Author Archives: Kathryn S.

Kathryn S.

Inheritors of the Earth:
Port, Plain, & Mountain in Western Culture

Caspar David Friedrich, Greifswald in Moonlight, 1817.

9,130 words

As men and women of the Right, we are searchers for Truth. We believe that by finding Truth and living by Truth, we might know Beauty, and we might know ourselves. Essence is our mission and with it, survival. And so this essay will try to surface and then sketch three fundamental “lifeways,” Read more …

Published: January 15, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Ancient Greece, articles, borders, Carl Schmitt, cities, cosmopolitanism, culture, desire, folklore, folkways, geography, homelands, honor, imperialism, Kathryn S, Latin America, literature, Lord Byron, mountains, myth, North American New Right, originals, reason, Romanticism, rural life, the countryside, the Jewish question, the plains, the sublime, the supernatural, thumos, trade, tradition, tripartition, urban life | 12 Responses

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“You Owe Them Everything!”
A Review of Spencer Quinn’s Charity’s Blade

Kathryn S.

John Everett Millais’ Joan of Arc, The Maid of Orléans (1865)

3,902 words

I have both the pleasure of informing Counter-Currents readers of an upcoming novel authored by Mr. Spencer Quinn and of reviewing this latest addition to white nationalist-friendly fiction. When critiquing an author (especially for the first time), I like to get a sense of his Weltanschauung by reading and synthesizing some of his other works in conjunction with the monograph in question. Thus, I will also refer throughout to a few of his salient articles. Read more …

Published: December 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, Charity's Blade, fiction, Kathryn S, literature, maturity, motherhood, North America New Right, originals, parenting, Spencer J. Quinn, women, women of the right | 6 Responses

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No Country for Old Ghosts:
A Literary Tour of Gothic America

Kathryn S.

8,232 words

As an American, I find European theories about this country and its character intriguing (or amusing) — particularly those formed from intimate experience. Of course, such theories presuppose that there is and has been such a thing as “the American people,” or “ethny” from which to draw an assessment. I submit two, not quite antithetical, but competing European judgments about the United States. Read more …

Published: December 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged A Streetcar Named Desire, American literature, articles, Blacks in America, California, colonial America, Emily Dickinson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gothic literature, H. P. Lovecraft, horror, immigration, In Cold Blood, James Ellroy, Kathryn S, L. A. Confidential, literature, Los Angeles, Middle America, Nathaniel Hawthorne, New England, New York, noir, North American New Right, originals, Raymond Chandler, Romanticism, Southern Gothic, Susan Straight, Tennesee Williams, The Dunwich Horror, The Golden Gopher, The Great Gatsby, the Midwest, The Scarlet Letter, the South, Truman Capote, William Faulkner | 12 Responses

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Racial Satire: An American Mirror

Kathryn S.

4,781 words

Sometime in the early 2000s, the retail chain Urban Outfitters began selling a board game based on a Hasbro classic, called Ghettopoly. The box cover, made to look like a hoodlum had graffiti-painted its title across an alley wall, also featured a black “gangsta” holding a bottle of ‘shine in one paw and a gun loaded with an extra magazine Read more …

Published: November 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Blacks in America, comedy, Horace, humor, Juvenal, Kathryn S, literature, North American New Right, originals, political cartoons, satire, the Enlightenment, tragedy | 19 Responses

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Richard III: England’s Favorite Evil Uncle

Kathryn S.

Detail, John Everett Millais’ foreboding The Princes in the Tower, 1876.

5,894 words

No author would be able to get away with writing such a story in a novel, it was so fantastic. Providence and Destiny are real. In 2012, a group of amateur enthusiasts and archaeologists traveled to Leicestershire (located in the heart of England), site of the 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field. They were on a quixotic mission: to find the remains of Richard III, England’s most controversial king, in the vast area surrounding the old Grey Friars Church — and on a shoestring budget. Read more …

Published: November 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, England, historical revisionism, history, House Lancaster, House Tudor, House York, insurrection, Kathryn S, monarchy, North American New Right, originals, Richard III, royalty, Shakespeare, statecraft, Wars of the Roses | 17 Responses

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Tales from the Racial Front:
The Public Library

Kathryn S.

Yeah, right, lady.

2,529 words

For the purposes of learning about human nature and the kind of “diversity” that our globalist thought-leaders have in mind for us all, there’s nothing quite like working a public sector job. After following my passion and earning a less-than-useful degree in history and literature, Read more …

Published: October 19, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, diversity, Kathryn S, libraries, North American New Right, originals, the South, white dispossession | 43 Responses

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American Gods & Their Shadows

Kathryn S.

Winslow Homer, The Woodcutter, 1891.

6,121 words

I read Neil Gaiman’s American Gods sometime in college. I found it more Flannery O’Connor than Marvel Studios, but it’s hardly surprising that the latter interpretation seems to have driven the new television series’ production team (but I haven’t watched). Read more …

Published: October 5, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged archetypes, articles, Carl Jung, collective unconscious, cultural decline, ethos, Friedrich Nietzsche, heroes, heroism, hierarchy, Kathryn S, modernity, mysticism, myth, mythology, national epics, North American New Right, originals, psychology, religion, Sigmund Freud, Symbolism, the American founding, the East, the Orient, the West | 7 Responses

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Sándor Márai’s Hungarian Classic: Embers

Kathryn S.

3,469 words

He came from a world where soft music lilted through dining rooms and ballrooms and salons . . . it was played to make life sweeter and more festive, to make women’s eyes flash and men’s vanity throw sparks . . . [his] music on the other hand didn’t offer forgetfulness; it aroused people to the feelings of passion and guilt and demanded that [they] be truer to themselves . . . such music is upsetting . . . [1] Read more …

Published: September 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged aristocracy, articles, Austria, Austro-Hungarian Empire, book reviews, class, Communism, conservatism, Embers, friendship, honor, Hungarian literature, Hungary, identity, imperialism, Kathryn S, Marai Sandor, music, nationalism, North American New Right, nostalgia, originals, the middle class | 3 Responses

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The Weird Victorians & the Last Enchanted Age

Kathryn S.

Alan Moore’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: a modern take on the motifs of the weird nineteenth century.

5,476 words

It’s ill to loose the bands that God decreed to bind;
Still we be the children of the heather and the wind.
Far away from home, O it’s still for you and me
That the broom is blowing bonnie in the north countrie. [1]

Even below the Missouri-Compromise Line, the mornings now have a delicious coolness, faltering on the edge of a “chill,” and I found myself yearning for an old-fashioned, nineteenth-century ghost story. Read more …

Published: September 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged ancestors, articles, books, bourgeois man, cyclical history, death, Egypt, esotericism, exploration, Faustian man, femininity, good death, industrialization, Kathryn S, literacy, mysticism, North American New Right, originals, printing, religion, spirituality, technology, the occult, the Orient, Victorian era, women | 9 Responses

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White “Civil Wars”:
Grinding Napoleon’s Axiom

Kathryn S.

Johann Peter Krafft, The Siege of Szigetvár, 1825.

5,125 words

The bad news is the bad news — the stories we’ve seen and heard in the past few months, years, decades that all keep warning us of more to come. The good news is that these times of transition provide us with opportunities for clarity and fresh perspectives on historical and social phenomena Read more …

Published: September 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, civil wars, class, colonialism, empire, friend/enemy dichotomy, identity, Kathryn S, modernism, nation-state, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Traditionalism, war | 36 Responses

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The Anglo-Indian Race War of 1857

Kathryn S.

Don’t mess with Hindoostan. [1]

5,449 words

It began with whispers. In what should be a familiar script, false narratives and unsubstantiated rumors about white treachery ignited nonwhite hysteria—murders, riots, and fires consumed the countryside. It was the most traumatic episode for the British in the nineteenth century, and it took place thousands of miles and oceans away from Europe. While not exactly obscure, it has become a historical footnote with which many educated people have next to no familiarity (at least on this side of the Atlantic).

“Black Deeds Must Be Cur’d with Death”:
Justice & Revenge in Renaissance Drama

Kathryn S.

Promotional image from the UK’s Almeida Theatre production of The Duchess of Malfi (performed from November 30, 2019 through January 25, 2020)

5,736 words

I. Classical Western Thought on Justice and Revenge

One of the most fascinating discussions to emerge from our collective Western inheritance concerns the definition of justice and the double-sided nature of justice or vengeance (personified memorably in pop culture through the literal “two-faced” character of Harvey Dent and his Janus-faced coin). Aristotle (384-322 BC) determined that “justice” had at least two different meanings: Read more …

Published: August 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Christianity, Classical civilization, drama, egalitarianism, John Webster, justice, Kathryn S, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, realpolitik, Renaissance era, revenge, rule of law, self-interest, social cohesion, the law, theater, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Middleton, vengeance | 4 Responses

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Lovely, Dark, & Deep:
The Farthest: Voyager in Space

Kathryn S.

Voyager 2, loading into a Centaur rocket.

2,806 words

I suspect most people have particular topics that affect them profoundly and cause a welling up of emotion that most other people would find a bit strange. For me, the topic is space probes. When I watch documentaries or read articles about them, I tear up the way we all tear up at a piece of heartbreakingly beautiful music or a cynic-proof rendition of the national anthem. After the unmanned spacecraft Cassini completed its mission in 2017 and sent back its stunning images of Saturn, the probe’s creators issued Read more …

Published: August 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged America in the 1970s, articles, Cassini mission, Faustian man, Kathryn S, movie reviews, NASA, North American New Right, originals, space, space exploration, spirituality, Voyager in Space, Voyager mission | 15 Responses

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Summer of Our Discontent:
The Era of Purity Politics

Kathryn S.

3,242 words

You preachers of equality, thus from you the tyrant-madness of impotence cries for “equality”; thus your most secret tyrant-appetite disguises itself in words of virtue. [1]

We are living through one of those periodic bursts of madness and irrationality that have always afflicted civilized societies. Read more …