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Author: Quintilian

  • October 24, 2020 Quintilian 2
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    The Counter-Currents 2020 Fundraiser
    Reality: The Antidote for Wokefulness

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    Counter-Currents is trying to raise $150,000 this year. Thus far, we have received 696 donations totaling $99,475.84, for which we are enormously grateful. Thus we are almost two-thirds of the way there! (more…)

  • August 13, 2020 Quintilian 18
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    The Quintessence of Mediocrity:
    Ross Douthat’s The Decadent Society

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    Ross Douthat
    The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
    New York: Simon & Schuster (2020)

    Never-Trumper Ross Douthat is a faux-Christian, faux-conservative writer for leftist publications like The Atlantic and The New York Times. His presence at those publications is akin to that of the house Negro, (more…)

  • July 14, 2020 Quintilian 8
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    Missing the Point

    969 words

    Jane Jacobs
    Dark Age Ahead
    New York: Random House (2004)

    Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) is best known as the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) and as the chief adversary of the soul-destroying activities of Robert Moses, the architect of New York City’s infamous “urban renewal” projects of the mid-twentieth century. (more…)

  • July 8, 2020 Quintilian 40
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    Say His Name

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    What’s the definition of mixed emotions? Answer: It’s when your mother-in-law drives your new Cadillac off the side of the Grand Canyon. Normally, I would be upset at yet another Negro killing a white girl and seriously injuring another, but in the case of Dawit Kelete, I’m not so sure. Kelete, an affirmative action DoorDash driver from Eritrea, (more…)

  • June 24, 2020 Quintilian 24
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    How To Survive the Apocalypse

    Jean-Pierre Houël, The Storming of the Bastille, 1789.

    1,097 words

    There are times when the best course of action is to do absolutely nothing. This is one of those times. The events of the past three or four months need no recapitulation here. There is a level of madness seen throughout the West today that we have not seen since the French Revolution, a madness that is centered (more…)

  • June 19, 2020 Quintilian 12
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    As an elderly academic, I have predicted for more than 40 years that the American higher education system would eventually destroy itself in a frenzy of suicidal mayhem, intellectual dishonesty, and downright graft. The Coronavirus has accelerated the decline (more…)

  • April 15, 2020 Quintilian 15
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    Love in the Time of Coronavirus

    Carl Spitzweg, Der Bücherwurm, 1850.

    864 words

    I have to admit it. I love the restrictions and hope they continue indefinitely. Social distancing works for me. There is something vulgar about shaking hands and the incessant hugging that seems to be de rigueur these days. Bowing and the Roman salute are much more civilized methods of greeting.

    Since the quarantine, society seems to be much more polite and thoughtful. People are more serious, and America has not been a serious country since about 1962. (more…)

  • March 3, 2020 Quintilian 2
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    Searching for Transcendentals & True Knowledge:
    The Enduring Legacy of Richard M. Weaver’s Ideas Have Consequences

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    There are great thinkers, and then there are great thinkers whose prescience is so acute that they seem to operate on a precognitive, almost prophetic level. Included among the latter category is Richard M. Weaver (1910-1963). Weaver was a professor of English at the University of Chicago when the humanities were taken seriously, and nowhere were they taken more seriously than at UC in the two decades following the end of the Second World War. (more…)

  • January 16, 2020 Quintilian 27
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    R. R. Reno’s Return of the Strong Gods

    Cover of R. R. Reno's Return of the Strong Gods1,694 words

    R. R. Reno
    Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West
    Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 2019

    Most of the people who come to the Dissident Right do so in spite of the Dissident Right. It is a common experience for those who become red-pilled to discover that the hatred they have experienced from the Establishment for the “sins” of being white or heterosexual or male (more…)

  • December 26, 2019 Quintilian 17
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    Encouraging Signs for 2020

    Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, circa 1766

    1,166 words

    I believe that optimism is a sucker’s game. Motivation is for losers. If you cannot find motivation within yourself no amount of cheerleading will make you succeed. Optimism is the enemy of reality, and reality is the only path to truth. Likewise, the dire pessimism expressed by so many on the Dissident Right is a constraint on the perception of reality. (more…)

  • December 12, 2019 Quintilian 16
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    The Unbearable Smallness of Modernity

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    There is an old joke that has been variously ascribed to everyone from Leopold von Ranke to Henry Kissinger to the effect that “campus politics are the most vicious of all because the stakes are so low.” Everywhere I go now it seems that campus-style politics predominate. Sure, we face an existential crisis in the West, but to what end? Our enemies now seem more worthy of our pity than of our contempt. Dr. Faust sold his soul to the Devil for unlimited power and Helen of Troy. (more…)

  • October 8, 2019 Quintilian 6
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    Morse Peckham on Corporations & Cultural Incoherence

    Morse Peckham

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    Morse Peckham (1914-1993) was a literary critic and cultural historian who was very well-known during his lifetime but who has been largely forgotten today. He had all the qualities that make him anathema in today’s academia: Besides being white, brilliant, and a writer of enormous clarity and precision, Peckham was also a careful and insightful editor of nineteenth-century literary texts, a Darwinist, and a prescient observer of the decline of the American university.

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  • September 20, 2019 Quintilian 1
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    The Counter-Currents 2019 Fundraiser
    Reality: The Antidote for Wokefulness

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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 264 donations totaling $57,067.79. (more…)

  • September 19, 2019 Quintilian 8
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    Thou Shalt Not Lie (Except When It Supports the Approved Narrative):
    A “High Cuck” Attack on Sam Francis

    Samuel Francis

    938 words

    Judaism has its dual morality; Islam has its Taqqiya. Christianity, on the other hand, is distinguished by the belief that Christ is truth, and that knowing the truth is necessary for salvation. Christians, therefore, are theologically enjoined to seek the truth, and it is not difficult to see that this preoccupation with the pursuit of truth is one of the bases for the high-trust society that used to permeate what was formally called Christendom. (more…)

  • September 10, 2019 Quintilian 12
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    Professor Gottfried Gets It Wrong

    Paul Gottfried

    592 words

    Paul Gottfried is an esteemed scholar who has done yeoman’s work for the cause of the Dissident Right. He deserves our respect, and his words must be taken very seriously. As such, it is with great sadness and a certain degree of trepidation that I find myself in disagreement with Professor Gottfried concerning his article “Resurrecting the Old Right” in the September issue of Chronicles magazine.

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  • July 2, 2019 Quintilian 8
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    Reality: Ain’t It a BITCH-100

    Probably the chairman of a university department somewhere.

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    The past four months have been a rather hectic round of presentations at scholarly conferences for your favorite ancient Roman rhetorician. This is my main contribution to the movement. I attend scholarly conferences so that the rest of you don’t have to. Also, it’s the best way of doing reconnaissance of the enemy. And even though I’m fairly inured to the nonsense that passes for “humanistic scholarship” these days, sometimes it’s just more than one can stand.

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  • June 19, 2019 Quintilian 16
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    The Real Story of the Oberlin Shoplifters:
    Who are Jonathan Aladin, Endia Lawrence, & Cecelia Whettstone?

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    By now, we’re all familiar with the incredible victory of Gibson’s Bakery in their libel lawsuit against Oberlin College and its Dean of Students, Meredith Raimondo. (more…)

  • June 17, 2019 Quintilian 10
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    Dean Meredith Raimondo’s Reading List

    Dean Meredith Raimondo

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    It has been quite a week on the legal front for the Dissident Right. In probably the most important legal defeat to date for the radical Left, an Ohio jury has awarded $44 million in compensatory and punitive damages (and legal fees which could add another thirty percent to the $44 million) to the owners of Gibson’s Bakery in their libel lawsuit against Oberlin College and its Dean of Students, Meredith Raimondo. To make matters even sweeter for the bakery (pun intended), it appears that Oberlin’s insurer has already taken legal steps to ensure that the money will not be paid from the college’s general liability policy.

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  • June 13, 2019 Quintilian 12
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    Spengler on Unfruitfulness

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    Perhaps Oswald Spengler’s greatest contribution to the philosophy of history is his removal of history from the mechanistic realm of cause and effect and placing it instead within the sphere of biology. Human societies are, after all, composed of living human beings, and so it is only logical that cultures and civilizations are themselves subject to biological, rather than mechanical, laws. (more…)

  • June 10, 2019 Quintilian 10
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    The Greatest Anti-Immigration Film of All Time: Brightburn

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    The best propaganda approaches its subject in an oblique manner. The most effective way to present a message is to insinuate it within the context of a seemingly unrelated narrative. This is a common practice of the Left, and is one that is seldom used by the Right; or when it is used, is generally done so in a clumsy and/or laughable manner. Think Dinesh D’Souza or the Left Behind movies which are so beloved by fundamentalists. (more…)

  • June 6, 2019 Quintilian 5
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    Spengler on Causation

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    One of the most interesting and original aspects of Oswald Spengler’s philosophy is his separation of history from causality. For Spengler, history is an examination of the fulfillment of a particular group’s destiny that is not necessarily subject to the strictures of cause and effect: (more…)

  • June 5, 2019 Quintilian 5
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    Spengler on Fate

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    Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) is one of the thinkers most admired by the Dissident Right, yet it is obvious that this admiration largely stems from Spengler’s portrayal of Western civilization as being “Faustian” in nature, that Western man (i.e., the white man) is a seeker of the infinite, which can be expressed by analytical mathematics, instrumental polyphony, perspective painting, etc. (more…)

  • March 20, 2019 Quintilian 20
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    Donald Trump & the Long Con

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    Anybody want to buy a used MAGA cap? Grilling season starts next month, and I hope that Ann Coulter takes me up on my offer to stop by with remaindered copies of In Trump We Trust. (more…)

  • January 23, 2019 Quintilian 4
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    Masterpieces of Aryan Music 1
    Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen

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    Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was the most influential composer of the nineteenth century and one of the most influential composers in the history of Western art music. (more…)

  • January 15, 2019 Quintilian 1
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    Masterpieces of Aryan Thought 4
    Ezra Pound’s Guide to Kulchur

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    Ezra Pound’s Guide to Kulchur (1938) is one of those unfortunate great books (think Spengler’s Decline of the West and any book by Henry Adams) that is often mentioned but seldom read. The book was meant as a guide to the essential philosophy, art, economics, history, and ethics from Confucius to the 20th century as uniquely interpreted by Pound.

    This and the ABC of Reading (1934) constituted the core texts of the “Ezra-versity,” the informal seminars that Pound held before World War II for those acolytes who came to visit him in Rapallo, Italy. (more…)

  • January 1, 2019 Quintilian 5
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    Historical Optimism & Historical Perspective

    John William Waterhouse, Destiny, 1900

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    It is traditional around New Year’s Day to be reflective of the year past and to anticipate the events of the coming year. First of all, I would like to commend Spencer Quinn for his excellent article “No Goal More Noble: Thoughts for the New Year” that appeared yesterday on Counter-Currents. Mr. Quinn’s eschewal of the black pill at the end of this most blackpilling of years represents an act of moral will that is truly inspiring. (more…)

  • December 17, 2018 Quintilian 12
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    Baby, It’s Cold Outside

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    Christmas is a time of hope and good cheer, and nothing has lifted my spirits more than a recent article in Billboard entitled “’Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ Heats Up On Charts After Lyrics Controversy.” (more…)

  • November 27, 2018 Quintilian 57
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    Christianity & White Nationalism

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    It is a commonplace among White Nationalists to disparage Christianity. This is understandable inasmuch as most of the Christian denominations today have abandoned almost all of the tenets of Christianity. The typical Christian minister or priest is no longer a saver of souls but is instead an anti-white social justice warrior (SJW). “Is the Pope Catholic?” is no longer a self-evident joke but is now a serious question that must be answered in the negative. (more…)

  • November 2, 2018 Quintilian 3
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    Hazám, hazám, te mindenem!
    Hungarian Nationalism at Lincoln Center

    Levente Molnár as Bánk bán in New York.

    843 words

    Last week was a very bad week for the globalists. First, Jair Bolsonaro won the Brazilian presidency in a landslide; then, Angela Merkel was forced to resign the chairmanship of the Christian Democratic Union after her party received another drubbing in regional elections. (more…)

  • October 30, 2018 Quintilian 16
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    The Ironies of History

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    The ravages of old age are mitigated by its consolations. Physical action is slowed, but one’s actions seem more purposeful than those of youth. It takes longer to learn things, but the things learned in old age seem more meaningful. (more…)

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