993 words
The human mind is perhaps the most intricate system we know of, and yet we humans are paradoxically quite simple for some gifted enchanters to understand and manipulate. (more…)
Counter-Currents
Tag: prisons
-
-
2,162 wordsLong-time Counter-Currents contributor Ondrej Mann recently conducted an interview with our most prolific writer, Jim Goad.
Ondrej Mann: Do you believe in astrology and astrological signs? Do you have any experience with it? I was telling my girlfriend about you, your work, your interests, and your books, and she immediately said, typical Gemini. And then when I looked at your birth date, June 12 . . . (more…)
-
1,502 wordsLast week, striking footage emerged of about 2,000 heavily tattooed Salvadoran inmates, their heads shaved and bowed, wearing nothing but white boxer shorts and packed together like sardines while being herded at gunpoint to a spanking-new prison that will become by far the world’s largest when it reaches full capacity. (more…)
-
1,115 wordsWhen I was but a wee beardless prepubescent male in the 1960s, there was to be no questioning of the immutable fact that not only was the USA the greatest country in the world at that time, it was the greatest country the world had ever seen. This was a truth that was held to be self-evident by nearly everyone, and if you dared to disagree, you risked a beating. (more…)
-
2,372 words
David Skarbek
The Social Order of the Underworld
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014As long as academia compels its scholars to write books in which they avoid asking questions about race, discerning readers will ask such questions for them. The Social Order of the Underworld is one such book. Nominally, it is a study which uses economics to explain prison gangs and their function, structure, and behavior. (more…)
-
2,772 wordsPeter Moskos
In Defense of Flogging
New York: Basic Books, 2011Are you a coward? Did you drop out of nursing school because taking a blood sample would “violate the patient’s bodily integrity?” Then In Defense of Flogging is not for you. If, on the other hand, you intend to make America great again, Peter Moskos’ book is a good place to start. (more…)
-
George Frederic Watts, “Mammon”
George Frederic Watts, “Mammon”
66:19 / 104 words
[jwplayer file=”https://counter-currents.com/radio/StarkTruth-2013-11-21-KeithPreston.mp3″ streamer=”rtmp://s3cxt7hxkp9tvh.cloudfront.net/cfx/st” provider=”rtmp” duration=”3979″]
To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.”
To subscribe to our podcasts, click here.
Robert Stark interviews Keith Preston of Attack the System on the decline of the American middle class and the prospects for radical populism. Topics include:
- Joel Kotkin’s book The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050
- Neo-liberalism (more…)
- Joel Kotkin’s book The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050
