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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn et al.
From Under the Rubble
Boston: Little, Brown & Company (1975)

Shortly before being deported from the Soviet Union in 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn contributed three essays to a volume that was later published in the West as From Under the Rubble. Read more …

Published: January 18, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sakharov, anti-Bolshevism, anti-Communism, anti-white double standards, articles, book reviews, decadence, dissidence, ethnonationalism, From Under the Rubble, globalism, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, parliamentary democracy, Russia, socialism, Spencer J. Quinn, Stalinism, the left, the Soviet Union, totalitarianism | 9 Responses

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Polish Nationalism of the New Millennium:
An Interview with Jaroslaw Ostrogniew

Ondrej Mann

4,519 words

I have known Jaroslaw for a long time. He always impressed me as a highly erudite individual. We are both active in writing articles on the New Right and in various metapolitical organizations. We agreed to exchange interviews, so I will provide an interview for Szturm magazine and Jaroslaw for Reconquista. Read more …

Published: December 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Catholicism, censorship, Central Europe, conservatism, deplatforming, Eastern Europe, economics, family, geopolitics, globalism, immigration, Intermarium, interviews, Jarosław Ostrogniew, Konfederacja Wolność i Niepodległość, Kukiz '15, metapolitics, migration, National Populism, North American New Right, Ondrej Mann, paganism, Poland, political infrastructure, political organizing, populism, Prawo I Sprawiedliwość, Reconquista, religion, reprints, Ruch Narodowy, secularism, social democracy, social media, Szturm, the European Union | 22 Responses

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It’s a Wonderful Life

Connor McDowell

1,892 words

In keeping with my annual Christmas season ritual, I am currently enjoying a much-needed vacation with extended family in Appalachia. Every year, my aging aunt graciously hosts my family: me, my children, and our dog. This year the experience has been all the more special because she bought a DVD copy of It’s a Wonderful Life, the 1946 Christmas classic starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed, and last night we gathered around her flatscreen to watch it. Read more …

Published: December 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged altruism, articles, Christmas, community, Connor McDowell, family, finance, It's a Wonderful Life, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals | 17 Responses

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The Vanishing Tradition:
Perspectives on American Conservatism

Max Richardson

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Paul Gottfried, editor
The Vanishing Tradition: Perspectives on American Conservatism
DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2020

The Vanishing Tradition is an anthology edited by Paul Gottfried, and owing to its structure, a proper review is not really possible. Rather, I will individually summarize and comment on each contribution to the anthology. Read more …

Published: December 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abortion, anthologies, articles, book reviews, Boyd D. Cathey, Catholicism, Civil Rights Movement, Communism, conservatism, Conservative Inc., feminism, Foreign Policy, geopolitics, George Gawley, Grant Havers, immigration, Jack Kerwick, Jesse Russell, Josef Stalin, Joseph Cotto, Keith Preston, Marjorie Jeffrey, metapolitics, National Review, NATO, neoconservatism, Nicholas Drummond, noninterventionism, North American New Right, originals, Paleoconservatism, Paul Gottfried, rationalism, Richard Marcy, the alt right, the avant-garde, the Jewish question, Trotskyism | 11 Responses

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Cold War II: Intrigue in the Indo-Pacific

Morris V. de Camp

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The United States is now on the cusp of a new Cold War. This time, the war is with China. The mainstream media is either hiding this fact from the public or is too distracted by Trump Derangement to really grasp the situation and convey its seriousness. Read more …

Published: November 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Australia, China, Communism, free trade, geopolitics, globalization, international relations, Morris V. de Camp, neocolonialism, North American New Right, originals, the Cold War, the Pacific, trade, United States foreign policy | 14 Responses

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Joel Andreas’ The Incredible Rocky

Beau Albrecht

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I seldom have occasion to say nice things about sociology professors. I’ll make an exception for Dr. Joel Andreas of Johns Hopkins. The comic book from his younger days, The Incredible Rocky vs. the Power of the People, was an interesting find. It’s an unauthorized biography of the Rockefellers, the family with too much money. It’s long out of print, though available online in a few places. Read more …

Published: October 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-capitalism, anti-globalism, articles, Beau Albrecht, comic reviews, comics, globalism, Joel Andreas, North American New Right, originals, the Rockefellers | 9 Responses

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Family Systems & History

F. Roger Devlin

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Emmanuel Todd
Lineages of Modernity: A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus
Cambridge, England, and Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2019

Much of today’s dominant globalist ideology derives from development theory, a body of thought which shares with Marxism the view that economic relations are the basis of social life and sees the races of mankind as fundamentally equivalent beneath the superficial cultural differences which have arisen over history. Read more …

Published: July 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authoritarianism, book reviews, Catholicism, demographics, economics, education, Emmanuel Todd, essays, F. Roger Devlin, family, family dynamics, hierarchy, higher education, history, identity, individualism, industrialization, language, Lineages of Modernity, literacy, memory of places, modernity, monogamy, nationalism, North American New Right, patriarchy, Protestantism, religion, secularism, secularization, stem families, the nuclear family, tradition | 3 Responses

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Life at the End of History:
Against Nineties Nostalgia

Travis LeBlanc

4,673 words

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I grew up in the final years of the Cold War. If you aren’t old enough to remember the Cold War, let me tell you that it was a trip.

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High & Low

Trevor Lynch

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Like most Westerners, I got to know Akira Kurosawa through his classic samurai films: Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Kagemusha, and Ran. Thus I was surprised to discover that fully half of his thirty films are actually set in contemporary Japan over the stretch of Kurosawa’s long lifetime (1910–1998). High and Low (1963) is one of the best of these films, along with Drunken Angel, Stray Dog, and Ikiru. Read more …

Published: July 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akira Kurosawa, aristocracy, articles, class conflict, feudalism, honor, Japan, justice, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, Trevor Lynch, virtue | 8 Responses

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Rockefeller Foundation Declares Support for Black Riots

Kerry Bolton

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It is fashionable, even among Rightist intelligentsia, to dismiss “conspiracy theories.” In doing so, one overlooks the covert forces that are funding — and always have funded — the forces of pseudo-revolt. These oligarchic sponsors are not fools or dupes, whose funds have been “taken over” by their anti-capitalist enemies, as was once assumed by conservatives during the Cold War. Since the establishment of the tax-exempt foundations over a century ago, the aims have been to promote what is now called a globalized “inclusive economy.” Read more …

Published: June 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, globalization, identity, identity politics, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right, oligarchy, originals, plutocracy, the civil rights movement, the Rockefeller Foundation, white privilege, woke capital | 13 Responses

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How to Make a Libertarian Cry

Beau Albrecht

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Those in the socially liberal, fiscally conservative (SLFC) spectrum of ideologies often have a naïve faith in unrestrained capitalism. This is especially so for the ones with the most panache (such as it is), like libertarians and Objectivists. These two, unlike the bland neoconservatives and certain kinds of liberals, are also quite skeptical about government. Read more …

Published: June 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Beau Albrecht, censorship, controlled opposition, corporatism, globalization, Israel, journalists, liberalism, libertarianism, mainstream media, neoliberalism, North American New Right, originals, spying, woke capital | 14 Responses

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Ecofascism Resurgent

William de Vere

4,631 words

While mankind suffers through the worst global crisis in recent memory, the rest of the world appears to be benefiting from our discomfiture.

The quarantines, travel bans, and economic stagnation brought about by COVID-19 have had a number of unintended consequences for the natural environment: improvements in air quality resulting from the reduction of major pollutants such as nitrous oxide and greenhouse gases; cleaner waterways (most famously the canals of Venice); and the return of wildlife to humanized landscapes. Read more …

Published: April 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, consumerism, coronavirus, COVID-19, deep ecology, Earth Day, Earth First, ecofascism, ecology, environmentalism, industrialization, materialism, misanthropy, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Pentti Linkola, Savitri Devi, socialism, William de Vere | 21 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 267
Network

Greg Johnson

145 words / 60:58

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In the fall of 2000, I taught an adult education class entitled Philosophy on Film, Read more …

Published: April 3, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, Counter-Currents Radio, cynicism, desire, end of history, globalization, Greg Johnson, idealism, morality, movie reviews, Network, Paddy Chayevsky, Patrick Buchanan, Plato, podcasts, popular culture, populism, reason, Ross Perot, Ted Kaczynski, thumos | 5 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 265
Thank You, Corona Chan

Counter-Currents Radio

141 words / 72:56

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Greg Johnson and Fróði Midjord talk about how the coronavirus outbreak has revealed the intellectual bankruptcy, corruption, and incompetence of the current system and how it creates an opening for sensible nationalist policies.

Published: March 20, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged conservatism, coronavirus, Counter-Currents Radio, democracy, Frodi Midjord, globalization, Globalvirus, Greg Johnson, liberalism, podcasts | 15 Responses

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Cultural Marxist vs. Material Marxist, Part 2:
Is Capitalism the Real Racist?

Travis LeBlanc

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There are reasons why the neoliberal establishment hates Bernie Sanders so much, and it’s not just because he’s a threat to their donors’ stock portfolios. Class-based material Marxism — once a pillar of Leftist thought — is not only incompatible with but also heretical to the neoliberal worldview and agenda. Read more …

Published: February 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Bernie Sanders, capital, Communism, cultural Marxism, Karl Marx, Marxism, materialism, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, racism, socialism, Travis LeBlanc | 11 Responses

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Thanksgiving & Politics

John Murphy

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I and millions of other North Americans are currently mentally preparing to meet our relatives for Thanksgiving, in addition to the heap of essential menial tasks like food preparation, cleaning, pulling out suitable clothes, and deciding whether I want to attend the high school’s football game. Read more …

Published: November 27, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, equality, family, North American New Right, originals, Thanksgiving | 7 Responses

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Alain de Benoist’s Against Liberalism

Michael Walker

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Alain de Benoist
Contre le libéralisme: La Société n’est pas un Marché
Monaco: Éditions du Rocher, 2019

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The Roots of Liberalism’s Contemporary Crisis

F. Roger Devlin

2,657 words

Patrick J. Deneen
Why Liberalism Failed
New Haven, Ct./New York: Yale University Press, 2018

Patrick Deneen, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, wrote the present study in 2016, completing it shortly before Donald Trump’s election. In February 2019, a paperbound edition with a few revisions and a new Preface was published.

Published: October 2, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, classical liberalism, F. Roger Devlin, freedom, illiberalism, liberalism, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

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The System that Kills the Peoples:
The Birth of Neoliberalism

Donald Thoresen

2,744 words

Quinn Slobodian
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018

One of the seminal ideological battles of recent history has been that between internationalism, in one form or another, and nationalism. Countless words have been devoted to dissecting the causes, effects, merits, and drawbacks of the various incarnations of these two basic positions. Read more …

Published: September 3, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Donald Thoresen, empires, globalism, nationalism, neoliberalism, North American New Right, originals | 11 Responses

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What Capitalism Has Left to Say

Michael Walker

4,996 words / 32:13

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Charles Robin
La gauche du capital: libéralisme culturel et idéologie du Marché
Paris: Krisis, 2014

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Decline of the West, Part 4

Greg Johnson

Aubrey Beardsley, The Fat Woman (1894)

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Part 4 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here, Part 5 here)

Darryl Cooper: I want to get into a few other questions. Doing my research for this interview, I didn’t read too deeply into your views on capitalism and liberal democracy, but I got the impression that you’re probably at least as critical of those things as I am, and I’m very critical of both of them. Read more …

Published: July 30, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Carl Schmitt, conservatism, Darryl Cooper, Decline of the West podcast, economics, Greg Johnson, liberal democracy, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, transcripts | 1 Response

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Woke Capital’s Free Option

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, a definite woke capitalist.

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As many of you already know, YouTube has recently embarked on a campaign to purge dissident voices from its platform. As expected, the Dissident Right was the hardest hit, with such luminaries as Dr. Patrick Slattery and my fellow contributor here at Counter-Currents, Jared George, losing their channels outright. Many others have had their videos removed or demonetized. It’s all anyone’s been able to talk about on YouTube, and it is a cause for concern. YouTube gives our movement a link directly to Generation Z’s hindbrain. Read more …

Published: June 14, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, censorship, corporations, James Burnham, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, Samuel Francis, woke capital, YouTube | 13 Responses

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A Lost Interview

Greg Johnson

117 words / 2:10:39

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In December of 2016, I did an interview with Darryl Cooper’s The Decline of the West podcast. Read more …

Published: July 21, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged biological race differences, Darryl Cooper, ethnonationalism, globalization, Greg Johnson, interviews, labor movement, Oswald Spengler, podcasts, Social Credit, the Jewish question, white nationalism | 8 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 218
Rolf Peter Sieferle’s Epochenwechsel

Michael Walker

10,814 words / 1:06:43

Audio version: To listen in a player, use the one above or click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” To subscribe to the CC podcast RSS feed, click here. Read more …

Published: May 25, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, environmentalism, free market, Germany, globalization, human rights, mass immigration, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, podcasts, Rolf Peter Sieferle, sustainability | 3 Responses

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The Gospel According to Goldberg

Margot Metroland

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Jonah Goldberg
Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
New York: Crown Forum, 2018

Anyone expecting Jonah Goldberg’s Suicide of the West to be a new meditation on James Burnham’s 1964 classic[1] about the moral degeneracy of liberal democracy is in for a laugh. Having borrowed Burnham’s tasty title, Goldberg goes off in another direction entirely, often inverting Burnham’s argument. Read more …

Published: May 17, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ayn Rand, book reviews, free market, James Burnham, John Locke, liberal democracy, Margot Metroland, Max Weber, North American New Right, originals | 17 Responses

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The National Dividend

Sandy Wolfe-Murray

C. H. Douglas, founder of Social Credit

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When, during World War I, C. H. Douglas was sent to sort out the accounting muddle in an aircraft factory in Farnborough, England he noticed that the factory was generating costs faster than it was distributing incomes. Replicating the process at a hundred other large British firms he found that the total costs were always more than the money distributed in dividends, wages, and salaries.[1]

Douglas became concerned that the men who labored in the factories producing the necessities of life could not always afford to purchase the items they had worked to produce, Read more …

Published: November 1, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, C. H. Douglas, Catholicism, E. Michael Jones, economics, North American New Right, originals, Protestantism, Sandy Wolfe-Murray, Social Credit, usury | 7 Responses

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Between Capital & Archaic Socialism

Michael Walker

Jean-Claude Michéa

3,163 words

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Jean-Claude Michéa
Notre Ennemi, le Capital
Paris: Climats, 2016

Following the election of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth President of the United States, there was a flood of YouTube clips of Clinton supporters, mostly female, throwing tantrums of biblical proportions (the reader will know the sort of thing: he rent his garments and covered himself with sackcloth, etc.) which afforded this writer both amusement and bewilderment. The tearful outbursts of grief were without insight or intelligence of any kind, with one exception. Read more …

Published: September 27, 2017 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged 2016 US Presidential Election, book reviews, Brexit, capital, globalization, liberal elite, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, populism, socialism | 4 Responses

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The Spotted Owl & the Elephant in the Room

Michael Walker

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In 1814, the Russian writer Ivan Krylov wrote a fable entitled “The Inquisitive Man”: a man visits a museum and observes all sorts of exhibits while completely overlooking an elephant on show. Read more …

Published: September 19, 2017 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged ecology, economics, environmentalism, hunting, Michael Walker, natural resources, North American New Right, originals, overpopulation | 18 Responses

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Should the Protestant Ethic Become the Spirit of the Alt Right?

Ricardo Duchesne

Max Weber

2,008 words

Whites will become a minority within a few decades in all their main homelands. The question is no longer how to prevent becoming a minority but how to survive in order to regain majority status.

A few months ago I noted that easy going comfort is the main factor behind the decline of masculinity in the West and that only an atmosphere of conflict and hardship in childhood will strengthen Westerners to fight against the occupation of their lands. Read more …

Published: August 4, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, asceticism, Benjamin Franklin, Calvinism, living well, Max Weber, North American New Right, Protestantism, rationality, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, self-improvement, technology, utilitarianism, virtue, white nationalism, work | 20 Responses

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The Pathos of Proximity:
Violent Writing, Part One

Mark Dyal

2,196 words

For Marshall, who showed me another way.

The lady stumbled through the door of the dojo, a blur of blonde hair and blue sundress, pushing her little boy with one hand and holding a phone to her ear with the other. Read more …