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The Rise of Trumpism 1.0

“But we — Communists, the party — will not divide power with anyone.” (more…)

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A Haunting in Venice is a Halloween movie and also sees the return of the detective Hercule Poirot to the screen, as most recently played by Kenneth Branagh, who directed this film. The story is lifted from Hallowe’en Party, a 1969 Christie novel set in Britain, although here it is moved to 1949 Venice. Little of the original story remains, although bobbing for apples is retained as the staging of an attempted murder. Since this is Venice, floods rage outside, and a past drowning adds to the haunted setting. It all fits. (more…)

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The latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio featured guest hosts Pox Populi (Telegram, YouTube) and Endeavour (Substack, Telegram, YouTube), and the first half was a discussion of yet another migrant invasion in Lampedusa, Douglas Murray’s analysis of power, Substack versus videos, and much more. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

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A severe thunderstorm tore through our city in the spring of 2022.

In our predominantly white suburban neighborhood, several trees were shattered by the vicious wind, including the Norway maple in our front yard. (more…)

Russell Brand

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A toxic Brand

The biggest story currently distracting the British public is the fall of Russell Brand. American readers may not be familiar with Brand, an English comedian and actor who has recently reinvented himself as a YouTube influencer. (more…)

The entrance to this year’s CPAC Hungary. Photo courtesy of the Visegrád Post.

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The word “woke” was first used as an adjective, as opposed to “awake,” in a political context by black Americans during the twentieth century to describe someone who is “alert to racial prejudice and discrimination.” (more…)

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It is during and after the First World War that reinforced concrete was incorporated into political programs as a “progressive” building material. The Futurist Antonio Sant’Elia inspired an entire generation of so-called “brutalists”: Le Corbusier, Buckminster Fuller, and members of the movement called De Stijl. Jappe cites Futurist proponents of concrete cities: (more…)

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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 sciences, and culture in general.

Heidegger was born on September 26, 1889 in the town of Meßkirch in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He died on May 26, 1976 in Freiburg and was buried in Meßkirch. (more…)

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Pope Urges Europeans to Bend Over, Grab Their Ankles, and Let the Boat People In

Pope Francis is the first pontiff who was born and raised outside of Europe since 741 AD. He helms the Catholic Church, whose ranks, according to 2010 statistics, are composed of a mere 32% of people who live in Europe and North America. The Caucasian Quotient dips even lower when one considers that about 20 million Catholics in the United States are “Latino.” (more…)

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If Holden Caulfield did battle with the phonies, Howie Carr does it with hacks. Howie is a Boston journalist whose mischievous face is a combination of Jimmy Cagney and Mephistopheles, offering Irish bravado and tempting the reader, listener, or viewer — he’s done his act for all three — to see the facts and get angry. In Paper Boy, Howie’s memoir, there’s a lot to get angry about, but almost every page bristles with laugh-out-loud moments. (more…)

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Richard Hanania’s The Origins of Woke is Christopher Caldwell’s excellent book, The Age of Entitlement, but in a less sober and more opinionated tone, and with more speculation on what’s to be done about the predicament. While both books get the point across, Hanania’s trying to get several other points across that distract from the central thesis: Our legal system contains a civil rights ratcheting mechanism that requires all corporations and organizations to promote a “Leftist” (anti-Christian, anti-white, anti-male, anti-straight) political agenda. (more…)

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Anselm Jappe
Béton: Arme de construction massive du capitalisme
Paris: Éditions L’échappée, 2020

Ask any thinking people what they consider to be the most dramatic and long-lasting changes in the world over the last hundred years, and a wide variety of responses may be expected, ranging from demographic shifts to the atomic bomb, (more…)

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Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “The Virgin Queen Chihuahua Has Spoken!“, responding to Nick Fuentes’ attack on his feature from last week, “Rich Snobs vs. Poor Slobs: The Schism Between ‘Racist’ Whites,” as well as Jim personally. (more…)

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A Counter-Currents reader has offered the following essay to stir thought and four prizes — a first prize of $200, and three runner-up prizes of $100 each — for the best concrete ideas on the topic outlined in it, to be submitted to [email protected] before October 1, 2023. (more…)

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My Problem with “Anime”

What I hate most about anime is the word “anime” itself, because the term was invented as a con to obscure the fact that you are simply watching a cartoon. It’s not “anime.” They are cartoons from Japan.

The term “action figure” was coined in the 1960s by the inventor of GI Joe, because he knew if he called them “dolls” — which is what they were — no boy would want to play with them. (more…)

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At least all publicity is good publicity — or is it?

Speaking of tarnished reputations, Townhall featured a story recently, “Dem Candidate Is Livid GOP Discovered Her Chaturbate Channel.” It turns out that Susanna Gibson, who is running for the Virginia House of Delegates, was found out to be a part-time cam girl who goes by “hotwifeexperience.” (more…)

Fanny Kelly

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Captivity narratives, especially those written by women, were a staple of American literature during the nineteenth century. Stories of white women captured and abused by savage Indians certainly inspired enough fascination and horror in the American public to warrant its own literary genre. And for good reason, considering that there had been thousands of white captives throughout American history up to 1900, and the abuse they in many cases suffered was a fate worse than death. (more…)

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Whenever someone hears something that had nothing to do with them and decides to take it very personally, you know you’re dealing with a woman on her period. (more…)

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I have seen the “normalization” of a great many things in my lifetime — almost all of them for the worse. (more…)

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Erik Kirschbaum
Burning Beethoven: The Eradication of German Culture in the United States during World War I
New York: Berlinica Publishing, 2014

Much ink has been spilled over the travails faced by non-white minorities in the United States, but the persecution of German-Americans during the First World War has received scant attention. The few scholars who do address this forgotten chapter in American history, such as Erik Kirschbaum in Burning Beethoven, frame it as a morality tale about the evils of “xenophobia” and cast WASP Americans as the villains. (more…)

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Transcript by Hyacinth Bouquet. The following is a transcript of the second part of Marian Van Court and Arthur Jensen’s conversation, which can be heard here, or using the player below.

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IQ and common sense

Social intelligence as g + extraversion, or g + social experience (more…)