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“I am in fact a Hobbit.”—J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is a favorite author of New Left “hippies” and New Right nationalists, and for pretty much the same reasons. Tolkien deeply distrusted modernization and industrialization, which replace organic reciprocity between man and nature with technological dominion of man over nature, a relationship that deforms and devalues both poles. (more…)
Phil Eiger Newmann, Kipling, 2020.
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Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling was born on this day in 1865. For an introduction to his life and works, see the following articles on this site. (more…)
Marinetti in the First World War.
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Those on the Right who believe that modern art is always “decadent” need to come to grips with Italian Futurism. In commemoration of the birthday of Filippo Marinetti, the founder of Italian Futurism and one of the prophets of Fascism, I would like to draw your attention to several writings on this website.
By Marinetti:
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Host Greg Johnson was joined by learned Counter-Currents writers Stephen Paul Foster, Mark Gullick, James J. O’Meara, and Kathryn S. on the last installment of Counter-Currents Radio to share their lists of five essential books every educated person needs to read — plus, of course, answer YOUR QUESTIONS — and it is now available for download and online listening.
Topics discussed include:
00:05:00 Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War (more…)
You can buy Greg Johnson’s The Year America Died here.
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Les historiens du futur se retourneront-ils vers 2020 et proclameront-ils que ce fut l’année où l’Amérique mourut ? Peut-être. Mais ce sera aux historiens du futur de décider. Ma thèse est différente. Pour moi, et pour beaucoup d’autres Américains blancs patriotes, 2020 fut clairement perçue comme l’année où l’Amérique mourut.
Oui, le cadavre de l’Amérique se promène encore sur la scène mondiale. (more…)
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Dans mon essai « Punching Right » [1], j’ai expliqué pourquoi je pense qu’il ne devrait pas y avoir de tabous contre le fait de critiquer des collègues de droite. Les seuls tabous devraient être contre les mauvaises idées, les mauvais arguments, les mauvaises manières, et la mauvaise foi. (more…)
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The Meaning and History of Christmas
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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.”
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Counter-Currents Radio host Greg Johnson welcomed Karl Thorburn to talk about Bitcoin Nationalism, current events, and of course YOUR QUESTIONS on the latest stream, and it is now available for download and online listening.
Topics discussed include:
The SPLC article on crypto (more…)
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Counter-Currents Radio host Greg Johnson welcomed Guillaume Durocher, a writer who is an expert on French politics, to talk about the Zemmour Question, and it is now available for download and online listening.
Topics discussed include:
Zemmour’s background
Religious beliefs (more…)
Norman Rockwell, Study for “Freedom of Speech”
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Le spectre du populisme
Les révoltes populistes de 2016 — le Brexit et l’élection de Donald Trump — ne sont pas des événements marquants comme les révolutions de 1789 et 1848. Pas encore en tous cas. Mais vous n’y croiriez pas en voyant la panique qui a parcouru les élites politiques occidentales. (more…)
