Jean-Jacques Rousseau, left, and David Hume.
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“No good deed goes unpunished,” as the old saw goes. It puts a cynical, waggish twist on the perspicacious observation that acts of genuine generosity and kindness too often come to grief. Benefactors beware! Shades of Thomas Hobbes: “Man to man is a wolf.” (more…)
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On Saturday, March 5th, 2022, Greg Johnson will do a two-part Counter-Currents Radio. In the first, hour, he will answer reader questions about any topics. In the second hour, he will read and discuss his essay on Carl Schmitt’s book Theory of the Partisan, which is particularly relevant given the Ukrainian government’s decision to arm civilians to resist the Russian invasion. The entire essay is reprinted below. Your homework is to read the essay beforehand.
Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985
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On Saturday, February 19th, 2022, Greg Johnson will read and discuss his essay “Reflections on Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political.” (The entire essay is reprinted below.) He will also pause to discuss the essay with the audience and, of course, answer YOUR QUESTIONS. Your homework is to read the essay beforehand. If possible, read Schmitt’s essay as well. (more…)
Nejběžnějším nařčením bývá označení populismu za „antidemokratický“
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Populisté usilují o to vyrvat lidovládu z rukou zkorumpovaných elit. Ty se přirozeně brání: nejběžnějším nařčením elitních komentátorů bývá asi označení populismu za „antidemokratický“. Jak píše Yascha Mounk, populismus staví problém jako „lid versus demokracie“. (more…)
Norman Rockwell, Study for “Freedom of Speech”
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Le spectre du populisme
Les révoltes populistes de 2016 — le Brexit et l’élection de Donald Trump — ne sont pas des événements marquants comme les révolutions de 1789 et 1848. Pas encore en tous cas. Mais vous n’y croiriez pas en voyant la panique qui a parcouru les élites politiques occidentales. (more…)
Aleister Crowley by Charles Krafft
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Aleister Crowley was an English poet, novelist, painter, and mountaineer who is most famous as an occultist, ceremonial magician, and founder of the religion and philosophy of Thelema. But ironically Crowley’s supposed Satanism and Black Magic are far less frightening to most people than his politics. For Aleister Crowley was also a man of the Right.
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Francis Parker Yockey was born 104 years ago today, September 18, in Chicago. He died in San Francisco on June 16, 1960, an apparent suicide. Yockey is one of America’s greatest anti-liberal thinkers and an abiding influence on the North American New Right. In honor of his birthday, I wish to draw the reader’s attention to the following works on this site.
Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985
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Carl Schmitt was born on July 11, 1888 in Plettenberg, Westphalia, Germany — where he died on April 7, 1985, at the age of 96. The son of a Roman Catholic small businessman, Carl Schmitt studied law in Berlin, Munich, and Strasbourg, graduating and taking his state exams in Strasbourg in 1915. In 1916, he earned his habilitation in Strasbourg, qualifying him to be a law professor. He taught at business schools and universities in Munich, Greifswald, Bonn, Berlin, and Cologne.
Aleister Crowley by Charles Krafft
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Aleister Crowley was an English poet, novelist, painter, and mountaineer who is most famous as an occultist, ceremonial magician, and founder of the religion and philosophy of Thelema. But ironically Crowley’s supposed Satanism and Black Magic are far less frightening to most people than his politics. For Aleister Crowley was also a man of the Right.
Greg Johnson
Graduate School with Heidegger
San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing, 2020
220 pages
There are three formats for Graduate School with Heidegger:
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Francis Parker Yockey was born 103 years ago today, September 18, in Chicago. He died in San Francisco on June 16, 1960, an apparent suicide. Yockey is one of America’s greatest anti-liberal thinkers and an abiding influence on the North American New Right. In honor of his birthday, I wish to draw the reader’s attention to the following works on this site.
Norman Rockwell, Study for “Freedom of Speech”
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French version here, Czech version here
Populism seeks to rescue popular government from corrupt elites. Naturally, the elites strike back. The most common accusation from elite commentators is that populism is “anti-democratic.” As Yascha Mounk frames it, populism is “the people vs. democracy.” I argue that populism is not anti-democratic, but it is anti-liberal. (See Donald Thoresen’s review of Mounk’s The People vs. Democracy here.)
Many critics of populism accuse it of being a form of white identity politics, (more…)