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The following is the text of Ruuben Kaalep’s opening talk from the Spring Conference that was held in Tallinn on May 13-14, 2023.
I. ETHNICITY
How to secure ethnic continuity? This is a fundamental question that has been asked by nationalists in every country around the world. I will go a step further and say that it is a fundamental nationalist question. One who knowingly and positively asks this question is an ethnic nationalist. (more…)
You can buy Collin Cleary’s Wagner’s Ring & the Germanic Tradition here.
You can buy Collin Cleary’s Wagner’s Ring & the Germanic Tradition here.
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Longtime Counter-Currents contributor Collin Cleary, author of Wagner’s Ring and the Germanic Tradition, was the guest on Nathan C. J. Hood‘s livestream for Wagner Day last weekend, where they discussed the use of Germanic mythology, as well as Faustian themes and the concept of fate, in Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelungen. See below. (more…)
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Robert Eggers’ The Northman has been widely praised for its stunning visuals, compelling performances, the creativity of its reimagination of Skakespeare’s Hamlet story (itself inspired by Saxo Grammaticus’ Amleth), and for the rich and engrossing world it creates, but criticism has also described the plot as rote, shallow when it tries to be profound, and nihilistic. (more…)
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November: It’s that wonderful time of year again when my birthday reminds me of the passage of time and the inevitable progress of ageing, decrepitude, and decay. Having initially believed that the shock of turning 30 would be the worst of it, I now brace for the unenviable proposition of turning 31, which is like 30 except a year older and with still no resolution to the crisis of ageing in sight. (more…)
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Returning guest host Millennial Woes welcomed Aureus Press to the last broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download and online listening.
Topics discussed include:
00:01:10 What’s Aureus Press? (website, Telegram, Facebook, Twitter)
00:02:10 Twitter sucks (more…)
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Gregory Hood was Greg Johnson‘s guest on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they talked about the new movie The Northman plus YOUR QUESTIONS, and it is now available for download and online listening.
Topics discussed include:
00:01:57 Overview of The Northman‘s themes
00:06:12 Destiny and fate vs. the modern notion of choosing your identity
00:13:49 Odin and the Indo-European Männerbund (more…)
Leopold Ziegler
Leopold Ziegler
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Leopold Ziegler (1881-1958) was a German philosopher who was steeped in the philosophy of the Will of Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) and in the philosophy of the Unconscious of the Schopenhauerian philosopher, Eduard von Hartmann (1842-1906). Already as a secondary school student at the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe, Ziegler was introduced to the doctrines of Hartmann by the philosopher Arthur Drews (1865-1935), and in 1910 he wrote a work on his philosophy entitled Das Weltbild Hartmanns: Eine Beurteilung. He obtained his doctorate in 1905 from the University of Jena, but was unable to take up an academic career on account of his poor health. (more…)
Michael Drolling, The Wrath of Achilles, 1819.
Michael Drolling, The Wrath of Achilles, 1819.
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Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays. Along with eating turkey and pumpkin pie, it is a day where I reflect on all the things that I am thankful for in my life. As our governments take advantage of the COVID lockdowns to impose draconian measures and the Great Reset, I found myself feeling more angry than thankful (more…)
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“I believe in the certainty of chance,” sang Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy in 1998, a wonderful songwriter musing on one of philosophy’s oldest conundrums. Are events pre-ordained or as yet unwritten? Do we live in a world of free will or determinism? All of us will look back on our lives and find at least one incident that changed (more…)
Detail, The Divorce of Empress Josephine in 1809, Henri Frédéric Schopin, 1843.
Detail, The Divorce of Empress Josephine in 1809, Henri Frédéric Schopin, 1843.
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One of the best memories I have is giving the best man’s speech at my best friend’s wedding. I gave that speech 14 years ago and my friend has been married ever since with three great kids. Unfortunately, I have also known men who have lost their property, money, and custody of their children from devastating divorces. (more…)
Ludwig Burger, The Norns under the World, 1882.
Ludwig Burger, The Norns under the World, 1882.
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For Easter dinner, I had a glass of red wine, a pizza, and a slice of cheesecake. Regardless of my location, it has become a tradition for me. With the current pandemic, a heavy metal concert, and a first date in Ukraine, I have somehow ended up celebrating Easter each year with wine, pizza, and cheesecake. Perhaps it is fate. Yet it was a dinner with friends three years ago that made me question the many nuances of fate. Could an invitation to that dinner have saved a man’s life from tragedy, or would his life have taken the same path? (more…)
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One of the most interesting and original aspects of Oswald Spengler’s philosophy is his separation of history from causality. For Spengler, history is an examination of the fulfillment of a particular group’s destiny that is not necessarily subject to the strictures of cause and effect: (more…)