Month: December 2020

John Everett Millais’ Joan of Arc, The Maid of Orléans (1865)

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I have both the pleasure of informing Counter-Currents readers of an upcoming novel authored by Mr. Spencer Quinn and of reviewing this latest addition to white nationalist-friendly fiction. When critiquing an author (especially for the first time), I like to get a sense of his Weltanschauung by reading and synthesizing some of his other works in conjunction with the monograph in question. Thus, I will also refer throughout to a few of his salient articles. (more…)

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Charity’s Blade
The Free Speech Library, 2020
Available for purchase here.
See Kathryn S.’ review of the novel here.

The poster had gone up easily. Charity got the angle just right on the first try, putting its top edge perfectly parallel with the ceiling. (more…)

Ivan Bilbin, Igor’s Campaign, 1941.

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It is often said that a new year can be the start of a new life. Along with my own year-end traditions, I have always spent New Year’s Eve reflecting on the past while looking forward to each new year. Due to the events of 2020, it is difficult for many of us to have a positive outlook for the future. After reading The Tale of Igor’s Campaign this week, I was reminded that our ancestors have also faced difficult times and uncertain futures. (more…)

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Note: Our livestream with Paul Waggener has been postponed to an as yet undetermined date, so we will do an Ask Me Anything session to wrap up the year and our annual fundraiser.

Sunday, December 27, at noon PST, 3 EST, 9 CET

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Phil Eiger Newmann, Final Notice, 2020.

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Apparently, Uncle Sam has decided to dress as Ebenezer Scrooge this Christmas.

I don’t know much about economics — if I did, I’d be a millionaire rather than a writer — but I know enough to realize that the US economy is wrecked beyond belief. (more…)

Plato and Aristotle, detail from Raphael’s The School of Athens, 1510-1511.

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1. Introduction

In my essay “Heidegger Against the Traditionalists,” I sketched a critique of Guénon and Evola from a Heideggerian perspective. Although I raised several objections to Traditionalism, the crucial one was this: Guénon and Evola are thoroughly (and uncritically) invested in the Western metaphysical tradition.  According to Heidegger, however, it is precisely the Western metaphysical tradition that is responsible for all the modern ills decried by the Traditionalists. (more…)

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Counter-Currents is trying to raise $150,000 this year, and we have been dashing through the snow toward that goal since our last update. We have now received 896 donations totaling $144,991.75, including our recent $5,000 matching grant, which is now “in the bag,” as Santa might say. We are enormously grateful for everyone’s generosity.

This means that Counter-Currents has already surpassed last year’s fundraiser by $20,000, (more…)

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.) (more…)

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The Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year, gave me the gift of time to reflect on much that has been on my mind. I hope you’ll use the dark days to do the same, remember old traditions, and find the beauty that still exists. When the nights are long and cold, we as a people have always turned inward to search, and outward to create something beautiful.

Autumn collapses into winter through low-hanging gray clouds and lands in the deep-cold. (more…)

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Oh, cruel irony of fate! I attended a Black Lives Matter demonstration just as the nation started to move into the holiday slumber. How did I get to such a point, you ask? I was visiting with family and one of the young ladies in my extended brood — driver’s permit age — had planned a demonstration near the town’s main thoroughfare.

The young lady’s mom and other relations deftly stepped away from any involvement in the affair, (more…)

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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. (more…)

Jared George

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On this episode of Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson is joined by Jared George of The Great Order to discuss current events, Jared’s work and music, and your questions. Topics include: (more…)

Laura Towler

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On this episode of Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson is joined by Laura Towler, deputy leader of Patriotic Alternative, to discuss current events, Laura’s work, and your questions. Topics include: (more…)