Month: October 2025

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Longtime Trav readers know that I am a big fan of what I like to call “time capsule movies”, that is to say movies that only could have been made at a specific time and place. Movies about a short-lived fad while the fad was still ongoing are particularly a favorite of mine. Along those same lines are movies made about a moral panic while the moral panic was still going on. (more…)

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Wayne Au
Critical Curriculum Studies: Education, Consciousness, and the Politics of Knowing
New York: Routledge, 2012

I fear that I have ignored Schopenhauer’s maxim: “A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones, for life is short.” However, the challenge with his guidance is determining whether a book, especially a more niche or obscure title, is good or bad without reading it. (more…)

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This was a special episode of Counter-Currents Radio, in which David Zsutty debated Greg Conte on the legitimacy of terms like “left” and “right” in today’s politics and whether or not this paradigm just keeps us divided in the face of our real enemies. (more…)

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David Lammy is a very large man. The left-wing black Labour Party MP and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is a political giant in only one sense of the term: the width of his trousers. You could use his belt as a noose to hang a hippo with. He does, in all sincerity, increasingly come to resemble Idi Amin, a fact I am not the only one to have noticed lately. (more…)

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Part 2, “Agitatoren” (“Agitators”) looks at antisemitic and anti-Bolshevist books, pamphlets and newspaper articles circulating at the time of Hitler’s increasing political activities. This entire half of the book is unintentionally funny since it feels like every fifth word is “antisemitic.” Note that Plöckinger never defines that term. (more…)

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Gaetano Mosca
What Is the Mafia?
Men and Things of Sicily
Translated by Thomas Nicholls; Introduction by Edward Maxwell III
Imperium Press, 2025

“Why did you go to the police? Why didn’t you come to me first?” – Don Corleone, The Godfather (more…)

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The Trump administration has taken tangible steps to fight its internal enemies. The president and his officials have attacked the strongholds and redoubts of the entrenched Left both in the halls of power and in society more generally. They have realized that the radical Left has subsumed the entire Left and should be treated as the same hostile entity. (more…)

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Othmar Plöckinger
Unter Soldaten und Agitatoren: Hitlers prägende Jahre im deutschen Militär 1918-1920
Schöningh, 2013

When I was asked if I’d be interested in reviewing Othmar Plöckinger’s book Unter Soldaten und Agitatoren: Hitlers prägende Jahre im deutschen Militär 1918-1920 (Among Soldiers and Agitators: Hitler’s formative years in the German military, 1918–1920), I wasn’t sure at first. (more…)

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Identity Crisis

It’s become something of an axiom in the UK that if former Prime Minister Tony Blair thinks something is a good idea, then it will certainly be a very bad idea for ordinary British people, particularly the ones unfortunate enough today to have white skin. (more…)

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It is said that Alexander the Great wept for there were no worlds left to conquer.

I feel you, Alex. Sometimes it feels like there are no normies left to redpill and all the debates have been won. (more…)

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Victor Davis Hanson
The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
New York: Basic Books, 2024

Professor Victor Davis Hanson is a classics professor and an author of many books on ancient history and war. He is on the political right, leaning towards the civic nationalist and conservative side of things. (more…)

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Donald Trump rose to power by presenting himself as the candidate who would finally put America first. Among his many promises, none resonated more with his base than his pledge to restore control over immigration. (more…)

You can buy Greg Johnson’s Toward a New Nationalism here.

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1. The Counter-Currents 2025 Fundraiser

Our fundraiser total now stands at $89,862.45. Once again, my sincerest thanks. Our goal this year is  $300,000, and we are now more than $70,000 behind where we were at the same time last year ($159,974.74). A generous donor has offered a $7,000 matching grant, and about $3,000 remains, so now is a good time to help out.

There are many ways to donate to Counter-Currents, but the easiest is with an e-check donation. All you need is your checkbook. (more…)