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This weekend’s broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
On Sunday, August 14, 2022, Nick Jeelvy welcomes longtime friend of the show Karl Thorburn to The Writers’ Bloc to discuss the problem of unlimited power. (more…)
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1866)
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The dog days of summer are a slow time for movement activity and fundraising, but over the last week, our fundraiser still crept 1% closer to the goal. This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000. Since our fundraiser started on March 10th, we have raised $112,660.50, which is 38% of our goal. I want to thank all of those who have given so far. Full information on how to donate is below, but before you read that, I want to share a few words from Kathryn S. — Greg Johnson (more…)
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The recent movie on Elvis Presley[1] is exceptional in its acting, script, and production. For those interested in such matters, it is also excellent as cultural history.
The movie deals to a significant extent with the African influences on Presley’s music. As a little boy growing up in a poor, integrated neighborhood, he was fascinated by the rhythms and gyrations of the blacks, including black gospel music. (more…)
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Several years ago, I was walking around town while listening to music or maybe a podcast on my phone earbuds when a friend recognized me from behind and approached me. (more…)
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Ian Douglas Smith
The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith
London: Blake, 1997
After the end of the Second World War, it was only a matter of time for white-run countries in the Third World, especially in Africa. South Africa held out the longest before capitulating to the anti-white Left and allowing black rule in the early 1990s. (more…)
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When news broke that Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate had been raided by the FBI on August 8, people on one side of the Left/Right social construct were jubilant. People on the other side were outraged. (more…)
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“LARPing” is short for live-action role playing, but in the political sphere it does not literally mean playing some sort of role-playing game; rather, that participating in life and politics in an unrealistic way that could only bear fruit in an idyllic fantasy. LARPing tends to be associated with weapons, prepping, and survivalism.
Over the years, any semblance of realism in these fields has eroded into a true and utter “LARP.” (more…)
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Bruce Gilley
In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 2022
Bruce Gilley is a professor who was heavily criticized by a Maoist mob after he wrote an article entitled “The Case for Colonialism.” In his latest book, he takes a look at the much maligned German colonial empire, which stretched from Africa to Asia and even into the South Pacific until the the end of the First World War. (more…)
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“O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’r the land of . . .”
The average American adult has a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 28.2. (more…)
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The Left and their unique rainbow coalition
Is a liaison of most delicate condition.
There’s mutual distrust and much to disparage
Blacks don’t like trans rights, nor same-sex marriage.
Asians are diluted from university class
And sell weave in the hood, from behind plexiglass. (more…)
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Frequent Counter-Currents writer Anthony Bavaria was host Nick Jeelvy‘s guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where they presented The Best Month Ever, a review of Counter-Currents articles published in July, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
Humphrey Ocean, Philip Larkin, 1984
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English poet, novelist, and critic Philip Larkin was born 100 years ago today. The only son of a prosperous middle-class family in Coventry, Larkin earned his BA from St. John’s College, Oxford, with First Class Honors in English. Then Larkin trained to become a librarian, which became his life-long career, ending up as librarian at the University of Hull.
Larkin wrote constantly but did not publish much. (more…)
Rolleiflex selfie of Philip Larkin and Monica Jones in Paignton, Devon, circa 1957. (From Andrew Motion’s Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life, 1993.)
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The writer Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was born on August 9, 1922, and this essay is part of a commemoration of his centenary. — Ed.
He’s been dead for 37 years, but the Philip Larkin literary industry keeps burbling along, fueled by a seemingly inexhaustible supply of titillating tales, spicy correspondence, and uncollected reviews, diary scraps, and photographs. (more…)
Philip Larkin
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The writer Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was born on August 9, 1922, and this essay is part of a commemoration of his centenary. — Ed.
Reading the jazz criticism of the poet Philip Larkin today, the most noticeable feature is how much of the music he did not like. His antipathy towards certain major artists now seems almost incomprehensible. (more…)
It’s doubtful any of these young men will be going on dates with girls after the game.
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In a most unlikely development, the legendary sport of quidditch caused a minor ripple in the press a couple weeks ago. I’m not making this up; it’s has been covered by Deadline, NPC News, and several other media outlets. Maybe it was a slow news day, even with the world coming apart? In any event, there’s a deeper lesson to this that perhaps the reporters themselves didn’t discern, a sober reminder that ingratitude is an ugly thing indeed. (more…)
Christopher Forth is a white dude at the University of Kansas who will soon be offering his students courses in “Angry White Male Studies.”
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Have there ever been two more pugnaciously undesirable black women on this multicolored planet than Stacey Abrams and Whoopi Goldberg? Although one can thank cosmic beneficence for the fact that both of them are past breeding age, the idea that they both at one time in their lives had a sex drive, and thus a hardwired instinct to inflict replicas of themselves upon the world, is a haunting and thoroughly objectionable proposition. (more…)
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Part 6 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 5 here, Part 7 here)
6. Gonzo: Paleocon, Neocon, or Just Con?
I had just begun to doubt some of my strongest convictions when I stumbled upon [Colin Wilson’s The Outsider]. But rather than being wrong, I think that I just don’t express my rightness correctly. — Hunter S. Thompson (more…)
The Journey
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Is Putin Yul Brenner with hair?
I first saw the 1959 film The Journey on TV when I was a kid watching NBC’s Saturday Night at the Movies. With recent events in Russia, it seemed timely, so I looked it up on YouTube. (more…)
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Greg Johnson did a solo Ask Me Anything on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
Franz von Stuck, The Spirit of Victory
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This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000. Since our fundraiser started on March 10th, we have raised $111,190.30, which is 37% of our goal. I want to thank all of those who have given so far, and I want to share Howe Abbott-Hiss’s thoughts on why you should give now:
What is best in life? Conan the Barbarian said it was to crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their journalists. But this is only part of the answer. (more…)
