Month: April 2022

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Author’s Note: In a recent livestream, Edith asked me “Who is really in charge in the Biden Administration?” Hyacinth Bouquet transcribed my answer, and I cleaned it up and expanded it a bit. I want to thank Edith for her question and Hyacinth for her transcription. (more…)

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This Saturday, April 30, there will be no Counter-Currents Radio livestream. Counter-Currents Radio will be back on May 7th.

On Sunday, May 1st, 2022, Nick Jeelvy and The Writers’ Bloc will be back with special guest John Morgan to talk about The Best Month Yet, looking at the best Counter-Currents articles in April. Starting at 1:00 pm PST, 4:00 pm EST, 10:00 CET on: (more…)

Nicholas Roerich, Star of the Hero, 1932

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Editor’s Note: This year, Counter-Currents aims to raise $300,000. Last week, a donor offered a $1,500 Earth Day matching grant in honor of the birth of his fourth child. We had an amazing week. We quickly blew past the matching grant, bringing in a total of $25,110.50. That puts our grand total at $82,318.12. (more…)

The saviors of the white race?

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It seems that every ten years a “New Right” emerges in America. The National Review was seen as the “New Right” in the 1950s. There was a “New Right” in the 1980s with Ronald Reagan’s ascent. There have been many New Rights in Europe as well. (more…)

Sam T. Francis by Phil Eiger Newmann, 2021

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Samuel Todd Francis was born April 29, 1947, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He died February 15, 2005 in the Maryland suburbs of the imperial capital. Francis took his BA from Johns Hopkins University in 1969 and his PhD in modern history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979.

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Author’s Note: On last Saturday’s Counter-Currents Radio livestream, a listener named Natalie sent in the question, “What are your thoughts on the Coach ‘Dead-Shill’ saga?” Hyacinth Bouquet transcribed my answer, and I have cleaned it up some. I want to thank Natalie for her question and Hyacinth for her transcription. (more…)

Grahame Baker-Smith’s 2017 Folio illustration for War of the Worlds.

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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

Introduction

It was perhaps the most famous description of a (space) alien in English literature. The narrator felt an “utter terror [grip] him” as a thing from a nightmare emerged slowly, slowly from the pit that its smoking spacecraft had cratered in the Earth. As its body “bulged up and caught the light, it glistened like wet leather.” A pair of huge, fathomless dark eyes regarded him intensely, “steadfastly. (more…)

Self-described Nazi Thomas Leech, who was recently convicted in the UK on terrorism charges, shows that today’s Nazis don’t really live up to their more fashionable predecessors.

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A rose by any other name

When I was growing up, or at least getting bigger, my parents were fairly liberal about swearing in the house. “Cussing” is, I believe, an American equivalent. This was not an injunction for or against swearing an oath on the Bible. But rules are rules, and there was always one word banned in our house: the dread C-word. How nice to be reminded of this childhood memory by Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), still wasting money after all these years. They have indeed banned the C-word. (more…)

Since-deleted tweet sent by Elon Musk on February 17.

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When renegade weed-smoking transhumanist wannabe Martian Elon Musk announced his $46.5-billion takeover of Twitter on Monday, he said, “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.”

Musk had also compared the site to a “town square” a month ago on Twitter, when he asked his 85 million+ followers: “Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy. What should be done?” (more…)

Rodrigo Ballester

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The following is an interview with Rodrigo Ballester, Director of the Centre for European Studies at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Hungary, which is an institution that has established close ties with Viktor Orbán’s government in recent years. Rodrigo Ballester is a former European civil servant from the College of Europe, and was notably a member of the cabinet of the Commissioner for Education and Culture from 2014 to 2019. He has been teaching at the Sciences-Po Paris (Dijon Campus) since 2008. (more…)

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Parte 13 di 16 (Parte 1, Parte 12, Parte 14)

“Il sentimento pubblico è tutto. Con il sentimento pubblico, nulla può fallire; senza di esso nulla può invero avere un qualche successo. Di conseguenza, colui che plasma il sentimento pubblico va più in profondità di chi fa statuti o pronuncia decisioni.”—Abraham Lincoln

Epitteto apre il suo Manuale sullo Stoicismo con una distinzione essenziale: “Alcune cose sono in nostro potere, altre non lo sono.” (more…)

Berkeley Castle, VDARE‘s new headquarters.

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After ten conference cancellations with hotels, VDARE finally hosted their first, UnCancelled conference on April 23. Instead of using the pop-up conference model, where none of the attendees knows the venue until hours before the event, VDARE took a no-nonsense attitude. (more…)

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Mildred Walker (1905-1998) wrote a series of books considered Western regional, and was compared to Willa Cather. Walker, however, has a sensibility all her own, and Winter Wheat (1944) was a book that impressed me from the first page. In it, people are tied to the land and the wheat it produces.

It begins in an office by the storage silo in Gotham, a village of 75 that hardly lives up to its pretentious name. (more…)