Month: December 2025

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Santa Claus and science fiction don’t typically go together, but the 2011 animated film Arthur Christmas proves they probably should—if you want to keep the Santa Claus legend up to date, that is. Arthur Christmas draws from Mission Impossible, The Incredibles, Apollo 13, Dr. Strangelove, and Star Trek as much as it does from Miracle on 34th Street or any other Christmas movie which calls into question the existence of Santa—and, by extension, the spirit of Christmas itself. (more…)

You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Pulp Fascism here.

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Edited by Greg Johnson

Editor’s Note

What follows is the second of two collections of my extant correspondence with Jonathan Bowden from 2011. Once he started sending me articles for Counter-Currents, Jonathan would typically send the entire article as an email. For brevity, I have included just the titles. The articles themselves are found on Counter-Currents. (more…)

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A growing number of people are discussing Jacob Savage’s recent essay in Compact, “The Lost Generation,” not because it flatters its subjects, but because it names a reality that has lingered beneath elite professional life for more than a decade. The piece examines a cohort of millennial white men whose careers stalled just as they entered media, academia, and cultural institutions, coinciding with an explicit shift toward demographic preference in hiring. (more…)

Terrorist Naveed Akram. It’s always the ones that you most suspect.

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Anarcho-Tyranny in Australia

On Sunday, December 14, two South Asian Muslims, Sajid Akram and his son Naveed, attacked a Hannukah celebration in Bondi Beach, Australia. They killed fifteen people and injured over forty. Police killed Sajid and injured Naveed. The attack appears to have been inspired by ISIS, based on the two handmade ISIS flags found in their car. (more…)

Salvador Dalí, Christmas Tree of Butterflies, 1959.

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1. The Last Two Counter-Currents Radio Streams of 2025 

December 20: Merry Christmas stream where we discuss 2025 with Kevin MacDonald, Mark Weber, Tim Murdock, Roger Devlin, Kevin Deanna, and Frodi Midjord

December 27: Happy New Year stream where we discuss the best and worst of 2025 and predictions for the new year, with Jared Taylor, Mark Collett, Laura Towler, Basil, Josh Neal, James Edwards, Leonarda Jonie, and Millennial Woes (more…)

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In chess, we all know that the aim is to checkmate your opponent’s king. But this does not mean that in the normal course of play it’s wise to aim all your firepower directly at him. After all, he’s often pretty well protected, and directing your pieces in such an obvious way might leave you vulnerable to counterattack. Thus, it’s usually best to first meet fire with fire in the middle of the board before you go king hunting. (more…)

You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics here.

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Edited by Greg Johnson

Editor’s Note

What follows is the first of two collections of my extant correspondence with Jonathan Bowden from 2011. Once he started sending me articles for Counter-Currents, Jonathan would typically send the entire article as an email. For brevity, I have included just the titles. The articles themselves are found on Counter-Currents. (more…)

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Martin Scorsese is best known for his gangster films: Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995), Gangs of New York (2002), The Departed (2006), The Irishman (2019), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). Aside from Gangs of New York, these films unsparingly demythologize organized crime.

Thus Scorsese’s first foray into the mafia genre, 1973’s Mean Streets, is something of a surprise, for its depiction of New York’s Italian mafia may be on a much smaller canvas than Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972), but in some ways it is even more romanticized. (more…)

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Sulmaan Wasif Khan
The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
Basic Books, 2024

Economically, Taiwan is to Asia what Holland is to Europe in that Taiwan’s people punch above their weight in most categories of industry. Dreadfully near Taiwan is mainland China, which is ruled by the Chinese Communist Party. (more…)

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The effect is like waking a sleeping giant with a slap…The street said what the institutions dare not—that the backstage [the people] does not just exist, but dictates the agenda of the state. And that the people are fed up.
—Kalin Kamenov- Facts.com (Bulgaria News Service) (more…)

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To remain in power, even good rulers must always be wary of challengers. This is much more so for bad rulers. Despotism, massive corruption, and skimming off the top will give the public good reasons to want to get them off their backs, obviously. How could an evil overlord prevent regime change by containing rebellious energy? The concept is quite simple. All that’s needed is to redirect enthusiasm in any way that diverts it from meaningful opposition. (more…)

You can order Greg Johnson’s Loving Our Own here

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What is the place of love in politics? Given humanity’s long history of wars, revolutions, and civil strife, the place of love seems very small indeed. But if politics is filled with battles between “us” and “them,” then at least there is some room for love among “us.” I call this “loving our own.” Love of our own is the basis of nationalism, populism, and white identity politics.

Modern Political Thought

Modern political philosophy is cosmopolitan, materialist, and elitist due to its understanding of human nature. (more…)

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Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 post-apocalyptic novel The Road tells the story of a nameless man and his son traversing what was once the United States in the years following an unexplained apocalyptic event. The world was covered in ash, causing plant and animal life to gradually die off. The boy was born shortly after this world-ending cataclysm, giving him no memory of the times before. (more…)