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The claim that immigration is the engine of economic growth in the West is frequently repeated but rarely scrutinized. While some groups of immigrants contribute positively to the economies of host nations, others create fiscal challenges, raising questions about the universality of immigration’s purported benefits. (more…)
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Perhaps it is better that doge became its own word, with its own implications, inferences and cultural meanings to parse.
-Charlie Allison, Venetian Concepts of Power in the Office of the DogeWhen Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was still in its formative stages, before the re-election of Donald Trump, I wrote the following here at Counter Currents: (more…)
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Author’s Note: This is essay reworks and extends a couple of essays published back in 2023 (here and here)
“All that is solid melts into air . . .”
The chief values of modern capitalist society are long life, freedom of choice, and the pursuit of comfort and security. But capitalist society is also characterized by technological and economic dynamism, which makes all social institutions, roles, and statuses fluid and fleeting. This leads to a pervasive and gnawing insecurity, both economic and social. (more…)
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Several days ago, I had the pleasure of attending a nationalist conference about remigration in Spain hosted by Hacer Nación. There were many fine speakers, with Martin Sellner being the highlight. I look forward to what his Remigration Summit 2025 will bring in Milan. (more…)
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There cannot be a more perfect example of mass gaslighting than the 1998 Coen brothers’ film The Big Lebowski. By inverting sloth, fecklessness, penury, and alcoholism into admirable qualities—essentially making it cool to be a loser—this film offers up the Jewish ideal for a gentile in the character of the Dude. (more…)
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Matthew C. Ehrlich
Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK
Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2021The so-called “Great Awokening,” which started during Obama’s unfortunate second term, was the novel-appearing social framing which led to hysterical young liberals at universities dissolving into immature puddles of emotion over “dangerous ideas” and from those puddles, demanding censorship. (more…)
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Postmodernism is the first ruthlessly consistent statement of the consequences of rejecting reason.
-Stephen Hicks, Explaining PostmodernismThe story of this book begins with a hoax.
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That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
-Barack ObamaIs it a coincidence or by design that black history month is also the shortest month? Have I stumbled across a micro-aggression? (more…)
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In George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871), “The Key to All Mythologies” is the name of Edward Casaubon’s doomed academic project, written on the basis that ‘all the mythical systems or erratic mythical fragments in the world were corruptions of a tradition originally revealed.’ Not only is the project doomed by a scope larger than any one life could contain, but it can also be said to weigh like lead on both the life of Casaubon and on the life of his young bride Dorothea Brooke. (more…)
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Whether we like it or not, most people aren’t deep thinkers. This is especially so for those who pointedly tout themselves as independent minds. For quite some time, it’s been a common problem for leftists, who usually have no idea who implanted the ideas into their soft heads. One notable effect is that their rhetoric usually resembles a tapestry of strung-together clichés, which is a symptom of what their diminished mental universe looks like. (more…)
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This is the second half of the most recent Counter-Currents Radio episode. It is now available to download or listen to online.
Topics include: (more…)
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Ashley St. Clair is a difficult subject for me to discuss objectively. Yes, she’s gold digging Jewish e-girl who just got knocked up by Elon Musk but, in a way, I have to admit that if I am “on the map,” Ashley St. Clair played a big part in putting me there. (more…)