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It was about thirty years ago when I first noticed that the greeting “Merry Christmas” was being replaced by the bland, neutral “Season’s Greetings” and “Happy Holidays.”
Left: Antoine-Jean Gros, Premier Consul Bonaparte, ca. 1802; Right: Cover for E. T. A. Hoffmann and Alexandre Dumas’ The Nutcracker & the Mouse King
Left: Antoine-Jean Gros, Premier Consul Bonaparte, ca. 1802; Right: Cover for E. T. A. Hoffmann and Alexandre Dumas’ The Nutcracker & the Mouse King
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Like many of us this past season, I have had to endure far too many repetitions of the same 11 ”holiday” songs that fail to capture the essence of the season: the contemplative, dirge-y, or haunted side of winter, paired with the tasteful emotional warmth and childlike joy of Christmas. (more…)
Christmas in Costa Rica.
Christmas in Costa Rica.
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Christmas in Costa Rica was its usual low-key affair. What I like most of all is its simplicity. There are Christmas trees in the courtyards and bunting in the store opposite, but none of the materialistic vulgarity I remember from London. Nicest of all are the children’s toys in the shops, dollies for the girls and dinosaurs and trucks for the boys, with plastic farm sets for the little ones. Woke just never made it to Central America, and God knows what monstrosities are on the shelves of the United Kingdom. (more…)
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Greg Johnson hosted a cozy Christmas Eve Ask Me Anything livestream on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio along with special guests Rich Houck, Gaddius Maximus, Cyan Quinn, Frodi Midjord, John Morgan, Sam Valleus, and Sam Dickson, and it is now available for download and online listening.
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00:01:42 The snowstorm in Ohio (more…)
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The latest installment of The Writers’ Bloc was a special Christmas broadcast, where host Nick Jeelvy was visited by three apparitions from the ethereal plane who taught us the meaning of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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This evening and tomorrow, white families around the world will gather in homes, churches, and at parties to celebrate Christmas. In today’s increasingly unhinged world, it is easy to feel cast adrift. Christmas offers us a chance to reconnect with friends, families, and our own identities.
Counter-Currents, made possible by our wonderful donors and readers, strives throughout the year to be an island of sanity and your hub for thoughtful discussion on nationalism, race, and culture. (more…)
German soldiers celebrating Christmas in a trench.
German soldiers celebrating Christmas in a trench.
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After the First World War’s initial opening phase of movement ended, the belligerents on both sides of the Western Front dug in to shelter from modern weaponry. What began as hastily-prepared rifle pits were formed into continuous lines of trenches across France and Belgium that stretched from the English Channel in the north to Switzerland in the south. Trench warfare on an unprecedented scale had begun.
The enduring image of the First World War comes from the Western Front: Opposing trench lines separated by the devastated interim space of mud, corpses, and shell craters that was no man’s land. (more…)
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This Christmas, as hundreds of millions of normal Americans gather around the dinner table to savor their festive baked turkeys and delightful honeyed hams, a stubborn minority of spiteful Semites will dishonor this sacred annual tradition by eating at restaurants owned and operated by godless Chinamen. (more…)
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Who can listen to objections regarding such a book as [A Christmas Carol]? It seems to me a national benefit, and to every man or woman who reads it, a personal kindness. — William Makepeace Thackeray, Fraser’s Magazine, 1844 (more…)
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It is the season of giving, and in that spirit I would like to give a Christmas present to the Christians within our ranks as a gesture of good will. Due to the Brandon economy, I do not have any partridges or pear trees, but I do have two arguments that can be used in defense of our politics by Christian Nationalists: Descartes’ cogito ergo sum and the differentiation between the private and public spheres. And what’s more, they are arguments that can operate entirely within the Christian worldview. (more…)
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The Meaning and History of Christmas
