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Fight Club

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Note: These are notes for a lecture on Fight Club given on October 25, 2000 in an adult education course called “Philosophy on Film.” For a fuller interpretation of Fight Club, see Jef Costello’s “Fight Club as Holy Writ.”

What’s philosophical about Fight Club? Fight Club belongs alongside Network and Pulp Fiction in an End of History film festival, Read more …

Published: June 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conflict, end of history, Fight Club, Freidrich Nietzsche, Hegelian dialectics, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, on Nietzsche, reprints, the Männerbund, thumos, Trevor Lynch | 7 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 256
Remembering Roger Scruton + Reader Questions

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206 words / 73:53

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Greg Johnson talks to Rich Houck about the importance of the English conservative philosopher Roger Scruton, who died on January 12, 2020. Then they answer reader questions about how to persuade normies and hostiles of White Nationalism. Read more …

Published: January 17, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged architecture, conservatism, Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson, individualism, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, podcasts, racial divorce, Richard Houck, Roger Scruton, sincerity, the Jewish question | 11 Responses

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The Ironies of History

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The ravages of old age are mitigated by its consolations. Physical action is slowed, but one’s actions seem more purposeful than those of youth. It takes longer to learn things, but the things learned in old age seem more meaningful. Read more …

Published: October 30, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Charlottesville, North American New Right, optics, originals, Quintilian, Right-wing demonstrations, strategy, the alt right, white nationalism | 16 Responses

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The Trial of Socrates:
Introduction, Part 2

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Jacques-Philippe-Joseph de Saint-Quentin, The Death of Socrates, 1762

Part 2 of 2

Author’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V. S. of the conclusion of the introductory lecture of an eight-lecture course called The Trial of Socrates. As usual, I have edited this transcript to remove excessive wordiness and filled in the gap between the two sides of the tape.
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Published: August 3, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Cicero, ethics, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, moral philosophy, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, Socrates, The Trial of Socrates | 1 Response

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The Trial of Socrates:
Introduction, Part 1

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Part 1 of 2

Author’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V. S. of the introductory lecture of an eight-lecture course called The Trial of Socrates. The lecture was delivered on September 1, 1998. I have previously published six of the lectures, but the Introduction and the final lecture, on Plato’s Phaedo, were thought to be lost. Read more …

Published: August 2, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, eros, ethics, Greg Johnson, moral philosophy, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, Socrates, The Trial of Socrates, Xenophon | 4 Responses

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Postmodernism vs. Identity, Part 2
Identity vs. Irony

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here; Hungarian translation here)

Author’s Note:

The following text is the basis of a talk that I gave to the Scandza Forum in Oslo on July 1, 2017. Because time was short, however, I dispensed with the written text and spoke extemporaneously on the topic. I also gave an earlier, stand-alone version of this section on irony as a talk in Budapest on June 21, 2017

Published: August 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, decadence, Greg Johnson, identity, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism, self-consciousness | 3 Responses

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Nostalgia:
The Capitalist Remedy for Meaninglessness

Donald Thoresen

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Editor’s Note:

This speech was delivered at the Francis Parker Yockey Memorial Dinner in the San Francisco Bay Area on August 19, 2017. — Greg Johnson

“There can be no national epic about things which the people cannot picture themselves as reproducible in a near future . . .” — Georges Sorel[1] Read more …

Published: August 21, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Donald Thoresen, history, identity, meaning, North American New Right, nostalgia, originals | 7 Responses

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Video of the Day
Postmodernism vs. Identity

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Greg Johnson’s talk at The Scandza Forum in Oslo, July 1, 2017.

Published: August 3, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Greg Johnson, identitarianism, multiculturalism, philosophy, podcasts, postmodernism, Scandza Forum, videos, white identity | Leave a comment

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Janáček’s The Makropulos Case as Archeofuturist Opera

Donald Thoresen

From the San Francisco Opera production of The Makropulos Case, 2016.

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Leoš Janáček
The Makropulos Case
English National Opera, conducted by Sir Charles MacKerras, Chandos, 2007

(Warning: This review contains spoilers for the plot of this opera.)

Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) was a Czech composer known for his combination of folk music with a strikingly original modernism. There is no other composer who sounds remotely like him. He is as instantly recognizable as Vivaldi, Wagner, or Philip Glass. Read more …

Published: January 11, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Archeofuturism, Donald Thoresen, Guillaume Faye, music reviews, North American New Right, nostalgia, opera, originals, vaporwave | 1 Response

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Video of the Day
The Difficult Balancing Act Between Identity & Reflection

21 words / 8:31

Matthew Drake’s video for an excerpt from a Counter-Currents podcast. He created the title. Please share and like.

Source: https://youtu.be/PhcxWoIVWo8

Published: October 26, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Cicero, decadence, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, identity, Matthew Drake, philosophy, reflection, video of the day, videos | 6 Responses

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The Music of Right Wing Death Squad Entertainment

Guillaume Durocher

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There is much to be said about the inevitable rise of post-ironic Nazi hipsters.

A recent example has been the very talented musical project Right Wing Death Squad Entertainment (RWDS), which has been producing various Far-Right parodies of mainstream pop, rock, indie, etc., songs. Read more …

Published: June 30, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Guillaume Durocher, humor, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, popular music, satire | 6 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast 159
Greg Johnson & Guillaume Durocher
Living as a Dissident

Counter-Currents Radio

1:00:45 / 181 words

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Greg Johnson and Guillaume Durocher talk about living as a dissident. Read more …

Published: May 6, 2016 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged alienation, alternative media, boomerang generation, decadence, Donald Trump, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, Guillaume Durocher, interviews, living well, multiculturalism, neets, podcasts, postmodernism, white nationalism | 5 Responses

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Now a Video!
Trevor Lynch’s Review of The Force Awakens

9:55 / 1,648 words (text version here)

Review by Trevor Lynch, video by Oscar Turner Read more …

Published: February 5, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged CounterCurrentsTV, George Lucas, J. J. Abrams, movie reviews, Star Wars, The Force Awakens, Trevor Lynch, video of the day, videos | 5 Responses

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Now in Audio Version!
Star Wars, Episode VII: The Force Awakens

1,689 words / 9:45

German translation here

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The new Star Wars movie is exactly what I deduced it would be from the trailers and the fact that it was directed by J. J. Abrams, a filmmaker so vulgar and artless that he makes Jerry Bruckheimer seem like Ingmar Bergman. Read more …

Published: December 18, 2015 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged George Lucas, J. J. Abrams, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Star Wars, The Force Awakens, Trevor Lynch | 43 Responses

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Home Remedies for Hitler Hysteria Prescribed by the New Right Avant-Garde

F. C. Stoughton

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Charles Krafft, "Von Dutch" windmills

Charles Krafft, “Von Dutch” windmills

Here’s a stumper: if the definition of irony is typically something like “that which goes against expectations,” then how could an Avant-Garde artist—one who is expected to test the boundaries of our expectations—ever satisfy popular, mainstream, garden-variety tastes in irony? At some point, the Avant-Garde artist will, according to his nature, go against the expected means by which the unexpected is supposed to be realized; he will offer us a new unexpectedness. Read more …

Published: February 28, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, Charles Krafft, F. C. Stoughton, Friedrich Nietzsche, humor, Jonathan Bowden, modern art, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Ramzpaul, satire, the holocaust, the Jewish question | 36 Responses

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Plato’s Apology, Part 1

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Part 1 of 2

Author’s Note:

The following text is based on a transcript by V. S. of a lecture on Plato’s Apology of Socrates. As usual, I have edited his transcript to remove excessive wordiness. I have also added a few paragraphs and points based on my notes. Read more …

Published: January 29, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristophanes, articles, Clouds, Greg Johnson, Jacques Derrida, magnanimity, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, religion, rhetoric, Socrates, The Trial of Socrates | 2 Responses

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The Eternal Outsider:
Veblen on the Gentleman & the Jew

James J. O'Meara

Thorstein Veblen

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Jack Donovan has done us a great service – or at least, done one for me – in his recent Counter-Currents essay “The Manly Barbarian: Masculinity and Exploit in Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class.” Read more …

Published: October 17, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged barbarism, Jack Donovan, James J. O'Meara, Paul Feyerabend, philosophy of culture, political correctness, science, the atomic bomb, the Jewish question | 11 Responses

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A Serious Man

Larry Gopnik

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I don’t have much use for light comedies, but I love dark ones. Thus I have been a fan of the Coen brothers ever since their first movie Blood Simple, which I regard as a masterpiece.

Published: February 19, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ethnocentrism, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, the Coen brothers, the Jewish question, Trevor Lynch | 6 Responses

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Kill Bill: Vol. 1

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Kill Bill: Vol. 1 is a martial arts movie, a Samurai movie. Its music and style also pay homage to (or shamelessly rip off) Sergio Leone’s great Spaghetti Westerns. Kill Bill is also, we are told from the very beginning, the fourth opus by director Quentin Tarrantino.

Published: July 17, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged decadence, movie reviews, North American New Right, Quentin Tarantino, reprints, the Jewish question, Trevor Lynch | 1 Response

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