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  • April 7, 2021 Collin Cleary 12
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    Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part Six:
    G. W. Leibniz’s Will-to-Power

    G. W. Leibniz Memorial in Leipzig

    7,567 words

    Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here

    1. Introduction: Leibniz and the Completion of Metaphysics

    Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von Leibniz (1646–1716) is one of the most extraordinary figures in the history of ideas. A true polymath, he was not only a philosopher but a physicist, historian, jurist, diplomat, inventor, and mathematician. (more…)

  • April 5, 2021 Trevor Lynch 21
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    A Clockwork Orange

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    For years now, readers have been urging me to review Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971), which adapts Anthony Burgess’ 1962 novel of the same name. I have resisted, because although A Clockwork Orange is often hailed as a classic, I thought it was dumb, distasteful, and highly overrated, so I didn’t want to watch it again. But I had first watched it decades ago. (more…)

  • November 30, 2020 Spencer J. Quinn 28
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    The Greatest Jewish Joke Ever Told

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    So, did you hear the one about the Jewish comedian?

    The joke I am about to tell is probably the most sophisticated joke I have ever heard. It is so breathtakingly multifaceted, that it may even lose some of its humor as its punch line keeps bouncing in the squash court of your mind (more…)

  • September 24, 2020 Spencer J. Quinn 24
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    A Dissident’s Guide to Blacks & Africa:
    A Review

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    Jared Taylor, ed.
    A Dissident’s Guide to Blacks and Africa
    Oakton, Virginia: New Century Foundation, 2020

    More than any of the required reading produced by American Renaissance, A Dissident’s Guide to Blacks and Africa captures the essence of what American Renaissance is all about. Racial differences lead to racial preferences, and Jared Taylor has built a career (more…)

  • August 25, 2020 Giles Corey 12
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    The Rise & Fall of the Second Klan

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    Thomas R. Pegram
    One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s
    Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2011

    The Ku Klux Klan suffers from a positively radioactive reputation, even among fellow Rightists. During the infamous family dinner scene in American History X, at which Edward Norton’s Derek Vinyard assaults his sister and displays his swastika tattoo to the Jewish teacher dating his widowed mother, (more…)

  • July 30, 2020 Ricardo Duchesne 8
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    Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
    Part 9: The Moral Argument for White Interests

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    We have now reached the last chapter of Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition. This indispensable book argues that both the rise and decline of the West can be explained in terms of the genetically selected predisposition Europeans have for creating communities that emphasize the moral reputation (more…)

  • July 15, 2020 Ricardo Duchesne 5
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    Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
    Part 8: Why Are Whites Canceling Each Other?

    Whites cleaning up the mess blacks made of Minneapolis.

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    Do you know why Europeans across the political spectrum — liberals, conservatives, socialists — are morally committed to a politics that is leading to the dissolution of their millennial racial identities while promoting the racial identities of non-white immigrants within their own nations? (more…)

  • June 22, 2020 Fullmoon Ancestry 10
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    The Spark of the Stoics

    Epictetus.

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    Philosophy is a subject that never really sparked my interest. While I understand that philosophy is important to living a virtuous life, I simply think that virtue and morality are useless if you are forced to live around people that do not share your same morals and virtues. This is the situation that white people are now facing in our own countries. (more…)

  • June 2, 2020 Buttercup Dew 2
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    Meditations on the Mysticism of Yomawari: Night Alone

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    Yomawari: Night Alone is a survival horror videogame from Nippon Ichi Software, released in fall 2015 in Japan before being rapidly localized into English in 2016. It has enjoyed commercial success across multiple platforms (PC, Nintendo Switch, and PS Vita) and spawned a sequel, Midnight Shadows. The player character is a little girl with a red bow drawn in simple anime style; a sort of Minnie Mouse from a more mature world. (more…)

  • May 20, 2020 John Wright 2
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    Is & Ought:
    Lorraine Daston’s Against Nature

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    Lorraine Daston 
    Against Nature 
    Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019

    Loraine Daston’s Against Nature has two qualities that make it a good book. First, it is physically a good book: slim but well-bound, it fits comfortably in the hand and slides easily into the pocket. And there is more than tactile pleasure to be had. (more…)

  • May 12, 2020 Beau Albrecht 13
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    Philosophical Psychopathy:
    Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro”

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    Norman Mailer became a much-celebrated author of several novels, some quite dreadful, as well as a founder of The Village Voice. He wrote numerous essays, of which “The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster” became the most famous. It essentially served as an iconic manifesto for the nascent Counterculture. The following is a distillation and analysis of its ponderous sentences and floating abstractions. (more…)

  • May 11, 2020 Margot Metroland 12
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    Sexual Predators & Autistic Monkeys: Mary Eberstadt’s Primal Screams

    2,339 words

    Mary Eberstadt
    Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics
    West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2019

    Mary Tedeschi Eberstadt is a onetime speechwriter for George Schultz, author of several books, sometime fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institute, and currently senior fellow at something called the Faith & Reason Institute. (more…)

  • April 3, 2020 Greg Johnson 5
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    Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 267
    Network

    145 words / 60:58

    To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.”

    In the fall of 2000, I taught an adult education class entitled Philosophy on Film, (more…)

  • February 25, 2020 Greg Johnson 12
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    The Good Kind of Nationalism

    Immanuel Kant

    2,092 words

    Part 3 of 3. Part 1 here; part 2 here.

    Author’s Note:

    The following text is based on a talk delivered at the Northwest Forum in Seattle on June 9, 2018. I want to thank the organizers, the audience, and James B. for the transcription.      (more…)

  • February 20, 2020 Greg Johnson 50
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    Why White Identity Politics is Moral

    Aristotle. Line engraving by P. Fidanza after Raphael’s School of Athens

    2,635 words

    Part 2 of 3. Part 1 here.

    Author’s Note:

    The following text is a heavily edited transcript of an extemporaneous talk delivered at the Northwest Forum in Seattle on June 9, 2018. I want to thank the organizers, the audience, and James B. for the transcription.      (more…)

  • November 13, 2019 Alain de Benoist
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    Alain de Benoist: O křesťanství

    Auguste Migette – Svatý Klement a Graoully (1850). Klement Métský bojuje v římském amfiteátru s (métským drakem) Graoullym. Obraz má symbolizovat vítězství křesťanství nad pohanstvím.

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    English original Part 1, Part 2

    Poznámka Grega Johnsona:

    V roce 2005 poskytl Alain de Benoist rozhovor americkému The Occidental Quarterly, který vyšel pod titulem “European Son: An Interview with Alain de Benoist,” v The Occidental Quarterly, Roč. 5, č. 3 (podzim 2005): str. 7–21. (Mezi březnem a červnem 2018 vyšel na tři části i na našich stránkách: díl první, druhý a třetí.)

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  • June 25, 2019 Collin Cleary 24
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    What is the Metaphysics of the Left? Part Two

    The face of today’s Left

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    Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

    2. A Will to Nothingness: The Essence of Leftist Metaphysics

    We are now in a position to step back from these observations and draw some general conclusions about the metaphysics of Leftist ideology. I trust the reader understands, however, that I am identifying the metaphysics that underlies Leftist ideology. (more…)

  • June 24, 2019 Collin Cleary 19
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    What is the Metaphysics of the Left? Part One

    3,629 words

    Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

    Metaphysics is the science of what is real. It is the most fundamental branch of philosophy; other philosophical ideas are derived from or based upon metaphysical convictions. For example, the Epicurean principle that pleasure is the highest good follows from its materialism and rejection of belief in an afterlife. However, it is also possible to speak of metaphysics outside of the context of philosophical systems. (more…)

  • March 5, 2019 Collin Cleary 3
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    Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind, Part Two

    Jonathan Haidt

    4,946 words

    Part 2 of 2; part 1 here

    Jonathan Haidt
    The Righteous Mind: How Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
    New York: Pantheon Books, 2012

    In Part One of this review I discussed Jonathan Haidt’s argument that morality has evolved in response to a number of “adaptive challenges.” (more…)

  • February 27, 2019 Collin Cleary 6
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    Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind, Part One

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    Part 1 of 2

    Jonathan Haidt
    The Righteous Mind: How Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
    New York: Pantheon Books, 2012

    Jonathan Haidt is a former liberal who is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. (more…)

  • January 14, 2019 Counter-Currents Radio 1
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    Guide to Kulchur, Episode 9
    Apocalypse Now

    153 words / 2:07:25

    John Morgan and Guillaume Durocher join Fróði Midjord on the latest Guide to Kulchur to talk about Francis Ford Coppola’s classic Vietnam War film, Apocalypse Now. They do a scene-by-scene analysis of it, and discuss the differences between the director’s cut and the original version of the film and its relationship to other films, as well as Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and also its relevance for politics and the Right. Available on both YouTube and Spreaker.

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  • December 29, 2018 Greg Johnson
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    Moralsk alvor

    NewRightOldRight1crop1,119 words

    English original here

    Forfatterens bemærkninger:

    Dette er et uddrag fra ‘New Right vs. Old Right’. Hvis du ikke allerede har læst det, så skal du læse det. Hvis du allerede har læst det, så læs det igen og igen, til det bundfælder sig.

    “This ain’t no party. This ain’t no disco.
    This ain’t no foolin’ around.”
    —Talking Heads, “Life During Wartime”

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  • December 22, 2018 Greg Johnson 24
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    Moral Seriousness

    NewRightOldRight1crop1,061 words

    Translations: Czech, Danish, Spanish

    Author’s Note:

    This is an excerpt from New Right vs. Old Right. If you haven’t read it, you need to. If you have, read it again and again until it sinks in.

    “This ain’t no party. This ain’t no disco.
    This ain’t no foolin’ around.”
    —Talking Heads, “Life During Wartime”

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  • August 24, 2018 Spencer J. Quinn 23
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    Ted Kennedy Did Nothing Wrong:
    Chappaquiddick, a Review

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    Chappaquiddick (2017)
    Directed by John Curran
    Written by Taylor Allen & Andrew Logan
    Starring Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, Ed Helms, & Jim Gaffigan

    Whenever I contemplate the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident, the Republican in me always asks in anguish, “Why couldn’t it have been Teddy Kennedy who drowned and not the girl?” (more…)

  • June 6, 2018 Ricardo Duchesne
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    The Masculine Preconditions of Individualism, Part 2

    1,893 words

    Part 2 of 4

    Conventional vs. Postconventional Morals

    Europeans will never become tribal and collectivist in the manner and degree of non-Europeans. Having an individual identity, an awareness of one’s inner being, that one’s actions can be causally dependent on one’s free will rather than on preceding events, (more…)

  • January 2, 2018 Greg Johnson 3
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    What Socrates Knew  
    Plato’s Alcibiades I

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

    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. (more…)

  • December 26, 2017 Greg Johnson
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    What Socrates Knew:
    Socratic Ignorance, Eros, & the Daimonion, Part 2 of 2

    7,345 words

    socratesdrawingPart 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. 

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  • December 22, 2017 Greg Johnson
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    What Socrates Knew:
    Socratic Ignorance, Eros, & the Daimonion, Part 1 of 2

    8,733 words

    honore-daumier-socrates-visiting-aspasiaPart 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:  (more…)

  • December 18, 2017 Greg Johnson
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    What Socrates Knew:
    Thirty Socratic Theses, Part 2 of 2

    Reyer van Blommendael, Xantippe Dousing Socrates, c. 1665

    6,643 words

    Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

    Author’s Note:

    On August 24th, 1999 I began a lecture course called “What Socrates Knew” with a lecture called “Thirty Socratic Theses.” What follows is a transcription of the second half of the lecture by V.S. The thirty theses are listed below, as are links to the audio of the lecture. 

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  • June 26, 2017 C. B. Robertson 2
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    Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 179
    The Morality of Hatred

    54 words / 23:54

    To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.”

    C. B. Robertson speaks at the Fourth Meeting of the Northwest Forum on Saturday, June 24th on themes discussed in his book In Defense of Hatred (reviewed here by Aedon Cassiel).

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