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“O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’r the land of . . .”
The average American adult has a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 28.2. (more…)
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867 wordsThe Left and their unique rainbow coalition
Is a liaison of most delicate condition.
There’s mutual distrust and much to disparage
Blacks don’t like trans rights, nor same-sex marriage.
Asians are diluted from university class
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172 words / 1:59:20Frequent Counter-Currents writer Anthony Bavaria was host Nick Jeelvy‘s guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where they presented The Best Month Ever, a review of Counter-Currents articles published in July, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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Humphrey Ocean, Philip Larkin, 1984
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English poet, novelist, and critic Philip Larkin was born 100 years ago today. The only son of a prosperous middle-class family in Coventry, Larkin earned his BA from St. John’s College, Oxford, with First Class Honors in English. Then Larkin trained to become a librarian, which became his life-long career, ending up as librarian at the University of Hull.
Larkin wrote constantly but did not publish much. (more…)
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Rolleiflex selfie of Philip Larkin and Monica Jones in Paignton, Devon, circa 1957. (From Andrew Motion’s Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life, 1993.)
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The writer Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was born on August 9, 1922, and this essay is part of a commemoration of his centenary. — Ed.
He’s been dead for 37 years, but the Philip Larkin literary industry keeps burbling along, fueled by a seemingly inexhaustible supply of titillating tales, spicy correspondence, and uncollected reviews, diary scraps, and photographs. (more…)
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Philip Larkin
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The writer Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was born on August 9, 1922, and this essay is part of a commemoration of his centenary. — Ed.
Reading the jazz criticism of the poet Philip Larkin today, the most noticeable feature is how much of the music he did not like. His antipathy towards certain major artists now seems almost incomprehensible. (more…)
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It’s doubtful any of these young men will be going on dates with girls after the game.
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In a most unlikely development, the legendary sport of quidditch caused a minor ripple in the press a couple weeks ago. I’m not making this up; it’s has been covered by Deadline, NPC News, and several other media outlets. Maybe it was a slow news day, even with the world coming apart? In any event, there’s a deeper lesson to this that perhaps the reporters themselves didn’t discern, a sober reminder that ingratitude is an ugly thing indeed. (more…)
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Christopher Forth is a white dude at the University of Kansas who will soon be offering his students courses in “Angry White Male Studies.”
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Whoopi Goldberg and Stacey Abrams Say God Gave Women Free Will to Abort Their Fetuses
Have there ever been two more pugnaciously undesirable black women on this multicolored planet than Stacey Abrams and Whoopi Goldberg? Although one can thank cosmic beneficence for the fact that both of them are past breeding age, the idea that they both at one time in their lives had a sex drive, and thus a hardwired instinct to inflict replicas of themselves upon the world, is a haunting and thoroughly objectionable proposition. (more…)
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5,490 wordsPart 6 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 5 here, Part 7 here)
6. Gonzo: Paleocon, Neocon, or Just Con?
I had just begun to doubt some of my strongest convictions when I stumbled upon [Colin Wilson’s The Outsider]. But rather than being wrong, I think that I just don’t express my rightness correctly. — Hunter S. Thompson (more…)
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The Journey
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Is Putin Yul Brenner with hair?
I first saw the 1959 film The Journey on TV when I was a kid watching NBC’s Saturday Night at the Movies. With recent events in Russia, it seemed timely, so I looked it up on YouTube. (more…)
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204 words / 1:21:49Greg Johnson did a solo Ask Me Anything on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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Franz von Stuck, The Spirit of Victory
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This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000. Since our fundraiser started on March 10th, we have raised $111,190.30, which is 37% of our goal. I want to thank all of those who have given so far, and I want to share Howe Abbott-Hiss’s thoughts on why you should give now:
What is best in life? Conan the Barbarian said it was to crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their journalists. But this is only part of the answer. (more…)
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2,161 wordsAndrew Lawton
The Freedom Convoy: The Inside Story of Three Weeks that Shook the World
Toronto: Sutherland House, 2022Andrew Lawton is a senior journalist with the Canadian conservative news website True North, founded by Candice Malcolm. Lawton has written a detailed account of the trucker protest that took over the streets of Canada’s federal capital, Ottawa, for three weeks in the winter of 2022. (more…)
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3,485 wordsNancy Pelosi’s flight landed in Taiwan on August 2 despite very loud and vigorous protests from the People’s Republic of China. For the time being, the Chinese have done little but whine impotently, rattle their sabers, and announce military exercises near and around Taiwan. They’ve declared a state of emergency in the coastal regions nearest to Taiwan, which is expected to last until August 7. Chinese sources are calling this the Fourth Taiwan Crisis. (more…)
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760 wordsI have always been a slow adopter of anything newfangled. I think that is smart. The whiz kids behind the latest app or miracle vaccine don’t know it all. They can’t foresee everything, so they can’t plan for everything. Truth only emerges with time, by trial and error. So if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. This is why it took me more than ten years to change the Counter-Currents site. Thus I was much amused when a friend recently suggested that we need a new site design. I wanted to say, “Slow down there, kiddo . . .” It is the Burkean conservative in me. (more…)
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The face of white supremacy in America today.
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As if black children didn’t already suffer a tremendous disadvantage merely by, you know, being born as black children, now they must suffer the unbearable agony of being snubbed by Muppets and giant cartoon mice.
About two weeks ago, a black mother named Jodi Brown received national attention by posting a video of her two young daughters apparently being snubbed by a giant hairy blue Muppet known as “Rosita” — to my knowledge, the only bilingual Muppet whose origin story says she was born in Mexico — at the Sesame Place theme park in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, which is about a half-hour drive north of Philadelphia. (more…)
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2,306 wordsA terrible signal.
Too weak to even recognize.
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1,624 wordsIf George Costanza of Seinfeld were a real person, he probably would have committed suicide sometime during the show’s fifth season. Much of the humor behind George is how, through an utter lack of self-awareness and shame, he constantly developed elaborate schemes to either hide or feed his sociopathic pettiness. These schemes always unraveled, of course, and the comeuppances always came good and hard, hence the funny.
In the real world, however, there is only so much assault upon one’s dignity a person can endure. Yet George endured, time and time again, in order to entertain millions. (more…)
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455 wordsKnut Hamsun was born Knut Pedersen in Lom, Norway on August 4, 1859. He died in Grimstad, Norway, on February 19, 1952. The author of more than twenty novels, plus poems, short stories, plays, and essays, Hamsun was one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers. His rejection of both Romanticism and naturalism, his emphasis on outsiders and rebels, and his exploration of inner and sometimes extreme states of consciousness, made him a pioneer of literary modernism. (more…)
