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Give Your Amygdala a Vacation

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As I write this, a baby is staring up at me from a stroller, tightly packed with blankets to protect her from the chilly air. A bonnet fringed with pink lace covers her small head, and tiny blonde curls peek out from the edges. She is parked beside her parents and a third person, who seems to be a family friend. They are next to me at a café, where I am trying to concentrate on reading a newish translation of Being and Time. Now and then, the baby breaks my concentration by making little chirping, birdlike noises. Uncharacteristically, I am not annoyed by this. Why? Read more …

Published: January 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged alienation, articles, Eastern Europe, Jef Costello, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, white dispossession | 16 Responses

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Christmas at Counter-Currents
Gabrieli’s “Hodie Christus natus est”

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Merry Christmas to all friends of Counter-Currents. “Hodie Christus natus est” (Today Christ is born) is my favorite motet by Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557 to 12 August 1612). My favorite recording is an out-0f-print Decca release by Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. This performance is the best I could find on YouTube. Enjoy! — Greg Johnson

Published: December 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged classical music, video of the day | Leave a comment

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Some Thoughts on Yule

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Yule is the midwinter festival celebrated by my ancestors and by Germanic neo-pagans today. Midwinter is a time when much of nature seems to die or to depart. The trees are stripped of their leaves. The birds abandon us, flying off to warmer climes. Bears, badgers, chipmunks, and squirrels hibernate. Water freezes over. The earth is covered in ice and snow, so that nothing can grow. The air is so chilled that when we are out in it for too long, death becomes something tangible, and we rush inside. Read more …

Published: December 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, Yule | 2 Responses

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Christmas & the Winter Solstice

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Translation and commentary by Cologero Salvo

In “Roma e il natale solare nella tradizione nordico-aria” (La Difesa della razza, 1940), Evola writes:

Very few suspect that the holidays [i.e., Catholic holy days] of today, in the century of skyscrapers, radio, great movements of the masses, are celebrated and continue . . . a remote tradition, Read more …

Published: December 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Rome, articles, Julius Evola, North American New Right, paganism, reprints, Sol Invictus, Traditionalism, translations | 1 Response

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Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

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Philippe de Champaigne, “Saint Augustin,” 1645-1650

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The key problem of our age is disconnection from truth. This takes several distinct forms. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of lies. As everyone knows, modern, western civilization is founded upon lies about human nature, culture, and history. The most significant of these – underlying, in one form of another, most of the rest – is the equality lie; the myth of human equality, which is the chief myth of our age. (“Myth,” as most of my readers know, can have a positive or a negative connotation, as there are salutary myths; here, obviously, I am using the term in its purely negative sense.) Read more …

Published: December 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authenticity, ethics, Jef Costello, living well, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, truth | 1 Response

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The Literal War on Christmas

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

Syrians celebrate Christmas as Israel rains down bombs

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Can you feel that magic in the air? It is the most wonderful time of the year. People from all over the world retreat to their hearths and homes to celebrate Christmas, to be with their families, to enjoy warmth, to remember good times, to reflect on the year past. It is a time of good cheer, of rest after a grueling 12 months of labor, Read more …

Published: December 24, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, Syria, the Jewish question, the war against Christmas | 10 Responses

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All I Want for Christmas

Fullmoon Ancestry

Albert Chevallier Tayler, The Christmas Tree, 1911

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All I want for Christmas is for white men to be happy. Yes, you read that correctly. I want you, white man, to be happy this Christmas. Wherever you are and whoever you are with, I want you to be happy. What do I mean by this? Let’s find out!

I’ve had the opportunity to spend Christmas in various places in the world, Read more …

Published: December 24, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, living well, North American New Right, originals | 7 Responses

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Christmas: Beauty in Life

Dominique Venner

Viggo Johansen, Glade Jul, 1891

401 words

Translated by Greg Johnson; Spanish translation here

We are approaching Christmas (another name for the winter solstice). Associated with the evergreen tree, Christmas has always been celebrated in European countries since time immemorial Read more …

Published: December 23, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, articles, beauty, Dominique Venner, ethics, North American New Right, originals, Stoicism, translations, winter | 1 Response

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The Last Day of Christmas

Spencer J. Quinn

Salvador Dalí Christmas card

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A few years ago I took my four-year-old son to a Santa Claus event being held at a local supermarket. They were offering snacks and goodies and craft activities as well as the opportunity to sit on the bearded man’s lap and tell him what you want to find under the tree that year. Of course, my son loved every moment of it. But he started to love it even more when one of his best friends from daycare showed up. This was a little Indian kid with whom he was inseparable at the time. And with him was his father who was all smiles and wanting to make chitchat with me. Read more …

Published: December 20, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, Spencer Quinn, white dispossession | 25 Responses

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Winter & the European Soul

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow, 1565 (Detail)

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If you’re milling around Counter-Currents, you’re probably savvy to the notion that human beings are biological creatures, that we are shaped and molded by our environment’s ruthless Darwinian pressures into our present form. To think this way is heresy in the contemporary West. To consider the possibility that man is subject to the laws of nature offends the prideful sensibilities of our Gnostic and Luciferian elites. To think of oneself as a thread in the great tapestry of being offends the petty individualism of the modern Westerners. Read more …

Published: December 19, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, beauty, individualism, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, white identity, winter | 18 Responses

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Christmas Reading at Counter-Currents

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The Meaning and History of Christmas

Collin Cleary, “Some Thoughts on Yule”
Jef Costello, “Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily”
William DeVere, “Autumnal Reflections“
Julius Evola, “Christmas and the Winter Solstice”
Juleigh Howard-Hobson, “Nothing Much at All”

Published: December 18, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Greg Johnson, news item | 1 Response

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Christmas Special
Merry Christmas, Infidels!

1,428 words / 9:56

Translations: Czech, French, German, Swedish

Audio version: To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.”

It was about twenty years ago when I first noticed that the greeting “Merry Christmas” was being replaced by the bland, neutral “Season’s Greetings” and “Happy Holidays.”

Published: December 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, North American New Right, reprints, the Jewish question | 17 Responses

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Black Friday Special
It’s Time to STOP Shopping for Christmas

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Audio version: To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.”

Translations: Danish, French

Even though I am an unbeliever, the Christmas season is my favorite time of the year. Read more …

Published: November 28, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commercial society, Greg Johnson, holidays, living well, North American New Right, originals, white activism, white community organizing, white nationalism, white self-sufficiency | 3 Responses

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Autumnal Reflections

William de Vere

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This time of year, when autumn fades into winter, has been particularly evocative to me ever since I was a child. Of course, “the holiday season” has a special meaning for many people, and their reasons are probably for the most part quite similar to mine. There is a shared seasonal nostalgia for the cold autumn air, the brilliant foliage, Jack-o’-lanterns and Christmas trees, eggnog and pumpkin pie and sugar cookies, Halloween costumes and Thanksgiving dinners and Christmas mornings. Read more …

Published: November 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, North American New Right, reprints, Thanksgiving, William de Vere | 5 Responses

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Krampus: A Reminder of Winter

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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Imagine this. It’s 3 in the afternoon. You’re lying in bed with your wife. You’re watching a Christmas movie. Suddenly you understand at the same time the purpose of family, the absurdity of reward without punishment and the naivety of European man who thought he could live as a goofy creature of materialism while shutting out from himself the darkness of existence. You think back to some boomer or tradcon or whatever bellyaching about how muh leftists are trying to take the Christ out of Christmas and make it ‘just some holiday about snow.’ Read more …

Published: January 4, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged family, movie reviews, mythology, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, Odin, originals North American New Right, winter | Leave a comment

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On Yule & Millenniyule

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When the Sun largely vanished from the sky as cold and darkness overtook the world of our ancestors, they would band together. The warmth they conjured up to endure this time of year emanated from their turning their attention toward one another.

Published: December 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Jared George, Millennial Woes, North American New Right, originals, social media, Yule | 4 Responses

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Christmas:
Beauty in Life

Dominique Venner

398 words

Translated by Greg Johnson; Spanish translation here

We are approaching Christmas (another name for the winter solstice). Associated with the evergreen tree, Read more …

Published: December 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, beauty, Dominique Venner, ethics, North American New Right, originals, Stoicism, translations | 4 Responses

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Some Thoughts on Yule

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Yule is the midwinter festival celebrated by my ancestors and by Germanic neo-pagans today. Midwinter is a time when much of nature seems to die or to depart. The trees are stripped of their leaves. The birds abandon us, flying off to warmer climes. Bears, badgers, chipmunks, and squirrels hibernate. Water freezes over. The earth is covered in ice and snow, so that nothing can grow. The air is so chilled that when we are out in it for too long, death becomes something tangible, and we rush inside. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, finitude, holidays, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Yule | 3 Responses

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Christmas & the Winter Solstice

Sol Invictus crowned with a diadem of sun rays

611 words

Translation and commentary by Cologero Salvo

In “Roma e il natale solare nella tradizione nordico-aria” (La Difesa della razza, 1940), Evola writes:

Very few suspect that the holidays [i.e., Catholic holy days] of today, in the century of skyscrapers, radio, great movements of the masses, are celebrated and continue . . . a remote tradition, Read more …

Published: December 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Rome, articles, holidays, Julius Evola, North American New Right, paganism, reprints, Sol Invictus, the Winter Solstice, Traditionalism, translations | 1 Response

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Guide to Kulchur
Episode 5: Yuletide Special with Survive the Jive

Counter-Currents Radio

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Survive the Jive joins Fróði Midjord on the latest episode of the new podcast series, Guide to Kulchur. Read more …

Published: December 22, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, European paganism, Frodi Midjord, Guide to Kulchur, Survive the Jive, Yule | 6 Responses

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Baby, It’s Cold Outside

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Christmas is a time of hope and good cheer, and nothing has lifted my spirits more than a recent article in Billboard entitled “’Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ Heats Up On Charts After Lyrics Controversy.” Read more …

Published: December 17, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, popular music, Quintilian, the war against Christmas | 13 Responses

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Christmas Reading at Counter-Currents

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The Meaning and History of Christmas

Collin Cleary, “Some Thoughts on Yule“
Jef Costello, “Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily“
Julius Evola, “Christmas and the Winter Solstice“
Juleigh Howard-Hobson, “Nothing Much at All“

Published: December 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Greg Johnson, news item | 1 Response

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Christmas Special
Merry Christmas, Infidels!

1,428 words / 9:56

Translations: Czech, French, German, Swedish

Audio version: To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.”

It was about twenty years ago when I first noticed that the greeting “Merry Christmas” was being replaced by the bland, neutral “Season’s Greetings” and “Happy Holidays.”

Published: December 11, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, Hanukkah, holidays, Kwanzaa, North American New Right, the Jewish question | 8 Responses

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Black Friday Special
It’s Time to STOP Shopping for Christmas

1,031 words / 5:45

Audio version: To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.”

Translations: Danish, French

Even though I am an unbeliever, the Christmas season is my favorite time of the year. Read more …

Published: November 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commercial society, Greg Johnson, holidays, living well, North American New Right, originals, white activism, white community organizing, white nationalism, white self-sufficiency | 6 Responses

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Zwarte Piet:
The Face of National Resistance in The Netherlands

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In The Netherlands we have an annual tradition called Sinterklaas, which is a colloquial expression that signifies the celebration of a Christmas-like holiday named after St. Nicholas, a Byzantine bishop and saint from Anatolia, famous for his charity to children. Read more …

Published: November 21, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-white racism, articles, blackface, Éordred, North American New Right, originals, the Netherlands, the war against Christmas | 17 Responses

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Navidad, la belleza de la vida

Dominique Venner

431 words

Traducción por Francisco Albanese; English version here

Nos acercamos a la Navidad (otro nombre para el solsticio de invierno). Asociada al árbol de hojas perennes, la Navidad ha sido celebrada en los países europeos desde tiempos inmemoriales como la gran fiesta que presagia el renacimiento de la naturaleza y la vida después del reposo del invierno. Uno no puede dejar de pensar que Europa, también, algún día emergerá de su actual Dormición, incluso si es más larga que el ciclo de la naturaleza. Read more …

Published: December 25, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, beauty, Dominique Venner, ethics, in Spanish, in translation, North American New Right, originals, Stoicism, translations | Leave a comment

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Christmas:
Beauty in Life

Dominique Venner

398 words

Translated by Greg Johnson; Spanish translation here

We are approaching Christmas (another name for the winter solstice). Associated with the evergreen tree, Christmas has always been celebrated in European countries since time immemorial as the great feast presaging the revival of nature and life after the repose of winter. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, beauty, Dominique Venner, ethics, North American New Right, originals, Stoicism, translations | 1 Response

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Christmas Reading at Counter-Currents

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Counter-Currents has published a wealth of articles on the meaning and history of Christmas, as well as the commercialization and denigration of Christmas in contemporary culture. Please enjoy and share widely though social media.

The Meaning and History of Christmas

Collin Cleary, “Some Thoughts on Yule“
Jef Costello, “Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily“

Published: December 24, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Greg Johnson | Leave a comment

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Sick Noir for the Holiday

Margot Metroland

It was never really wonderful.

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A few years back—let us say, forty—some TV boffins decided there was a perfect and archetypal Christmas film that must be broadcast every Yuletide season. And that film was the disturbing and surreal It’s a Wonderful Life with James Stewart. A downer-fable about failure and suicide, it flopped resoundingly with critics and public alike when it came out in 1946. Director Frank Capra himself counted it among his least favorite efforts. Personally I’ve never met anyone who really likes the movie. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Film Noir, Margot Metroland, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints | 7 Responses

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Some Thoughts on Yule

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Yule is the midwinter festival celebrated by my ancestors and by Germanic neo-pagans today. Midwinter is a time when much of nature seems to die or to depart. The trees are stripped of their leaves. The birds abandon us, flying off to warmer climes. Bears, badgers, chipmunks, and squirrels hibernate. Water freezes over. The earth is covered in ice and snow, so that nothing can grow. The air is so chilled that when we are out in it for too long, death becomes something tangible, and we rush inside. Read more …

Published: December 22, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, finitude, holidays, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Yule | 3 Responses

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