Elihu Vedder, “The Questioner of the Sphinx,” 1863, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,

There is a lot of good news from Counter-Currents this month.

1. Our Readership and Web Traffic

In terms of web traffic, November set new records. Our unique visitors went from 81,739 to 110,851 — a jump of 35.6%. Our visits went from 157,152 to 241,552 — a jump of 53.7%. Our pages viewed went from 410,096 to 1,044,628 — a jump of 154.7%.

2. Our Webzine

In November, we added 88 posts to the website, for a total of 2,231 posts since going online on June 11, 2010. We also added over 500 new comments.

3. November’s Top 20 Articles (with date of publication and number of reads)

1. Gregory Hood, “A White Nationalist Memo to White Male Republicans,” November 9, 2012: 21,602
2. Greg Johnson, “The Republican Party Must Perish,” November 6, 2012: 5,028
3. Gregory Hood, Review of Scarface, February 27, 2011: 4,996
4. Jack Donovan, “‘I’m sorry, I just don’t keep with with the ladies’ gossip magazines,'” November 19, 2012: 4,922
5. Trevor Lynch, Review of Pulp Fiction, June 29, 2011: 4,743
6. Jef Costello, “The Importance of James Bond,” November 8, 2012: 4,516
7. Dan Michaels, “Exposing Stalin’s Plan to Conquer Europe,” April 21, 2011: 4,251
8. Gregory Hood, “Why Romney Must Lose,” November 5, 2012: 3,624
9. Greg Johnson, “Introduction to Aristotle’s Politics,” Part 1, June 21, 2012:  3,482
10. Mark Dyal and Nick Fiorello, “Overcoming the Bourgeois Mind and Body,” November 11, 2012: 3,358
11. Jonathan Bowden, “Frank Frazetta: The New Arno Breker,” November 19, 2010: 3,065
12. John Morgan, Review of Last Resort, September 28, 2012: 2,902
13. Andrew Hamilton, “The Racial Makeup of the Turks,” March 25, 2011: 2,800
14. Andrew Hamilton, “Flawed Racism,” November 19, 2012: 2,765
15. Ted Sallis, “Balkanizing America,” November 7, 2012: 2,755
16. Jeff Hilson, “Auguste Rodin,” September 10, 2010: 2,515
17. Matt Parrott, “Our Little Secret About the Hispanic Panic,” November 12, 2012: 2,450
18. Sir Oswald Mosley, “The Extension of Patriotism,” November 16, 2012: 2,301
19. Matt Parrott, “Déjà Vu: Justin Raimondo’s Attack on the Golden Dawn,” November 6, 2012: 2,270
20. Gregory Hood, “What Makes Republicans Tick?” November 2, 2012: 2,266

First of all, special congratulations are due Gregory Hood, who not only had three of the top 10 articles (and a 4th in the top 20), but whose #1 article went viral. It was read more than 21,000 times on Counter-Currents alone in less than a month, and there is no telling how many other times it was read elsewhere.

Andrew Hamilton, Greg Johnson, and Matt Parrott all had two articles each in the top 20.

November’s top articles are a remarkable blend of political commentary, history (Stalin’s plans to conquer Europe), high culture (Aristotle, Rodin), and popular culture (Scarface, Pulp Fiction, James Bond, Frank Frazetta, Hugo Schwyzer, and Last Resort). Thirteen of our top 20 articles were published in November, and the rest were older articles that people are finding through web searches.

4. Our Top Ten Podcasts

Counter-Currents is launching a new project, the Counter-Currents Radio Network. You can learn more details here. In December we will be rolling out a new website for the CCRN. In the meantime, we are posting podcasts on our front page. (Pardon the clutter!)

Here are our top ten podcasts with their air date and the number of downloads and listens. (This does not include downloads through iTunes. Our iTunes subscribers jumped from around 560 to 626 during November.) The average number of listens is up significantly over last month:

1. Greg Johnson, Kevin MacDonald, and Matt Parrott, Round-Table on Secession, November 15, 2012: 8,624
2. Greg Johnson, Matt Parrott, and Robert Stark, Post-Election Roundtable, November 8, 2012: 5,940
3. Robert Stark, Interview with Ramzpaul, November 9, 2012: 5,804
4. Robert Stark, Interview with Kevin MacDonald, November 11, 2012: 4,068
5. Matt Heimbach, “Thoughts and Observations,” November 12, 2012: 3,936
6. Robert Stark, Interview with James J. O’Meara, November 27, 2012: 3,684
7. Attack the System, Interview with Robert N. Taylor, November 11, 2012: 3,514
8. The Fighting Side of Me, “Pastor Terry Jones and Terry Tremaine,” November 11, 2012: 3,012
9. Eur Hour, “Communicating with Whites,” November 12, 2012: 3,004
10. Robert Stark, Interview with Dan Canuckistan, November 12, 2012: 2,996

5. Where Our Readers Are: The Top 20 Countries

Our web statistics program gives us a country-by-country breakdown of our readership. Here are the top 20 countries:

1. United States
2. Great Britain
3. Canada
4. Australia
5. Germany
6. Sweden
7. France
8. Brazil
9. The Netherlands
10. Finland
11. Norway
12. India
13. Spain
14. Poland
15. Ireland
16. Denmark
17. Czech Republic
18. Greece
19. Croatia
20. Italy

6. Where Our Readers Are: The Top 20 Cities

1. New York City
2. London
3. Sydney
4. San Francisco
5. Melbourne
6. Los Angeles
7. Chicago
8. Stockholm
9. Toronto
10. Houston
11. Washington, D.C.
12. Seattle
13. Dublin
14. Athens
15. Philadelphia
16. Berlin
17. Helsinki
18. Zagreb
19. Copenhagen
20. Paris

Eight of our top 20 cities are in the United States. Three are on the West Coast of North America: San Francisco, Seattle, and Los Angeles. Two are in Australia: Melbourne and Sydney.  One is in Canada: Toronto.  Ten are national capitals: London, Berlin, Stockholm, Athens, Washington, D.C., Dublin, Helsinki, Zagreb, Copenhagen, and Paris.

7. New Books

In November, Counter-Currents published two titles: Kerry Bolton’s Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence and James J. O’Meara’s The Homo and the Negro: Masculinist Meditations on Politics and Popular Culture. Kindle versions will be available within a week.

8. Upcoming Book Projects

In December, we are working to get three books to the printers: Savitri Devi’s And Time Rolls On, Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies (with a Foreword by Kevin MacDonald), and Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s “I do not belong to the Baader-Meinhof group” and Other Poems.

The other titles listed below are in rough chronological order:

18. Savitri Devi, The Lightning and the Sun (January)
19. Greg Johnson, New Right vs. Old Right and Other Essays (January)
20. Savitri Devi, Pilgrimage
21. William Joyce, Twilight Over England, with an Introduction by Greg Johnson
22. Francis Parker Yockey, The World in Flames and Other Essays, ed. Kerry Bolton
23. Saint-Loup, Hitler or Judah? A Second Nuremberg Tribunal
24. Derek Hawthorne, Above the Clouds: Arnold Fanck, Leni Riefenstahl, and the Metaphysics of Sex (on the German mountain films)
25. Collin Cleary, L’appel aux dieux (French translation of Summoning the Gods)

Other longer term projects include Anthony M. Ludovici’s Confessions of an Anti-Feminist: The Autobiography of Anthony M. Ludovici, ed. John V. Day, Julius Evola’s East and West: Essays in Comparative Philosophy, a new edition of Brooks Adams’ The Law of Civilization and Decay with an Introduction by Greg Johnson, and a collection of Alain de Benoist’s essays on Ernst Jünger.

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Once again, I want to thank our writers, donors, and proofreaders; our webmaster/Managing Editor; and above all, you, our readers, for making Counter-Currents possible.

Greg Johnson
Editor-in-Chief
Counter-Currents Publishing Ltd.
& North American New Right