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Author: Margot Metroland

  • March 31, 2021 Margot Metroland 2
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    With Brasillach in Spain & Germany: Remembering Robert Brasillach (March 31, 1909 – February 6, 1945)

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    Here we have a continuation of the narrative presented in past installments, describing Brasillach’s auto-tour through wartime Spain in July 1938, accompanied by his brother-in-law Maurice Bardèche and their friend Pierre Cousteau. As before, I have translated it directly from Brasillach’s memoir Notre avant-guerre (1938-41). (more…)

  • March 25, 2021 Margot Metroland 9
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    Remembering Flannery O’Connor
    (March 25, 1925–August 4, 1964)

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Flannery O’Connor, 2021.

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    Like her near-contemporary Gore Vidal (both were born in 1925), the fiction writer Mary Flannery O’Connor had her first brush with fame via a Pathé movie newsreel. She had a pet chicken whom she’d taught to walk backward. Gore’s fame came a few years later when he piloted an airplane, age ten. (more…)

  • January 27, 2021 Margot Metroland 10
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    Philly Cheesesteaks & Murder:
    Kevin D. Williamson’s Big White Ghetto

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    Kevin D. Williamson
    Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the “Real America”
    Washington, DC: Regnery, 2020

    I suppose the author and publisher meant the title Big White Ghetto (etc.) to be eye-catching and amusing, (more…)

  • December 4, 2020 Margot Metroland 18
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    Seyward Darby’s Sisters in Hate

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    Seyward Darby
    Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism
    New York: Little, Brown, 2020

    This badly named book began with a cover story in Harper’s back in September 2017. It was about female activists and intellectuals on the Far Right. (more…)

  • November 30, 2020 Margot Metroland 19
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    Hillbilly Elegy: Movie vs. Book

    J. D. Vance.

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    There are many odd and irksome things about the new Hillbilly Elegy movie on Netflix. For my money, the strangest aspect of the production is that it has only a superficial resemblance to J. D. Vance’s 2016 book. It’s as though you were to make a movie of Moby-Dick, knowing only that it has a ship and a white spermaceti whale and a mad captain who stumps around on a peg-leg. (more…)

  • June 16, 2020 Margot Metroland 7
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    Raheem Kassam’s Enoch Was Right

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    Raheem Kassam
    Enoch Was Right: ‘Rivers of Blood’ 50 Years On
    Independently published, 2018

    “Up like a rocket” is how Enoch Powell predicted his Birmingham speech would go on April 20th, 1968. And so it did. This, of course, was his “Rivers of Blood” speech, (more…)

  • June 11, 2020 Margot Metroland 9
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    Graham Macklin’s Failed Führers

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    Graham Macklin
    Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right
    London & New York: Routledge, 2020
    (Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right)

    The comic highpoint of Failed Führers comes about halfway through the book, when Colin Jordan marries the tall, blonde, stunning Françoise Dior — niece of the designer. (more…)

  • May 11, 2020 Margot Metroland 12
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    Sexual Predators & Autistic Monkeys: Mary Eberstadt’s Primal Screams

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    Mary Eberstadt
    Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics
    West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2019

    Mary Tedeschi Eberstadt is a onetime speechwriter for George Schultz, author of several books, sometime fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institute, and currently senior fellow at something called the Faith & Reason Institute. (more…)

  • April 21, 2020 Margot Metroland 7
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    Paul Corthorn’s Enoch Powell: Politics & Ideas in Modern Britain

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    Paul Corthorn
    Enoch Powell: Politics and Ideas in Modern Britain
    London: Oxford University Press, 2019

    Before reading this new biography of Enoch Powell (1912-1998), I’d expected it would be a rollicking Roy Jenkins kind of Parliamentary biography, full of witty asides in the smoking room and dark mutterings through the Octagon. Actually, it’s a detailed, often dry, but generally surprising survey of a political career. (more…)

  • March 31, 2020 Margot Metroland 4
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    Reflections on the Revolution in Spain: Remembering Robert Brasillach (March 31, 1909 – February 6, 1945)

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    In his memoir Notre avant-guerre, Robert Brasillach tells how his political enthusiasms developed in the years preceding the outbreak of war in September 1939. One of the high points of the story is Brasillach’s 1938 visit to Spain, in order to report on war conditions for his Rightist newspaper in Paris, Je suis partout. (more…)

  • March 25, 2020 Margot Metroland 16
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    Remembering Flannery O’Connor: 
    March 25, 1925–August 4, 1964

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    Like her near-contemporary Gore Vidal (both were born in 1925), the fiction writer Mary Flannery O’Connor had her first brush with fame via a Pathé movie newsreel. She had a pet chicken whom she’d taught to walk backward. Gore’s fame came a few years later when he piloted an airplane, age ten. (more…)

  • March 12, 2020 Margot Metroland
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    Approaching D’Annunzio

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    Reviewing a story collection in 1925, an American critic compared Gabriele d’Annunzio’s influence on the Italian mindset to that of Rudyard Kipling in England. “[T]o understand him is to understand pre-war and immediately post-war Italy.” [1] That sort of remark is almost inaccessible to us today; when we think of the Great War, if we think of the Great War at all, we surely don’t automatically think of Kipling or d’Annunzio. That is one hurdle in approaching d’Annunzio today. (more…)

  • February 21, 2020 Margot Metroland 5
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    Alexis Coe’s You Never Forget Your First

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    Happy Birthday, George Washington!
    (February 22, 1732–December 14, 1799)

    Alexis Coe
    You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
    New York: Viking, 2020

    For a lightweight, mildly scurrilous biography of George Washington, this has received an awful lot of advance publicity in recent weeks. (more…)

  • February 18, 2020 Margot Metroland 11
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    Race & Class in the Films of Basil Dearden

    Dearden and his clapper.

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    For decades now, I’ve been waiting for someone to package an oversized picture book called The Films of Basil Dearden. The 1970s would have been a good time for that, since Dearden died in ’71 (car accident), and this mid-rank British director was in need of appreciation. (more…)

  • January 22, 2020 Margot Metroland 8
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    Pinocchio: The Face of Fascism

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    Extraordinary! There are three—maybe four—Pinocchio films now in development or newly released. They all promise to reveal dark, hitherto unexplored aspects of the famous marionette’s saga. One is a Robert Downey Jr. project that’s been hemming and hawing since about 2012. Initially Downey was planning to play both Geppetto and the title role. Now he’s older, so he’ll just play Geppetto. A new live-action Pinocchio premiered last month in Italy. (more…)

  • January 8, 2020 Margot Metroland 5
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    Orwell on Screen

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    David Ryan
    George Orwell on Screen
    Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2018

    This book took me down a rabbit hole when I discovered it last June. For several days I didn’t want to do anything but watch old television dramatizations and documentaries about George Orwell’s works and life. There have been a surprising number of them, and most of the key ones can be found online or in other digital media. (more…)

  • December 24, 2019 Margot Metroland 12
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    My Five Favorite Books of 2019

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    1. John Sutherland
    Orwell’s Nose: A Pathological Biography
    London: Reaktion Books, 2016

    This small but brilliant volume is a joy to read, maybe the best single Orwell critique in recent years. “A Quirky and Snarky Treat” somebody at Amazon called it, and that it certainly is. “The lower classes smell,” Orwell famously offers as an upper-class folk belief, in The Road to Wigan Pier. (more…)

  • December 4, 2019 Margot Metroland 7
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    Lawrence Auster’s Our Borders, Ourselves

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    Lawrence Auster
    Our Borders, Ourselves: America in the Age of Multiculturalism
    Litchfield, Ct.: VDARE, 2019

    On dipping into this book, I was hit with a sense of cruel nostalgia, mixing memory and despair. Assembled from writings that Lawrence Auster did in the 1980s and ‘90s, it’s a window into how forthrightly we then approached problems of race politics and non-white immigration.

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  • October 23, 2019 Margot Metroland 8
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    Antisocial: A Review

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    Andrew Marantz
    Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
    New York: Viking, 2019

    For the past five years, New Yorker scribe Andrew Marantz has been working a steady beat, writing about Internet trolls and dank memes on the Far Right (which in his mind is still the “Alt Right”). Antisocial is a compilation of some of those writings, strung together with some outtakes and new material.

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  • August 30, 2019 Margot Metroland 11
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    The Counter-Currents 2019 Fundraiser
    Laughter: The Best Medicine

    Anti-woke comedian Sam Hyde

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    Our goal this year is to raise $100,000 in order to expand our efforts to build a metapolitical vanguard for White Nationalism. So far, we have received 369 donations totaling $53,970.23. We set our goals high because the task we have before us is formidable, but with your help, we will succeed. (more…)

  • August 13, 2019 Margot Metroland 9
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    Charles de Gaulle, Algeria, & the JQ

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    Today I wish to talk about Charles de Gaulle and some seldom-examined aspects of the Algerian Crisis that spanned 1954 to 1962. But in order to edge into all that, I first have to talk about one of my favorite and oft-viewed movies, The Day of the Jackal (1973; the original version).

    De Gaulle himself is a character in that film, since the whole plot revolves around assassination attempts on him in the early 1960s. (more…)

  • July 31, 2019 Margot Metroland 8
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    Chatty Cathy’s Poison Pill

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    Jill Lepore
    This America: The Case for the Nation
    New York: W. W. Norton, 2019

    The theme of This America isn’t what Jill Lepore thinks it is.

    Jill Lepore is a Harvard Professor of American History, and an incredibly prolific author – twenty-five books, and many essays in The New Yorker – with a fluid, appealing writing style. (more…)

  • July 17, 2019 Margot Metroland 4
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    Remembering Willis Carto:
    July 17, 1926–October 26, 2015

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    If you know the broad outlines of Willis Allison Carto’s life (biography review here), you know that he was, for well over a half-century, the founder and patron of those political movements we now variously call paleoconservatism, race realism, Dissident Right, or White Nationalism.

    Pause and consider. When you imbibe the heady sophistication and philosophical analyses here at Counter-Currents— (more…)

  • July 10, 2019 Margot Metroland 3
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    Cargo-Cult Sociology:
    Ashley Jardina’s White Identity Politics

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    Ashley Jardina
    White Identity Politics
    Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019

    The big takeaway from White Identity Politics is that there’s been a huge raising of white American racial consciousness in recent years. This is due to a number of factors, none of them imaginary or rhetorical. (more…)

  • July 7, 2019 Margot Metroland 11
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    Remembering Revilo Oliver (July 7, 1908–August 20, 1994)
    Revilo Oliver in Winter

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    Today is the birthday of Revilo Pendleton Oliver, born in Texas in 1908. He was Professor of Classics and Modern Languages at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) for many years, an analyst with the War Department in the 1940s, and a contributor to the National Review and other publications from the 1950s onward.

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  • July 7, 2019 Margot Metroland 1
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    Remembering Revilo Oliver (July 7, 1908–August 20, 1994)
    The Professor & the Carnival Barker

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    Professor Revilo Pendleton Oliver died in 1994, full of years and honors, as they say; and also notoriety. Long a Classics professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana, he gained his PhD in 1938 with a translation and commentary on a 1500-year-old Sanskrit drama. At age 80 was capable of holding lengthy telephone conversions with a young fellow linguist, in which (just to show off) they would switch back and forth between German and Attic Greek.

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  • June 12, 2019 Margot Metroland 4
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    Orwell, Molotov, & the “Crisis of Capitalism”

    O’Brien (Richard Burton) demonstrates that 2 + 2 doesn’t always equal 4.

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    Did the international crises of 1947 and 1948 leave their mark on the writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four? I’ve spent a lot of time on this question, and so far as I can tell, the answer is – yes; but only obliquely. And George Orwell may not even have been conscious of the fact.

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  • June 8, 2019 Margot Metroland 8
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    Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 234
    Happy Birthday Nineteen Eighty-Four!

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    To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.”

    June 8th is the 70th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Greg Johnson interviews Margot Metroland on some of Orwell’s sources and influences, the loosely “Trotskyite” political context in which he wrote, and the possibility that he was bumped off by Stalinists. (more…)

  • June 7, 2019 Margot Metroland 3
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    Your Nineteen Eighty-Four Sources in Full

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    Connolly, Burnham, Orwell, & “Corner Table”

    “In the torture scenes, he is merely melodramatic: he introduces those rather grotesque machines which used to appear in terror stories for boys.”
    —V. S. Pritchett, The New Statesman, June 18, 1949

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  • May 30, 2019 Margot Metroland 11
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    Bret Easton Ellis’ White

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    Bret Easton Ellis
    White
    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019

    When you see Bret Easton Ellis emerge as a Generation X elder, you know you’ve moved pretty far along the abattoir ramp. Technically he’s not Gen X at all, as he was born in 1964, but Simon & Schuster brought out his first novel (Less Than Zero) when he was still an undergraduate at Bennington, and Ellis’ precocity was part of the sales pitch. (more…)

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