Tucked away into a plandemic relief act, there was an appropriation included toward substance abuse harm reduction programs, with the modest title Notice Of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) No. SP-22-001. The total aid toward that was $30 million — not such a big deal in terms of major government programs, such as a typical spit-in-your-eye war. Given the number of American adults who pay income tax, this means the average working stiff will fork over about 20 cents for it. (more…)
Month: February 2022
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February 23, 2022 Counter-Currents Radio
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 418 The Writers’ Bloc with Endeavour on George Grant’s Lament for a Nation
On another exciting episode of The Writers’ Bloc, longtime friend of the show Endeavour joined host Nick Jeelvy to discuss the classic of Canadian nationalism, George Grant’s Lament for a Nation, also touching on current events in Canada and elsewhere, and it is now available for download and online listening.
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February 22, 2022 Greg Johnson
Counter-Currents Will Be at AFPACIII This Weekend
Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,
We’re going to AFPAC (the America First Political Action Conference)! (more…)
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You’ve seen these films, haven’t you, my man? — Manhunter
The sovereign is he who decides on the state of exception: If there is some person or institution, in a given polity, capable of bringing about a total suspension of the law and then to use extra-legal force to normalize the situation, then that person or institution is the sovereign in that polity. — Carl Schmitt, Political Theology 5 (more…)
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Brianna Kupfer was born in 1997, a year in which many of you reading this may have been older teenagers, fresh adults, or middle-aged. Maybe you were just getting started in putting your adult life in order by buying a home, getting married, or perhaps having your first child. With your life ahead of you, you may have felt optimistic. In the 1990s, it was still not that difficult to join the middle class, and the commanding heights of our society were nowhere near as anti-white as they are today — at least not openly. (more…)
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Julie Kelly
January 6: How Democrats Used the Capital Protest to Launch a War on Terror Against the Political Right
New York: Post Hill Press, 2022The stampede of Trump supporters in and around the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 was a big nothing, and a revolutionary event at the same time. The ultimate meaning and endpoint of January 6 has yet to be fully understood, but a decent overall account of the event has emerged from Julie Kelly, a reporter for American Greatness. (more…)
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The last episode of Counter-Currents Radio featured Greg Johnson reading from and discussing his essay “Reflections on Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political,” as well as answering YOUR QUESTIONS, as always, and it is now available for download and online listening.
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The Concept of the Political
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Liberia Celebrates 200 Years of Magnificent Failure
To assert — as does the entire modern racial-justice-industrial complex without any hesitation or equivocation — that any disparities regarding income, health, and longevity between black and white Americans are due to white maleficence is to ignore how blacks fare when they are entirely quarantined from the foul clutches and nostril-searing stench of white supremacy. (more…)
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Richard Haier begins his fascinating 2017 work The Neuroscience of Intelligence with a question: Why are some people smarter than others? From this he brings the reader up to speed on what neuroscientists have discovered about the genetic and physiological underpinnings of intelligence. This seems like a vast topic, but it really isn’t given how many neuroscientists shy away from the “controversial” topic of intelligence. (more…)
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Recently I wrote about the thoughtful comedy Keeping the Faith, which, in my view, does a remarkable job of exploring the conflicts involved in Gentile-Jewish relations. Stiller’s other Gentile-Jewish comedy from the same year, Meet the Parents (2000), shows even more open hostility between Gentiles and Jews.
This theme of conflict between the two camps has been dealt with by many authors, including John Murray Cuddihy, whose Ordeal of Civility admits in the title that Jews living among Gentiles is not always a picnic for those involved. (more…)
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February 21, 2022 Steven Clark
Panic in the Streets: Another Covid Movie
Panic in the Streets (1950) is directed by Elia Kazan, and on the surface is a gangster film and often advertised as one. But it’s more of a study of society dealing with an outside threat from a contagious disease.
Set in a wintery New Orleans, a card game in a dive breaks up when one of the players, an illegal immigrant, gets sick and has to leave. (more…)
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On Saturday, February 19th, 2022, Greg Johnson will read and discuss his essay “Reflections on Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political.” (The entire essay is reprinted below.) He will also pause to discuss the essay with the audience and, of course, answer YOUR QUESTIONS. Your homework is to read the essay beforehand. If possible, read Schmitt’s essay as well. (more…)
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February 18, 2022 Collin Cleary
Fichte as Avatar of the Metaphysics of Presence
1. Introduction: Remind me, why Fichte?
Readers have been asking me why I am devoting multiple essays to J. G. Fichte, an exceedingly difficult and seldom-read German Idealist born in 1762. The simple answer is that these essays are a continuation of my series on Heidegger’s “history of metaphysics.” Having devoted several essays to Kant, I am continuing with Fichte, then will move on to Schelling and Hegel, and then, finally, to Nietzsche. (more…)