Tag: alcoholism

May 17, 2023 Mark Gullick 8 comments

Not Pretending to Be Anything:
Charles Bukowski

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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire. — From an interview with Charles Bukowski

Sometimes the first lines of novels become as famous as the novels themselves. Think of some of the classics: (more…)
October 12, 2022 Morris van de Camp 26 comments

Love Drinking Less

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Adrian Chiles
The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less
London: Profile Books, 2022

See also: British TV & Cutting Down on Booze

Alcohol is a two-edged sword. On the one hand it makes life fun and turns strangers into intimate friends in the course of an evening; on the other, it makes a person dysfunctional. Very dysfunctional. Productive time is lost, relationships are damaged, and health is harmed. (more…)
September 1, 2022 Revilo Oliver 9 comments

When We Were Sane

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The following essay originally appeared in the January 1992 issue of George P. Dietz’s Liberty Bell magazine, and is reprinted from the Revilo P. Oliver online archive. (more…)
March 30, 2022 Mark Gullick 7 comments

The Union Jackal, March 2022

Deputy PM Dominic Raab wants to assure you that free speech will be given “trump card status” under the UK’s controversial Online Safety Bill.

Deputy PM Dominic Raab wants to assure you that free speech will be given “trump card status” under the UK’s controversial Online Safety Bill.

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Ukraine? The brochure looks nice

It is not clear that the British government quite understands the habits of the mercenary soldier. After its dithering Foreign Secretary Liz Truss indicated that British citizens were free, should they so wish, to go to Ukraine and fight against Russia, she sympathized with these would-be Lord Byrons. Her staff reminded both her and the men ‘o war of the latest travel advice on its website: (more…)
June 3, 2021 Jim Goad 47 comments

Dying for Freedom

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I took a rare day off on Memorial Day, but it had nothing to do with mourning dead American soldiers. Naturally, this didn’t stop me from being bombarded by the endlessly treacly and corny “conservative” online finger-wagging about how I need to honor all the dead soldiers who ostensibly shed their blood to protect my freedoms. (more…)
March 10, 2021 Morris van de Camp 25 comments

British TV & Cutting Down on Booze

British television presenter Adrian Chiles

British television presenter Adrian Chiles

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Not too long ago I got an app for my streaming service that features British TV shows, which led to me developing an obsession with reality shows featuring poverty-stricken Englishmen and their troubles.

Naturally, I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole of voyeurism and judging. (more…)

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The Great Debate

Will Woke Capital Soon Go the Way of the Dinosaur?

June is the Gayest Month

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 535 Ask Me Anything

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Football’s Race War

VDARE Facing Mortal Threat

Collin Cleary Interviewed on Richard Wagner

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 534 Interview with Alexander Adams

The Union Jackal, May 2023

Biden and Bibi

Forward with a Vengeance

Notes on Strauss & Husserl

The Worst Week Yet: May 21-27, 2023

The Honorable Cause: A Review

George Friedman’s The Next 100 Years

Remembering Oswald Spengler (May 29, 1880-May 8, 1936)

Euthanizing the Homeless? It’s a Start

Remembering Louis-Ferdinand Céline (May 27, 1894–July 1, 1961)

Blood, Soil, Paint

Céline’s Guerre

The Trial of Socrates

Fields of Asphodel

George Floyd and the “Color” of Revolution

The Dakota Territory’s Indian Wars During the Civil War, Part 2

No, Really, Everything’s Fine!

Euthanizing the Homeless? It’s a Start

The Dakota Territory’s Indian Wars During the Civil War, Part 1

How Much Would Slavery Reparations Actually Cost?

No Brexit This Way

Martinez Contra Fascism

Úryvky z Finis Germania Rolfa Petera Sieferleho, část 2: „Věčný nacista“

A 5D Plan in 3D: Hitchcock’s Dial M For Murder

After Waco

Munchhausen: The Third Reich’s Wizard of Oz

Nueva Derecha vs. Vieja Derecha Capítulo 1: Política y Metapolítica

The Worst Week Yet: May 14-20, 2023

The (So-Called) New York “Thought Criminals” & the “Intellectual Dark Web”

Documenting the Decline

Remembering Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813-February 13, 1883)

Remembering Dominique Venner (April 16, 1935–May 21, 2013)

Clash of the Billionaire Comic-Book Supervillains

The Psychology of the Politically Correct

Springtime in Tallinn

Liberal Anti-Democracy, Chapter 6, Part 2: Conclusion

Remembering Julius Evola (May 19, 1898–June 11, 1974)

Cù Chulainn in the GPO:The Mythic Imagination of Patrick Pearse

Remembering Dominique Venner (April 16, 1935 – May 21, 2013)

A Robertson Roundup: Remembering Wilmot Robertson (April 16, 1915 – July 8, 2005)

Metapolitics and Occult Warfare

Remembering Maurice Bardèche:October 1, 1907–July 30, 1998

The Power of Myth: Remembering Joseph Campbell (March 26, 1904–October 30, 1987)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Searchers

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Remembering A. R. D. “Rex” Fairburn (February 2, 1904–March 25, 1957)

Denis Kearney & the Struggle for a White America

Posthuman Prospects:Artificial Intelligence, Fifth Generation Warfare, & Archeofuturism

Earnest Sevier Cox: Advocate for the White Ethnostate

Remembering Jack London (January 12, 1876–November 22, 1916)

Remembering Robinson Jeffers: January 10, 1887–January 20, 1962

Remembering Pierre Drieu La Rochelle: January 3, 1893–March 15, 1945

Remembering Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865-January 18, 1936)

Restoring White Homelands

Remembering Hinton Rowan Helper

What’s Wrong with Diversity?

Redefining the Mainstream

Edward Alsworth Ross: American Metapolitical Hero

The Talented Mr. Ripley & Purple Noon

Christmas & the Yuletide: Light in the Darkness

Thanksgiving Special White Men Meet Indians: Jamestown & the Clash of Civilizations

Colin Wilson’s The Outsider

Dostoyevsky on the Jews

Jefferson &/or Mussolini, Part 1

I Listened to Chapo Trap House So You Don’t Have To

The Homeric Gods

Cù Chulainn in the GPO:
The Mythic Imagination of Patrick Pearse

Remembering Dominique Venner
(April 16, 1935 – May 21, 2013)

A Robertson Roundup:
Remembering Wilmot Robertson
(April 16, 1915 – July 8, 2005)

Remembering Maurice Bardèche:
October 1, 1907–July 30, 1998

The Power of Myth:
Remembering Joseph Campbell
(March 26, 1904–October 30, 1987)

Posthuman Prospects:
Artificial Intelligence, Fifth Generation Warfare, & Archeofuturism

Earnest Sevier Cox:
Advocate for the White Ethnostate

Remembering Jack London
(January 12, 1876–November 22, 1916)

Remembering Robinson Jeffers:
January 10, 1887–January 20, 1962

Remembering Pierre Drieu La Rochelle:
January 3, 1893–March 15, 1945

Edward Alsworth Ross:
American Metapolitical Hero

Christmas & the Yuletide:
Light in the Darkness

Thanksgiving Special
White Men Meet Indians:
Jamestown & the Clash of Civilizations

Not Pretending to Be Anything:
Charles Bukowski