Tag: children

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I have always cherished the pretense of Halloween. Regardless of its pagan origins in Europe as a harvest celebration, the event I have always known presents an exciting chance for children to dress up and pretend, and for adults to play along. The candy and trick-or-treating is important, of course, but secondary, in my opinion, to the spectacle of it all. As a child, deciding what I would be for Halloween each year took a great deal of thought and preparation (for several years, my mother had insisted we make our own costumes from scratch — a fun and productive exercise). (more…)

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There is an elective affinity — a relationship of reciprocal attraction and mutual reinforcement — between a) John Locke’s argument that a child’s mind initially resembles an “empty cabinet” or a “white paper void of all characters” which can be shaped by controlling the education impressed upon the child’s mind, and b) the origins of a literature specifically written for children in the 1700s in England. (more…)

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Greg Johnson did a solo Ask Me Anything on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

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Edward Dutton
Witches, Feminism and the Fall of the West
Whitefish, MT: Radix & Washington Summit Publishers, 2021

Are you tired of witches organizing to try to burn you at the stake, rather than the other way around? I know I am. Edward Dutton, a British-born professor of evolutionary psychology, explains in a new book what witches represented historically and how the same type of people came to be dominant in contemporary society. (more…)

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Cyan Quinn was host Nick Jeelvy’s guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, and together they celebrated the Best Month Ever at Counter-Currents by reviewing a selection of published articles from the auspicious month of June.

Topics discussed include:

00:01:30 Fourth of July is Juneteenth for white people and July is White History Month
00:07:30 Who is Cyan Quinn? (more…)

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We at Counter-Currents celebrated our 12th birthday on last weekend’s broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, which was a four-hour all-star streamathon with many of our writers, friends, and some ordinary readers who decided to get involved, and they answered listener questions. The first half is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

Junior

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My dog Junior is a 35-pound Boston Terrier/Boxer mix with the most consistently sweet disposition of any animal I’ve ever owned. He’s a great little guy, and except for his occasional bouts of gassiness, I can’t think of a bad thing to say about him. Yesterday morning while taking him for a walk through my slowly decaying lakeside Georgia community, I was suddenly forced to risk my life in an attempt to save his.

I wouldn’t do such a thing for many people besides my wife and son. (more…)

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During my short stint on this Earth, I’ve come to realize that people really aren’t that complicated. While we all have free will, hardly everything — or even the majority of the things we do — is of this divine spark. (more…)

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It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. — Socrates

NOTE: None of this is intended as medical advice. If you have a medical concern, consult your doctor. (more…)

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CNN recently touted a teenage girl on their rag show who was rewarded by the network for her stunning bravery in being pictured giving anti-mask protestors the finger. Her school bus was in the photo’s background. (more…)

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Like many children, some of my most vivid early memories center on the Christmas season. Preparations always began immediately after Thanksgiving. My mother and I would drag the dusty boxes of decorations down from the attic, while my father ascended onto our rooftop to string up the lights. A few weeks later we would go to the tree farm, ideally on a cold and overcast day, where my sister and I would run around searching for the ideal Christmas tree to be felled by my father’s handsaw. (more…)

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Michael Brendan Dougherty
My Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son’s Search for Home
New York: Sentinel Books, 2019

When this was first published a couple of years ago, reviewers had two distinct takes about the book. One was that it was a wistful, sometimes bittersweet memoir about growing up without a father, because the father was off in Ireland, having never married Dougherty’s American mother; and also, the author had some romantic notions about Ireland, and wasn’t that special.  (more…)