We’re in a bad economic period and we’re feeling it. Due to a combination of factors, mostly related to the inflationary policies of the world’s governments during the COVID lockdowns and ongoing lockdowns in China, we’ve seen price inflation that has made it more difficult and more expensive to live. (more…)
Month: February 2023
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FOX News host Tucker Carlson recently said that Canada ought to be liberated from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s globalist, authoritarian tyranny: “Why should we stand back and let our biggest trading partner, the country with which we share the longest border . . . why should we let it become Cuba? . . . why don’t we liberate it?” He said this in a half-joking, tongue-in-cheek sort of way, but he’s not wrong. (more…)
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February 9, 2023 Spencer J. Quinn
The Captive Mind:
A Reactionary Review2,059 words
When today’s dissident Right looks back at Communism, they will object to its atheism, anti-nationalism, unsound economics, and the utter falsehoods behind the class romanticism. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn offers many examples of this in his vast corpus. In general, Right-leaning critics will conclude that Communism was at best unnatural, and at worst violent and unjust. The aristocratic and even feudal old ways, as flawed as they were, shine in comparison.
But what about critics from the Left? (more…)
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Over the past few years I’ve steadfastly avoided paying attention to anything that mentions Republicans and Democrats. As a result, my dark and cynical soul has felt the faint stirrings of mental health like blossoms budding on a cherry tree in springtime. (more…)
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February 9, 2023 Howe Abbott-Hiss
The Eggs Benedict Option
Raw Egg Nationalist
The Eggs Benedict Option
Quakertown, Pa.: Antelope Hill Publishing, 2022An anonymous Twitter character going by the name of Raw Egg Nationalist has released a new book which is outselling globalist literature on Amazon. Unlike his earlier work, this is not a cookbook and has nothing to do with historical bodybuilders. Rather it is an analysis of the dangers of the modern diet: how it got this way, the globalist plan to make it even worse, and what we can do about it. (more…)
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A minimum put to good use is enough for anything. — Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days
Up, up and away
In my beautiful balloon.
— The 5th Dimension, “Up, Up and Away,” 1967The curious thing about the Chinese spy balloon (which would be a great name for a restaurant in Chinatown) is not that it was from China. (more…)
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Part 8 of 8 (Part 1 here, Part 7 here)
There is joy in danger. — Napoleon
Psychopathy seems like the epitome of evil. As we’ll see, however, one characteristic of psychopathy is associated with at least one virtue.
Psychopathy can’t be cured; it can only be managed. Perhaps John Calvin had psychopaths in mind when he developed his theory of predestination: God chooses some for salvation rather than others. (more…)
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James DunphyPaul Popenoe (1888-1979) was a leading figure in the American eugenics movement, publishing his book Applied Eugenics in 1918. The following chapter, “Religion and Eugenics,” is taken from it.
After writing Applied Eugenics, Popenoe noticed the rising divorce rates in his time and decided to work as a marriage counselor. (more…)
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Marlène Laruelle
Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire
Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2012Eurasianism is the dominant ideology of Russia today, as well as of the “Stans” of Central Asia. Eurasianism is a civilizational ethos in its own right. It is a powerful subset of Orthodox civilization, which combines the destiny and cultures of the Russians and the Turkic people — either Orthodox or Muslim — in a single ideological narrative. (more…)
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Greg Johnson held an impromptu Ask Me Anything on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio with special guests Gaddius Maximus and Pox Populi where they discussed current things, and it is now available for download and online listening.
Topics discussed include:
00:01:26 On Alex Karp and Palantir
00:35:51 On the bad side of technology
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The following is Chapter 7 of frequent Counter-Currents writer Spencer J. Quinn‘s new young adult novel from The White People’s Press, The No College Club. Spencer recently discussed the novel with Nick Jeelvy and Daily Zoomer on The Writers’ Bloc here, he has been interviewed about it in print here, and Anthony Bavaria reviewed it for Counter-Currents here. (more…)
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Ian Kershaw
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
New York: Penguin Press, 2022This book caught my eye when it came out a few months ago because its format reminded me of Standardbearers: British Roots of the New Right, which I reviewed here some seasons back. That is to say, a collection of short critical biographies of a dozen or so worthies, assembled together on a common theme. (more…)