Tag: narcissism

A scene from Ranma 1/2.

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After Governor Kristi Noem’s husband was exposed as a cross-dresser with a “bimbofication fetish,”¹ I found myself reading about autogynephilia. This is a paraphilia in which males are aroused by the idea of being a woman (or otherwise feminine). A quick search reveals that the mainstream media has black-listed discussion of the topic, most likely because its existence damages the official transgender narrative. (more…)

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Henry Nowak’s unnecessary death in the callously indifferent claws of the people who should have saved him is primarily about race. But not far behind race is the problem of who staffs positions of authority in society. Who will watch the watchers? Personnel is policy, and especially for positions of authority. But the people who pursue positions of authority are often the exact opposite of the type of people who should staff them. And Western regimes intensify this problem because it is to their benefit. (more…)

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On April Fools’ Day, Donald Trump addressed the nation about the Iran War. It would have been too painful to listen to his adenoidal droning and borscht-belt insult comedian shtick, so I just read the transcript. He said nothing new. It was just a live version of his social media tweets: rambling, mendacious, self-contradictory, delusional, emotionally labile, and laced with insults and threats. I wish he were joking, but he probably wasn’t.

When it was all over, however, I was certain of one thing: Trump has learned nothing so far. So he’s going to send in ground troops. (more…)

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Barack Obama
A Promised Land
New York: Crown Publishing, 2020

“Nature is true and not a lie. No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a Bill drawn on Nature’s Reality, and be presented there for payment—with the answer, No effects. Pity only that it often had so long a circulation: that the original forger were so seldom he who bore the final smart of it!”

            — Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution

Part 1 available here.

In March of 2025, I wrote a review of the first of two volumes of Barack Obama’s Presidential memoirs, A Promised Land. More precisely, I noted that my review was limited to roughly the first half of the 768-page tome that covered Obama’s first term in office. (more…)

Trump’s White House: Where “transparency” is a slogan.

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Donald Trump could have easily covered up Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. All he needed to say is: “I have been promising for years to release the Epstein files. I’ve created a lot of expectations. Now that I’ve actually looked at the files, they are worse than I ever imagined. If I released these files, it would bring down the government. We would spend the rest of my term embroiled in the Epstein scandal. Yes, justice would be done for a few dozen criminals and a few dozen victims. But at what cost? Basically, at the cost of the MAGA agenda. Deportations, prosperity, peace: all would be sacrificed. You would all suffer. And that’s too high a price to pay. So, for the greater good, I am sealing these papers for 100 years. (more…)

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Charisma and creativity tend to be associated with mental instability. A detailed examination of the lives of highly eminent men by the psychiatrist Felix Post entitled “Creativity and Psychopathology” found that this was very frequently the case, especially among artists and writers. (more…)

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John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces
Foreword by Walker Percy
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980

A Confederacy of Dunces is one of the greatest comic novels ever written. It takes its name from a line of Swift’s which serves as its epigraph: “When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.” (more…)

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Bill Hopkins (1928–2011) was a British Right-wing writer and intellectual who was associated in the 1950s with the so-called Angry Young Men, which was less a movement than a loose journalistic appellation for writers from mostly working- and middle-class backgrounds who were dubbed “angry” because of their disillusionment with post-Second World War British society. Some of the Angries hardly knew each other.

In 1957, Hopkins’ first novel, The Divine and the Decay, was published in London by MacGibbon & Kee. (more…)

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In light of the recent Dublin riots, I thought I would write something Irish-themed and settled on Troy Duffy’s The Boondock Saints, a cult Tarantino knockoff movie from 1999 with Irish-Catholic themes. In the process of researching this I discovered the documentary Overnight about the making of the film — which is actually a far more interesting movie in itself. You can watch it here.

The history of Hollywood is that of a power struggle between producers and directors. (more…)

Nathaniel Branden in the 1960s.

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“What’s all the fuss about Dr. Mengele when Nathaniel Branden is alive and well and living in LA?” – A former member of Ayn Rand’s inner circle

In the 1960s, Ayn Rand was putting people on trial in her Manhattan apartment. Their crime? Social metaphysics. Members of “the Collective” — the in-joke term for Rand’s inner circle — would gather in her living room to hear the case against the accused. Nathaniel Branden, Rand’s business partner and erstwhile lover, acted as prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and sometimes executioner, all with the blessing of Miss Rand. (more…)

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M. William Lutholtz
Grand Dragon: D. C. Stephenson and the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana
West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1991

The Second Ku Klux Klan, founded in 1915 by William J. Simmons, began as a small group of no more than 15 friends. Within a decade, it spread throughout the country and grew to include up to five million members. At its height, it was, as one journalist put it at the time, “the most vigorous, active and effective organization in American life.” (more…)

David Cole

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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

David Cole (YouTube, Substack) is a man who needs no introduction to Counter-Currents readers. But just in case Ann Coulter tweets this out to her millions of normie fans (she’s one of Cole’s most enthusiastic supporters), I should probably write an introduction.

Whether you love him or hate him, you’ve got to admit that David Cole has had one hell of a life. (more…)

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First, a word on words. (No, not what you are thinking.) How can you take the following sentence seriously: “Captain Allistoun could be seen on the poop, watching the sky . . .”? (p. 233)[1] If you are familiar with archaic nautical terminology, you know that the term “poop” means the section of elevated deck at the stern of a sailing ship where the compass and the wheel are located. Nowadays, of course, it means “shit,” but even worse, it’s got an annoying baby-talk quality about it. And of course it comes up over and over again, destroying the mood of every sentence it appears in. If I were going to bowdlerize this book, “poop” is the word I would change. (more…)