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  • April 5, 2021 Trevor Lynch 21
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    A Clockwork Orange

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    For years now, readers have been urging me to review Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971), which adapts Anthony Burgess’ 1962 novel of the same name. I have resisted, because although A Clockwork Orange is often hailed as a classic, I thought it was dumb, distasteful, and highly overrated, so I didn’t want to watch it again. But I had first watched it decades ago. (more…)

  • January 15, 2020 Jef Costello 12
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    Freedom is Willing Our Determination

    Gustav Klimt, Death and Life

    Gustav Klimt, Death and Life, 1915

    1,769 words

    Twenty years ago I remember being absolutely outraged by an acquaintance, an M.D. by trade, who told me he was a strict biological determinist. Everything about us, he related to me over coffee, was attributable to heredity. I was flabbergasted – and indignant. Especially because he insisted that his position left no room at all for freedom of will, which he regarded as a myth. (more…)

  • November 20, 2019 Greg Johnson
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    Proč se tu setkáváme:
    úvahy nad všeobecným vzděláváním

    Hendrick ter Brugghen, Heraclitus, 1628

    2,226 slov

    English original here

    Poznámka autora: Následuje text části přednášky z 15. srpna 1996 z kurzu pro dospělé v Atlantě, který jsem vedl během svého doktorského studia. Celá přednáška byla podstatně delší a mluvil jsem při ní mj. o Rousseauovi, Kantovi, Schillerovi nebo Hegelovi.

    Proč jsme se tu dnes večer sešli? (more…)

  • October 2, 2019 F. Roger Devlin 5
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    The Roots of Liberalism’s Contemporary Crisis

    2,657 words

    Patrick J. Deneen
    Why Liberalism Failed
    New Haven, Ct./New York: Yale University Press, 2018

    Patrick Deneen, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, wrote the present study in 2016, completing it shortly before Donald Trump’s election. In February 2019, a paperbound edition with a few revisions and a new Preface was published.

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  • August 12, 2019 Michael Walker 3
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    What Capitalism Has Left to Say

    4,996 words / 32:13

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

    Charles Robin
    La gauche du capital: libéralisme culturel et idéologie du Marché
    Paris: Krisis, 2014

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  • July 24, 2019 Greg Johnson 6
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    Answering Sargon of Akkad

    Carl Benjamin, aka Sargon of Akkad

    7,582 words

    The following is a transcript of a conversation that took place between Greg Johnson and Millennial Woes in January 2018. The original audio is here. We would like to thank S. C. for the transcript.

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  • June 21, 2019 Spencer J. Quinn 11
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    Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards:
    Revisiting Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard Address

    Solzhenitsyn at Harvard, 1978

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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s address at Harvard in June 1978 (video here), which was initially entitled “The Exhausted West” before being renamed “A World Split Apart” when it was published in book form, caused quite a stir among the Americans. (more…)

  • June 7, 2019 Kievsky 7
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    Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 233
    You Are Miserable Because You Are Free

    40 words / 44:38

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

    Greg Johnson is joined by Rob Freeman (Kievsky) to discuss a number of topics including:

    • Munchausen by Proxy and cat lady politics
    • Pathological altruism, pet hoarding, co-dependent enabling as clues to the liberal mind
    • Freedom, paternalism, and self-actualization
    • Parenting, homeschooling, and self-improvement

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  • October 23, 2018 Trevor Lynch 22
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    The Sci-Fi Channel’s Dune & Children of Dune

    1,723 words

    David Lynch’s Dune (1984) is a flawed masterpiece. When I first saw it, I was deeply disappointed. Frank Herbert’s original novel made a powerful impression on me. I could see Herbert’s world, and Lynch’s vision was not my vision. But when my initial impression faded and I returned to Lynch’s film with an open mind, I found it immensely imaginative and compelling. Even the score by Toto managed to grow on me.  (more…)

  • June 6, 2018 Irmin Vinson 5
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    Victorian Respectability

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    “On the surface, Bram Stoker was a pillar of late Victorian respectability. . . . But just below the surface, he had something on his mind.”

    The preceding sentences are from Christopher Frayling’s BBC documentary on Stoker’s Dracula, which was broadcast on A&E in 1996.

    In a more recent television documentary on M. R. James, (more…)

  • March 14, 2018 Maurice Bardèche
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    Fašistický sen, část 2

    Arno Breker – Fackelträger (1940)

    1,059 slov

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    Druhý díl ze třídílné minisérie, první část naleznete zde, závěrečnou třetí tady.

    Fašismus v protikladu k tomu demokratickému předkládá svůj vlastní alternativní obraz člověka i pojetí svobody, od onoho velebeného demokratického velice odlišné.

    Demokracie svobodu nijak neomezuje, snad kromě zákazu škodit ostatním. (more…)

  • January 19, 2018 Greg Johnson 61
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    Forced to be Free:
    The Case for Paternalism

    Rousseau

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    626 words

    Spanish translation here

    Paternalism means treating people like children. Children lack the maturity and wisdom to make their own decisions. Thus they need parents — or people playing the paternal role — to tell them what to do and, on occasion, to force them to do it.

    Most people have no problem with paternalism when dealing with actual children, as well as the retarded, the senile, and the insane. (more…)

  • January 6, 2018 Greg Johnson 22
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    Now on YouTube
    Answering Sargon of Akkad

    92 words / 57:46

    Responds to YouTube Skeptic Sargon of Akkad’s eight questions for White Nationalists. (more…)

  • January 5, 2018 Greg Johnson 17
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    Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 207
    Answering Sargon of Akkad

    136 words / 57:46

    
    Audio version: To listen in a player, use the one above or click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” To subscribe to the CC podcast RSS feed, click here.

    Millennial Woes leads Greg Johnson through YouTube Skeptic Sargon of Akkad’s eight questions for White Nationalists. (more…)

  • December 18, 2017 Greg Johnson
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    What Socrates Knew:
    Thirty Socratic Theses, Part 2 of 2

    Reyer van Blommendael, Xantippe Dousing Socrates, c. 1665

    6,643 words

    Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

    Author’s Note:

    On August 24th, 1999 I began a lecture course called “What Socrates Knew” with a lecture called “Thirty Socratic Theses.” What follows is a transcription of the second half of the lecture by V.S. The thirty theses are listed below, as are links to the audio of the lecture. 

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  • October 20, 2017 Martin Spengler 6
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    Decline of the Western Male, Part 2

    2,898 words

    Part 2 of 2. Part 1 here

    Transhumanism — The Final Showdown

    The West, in its essence, is neither a human nor a natural society. The current debate – is gender real? – is not directed at finding truth but is instead a program of action – “we will make it so that there is no such thing as gender.” Masculinity and femininity, their polarity, will be abolished. (more…)

  • October 19, 2017 Martin Spengler 10
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    Decline of the Western Male, Part 1

    3,060 words

    Part 1 of 2

    Martin Heidegger, Oswald Spengler – “Martin Spengler” – these two 20th-century thinkers provide the main source of inspiration behind this project. Both sought to understand the times we live in, and to bring into view the deeper historical and philosophical significance underlying many of the political, economic, social, and cultural issues before us today. (more…)

  • May 15, 2017 Spencer J. Quinn 18
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    I Scream, You Scream

    Chinese ice cream.

    1,412 words

    In case you missed it, I recently I got into a little tiff with one of my blogging idols, Kim du Toit. On April 28, Counter-Currents published an article of mine, “Kim du Toit and the Freedom Paradox,” in which I more or less introduced Kim to the Alt Right and took him to task in a nice and respectful way over our political differences. Kim was one of my favorite bloggers of the previous decade and was just coming off an eight-year hiatus, so I figured the time was right. (more…)

  • May 3, 2017 Spencer J. Quinn 7
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    The Alt Lite & the Spectrum Axis

    1,775 words

    It is a very simple idea.

    Remember that in the film Moneyball, the new Assistant General Manager, Peter Brand, said that “it’s all about getting things down to one number.” Like Spearman’s g, but for baseball. A single number which could establish a player’s objective worth. (more…)

  • March 3, 2017 Spencer J. Quinn 2
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    Reasons & Rhyme

    Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, champion of segregation.

    1,934 words

    I’m always thinking about how to express my reasons for supporting White Nationalism. Of course, there are many. But when you think about it, there really aren’t any reasons at all.

    Does a human being really need to express reasons to have a home? A bed? Shoes and clothing? Food and drink? Personal effects and belongings? Basic freedoms and rights? I guess if you’re studying social studies for the first time in middle school, it might be useful to categorize the basic human needs and enumerate the objective grounds for meeting them. (more…)

  • January 2, 2017 Greg Johnson 5
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    Pizzagate, Hegel, & Leonard Cohen:
    Greg Johnson on Alex Fontana’s Fascist Pigs Podcast

    48 words

    I joined Alex Fontana’s Fascist Pigs Podcast to talk about Pizzagate, sexual liberation, social decadence, Nietzsche’s conservatism, Hegel on will and freedom, liberalism, Rogue One, film as an art form, and Leonard Cohen. Click here to listen. (more…)

  • December 26, 2016 Greg Johnson 5
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    Notes on Philosophical Dialectic

    4,276 words

    Socrates

    Part 1 of 2

    The concept of philosophical dialectic is quite mysterious and intimidating. Even among professional philosophers, dialectic often has connotations of mysticism, obscurantism, and slight of hand. I wish to dispel this aura. I will lay out the elements of philosophical dialectic by looking at specific arguments in Plato’s Republic[1] and Hegel’s Philosophy of Right[2] and then employ Heidegger’s account of the hermeneutic circle Being and Time and Husserl’s account of the logic of parts and wholes in his Logical Investigations to clarify the dialectical process.  (more…)

  • September 7, 2016 Petre Țuțea 2
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    Țuțea on Equality

    Petre Țuțea

    Petre Țuțea

    151 words

    Translator’s Note:

    Petre Țuțea was a Romanian anti-communist dissident. The following is one of the entries from his popular dictionary of aphorisms 322 de vorbe memorabile ale lui Petre Țuțea (“322 Memorable Words from Petre Țuțea,” Bucharest: Humanitas, 2009 [1993]), 45. 

    * * * 

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  • May 3, 2016 Julius Evola 2
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    Subliminal Influences

    2,924 words

    TVTranslated by G. A. Malvicini

    We have already had the occasion to point to the illusoriness of the claim that modern man, in general, has achieved an autonomy and self-consciousness he previously lacked. This illusion can in part be explained by the fact that attention today is primarily directed towards external conditions, to the disappearance of certain material limits to the freedom of the individual — (more…)

  • March 16, 2016 Julius Evola 3
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    The Decay of Words, Part 3:
    Fate & Action

    Engraving-of-Tyche2,024 words

    Part 3 of 3

    Trans. G. A. Malvicini from L’Arco e la Clava [The Bow and the Club] (Milan: Scheiwiller, 1968)

    We will end these observations by examining the original content of three ancient Roman notions, those of fatum, felicitas, and fortuna.

    15. Fatum. According to the most common modern usage, “fate” is a blind power that hangs over men, (more…)

  • March 7, 2016 Lawrence Murray 31
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    The Fight for the Alt-Right:
    The Rising Tide of Ideological Autism Against Big Tent-Supremacy

    1,124 words

    bigtent-2The growth of what is termed the alt-right in recent months has lead to a growth of criticism and some debate over its meaning and scope. (We’re also on Wikipedia now). The “Alternative Right” is a 2010s political label with history I am sure most people reading this are familiar with, and if not it is beside the point. What I aim to discuss here is not so much alt-right history (more…)

  • January 2, 2016 Greg Johnson
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    Ελευθερία, Αιτιοκρατία και Πεπρωμένο

    eleu8eriboulisi1,352 words

    English original here

    Μετάφραση/απόδοση, για το Ιδεάπολις, του Νίκου Καρατουλιώτη

    Ελεύθερη βούληση σημαίνει ότι έχεις να διαλέξεις μεταξύ πραγματικών επιλογών. Δεν έχει σημασία τι επιλογή θα κάνει κάποιος, ο καθένας μπορεί να επιλέξει διαφορετικά. Αιτιοκρατία (ντετερμινισμός) σημαίνει ότι δεν έχουμε πραγματικές επιλογές. Όταν κάποιος επιλέξει, δεν θα μπορούσε να έχει επιλέξει αλλιώς.  (more…)

  • September 5, 2015 Greg Johnson
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    Libertad, Determinismo, & Destino

    Isis as Agathe Tyche and Osiris as Agathos Daimon in serpent form

    Isis como Agathe Tyche y Osiris como Agathos Daimon en forma de serpiente

    1,382 words

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    Tener libre albedrio significa tener verdaderas opciones de las cuales elegir. No importa que opción uno pueda elegir, uno pudo haber elegido de forma diferente. El determino significa que no tenemos dos opciones reales. Cuando uno elegí, uno no podría haber elegido de forma diferente.

    Incluso si uno tiene libre albedrio, no todas las decisiones son libres. (more…)

  • July 7, 2015 Greg Johnson 37
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    Freedom, Determinism, & Destiny

    Isis as Agathe Tyche and Osiris as Agathos Daimon in serpent form

    Isis as Agathe Tyche and Osiris as Agathos Daimon in serpent form

    1,319 words

    Translations: Greek, Spanish

    Having free will means having real options to choose from. No matter what option one may choose, one could have chosen otherwise. Determinism means that we do not have real options. When one chooses, one could not have chosen otherwise.

    Even if one has free will, not every choice is free. (more…)

  • May 28, 2015 Greg Johnson
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    Forzados a ser Libres:
    El caso del Paternalismo

    Rousseau649 words

    English original here

    Paternalismo significa tratar a la gente como niños. Los niños carecen de madurez y sabiduría para tomar sus propias decisiones. Por lo tanto necesitan padres – o gente que ejerza el rol paternal – que les diga que hacer y, en ocasiones, forzarlos a hacerlo.

    La mayoría de la gente no tiene problema con el paternalismo cuando trata con niños, tanto como con retardados, seniles o insanos. (more…)

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