Monthly Archives: December 2017

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Since our last update, we have received 7 donations totaling $640, which brings our grand total to $60,234.37, which puts us over the top of our $60,000 goal. I am going to credit the surplus to our 2018 fundraiser, which commences now. I want to thank all of our readers, writers, and donors for making 2017 Counter-Currents’ best year ever. Read more …

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New from Counter-Currents!
Spencer J. Quinn’s White Like You

Spencer J. Quinn

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Spencer Quinn
White Like You
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2017
454 pages

Hardcover: $50

Paperback: $25

Release date: December 31, 2017 Read more …

Published: December 31, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | 6 Responses

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The White Nationalist Who Stole Christmas

Chad Crowley

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Overall, the White Nationalist movement is positive. The “positivity” of the movement emanates from our collective ethnonationalistic desire for transformational change. Read more …

Published: December 31, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Chad Crowley, Faustian man, Friedrich Nietzsche, grand strategy, North American New Right, originals | 3 Responses

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An Academic Study of the North American New Right

Greg Johnson

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Damon T. Berry
Blood and Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism
Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2017

When I was in graduate school, one of my professors likened grading undergraduate exams to fever dreams, in which the events of the day — or, in his case, a whole semester’s worth of lectures — come back in garbled form. I have had the same experience reading about my ideas in the mainstream media. Read more …

Published: December 31, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Asatru, Ben Klassen, book reviews, Christianity, European New Right, Greg Johnson, metapolitics, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, Revilo Oliver, Savitri Devi, Stephen Flowers, the Christian Question, Tyr, white nationalism, William Pierce | 8 Responses

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The Christian Question in White Nationalism

Greg Johnson

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There is a strong anti-Christian tendency in contemporary White Nationalism.

The argument goes something like this: Christianity is one of the primary causes of the decline of the white race for two reasons. Read more …

Published: December 31, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Christianity, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, reprints, the Christian Question, white nationalism | 52 Responses

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The Dark Rebirth:
Report on the Asgardsrei 2017 Festival & Pact of Steel Conference (Kiev, Ukraine, 16–17.12.2017)

Jarosław Ostrogniew

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Asgardsrei Fest is currently one of the best known and most uncompromising events in the European black metal scene. The spirit of the festival is a voice of dissent against two trends of degeneration in black metal today.

Published: December 28, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Black Metal, Ernst Junger, Goatmoon, Jarosław Ostrogniew, M8l8th, metapolitics, North American New Right, Olena Semenyaka, originals, Russia, Ukraine | 14 Responses

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The Architecture of Imre Makovecz

Alex Graham

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Imre Makovecz was one of the great architects of the late twentieth century and the most notable proponent of organic architecture in Hungary. His works are characterized by an idiosyncratic style that melds modern influences with motifs inspired by Hungarian folklore. He designed nearly five hundred buildings over the course of his life, about half of which were built.

Published: December 28, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged A. Graham, architecture, articles, Hungary, identitarianism, nationalism, North American New Right, originals | 6 Responses

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Bring Back Prohibition!

Alan Smithee

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We all know the story.

Maybe we heard it in our high school history class.

Maybe we went through a libertarian phase where it was repeated ad nauseam as an argument for legalizing marijuana, cocaine, meth, and other hardcore substances—even if you dislike the substances themselves and would rather see them disappear from the face of the Earth.

Maybe we even repeated it ourselves! Read more …

Published: December 27, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged alcohol, articles, drunkards, libertarianism, North American New Right, originals, Prohibition | 65 Responses

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What Does Syria Mean for Us?

Doug Huntington

Presidents Bashar Al Assad and Vladimir Putin at Hmeymim Air Base in Syria’s Latakia province

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The Syrian Civil War is practically over. The Islamic State is a shadow of a shadow of its former self, controlling no major cities or towns in Iraq or Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a massive military withdrawal from Syria. Read more …

Published: December 26, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Doug Huntington, North American New Right, originals, refugees, repatriation, Russia, Syria, Syrian Civil War, US foreign policy | 7 Responses

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The Many Faces of the Jewish Elite, Part 1
This is Why We Have Anti-Semitism

Spencer J. Quinn

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Part 2 here

John Podhoretz

As I was scrolling through Gab the other day, I witnessed a remarkable little dig at the Jews. A well-known Dissident Right personality named John Rivers shared a tweet by Commentary Magazine editor John Podhorertz’s and commented, “look at this fucking Jew.”

Before I even had a chance to read J-Pod’s tweet, my normie instincts kicked in, and I thought to myself, “My, that was pretty nasty, wasn’t it?” Like many of us, I was neither born with the red pill, nor did I have it thrust upon me. Instead, I achieved it. With the blacks, Hispanics, and Muslims, it took only a few years after paying my own taxes for the first time. But for the Jewish Question, alas, it took decades. Read more …

Published: December 26, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, diversity, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, Spencer Quinn, Viktor Orbán, white dispossession | 33 Responses

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The Counter-Currents 2017 Fundraiser
Matching Grant Update

Greg Johnson

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Since our last update, we have received 4 donations totaling $2,040. One thousand of that will be matched, bringing the total up to $3,040. I want to thank these donors for their sustained and generous support. Without you, Counter-Currents would not survive.This brings our grand total to $59,594.37. That puts us only $405.63 from our annual goal with just a few days remaining. So, if you have been hanging back because you want to be the donor who puts Counter-Currents over the top, now is the time. And to give you some added incentive to spring into action, if you are the donor who gets us past the $60,000 mark, Read more …

Published: December 26, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2017 fundraiser, news item | 2 Responses

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What Socrates Knew:
Socratic Ignorance, Eros, & the Daimonion, Part 2 of 2

Greg Johnson

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Part 2 of 2

Author’s Note:

On August 31st, 1999 I gave the second lecture course called “What Socrates Knew.” What follows is a transcription of the second half of that lecture by V.S. The readings referred to are passages from Plato’s dialogues Euthydemus, Apology, Theages, and Symposium. The thirty Socrates theses referred to are listed below, as are links to the audio of the lecture.

Published: December 26, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, ethics, Greg Johnson, living well, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, self-actualization, Socrates | Leave a comment

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Navidad, la belleza de la vida

Dominique Venner

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Traducción por Francisco Albanese; English version here

Nos acercamos a la Navidad (otro nombre para el solsticio de invierno). Asociada al árbol de hojas perennes, la Navidad ha sido celebrada en los países europeos desde tiempos inmemoriales como la gran fiesta que presagia el renacimiento de la naturaleza y la vida después del reposo del invierno. Uno no puede dejar de pensar que Europa, también, algún día emergerá de su actual Dormición, incluso si es más larga que el ciclo de la naturaleza. Read more …

Published: December 25, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged aesthetics, beauty, Christmas, Dominique Venner, ethics, in Spanish, in translation, North American New Right, originals, Stoicism, translations | Leave a comment

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Christmas:
Beauty in Life

Dominique Venner

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Translated by Greg Johnson; Spanish translation here

We are approaching Christmas (another name for the winter solstice). Associated with the evergreen tree, Christmas has always been celebrated in European countries since time immemorial as the great feast presaging the revival of nature and life after the repose of winter. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged aesthetics, beauty, Christmas, Dominique Venner, ethics, North American New Right, originals, Stoicism, translations | 1 Response

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Christmas Reading at Counter-Currents

Greg Johnson

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Counter-Currents has published a wealth of articles on the meaning and history of Christmas, as well as the commercialization and denigration of Christmas in contemporary culture. Please enjoy and share widely though social media.

The Meaning and History of Christmas

Collin Cleary, “Some Thoughts on Yule“
Jef Costello, “Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily“

Published: December 24, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Christmas, Greg Johnson | Leave a comment

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Sick Noir for the Holiday

Margot Metroland

It was never really wonderful.

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A few years back—let us say, forty—some TV boffins decided there was a perfect and archetypal Christmas film that must be broadcast every Yuletide season. And that film was the disturbing and surreal It’s a Wonderful Life with James Stewart. A downer-fable about failure and suicide, it flopped resoundingly with critics and public alike when it came out in 1946. Director Frank Capra himself counted it among his least favorite efforts. Personally I’ve never met anyone who really likes the movie. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Christmas, Film Noir, Margot Metroland, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints | 7 Responses

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Buttercup Dew

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If only! This film can be called entertaining, but certainly not “good.” Most of the time I was holding my hands out in laughing disbelief at the shockingly vulgar, transparent, and trite antics of the producers in this naked cash grab. Read more …

Published: December 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Buttercup Dew, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Last Jedi | 17 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 206
The Last [White Male] Jedi

Counter-Currents Radio

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Audio version: To listen in a player, use the one above or click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” To subscribe to the CC podcast RSS feed, click here.

Greg Johnson and John Morgan discuss Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Also, see Trevor Lynch’s review here. See also E;R’s “The Farce Engorges” video. Read more …

Published: December 22, 2017 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Tagged Counter-Currents Radio, Counter-Currents Radio Weekly, Greg Johnson, heroism, John Morgan, movie reviews, podcasts, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Zen | 5 Responses

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What Socrates Knew:
Socratic Ignorance, Eros, & the Daimonion, Part 1 of 2

Greg Johnson

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Part 1 of 2

Author’s Note:

On August 31st, 1999 I gave the second lecture course called “What Socrates Knew.” What follows is a transcription of the first half of the lecture by V.S. The readings referred to are passages from Plato’s dialogues Euthydemus, Apology, Theages, and Symposium. The thirty Socrates theses referred to are listed below, as are links to the audio of the lecture.

The “Thirty Socratic Theses” are: Read more …

Published: December 22, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, ethics, Greg Johnson, living well, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, self-actualization, Socrates | Leave a comment

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Some Thoughts on Yule

Collin Cleary

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Yule is the midwinter festival celebrated by my ancestors and by Germanic neo-pagans today. Midwinter is a time when much of nature seems to die or to depart. The trees are stripped of their leaves. The birds abandon us, flying off to warmer climes. Bears, badgers, chipmunks, and squirrels hibernate. Water freezes over. The earth is covered in ice and snow, so that nothing can grow. The air is so chilled that when we are out in it for too long, death becomes something tangible, and we rush inside. Read more …

Published: December 22, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Christmas, Collin Cleary, finitude, holidays, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Yule | 3 Responses

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Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

Jef Costello

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Philippe de Champaigne, Saint Augustin, 1645-1650

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The key problem of our age is disconnection from truth. This takes several distinct forms. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of lies. As everyone knows, modern, western civilization is founded upon lies about human nature, culture, and history. The most significant of these – underlying, in one form of another, most of the rest – is the equality lie; the myth of human equality, which is the chief myth of our age. (“Myth,” as most of my readers know, can have a positive or a negative connotation, as there are salutary myths; here, obviously, I am using the term in its purely negative sense.) Read more …

Published: December 21, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, authenticity, ethics, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, Parmenides, philosophy, relativism, truth | 4 Responses

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Johann Gottfried Herder on Music & Nationalism

Alex Graham

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Johann Gottfried Herder
Song Loves the Masses: Herder on Music and Nationalism
Translated and edited by Philip V. Bohlman
Oakland: University of California Press, 2017

Johann Gottfried Herder was an 18th-century German philosopher, theologian, translator, and critic. He wrote on many subjects: political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of history, metaphysics, linguistics, philology, art, religion, mythology, and music. Read more …

Published: December 21, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged A. Graham, book reviews, ethnic identity, ethnonationalism, Giambattista Vico, Johann Gottfried von Herder, North American New Right, originals | 7 Responses

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Lauren Southern the Sex Worker

Irmin Vinson

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It is possible that this will be the dumbest piece of writing in the history of Counter-Currents. That’s not my fault. The subject matter is dumb, and it will be hard to rise above it. I’ll do my best, and because the subject matter is dumb, I’ll be brief.

Among the recent charges against Lauren Southern is the claim that she is a sex worker who poses in revealing clothing in order to encourage men to masturbate to her pictures. Read more …

Published: December 21, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Irmin Vinson, Lauren Southern, North American New Right, originals, the Alt Light, Weev, white nationalism | 19 Responses

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The Soros-Bergoglio Axis

Joseph S. Salemi

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I know that many readers of Counter-Currents are anti-Christian, as a subset of their larger rejection of universalist ideologies that are color-blind and race-blind. This was the position of the late Revilo P. Oliver, whose life-long study of religions had led him to the conclusion that both liberalism and Marxism were “succedaneous religions”— Read more …

Published: December 20, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Catholicism, Christianity, George Soros, globalization, Joseph S. Salemi, non-white immigration, North American New Right, originals, Pope Francis, Revilo P. Oliver, universalism, white dispossession | 20 Responses

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The Crèche Stays:
Thoughts on Roy Moore’s Loss in the Alabama Senate Race

Spencer J. Quinn

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After watching Republican candidate Roy Moore go down to Democrat Doug Jones in the Alabama Senate race on December 12th, I was reminded of an interesting and perhaps overlooked scene from the movie Charlie Wilson’s War. Read more …

Published: December 20, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Christianity, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn | 2 Responses

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J. K. Rowling & Her Fans Still Have Traditional White Views

Howe Abbott-Hiss

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With her Harry Potter series of books and later movies, British author J. K. Rowling has obviously struck a chord in the psyche of white audiences. Despite her work being throughly saturated with social justice messaging, the fundamental premises of the story are an expression of more traditional, “elitist,” and even “racist” attitudes which white populations continue to hold on some level. Read more …

Published: December 20, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, elitism, fantasy literature, Harry Potter, Howe Abbott-Hiss, J. K. Rowling, meritocracy, North American New Right, originals, race realism | 3 Responses

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Trevor Lynch

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The Last Jedi isn’t an awful film. Not Force Awakens awful. But it is pretty bad. Down there at the bottom of the scrap heap, with The Force Awakens and The Phantom Menace. The question on my mind was whether The Force Awakens was just a Phantom Menace moment, a rocky start to a trilogy that redeemed itself with two pretty good films. (Yes, I like Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. Fight me.) But no, it was not to be. It was not hard, of course, for The Last Jedi to improve upon The Force Awakens. Read more …

Published: December 19, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Trevor Lynch | 22 Responses

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Grey December Zeitgeist:
Shades of Spengler, Evola, Nietzsche, & Bukowski

J. J. Przybylski

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I’m old. I’m grey as December. I’m thinking about moving to a Senior Citizen’s Home that sits near the Liberty Bell and Independence Mall. Read more …

Published: December 19, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Friedrich Nietzsche, J. J. Przybylski, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, trust, urban life, white dispossession | 12 Responses

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The Inevitability of Ethnonationalism

Alan Smithee

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Liberals are set on the expectation of a future where race no longer matters.

The worldview of the liberal progressive is one where the world is fundamentally born in “sin” (patriarchy, racism, etc.) but ultimately redeems itself—inevitably, through the laws of progress—and ultimately takes on a form that is in the end radically different from the form it was born in. Read more …

Published: December 18, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, ethnocentrism, ethnonationalism, miscegenation, North American New Right, originals, race-mixing | 28 Responses

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The Lost City of Z

Alex Graham

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The Lost City of Z is based on a recent book of the same name by David Grann about the British explorer Percy Fawcett’s quest for a legendary ancient lost city in the Amazon rainforest. Its premise brings to mind epic films like Lawrence of Arabia or Apocalypse Now (indeed several scenes are uncannily reminiscent of Coppola). However ultimately The Lost City of Z lacks the grandeur of the former and the hallucinatory intensity of the latter. It is also burdened by the clutter of several secondary themes (romance/family, war, colonialism/racism, classism, sexism) and the ham-fisted insertion of modern liberal talking points into the plot. Read more …