Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “The Luxury of Being Lazy,” on Christine Chavez, a homeless woman who was recently accidentally killed by a lawn mower while sleeping in a park in Modesto, California — and whose family blames the city for her death. See below. (more…)
Month: July 2023
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Like all journals of dissident ideas, Counter-Currents depends on the support of our readers. So far this year, we’ve raised $63,955.84 of our $300,000 goal. I want to thank everyone who has donated so far. (Please donate here!) But first, Thomas Steuben offers a few words on how to decide what level of involvement in our movement is right for you.
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The term “red pill” has become common parlance and has spawned numerous variations. While some lament that its meaning has become diluted, I prefer to see this as a testament to the dissident Right’s cultural dynamism. (more…)
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Every educated person should be familiar with Plato, but higher education today is usually a barrier to understanding the great thinkers of the past. Hence the need for Counter-Currents, which Jonathan Bowden described as an online university of the Right.
On the next two consecutive Saturdays (July 22 and 29), Greg Johnson will complete his lecture course on Plato’s dialogue Gorgias, focusing on Socrates’ long conversation with Callicles. (more…)
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Christopher Nolan is one of my favorite living directors. The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, Interstellar, and Dunkirk are all big, eye-catching Hollywood spectacles, but with a difference. They are highly imaginative, deal with serious themes, have compelling dramatic conflicts, and are often quite moving. Nolan is not particularly politically correct, either. Granted, his last film, Tenet — with its ludicrous Affirmative Action Hero — was a major disappointment. But with Oppenheimer, he returns to form.
Oppenheimer has a highly literate script with important ideas and powerful dramatic situations, striking visuals without digital hokum, and superb performances from a vast cast. (more…)
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Friends of Counter-Currents American Krogan (Substack, Telegram), Gaddius Maximus, and Pox Populi (Telegram, YouTube) recently did a broadcast to discuss the state of nationalism on Building a Third Force, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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A near-perfect embodiment of our current-day troubles has recently metastasized in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Octagon. If the following story has thus far escaped your notice, good. There is nothing inherently interesting or important about this latest discharge of middleweight trash-talk, but what this drama so neatly represents – well, that’s a different story. (more…)
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A daring Dutchman recently spray-painted a few red pills and jeers onto a slavery monument installed in the whitest part of the Netherlands against the explicit wishes of the locals. As we delve deeper into the immense contribution that the saboteur’s heroism brought to our people, I’d first like to pump everyone up with the infuriating details of the event and why I feel it is important to share this man’s story in his own words. (more…)
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Audio version: To listen in a player, use the one below or click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.”
I have no doubt it’s painful to hear that a John Deere tractor with a pull-behind lawnmower gobbled up your homeless daughter . . . sorry, unhoused daughter . . . excuse me, daughter experiencing homelessness . . . and spat her out in chunks. (more…)
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July 20, 2023 Counter-Currents Radio
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 542
Greg Johnson on Plato’s Gorgias,
Lecture 3Greg Johnson is teaching a five-week course on Plato’s Gorgias on Counter-Currents Radio, which will continue for the next two Saturdays later this month (July 22 and 29). The third lecture, focusing on the first third of Socrates’ discussion with Callicles, can be heard below. The first lecture can be heard here, and the second here.
The theme of the course is “Might vs. Right.” Dr. Johnson is using Donald J. Zeyl’s translation of the Gorgias published by Hackett as both a separate book and as part of their Plato Complete Works volume. (more…)
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Steve Moxon
The Woman Racket
Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2008The woman racket is the McCarthyism of the 1990s. — Norman Mailer
Women. You can’t live with ‘em and you can’t kill ‘em. — Mad Dog and Glory
This millennium we have become used to new myths. Islam is a religion of peace, trans people are facing “genocide,” and blacks invented trains, planes, and automobiles while dodging the bullets of a racist police force. (more…)
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At the beginning of July we witnessed further rioting and looting across France. President Emmanuel Macron, with the nerve and arrogance only he is capable of, pretended to find this event surprising, despite the fact that everyone had been expecting it at least since 2005 and the last large-scale riots in the suburbs.
No sensible, informed person with common sense was surprised by this week of chaos. (more…)
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Foreword by Petr Hampl
Associate Professor Martin Konvička is a widely respected biologist. He is mainly interested in butterflies and other small insects. That’s of no interest to Counter-Currents readers, however. What is more interesting is that as a biologist he looks at different cultures, civilizations, and social classes and judges them in terms of mating patterns, and often in terms of the statistical incidence of various sexual deviations as well — because again, these are just certain mating patterns. (more…)
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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)
Stefan George’s Dead Poets Society
The chapters about Stefan George (1868-1933) and those of his inner circle are the most interesting and even-handed of the book. Unlike Nietzsche, George was not primarily a philosopher, but a poet. His verse, however, was deeply influenced by French symbolism, as well as Nietzsche’s muscular ideas that emphasized will, vigor, and a profound dislike of both bourgeois conservatism and egalitarian progressivism. Höfele claims that “the native idiom” of George’s poetry doesn’t translate well. (more…)