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Last week on X, boomers again struggled in public to understand inflation. This time, they told young people to eat highly processed bread and meat for lunch, or some other form of slop, so that in ten years they could afford a down payment on a house. I’m calling it the Lunch Wars. (more…)
If you’ve had anything to eat in the last few years, surely you’ve experienced sticker shock. I knew there was something up when I couldn’t do a modest grocery run without my pocketbook being lightened by over two hundred bucks. As for restaurant food, even proletarian chow like burgers and fried chicken is starting to become rare indulgences for anyone without a comfortably bougie income. What’s up with that? (more…)
You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Western Civilization Bites Back here.
You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Western Civilization Bites Back here.
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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here).
Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi
This final installment of Fury is a miscellany of letters, essays, and a diary entry. Everything could be fictional. But, as with other texts by Bowden, the fictions might be overlaid on actual people. If you have any guesses about the real identity of such characters as Malcontent Meaning, Priapic Miscegenator, Hitlerite Spaniard, Lift Those Weights Spastic (Cheated Spiderman), Emotional Swivelling, Wistful Romantic, Prickly Armenian, and Splenetic Indifference (Mr. Angry), or any information on the journal Vanguard, please comment below or email me at [email protected]. — Greg Johnson (more…)
Sir Keir Starmer, the likely next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and also the author’s former schoolmate. (Photo courtesy of the World Economic Forum’s Flickr)
Sir Keir Starmer, the likely next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and also the author’s former schoolmate. (Photo courtesy of the World Economic Forum’s Flickr)
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It is the run-in to a British General Election in which the Labour Party is certain to replace a Conservative Party which has been in power for almost 15 years. The charismatic Labour leader is warning his party against what he calls “triumphalism,” although he knows almost to a certainty that in half a year’s time the keys to 10 Downing Street will be in his expensively-tailored pocket. (more…)
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman
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Libertarianism can elicit strong reactions from dissidents these days, largely because it has been such a common gateway drug for the Right. Many white identitarians today came of age as libertarians, and so have intimate knowledge not only of that marvelously balanced and consistent belief system, but of all the reasons why they ultimately abandoned it. Libertarianism, despite its virtues, has nevertheless proven inadequate as a political ideology, and is therefore a recipe for defeat for those who wish to stem or reverse the rising tide of the Left. This does not mean, however, that libertarianism should be abandoned completely. (more…)
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First the good news: 2022 is over. Now the bad news: 2023 is just beginning.
I am an incurably irascible person who wrote roughly 100 articles for Counter-Currents last year. (more…)
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Sometime in the mid-1990s, while amusing myself by batting around ideas for fake racial-justice charity organizations such as “Negrowth” and “Up With Negroes!”, I conceived of a satirical Nazi-Zionist alliance called “Never Say, ‘Never Again.’” (more…)
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Well, there was no “Red Wave.” It hardly even qualified as a Red Spurt.
It wasn’t a sweep. It wasn’t even a light dusting. This was the puniest “reckoning” in electoral history. This would have been an uncharacteristically meager midterm pushback even during relatively normal times. (more…)
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Several trends in the United States related to home ownership are developing that I find rather startling. Some of those trends have been slow, taking decades to mature, and perhaps have been noticed by many. Other trends are more acute temporally, springing up only over the past few years. These trends have altered the landscape of home ownership, and overall have made home ownership and housing security far more difficult for most Americans. (more…)
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Nick Jeelvy welcomed longtime friend of the show Karl Thorburn to the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc to discuss unlimited power and its applications. (more…)
Orbán. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Orbán. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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The following is the text of the speech that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán delivered at the 31st Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp in Tusványos (Băile Tuşnad in Romanian), Transylvania, Romania last Saturday, July 23. The text is reprinted, with some added annotations, from the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister’s official website. The title is editorial. A video including the English text in subtitles is also linked below. (more…)
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Part 5 of 5
Chapter I
Minor Addenda and Varia
I have never met a gambler with an ounce of intelligence, but the prejudice against lotteries is in the category of superstitions, totemism and taboo. Lotteries can harm only the imbeciles who buy tickets, but these imbeciles appear to be wholly in their own right. (more…)
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Part 4 of 5
Chapter I
Politics, A Necessary Digression
Science or no science an economic system or lack-of-system is bound to be affected by the political system in which or beside which it exists, and more especially by the preconceptions or prejudices or predispositions and attitudes implied in the political system. (more…)
