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Translations: Danish, French

Did the system cancel your Thanksgiving? Time to cancel their Black Friday.

Wallflower Psychology

Greg Johnson

1,105 words

This is an attempt to understand the psychology of male wallflowers.

A “wallflower” refers to a girl who waits . . . and waits . . . and waits off to the side for a fellow to ask her out on the dancefloor. Some girls are wallflowers because they are unattractive. But others are just a bit too modest, shy, and diffident. Read more …

Published: September 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, parenting, psychology, self-actualization | 47 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 284
Lifehacks with Kievsky

Counter-Currents Radio

156 words / 56:04

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Greg Johnson talks to Kievsky about leveraging our current crisis to benefit whites. Read more …

Published: August 12, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Bitcoin, Counter-Currents Radio, COVID-19, gold, higher education, homeschooling, interviews, invenstment, Kievsky, lifehacks, podcasts, prepping, the Rothschilds, urban life | 2 Responses

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My Five Favorite Books of 2019

Alex Graham

1,297 words

1. Steele Brand, Killing for the Republic: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)

This is an excellent work of military history that examines the tradition of civic militarism in the Roman Republic. Brand combines detailed analyses of battles with insights about Roman culture and society. His analysis of the Battle of Sentinum (295 BC), for instance, includes diagrams of battle formations as well as a discussion of the history of the devotio, Read more …

Published: December 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2019 roundups, ancient Rome, articles, asceticism, book reviews, Hindu nationalism, hinduism, North American New Right, originals, Peter Sloterdijk, self-actualization, warrior ethics | 1 Response

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Christmas at Counter-Currents
Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

Jef Costello

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Philippe de Champaigne, “Saint Augustin,” 1645-1650

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The key problem of our age is disconnection from truth. This takes several distinct forms. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of lies. As everyone knows, modern, western civilization is founded upon lies about human nature, culture, and history. The most significant of these – underlying, in one form of another, most of the rest – is the equality lie; the myth of human equality, which is the chief myth of our age. (“Myth,” as most of my readers know, can have a positive or a negative connotation, as there are salutary myths; here, obviously, I am using the term in its purely negative sense.) Read more …

Published: December 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authenticity, Christmas, ethics, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, truth | Leave a comment

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All I Want for Christmas

Fullmoon Ancestry

Albert Chevallier Tayler, The Christmas Tree, 1911

1,060 words

All I want for Christmas is for white men to be happy. Yes, you read that correctly. I want you, white man, to be happy this Christmas. Wherever you are and whoever you are with, I want you to be happy. What do I mean by this? Let’s find out!

I’ve had the opportunity to spend Christmas in various places in the world, Read more …

Published: December 24, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christmas, North American New Right, originals | 8 Responses

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The American Kshatriya

William de Vere

Horatio Greenough, George Washington, 1840

3,341 words

Valor, fearlessness, fortitude, resourcefulness, and also, not fleeing in war, charity, and the ability to rule, are the natural duties of a Kshatriya. — Bhagavad Gita 18:23

According to a widely-accepted hypothesis of Georges Dumézil, prehistoric Indo-European society was divided into three basic functions: a sacral, a martial, and an economic class. This tripartite ideology survived the Indo-European migrations throughout Europe and Asia and has persisted, with various modifications, into modernity. Read more …

Published: December 19, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Julius Evola, manliness, North American New Right, reprints, Traditionalism, tripartition, warrior ethics, William de Vere | 8 Responses

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The Power of Positive Fapping:
Napoleon Hill, Salesman & Sex Magickian

James J. O'Meara

3,175 words

Mitch Horowitz
The Power of Sex Transmutation: How to Use the Most Radical Idea from Think and Grow Rich
New York: G & D Media, 2019

“The whole movement of the world tends and leads towards copulation. It is a substance infused through everything; it is the centre—towards which all things turn.”–Montaigne[1] Read more …

Published: December 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, books reviews, James J. O'Meara, magic, MGTOW, Mitch Horowitz, Neville, North American New Right, originals, pornography, self-help, sex | 5 Responses

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Black Friday Special
It’s Time to STOP Shopping for Christmas

Greg Johnson

1,031 words / 5:45

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Translations: Danish, French

Even though I am an unbeliever, the Christmas season is my favorite time of the year. Read more …

Published: November 28, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christmas, commercial society, Greg Johnson, holidays, North American New Right, originals, white activism, white community organizing, white nationalism, white self-sufficiency | 3 Responses

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Objectivity, Relativism, & the Pursuit of Happiness

Greg Johnson

Socrates

2,151 words

Author’s Note:

The following text is based on a transcript by Rollo Walker of a 1999 lecture on “Objectivity, Relativism, and Well-Being.” This text only includes the first half of the transcript, and it has been massively condensed and rewritten.

Socrates is famous for arguing that all human beings pursue happiness; Read more …

Published: June 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, ethics, Greg Johnson, moral philosophy, North American New Right, objectivity, originals, philosophy, Plato, relativism, Socrates, subjectivism, The Pursuit of Happiness | 10 Responses

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There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be Alive
The Ultimate White Pill

Jef Costello

4,356 words

My friends on the Right bemoan the fact that we’re not living in Leave It To Beaver. They play the “what era would you like to live in?” game, picking any time other than this one. Because this is the End Time, you see; the Kali Yuga, the Wolf Age. Hell, yes! It is all those things and more. But I, for one, feel privileged to live in Dystopia. Truly, there has never been a better time to be alive. Read more …

Published: June 7, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cultural renewal, decadence, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, the left, the liberal mind, white activism | 32 Responses

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Only a God Can Save Us Now
Butchering Cultured Meat

J. J. Przybylski

2,701 words

A Perfectly Neutral Auschwitz

I heard the enemy dinner-call. So I walked to UPenn for a talk on Cultured Meat. Having apprenticed in my dad’s butcher shop, I don’t relate to clinically strained beef. I have natural tastes. True flavors.

If, under siege in the Techno-Apocalypse, I was cannibalized by starving pals? The sorry chef would eulogize. Read more …

Published: January 22, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged animal rights, articles, Carl Schmitt, higher education, J. J. Przybylski, meat, North American New Right, originals, technology | 4 Responses

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The Enemy of my Enemy:
Vox Day’s Jordanetics

Buck Daniels

2,418 words

Vox Day
Jordanetics: A Journey Into the Mind of Humanity’s Greatest Thinker
Castalia House, 2018

I have a confession: I was once a fan.

I was recommending the works and lectures of Dr. Jordan Peterson to friends, strangers, and family. Read more …

Published: November 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Buck Daniels, Christianity, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jordan Peterson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, political correctness, religion, self-help, the occult, Vox Day | 36 Responses

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Black Friday Special
It’s Time to STOP Shopping for Christmas

Greg Johnson

1,031 words / 5:45

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Translations: Danish, French

Even though I am an unbeliever, the Christmas season is my favorite time of the year. Read more …

Published: November 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christmas, commercial society, Greg Johnson, holidays, North American New Right, originals, white activism, white community organizing, white nationalism, white self-sufficiency | 6 Responses

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What’s in a Home?

Buck Daniels

2,155 words

I took an interest in architecture a few years back, after reading Crawford’s The World Beyond Your Head. The book described the effects of the arrangement of space on how we perceived and acted in the world. The effects of arranged space could be negative—the distraction of eye-catching advertisements and flashing lights—or positive—the machine-like feeling of cooking in a well-stocked and well-organized kitchen. Read more …

Published: October 31, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged architecture, articles, Buck Daniels, cosmopolitanism, Home, modern architecture, North American New Right, nostalgia, originals, white nationalism | 4 Responses

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Blaming Your Parents

Greg Johnson

Young Sailor Ripley lacked “parental guidance.”

1,444 words

In the past, people used to blame the gods or the fates for their misfortunes. These days, they like to blame their parents.

“My parents were sedentary and fat, and their bad example is why I grew up sedentary and fat.”
“My father was always uptight. And now I’m uptight and can’t enjoy life.”
“Growing up with a mother who drank, it was natural that I would take to drink as well.”

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 222
Kievsky on White People with a Future

Kievsky

64 words / 53:59

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Prospering in a declining civilization is necessary for those who wish to renew it. Read more …

Published: September 3, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson, interviews, Kievsky, podcasts | 15 Responses

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Thomas Jefferson & the Declaration of Independence

Alex Graham

2,258 words

Thomas Jefferson

The first sentence of Preamble to the Declaration of Independence reads: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” The Declaration of Independence is not a legal document or even a formal declaration of independence. By the time of its adoption, twelve of the thirteen colonies had already declared independence with the passage of the Lee Resolution. Read more …

Published: July 4, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, articles, Blacks in America, Declaration of Independence, equality, happiness, John Locke, North American New Right, originals, Thomas Jefferson | 5 Responses

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Video of the Day
Against Pot

Greg Johnson

6:03

Original article here

Published: July 4, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, drugs, Greg Johnson, marijuana, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, self-actualization, video of the day, videos | 6 Responses

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I Will Not Become My Father

Jef Costello

4,811 words

When my father died last month, we had not spoken since Christmas. A few terse emails were exchanged, but that was it. You see, over Christmas dinner my father had revealed that he was contributing money to the SPLC. This didn’t exactly sit well with me. Read more …

Published: July 2, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, biological determinism, death, free will, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, self-improvement | 39 Responses

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The Ancients on Speaking Rightly

Guillaume Durocher

1,605 words

We are all faced with the challenge of speaking, and living, truths which are felt to be offensive by a great many of our countrymen, not to mention the powers that be. This is not a new problem. By definition, the natural diversity of men means that knowledge of the truth is highly unequally distributed and those who know most about the truth are necessarily a tiny minority. This minority must alone face the prejudices and ignorance of the masses and the violence of the state. Read more …

Published: June 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, Asatru, Buddhism, cynicism, Guillaume Durocher, honesty, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

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Rules for Writers, Part 2

Greg Johnson

1,976 words

Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

5. Pace Yourself.

Alas, most people in our cause are in no danger of burning themselves out. Read more …

Published: March 9, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, courage, drugs, Greg Johnson, honesty, North American New Right, originals, rhetoric, self-sacrifice, why we write, writing | 18 Responses

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Rules for Writers

Greg Johnson

Arthur Schopenhauer

1,406 words

Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

Why I write is very simple: I believe that, in the final analysis, ideas — not economics, not technology, not brute force — are the decisive factor in history, and I believe that history is going in the wrong direction. Read more …

Published: March 8, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, articles, creativity, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, social media, work, writing | 17 Responses

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Dear Angry Young White Man

Donald Thoresen

1,219 words

Dear Angry Young White Man,

You are forced daily to endure an entire system telling you explicitly that you are worthless, to see images designed to denigrate you, to marginalize you, to make your presence in the lands your ancestors built seem arbitrary and insignificant. You cannot go anywhere without seeing images of your lands, your women, your history, your culture being defiled by hostile foreign races Read more …

Published: February 15, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Donald Thoresen, North American New Right, originals, white nationalism | 35 Responses

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Neville & the Rebel:
Reflections on Colin Wilson & Neville Goddard

James J. O'Meara

Neville Goddard

4,337 words

Part 2 of 2; part 1 here

Earlier, I noted Wilson’s second thoughts, 45 years later, about Religion and the Rebel as an “overstuffed pillow”; he specifically felt that the early biographical material on Rilke was “unnecessary.” But actually, it supplies us with a remarkable parallel to Neville’s method, as well as a hint of Wilson’s future development.

Wilson says if Rilke had died at age twenty-five, no one would have remembered him. Instead, he willed himself to be a poet. Read more …

Published: February 13, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Colin Wilson, existentialism, James J. O'Meara, Neville Goddard, New Thought, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, William Blake | 4 Responses

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Neville & the Rebel:
Reflections on Colin Wilson & Neville Goddard

James J. O'Meara

6,326 words

Colin Wilson

Part 1 of 2

“What was needed was not some new religious cult but some simple way of accessing religious or mystical experience, of the sort that must have been known to the monks and cathedral-builders of the Middle Ages.”–Colin Wilson[1]

“The serpent said that every dream could be willed into creation by those strong enough to believe in it.”–Eve to Adam, in Shaw’s Back to Methuselah Read more …

Published: February 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Colin Wilson, existentialism, James J. O'Meara, Neville Goddard, New Thought, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion | Leave a comment

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Forced to be Free:
The Case for Paternalism

Greg Johnson

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

626 words

Spanish translation here

Paternalism means treating people like children. Children lack the maturity and wisdom to make their own decisions. Thus they need parents — or people playing the paternal role — to tell them what to do and, on occasion, to force them to do it.

Most people have no problem with paternalism when dealing with actual children, as well as the retarded, the senile, and the insane. Read more …

Published: January 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, freedom, Greg Johnson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, libertarianism, negative liberty, North American New Right, originals, paternalism, philosophy, Plato, positive liberty | 61 Responses

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What Socrates Knew
Plato’s Alcibiades I

Greg Johnson

Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Socrates Tears Alcibiades from the Embrace of Sensual Pleasure, 1791

11,025 words

Author’s Note:

What follows is a transcription by V.S. of a lecture on Plato’s Alcibiades I. The translation of Alcibiades I referenced is by Carnes Lord in The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues, ed. Thomas L. Pangle (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987). To listen to the audio in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target as.”

Today, we’re going to be looking at Plato’s dialogue Alcibiades I. Read more …

Published: January 2, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alcibiades, articles, ethics, Greg Johnson, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, self-actualization, self-knowledge, Socrates, Xenophon | 3 Responses

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What Socrates Knew:
Socratic Ignorance, Eros, & the Daimonion, Part 2 of 2

Greg Johnson

7,345 words

Part 2 of 2

Author’s Note:

On August 31st, 1999 I gave the second lecture course called “What Socrates Knew.” What follows is a transcription of the second half of that lecture by V.S. The readings referred to are passages from Plato’s dialogues Euthydemus, Apology, Theages, and Symposium. The thirty Socrates theses referred to are listed below, as are links to the audio of the lecture.

What Socrates Knew:
Socratic Ignorance, Eros, & the Daimonion, Part 1 of 2

Greg Johnson

8,733 words

Part 1 of 2

Author’s Note:

On August 31st, 1999 I gave the second lecture course called “What Socrates Knew.” What follows is a transcription of the first half of the lecture by V.S. The readings referred to are passages from Plato’s dialogues Euthydemus, Apology, Theages, and Symposium. The thirty Socrates theses referred to are listed below, as are links to the audio of the lecture.

The “Thirty Socratic Theses” are: Read more …