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Gad Saad
Suicidal Empathy: Dying to be Kind
New York: Broadside Books, 2026
Gad Saad is a Lebanese Jew whose family moved to Canada after a Palestinian nationalist group aligned with the Global Left called Fatah kidnapped his parents. Given this history he has come to view the extremely feminine American and Canadian liberal position of empathy towards killers, convicts, and terrorists with alarm, especially as these views have become official government policy. (more…)
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Here at Counter-Currents, we have already published a lot of material about Laibach, their music, and the cultural events surrounding the band. I believe that the band needs no further introduction to our readers. Personally, I like to play Laibach’s music at gothic parties, especially the songs Alle gegen Alle and Tanzt mit Laibach, but of course the band offers much more than just dance music. During their active years, Laibach has built a legacy that goes beyond music (they are one of the most influential bands in the genre today). Laibach is literally a cultural phenomenon today. (more…)
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At school there was a weekly roll-call of bad boys, those who had broken the school rules at the highest level. They would be required to attend the headmaster’s office and, as the weeks of the term rolled by, a pattern began to emerge. Some boys rarely made the blacklist, some maybe once a term, some never (future prefects all). But a few names came up with some regularity, and one or two were permanent fixtures. And I should know. (more…)
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Architecture as a profession seems a very abstract concept in these technocratic times. Remote, intellectual, and almost esoteric. But unless you happen to be standing in a desert, or some Arctic tundra (and I’m amazed you can get a signal if you are), then architecture is all around you. You can see it everywhere you look. (more…)
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Wayne Au
Critical Curriculum Studies: Education, Consciousness, and the Politics of Knowing
New York: Routledge, 2012
I fear that I have ignored Schopenhauer’s maxim: “A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones, for life is short.” However, the challenge with his guidance is determining whether a book, especially a more niche or obscure title, is good or bad without reading it. (more…)
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Lee Scrivner
Casinolabs
Exeter House Publishing, 2025
Casinolabs is a satirical mystery, a psychological thriller novel set in Las Vegas by Lee Scrivner. The book’s protagonist Morton Waterhouse works as a greeter at the Roman themed casino, Caesars Empire, which is based on Caesars Palace. (more…)
Alan Sokal
2,578 words
Alan Sokal
Postmodernism is the first ruthlessly consistent statement of the consequences of rejecting reason.
-Stephen Hicks, Explaining Postmodernism
The story of this book begins with a hoax.
-Sokal & Bricmont, Fashionable Nonsense (more…)
Discobolus, a Roman copy of the Greek original from the fifth century BC. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.
Discobolus, a Roman copy of the Greek original from the fifth century BC. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.
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From a liberal perspective, there exists a logical (and also emotional) resistance to the use of concepts, terminologies, and ideas that are foreign to modernity, since for liberalism, being born detached from the latter, such foreign concepts, terminologies, and ideas would a priori be anti-modern and therefore anti-liberal.
A significant problem that has arisen for liberalism, as well as for the more conservative Right detached from modernity, is that the Left(s) have shifted the political battleground, relocating to new terrains and implementing new rules of engagement, where individuals and social groups are addressed and bombarded on different planes than were imaginable a few decades ago. (more…)
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The following text is adapted from remarks Ruuben Kaalep gave at the 20th American Renaissance conference on August 12, 2023. Mr. Kaalep is a politician with the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia (EKRE), and a former member of the Estonian Parliament. He is also one of the founders of the EKRE’s youth group, Sinine Äratus, or Blue Awakening. (more…)
Judith Butler
Judith Butler
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Introduction
Why do Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone de Beauvoir, and Hannah Arendt appear alongside Aristotle, Leibnitz, and Wittgenstein in a list of the 50 greatest philosophers of all time, which omits Spinoza, Frege, and Popper?[1] Why does a list of 90 supposedly famous philosophers include people like St. Teresa of Avila and Anna Comnena, whoever they were?[2] It is done to be politically correct. The lack of great female philosophers is so complete that it is felt that one or two women must be put on such lists so as to suggest that it is not beyond a woman to think deeply. (more…)
Antonio Negri (left) & Michael Hardt
Antonio Negri (left) & Michael Hardt
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Introduction here, Chapter 10 Part 2 here, Chapter 11 Part 2 here
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri published a book intitled Empire (E.) in the United States in April 2000, followed four years later by another essay, Multitude (M.). (more…)
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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)
Fróði Midjord: Another thing that you bring up here is to make a point that in attacking the American ideology, Dugin paints a ridiculous and cartoonish picture of Americans; and as you point out, correctly I believe, the same can be done about Russians. (more…)
