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Tag: commemorations
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137 wordsOn behalf of everyone at Counter-Currents, I want to wish all our US readers safe travels and a happy Thanksgiving. (And please don’t let your dogs eat turkey bones.) Here are a few past articles on Thanksgiving for your edification: (more…)
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389 wordsRené Guénon was born on November 15, 1886. Along with Julius Evola, Guénon was one of the leading figures in the Traditionalist school, which has deeply influenced my own outlook and the metapolitical mission and editorial agenda of Counter-Currents Publishing and North American New Right. (For a sense of my differences with Guénon, see my lecture on “Vico and the New Right.”)
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339 wordsTreat your mind (or trick it) with the following Halloween features at Counter-Currents:
- Jef Costello, “I Wake Up Screaming: My Top Ten Halloween Horror Flick Picks.”
- William de Vere, “All Hallows’ Eve: On Death & Remembrance.” (more…)
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Phil Eiger Newmann, Friedrich Nietzsche, 2020.
Phil Eiger Newmann, Friedrich Nietzsche, 2020.
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Friedrich Nietzsche was born this day in 1844 in the small town of Röcken, near Leipzig, Saxony, in the Kingdom of Prussia. He died in August 25, 1900, in Weimar, Saxony, in the Second German Reich. The outlines of Nietzsche’s life are readily available online.
Nietzsche is one of the most important philosophers of the North American New Right because of his contributions to the philosophy of history, culture, and religion.
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Frank Herbert. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Frank Herbert. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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Frank Herbert was born on this day in 1920 in Tacoma, Washington. Herbert is best-known as the creator of Dune, which is the most widely-read and influential science fiction novel of all time. Herbert, moreover, is an artist of the Right. As I wrote in my review of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, Part 1:
Frank Herbert’s vision of the future was deeply reactionary. He depicts a world where liberal democracy failed and has been replaced by a feudal imperium. (more…)
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873 wordsSavitri Devi was a philosopher, a religious thinker, and a tireless polemicist and activist for the causes of animal rights, European pagan revivalism, Hindu nationalism, German National Socialism, and — after the Second World War — pan-European racial nationalism. She also sought to found a religion, Esoteric Hitlerism, fusing National Socialism with the Traditionalism of René Guénon and Julius Evola. All told, she was one of the most extraordinary personalities of the 20th century. (more…)
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4,791 wordsTranslations: Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian
Martin Heidegger is one of the giants of twentieth-century philosophy, both in terms of the depth and originality of his ideas and the breadth of his influence in philosophy, theology, the human sciences, and culture in general.
Heidegger was born on September 26, 1889 in the town of Meßkirch in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He died on May 26, 1976 in Freiburg and was buried in Meßkirch. (more…)
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720 wordsFrancis Parker Yockey was born 107 years ago today, September 18, in Chicago. He died in San Francisco on June 16, 1960, an apparent suicide. Yockey is one of America’s greatest anti-liberal thinkers and an abiding influence on the North American New Right. In honor of his birthday, I wish to draw the reader’s attention to the following works on this site.
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155 wordsToday is the birthday of Lawrence Roscoe Brown, the author of The Might of the West, which the great Revilo P. Oliver proclaimed “one of the fundamental books of our century.” You can read Oliver’s review of The Might of the West here at Counter-Currents:
- Revilo P. Oliver, “Lawrence R. Brown’s The Might of the West.”
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457 wordsToday is the birthday of Arthur Jensen, professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the great pioneers in the science of human biological diversity. The author of over 400 refereed scientific journal articles, and a board member of the journals Intelligence and Personality and Individual Differences, Jensen was known for his work in psychometrics and the psychology of behavior differences. (more…)
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1,109 wordsHoward Phillips Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island, and died there of cancer on March 15, 1937. An heir to Poe and Hawthorne, Lovecraft is one of the pioneers of modern science fiction, fantasy, and horror literature. Lovecraft is a literary favorite in New Rightist circles, for reasons that will become clear from a perusal of the following works on this website.
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Humphrey Ocean, Philip Larkin, 1984
Humphrey Ocean, Philip Larkin, 1984
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English poet, novelist, and critic Philip Larkin was born on this day in 1922. The only son of a prosperous middle-class family in Coventry, Larkin earned his BA from St. John’s College, Oxford, with First Class Honors in English. Then Larkin trained to become a librarian, which became his life-long career, ending up as librarian at the University of Hull.
Larkin wrote constantly but did not publish much. (more…)
