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1. Our 2024 Fundraiser Update

Last week I asked you to check back to see if our fundraiser total passed $150,000, the midway point to our goal of $300,000. Thanks to our generous supporters, we are now at $159,974.74. This bodes well, because half of all fundraising takes place in the last quarter of the year, which started this past Tuesday. Now we need just a bit more than $140,000. With your help, we’ll make it.

Why should you help? Because we are doing good work, and our work just got harder. (more…)

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Part 4 of 15

The Internal Differentiation of God

Schelling now throws us another curve, and it is a major one. All this time we have been speaking of the “immanence” of all things within God. But now Schelling tells us that “the concept of immanence is to be set aside completely insofar as thereby a dead containment of things in God is supposed to be expressed. (more…)

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Edgy satires often achieve greatness proportional to the power of the thing they satirize. For example, a novel satirizing Communist Russia in the 1920s, such as Mikhail Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog, would have lost much of its edge had it been written in, say, 1987, during the final years of Communism. But since it was written in 1925, when Communism was quite vigorous, Bulgakov got cancelled, and the book had to wait until 1987 to see the light of day. (more…)

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At the start of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, both the “Dissident Right” and mainstream conservatives in America quickly became lockstep in praising Putin and criticizing Ukraine. Nationalists in Europe were not so easily taken in. Part of this was undoubtedly due to geographical proximity. The Russian bear looks more cute and cuddly the further away one is. (more…)

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There are outliers. There are extraordinary people who are physical freaks of nature imbued with innate attributes like Larry Bird, Shawn Bradley, Nolan Ryan, Wayne Gretzky, Connor McDavid, or Bill Buckner (who may or may not have opened a chain of laundromats). These are athletes that come around every generation or so. (more…)

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I try to avoid the subject of the upcoming election because honestly, I see validity in both the pro- and anti- Trump arguments. I’m not sure there would be much difference between Trump and Kamala in how they govern. Yes, Kamala is promising to grant amnesty to millions of people. That doesn’t mean she will actually do it. (more…)

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Smoke from chemical plant fire in Conyers, GA on Sunday, September 29. Image source X

I’ve lived in the Atlanta area for seventeen and a half years. That’s at least seventeen years too many. The first few weeks were OK, though. I’ve wanted and tried to leave for years. Now that my departure date looms less than two weeks away, I get the sense that Georgia is saying, “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.” Or to paraphrase Nietzsche, “That which is leaving should also be pushed.” (more…)

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When George Orwell arrived in Aragon to fight against Franco in 1937, it wasn’t the poor state of the weaponry that worried him, and it wasn’t the enemy. As chronicled in Homage to Catalonia, he was more alarmed at the number of factional squabbles there were on his side. In-fighting in the face of the enemy similarly afflicts the political Right today, and the call to “unite the Right” is a forlorn cry in the wilderness. (more…)

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After a brief hiatus, Angelo Plume returned to host this AMA edition of Counter-Currents Radio. It is now available for downloading and online listening.

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Brigitte Nielsen photographed with Nancy and Ronald Reagan and Sylvester Stallone. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Europe and the West have been crippled by an intellectual and ideological paralysis, whereby any call to action or indeed any empirical observation of repeatable, observable trends are met with unending obfuscation. Such obfuscation takes many forms, but one particular tactic is to counter any observable trend or pattern, or any call to action or resolution stemming from these conclusions, with an exceptional outlier or anomaly that seemingly refutes the observed pattern or trend. (more…)

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The last time I was in Ireland, a little under a year ago now, I made it a point to avoid Dublin. I don’t say this to offend any Dubs. The main reason I didn’t want to set foot Dublin is because I didn’t want to see how bad things have got in the “fair city”. I’m not really fond of big cities, generally, but many years ago, I spent quite a lot of time in Dublin and I did grow fond of the place. (more…)

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Chapter 8
ICE AND HIGH MOUNTAINS

Nietzsche as Meta-philosopher

[M]any disapprove of all philosophers, because their aims are not ours; they are those whom I call “strangers to us.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (more…)

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The NAXALT argument is based not on a false premise but a misleading one which is intended to distract from, and pose as, the main premise. It is reducible to logical form, but with the proviso that this is analogous, and the whole problem is partly rhetorical. Analogously, then, the NAXALT argument is well illustrated by a mathematical conundrum. (more…)