Counter-Currents/North American New Right Newsletter: May 2013

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Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,

Due to technical problems, I am posting this letter on the front page rather than emailing it to our mailing list.

1. Our Readership and Web Traffic

If you visited Counter-Currents in May, you were one of 95,667 unique visitors. 

Our traffic rose dramatically near the end of May due to two factors: first, our commemoration of Evola’s birthday went viral, resulting in thousands of reads of Evola articles; second, Dominique Venner’s suicide on May 21 gave us our highest traffic ever on May 21 and May 22, as Counter-Currents is the primary outlet of English-language writings by and about Venner.

2. Our Webzine

In May, we added 80 posts to the website, for a total of 2,686 posts since going online on June 11, 2010.

3. Our Fundraising Efforts

Counter-Currents, like all journals that go against the current of time, needs the support of donors to thrive and grow. Our financial situation, and what you can do to help out, is outlined in my article “Movement or ‘Stuckment.’” Please consider making a donation today.

4. May’s Top 20 Articles (with date of publication and number of reads)

1. Dominique Venner, “The Reasons for a Voluntary Death,” May 21, 2013: 10,389
2. Greg Johnson, “Featured Author: Dominique Venner,” March 12, 2011: 9,675
3. Dominique Venner, “The May 26 Protests and Heidegger,” May 21, 2013: 5,864
4. Trevor Lynch, Review of The Dark Knight, September 27, 2010: 5,358
5. Matt Parrott, “Taking Back May Day,” May 3, 2013: 4,471
6. Greg Johnson, “Premature Populism,” May 3, 2013: 4,109
7. Jonathan Bowden, “George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four,” July 4, 2011: 4,087
8. F. C. Stoughton, “Woolwich and the Dynamics of ‘Awareness,’” May 23, 2013: 3,964
9. Greg Johnson, “Suicide in the Cathdral: The Death of Dominique Venner,” May 24, 2013: 3,961
10. Greg Johnson, “R. H. S. Stolfi’s Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny,” Part 1, May 7, 2013: 2,943 
11. Gregory Hood, “Race: The First Principle,” May 14, 2013: 2,882
12. Gregory Hood, “The Hollow Empire: The System Against Syria . . . and Russia,” May 9, 2013: 2,844
13. Andrew Hamilton, “Eugenics Versus Race,” May 6, 2013: 2,694
14. Andrew Hamilton, “The German Military Baton,” May 10, 2013: 2,681
15. Julius Evola, “Zen and the West,” May 16, 2013: 2,450
16. Greg Johnson, “On Violence,” May 10, 2013: 2,420
17. Julius Evola, “Historiography of the Right,” May 1, 2013: 2,292
18. Greg Johnson, “R. H. S. Stolfi’s Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny,” Part 2, May 8, 2013: 2,248
19. Julius Evola, “The Right to One’s Own Life in East and West,” May 6, 2013: 2,238
20. Domitius Corbulo, “The Enlightenment from a New Right Perspective,” May 13, 2013: 2,217

Thanks to all of our writers, not just the people in the top 20!

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. France
3. Germany
4. United Kingdom
5. Canada
6. China
7. Sweden
8. Australia
9. Portugal
10. Spain
11. Switzerland
12. Netherlands
13. Japan
14. Russia
15. Italy
16. Brazil
17. Finland
18. Czech Republic
19. Poland
20. Ireland

6. Where Our Readers Are: The Top 20 Cities

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

Ten of our top 20 are in the United States. Two are in Canada: Toronto and Montreal. Two are in Australia: Melbourne and Sydney. Seven are national capitals: London, Berlin, Stockholm, Washington, D.C., Dublin, Helsinki, and Paris. Paris shot from number 20 in April to number 1 in May because of the Venner suicide.

7. Upcoming Book Projects

Our next five books are Jonathan Bowden’s Pulp Fascism, Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s “I do not belong to the Baader-Meinhof group” and Other Poems (June), Savitri Devi’s The Lightning and the Sun (July), Greg Johnson’s New Right vs. Old Right (July), and North American New Right, vol. 2 (July or August).

The other titles listed below are in rough chronological order:

22. Leo Yankevich, Journey Late at Night: Poems and Translations (June)
23. Julius Evola, East and West (essays in comparative philosophy and spirituality)
24. Francis Parker Yockey, The World in Flames and Other Essays, ed. Kerry Bolton
25. Savitri Devi, Pilgrimage
26. James J. O’Meara, The Eldritch Evola . . . and Others: Traditionalist Meditations on Literature, Art, and Culture
27. Trevor Lynch, Bride of Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies
28. Saint-Loup, Hitler or Judah? A Second Nuremberg Tribunal
29. Anthony M. Ludovici, Confessions of an Anti-Feminist: The Autobiography of Anthony M. Ludovici
30. Derek Hawthorne, Above the Clouds: Arnold Fanck, Leni Riefenstahl, and the Metaphysics of Sex (on the German mountain films)
31. Collin Cleary, L’appel aux dieux (French translation of Summoning the Gods)
32. Andy Nowicki, Lost Violent Souls (short stories)
33. Mark Turley, From Nuremberg to Nineveh: War, Peace, and the Making of Modernity

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None of this would be possible without our writers, donors, and proofreaders; our webmaster/Managing Editor; and above all, you, our readers. Thank you!

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