520 words Since our last update, we have received 5 donations totaling $292, which will be matched for a total of $584. Our new grand total is $34,591. Thank you for your generous support! (more…)
Month: October 2012
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I respect Pat Buchanan, but I respectfully disagree with his endorsement of Mitt Romney and his reasons for that endorsement. (more…)
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Part 1 of 3
1. Introduction
This is the second of two essays on the Germanic cosmology or worldview. (more…)
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1944
The main events dealt with in this pamphlet are:
(1) The suppression of the paper-money issue in Pennsylvania, A.D. 1750. (more…)
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Counter-Currents has republished four of Ezra Pound’s works on economics. These texts were already available online. (more…)
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Since our last update, we have received 7 donations totaling $1,056, which will be matched for a total of $2,112. Our new grand total is $34,007. We thank you all for your generous support! (more…)
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“A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.” — Ezra Pound
One of the ongoing projects of the North American New Right is the recovery of our tradition. One does not have to go too far back before one discovers that every great European thinker and artist is a “Right Wing extremist” by today’s standards.
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The mumble-jumble dones on, the hangman waits;
the shabby surviving
Leaders of Germany are to learn that Vae Victis
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Ezra Pound was arguably the finest American-born poet and a first rate Classical scholar. He happened to be born in Idaho, a state not noted for either its poets or Classicists. It was, however, a center of the American Populist Movement, which pitted the (usually family) farmer against the banks and railroads. (more…)
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“The earth belongs to the living.”
— Thomas JeffersonDefinitions
Increment of association: Advantage men get from working together instead of each on his own, e.g., crew that can work a ship whereas the men separately couldn’t sail ships each on his own.
Cultural heritage: Increment of association with all past inventiveness, (more…)
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A reader asks why our Summer Fundraiser ends on Halloween, rather than on the Autumnal Equinox. Aside from the pragmatic reason that Halloween gives us more time to reach our goal, Hugh MacDonald points out that in Celtic pagan rites, October 31st is the end of the season of light/summer/the harvest. These Celtic rites were later fused with the rites of Roman festivals of Pomona, Lemuria, and Parentalia, and the Christian rites of the evening before All Soul’s Day to create our modern Halloween. (more…)
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Fecundity Demands a Cruel Balance in Anthony Burgess’ The Wanting Seed
“. . . one could not perhaps, after all, and it was a pity, make art out of that gentle old liberalism. The new books were full of sex and death, perhaps the only materials for a writer.”
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On Wednesday, October 24, 2012, some friends and I met at Jupiter Pizza in Berkeley and then went to see Camille Paglia speaking on her latest book Glittering Images at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
The auditorium was almost packed. Paglia spoke for about 90 minutes, answered one question for about 10 minutes more, then signed books for an hour or so. (more…)
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For nearly 50 years between 1940 and 1988, Donald De Lue (1897–1988) may have executed more monumental public commissions than any other sculptor of his generation. An iconoclastic figurative artist in an era dominated by apostles of ugliness in art, art criticism, and academia, De Lue’s monumental sculpture adorns such sites as Valley Forge, the Gettysburg Battlefield, Omaha Beach at Normandy, and the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
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In a previous life, before I pledged fealty to the art of the written word — a pursuit for which I have subsequently won fame, fortune, and unbounded acclaim — a different calling beckoned for a time. (more…)
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Portuguese translation here
“And Theompopus, when a stranger kept saying, as he showed him kindness, that in his own city he was called a lover of Sparta, remarked: ‘My good sir, it were better for thee to be called a lover of thine own city.’” – Plutarch[1]
Just as Mussolini looked to Ancient Rome for the model of a healthy, organic society, the Ancient Romans looked to Sparta. (more…)
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Camille Paglia
Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars
New York: Pantheon, 2012Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990) is the greatest work of art and literary criticism since the days of Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater. It is a work of extraordinary ambition, the most sweeping and synoptic book on Western civilization since Spengler’s Decline of the West. (more…)
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Since our last update, we have received 3 donations totaling $452, which will be matched for a total of $904. Our new grand total is $28,135. We thank you all for your generous support! (more…)
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There were two other people in the entire theater when I entered. About twenty minutes in, they were kicked out – for sneaking into a showing of Atlas Shrugged Part II. I would conquer this film in the Ayn Rand manner – totally alone.
One has to admire John Aglialoro, the producer of Atlas Shrugged Parts I and II. A successful businessman, these films may be his own John Galt Line. (more…)
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The paperback of Kerry Bolton’s Artists of the Right arrived at our offices yesterday, and it is beautiful! We have now shipped all paperback orders of Artists of the Right.
If you have not ordered Artists of the Right yet, do so today.
The hardcovers have been printed and are in transit. We should have them next week, and they will be shipped immediately.
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Since our last update, we have received 4 donations totaling $305, which will be matched for a total of $610. Our new grand total is $27,231. We thank you all for your generous support! (more…)
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Jean Parvulesco is not exactly a household name in the West. All of his books remain untranslated from French, in no small part due to the complex, idiosyncratic prose style they contain. Parvulesco is a living mystery of European literature. (more…)
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It’s a tradition. This is the second year that Counter-Currents has run a fundraising campaign that starts on June 11, the anniversary of our debut online, and runs until Halloween, when the Great Pumpkin rises from the Pumpkin Patch and brings the season to an end. (more…)
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