Counter-Currents
  • Private Events
  • T&C
  • About
  • Contact
  • Webzine
  • Books
  • Podcasts
  • Videos
  • Donate
  • Paywall
  • Crypto
  • RSS
    • Main feed
    • Podcast feed
    • Videos feed
    • Comments feed
  • Advertise

LEVEL2

Donate Now Mailing list
  • Webzine
  • Books
  • Podcasts
  • Videos
  • Donate
  • Paywall
  • Crypto
  • RSS
    • Main feed
    • Podcast feed
    • Videos feed
    • Comments feed
  • Advertise
  • Recent posts

    • Israel, Gaza, and the War for Your Mind

      Christian Secor

      1

    • Polish-Style Territorial Defense Could Be the Answer to the Risk of Civil War in France

      Olivier Bault

      1

    • Toward a New Spiritual Revolution

      Morris van de Camp

    • Introducing the Counter-Currents Book Club

      Greg Johnson

      1

    • The Fear of Writing

      Mark Gullick

    • Obi-Wan Kenobi

      Trevor Lynch

      1

    • The Homeland Institute’s Third Poll, Part Two: Is National Divorce a Solution?

      David M. Zsutty

    • Tommy Robinson: Fakta vs. emoce a nejnovější lži

      Huntley Haverstock

    • The Worst Week Yet: November 26-December 2, 2023

      Jim Goad

      10

    • Lamentations for a City

      Morris van de Camp

      6

    • The Homeland Institute’s Third Poll, Part One: American Democracy in Crisis

      David M. Zsutty

      1

    • Mike Johnson and Diff’rent Strokes: When Liberal Narratives Collapse

      Travis LeBlanc

      1

    • Using Politics to Segregate the Sexes

      Jim Goad

    • Imagine Jim Goad Singing “Imagine”

      Greg Johnson

      13

    • The Union Jackal, November 2023

      Mark Gullick

      5

    • Christmas Special: Merry Christmas, Infidels!

      Greg Johnson

      30

    • Jonathan Bowden’s The Cultured Thug

      Margot Metroland

      1

    • Le Manifeste Nationaliste Blanc: Introduction à un livre interdit

      Greg Johnson

    • Little Free Library Book Giveaway!

      Cyan Quinn

      5

    • Using Politics to Segregate the Sexes

      Jim Goad

      35

    • The Boondock Saints and Overnight: Troy Duffy’s Career as Cautionary Tale

      Travis LeBlanc

      6

    • David Zsutty Introduces the Homeland Institute: Transcript

      David M. Zsutty

    • It’s White Wednesday! Shop Our Sale Now

      Cyan Quinn

    • Ahsoka

      Trevor Lynch

      5

    • The US Military Excuses an Anti-White Massacre: Black Soldiers & the Houston Riot of 1917

      Dave Chambers

      2

    • “A Few More Steps and We Were . . . On Some Edge of Things”: Staircases That Lead Nowhere, Part 2

      Kathryn S.

      4

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 561: An All-Star Thanksgiving Weekend Special

      Counter-Currents Radio

    • Giving Tuesday at Counter-Currents: Help Us Meet Our Match!

      Cyan Quinn

      5

    • “A Few More Steps and We Were . . . On Some Edge of Things”: Staircases That Lead Nowhere, Part 1

      Kathryn S.

      5

    • The Blacks Next Door

      Gunnar Alfredsson

      7

    • Where the Dissident Right Triumphs

      Lipton Matthews

      2

    • Used to Be a Bad Guy: Carlito’s Way at 30

      Mark Gullick

      3

    • The Worst Week Yet: November 19-25, 2023

      Jim Goad

      21

    • Ridley Scott’s Napoleon

      Trevor Lynch

      28

    • Are We (Finally) Living in the World of Atlas Shrugged? Part 2

      Jef Costello

      4

    • The Suppression of the Maryland Moderates During the Civil War

      Morris van de Camp

      2

    • The Anti-Black Plague “Black Death” of 1347-1351 Kills Half of Europe . . . Black Women Most Affected

      Jim Goad

      4

    • We Have Much to be Thankful For

      Greg Johnson

    • All-Star Thanksgiving Weekend Special!

      Greg Johnson

      2

    • Black Friday Special: It’s Time to STOP Shopping for Christmas

      Greg Johnson

      5

    • Are We (Finally) Living in the World of Atlas Shrugged? Part 1

      Jef Costello

      12

    • We Get the Crime We Deserve

      Spencer J. Quinn

      8

    • Nueva Derecha vs. Vieja Derecha, Capítulo 12: La Cuestión Cristiana en el Nacionalismo Blanco

      Greg Johnson

    • Happy Thanksgiving!

      Greg Johnson

      1

    • The Anti-Black Plague: “Black Death” of 1347-1351 Kills Half of Europe . . . Black Women Most Affected

      Jim Goad

      24

    • A Veteran’s Thanksgiving Message

      David M. Zsutty

      3

    • Horses and Heavy Hors d’Oeuvres

      James J. O'Meara

    • Let Elon Cook

      Travis LeBlanc

      3

    • Should We Defend Anti-Semitic Literature?

      Jason Kessler

      8

    • G. Gordon Liddy’s When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country, Part 2

      Beau Albrecht

  • Classics Corner

    • A Heroic Vision for Our Time: The Life and Ideas of Colin Wilson

      John Morgan

      12

    • Remembering J. Philippe Rushton (December 3, 1943–October 2, 2012)

      Greg Johnson

      7

    • Herman Husband, Eighteenth Century White Nationalist Pioneer

      Spencer J. Quinn

      10

    • Remembering Henry Williamson (December 1, 1895-August 13, 1977)

      Greg Johnson

    • Black Friday Special: It’s Time to STOP Shopping for Christmas

      Greg Johnson

      5

    • The Holy Mountain, Part 1

      Derek Hawthorne

      1

    • The Holy Mountain, Part 2

      Derek Hawthorne

      2

    • Remembering Krzysztof Penderecki (November 23, 1933-March 29, 2020)

      Alex Graham

    • Thanksgiving Day as a Harvest Festival

      Andrew Hamilton

    • Thanksgiving: The Only Holiday Unique to the American Ethny

      C. F. Robinson

      9

    • The Importance of Believing: Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather

      Howe Abbott-Hiss

      6

    • Remembering Madison Grant (November 19, 1865-May 30, 1937)

      Greg Johnson

      3

    • Remembering Wyndham Lewis (November 18, 1882-March 7, 1957)

      Greg Johnson

    • Remembering Sir Oswald Mosley (November 16, 1896-December 3, 1980)

      Greg Johnson

      4

    • Revolution of the Nation

      Sir Oswald Mosley

    • The Feminine Sexual Counter-Revolution and Its Limitations, Part 1

      F. Roger Devlin

      2

    • The Feminine Sexual Counter-Revolution and Its Limitations, Part 2

      F. Roger Devlin

      41

    • America and Israel: United in Struggle

      Alexander Jacob

      16

    • Zionism vs. White Nationalism

      Spencer J. Quinn

      7

    • Debate on Christianity

      Jonas De Geer and Greg Johnson

      42

    • In Defense of Populism

      Greg Johnson

      6

    • The Politics of Nuclear War, Part 3: Israel and the Bomb

      John Morgan

      30

    • For Leo Yankevich: October 30, 1961 to December 11, 2018

      Juleigh Howard-Hobson

      3

    • The Heresy of Christian Zionism: Israel, Christianity, & Genesis 12.2-3

      Irmin Vinson

      31

    • Philosemitism & Brutality

      Andrew Hamilton

      57

    • Charles Ives, American Composer

      Alex Graham

      8

    • Remembering Friedrich Nietzsche
      (October 15, 1844–August 25, 1900)

      Greg Johnson

      5

    • Remembering Aleister Crowley (October 12, 1875–December 1, 1947)

      Greg Johnson

      10

    • Remembering Ralph Vaughan Williams (October 12, 1872–August 26, 1958)

      Alex Graham

      3

    • Archeofuturist Fiction: Frank Herbert’s Dune

      Greg Johnson

      23

  • Paroled from the Paywall

    • Never the Twain: Notes on Logic and Morality

      Mark Gullick

      18

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 557: New Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson

      Counter-Currents Radio

      3

    • Heil Honey, I’m Home

      Travis LeBlanc

      2

    • Management and Working Remotely

      Morris van de Camp

      1

    • The Protocols of Zion Today, Part 2

      Beau Albrecht

    • The Protocols of Zion Today, Part 1

      Beau Albrecht

      8

    • The Rise and Fall of Ibram X. Kendi

      Beau Albrecht

      14

    • Remembering the Great White Hopes of Boxing

      Travis LeBlanc

      10

    • Race and IQ Differences: An Interview with Arthur Jensen, Part 5

      Arthur Jensen

    • Nueva Derecha vs. Vieja Derecha Capítulo 10: El Peso de Hitler

      Greg Johnson

    • Gerald P. Nye: American Patriot and Midwestern Isolationist, Part 2

      Morris van de Camp

    • Gerald P. Nye: American Patriot and Midwestern Isolationist, Part 1

      Morris van de Camp

    • Looking for Mr. Goodbar: A Tale of Disco-Era Debauchery

      Travis LeBlanc

      26

    • Race & IQ Differences: An Interview with Arthur Jensen, Part 4

      Arthur Jensen

    • For Lesbians Only

      Beau Albrecht

      11

    • Why Cartoons Have Potential: A Response to Travis LeBlanc, Part 2

      White Lion Movement

    • Fictionalizing the Right

      Clarissa Schnabel

      5

    • Jack Hinson’s One-Man War

      Spencer J. Quinn

      2

    • The 12 Black Years Since Jared Taylor’s White Identity

      Mark Gullick

      4

    • Exercise Tips for the Anxious

      Gunnar Alfredsson

      3

    • Race & IQ Differences: An Interview with Arthur Jensen, Part 3

      Arthur Jensen

    • It’s Not All About You

      Spencer J. Quinn

      5

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 554 How Often Does Pox Think About the Roman Empire? . . . & Other Matters

      Counter-Currents Radio

    • White Altruism Revealed

      Gunnar Alfredsson

      2

    • The Matter with Concrete, Part 2

      Michael Walker

      2

    • The Matter with Concrete, Part 1

      Michael Walker

      4

    • The Captivity Narrative of Fanny Kelly

      Spencer J. Quinn

      11

    • Race and IQ Differences: An Interview with Arthur Jensen, Part 2

      Arthur Jensen

      3

    • The Unnecessary War

      Morris van de Camp

      3

    • Marx vs. Rousseau

      Stephen Paul Foster

      4

  • Recent comments

    • ArminiusMaximus

      Israel, Gaza, and the War for Your Mind

      Beautifully written. The ending is a perfect summation of the core issue at hand. In the spirit of...

    • Gallus

      Polish-Style Territorial Defense Could Be the Answer to the Risk of Civil War in France

      Great piece of writing contrasting the very real threat that has engulfed towns, cities and could...

    • MC

      Introducing the Counter-Currents Book Club

      Love this

    • nineofclubs

      The Worst Week Yet: November 26-December 2, 2023

      Obregon’s mother may lack certain social graces, but it must be said that her venom - directed at...

    • Kathryn S

      “A Few More Steps and We Were . . . On Some Edge of Things”: Staircases That Lead Nowhere, Part 1

      Wow, what a neat assignment! And that's an interesting observation about the Alpine villagers and...

    • Beau Albrecht

      The Stolen Land Narrative

      That sounds like something that Howard Zinn would come up with, a lying activist pretending to be a...

    • Beau Albrecht

      Obi-Wan Kenobi

      Whew... As Anakin Skywalker once said:  "Noooooooooooooooooooooo!"

    • Alexandra O.

      The Homeland Institute’s Third Poll, Part One: American Democracy in Crisis

      I think that most White people find it easier to get along with others of another political...

    • Will Williams

      Christmas Special: Merry Christmas, Infidels!

      Greg: Kwanzaa is supposed to be a Negro alternative to Christmas. It is a seven-day feast,...

    • Richard Smith

      Imagine Jim Goad Singing “Imagine”

      First time I heard Jim singing "White Room" above, it's damn good!

    • Josephus Cato

      The Worst Week Yet: November 26-December 2, 2023

      I was hoping he would have succeeded in his appeal to SCOTUS.  I'm wondering if it was declined due...

    • DarkPlato

      Lamentations for a City

      I’ll wager Bovarian Motor Works has a large percentage of it by now!

    • Gallus

      Lamentations for a City

      That was a superb article. Thanks for sharing the link to the documentary, I shall watch that with...

    • Fyrdman

      Christmas Special: Merry Christmas, Infidels!

      Interesting article, with interesting reader responses. Here in England, the mercantile Christmas tv...

    • Hamburger Today

      Christmas Special: Merry Christmas, Infidels!

      The 'divine mother and child' is a pre-Christian tableu.Innana, the ‘mother’ figure in the Egyptian...

    • ncleapyear

      Lamentations for a City

      I read somewhere that George Wallace referred to Humphrey as a "pointy head" in the 1968...

    • Kök Böri

      The Worst Week Yet: November 26-December 2, 2023

      Тurscak is either an Ukrainian, or a Pole.

    • DarkPlato

      Lamentations for a City

      Great article. Of course it was all to get whites back for electing Trump. As were the Covid...

    • Fire Walk With Lee

      The Worst Week Yet: November 26-December 2, 2023

      Victims of black on white violence are just experiencing diversity.  Or experiencing cultural...

    • Anne Frank Rizzo

      The Worst Week Yet: November 26-December 2, 2023

      Not only has the Mexican Mafia had white members https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_%22Pegleg%...

  • Book Authors

    • Beau Albrecht
    • Alain de Benoist
    • Kerry Bolton
    • Jonathan Bowden
    • Collin Cleary
    • Jef Costello
    • Savitri Devi
    • F. Roger Devlin
    • Buttercup Dew
    • Julius Evola
    • Jim Goad
    • Gregory Hood
    • Juleigh Howard-Hobson
    • Greg Johnson
    • Charles Krafft
    • Anthony M. Ludovici
    • Trevor Lynch
    • H. L. Mencken
    • J. A. Nicholl
    • James J. O’Meara
    • Christopher Pankhurst
    • Tito Perdue
    • Michael Polignano
    • Spencer J. Quinn
    • Fenek Solère
    • Irmin Vinson
    • Leo Yankevich
    • Francis Parker Yockey
    • Multiple authors
  • Webzine Authors

    Editor-in-Chief

    • Greg Johnson, Ph.D.

    Featured Writers

    • Beau Albrecht
    • Morris V. de Camp
    • Stephen Paul Foster, Ph.D.
    • Jim Goad
    • Alex Graham
    • Mark Gullick, Ph.D.
    • Greg Johnson, Ph.D.
    • Spencer J. Quinn

    Frequent Writers

    • Aquilonius
    • Anthony Bavaria
    • Alain de Benoist
    • Kerry Bolton, Ph.D.
    • Collin Cleary, Ph.D.
    • Jef Costello
    • F. Roger Devlin, Ph.D.
    • Richard Houck
    • Ondrej Mann
    • Margot Metroland
    • John Morgan
    • Trevor Lynch
    • James J. O’Meara
    • Kathryn S.
    • Thomas Steuben
    • Michael Walker

    Classic Authors

    • Maurice Bardèche
    • Jonathan Bowden
    • Julius Evola
    • Guillaume Faye
    • Ernst Jünger
    • Kevin MacDonald, Ph.D.
    • D. H. Lawrence
    • Charles Lindbergh
    • Jack London
    • H. P. Lovecraft
    • Anthony M. Ludovici
    • Sir Oswald Mosley
    • National Vanguard
    • Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Revilo Oliver
    • William Pierce
    • Ezra Pound
    • Saint-Loup
    • Savitri Devi
    • Carl Schmitt
    • Miguel Serrano
    • Oswald Spengler
    • P. R. Stephensen
    • Jean Thiriart
    • John Tyndall
    • Dominique Venner
    • Leo Yankevich
    • Francis Parker Yockey

    Other Authors

    • Howe Abbott-Hiss
    • Michael Bell
    • Buttercup Dew
    • Giles Corey
    • Bain Dewitt
    • Jack Donovan
    • Richardo Duchesne, Ph.D.
    • Emile Durand
    • Guillaume Durocher
    • Mark Dyal
    • Fullmoon Ancestry
    • Tom Goodroch
    • Andrew Hamilton
    • Robert Hampton
    • Huntley Haverstock
    • Derek Hawthorne
    • Gregory Hood
    • Juleigh Howard-Hobson
    • Alexander Jacob
    • Nicholas Jeelvy
    • Ruuben Kaalep
    • Tobias Langdon
    • Julian Langness
    • Travis LeBlanc
    • Patrick Le Brun
    • G A Malvicini
    • John Michael McCloughlin
    • Millennial Woes
    • Michael O’Meara
    • Christopher Pankhurst
    • Michael Polignano
    • J. J. Przybylski
    • Quintilian
    • Edouard Rix
    • C. B. Robertson
    • C. F. Robinson
    • Herve Ryssen
    • Alan Smithee
    • Fenek Solere
    • Ann Sterzinger
    • Robert Steuckers
    • Tomislav Sunic
    • Donald Thoresen
    • Marian Van Court
    • Irmin Vinson
    • Aylmer Wedgwood
    • Scott Weisswald
  • Departments

    • Book Reviews
    • Movie Reviews
    • TV Reviews
    • Music Reviews
    • Art Criticism
    • Graphic Novels & Comics
    • Video Game Reviews
    • Fiction
    • Poems
    • Interviews
    • Videos
    • English Translations
    • Other Languages
      • Arabic
      • Bulgarian
      • Croatian
      • Czech
      • Danish
      • Dutch
      • Estonian
      • Finnish
      • French
      • German
      • Greek
      • Hungarian
      • Italian
      • Lithuanian
      • Norwegian
      • Polish
      • Portuguese
      • Romanian
      • Russian
      • Slovak
      • Spanish
      • Swedish
      • Ukrainian
    • Commemorations
    • Why We Write
  • Archives
  • Top 100 Commenters
  • Private Events
  • T&C
  • About
  • Contact
Sponsored Links
Spencer J. Quinn CC Giving Tuesday Above Time Coffee Antelope Hill Publishing Paul Waggener IHR-Store American Renaissance Jim Goad The Occidental Observer
Print April 3, 2023 32 comments

Everything Everywhere All at Once:
The Oscar Winner the System Loves

Steven Clark

1,050 words

I finally saw this year’s Oscar winner for Best Picture, Everything Everywhere All at Once, by directing duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, and enjoyed the film. Like many of you , I think it’s a shame Tár didn’t win, and note that The Banshees of Inisherin also didn’t win — but I think many of you are glad about that. Nevertheless, Everything Everywhere All at Once hits all the bases for this year’s woke base — but it’s also a fun movie, very fast-paced and a visual delight.

The story is about Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh), a laundromat owner who is having trouble with taxes; Waymond (Ke Huy Quan — is “Waymond” a real Chinese name? It sounds like “kill the wabbit”), her husband, who wants to divorce her; and Joy (Stephanie Hsu), her pudgy daughter who’s come out as a lesbian. Then we meet the officious Deirdre (Jamie Lee Curtis, in a hair helmet from hell) when they make a trip to the local Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office. She is a mendacious bureaucrat who leads Evelyn into a wild, wacky counter-universe where Waymond turns into a Jackie Chan-like super agent; Joy is an evil, sinister foe; Deirdre is a raging super-monster (but isn’t that already what the IRS is?); and Evelyn is made aware of a multiverse of possibilities her life could take if she only applied herself as we get scenes showing her in everything from a film career to Chinese martial arts to a weird universe where everyone has hot-dog fingers. (It’s as dangerous for fingers here, as in The Banshees of Inisherin, but at least here you get mustard). There are as many universes as there are menu items at a Chinese restaurant. It is very entertaining.

But what else? The plot then delves into the multiverse, and the screenwriters load up the dialogue with mumbo-jumbo about quantum physics  — which I think is our age’s answer to alchemy; in effect, the vulgarization of Einstein’s theories. When one scrapes away all the special effects, brilliant acting, quick cuts, and wacky scenes (and much of the film, as with many Chinese martial arts films, is simply silly), what do we have?

You can buy Trevor Lynch’s Classics of Right-Wing Cinema here.

It is essentially a family movie. Some conservatives have defended it: “Yes, it’s about family! It’s about immigrants! Hard-working immigrants. Presumably ones who will, of course, gladly vote GOP and save America if the right true conservative candidate comes along.”

Regardless, the essential plot centers on the fact that Evelyn’s emotional problems stem from her not accepting that her daughter is a lesbian. Evelyn simply isn’t with the times, and so must become accepting. Throughout the film Joy appears as an evil villainess, strutting around in wonderfully fantastic costumes, reciting the usual vampy nihilistic dialogue one gets in graphic novels and Marvel comics, but the end solution is acceptance. Evelyn even goes nuts and breaks a window at her laundromat, learns to vape from Deirdre, and so on — and eventually, everyone learns to just become more accepting.

And really, that’s what the last century has been about: a war on the family and middle-class values. Gay acceptance is part of that, and Everything Everywhere All at Once does its duty to package the theme in a form where it could become an Oscar-winner — because gay is always in. That’s certainly what The Whale was all about. And, of course, the main characters are non-white. That’s definitely in as well, as the media and the establishment works to make us less white. Movies about black people they don’t have the same power to draw, whether it is Moonlight (2016) or the solemn praise for Wakanda, which mostly got a laugh. We wuz kangs! Asians, however, are semi-white, and can be more effectively used to sell the product.

It’s interesting that the mother and daughter never really come together. Joy is always sarcastic and nasty; she is also consistently pudgy, which seems a realistic depiction of lesbian life. Her lesbian lover isn’t all that attractive, either, but at least Evelyn reconciles with Joy, “accepts” her, and tells Joy that she needs to lose some weight.

Well, that’s something.

Evelyn learns that by being narrow-minded, all of her multiverse lives are stunted. Ah, the multiverse. All of those parallel universes, like millions of stars out there, each with their own worlds . . . yet, we understand that this life is all we’ve got. We won’t suddenly fly off to a better, sexier life somewhere else through some wormhole. Right here, right now is all we’ve got. It’s what we have to deal with — these somewhat marked cards on the table. But this would make for a very dour film . . . or a hopelessly mundane one, at least by the Academy’s standards. Dealing with life as it is, with no special effects, would be a very adult thing to do — and adult is very much out of fashion nowadays.

If the film is any gauge of where we are as a society, it’s that the Chinese are moving into pop culture, usurping a Hollywood that seems as stale and devoid of ideas as Classical culture was in the fourth century — when it simply expired. Since the comic-book movie seems to be sputtering out, the next big medium to exploit is video games, and this film is very much in that genre.

I saw many similarities with Bardo in its visual excellence and pacing, although Alejandro Inarritu was dealing with United States-Mexico relations. But like Birdman, another Oscar winner, Everything Everywhere All at Once dazzles. It is, in the final analysis, mere entertainment.

I can’t wait for next year’s Oscar winner, which will probably be about a tortured trans who is forced to vent out — its — frustrations, no doubt with lots of multiverse special effects. I hope they give it to another Chinese director. At least they might make it exciting, and not just the usual sermon that Hollywood gives us.

As Gore Vidal said, in literary America, to be serious is to be solemn, and moviegoers never like to be lectured to, especially when it comes to the eventual triumph of trans over . . . normality. But film is always in conflict with real life. So let’s at least make that trans film colorful and fast-paced as the meltdown continues — and reality, like the ruffian on the stair, waits.

* * *

Like all journals of dissident ideas, Counter-Currents depends on the support of readers like you. Help us compete with the censors of the Left and the violent accelerationists of the Right with a donation today. (The easiest way to help is with an e-check donation. All you need is your checkbook.)

GreenPay™ by Green Payment

Donation Amount

For other ways to donate, click here.

Enjoyed this article?

Be the first to leave a tip in the jar!

Instant Echeck GreenPay™
$

Related

  • Toward a New Spiritual Revolution

  • The Fear of Writing

  • Lamentations for a City

  • Mike Johnson and Diff’rent Strokes: When Liberal Narratives Collapse

  • Jonathan Bowden’s The Cultured Thug

  • The Boondock Saints and Overnight: Troy Duffy’s Career as Cautionary Tale

  • David Zsutty Introduces the Homeland Institute: Transcript

  • “A Few More Steps and We Were . . . On Some Edge of Things”: Staircases That Lead Nowhere, Part 2

Tags

95th Academy AwardsAcademy AwardsDaniel KwanDaniel ScheinertEverything Everywhere All at OnceHollywoodhomosexualitylesbiansmovie reviewsOscarspaywallSteven Clark

Next

» Polish-Style Territorial Defense Could Be the Answer to the Risk of Civil War in France

32 comments

  1. Greg Johnson says:
    April 3, 2023 at 9:10 am

    Thanks for this. I have a soft spot for zany films. But The Fifth Element and Hudson Hawk never won Best Picture! I will see if I can stream it on my next plane flight.

    0
    0
    1. Fire Walk With Lee says:
      April 3, 2023 at 10:18 am

      Did you ever get around to watching the Japanese film Tampopo I recommended to you a while back?  If you like zany films, you will love it.

      0
      0
      1. Greg Johnson says:
        April 3, 2023 at 10:39 am

        I did, and I loved it. Thank you for that recommendation. I also watched The Funeral, which was quite touching.

        0
        0
        1. Fire Walk With Lee says:
          April 3, 2023 at 10:57 am

          Glad to hear.  I recommend it to everyone I meet that has a taste for unusual films.  It’s one of the funniest but also sweetest films I’ve seen.  I haven’t seen The Funeral yet, but it’s on my list.

          0
          0
  2. Richard Chance says:
    April 3, 2023 at 11:15 am

    Even though you liked the film, your description of it sounded wretched to me.  Kinda sounds like a slant-eyed version of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which I despised.  I guess that’s a sign I should (and will) skip it.  Plus, I hate movies about all those wonderful clever, ironic Asians who happen to converse just like writers for The Daily Show or John Oliver.

    0
    0
  3. Lord Shang says:
    April 3, 2023 at 4:49 pm

    I saw this film a year ago – or tried to. I did what my cheapness has only allowed me to do perhaps a dozen times in nearly 50 years of non-kiddie movie watching: I walked out before the end (thank God I was alone). Although the reviewer offers some sane general observations, this film was not in the least enjoyable – I want to say “for anyone with an above-average IQ”, but instead, I will note, especially for whites, in particular, those of us with ‘classically white’ psyches. For some reason, even as I was watching and trying to figure out this movie, one that is, in fact, so much less than it appears (or perhaps wants) to be, I kept thinking, “This is the kind of film that the many bright, geeky Orientals I’ve known or worked with would like”. But not I. I thought this movie utterly awful. It is appalling if predictable that this won so many shitty Oscars instead of the infinitely more serious, intriguing and adult Tar. The latter was art; this was spectacle only.

    I consider this to be an Asian film (even if the dialogue is in English). I’ve seen perhaps 250-300 East Asian language films (as well as a number of South Asian ones) in my life (and not all were Kurosawa or Mizoguchi). So I’m not in the least bit ‘prejudiced’ against Asian made or themed or starred films (even if I prefer films with white characters and actors). Indeed, I just saw a couple in the past month: the much more entertaining historical epic Full River Red, and the micro-budget but wonderfully affecting, if I suspect little seen, Covid-themed The Narrow Road.  The latter might have had a budget of 1-3% of “Everywhere”, with zero CGIs, but it was sooo much better.

    This movie just sucked. Yes, its cinematographical editing was technically superb, and much thought went into its set designs and constuming. But to what narrative end? Recall the special effects of movies like Titanic and Lord of the Rings. They were not only technically awesome, they served to enhance and complement their underlying stories. Because the “story” here was pointless, the special effects, although sometimes dazzling, were finally uninteresting. A “video game”, yeah maybe – but a really boring one.

    0
    0
    1. DarkPlato says:
      April 4, 2023 at 5:04 am

      Same here.  Turned it off half way through.  Nor am I some kind of haughty connoisseur who turns his nose up at low brow; I watched 400 blows the other night and while okay, I don’t see why it is one of the best films of all time, on the other hand, I recently watched Return to Oz with rapt attention, despite its low budget.  Contemporary movies suck.  Thanks for the recs.  I too in general love Asian cinema.  Zhang yimou is one of my favorite directors.  Recommend..all his movies!

      0
      0
      1. DarkPlato says:
        April 4, 2023 at 6:19 am

        A good pair to compare are Rickshaw Boy and To Live.  They are foils to one another.

        0
        0
      2. Fire Walk With Lee says:
        April 4, 2023 at 6:26 am

        I haven’t had the chance to watch this yet but I intend to.  I’ve been on the fence since it came out but it’ll be nice to see Short Round in action again.

        Return To Oz is pretty out there.  My wife had never seen it and sat with her mouth in her lap for most of the movie.

        A few other Asian titles I recommend, all of which are totally crazy.

        A Chinese Ghost Story

        Happiness Of The Katakuris

        The Heroic Trio(also starring Michelle Yeoh)

        The Bride With White Hair

        Iron Monkey

        Zu Warriors From The Magic Mountain

        Tetsuo-The Iron Man & Tetsuo 2-Body Hammer

        0
        0
        1. DarkPlato says:
          April 4, 2023 at 7:36 am

          I watched it because you mentioned it to me!  Thanks for more recs.  My absolute favorite Chinese is Hero.

          What does mouth in her lap mean exactly?

          I hope you like Everthing all at once.  I hate to be a killjoy.

          0
          0
          1. Fire Walk With Lee says:
            April 4, 2023 at 8:09 am

            I meant she sat slack-jawed in amazement at the bizarre and disturbing nature of the film.  She kept looking over at me and saying “how in the hell did I not see this growing up!?!”

            Hero is fantastic.  Kung-Fu Hustle should be added to the list above of wild Asian films as well.

            0
            0
          2. DarkPlato says:
            April 4, 2023 at 8:25 am

            Ok that’s what I took you to mean.  You have the best cinematic taste I’ve yet encountered.  I mean, 400 blows was okay, very okay, but it was nowhere near something with the heft of Heavy Metal or Transformers the Movie 1986.

            0
            0
          3. Richard Chance says:
            April 4, 2023 at 3:15 pm

            Hero was incredible.

            0
            0
          4. Lord Shang says:
            April 5, 2023 at 4:20 pm

            I forgot!! Have you guys seen The Wandering Earth, Parts 1 & 2? Maybe I’m a cultural plebeian, but I found those to be so much more emotionally involving than the contrived conflicts in Everywhere … But they should really be seen on a big screen.

            0
            0
        2. Fire Walk With Lee says:
          April 4, 2023 at 8:43 am

          DarkPlato-

          Thank you for that.  I’m a film enthusiast and the only thing that I enjoy more than offbeat and unique films is sharing them with other people.

          0
          0
          1. DarkPlato says:
            April 4, 2023 at 8:46 am

            Same here!

            0
            0
        3. Lord Shang says:
          April 5, 2023 at 4:16 pm

          I still recall the wonderful Taiwanese film Yi-Yi from the early 00s. Very touching.

          Zhang Yimou is excellent. He did Full River Red, just out. Besides Hero and similar others, he also did the white/Asian collaborations Flowers of War, a solid drama, and The Great Wall, a pure action pic with Matt Damon which I really liked.

          Wong Kar Wai has done a lot that’s good (In the Mood for Love).

          I look forward to getting a big plasma some day, so I can watch or rewatch all these films and more in retirement. (I don’t own a TV, except a tiny countertop screen I keep in my kitchen for news while I’m preparing meals, and I’ve vowed I won’t get a real TV until I’ve retired.) Although I must admit, I’ve enjoyed my adulthood in the time of the monster cineplexes (for me, the only real major improvement to my life in the almost exactly 40 years since I graduated college; yes, internet nationalist sites are great, but I survived on Instauration and American Renaissance, and could have continued to do so had the internet never existed). I love making a day at the movies. I actually prefer going by myself. I once had a girlfriend who also loved to spend a long afternoon at a multiplex. But most women, I find, can at most handle a double feature; some want to go to all the hassle to get there and find parking and get crappy, overpriced snacks, and then leave after a 95min movie. That feels to me like exiting a restaurant after the appetizer or salad.

          I fear, however, that streaming will eventually kill off the 10 and 20 screen cineplexes, which anyway have yet to recover from the Covid shutdowns. In the not too distant future, how many people will still go to a theater to see smaller dramas and indie art films? What I have long predicted (for about two decades) and feared is finally and rapidly coming into view: “going out to the movies” will soon mean patronizing giant screens (IMAX and XD and RPX) for huge budget epics and action movies, while the smaller screens eventually disappear, and the smaller films are streamed. I’m just hoping the multiplexes hang on until the 2030s (I hope I hang on, too!).

          0
          0
  4. S. Clark says:
    April 3, 2023 at 5:12 pm

    Richard Chance:  I offered a somewhat dim view of the film’s purposes, but it is a very funny and pleasant, as well as visually enjoyable film to watch.For the record, I rather enjoy Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Thoughtful, quirky, and a great cast.

    Now I have to start a quest to find films you’ll like. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it.

    To borrow from Fire Walk With Ice, you might watch Tampopo. It’s a lot of fun, but don’t watch it hungry. You’ve been warned.

    0
    0
    1. Richard Chance says:
      April 4, 2023 at 3:05 pm

      Now I have to start a quest to find films you’ll like. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it.

      Ha!  Not at all necessary, but just so you don’t think I’m one of those ornery righties who hates all pop culture, I’ll give you a list of some of my faves to give you an idea: To Live and Die in L.A., pretty much every David Lynch movie except Dune, The Exorcist, The Shining, Godfather I and II, Out of the Past, Jaws (only the first one), The Graduate, Harold and Maude, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men, The Last Emperor, Gangs of New York, Burn After Reading, Eyes Wide Shut, Taxi Driver, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Manchurian Candidate (the original with Frank Sinatra), Waking Ned Devine, Enter the Dragon, and The Hustler, to name a few.  I’ll check out Tampopo.

      0
      0
      1. Fire Walk With Lee says:
        April 5, 2023 at 5:11 am

        Solid list.  My top ten of all time:

        Sunset Boulevard-Billy Wilder

        The Devils- Ken Russell

        Tampopo- Juzo Itami

        The Holy Mountain- Alejandro Jodorowsky

        Blue Velvet- David Lynch

        Videodrome- David Cronenberg

        Bad Lieutenant- Abel Ferrara

        Fitzcarraldo- Werner Herzog

        Julien Donkey Boy- Harmony Korine

        Night Of The Hunter- Charles Laughton

        Favorite directors are David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Paul Verhoeven, John Waters, Harmony Korine, Ken Russell, Werner Herzog, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder and Paul Bartel.

        0
        0
        1. DarkPlato says:
          April 5, 2023 at 8:42 pm

          I like harmony Corine too.  I’m a big fan of Gummo.Have you seen his most recent one it was called beach bum? It was actually really good.

          0
          0
          1. Fire Walk With Lee says:
            April 6, 2023 at 4:14 am

            Not his best but still enjoyable.  I’m still surprised how much I enjoyed Spring Breakers.  I had a hard time picking between Gummo or Julien Donkey Boy, but Ewen Bremmner’s Julien is one of the most tortured performances I’ve seen aside from Harvey Keitel in Bad Lieutenant.  That and Werner Herzog as his abusive, cough syrup addicted father.

            If you’re a fan of Harmony Korine, I’d suggest checking out Dennis Hopper’s Out Of The Blue.  It stars Hopper and a young Linda Manz, who played Solomon’s tap dancing, meth head mother in Gummo.  It’s one of Harmony’s favorite films and the influences show throughout his work.  The ending will blow you away.

            0
            0
        2. DarkPlato says:
          April 6, 2023 at 6:11 am

          Wow, thanks.  I know beach bum is less signature and gritty than Korrines usual fare, but I liked the writing and set design in it a lot.  In one scene a black guy mistakes a group of sharks for dolphins and swims to them and gets mauled.  Of course korrine appears to push blacks a lot less than Jews usually do throughout his oeuvre, showing greater affection for low class whites.  I sort of took this scene with the sharks as symbolic—he saying that other liberals and Jews are mistaking sharks for dolphins in blacks.  It may be reading in, but there was a general theme like this in other movies around that time.  Uncut Gems I read as a reevaluation of the relationship between blacks and Jews if you watch carefully.

          0
          0
    2. Richard Chance says:
      April 4, 2023 at 3:14 pm

      Oh, but if we’re talking about Asian movies, there is a Japanese film called After Life that was released in 1998 that I thought was damn near perfect.  The plot involved recently deceased folks who go to what I suppose their version of purgatory is and they have to select one memory from their lives that they will then relive for all of eternity.  Really awesome stuff.

      0
      0
  5. Generation Disappointed says:
    April 4, 2023 at 3:29 am

    Please stop feeding the Hollywood head of the hydra that is killing us.

    0
    0
    1. Greg Johnson says:
      April 4, 2023 at 10:35 am

      This is why we review films.

      https://counter-currents.com/2011/08/why-i-write-11/

      If you don’t think we should review them, you can boycott the reviews.

      0
      0
  6. Viv says:
    April 4, 2023 at 8:35 am

    I stopped watching after an hour. I just thought it was boring and the characters insufferable.

    However, there are two slight red pills in the hour I did watch. First, Yeoh’s character can barely speak English despite having been in the US for more than 20 years. This signals the inability to assimilate even our “model minorities.”

    Second, there was an anti-Semitic slur thrown at a white laundromat customer, whom Yeoh calls “Big nose.” Journalists actually asked the directors about this slur, and they denied it was about Jews. Instead, they claimed it’s a common insult Asians use for whites. But Yeoh used it only moments after warmly asking a white laundromat customer if he was coming to the party she was giving. The slur clearly refers to the Jewish nature of the customer with the dog. It got a laugh from me, but I couldn’t continue watching.

    0
    0
    1. K says:
      April 6, 2023 at 12:42 am

      The directors were not lying. 大鼻子 is a common insult towards whites specifically among Chinese. It wasn’t anti-semitic. I doubt Chinese even distinguish between Whites and Jews other than one group holds a lot of power while the other is a whipping boy.

      0
      0
  7. S. Clark says:
    April 4, 2023 at 8:30 pm

    So, some asian films that I think are thoughtful.

    The Crazy Family (1984) A really wacky Japanese family goes wacky with their small space house, and eventually declare war on each other. Pretty funny and a good satire on the 1980’s Japan, Inc.

    The Marioka Sisters (1983) based on the Japanese novel, dealing with four sisters in 1938 Osaka and their conflicts and business dealings. An interesting view of prewar Japan with no ‘Banzai.”

    McArthur’s Children (1983) Dealing with Japanese children when the country was occupied in 1945. it has some off moments, but also some charm and shows a Japanese view of occupation different than the usual American stuff like Teahouse of the August Moon and its semi-worship of American “democracy.” A lot od uncertainty in dealing with defeat.  Ken Watanabe’s first film.

    A Great Wall (1986) A Chinese-American family visits their kin in China, and a thoughtful view of Chinas just as it was coming out of Mao. Has some very precise predictions of Tienaman Square, and the grandfather a kind man who has doubts about the “New” China overtaking one of Mao and equality.

    From Mao to Mozart. A documentary when Isaac Stern visited China, and introduced Mozart to China. A thoughtful portrait of China in the mid seventies. I remember when they had a recital, they couldn’t find a piano, so the People’s Army sent a plane eight hundred miles away to get a piano. A nice use of military power. Also, some very sad stories of Chinese musicians who, in the Cultural Revolution, were forced by Red Guards to destroy their instruments and music in front of crowds because classical music was “bourgeois” and “counter-revolutionary.”  Very moving, but also a lot of fun as Chinese are delighted by Stern. Showing China beginning to wake up.

    Just examples that there are good asian films…or once were.

     

    0
    0
    1. Lord Shang says:
      April 5, 2023 at 3:43 pm

      Thanks for these recs (though it’s The Makioka Sisters, which I believe is considered one of the greatest Japanese novels – one with rightist themes worthy of CC review).

      My problem with nonwhite films is that, even when I enjoy them, they mostly don’t seem to ‘stick’ in my memory (I have the same problem with Agatha Christie novels, as well as any kind of non-linear, postmodern fiction). Exceptions were Kurosawa’s Ran and Ikiru (To Live). Also, for sheer entertainment, but also surprisingly affecting (as I recall), see the Korean zombie film Train to Busan.

      0
      0
    2. Richard Chance says:
      April 5, 2023 at 5:36 pm

      I’d forgotten we were discussing Asian films specifically, and I do have a few that were memorable to me (in a good way):

      Rashomon (1950), Japanese

      Throne of Blood (1957), Japanese

      Heaven and Earth (1990), Japanese

      After Life (1998), Japanese

      Hero, (2002), Chinese

      Oldboy (2003), Korean

      Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005), Chinese

      0
      0
      1. Fire Walk With Lee says:
        April 6, 2023 at 5:57 am

        You guys have loaded me up with enough new films to watch to last a few months.  I will be checking out several of those mentioned above.  Thank you.

        0
        0

Comments are closed.

If you have Paywall access,
simply login first to see your comment auto-approved.

Note on comments privacy & moderation

Your email is never published nor shared.

Comments are moderated. If you don't see your comment, please be patient. If approved, it will appear here soon. Do not post your comment a second time.

  • Recent posts

    • Israel, Gaza, and the War for Your Mind

      Christian Secor

      1

    • Polish-Style Territorial Defense Could Be the Answer to the Risk of Civil War in France

      Olivier Bault

      1

    • Toward a New Spiritual Revolution

      Morris van de Camp

    • Introducing the Counter-Currents Book Club

      Greg Johnson

      1

    • The Fear of Writing

      Mark Gullick

    • Obi-Wan Kenobi

      Trevor Lynch

      1

    • The Homeland Institute’s Third Poll, Part Two: Is National Divorce a Solution?

      David M. Zsutty

    • Tommy Robinson: Fakta vs. emoce a nejnovější lži

      Huntley Haverstock

    • The Worst Week Yet: November 26-December 2, 2023

      Jim Goad

      10

    • Lamentations for a City

      Morris van de Camp

      6

    • The Homeland Institute’s Third Poll, Part One: American Democracy in Crisis

      David M. Zsutty

      1

    • Mike Johnson and Diff’rent Strokes: When Liberal Narratives Collapse

      Travis LeBlanc

      1

    • Using Politics to Segregate the Sexes

      Jim Goad

    • Imagine Jim Goad Singing “Imagine”

      Greg Johnson

      13

    • The Union Jackal, November 2023

      Mark Gullick

      5

    • Christmas Special: Merry Christmas, Infidels!

      Greg Johnson

      30

    • Jonathan Bowden’s The Cultured Thug

      Margot Metroland

      1

    • Le Manifeste Nationaliste Blanc: Introduction à un livre interdit

      Greg Johnson

    • Little Free Library Book Giveaway!

      Cyan Quinn

      5

    • Using Politics to Segregate the Sexes

      Jim Goad

      35

    • The Boondock Saints and Overnight: Troy Duffy’s Career as Cautionary Tale

      Travis LeBlanc

      6

    • David Zsutty Introduces the Homeland Institute: Transcript

      David M. Zsutty

    • It’s White Wednesday! Shop Our Sale Now

      Cyan Quinn

    • Ahsoka

      Trevor Lynch

      5

    • The US Military Excuses an Anti-White Massacre: Black Soldiers & the Houston Riot of 1917

      Dave Chambers

      2

    • “A Few More Steps and We Were . . . On Some Edge of Things”: Staircases That Lead Nowhere, Part 2

      Kathryn S.

      4

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 561: An All-Star Thanksgiving Weekend Special

      Counter-Currents Radio

    • Giving Tuesday at Counter-Currents: Help Us Meet Our Match!

      Cyan Quinn

      5

    • “A Few More Steps and We Were . . . On Some Edge of Things”: Staircases That Lead Nowhere, Part 1

      Kathryn S.

      5

    • The Blacks Next Door

      Gunnar Alfredsson

      7

    • Where the Dissident Right Triumphs

      Lipton Matthews

      2

    • Used to Be a Bad Guy: Carlito’s Way at 30

      Mark Gullick

      3

    • The Worst Week Yet: November 19-25, 2023

      Jim Goad

      21

    • Ridley Scott’s Napoleon

      Trevor Lynch

      28

    • Are We (Finally) Living in the World of Atlas Shrugged? Part 2

      Jef Costello

      4

    • The Suppression of the Maryland Moderates During the Civil War

      Morris van de Camp

      2

    • The Anti-Black Plague “Black Death” of 1347-1351 Kills Half of Europe . . . Black Women Most Affected

      Jim Goad

      4

    • We Have Much to be Thankful For

      Greg Johnson

    • All-Star Thanksgiving Weekend Special!

      Greg Johnson

      2

    • Black Friday Special: It’s Time to STOP Shopping for Christmas

      Greg Johnson

      5

    • Are We (Finally) Living in the World of Atlas Shrugged? Part 1

      Jef Costello

      12

    • We Get the Crime We Deserve

      Spencer J. Quinn

      8

    • Nueva Derecha vs. Vieja Derecha, Capítulo 12: La Cuestión Cristiana en el Nacionalismo Blanco

      Greg Johnson

    • Happy Thanksgiving!

      Greg Johnson

      1

    • The Anti-Black Plague: “Black Death” of 1347-1351 Kills Half of Europe . . . Black Women Most Affected

      Jim Goad

      24

    • A Veteran’s Thanksgiving Message

      David M. Zsutty

      3

    • Horses and Heavy Hors d’Oeuvres

      James J. O'Meara

    • Let Elon Cook

      Travis LeBlanc

      3

    • Should We Defend Anti-Semitic Literature?

      Jason Kessler

      8

    • G. Gordon Liddy’s When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country, Part 2

      Beau Albrecht

  • Classics Corner

    • A Heroic Vision for Our Time: The Life and Ideas of Colin Wilson

      John Morgan

      12

    • Remembering J. Philippe Rushton (December 3, 1943–October 2, 2012)

      Greg Johnson

      7

    • Herman Husband, Eighteenth Century White Nationalist Pioneer

      Spencer J. Quinn

      10

    • Remembering Henry Williamson (December 1, 1895-August 13, 1977)

      Greg Johnson

    • Black Friday Special: It’s Time to STOP Shopping for Christmas

      Greg Johnson

      5

    • The Holy Mountain, Part 1

      Derek Hawthorne

      1

    • The Holy Mountain, Part 2

      Derek Hawthorne

      2

    • Remembering Krzysztof Penderecki (November 23, 1933-March 29, 2020)

      Alex Graham

    • Thanksgiving Day as a Harvest Festival

      Andrew Hamilton

    • Thanksgiving: The Only Holiday Unique to the American Ethny

      C. F. Robinson

      9

    • The Importance of Believing: Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather

      Howe Abbott-Hiss

      6

    • Remembering Madison Grant (November 19, 1865-May 30, 1937)

      Greg Johnson

      3

    • Remembering Wyndham Lewis (November 18, 1882-March 7, 1957)

      Greg Johnson

    • Remembering Sir Oswald Mosley (November 16, 1896-December 3, 1980)

      Greg Johnson

      4

    • Revolution of the Nation

      Sir Oswald Mosley

    • The Feminine Sexual Counter-Revolution and Its Limitations, Part 1

      F. Roger Devlin

      2

    • The Feminine Sexual Counter-Revolution and Its Limitations, Part 2

      F. Roger Devlin

      41

    • America and Israel: United in Struggle

      Alexander Jacob

      16

    • Zionism vs. White Nationalism

      Spencer J. Quinn

      7

    • Debate on Christianity

      Jonas De Geer and Greg Johnson

      42

    • In Defense of Populism

      Greg Johnson

      6

    • The Politics of Nuclear War, Part 3: Israel and the Bomb

      John Morgan

      30

    • For Leo Yankevich: October 30, 1961 to December 11, 2018

      Juleigh Howard-Hobson

      3

    • The Heresy of Christian Zionism: Israel, Christianity, & Genesis 12.2-3

      Irmin Vinson

      31

    • Philosemitism & Brutality

      Andrew Hamilton

      57

    • Charles Ives, American Composer

      Alex Graham

      8

    • Remembering Friedrich Nietzsche
      (October 15, 1844–August 25, 1900)

      Greg Johnson

      5

    • Remembering Aleister Crowley (October 12, 1875–December 1, 1947)

      Greg Johnson

      10

    • Remembering Ralph Vaughan Williams (October 12, 1872–August 26, 1958)

      Alex Graham

      3

    • Archeofuturist Fiction: Frank Herbert’s Dune

      Greg Johnson

      23

  • Paroled from the Paywall

    • Never the Twain: Notes on Logic and Morality

      Mark Gullick

      18

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 557: New Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson

      Counter-Currents Radio

      3

    • Heil Honey, I’m Home

      Travis LeBlanc

      2

    • Management and Working Remotely

      Morris van de Camp

      1

    • The Protocols of Zion Today, Part 2

      Beau Albrecht

    • The Protocols of Zion Today, Part 1

      Beau Albrecht

      8

    • The Rise and Fall of Ibram X. Kendi

      Beau Albrecht

      14

    • Remembering the Great White Hopes of Boxing

      Travis LeBlanc

      10

    • Race and IQ Differences: An Interview with Arthur Jensen, Part 5

      Arthur Jensen

    • Nueva Derecha vs. Vieja Derecha Capítulo 10: El Peso de Hitler

      Greg Johnson

    • Gerald P. Nye: American Patriot and Midwestern Isolationist, Part 2

      Morris van de Camp

    • Gerald P. Nye: American Patriot and Midwestern Isolationist, Part 1

      Morris van de Camp

    • Looking for Mr. Goodbar: A Tale of Disco-Era Debauchery

      Travis LeBlanc

      26

    • Race & IQ Differences: An Interview with Arthur Jensen, Part 4

      Arthur Jensen

    • For Lesbians Only

      Beau Albrecht

      11

    • Why Cartoons Have Potential: A Response to Travis LeBlanc, Part 2

      White Lion Movement

    • Fictionalizing the Right

      Clarissa Schnabel

      5

    • Jack Hinson’s One-Man War

      Spencer J. Quinn

      2

    • The 12 Black Years Since Jared Taylor’s White Identity

      Mark Gullick

      4

    • Exercise Tips for the Anxious

      Gunnar Alfredsson

      3

    • Race & IQ Differences: An Interview with Arthur Jensen, Part 3

      Arthur Jensen

    • It’s Not All About You

      Spencer J. Quinn

      5

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 554 How Often Does Pox Think About the Roman Empire? . . . & Other Matters

      Counter-Currents Radio

    • White Altruism Revealed

      Gunnar Alfredsson

      2

    • The Matter with Concrete, Part 2

      Michael Walker

      2

    • The Matter with Concrete, Part 1

      Michael Walker

      4

    • The Captivity Narrative of Fanny Kelly

      Spencer J. Quinn

      11

    • Race and IQ Differences: An Interview with Arthur Jensen, Part 2

      Arthur Jensen

      3

    • The Unnecessary War

      Morris van de Camp

      3

    • Marx vs. Rousseau

      Stephen Paul Foster

      4

  • Recent comments

    • ArminiusMaximus

      Israel, Gaza, and the War for Your Mind

      Beautifully written. The ending is a perfect summation of the core issue at hand. In the spirit of...

    • Gallus

      Polish-Style Territorial Defense Could Be the Answer to the Risk of Civil War in France

      Great piece of writing contrasting the very real threat that has engulfed towns, cities and could...

    • MC

      Introducing the Counter-Currents Book Club

      Love this

    • nineofclubs

      The Worst Week Yet: November 26-December 2, 2023

      Obregon’s mother may lack certain social graces, but it must be said that her venom - directed at...

    • Kathryn S

      “A Few More Steps and We Were . . . On Some Edge of Things”: Staircases That Lead Nowhere, Part 1

      Wow, what a neat assignment! And that's an interesting observation about the Alpine villagers and...

    • Beau Albrecht

      The Stolen Land Narrative

      That sounds like something that Howard Zinn would come up with, a lying activist pretending to be a...

    • Beau Albrecht

      Obi-Wan Kenobi

      Whew... As Anakin Skywalker once said:  "Noooooooooooooooooooooo!"

    • Alexandra O.

      The Homeland Institute’s Third Poll, Part One: American Democracy in Crisis

      I think that most White people find it easier to get along with others of another political...

    • Will Williams

      Christmas Special: Merry Christmas, Infidels!

      Greg: Kwanzaa is supposed to be a Negro alternative to Christmas. It is a seven-day feast,...

    • Richard Smith

      Imagine Jim Goad Singing “Imagine”

      First time I heard Jim singing "White Room" above, it's damn good!

    • Josephus Cato

      The Worst Week Yet: November 26-December 2, 2023

      I was hoping he would have succeeded in his appeal to SCOTUS.  I'm wondering if it was declined due...

    • DarkPlato

      Lamentations for a City

      I’ll wager Bovarian Motor Works has a large percentage of it by now!

    • Gallus

      Lamentations for a City

      That was a superb article. Thanks for sharing the link to the documentary, I shall watch that with...

    • Fyrdman

      Christmas Special: Merry Christmas, Infidels!

      Interesting article, with interesting reader responses. Here in England, the mercantile Christmas tv...

    • Hamburger Today

      Christmas Special: Merry Christmas, Infidels!

      The 'divine mother and child' is a pre-Christian tableu.Innana, the ‘mother’ figure in the Egyptian...

    • ncleapyear

      Lamentations for a City

      I read somewhere that George Wallace referred to Humphrey as a "pointy head" in the 1968...

    • Kök Böri

      The Worst Week Yet: November 26-December 2, 2023

      Тurscak is either an Ukrainian, or a Pole.

    • DarkPlato

      Lamentations for a City

      Great article. Of course it was all to get whites back for electing Trump. As were the Covid...

    • Fire Walk With Lee

      The Worst Week Yet: November 26-December 2, 2023

      Victims of black on white violence are just experiencing diversity.  Or experiencing cultural...

    • Anne Frank Rizzo

      The Worst Week Yet: November 26-December 2, 2023

      Not only has the Mexican Mafia had white members https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_%22Pegleg%...

  • Book Authors

    • Beau Albrecht
    • Alain de Benoist
    • Kerry Bolton
    • Jonathan Bowden
    • Collin Cleary
    • Jef Costello
    • Savitri Devi
    • F. Roger Devlin
    • Buttercup Dew
    • Julius Evola
    • Jim Goad
    • Gregory Hood
    • Juleigh Howard-Hobson
    • Greg Johnson
    • Charles Krafft
    • Anthony M. Ludovici
    • Trevor Lynch
    • H. L. Mencken
    • J. A. Nicholl
    • James J. O’Meara
    • Christopher Pankhurst
    • Tito Perdue
    • Michael Polignano
    • Spencer J. Quinn
    • Fenek Solère
    • Irmin Vinson
    • Leo Yankevich
    • Francis Parker Yockey
    • Multiple authors
  • Webzine Authors

    Editor-in-Chief

    • Greg Johnson, Ph.D.

    Featured Writers

    • Beau Albrecht
    • Morris V. de Camp
    • Stephen Paul Foster, Ph.D.
    • Jim Goad
    • Alex Graham
    • Mark Gullick, Ph.D.
    • Greg Johnson, Ph.D.
    • Spencer J. Quinn

    Frequent Writers

    • Aquilonius
    • Anthony Bavaria
    • Alain de Benoist
    • Kerry Bolton, Ph.D.
    • Collin Cleary, Ph.D.
    • Jef Costello
    • F. Roger Devlin, Ph.D.
    • Richard Houck
    • Ondrej Mann
    • Margot Metroland
    • John Morgan
    • Trevor Lynch
    • James J. O’Meara
    • Kathryn S.
    • Thomas Steuben
    • Michael Walker

    Classic Authors

    • Maurice Bardèche
    • Jonathan Bowden
    • Julius Evola
    • Guillaume Faye
    • Ernst Jünger
    • Kevin MacDonald, Ph.D.
    • D. H. Lawrence
    • Charles Lindbergh
    • Jack London
    • H. P. Lovecraft
    • Anthony M. Ludovici
    • Sir Oswald Mosley
    • National Vanguard
    • Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Revilo Oliver
    • William Pierce
    • Ezra Pound
    • Saint-Loup
    • Savitri Devi
    • Carl Schmitt
    • Miguel Serrano
    • Oswald Spengler
    • P. R. Stephensen
    • Jean Thiriart
    • John Tyndall
    • Dominique Venner
    • Leo Yankevich
    • Francis Parker Yockey

    Other Authors

    • Howe Abbott-Hiss
    • Michael Bell
    • Buttercup Dew
    • Giles Corey
    • Bain Dewitt
    • Jack Donovan
    • Richardo Duchesne, Ph.D.
    • Emile Durand
    • Guillaume Durocher
    • Mark Dyal
    • Fullmoon Ancestry
    • Tom Goodroch
    • Andrew Hamilton
    • Robert Hampton
    • Huntley Haverstock
    • Derek Hawthorne
    • Gregory Hood
    • Juleigh Howard-Hobson
    • Alexander Jacob
    • Nicholas Jeelvy
    • Ruuben Kaalep
    • Tobias Langdon
    • Julian Langness
    • Travis LeBlanc
    • Patrick Le Brun
    • G A Malvicini
    • John Michael McCloughlin
    • Millennial Woes
    • Michael O’Meara
    • Christopher Pankhurst
    • Michael Polignano
    • J. J. Przybylski
    • Quintilian
    • Edouard Rix
    • C. B. Robertson
    • C. F. Robinson
    • Herve Ryssen
    • Alan Smithee
    • Fenek Solere
    • Ann Sterzinger
    • Robert Steuckers
    • Tomislav Sunic
    • Donald Thoresen
    • Marian Van Court
    • Irmin Vinson
    • Aylmer Wedgwood
    • Scott Weisswald
  • Departments

    • Book Reviews
    • Movie Reviews
    • TV Reviews
    • Music Reviews
    • Art Criticism
    • Graphic Novels & Comics
    • Video Game Reviews
    • Fiction
    • Poems
    • Interviews
    • Videos
    • English Translations
    • Other Languages
      • Arabic
      • Bulgarian
      • Croatian
      • Czech
      • Danish
      • Dutch
      • Estonian
      • Finnish
      • French
      • German
      • Greek
      • Hungarian
      • Italian
      • Lithuanian
      • Norwegian
      • Polish
      • Portuguese
      • Romanian
      • Russian
      • Slovak
      • Spanish
      • Swedish
      • Ukrainian
    • Commemorations
    • Why We Write
  • Archives
  • Top 100 Commenters
Sponsored Links
Spencer J. Quinn CC Giving Tuesday Above Time Coffee Antelope Hill Publishing Paul Waggener IHR-Store American Renaissance Jim Goad The Occidental Observer
Donate Now Mailing list
Books for sale
  • The Cultured Thug
  • Opportunities in Alabama Agriculture
  • Toward a New Nationalism
  • The Trial of Socrates
  • Fields of Asphodel
  • El Manifiesto Nacionalista Blanco
  • An Artist of the Right
  • Ernst Jünger
  • Reuben
  • The Partisan
  • Trevor Lynch’s Classics of Right-Wing Cinema
  • The Enemy of Europe
  • Imperium
  • Reactionary Modernism
  • Manifesto del Nazionalismo Bianco
  • O Manifesto Nacionalista Branco
  • Vade Mecum
  • Whiteness: The Original Sin
  • Space Vixen Trek Episode 17: Tomorrow the Stars
  • The Year America Died
  • Passing the Buck
  • Mysticism After Modernism
  • Gold in the Furnace
  • Defiance
  • Forever & Ever
  • Wagner’s Ring & the Germanic Tradition
  • Resistance
  • Materials for All Future Historians
  • Love Song of the Australopiths
  • White Identity Politics
  • Here’s the Thing
  • Trevor Lynch: Part Four of the Trilogy
  • Graduate School with Heidegger
  • It’s Okay to Be White
  • The World in Flames
  • The White Nationalist Manifesto
  • From Plato to Postmodernism
  • The Gizmo
  • Return of the Son of Trevor Lynch’s CENSORED Guide to the Movies
  • Toward a New Nationalism
  • The Smut Book
  • The Alternative Right
  • My Nationalist Pony
  • Dark Right: Batman Viewed From the Right
  • The Philatelist
  • Confessions of an Anti-Feminist
  • East and West
  • Though We Be Dead, Yet Our Day Will Come
  • White Like You
  • Numinous Machines
  • Venus and Her Thugs
  • Cynosura
  • North American New Right, vol. 2
  • You Asked For It
  • More Artists of the Right
  • Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics
  • The Homo & the Negro
  • Rising
  • The Importance of James Bond
  • In Defense of Prejudice
  • Confessions of a Reluctant Hater (2nd ed.)
  • The Hypocrisies of Heaven
  • Waking Up from the American Dream
  • Green Nazis in Space!
  • Truth, Justice, and a Nice White Country
  • Heidegger in Chicago
  • End of an Era: Mad Men & the Ordeal of Civility
  • Sexual Utopia in Power
  • What is a Rune? & Other Essays
  • Son of Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies
  • The Lightning & the Sun
  • The Eldritch Evola
  • Western Civilization Bites Back
  • New Right vs. Old Right
  • Journey Late at Night: Poems and Translations
  • The Non-Hindu Indians & Indian Unity
  • I do not belong to the Baader-Meinhof Group
  • Pulp Fascism
  • The Lost Philosopher
  • Trevor Lynch’s A White Nationalist Guide to the Movies
  • And Time Rolls On
  • Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence
  • North American New Right, Vol. 1
  • Some Thoughts on Hitler
  • Tikkun Olam and Other Poems
  • Summoning the Gods
  • Taking Our Own Side
  • Reuben
  • The Node
  • The New Austerities
  • Morning Crafts
  • The Passing of a Profit & Other Forgotten Stories
Copyright © 2023 Counter-Currents Publishing, Ltd.

Paywall Access





Please enter your email address.

Lost your password?

Edit your comment