A Friendship of Differences, an exclusive translation of a recent Hungarian interview with the French New Right philosopher Alain de Benoist on his friendship with the Hungarian conservative thinker Thomas Molnar, his own career, and his relationship to Hungary has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2021/11/a-friendship-of-differences/

Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling was born on this day in 1865. Come to Counter-Currents for an introduction to his life and works. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/remembering-rudyard-kipling-8/

Travis LeBlanc reviews Steven Spilberg's new remake of the classic West Side Story and finds it to be surprisingly superior to the original in some respects in how it depicts white replacement. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/were-even-more-jets-now/

Jim Goad says goodbye to 2021, a year that it's difficult to say anything positive about. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/the-year-that-wasnt/

Collin Cleary continues his series of essays on the German Idealist philosopher J. G. Fichte with an examination of how Fichte addressed the problem of self-awareness, including practical exercises the reader can perform to grasp how we understand ourselves. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/fichte-on-self-consciousness-as-the-foundation-of-all-knowledge/

Robert Hampton's review of Freedom Writers, an unintentionally hilarious film about a white liberal teacher who turns her non-white inner city high school students into liberals who reject their own ethnic heritage by teaching them about the Holocaust, has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2021/11/freedom-writers/

Morris van de Camp reviews The Last Imperialist, a biography of Sir Alan Burns by Bruce Gilley that was initially cancelled by the woke mob which shows that European colonialism often brought benefits to the colonized as well as the colonizers. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/the-case-for-empire/

Nicholas R. Jeelvy describes the fact that liberals and Dissident Rightists mean two very different things when they use the word "hate." https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/what-liberals-mean-when-they-say-hate/

Spencer J. Quinn reviews and summarizes V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River, a novel about sub-Saharan Africa with a surprisingly race-realist view of blacks that has escaped the woke mob so far due to the fact that its author was an Indian Muslim from the West Indies. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/v-s-naipauls-a-bend-in-the-river/

Nicholas R. Jeelvy's essay on the opportunities and dangers now facing white America in the aftermath of Kyle Rittenhouse's victory and the two other anti-white legal procedures in Charlottesville and Georgia is now in Czech. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/osvobozujici-verdikt-nad-kylem-rittenhousem-jako-valecna-lest/

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It looks like 2022 will be the year the Covid pandemic ends and the virus becomes endemic. Just looking at the reported numbers in Ireland and the UK in each country about 1 in 300 people are becoming infected a day. But by most accounts Omicron is the sniffles, so this number has to be massively underreported and there is likely a large multiple of this number catching it every day and being asymptomatic or hardly noticing symptoms (half of PCR tests in Ireland are now coming back positive, which is way way up and proportionately and suggests a lot of underreporting).

I predicted at the start of the year that lockdowns and restrictions would mostly be over by the end of the year and the focus would be on the introduction of vaccine passports. The Delta strain threw this off a bit but now Omicron is already wiping out and replacing Delta. Factor in that this strain isn't killing anyone and is conferring immunity against other strains of covid, and you have what is basically an airborne vaccine (one that is probably less harmful than any of the jabs) and a scenario where something like herd immunity and a move to an endemic phase seems imminent. South Africa, where Omicron originated has already peaked and cases have been collapsing rapidly since just a couple of weeks after it was discovered.

There are some signs of a change in approach already, Israel, who are on their fourth booster shot are now considering admitting defeat on trying to contain covid and moving to a herd immunity model. We are also seeing some prominent liberal journalists changing their talking points to give up on trying to contain the virus and move on. I also suspect a lot of individual governments are also keen to finally declare a victory on this now with a lot of imminent elections next year. Maybe we'll get another year of lockdowns despite deaths being virtually nill and hospitalisation rates plummeting, them admitting the vaccines do nothing to stop the spread, and Omicron likely already peaking and conferring immunity for other strains, but I really doubt it.

The episode of The Writers’ Bloc featuring two men from the nations of the former Yugoslavia, host Nick Jeelvy and guest Dr. Tomislav Sunić, discussing the breakup of the country and the lessons today’s dissidents can learn from it has now been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-395-the-writers-bloc-with-nick-jeelvy-tomislav-sunic-on-yugoslavias-breakup/

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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/

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/

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/