one, it can be good for morale. Drama can be fun…
The great popularizer of comparative religions and man of the Right Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/remembering-alan-watts-7/
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Remembering Alan Watts (January 6, 1915–November 16, 1973) | Counter-Currents
172 words Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. A prolific scholar and dazzling stylist, Watts is best known as the chief popularizer of Asian philosophy for the Beat and Hippy movements, but he was also an original thinker in his own right and a quiet…
Morris van de Camp's essay on the leadership strengths of the English colonists who established the Jamestown colony in Virginia, qualities that would continue to serve America well for generations afterwards, has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/jamestown-the-virginians-leadership/
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Jamestown, the Virginians, & Leadership | Counter-Currents
4,356 words The Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony receive a great deal of glory. This glory is well deserved, but other shiploads of colonists did valorous things as well. The same year the Mayflower[1] crossed the Atlantic, so too did the Bona Nova. The…
Jim Goad on his relationship with the comedian Patton Oswalt, who used to claim Goad as a friend until he recently decided to join the Woke Brigades. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/apologies-are-never-funny/
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Apologies are Never Funny | Counter-Currents
3,118 words If, in a not-too-distant future when everything that is currently wrong with American culture has grown worse and I was forced to testify before a Senate Subcommittee Investigation to Uncover Hate in the Entertainment Industry, I would be able…
Feminism teaches the female forebrain to prize male traits that their deeper instincts find repulsive. I can't think of a more diabolical formula for making women miserable.