Tag: honor

Jean Delville, The Last Idols, 1931

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The following dialogue is based on a conversation I had recently with a self-described political “realist.”

The Realist: I’m sick of ideological debates. We don’t need the perfect ideology. We just need power.

GJ: I don’t have any interest in political ideas that don’t lead to power. I am interested in political ideologies because that’s how we get power. Even if you think you are going to get a hundred guys in rubber rafts and seize control of a tiny island in the Caribbean, you’re going to have to be on the same page with them about what you are doing and why. (more…)

Edmund Blair Leighton, Duty (1883)
Source: Wikimedia Commons

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This talk was delivered at the Counter-Currents Spring Retreat in Rome on April 11th, 2026, and again at the Finnish Awakening conference near Helsinki on April 19, 2026. I want to thank my hosts and my audience at both events.

We are spending today in the company of friends, sharing ideas, fellowship, and jokes. There’s a lot of laughter. Any outside observer would say that we’re a cheerful lot. But we are gathered here because we all share a very serious belief, namely that if we do nothing, our race has no future. (more…)

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As Counter-Currents’ Royal Correspondent, I feel it is time I weighed in on l’affaire de Andrew, formerly known as Prince. I knew that Andrew was bad years before any of this Epstein stuff came to light. Of all the senior royals, he was the one the staff seemed to hate most. “F— off,” he is supposed to have told one servant who was assigned to wake him up in the morning. Then there’s the small matter of his stuffed animals, estimated at between 40 and 70, depending on who you talk to. These must be arranged on his bed in a specific order, or Andrew reportedly has a royal fit. (more…)

Former KKK poster boy R. Derek Black today, whose pronouns are now they/them. (Photo from his Instagram)

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Translations: French, Polish, Spanish

This essay was originally published in July 2013, but has become relevant again in light of the recent disclosure that R. Derek Black now identifies as transsexual, as revealed in his new memoir: The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism.

Derek Black’s renunciation of White Nationalism raises questions of wider significance about how people form and reject beliefs. (more…)

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Greg Johnson, David Zsutty, and Angelo Plume (aka Pox Populi: Telegram, YouTube) convened on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio to discuss Tucker Carlson’s controversial interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, and also answered listener questions. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

The Apollo 11 liftoff.

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This is the second part of the notes for a lecture entitled “The Conquest of Nature: Ayn Rand,” from October 1999. This was the seventh lecture of an eight-lecture course called “The Pursuit of Happiness,” delivered to my adult education group, The Invisible College, in Atlanta.

Ayn Rand wasn’t always an advocate of laissez-faire capitalism. Indeed, the early Ayn Rand was a Nietzschean with an aristocratic disdain for commercial society. (more…)

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After the climactic gunfight between Frank and Harmonica, the latter and Cheyenne say goodbye to Jill. But just outside of the McBain property, Cheyenne falters. Harmonica stops and turns with concern. It turns out that Cheyenne was mortally wounded by Morton. Like Jesus, he has a bleeding wound in his side. This comes as some surprise. He must have been putting up a brave front with Jill. But the surprise comes off as a rather contrived plot twist; one of many. (more…)

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I have had a difficult relationship with Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Parts of this film are so emotionally powerful as to be almost unendurable. Indeed, before I began work on this review, I had seen Once Upon a Time in the West only one time in full, on a rented VHS tape in the 1990s. I knew it was a great film, so I bought the VHS. But I could not bring myself to watch it again. (more…)

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Rob Roy (1995) was released the same year as Braveheart and also concerns Scottish history, but is less well-known and has been overshadowed by its more extraverted counterpart. In contrast to Mel Gibson’s action-packed epic, Rob Roy is a more personal ode to honor, family, and the Highland way of life.

The film takes place between 1712 and 1722, and its protagonist is Scottish folk hero Robert Roy MacGregor (Liam Neeson), who was the chief of Clan MacGregor in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. MacGregor borrows a thousand pounds from Scottish aristocrat James Graham, Marquess of Montrose (John Hurt), to trade cattle. (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…)

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Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) was one of the giants of Japanese letters as well as an outspoken Right-wing nationalist. Mishima shocked the world on November 25, 1970, when he and members of his private militia, the Tatenokai or Shield Society, took hostage the commander of the Japan Self-Defense Force’s Ichigaya Camp. Mishima then delivered a speech to the assembled soldiers and press, exhorting the Japanese to turn away from American-imposed consumerism back to their traditional aristocratic culture, which prized honor above life and comfort. (more…)

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David Lean’s The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) is not just a great film, it is a nearly perfect one. Even better, it was recognized as such from the start by virtually everyone. The critics lionized it and continue to include it on their “best” lists. The movie business showered it with prizes. Bridge won seven Oscars, including best picture and best director. Audiences made it the biggest film of 1957 and a perennial favorite ever since. (more…)

Émile Betsellère, Forgotten!, 1872.

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Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the original post on Beau Albrecht’s blog here.

First of all, if you’re going to be a quitter, do it for the right reasons. (more…)