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Alex Graham

Kyle Rittenhouse & the Kenosha Shooting

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Two days ago, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse was charged with murder in the deaths of two people shot during the Tuesday night riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Mainstream media outlets jumped on the story and denounced Rittenhouse, an upstanding young white man who clearly acted in self-defense, as a homicidal “white supremacist” Read more …

Published: August 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2020 American riots, Alex Graham, articles, Black Lives Matter, Kyle Rittenhouse, North American New Right, originals, self-defense., street activism, violence, white dispossession | 6 Responses

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Lovecraft Country

Alex Graham

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For the past several years, fans of H. P. Lovecraft have agonized over the question of how to reconcile their love for the Cthulhu mythos with Lovecraft’s views on race. Lovecraft Country, a TV adaptation of Matt Ruff’s novel of the same name, proposes a solution to this dilemma: to apply Lovecraft’s characterization of eldritch horror to white people. The show, whose producers include J. J. Abrams and Get Out director Jordan Peele, premiered on August 16th. As one would expect, it is awful, Read more …

Published: August 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, articles, Blacks in America, H. P. Lovecraft, Jordan Peele, Lovecraft Country, North American New Right, originals, racism, television reviews | 9 Responses

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Singing in Secret:
William Byrd’s Catholic Music

Alex Graham

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Earlier this year, the Marian Consort, a vocal ensemble known for performing Renaissance music, released an album of Catholic sacred music by English composer William Byrd. The album, entitled Singing in Secret: The Clandestine Catholic Music of William Byrd, is one of the finest sacred music releases in recent memory. Read more …

Published: July 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, Anglicanism, anti-Catholicism, articles, Catholicism, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, religion, the church | 5 Responses

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The Counter-Currents 2020 Fundraiser:
Gareth Jones & Honesty in Journalism

Alex Graham

Gareth Jones

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In any age, people with the capacity to truly think for themselves are rare. Rarer still are those courageous enough to defy the established order and express heretical views. Most people are too unwilling to part with the security that conformity affords. The heretic values truth and justice above all else, even his own life.

Published: July 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2020 fundraiser, Alex Graham, fundraiser, journalism, North American New Right | 1 Response

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Is Xenophilia a Mental Illness?

Alex Graham

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A Vice article published on Tuesday has reignited the debate over whether racism (or “pathological bias,” to use the clinical term proposed by psychiatrists) should be considered a mental illness and included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. In turn, I would like to raise the question of whether pathological xenophilia should be considered a mental illness. Read more …

Published: July 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, articles, atheism, autism, Edward Dutton, health, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Jews in medicine, liberalism, mental illness, North American New Right, originals, pathological altruism, psychology, religion, xenophilia | 6 Responses

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Charles Ives, American Composer

Alex Graham

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Today is a fitting occasion to celebrate the works of Charles Ives (October 20, 1874–May 19, 1954), one of America’s greatest composers. In true American fashion, Ives was an iconoclast who combined old-world influences with adventurous musical experimentation and the sounds of his small-town New England childhood. He could justly be called the musical equivalent of Ben Franklin or Thomas Edison. Read more …

Published: July 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged American identity, Americana, articles, classical music, commemorations, folk music, North American New Right, originals | 8 Responses

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The Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery

Alex Graham

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The shooting of Ahmaud Arbery on February 23, 2020, made national headlines after a video of the incident surfaced last week. Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, was “jogging” near Brunswick, Georgia, when he was confronted by two white men, Gregory McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, who were arrested on May 7. The incident has, unsurprisingly, received extensive coverage, Read more …

Published: May 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, anti-white media, anti-white propaganda, articles, black criminality, black on white crime, lynching, mainstream media, News, North American New Right, originals, white disposession | 21 Responses

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The Counter-Currents 2020 Fundraiser
Join the One Percent

Alex Graham

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Counter-Currents needs to raise $150,000 this year. Thus far, we have received 148 donations totaling $13,349.05. We want to thank all of our donors for their generosity. Read more …

Published: May 8, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2020 fundraiser | 4 Responses

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Arne Nordheim’s Draumkvedet

Alex Graham

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Arne Nordheim was the most celebrated Norwegian composer of the 20th century. He is known for both his avant-garde electronic works and his large-scale orchestral works and music dramas. Nordheim’s Draumkvedet (“The Dream Ballad”), a music drama based on the medieval Norse poem of the same name, fuses his modernist idiom with folk influences to great effect. Read more …

Published: April 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, articles, Christianity, classical music, folk music, music reviews, Norse mythology, North American New Right, originals | 2 Responses

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Remembering Krzysztof Penderecki
(November 23, 1933 — March 29, 2020)

Alex Graham

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Krzysztof Penderecki, who died on March 29, 2020, was one of the most prolific and creative composers of the past century. His works include four operas, eight symphonies plus other orchestral works, about a dozen concertos, vocal and choral works, and chamber and solo instrumental works. Read more …

Published: April 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, articles, classical music, commemorations, electronic music, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

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Wieland der Schmied

Alex Graham

Wilhelm von Kaulbach, The Fifth Adventure, 1848

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A manuscript containing Hitler’s ideas for an opera entitled Wieland der Schmied, inspired by Wagner’s draft for a libretto of the same name, was recently put on display for the first time at the Museum Niederösterreich. The museum is currently running an exhibit on Hitler’s early life featuring artifacts collected by August Kubizek between 1907 and 1920. Read more …

Published: April 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Adolf Hitler, Alex Graham, articles, classical music, German art, Germanic paganism, Norse mythology, North American New Right, opera, originals | 3 Responses

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Richard Weaver’s The Ethics of Rhetoric

Alex Graham

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Richard Weaver
The Ethics of Rhetoric
Muriwai Books, 2017 (1953).

The great task that lies ahead of us is to persuade our people of the rightness of our ideas. It behooves us, then, to study the art of rhetoric, or persuasion. Richard Weaver’s The Ethics of Rhetoric is a rigorous and intelligent introduction to this vanishing art. Read more …

Published: March 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, articles, dialectic, eros, logos, North American New Right, oratory, originals, Plato, Platonism, rhetoric, Richard Weaver | 6 Responses

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Why Mainstream Critics Love Parasite

Alex Graham

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Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite swept the Oscars ceremony this year, winning the awards for Best Picture (the first foreign-language film to earn the award), Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film. It has been hailed as the best film of 2019 and currently enjoys a 99% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Like the similarly over-hyped Knives Out, Parasite is a technically competent but underwhelming film whose vapid social commentary has secured its popularity with liberal critics. Read more …

Published: March 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, articles, Korea, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals | 10 Responses

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Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again

Alex Graham

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Library of Congress Reading Room

Earlier this month, the Architectural Record obtained a draft copy of an executive order that, if implemented, would have a significant impact on federal architecture. Titled “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again,” the order states that “the classical architectural style shall be the preferred and default style” Read more …

Published: February 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, architecture, articles, Donald Trump, North American New Right, originals | 14 Responses

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Knives Out

Alex Graham

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Knives Out, Rian Johnson’s much-hyped addition to the mystery genre, is a forgettable, self-indulgent film whose flashes of competence are incapable of redeeming its trite plot, pathetically unfunny script, and aggressive commitment to political correctness.

The film has all the trappings of a classic murder mystery in the style of Agatha Christie or Dorothy L. Sayers. A wealthy patriarch, Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer, in remarkably good form at 90) is found dead in his mansion after celebrating his 85th birthday Read more …

Published: February 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, anti-white media, articles, Hollywood, movie reviews, movies, North American New Right, originals, white disposession | 10 Responses

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The Art of N. C. Wyeth

Alex Graham

N. C. Wyeth

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Newell Convers Wyeth, or N. C. Wyeth, was one of America’s greatest artists and illustrators. Over the course of his lifetime, he created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated over 100 books, including several Scribner Classics. His son, Andrew Wyeth, and grandson, Jamie Wyeth, also became prominent artists.

Wyeth was born in 1882 and grew up on a farm in Needham, Massachusetts. His childhood was an active one, and he often went hunting and fishing with his brothers. Read more …

Published: February 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged advertising, Alex Graham, art, articles, children's literature, literature, North American New Right, originals, realism | 6 Responses

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1917

Alex Graham

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Set on the battlefields of northern France during the First World War, Sam Mendes’ 1917 follows two lance corporals racing against the clock to deliver a message to a certain colonel ordering him to call off an attack that would result in British defeat. Like Peter Jackson’s 2018 documentary They Shall Not Grow Old, which features colorized footage of the war and audio interviews of former soldiers, it seeks to capture the human side of the war and the everyday realities of a soldier’s life. Read more …

Published: January 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, World War I | 9 Responses

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My Five Favorite Books of 2019

Alex Graham

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1. Steele Brand, Killing for the Republic: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)

This is an excellent work of military history that examines the tradition of civic militarism in the Roman Republic. Brand combines detailed analyses of battles with insights about Roman culture and society. His analysis of the Battle of Sentinum (295 BC), for instance, includes diagrams of battle formations as well as a discussion of the history of the devotio, Read more …

Published: December 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2019 roundups, ancient Rome, articles, asceticism, book reviews, Hindu nationalism, hinduism, living well, North American New Right, originals, Peter Sloterdijk, self-actualization, warrior ethics | 1 Response

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Ford v Ferrari

Alex Graham

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Ford v Ferrari depicts the rivalry between Ford and Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966, and follows Ford’s quest to build a car that would break Ferrari’s winning streak. Ford tasks automotive designer Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) with the challenge of refining the Ford GT40. Shelby is joined by Ken Miles (Christian Bale), a British driver and engineer who also collaborated with him on the Daytona Coupe and the Shelby Cobra 289.

Published: December 4, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, articles, implicit whiteness, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals | 3 Responses

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The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

Alex Graham

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Warning: contains spoilers.

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is an incredible artistic achievement and one of the most ambitious puppet productions ever made. A prequel to Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal (1982) consisting of ten hour-long episodes, the show is faithful to the spirit of its predecessor and explores the universe of Thra in breathtaking detail. Read more …

Published: November 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, fantasy literature, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals | 9 Responses

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Memory: The Origins of Alien

Alex Graham

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Director Alexandre O. Philippe has followed up his 2017 documentary on the shower scene in Psycho (78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene) with Memory: The Origins of Alien, a documentary on the creation of Alien that attempts to chart the film’s wide-ranging influences and explore its mythic resonance. The result is an underwhelming muddle that lacks direction and often retreads old ground, particularly in an overlong segment on the chestburster scene. Read more …

Published: October 24, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, Alien, articles, H. R. Giger, horror, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, science fiction | 6 Responses

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The Farce of Banned Books Week

Alex Graham

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Today is the first day of Banned Books Week, an annual event that purports to celebrate intellectual freedom and First Amendment rights by drawing attention to books that have been banned or challenged. Its organizers claim to be staunch opponents of censorship of all kinds. Read more …

Published: September 22, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, articles, censorship, freedom of speech, North American New Right, originals | 20 Responses

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Mishima’s Life for Sale

Alex Graham

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Yukio Mishima
Life for Sale
Translated by Stephen Dodd
London: Penguin Books, 2019

This past year has seen three new English translations of novels by Yukio Mishima: The Frolic of the Beasts, Star, and now Life for Sale, a pulpy, stylish novel that offers an incisive satire of post-war Japanese society. Read more …

Published: August 28, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, book reviews, Japan, literature, masochism, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, satire, suicide, Yukio Mishima | Leave a comment

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Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness

Alex Graham

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H. P. Lovecraft’s novella At the Mountains of Madness, serialized in Astounding in 1936, is one of his greatest works. The tale recounts an expedition to Antarctica in 1930 in which scholars from Miskatonic University stumble upon the ruins of a lost city. Read more …

Published: August 20, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, articles, book reviews, decadence, H. P. Lovecraft, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, science fiction, weird fiction, white dispossession | 8 Responses

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Alex Graham

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Unlike Inglorious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012), which were both drenched in violence against whites, Tarantino’s latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, is a surprisingly wholesome and pro-white film that pays homage to old Hollywood and white male movie stardom.

The main characters are washed-up actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt double and driver, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). Read more …

Published: August 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, articles, implicit whiteness, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Quentin Tarantino | 18 Responses

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Rembrandt’s The Night Watch

Alex Graham

Rembrandt, The Night Watch

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Today, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum will begin its restoration of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, or Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (1642). It is the largest research and restoration project the Museum has undertaken and will last several years. The process will be broadcast live online.

Published: July 8, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, articles, North American New Right, originals, painting, the Netherlands | 3 Responses

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The Founders of Ohio

Alex Graham

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David McCullough
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019

David McCullough’s latest book tells the story of the pioneers who settled the Northwest Territory (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and most of Minnesota), mostly focusing on Ohio and spanning the signing of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 up to 1853. Read more …

Published: July 4, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, American history, articles, book reviews, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

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Star Trek: Discovery

Alex Graham

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Star Trek: Discovery (henceforth referred to by the fitting abbreviation STD) is the sixth Star Trek television series, and a direct prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series. The first season premiered in 2017, and the second premiered this January. The plot centers around the exploits of the USS Discovery amid a war between the Klingon Empire and the United Federation of Planets.

Published: May 6, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, anti-white propaganda, articles, North American New Right, originals, SJWs, Star Trek, television reviews | 7 Responses

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The Glory of the Æsir:
Bloodstar

Alex Graham

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Richard Corben, Robert Ervin Howard, & John Jakes
Bloodstar
Leawood, Kan.: Morning Star Press, 1976

Bloodstar is a post-apocalyptic sword-and-sorcery graphic novel based on a short story by Robert E. Howard (“The Valley of the Worm,” from the February 1934 issue of Weird Tales) about a warrior who must defeat a giant worm-like creature that threatens to destroy his race. Read more …

Published: April 22, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Graham, articles, book reviews, comics and graphic novels, fantasy literature, North American New Right, originals, Robert E. Howard | 1 Response

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An Introduction to the Jodoverse

Alex Graham

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Best known for his surreal, avant-garde films – El Topo (1970), The Holy Mountain (1973), and Santa Sangre (1989) – Alejandro Jodorowsky is also a prolific comic book author whose collaborations with artists such as Jean Giraud (Moebius), Zoran Janjetov, and Juan Giménez have exerted a lasting influence on the comics industry and science fiction in general.