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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 242
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Greg Johnson Interviews Novelist Blake Nelson

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Greg Johnson talks to novelist Blake Nelson about his career, his new novel The Red Pill, and its frosty reception from the politically correct establishment. Read more …

Published: August 3, 2019 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Blake Nelson, Counter-Currents Radio, interviews, Jack Donovan, Jim Goad, literature, podcasts, political correctness, the manosphere, the red pill | 2 Responses

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Five Books that Shook My World (2018)

James J. O'Meara

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1. Camille Paglia, Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education (New York: Pantheon, 2018).

Paglia is self-recommending, of course. I was a bit let down, as the subtitle seemed to promise a career-wide retrospective, while this is more like a reunion tour, with emphasis on more recent works. The key essays are a vast survey, “Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960s,” a liberal education in itself; Read more …

Published: December 26, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2018 Roundups, Adjustment Day, articles, book reviews, Camille Paglia, Colin Wilson, James J. O'Meara, John W. Campbell, Mitch Horowitz, New Thought, North American New Right, originals, Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction | 3 Responses

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My Favorite Books of 2018

Greg Johnson

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I have read about 40 books in 2018 (so far). These are my five favorites. (Modesty requires that I exclude my own books and other Counter-Currents titles.)

1. Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin, National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy (New York: Pelican, 2018).

As I mentioned in my “Toward a New Nationalism” essay, Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin’s National Populism is a very exciting book. Read more …

Published: December 26, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2018 Roundups, Adjustment Day, articles, book reviews, David Lynch, Greg Johnson, José Pedro Zúquete, Matthew Goodwin, National Populism, North American New Right, originals, Roger Eatwell, The Virtue of Nationalism, Yoram Hazony | 13 Responses

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Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke

Howe Abbott-Hiss

1,692 words

Choke (2008)
Written & directed by Clark Gregg
Starring Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, & Brad William Henke

Chuck Palahniuk, most recently the author of the ethnostate satire Adjustment Day and known mainly for Fight Club, inspired another feature film with his 2001 novel, Choke. The 2008 film of the same name focuses on sex addiction, a timely subject in the current era of spiritual emptiness, which is one of Palahniuk’s recurrent themes. Intentionally or not, this dark comedy serves to repel the viewer from sexual deviance more effectively than any Christian sermon about sin. Read more …

Published: November 8, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged addiction, articles, Howe Abbott-Hiss, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, sexual perversion | 3 Responses

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Adjustment Day:
An Introduction to the Right

Buttercup Dew

1,357 words

Chuck Palahniuk
Adjustment Day: A Novel
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2018

Adjustment Day is Chuck Palahniuk’s love letter to the Alt Right, describing millennial men joining forces to rub out modernity and its masters in a violent revolution, fragmenting the United States into independent homelands: Blacktopia, Gaysia, and Caucasia. Read more …

Published: September 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adjustment Day, articles, book reviews, Buttercup Dew, North American New Right, reprints, White Nationalist fiction | 3 Responses

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Notes on Revolution in Chuck Palahniuk’s Adjustment Day

Greg Johnson

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Chuck Palahniuk’s Adjustment Day is a highly imaginative and entertaining novel that reflects a long and deep immersion in the online world of White Nationalism, from the best of it to the worst and all shades in between.

I don’t have much to add to the reviews of Adjustment Day by Jef Costello and James O’Meara, so I wish to focus here on some of Palahniuk’s thoughts about how an ethnonationalist revolution might occur, and how it might go wrong. Read more …

Published: September 10, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adjustment Day, articles, classical republicanism, ethnonationalism, Greg Johnson, Islam, North American New Right, originals, polygamy, populism, Social Credit, white nationalism, white sharia | 45 Responses

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“Most Likely You Go Your Way & I’ll Go Mine”
Stephen King’s Fight Club

James J. O'Meara

3,820 words

Chuck Palahnuik
Adjustment Day: A Novel
London: Jonathan Cape, 2018

“Ears, gentlemen. Sandinista ears.”[1]

I had almost reached the massive iron door, hidden behind a construction dumpster, that serves as the entrance to the abandoned glove factory that has been my squat for the past several years Read more …

Published: September 7, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adjustment Day, Ayn Rand, book reviews, Colin Wilson, James J. O'Meara, Jef Costello, literary criticism, Neville Goddard, New Thought, North American New Right, originals, The Fountainhead, white nationalism | 8 Responses

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A Greater Gift than Fight Club?
Chuck Palahniuk’s Adjustment Day

Jef Costello

5,323 words

Chuck Palahniuk
Adjustment Day: A Novel
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2018

The characters and plot of Chuck Palahniuk’s new novel Adjustment Day are thoroughly grounded in the politics of the New Right.

Here you will find withering parodies of feminism, “diversity,” and political correctness, Read more …

Published: August 31, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adjustment Day, articles, Blacks in America, book reviews, ethnostates, Fight Club, homosexuality, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, white ethnostate, white guilt | 33 Responses

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Film Klub rváčů coby Písmo svaté

Jef Costello

9,556 slov

English original here

1. Jsem Jackova nejoddanější Vesmírná opice

Dlouho jsem se zdráhal psát o Klubu rváčů, jelikož bych tím porušil první dvě pravidla Klubu rváčů. Read more …

Published: March 25, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, emasculation, end of history, fascism, feminism, Fight Club, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Helena Bonham Carter, homosexuality, in Czech, Jef Costello, manliness, movie reviews, North American New Right, philosophy, religion, reprints, the last man, the Männerbund, thumos, Tyler Durden | Leave a comment

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“You Are the All-Singing, All-Dancing Crap of the World”
Fight Club as Holy Writ

Jef Costello

11,587 words

French translation here; Czech translation here

1. I am Jack’s Most Devoted Space Monkey

I have hesitated to write an essay on Fight Club for some time, as it would mean breaking the first two rules of Fight Club. Read more …

Published: May 18, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, emasculation, end of history, fascism, feminism, Fight Club, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Helena Bonham Carter, homosexuality, Jef Costello, manliness, movie reviews, philosophy, religion, the last man, the Männerbund, thumos, Tyler Durden | 5 Responses

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« Vous êtes la merde de ce Monde prête à servir à tout. »
Fight Club, comme vision sainte

Jef Costello

13,182 words

English original here

Je suis le singe de l’espace le plus dévoué de Jack

J’ai hésité à écrire un essai sur Fight Club pendant quelque temps, puisque cela signifierait le viol des deux premières règles du Fight Club. Read more …