Tag: Catholicism

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Ian Campbell
Holy War: The Untold Story of Catholic Italy’s Crusade Against the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
London: C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2023 (more…)

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874–1936

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NOTE: This 14 June marks the 90th anniversary of the death of the great Anglo-Catholic conservative writer G. K. Chesterton in 1936. The following essay has been written for planned inclusion in a future as-yet untitled academic anthology of pieces on the subject of Chesterton and war, and deals with the subject of the main motivation GKC thought all true soldiers should have for fighting in the first place—love of one’s own homeland and people.

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
G. K. Chesterton

“Patriotism is just saying your country is the best because you happen to have been born there.”
G.B. Shaw

G. K. Chesterton is far better appreciated today as an essayist than as a novelist, but his first effort in this particular literary medium, 1904’s The Napoleon of Notting Hill, was really little more than an essay reshaped into basic narrative form. (more…)

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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…)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Flannery O’Connor, 2021.

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Today is the birthday of Flannery O’Connor, one of America’s greatest storytellers and an underappreciated woman of the Right. In her short life of 39 years, O’Connor wrote two novels, 31 short stories, more than a hundred lectures, essays, and reviews, and a vast number of letters. Her fiction reflects her strong identity as both a Catholic and a white Southern woman.

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St. Brigid, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

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St. Patrick’s Day is near, the international celebration of all it means to be Irish. But what, precisely, does it mean to be Irish today? To not actually be Irish at all, if you can possibly help it—particularly not in terms of the nation’s once-dominant religion.

It is not so long ago that “Auld Ireland” was the most traditionalist Catholic nation in Western Europe, but that is no longer the case. (more…)

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Keith Woods, ed.
Irish Nationalism: Essential Writings: Volume 1
Cloverhill Publishing, 2025

Compiling and publishing a trove of lesser-known nationalist treatises is essentially a political act which bears a resonance for the modern day. Presentism inflects all our writing, no matter how much we try to think objectively about the past. (more…)

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Many mainstream observers and analysts in the West struggle to grasp how Russia – considered a key force in the Allied victory over Nazi Germany – now exhibits behaviors strikingly similar to the ideology it helped defeat. Even more perplexing to mainstream observers is Russia’s use of World War II’s legacy as a tool of militaristic pride. (more…)

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When I heard that Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty, 2013) was “Felliniesque,” that didn’t recommend it at all. By “Felliniesque,” I mean the most stunning and unconventional traits of such films as La Dolce Vita, 8½, and Juliet of the Spirits: basically, a person undergoing a personal crisis in an increasingly surreal, carnivalistic setting that suggests an oncoming psychotic break—or divine intervention—or both; a liberal use of the grotesque sweetened with a Christian-humanist compassion; (more…)

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Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O’Connor
New York: Fordham University Press, 2020

It’s old news that Flannery O’Connor, dead since 1964, has taken some flak for writing letters in which she said she didn’t much like black people. (more…)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Flannery O’Connor, 2021.

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Today is the 100th birthday of Flannery O’Connor, one of America’s greatest storytellers and an underappreciated woman of the Right. In her short life of 39 years, O’Connor wrote two novels, 31 short stories, more than a hundred lectures, essays, and reviews, and a vast number of letters. Her fiction reflects her strong identity as both a Catholic and a white Southern woman.

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Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life, 1960) is one of the most hailed and fêted films of all time. It was both a commercial and a critical success. It had an immediate and enduring influence on film, fashion, and popular culture in general. It won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1960. It was nominated for four Oscars and won Best Costume Design. Nino Rota’s music is also iconic. To this day, La Dolce Vita is regularly included in lists of the greatest films of all time. (more…)

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Následující text je překladem přednášky F. Roger Devlina z jarního setkání Counter-Currents 2023

Termín populismus se v Americe hojně rozšířil od vzestupu Donalda Trumpa, v Evropě pak ještě o něco dříve, jako negativně zabarvené zastřešující označení protiimigračních protestních stran. Po všelidovém hlasování o Brexitu a zvolení Trumpa prezidentem se v anglicky hovořícím světě vyrojily knihy o populismu jako houby po dešti. Vsadil bych si, že za mnoha z nich stojí zadání vypočítavých vydavatelů, kteří doufali ve snadný zisk z náhle módní materie. (more…)

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The following interview with occasional Counter-Currents contributor Martin Lichtmesz was published in Hungarian by the news portal Magyar Jelen on March 2, 2024.

Could you introduce yourself and describe the scope of your activities?

I was born in Vienna in 1976, lived for 14 years in Berlin, and returned to my home country of Austria a decade ago. (more…)