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But when ye see Jerusalem encompassed with armies, then know that its desolation is drawn nigh. [1]

Constant Readers know that my go-to source for Radio Christianity, especially the apocalyptic sort, is Brother Stair. Read more …

Published: January 25, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Brother Stair, Christianity, cities, COVID-19, cults, debt, James J. O'Meara, Joe Biden, North American New Right, originals, Satan, the Antichrist, the Bible | 3 Responses

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Remembering Mr. Gurdjieff
(January 13, 1866/1872/1877–October 24, 1949)

Collin Cleary

Mr. Gurdjieff

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George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born on this day in 1866, 1872, or 1877 — depending on whom you ask. [1] Much else about his biography is equally uncertain. We do know that his father was Greek, his mother Armenian, and that he was born in Alexandropol which was then part of the Russian Empire (it is now in Armenia and is called Gyumri). Read more …

Published: January 13, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-modernism, articles, being, Bodhidharma, Buddhism, Collin Cleary, David Hume, epistemology, esotericism, George Gurdjieff, knowing, mechanicality, metaphysics, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, René Descartes, subjectivity, technology, the ego, the Self, wakefulness | 13 Responses

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Traditional Conservatism Can Never Defeat The Enlightenment Left

Ricardo Duchesne

White students pondering over a Herbert Marcuse lecture on the “one-dimensional mind” of the white race.

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No one knows Friedrich Julius Stahl (1802-1861). He was a legal philosopher of Jewish parentage who converted to Christianity and became a defender of Prussian Lutheran conservatism against the imposition of Enlightenment values. He rejected Hegel’s argument Read more …

Published: December 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, conservatism, cultural Marxism, dogma, egalitarianism, ethnocentrism, evolutionary psychology, Friedrich Julius Stahl, G. W. F. Hegel, Herbert Marcuse, inequality, monarchism, North American New Right, philosophy, psychology, rationalism, reason, reprints, rhetoric, Ricardo Duchesne, science, the Enlightenment, the middle class, tradition, Traditionalism | 12 Responses

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Music & Meaning in Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru

Spencer J. Quinn

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It would be easy to make Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 masterpiece Ikiru into something trite and hopeful — like an existential affirmation of life. But that wouldn’t be right. Despite the film’s title translating into English as “to live,” the film poignantly demonstrates how any real meaning life has is barely hanging by a thread. In fact, you would have to be a little crazy — or on death’s door — to act upon this meaning at all. You will be going against the grain, you see. Humanity is organized in such a way to impede meaning. Read more …

Published: October 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akira Kurosawa, articles, Ikiru, Japan, Japanese film, life, movie reviews, music, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn | 3 Responses

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Hook, Line, & Sinker:
Steve Bannon & the Usual Suspects

James J. O'Meara

7,911 words

Benjamin Teitelbaum
War For Eternity: Inside Bannon’s Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers
New York: HarperCollins, 2020

“I am sure you can appreciate the urgency of such matters. . . Richard Spencer [is not someone] that you play around with.” — Jason Jorjani [1] Read more …

Published: October 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Dugin, Alt-Right Corporation, articles, Benjamin Teitelbaum, book reviews, Iran, Jacob Needleman, James J. O'Meara, Jason Jorjani, John Morgan, Julius Evola, mysticism, North American New Right, originals, political intrigue, Rene Guénon, Richard Spencer, Russia, spirituality, Steve Bannon, Traditionalism | 10 Responses

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Emmanuel Todd’s Lineages of Modernity

Ricardo Duchesne

6,392 words

The idea that the norms implanted upon us by our families affect our personalities and our prospects in life is almost a truism. The idea that there is a strong relationship between the Western nuclear family and liberal modernity is no longer controversial, and so is the idea that different family types have existed across the world and that these types have played a significant role in the historical trajectories of the cultures of the world. Some are aware of the so-called “Hajnal line” proposed in 1965 by John Hajnal, Read more …

Published: October 7, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, egalitarianism, Emmanuel Todd, families, family structures, hierarchy, Jews, Kevin MacDonald, kinship groups, literacy, North American New Right, originals, patriarchy, Protestant reformation, Ricardo Duchesne, the nuclear family, universalism | 4 Responses

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Now Available!
Graduate School with Heidegger

Greg Johnson

Greg Johnson
Graduate School with Heidegger
San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing, 2020
220 pages

There are three formats for Graduate School with Heidegger:

Hardcover: $40 (including postage; add $5 for postage to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, & the Far East)
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American Gods & Their Shadows

Kathryn S.

Winslow Homer, The Woodcutter, 1891.

6,121 words

I read Neil Gaiman’s American Gods sometime in college. I found it more Flannery O’Connor than Marvel Studios, but it’s hardly surprising that the latter interpretation seems to have driven the new television series’ production team (but I haven’t watched). Read more …

Published: October 5, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged archetypes, articles, Carl Jung, collective unconscious, cultural decline, ethos, Friedrich Nietzsche, heroes, heroism, hierarchy, Kathryn S, mysticism, myth, mythology, national epics, North American New Right, originals, psychology, religion, Sigmund Freud, Symbolism, the American founding, the East, the Orient, the West | 7 Responses

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20 Years of Radiohead’s Kid A

Scott Weisswald

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Kid A belongs on an end-times list of anti-modern records. How is that possible? Radiohead is, by any measure, one of the most successful recording groups in the world and also one of the most reliable when it comes to mainstreaming alternative and experimental music. Does it make sense to call a record like this one Read more …

Published: October 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, electronic music, Kid A, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, Radiohead, Scott Weisswald, technology, the uncanny, the unknown | 3 Responses

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Remembering Martin Heidegger:
September 26, 1889–May 26, 1976

Greg Johnson

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Translations: Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian

Martin Heidegger is one of the giants of twentieth-century philosophy, both in terms of the depth and originality of his ideas and the breadth of his influence in philosophy, theology, the human sciences, and culture in general.

Heidegger was born on September 26, 1889, in the town of Meßkirch in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He died on May 26, 1976 in Freiburg and was buried in Meßkirch. Read more …

Published: September 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, technology | 2 Responses

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Did Heidegger Say the Holocaust Was Jewish “Self-Annihilation”?

Greg Johnson

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The Charge

One of the most sensational charges against Heidegger is that he claimed that the Holocaust was the “self-annihilation” (Selbstvernichtung) of the Jews. This charge was first made by Italian philosophy professor Donatella di Cesare in an article in Corriere Della Sere on February 9, 2015: “Heidegger: ‘Jews Self-Destructed’: New Black Notebooks Reveal Philosopher’s Shocking Take on Shoah.”[1] Read more …

Published: September 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Donatella di Cesare, Greg Johnson, Martin Heidegger, originals, philosophy, the holocaust, the Jewish question | 18 Responses

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Hesse & the Feuilleton

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

1,901 words

All that mattered in these pieces was to link a well-known name with a subject of current topical interest. The reader may consult Ziegenhalss for some truly startling examples; he gives hundreds.

— Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

I was recently asked if Hermann Hesse is a man of the Right. My answer, such as it was, was a qualified yes. Read more …

Published: September 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, bugmen, feuilleton, Herman Hesse, intelligentsia, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, the bourgeoisie, The Glass Bead Game | 3 Responses

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The Metaphysics of Integral Ecology

William de Vere

Caspar David Friedrich, Landscape with Mountain Lake in the Morning, 1823.

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Among those on the Right who address man’s relationship to the rest of the natural world, one finds a variety of approaches. There are the anthropocentric conservationists, who promote the “wise use” or prudent management of natural resources for future generations. There are the Social Darwinist varieties, Read more …

Published: September 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged agape, articles, Christianity, constructivism, ecology, emanationism, environmentalism, epistemology, German Idealism, hierarchy, industrialization, integral ecology, knowledge, metaphysics, monism, nature, Neoplatonism, North American New Right, originals, panentheism, philosophy, Platonism, postmodernism, primordial metaphysics, Sophia perennis, Traditionalism, William de Vere | 7 Responses

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Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft’s Alles ist gut

Scott Weisswald

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In memory of Gabi Delgado-López (April 18, 1958 — March 22, 2020).

Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, more concisely known as DAF, is a German electronic music band from Wuppertal consisting of Gabi Delgado-López and Robert Görl. Their name contains a light touch of irony, rendered into English as “German-American Friendship.” Read more …

Published: September 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art, articles, DAF, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, EBM, electronic music, Germany, globalization, identity, industrial music, language, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, Scott Weisswald, the Cold War | 3 Responses

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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Trevor Lynch

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Yukio Mishima’s 1963 novel The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is one of his darkest works. Set in post-War Yokohama, it is the story of Fusako Kuroda, a thirty-three-year-old widow who runs a boutique selling Western luxury goods, and her thirteen-year-old son Noboru Kuroda. (See Alex Graham’s discussion of the novel here.)

Fusako’s world is entirely feminine, bourgeois, modern, and Western. She is also deeply lonely. Then she meets Ryuji Tsukazaki, the second-mate on a steamship. Read more …

Published: September 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, bourgeois society, class, England, gender, Japan, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, sex, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, thumos, tradition, Trevor Lynch, Yukio Mishima | 3 Responses

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A Sane Layman Looks at Gender Madness

F. Roger Devlin

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Jim Goad
Gender Psychosis: Insanity and Sexual Identity
Pine Lake, Georgia: Obnoxious Books, 2020

One of the strengths of this new collection of short pieces about today’s sexual confusions is that the author has no qualifications for writing them. Qualifications for writing about sex go mainly to the sources of our confusion. Thanks to an overabundance of experts, Read more …

Published: September 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, F. Roger Devlin, feminism, gender politics, Gender Psychosis, Jim Goad, North American New Right, patriarchy, rape, sex, sexual perversion, transgenderism | 11 Responses

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We Are All Crazy Now

Jef Costello

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Did you know that there are only two countries in the world where it’s legal to advertise pharmaceutical drugs on television? One is the U.S., of course, and the other is New Zealand. I remember the early days of those ads, back in the 1990s. For example, there was the classic Zyrtec ad that showed someone climbing a mountain. You had to guess what the drug was for, because back then, they weren’t allowed to be more explicit. All the ad said was “ask your doctor.” My, how times have changed. Read more …

Published: September 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged advertising, articles, COVID-19, drugs, Jef Costello, meaning, mental health, mental illness, North American New Right, originals, paranoia, pathology, psychology, psychosis, schizophrenia, social cohesion, white dispossession | 18 Responses

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The Quintessence of Mediocrity:
Ross Douthat’s The Decadent Society

Quintilian

1,023 words

Ross Douthat
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
New York: Simon & Schuster (2020)

Never-Trumper Ross Douthat is a faux-Christian, faux-conservative writer for leftist publications like The Atlantic and The New York Times. His presence at those publications is akin to that of the house Negro, Read more …

Published: August 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged antifa, articles, book reviews, bourgeois society, Christianity, crime, decadence, Hungary, liberalism, Mexico, North American New Right, originals, Quintilian, Ross Douthat, The New York Times | 18 Responses

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Joe’s (Wagnerian) Garage

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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As you can see. . . girls, music, disease, heartbreak. . . they all go together. . .

About three months ago, I was asked to give one of those “four recommendations” type interviews for an eminent publication (an old buddy’s blog) in the old country. Read more …

Published: August 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America, American identity, articles, censorship, degeneracy, Frank Zappa, Gesamtkunstwerk, Joe's Garage, liberalism, music reviews, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, Richard Wagner, rock music, rock opera | 6 Responses

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Family Systems & History

F. Roger Devlin

8,561 words

Emmanuel Todd
Lineages of Modernity: A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus
Cambridge, England, and Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2019

Much of today’s dominant globalist ideology derives from development theory, a body of thought which shares with Marxism the view that economic relations are the basis of social life and sees the races of mankind as fundamentally equivalent beneath the superficial cultural differences which have arisen over history. Read more …

Published: July 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authoritarianism, book reviews, capitalism, Catholicism, demographics, economics, education, Emmanuel Todd, essays, F. Roger Devlin, family, family dynamics, hierarchy, higher education, history, identity, individualism, industrialization, language, Lineages of Modernity, literacy, memory of places, monogamy, nationalism, North American New Right, patriarchy, Protestantism, religion, secularism, secularization, stem families, the nuclear family, tradition | 3 Responses

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The Little Things

John Wilkinson

Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Want, 1943.

1,995 words

I think it is safe to assume that most Counter-Currents readers are familiar with the phrase “death by 1000 cuts,” which is an expression translated into English from the protracted Chinese torture process known as lingchi. In political-speak, its close cousin is the analogy of the slow boiling frog. Dissidents on our side of the great divide have an intuitive understanding that we’ve come to our current impasse through subtle but profound changes in policy and attitudes that our political enemies call “progress.” Read more …

Published: July 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, consumerism, discipline, family, individualism, John Wilkinson, North American New Right, originals | 23 Responses

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The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Nine

Derek Hawthorne

5,423 words

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8

Mitch gathers Melanie’s still unconscious body into his arms and carries her down the stairs. Lydia walks ahead of him, carrying an oil lamp. “Oh, poor thing! Poor thing!” she says. Her resentment toward Melanie now completely gone, she feels only pity. Lydia goes to fetch bandages, as Mitch lays Melanie on the living room sofa. He asks Cathy to get some brandy, Read more …

Published: July 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, Alfred Hitchcock, articles, being, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, das Ereignis, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, family, Martin Heidegger, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, scientism, The Birds | 16 Responses

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The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Eight

Derek Hawthorne

5,468 words

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7

At first, we hear the sound of birds singing. The sound is pretty and harmless. Is it the lovebirds in the kitchen? Then we hear fluttering and flapping. This grows louder and louder and the pretty singing of a moment before is replaced by angry cawing and screeching. It is one of the most interesting scenes in the entire film. Read more …

Published: July 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, articles, being, das Ereignis, Dasein, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, feminism, Martin Heidegger, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, The Birds, the uncanny | 2 Responses

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The Politics of Meat:
An Ecofascist Perspective

William de Vere

4,436 words

Jef Costello’s recent articles concerning the “Carnivore Diet” inspired me to ponder a subject that I had neglected for some time: the ethics and politics of diet.

The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Seven

Derek Hawthorne

5,283 words

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

With the gulls now retreating, Mitch and Melanie leave the Tides restaurant and make their way up the hill to Annie’s house to retrieve Cathy. All is deathly quiet. As they approach the schoolhouse, they see that the crows are back and perched all over. “Look, the crows again!” Melanie says breathlessly. Read more …

Published: July 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, articles, class conflict, complacency, das Ereignis, Dasein, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, knowledge, Martin Heidegger, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, spirituality, The Birds, the bourgeoisie, the uncanny, tribalism, women | 4 Responses

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Midsummer

William de Vere

1,554 words

I have returned, for a time, to the lakes and forests where I spent my childhood summers.

Returned to the knotted post oaks and the impenetrable blackjack pines, to the dense undergrowth and brambles, to the thick forests echoing with the song Read more …

Published: June 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, childhood, coming of age, ecology, environmentalism, North American New Right, originals, reflection, urbanization, why we write, William de Vere | 5 Responses

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Fight Club

Trevor Lynch

3,005 words

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, irony, movie reviews, North American New Right, on Nietzsche, reprints, the Männerbund, thumos, Trevor Lynch | 7 Responses

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The Turn of the Screwed

James J. O'Meara

2,543 words

Delicious Tacos
Finally, Some Good News
Amazon Kindle, 2018

Charlie [grabbing the laptop from Alan]: “Come on, let’s see what floats your boat. . . grannies with trannies? Chickens with strap-ons? [Studies screen, look of horror] My God, you sick freak! My own brother! Online dating?” [1] Read more …

Published: June 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, comedy, dating, James J. O'Meara, misanthropy, North American New Right, originals, post-apocalyptic fiction, poverty, white disposession, work | 3 Responses

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Who’s Your Daddy, America?

John Wilkinson

Norman Rockwell, Settling an Argument, 1922.

899 words

It is time to face the ultimate truth. It is time to swallow the last red pill. It is time to look in the mirror and point the finger at our reflection.

America’s problem is that we are a nation without fathers, without men. We are a nation of children raised by children. Preoccupied with toys and trinkets, shiny playthings that divert our attention, we shirk responsibility and cry when we don’t get our way. Read more …

Published: June 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, complacency, fatherhood, John Wilkinson, masculinity, North American New Right, originals | 9 Responses

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The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Four

Derek Hawthorne

4,672 words

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

We ended our last installment in the midst of the pivotal scene in the Tides Restaurant. There, we met Mrs. Bundy, a droll parody of modern, Western, pig-headed scientism. With arch condescension, she refuses to believe Melanie’s stories about the bird attacks. “Impossible!” Mrs. Bundy declares. “Their brain pans aren’t large enough. . . Really, let’s be logical about this,” Read more …