Mark Gullick remembers Ian Curtis of Joy Division, who was born on this day in 1956:
"I saw my girlfriend perched in the bar, where two other people were also sitting. I walked in and sat down, nodding to the other couple, a man and a woman. The woman I now know was Annik Honoré, Ian Curtis’ Belgian journalist girlfriend, and not his wife Deborah, and the man was Curtis himself."
https://counter-currents.com/2021/07/remembering-ian-curtis/
"I saw my girlfriend perched in the bar, where two other people were also sitting. I walked in and sat down, nodding to the other couple, a man and a woman. The woman I now know was Annik Honoré, Ian Curtis’ Belgian journalist girlfriend, and not his wife Deborah, and the man was Curtis himself."
https://counter-currents.com/2021/07/remembering-ian-curtis/
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Here are the Young Men: Remembering Ian Curtis (July 15, 1956–May 18, 1980)
Joy Division's acclaim lasted from 1979 to 1980, when singer Ian Curtis watched Werner Herzog’s bizarre Stroszek alone then hung himself in his kitchen.
Paroled from the Paywall: Mark Gullick reviews Charles Murray’s Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, which is on the changing social stratification of American whites. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/charles-murrays-coming-apart-the-state-of-white-america-1960-2010/
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Charles Murray’s Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
2,379 The new upper-class culture is different from mainstream American culture in all sorts of ways. — Charles Murray, Coming Apart And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here? — Talking Heads, “Once in a Lifetime” Charles Murray Coming Apart: The…
Spencer J. Quinn on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, and why the fact that he survived may be the only thing holding the United States together at this point. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/the-unkillable-donald-trump-and-a-very-killable-america/
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The Unkillable Donald Trump (and a Very Killable America)
1,111 words By the time you read this, just about every angle surrounding Saturday’s failed assassination of Donald Trump will have been covered. How is Trump doing? Who was the shooter? What was he doing in a BlackRock ad in 2023? Was there a conspiracy?…
Jef Costello on why the assassination attempt on Trump made him realize that, in spite of everything, he still can't help but love the man. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/i-still-love-trump/
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I Still Love Trump
1,840 words I was with a friend and his wife Saturday evening when we learned of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania. My friend’s mother — a spry, gun-toting, red-pilled granny whose favorite politician is Marjorie Taylor Greene —…
Greg Johnson on why the assassination attempt on Donald Trump provides a crystal-clear example of the warnings that White Nationalists have been issuing for decades. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/america-has-dodged-a-bullet-for-now/
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America Has Dodged a Bullet (for Now)
1,204 words Donald Trump wasn’t the only one who dodged a bullet on July 13, 2024. America herself had a brush with death. What do you think would have happened if the idol of those 70 million Americans who own most of America’s 300 million guns had been…
Jim Goad on the history of assassination attempts on Trump, and why the most important part of this latest one is the reactions to it from across the spectrum. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/the-worst-week-yet-183/
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The Worst Week Yet: July 7-13, 2024 — Sympathy for the Devil
1,223 words / 7:59 Despite what you may have thought, heard, or read, Saturday evening’s sniper attack on Donald Trump wasn’t the first time someone attempted to cause him physical harm during a campaign rally — it was the third. But as far as I can remember…
Savitri Devi proclaims Trump the final avatar of Vishnu.
The Kali Yuga is finally coming to an end.
https://x.com/poxesfoxes/status/1813144874851430868
The Kali Yuga is finally coming to an end.
https://x.com/poxesfoxes/status/1813144874851430868
Gunnar Alfredsson on why migrants may be the most deadly and devious biological weapon devised by mean. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/are-migrants-biological-weapons/
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Are Migrants Biological Weapons?
1,594 words There was a time when I thought migrants were potential vectors for disease, and they are; however, I am convinced that characterization does not go far enough. Migrants are, in fact, biological weapons. According to the United Nations Office…
Angelo Plume did a solo news roundup on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, discussing the recent French elections as well as other current things, and of course answered listener questions. It is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-597-the-french-elections-the-new-nationalism-podcast-and-more-with-angelo-plume/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 597: The French Elections, The New Nationalism Podcast, and More with Angelo Plume
151 words / 2:07:03 Angelo Plume (Telegram, YouTube) did a solo news roundup on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, discussing the recent French elections as well as other current things, and of course answered listener questions. It is now available…
Beau Albrecht offers a selection of news stories where you can fill in the rest of the story just from the headlines, including the ultra-Orthodox throwing a fit because they are now required to register for conscription by the Israeli military, a transsexual who was crowned Miss Maryland, the government considering using AI to compensate for Biden's mental decline, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/headlines-that-tell-it-all/
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Headlines That Tell It All
3,298 words The media has gotten rather predictable. Today’s journalists seem like youthful guitarists who learn two chords and are thereby qualified to join a bar band. Once you’ve seen enough stories, the tropes start to look awfully familiar. For example…
Greg Johnson's series of lectures on Plato's Gorgias continues as Socrates raises the question: What good is rhetoric if we don't want to get away with crimes?
https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/notes-on-platos-gorgias-part-10/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/notes-on-platos-gorgias-part-10/
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Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 10
1,544 words Part 10 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 9 here) Having established that it is better to suffer injustice than to do it, and better to be punished for one’s crimes…
Margot Metroland relates some anecdotes about The Truth Seeker, which was the original republisher of Francis Parker Yockey's Imperium, that she heard from Willis Carto, who was born 98 years ago today. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/remembering-willis-carto-3/
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The Cartos, Imperium, and The Truth Seeker — Remembering Willis Carto: July 17, 1926–October 26, 2015
1,511 words A near-forgotten journal of occasional significance, The Truth Seeker, turned 150 years old last September. That makes it, by its own claim, the “World’s Oldest Freethought Publication.” Not that there’s an awful lot of competition there, unless…
Fred Reed on the short-sightedness that is leading the Washington establishment to consider war with China. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/fredwitz-on-war-ii/
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Fredwitz on War, Chapter II
1,190 words Oh help. As I write, the mumbling eggplant in the White House shovels money and arms into two wars, neither necessary, and he and Lockheed Martin prepare for a third, also unnecessary, over Taiwan, which is none of their business. Since in the…
Mark Gullick looks back on Tom Wolfe's classic "Radical Chic," which recounted a bizarre party that was held in New York City in 1970 at the conductor Leonard Bernstein's apartment, where some of the city's wealthiest white liberals held court with Black Panthers from the ghettoes. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/party-politics-tom-wolfes-radical-chic/
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Party Politics: Tom Wolfe’s “Radical Chic”
2,717 words They [the Black Panthers] exist as a continual barometer to measure ourselves against — both in terms of lessons that have been garnered as well as challenges in terms of where we can improve and deepen our analysis. — Ainslin Pulley, co-founder…
Angelo Plume on how the Euro 2024 football championship put the lie to the establishment's oft-repeated claim that "England Doesn't Win Without Immigration." https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/euro-2024-the-tournament-that-wasnt-part-1/
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Euro 2024: The Tournament that Wasn’t, Part 1
2,516 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided . . . will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual, and economical exhaustion. That is a line from an apocryphal letter claimed to have…
Paroled from the Paywall: Greg Johnson's series of lectures on Plato's Gorgias continues with Socrates proving to Gorgias that philosophy is the master over all the other arts. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/notes-on-platos-gorgias-part-4/
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Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 4: The Master Art
1,742 words Part 4 of 14 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 5 here) Ethics as an Afterthought Is Socrates right that sophistry is essentially amoral and technocratic? After all, the sophists were widely seen as not just teachers of rhetoric, but…