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The last of the European pagan traditions died out in the Middle Ages. People no longer believe that thunder is the result of Thor banging his hammer or that the Sun is the wheel of a cosmic chariot travelling across the daytime sky. But there is one pagan belief that has remained widespread to this day: the belief that the Full Moon makes people go crazy. (more…)
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Pox Populi (Telegram, YouTube) and Millennial Woes were the guest hosts on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they offered trenchant analyses of the riots in France, the justifications and excuses of the chattering classes, other current things, and answered listener questions. (more…)
Jules Chéret, 1880 Parisian advertisement for a recurring Saturday masque performance
Jules Chéret, 1880 Parisian advertisement for a recurring Saturday masque performance
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On April 19, Counter-Currents instituted a paywall for articles and podcasts that will be made freely available 30 days later. This article by Kathryn S. was one of the first items to go behind the paywall, and is now one of the first items to be released to everyone else. More information about how to get behind the paywall can be found below. (more…)
Jules Chéret, 1880 Parisian advertisement for a recurring Saturday masque performance
Jules Chéret, 1880 Parisian advertisement for a recurring Saturday masque performance
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This past winter I lost my last grandparent — the most stubborn one, still to the end a strict English schoolteacher after having long since retired from the profession in the 1970s. She suffered through the desegregation years while working at Marshall High and was never dishonest about the experience. She possessed that combination of Southern decorum and irascible (and accurate) bluntness, which gave her the ability to reduce anyone, including 250-pound, six-foot-three black football players, to tears. (more…)
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Oh, what strange freaks one’s thoughts are guilty of when one is starving.
— Knut Hamsun, Hunger
Back in my misspent youth, I took a seminar on creative writing. One of the instructors gave the class a piece of advice which I never heeded. She said that if you want to be good enough at writing to make a living at it, don’t be good at anything else. (more…)