Tag: John Derbyshire

You can buy Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin here.

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Pssst — white people! There is no shame in being white. There is only shame in ever thinking there was. In the 50 short, sharp, incisive essays contained in his book Whiteness: The Original Sin, author Jim Goad examines why the idea of being white has become the modern version of the unpardonable sin. On the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, which was the fifth meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club, host Greg Johnson was joined by author Jim Goad as well as John Derbyshire and Angelo Plume (Telegram, YouTube) to discuss the book and anti-whiteness more generally. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

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Greg Johnson was joined by accomplished authors John Derbyshire (website), Jim Goad, James J. O’Meara, Fred Reed, and Kathryn S. on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio in order to share their advice for aspiring writers. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

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A strong sense of victimhood might not come naturally to the majority of whites in the West, but if they wish to compete politically with non-whites as the demographic winds keep blowing against them, it had better start coming naturally — and soon. Victimhood, however, should never be mistaken for victim status. The former is the perfectly moral and rational understanding that at any given point in history one’s people could be attacked, subjugated, decimated, or even destroyed by outgroup members. (more…)

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In a 2015 article, John Derbyshire drew a distinction between “Goodwhites” and “Badwhites.” The “Goodwhites” were the well-meaning anti-racist white liberals, whereas the “Badwhites” were those who dared to differ with modern egalitarian orthodoxies. (more…)

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Canada’s Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario is a premier amusement park for those who enjoy the thrill of roller coasters, water parks, family fun, unhealthy but delicious snacks, robberies, swarmings, and even the odd bird explosion. For some mysterious reason, this year’s opening of the park was fraught with “teen” violence, unruly behavior, and other generalized beatings. No one knows what’s going on. Maybe it’s the weather; maybe it’s some sort of additive they’ve put in the ice cream cones this year. Who knows? It’s all a great mystery. (more…)

Berkeley Castle, VDARE‘s new headquarters.

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After ten conference cancellations with hotels, VDARE finally hosted their first, UnCancelled conference on April 23. Instead of using the pop-up conference model, where none of the attendees knows the venue until hours before the event, VDARE took a no-nonsense attitude. (more…)

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Whenever a conservative or Right-winger accuses Leftists of acting like the Party from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the unerring refrain from the Leftist chorus is “Don’t you know George Orwell was a socialist!” The implication is that, especially in these politically polarized times, Orwell is the property of the Left. He wore their uniform, and so Right-wingers are, by invoking his name, committing a kind of theft.

Orwell’s best-known writings, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, are dark satires of that exact attitude: A man’s thoughts ought to belong to a political faction, and that political faction has some sort of right to them. (more…)

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For any political movement to flourish and obtain tangible results, its proponents must establish a clear distinction between us and them. If this fails to happen, the movement ceases to exist. (more…)

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Greg Johnson, Fróði Midjord, and John Morgan reconvene the weekly Counter-Currents Radio Podcast. Greg and John recount their experiences at the 2019 American Renaissance Conference. (more…)

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Everyone felt it. The 2019 American Renaissance Conference had a palpable sense of forward movement. (more…)

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2019 is almost here.

As everyone knows, 2019 is the year when the dystopian sci-fi movie Blade Runner takes place. 2019 will also be the ten year anniversary of the release of John Derbyshire’s paradigm-shifting bestseller We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism, a book which paints a dystopian future for America even more disturbing and unsettling than the one portrayed in Blade Runner.  (more…)

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Going to AmRen was the most impulsive thing I’ve done in the past seven years. Although I’ve been attending local events, the idea of flying alone, halfway across the country, to an event with a notorious reputation according to my liberal city, is not something a sensible person like me would ever do. (more…)

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Having gone to various types of conferences in my life — corporate, libertarian, etc. — I can say that the lasting benefits of these things tend to be less in the actual talks or panels themselves than in the social opportunities for hobnobbing, networking, and just plain socializing. Meeting like-minded individuals, discussing with each other how we arrived at our positions, exchanging book recommendations, and hitting the hotel bar is what you remember most about a conference.

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