1,275 words
A Counter-Currents reader has offered the following essay to stir thought and four prizes — a first prize of $200, and three runner-up prizes of $100 each — for the best concrete ideas on the topic outlined in it, to be submitted to [email protected] before October 1, 2023. (more…)
1,530 words
Cryptids are an endless source of fascination, and explanations for the phenomenon abound. My personal theory is that they are for the most part real, albeit in strange extradimensional, metaphysical ways. Regardless, whether they are real or not, and if so and in what manner, is a question of fact. Right now I want to deal with the question of their meaning. (more…)
Ferdinand von Wright, Pigeons
Ferdinand von Wright, Pigeons
1,171 words
A friend recently sent me a video on the history of Western, and specifically Anglo-American, cultural attitudes towards pigeons. The specificity of the subject titillated my thoroughly postmodern fancy, so I gave it a watch. You should as well. (more…)
A North American beaver eating water lilies. Image credit: Ingrid Taylar.
A North American beaver eating water lilies. Image credit: Ingrid Taylar.
1,020 words
Throughout the United States and Canada, we have an animal called the beaver whose behavior reflects the best of our nature. Like much of our population in recent years, the beaver is stout, and not very photogenic. He has tiny eyes and a huge nose, bright orange teeth, and when on land has a waddling gait like a penguin. (more…)