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Celebrated French explorer Jacques Cartier founded New France in 1534 when he erected a cross on the shores of what is known today as Quebec City. Thus begins the 269-year story of the French colonization of North America. (more…)
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Celebrated French explorer Jacques Cartier founded New France in 1534 when he erected a cross on the shores of what is known today as Quebec City. Thus begins the 269-year story of the French colonization of North America. (more…)
A short while ago I wrote about the connections between Willis Carto and the Truth Seeker magazine and its owner Charles Smith, who published the original American edition of Imperium. An equally significant connection there is Frederick C. F. Weiss, who was linked to both the Truth Seeker and the National Renaissance Party (NRP) in New York in the 1950s. Weiss was a longtime friend of Francis Parker Yockey, who sometimes stayed at — or hid out at — Weiss’ farm near Middletown New York, about 60 miles northwest of Manhattan. It was through Weiss that the Truth Seeker’s Charles Smith was introduced to Imperium, and probably to Yockey as well. (more…)
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Derek Hawthorne‘s new book, Being and “The Birds,” was the subject of the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio. Philosopher and film critic Hawthorne draws on the thought of Martin Heidegger to illuminate Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 classic film The Birds, about a series of savage and inexplicable bird attacks on Bodega Bay, a sleepy California fishing village. Hawthorne argues that The Birds depicts a Heideggerian “event” (Ereignis): a sudden and fundamental transformation of the meaning of everything. Modern men believe we are masters of our own destiny. Heidegger calls this “humanism” and rejects it completely. The Birds is an anti-humanist film. In the space of one weekend, all pretensions to the understanding and mastery of nature are shattered, and man is reduced to helplessness in the face of unfathomable mystery. (more…)
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Every waking hour, every moment of the day, everywhere we look, whether it’s breakfast cereal boxes, pop-up advertising dross, or sportsball team group photos, we are bombarded by Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity — the DIE machine. It is so all-pervasive that we seemingly pay it no mind, but unconsciously we are alarmed by the presence of the hostile other. Even though it is in our faces all the time like a leering, ubiquitous transgender version of Big Brother — picture Michelle Obama posters the size of teetering skyscrapers — we often have the option of scrolling away, clicking to dismiss, or turning the channel. (more…)
Another day, another article written in response to an act of desecration and vandalism perpetrated by those who seek to spoil whatever is left of that thing we once could call “Western Civilization.” Honestly, I was reluctant to write this. After having typed thousands of words on the exhausting farce that was the recent European Cup, perhaps I can be forgiven for not having the muster to write about yet another attack on our race, our culture, our traditions, and our senses. As I wrote in my essay on EURO 2024, life in the West today is like fighting on the parapets of a fortress as wave after wave of enemy soldiers relentlessly scales the walls. (more…)
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A Tale of Two Cities
It’s always instructive to compare the respective fortunes of England and France, those old enemies. And what better way than to follow the lead of Charles Dickens, take the cultural temperature of both London and Paris, and so tell a tale of two cities? We’ll start with my hometown. (more…)
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Part 14 of 14
(Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here, Part 7 here, Part 8 here, Part 9 here, Part 10 here, Part 11 here, Part 12 here, Part 13 here)
Editor’s Note:
I will conclude my commentary on the Gorgias with a second series of articles early in 2025. (more…)
We have a lot of new readers coming to Counter-Currents, so I have created a new article to welcome them, explain what we are about, introduce them to our principal writers, and show them how to use the site. The article is linked on our top navigation bar. Give us your thoughts in the comment section below. (more…)
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Ages ago, for reasons I no longer remember, I was wandering across Asia and decided to spend some time in Taiwan. The Chinese interested me, and Taiwan was then as close as it was practical to get. Then, as now, the Chinese were thought by many to be exotic, inscrutable, devious, and unlike normal people such as ourselves. You know, opium dens, dragon ladies, assassinations by puff adder, that sort of thing. Given the importance of China today, the nature of these multitudinous people might bear thought. (more…)
The uprising is organic, local, and working class. As far as militant street activism goes, the Irish are leading the way: thousands of natives marching against their replacement, families protesting at the hotels full of economic infiltrators, disused factories set aside for fake refugees made uninhabitable, rental properties boldly spray painted with “Irish Only,” and the mass chanting of “Come Out Ye Black and Tans” against the unwanted, foreign throngs thrust upon an enduring nation. (more…)
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Bellyaching is an argumentation tactic featuring overblown complaining, typically combining elements of whimpering with indignation. It’s rather like pouting, but often sullener than that. It’s done for a reason, of course. The usual object is to tug at the listener’s heartstrings. With enough repetition, perhaps it will even induce a guilt complex.
Note that bellyaching is not simple passive-aggressiveness, such as a moody girlfriend who says that she’s “Fine!” but clearly means nothing of the sort. (more…)
Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Sonya Massey Is This Election Cycle’s George Floyd,” on how Massey, a black woman who was killed by police as she was preparing to throw a pot of boiling water at them, is set to become this election season’s George Floyd. (more…)