Month: May 2024

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We’ll be reminiscing and talking about 1990s British pop culture on Saturday’s livestream, where Greg Johnson will be joined by Brits Millennial Woes (official website here) and Morgoth (Substack, Odysee), as well as Counter-Currents’ resident expert on all things pop, Travis LeBlanc. (more…)

Literally us

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I want to thank the nearly 400 readers who have responded thus far to the Counter-Currents poll and share some interesting results. Keep in mind that these are all subject to change as more people take the poll. Also, since knowledge is power, we will not be releasing our overall results to the public.

Those who haven’t taken the poll yet will receive one more invitation email in the coming days. But act soon. The poll ends on May 15th, when we will have the drawing for the $500 prize. Remember: your answers are anonymous.  (more…)

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I enjoyed Fred Reed’s April 24 essay “Ignorance, Its Uses and Nurture,” which refers to universal suffrage in anything larger than a small town as a “crackpot” idea. In a mere thousand words, Reed painted the American public as entirely incapable and unqualified to understand United States foreign policy, let alone vote on it. Therefore, he concludes, the entire democratic system is a sham. Yes, the statistics he presents bolster his point admirably. But maybe not as much as epic burns such as this one: (more…)

Tereska Torrès, the actual author of Anne Frank’s diary? (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

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For [the Polish Jews], there is only one solution to the Jewish question in the world, and that is their own country. They don’t want a host country, however good it may be. They want to be a normal nation among the others, because up to now the world has not understood that there is “neither Greek nor Jew,” but only human beings, all equal in their misfortunes, their weaknesses, and greatnesses, all capable of the same horror as of the same heroic deeds, because up to now the world has entrenched itself behind numerous groups, which are becoming more and more numerous, each one enclosing itself twice over, living in mistrust and doubt against its neighbor. (more…)

Sir Keir Starmer, the likely next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and also the author’s former schoolmate. (Photo courtesy of the World Economic Forum’s Flickr)

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It is the run-in to a British General Election in which the Labour Party is certain to replace a Conservative Party which has been in power for almost 15 years. The charismatic Labour leader is warning his party against what he calls “triumphalism,” although he knows almost to a certainty that in half a year’s time the keys to 10 Downing Street will be in his expensively-tailored pocket. (more…)

Former KKK poster boy R. Derek Black today, whose pronouns are now they/them. (Photo from his Instagram)

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Translations: French, Polish, Spanish

This essay was originally published in July 2013, but has become relevant again in light of the recent disclosure that R. Derek Black now identifies as transsexual, as revealed in his new memoir: The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism.

Derek Black’s renunciation of White Nationalism raises questions of wider significance about how people form and reject beliefs. (more…)

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It’s official: There will be no more Boy Scouts.

Don’t panic: There will still be Scouts who are boys. There will also be Scouts who are girls.

There will also continue to be Girl Scouts who are boys, so long as they identify as girls. And there will still be Girl Scouts who are biological girls.

Just no more Boy Scouts. (more…)

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A new trend has emerged in the country where I live. Maybe it has been going on for quite some time elsewhere, but it’s advent in my neck of the woods is recent.

I am, of course, talking about the sudden (for me at least) prevalence of bottle caps which are attached to the bottle. Milk, juice, pop, energy drinks . . . all now come with caps that cling to the bottle with a stubborn fortitude. (more…)

You can buy Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin here.

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Pssst — white people! There is no shame in being white. There is only shame in ever thinking there was. In the 50 short, sharp, incisive essays contained in his book Whiteness: The Original Sin, author Jim Goad examines why the idea of being white has become the modern version of the unpardonable sin. On the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, which was the fifth meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club, host Greg Johnson was joined by author Jim Goad as well as John Derbyshire and Angelo Plume (Telegram, YouTube) to discuss the book and anti-whiteness more generally. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

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The following is reprinted from the Homeland Institute (website, Telegram).

Of white Americans aged 18 to 35, 87.3% of Democrats, 85.1% of Independents, and 72.2% of Republicans plan on below-replacement reproduction, meaning two or fewer children.

33.2% of all respondents, 35.9% of Democrats, 38.5% of Independents, and 23.1% of Republicans said that the financial cost of raising children overall was a barrier to having children. (more…)

A seventeenth-century engraving of Diogenes Laertius (image courtesy of Wikipedia).

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The Milesian philosophers were wrong about everything, but they asked the right questions, and for the first time sought natural explanations instead. — Luke Mueshaller, Pre-Socratics: A Painless Introduction

The limit of all wisdom is in me. — Epigram on Pythagoras, Boundaries, Duris

Although the twilight is darkening around Western philosophy, she is still just visible through the gloom. She had already been demoted from her role as theology’s handmaiden and queen of the sciences to a kind of antiquarian pursuit, like collecting moths in glass-covered frames or old jazz records. (more…)

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Matthew Dallek
Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
New York: Basic Books, 2023

A couple of months back I reviewed a biography of Robert Welch (A Conspiratorial Life) that I regarded as superficial and facile.[1] The author, Edward H. Miller, seemed to have no real feel for the issues that motivated Welch and his followers in the late 1950s and early ‘60s. In fact, Miller displayed little sense of that time at all — as a political era, I mean. (more…)

Durante King-McLean, one of the men charged in the heist, and the only one with a Canadian-sounding name. (Photo from the Peel Regional Police website.)

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A news conference held on April 17 provided an update on the largest gold theft in Canadian history. A shipment of gold had arrived from Zurich, Switzerland exactly a year before and was then offloaded at Pearson International Airport, but then disappeared. Where could it have gone? The situation is unprecedented.

According to the Peel Regional Police (PRP), on April 17, 2023 a flight from Zurich landed at Pearson that was carrying a veritable fortune comprising 6,600 bars of .9999% pure gold, worth $20 million, along with a further $2.5 million in foreign currency. The shipment was offloaded shortly thereafter and stored at another location within the airport. That very night, the gold shipment was reported missing. (more…)