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Jim Goad is taking a break from writing, so every Thursday, we will be running The Best of Jim Goad, older must-read articles that might be new to you.
—Greg Johnson, Editor-in-Chief
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My oldest brother was twenty-five when he had the life stabbed out of him, but I was only eight. I’ve always known that he was murdered in Paris in 1969. What I didn’t learn until recently was that his whole life was only a dress rehearsal for that ugly final act. (more…)
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After starting out as an overly dramatic yet still semi-informative conspiracy exposé, Alex Jones’ 2007 movie makes an absolutely bizarre turn in the middle, transforming into a focused propaganda piece against “eugenics”, which it identifies as the telos behind the evil globalist conspiracy its first ninety minutes revolved around. (more…)
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If Canada holds a federal election this year, it will be a miracle. Even though it is officially slated for the fall, October 20, 2025, I am doubtful it will happen. As the Liberal Party of Canada is currently in the midst of its internal leadership race to find Justin Trudeau’s replacement, everyone is wondering how the next few weeks will play out. (more…)
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She was eleven. He pushed his hand into her face and removed the blade, twisting it, and let her drop. It was nothing. Soon enough he was arrested, but in reality he felt he was still in the room. (more…)
Jonathan Bowden
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Jonathan Bowden
This brief, privately circulated essay by Jonathan Bowden is from early 2001. I wish to thank Adrian Davies for providing it.
—Greg Johnson, Editor-in-Chief
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Any patriotic renewal for the English and British as a whole needs to concentrate on the cultural reinvigoration of national life. (more…)
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You’re gambling with World War 3.
—President Trump to President Zelensky.
I was a miner,
I was a docker,
I was a railwayman
Between the wars.
—Billy Bragg, Between the Wars
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This is the second part of the latest edition of Counter-Currents Radio. It is now available to download or listen to online. (more…)
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While Trump’s style continues to dazzle and seemingly lay waste the leftists, both in America and abroad, a recent film has captivated the critics and the box office, dealing, as it does, with political repression.
But is it that one-sided? As Monica Wood said in her novel My Only Story, people are more than just one thing. (more…)
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This is my Foreword to Edward Dutton’s biography of Jonathan Bowden, Shaman of the Radical Right: The Life and Mind of Jonathan Bowden (Imperium Press, 2025).
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Edward Dutton’s biography of Jonathan Bowden is a revelation. I thought I knew Jonathan Bowden. I even thought we were becoming friends. But the truth was, I hardly knew him at all. (more…)
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In my time in the Dissident Right sphere, I’ve had my chance to attend certain historic events but chose not to.
I didn’t go to Charlottesville because I couldn’t get the day off work. For many years, this was a regret of mine. (more…)
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Edward Dutton joined Greg Johnson to discuss his new biography of Jonathan Bowden, Shaman of the Radical Right. It is now available to download or listen to online. (more…)
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Part 1
Jacques Luzi
Ce que l’Intelligence artificielle ne peut pas faire
Èditions La Lenteur, 2024
For both pragmatic and mystical reasons, industrial society worships technology, and it is the adoration of technology which stymies any democratic debate or questioning regarding the legitimacy of the technocratic class in power. The dependency on machines and the devotional association which many ordinary people have with machines stands in the way of any effective critique of that class’s project to transform natural gifts into artificial ones. (more…)
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In 2020, the anti-racists came for Flannery O’Connor. Paul Elie led the charge in an article for The New Yorker, the online version of which was entitled “How Racist Was Flannery O’Connor?”[1] Elie’s answer was: pretty racist. (more…)