Tag: science

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One of the people whom I interviewed for my biography of Jonathan Bowden was Nick Griffin, the former leader of the British National Party. Griffin appointed Bowden, its most popular orator, as the party’s Cultural Officer. Griffin remarked something to the effect of how a lot of people kind of worship Bowden, and if you write his biography — if you present the Bowden of History, not the Bowden of Faith — then you will upset these kinds of people. I was later amazed by how prescient Griffin had been. (more…)

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A society can become technologically modern while remaining intellectually pre-modern. Satellites may be launched into space while superstition governs everyday decisions. The result is not progress but instability—a condition that can be described as second-hand modernity.

How can a society produce seemingly world-class engineers and nuclear scientists while remaining deeply irrational? (more…)

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Stephen Jay Gould

Public debates about science are often presented as struggles between rigorous inquiry and ideological distortion. Over time, however, closer examination of the historical record shows that credibility was frequently distributed according to cultural alignment rather than evidentiary strength. (more…)

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Nobel laureate Dr. James D. Watson, Chancellor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Many of the people who joined in the attacks on Watson in 2007 must have known that what he said about racial differences was accurate. After all, if he had simply been unaware of all the studies demonstrating that racial IQ gaps are environmental in origin, these could easily and quietly have been brought to his attention. There would have been no need to impugn the man’s character publicly.

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Portrait of Arthur Schopenhauer – Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl, 1815

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Part 1

What “Will” Is

In our last installment we began to discuss Schopenhauer’s magnum opus, The World as Will and Representation, and we covered, in essence, the “first half” of the case he makes: we discussed why the world is “representation.” (more…)

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Laurie Anderson
Big Science
Warner Brothers, 1982

In the Seventies, Laurie Anderson made a modest name for herself in the “performance art” scene. (more…)

Gorgias of Leontini

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Part 1 of 14 (Part 2 here)

An ancient commentator on Aristotle tells a story about a farmer who got ahold of Plato’s Gorgias and was so stunned that he gave up the life of farming, trudged to Athens, looked up Plato, and put his soul in Plato’s care.[1]

Like the Alcibiades I, the Gorgias offers a wonderful argument for pursuing the philosophical life. But there are differences. The Gorgias is twice as long as the Alcibiades I. Instead of speaking to a naïve young man, Socrates faces three formidable opponents, including one of the greatest of all sophists, Gorgias of Leontini, for whom the dialogue is named. But in the end, philosophy wins. Sorry for giving away the ending, but did you imagine it would turn out any other way given that Plato is our author? (more…)

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The following is a continuation of two previous essays of mine on the intersection of religious skepticism and White Nationalism, “Christian Nationalism Has Made Me Agnostic” and “The Religious Skeptic’s Case for White Solidarity,” but can be read independently.

Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars. — Carl Sagan (more…)

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Atheism and agnosticism are associated with Leftist, anti-white politics, but there is no reason why this must be so. As discussed in my previous Counter-Currents article, “Christian Nationalism Has Made Me Agnostic,” much of the white Western world,  including countries such as France, the Czech Republic, and Australia, is becoming irreligious. (more…)

Frank Kraemer and Nana Domena

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Ondrej Mann: Which nationalist projects in Germany do you consider the most important and valuable? (more…)

Edmund Husserl

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Leo Strauss credited Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology as a critical resource for his project of overthrowing modern political thought and vindicating the ancients. Strauss’s late essay, “Philosophy as Rigorous Science and Political Philosophy”[1] as well as posthumously published lectures and correspondence reveal significant debts to Husserl. Husserl was not, moreover, a mere “negative influence” — i.e., someone whose ideas Strauss rejected. Husserl was a “positive influence,” meaning that Strauss accepted and incorporated some of his ideas. (more…)

Portrait of Schelling by Karl Joseph Stieler

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

In the first part of this essay I introduced readers to Schelling, who is one of the first philosophers to react against what Heideggereans have called “the metaphysics of presence”: the hidden will in Western metaphysics that gives primacy to human subjectivity, adjusting our understanding of the Being of beings to the human desire that beings should be completely transparent to us, hiding nothing, and readily available for our manipulation. In response to this, Schelling argues that it is nature, not human subjectivity, that should be the starting point of philosophy. (more…)

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The following text is being presented in commemoration of Sir Oswald Mosley’s 136th birthday. — Ed. (more…)