Month: October 2024

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A recent viewing of the 2012 movie Maniac remake made me question the unsettling parallels between a man hunting for love and one hunting with murderous intent.

The film is very good if you like a giallo slasher in the style of Dario Argento. Producer of both versions, William Lustig, even worked on the Italian master’s excellent Tenebrae. (more…)

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CHAPTER 9
AUTOGNOSIS

Know thyself 2.0

The beginning of philosophy is to know the condition of your own mind.
Epictetus

“Know thyself” was famously inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and seen by Socrates’ friend Caepheron on a visit there to enquire as to whether Socrates was the wisest of men. Socrates himself tells the story at his trial, and Plato’s Apology represents one of the greatest acts of self-knowing in the history of literature. (more…)

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Lawrence Dennis & Maximilian St. George
A Trial on Trial: The Great Sedition Trial of 1944
First published in 1945 by the National Civil Rights Committee
Torrence California: Institute for Historical Review, 1984

In 1944, when the Allies were on the cusp of winning the Second World War, the Roosevelt administration’s Justice Department put thirty people on trial for “sedition.” The trial was not justice. It was lawfare meant to suppress wise ideas masquerading as a public relations stunt. The story of this lawfare, and the people involved, still resonates eighty years after the trial’s conclusion. (more…)

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Read Part 1 here

The movement frequently criticizes older people for being vulnerable to Zionism, and rightfully diagnoses decades of Jewish dominance of the media, and especially TV, as the biggest cause. Once one steps back it seems odd, even from a Christian perspective, to place Israel on a pedestal as a defender of human rights, democracy, Western civilization, or whatever. (more…)

Frank Herbert. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia  Commons

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Frank Herbert was born on this day in 1920 in Tacoma, Washington. Herbert is best-known as the creator of Dune, which is the most widely-read and influential science fiction novel of all time. Herbert, moreover, is an artist of the Right. As I wrote in my review of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, Part 1:

Frank Herbert’s vision of the future was deeply reactionary. He depicts a world where liberal democracy failed and has been replaced by a feudal imperium. (more…)

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Reduced, then, to teaching and preaching, the Negroes will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties.
Carter Godwin Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933)

Hey white boy,
What you doin’ uptown?
Lou Reed, Waiting for the Man (more…)

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Washed-out section of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Image source: National Park Service

Last week I spoke of my morose dread that when Hurricane Helene passed through the Atlanta suburbs, my house would be uprooted and start spinning in the air Wizard of Oz-style, but we survived with little more than a thorough soaking.

To nearly everyone’s surprise, the area that wound up getting crushed to bits was North Carolina’s western hill country. It used to be that coastal North Carolina towns such as Cape Hatteras and Cape Fear needed to batten down the hatches during hurricane season, but not this time. (more…)

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Having spent the last few weeks giving speeches, fundraising, and attending conferences, Greg Johnson returned to host Counter-Currents Radio. It is now available for downloading and online listening.

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Tony Martin
The Jewish Onslaught: Dispatches from the Wellesley Battlefront
Dover, Massachusetts: The Majority Press, 1993

Starting in January of 1993 and lasting nearly six months, [1] a notable affray occurred between a lone Africana Studies professor on one side and a large, nationally-networked coincidence of ethnonationalist Jews on the other. The Africana Studies Professor was Tony Martin (1942 – 2013) of Wellesley College. Martin became the target of the Organized Jewish Community when he assigned a book to his students called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews. The book was written by historians from The Nation of Islam and it documents the fact that many Jews – especially Sephardic Jews from Portugal – were involved in the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. (more…)

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Francis Ford Coppola
Megalopolis: A Fable
Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Shia LaBeouf, Aubrey Plaza, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne
Produced, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola

“This is typical of new directors, too many good ideas. Or, in this case, no ideas.” –Mystery Science Theater.[1]

“It was like watching a train wreck unfold day after day, week after week, and knowing that everybody there had tried their hardest to help the train wreck be avoided…. This sounds crazy to say, but there were times when we were all standing around going: ‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’” – Crew member quoted in The Guardian (more…)

The limited hardcover edition of Imperium is now shipping. Order your copy here.

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1. Our 2024 Fundraiser Update

Last week I asked you to check back to see if our fundraiser total passed $150,000, the midway point to our goal of $300,000. Thanks to our generous supporters, we are now at $159,974.74. This bodes well, because half of all fundraising takes place in the last quarter of the year, which started this past Tuesday. Now we need just a bit more than $140,000. With your help, we’ll make it.

Why should you help? Because we are doing good work, and our work just got harder. (more…)

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Part 4 of 15 (Part 1 begins here)

The Internal Differentiation of God

Schelling now throws us another curve, and it is a major one. All this time we have been speaking of the “immanence” of all things within God. But now Schelling tells us that “the concept of immanence is to be set aside completely insofar as thereby a dead containment of things in God is supposed to be expressed. (more…)

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Edgy satires often achieve greatness proportional to the power of the thing they satirize. For example, a novel satirizing Communist Russia in the 1920s, such as Mikhail Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog, would have lost much of its edge had it been written in, say, 1987, during the final years of Communism. But since it was written in 1925, when Communism was quite vigorous, Bulgakov got cancelled, and the book had to wait until 1987 to see the light of day. (more…)