Tag: America

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Barbara Will
Unlikely Collaboration: Gertude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, & the Vichy Dilemma
New York: Columbia University Press, 2011

Before 2011, I knew precisely five things about Gertrude Stein: she was Jewish; she was a lesbian; and she said that Hitler deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for tossing the Jews out of Germany. There were also two unimpeachable quotes: “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose” (you can’t argue with logic like that) and “There’s no there there,” referring to Oakland, California. (more…)

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Here is a tricky hypothetical dilemma which might not sit well with the American Dissident Right. But it may tell us a lot about ourselves.

If we had to choose between complete remigration from the United States or from Western Europe—with nothing in between—what would it be? What is dearer to our hearts? (more…)

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Critique of American Society

From its origins, Americans have held three fundamental beliefs: first, that America—the new promised land—is the prefiguration of the Cosmopolis, the future Universal Republic, and that the mission of Americans is to set an example and attempt to export the universal model of democratic “good” (more…)

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In recent years, new genetic discoveries have reshaped the story of how the Americas were first settled. Advanced DNA testing has revealed that nearly one-third of the genetic ancestry of Native Americans derives from ancient Eurasia, a finding that challenges the long-standing belief that their ancestors came solely from East Asia by way of the Bering Land Bridge about fifteen thousand years ago. (more…)

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From the Counter-Currents 2025 Spring Retreat symposium on America and Europe in the Age of Trump.

If you’re a man of means, and you are attracted to a young, strong, financially independent woman, how do you turn her into your mistress? The problem is her independence. Therefore, you need to make her dependent. (more…)

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From the Counter-Currents 2025 Spring Retreat symposium on America and Europe in the Age of Trump.

My prediction is that America’s relationship with Europe will drastically change because it will mostly stay the same.

This paradox is explained by how America has traditionally pushed policies in Europe which it would like to enact at home. (more…)

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If I had to choose a single word to describe the United States in the current year, it would be decay. Society, law, and standards of living are in free fall, and this spiritual decay is mirrored in the physical realm in crumbling infrastructure and the woke destruction of monuments.

A recent trip through Hungary was a welcome reprieve. Along with happier and healthier people, there is extensive renovation and construction. It is joked that the national bird of Hungary is the crane, due to the proliferation of construction cranes. (more…)

Theodore Roosevelt, a great pioneer of American conservationism.

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The Great Replacement is both a demographic and a cultural phenomenon. It consists, on the one hand, of encouraging low birth rates among Europeans and their colonial offshoots by promoting secularism and hedonism, guilt and shame for their ancestors and culture, and the virtues of childlessness. Simultaneously, its architects support open borders and increased immigration from the Third World, ostensibly for humanitarian motives or to compensate for population decline among the native-born population. Needless to say, these massive demographic changes will affect every facet of American life in the years ahead. (more…)

Sergey Lavrov

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov apparently shows more concern for ordinary white Americans than the average Republican lawmaker. In April, Lavrov called out America’s aggressive anti-white racism. While insisting Russians were “the pioneers of the movement for equal rights of people of any skin color,” he stated Black Lives Matter pushes “aggression displayed against  white people, white US citizens.” (more…)

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I have a friend who’s a big sports fan, especially college football. He’s crazy for the local State university (which we will call “State”) and hates the slightly more prestigious state University (which we will call “the U”). It’s really not hate, of course. It’s more of an identity/anti-identity thing. Despite not having attended either university, he has always identified with State, which, in his local setting, also means identifying as not-U. (more…)

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While Marine Le Pen could be said to be more “liberal” than her father, Jean-Marie, she is still undeniably the key figure in relation to the destruction of the European Union. (more…)

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Translated by Guillaume Durocher.

Editor’s Note:

Taken from Alexis de Tocqueville, De la Démocratie en Amérique (Paris: Gallimard, 1986), vol. 1, “Public Spirit in the United States,” 353-56. The title is editorial. 

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Tony: The morning of the day I got sick, I been thinking. It’s good to be in something from the ground floor. I came in too late for that, I know. But lately, I’m getting the feeling that I came in at the end. The best is over.

Dr. Melfi: Many Americans, I think, feel that way.

Tony: I think about my father. He never reached the heights like me. But in a lotta ways he had it better. He had his people. They had their standards. They had pride. Today, whadda we got?

—The Sopranos, Episode 1, “Pilot”  (more…)