Tag: Alex Graham

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Whenever the topic of “white privilege” comes up, the near-universal response on the right is to bring up the existence of struggling white people. One often comes across a sepia-toned photograph of unkempt, underfed young white children, probably taken by Dorothea Lange, with the words “white privilege” emblazoned on it in scare quotes in the default Imgflip font. On the one hand, this meme works in our favor and is a clever way of stoking popular resentment toward the left. However, as an argument, it misses the point. (more…)

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The NAXALT fallacy (“Not All [members of group X] Are Like That”) is one of the most common objections to White Nationalism. Its proponents insist that generalizations about groups must be resisted on the grounds that stereotypes do not apply to every individual member of a group. (more…)

Pauly Likens (image from his Facebook profile)

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Authorities confirmed this week that human remains that had been found in western Pennsylvania earlier this month belonged to a 14-year-old “trans girl” by the name of Pauly Likens. DaShawn Watkins, a 29-year-old black male who met Likens via the dating app Grindr, has been charged with murdering Likens and dismembering his corpse. Predictably, this incident has elicited condemnations of “transphobic” conservatives (and “TERFs”), whom the Left accuses of spreading “hate” and causing “hate crimes.” (more…)

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Abigail Shrier
Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up
New York: Sentinel, 2024

Abigail Shrier is a journalist associated with the “Intellectual Dark Web” (IDW) who is known for her writing on adolescent girls who identify as transgender. Her earlier book, Irreversible Damage, was previously reviewed at Counter-Currents. Her most recent book, Bad Therapy, takes aim at modern therapy culture and accuses mental health professionals of inducing distress in otherwise healthy young people. (more…)

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Robert Darnton
The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985

Historical dissident literary and artistic movements that have had an impact on the political realm are worth studying. One such example is the literary underground in pre-Revolutionary France. In The Literary Underground of the Old Regime, historian Robert Darnton advances the thesis that dissident writers and publishers played an important role in undermining the ancien régime. (more…)

The Administration Building

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The 1893 World’s Fair, also known as the World’s Columbian Exposition, was held in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus. Best known for its magisterial fairgrounds, the Fair was a landmark event in American history and showcased a large array of cultural and scientific achievements. It attracted an audience of over 27.5 million over the course of six months and exerted a significant influence on American culture. (more…)

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Erik Kirschbaum
Burning Beethoven: The Eradication of German Culture in the United States during World War I
New York: Berlinica Publishing, 2014

Much ink has been spilled over the travails faced by non-white minorities in the United States, but the persecution of German-Americans during the First World War has received scant attention. The few scholars who do address this forgotten chapter in American history, such as Erik Kirschbaum in Burning Beethoven, frame it as a morality tale about the evils of “xenophobia” and cast WASP Americans as the villains. (more…)

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Like all journals of dissident ideas, Counter-Currents depends on the support of our readers. So far this year, we’ve raised $85,795.40, or 28.6% of our $300,000 goal. I want to thank everyone who has donated so far. (Please donate here!) And now, Alex Graham offers a few words on why victory is only possible if we truly believe in it — which means ignoring the doomsayers and doing what it takes to win.

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The concept of “positive thinking” is often bandied about in self-help circles. (more…)

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On Friday, the Huffington Post exposed Substack writer Richard Hanania, a prominent media personality in mainstream conservative/center-Right circles, as a “white supremacist” who wrote for several dissident Right websites, including Counter-Currents, in the early 2010s under the pseudonym “Richard Hoste.” “Hoste” wrote about race realism and human biodiversity (HBD) and advocated for eugenics and immigration restriction. (more…)

Pamela Paresky, the organizer of the Thought Criminals.

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Every few months or so, a mainstream news outlet rolls out another puff piece on “national conservatism,” Curtis Yarvin and Neoreaction, the “Dimes Square” scene, or the so-called “Intellectual Dark Web” (IDW). These subcultures have little in common apart from the fact that they are all vaguely Right-wing movements that evade the topic of race — and the media are keen to platform alternative political subcultures that do not address demographic displacement. Last year, Vanity Fair published a lengthy article on America’s “New Right” that discussed a range of Dissident Right figures and trends, but did not make a single mention of Counter-Currents or White Nationalism. (more…)

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South Korea has taken the classical music world by storm over the past few decades. Koreans are increasingly overrepresented among high-level classical musicians. Hundreds of Koreans have been finalists and prizewinners in prestigious international music competitions. The Korean Musical Mystery (2012) is a documentary by Belgian filmmaker Thierry Loreau that seeks to understand this fascinating phenomenon. (more…)

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Rob Roy (1995) was released the same year as Braveheart and also concerns Scottish history, but is less well-known and has been overshadowed by its more extraverted counterpart. In contrast to Mel Gibson’s action-packed epic, Rob Roy is a more personal ode to honor, family, and the Highland way of life.

The film takes place between 1712 and 1722, and its protagonist is Scottish folk hero Robert Roy MacGregor (Liam Neeson), who was the chief of Clan MacGregor in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. MacGregor borrows a thousand pounds from Scottish aristocrat James Graham, Marquess of Montrose (John Hurt), to trade cattle. (more…)

Johann Gottfried Herder o hudbě a nacionalismu

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English original here

Johann Gottfried Herder
Song Loves the Masses: Herder on Music and Nationalism
Translated and edited by Philip V. Bohlman
Oakland: University of California Press, 2017

Johann Gottfried Herder byl německý filozof, teolog, překladatel a kritik, který žil v 18. století. Zabýval se velice rozmanitými tématy: politickou filozofií, filozofií ducha, filozofií dějin, metafyzikou, lingvistikou, filologií, uměním, náboženstvím, mytologií nebo hudbou. (more…)