Tag: Thanksgiving

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Last weekend’s broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio was a Thanksgiving weekend all-star extravaganza, where Greg Johnson and co-hosts Gaddius Maximus (Telegram), Cyan Quinn, and David Zsutty were joined by The Ayatollah (Odysee, Telegram), Sam Dickson,  Endeavour (Substack, Telegram, YouTube), Friedrich, Jim Goad, James Kirkpatrick (Substack), Tim Murdock (White Rabbit Radio),  Pox Populi (Telegram, YouTube), Karl Thorburn (Telegram), and Keith Woods. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

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On behalf of everyone at Counter-Currents, I want to wish all our US readers safe travels and a happy Thanksgiving. (And please don’t let your dogs eat turkey bones.) Here are a few past articles on Thanksgiving for your edification: (more…)

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American veteran David Zsutty delivers a special Thanksgiving message in this short video. (more…)

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The winter months are, and have always been, my least favorite time of the year. Perusing the most recent string of articles on this site, I realize this places me in the minority — perhaps even a minority of one. Hating the winter is not exactly Nordic of me.

Autumn is when things start to die. Winter is when they stay dead. Spring is when they come alive again, and summer is when they are fully abloom. (more…)

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The annual American ritual. The annual American ordeal. The overcooked turkey that takes forever to come out of the oven. Those little round rolls, hard as flint. That sweet potato and marshmallow (yes, marshmallow) casserole that has no name but ought to be called “carbicide.” In fact, the whole meal is carbicide. But we want that after a while — cide in any form — because the people can be worse. Oh Death, where is thy sting? The screaming kids. The in-laws that serve as an uncomfortable reminder of how you married below (or above) your station. The cousin who insists on telling you that in his house they believe in “science” (mark my words, this is going to happen). (more…)

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When I was a child, Thanksgiving was little more than midway point between Halloween and Christmas, lacking the magic of either. I didn’t much like the food (except pumpkin pie), I hated football (and still do), and I found my great-grandfather’s extreme old age somewhat disquieting. However, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to appreciate this late autumn feast, to the point that it is now one of my favorite days of the year.

In retrospect, I fondly recall making the drive to my grandparents’ country home on a cold and rainy day — that is how I always remember it — where my extended family had assembled and the scent of roasting turkey and sweet potatoes pervaded the house. (more…)

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There is no holiday or tradition that is both solemn and as deeply intertwined in the unique historical American ethnicity and spiritualism as Thanksgiving. The holiday has several meanings. The first is religious. The Mayflower Pilgrims celebrated their survival in Plymouth Colony with a feast and gave thanks to God for their blessings. Today, deep within American culture, Thanksgiving still carries the impulse to give thanks to the Almighty for one’s blessings during the year. (more…)

Pieter Breugel, the Elder, “The Peasant Wedding”

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Thanksgiving Day is America’s incarnation of the traditional harvest festival, a celebration of the end of the summer harvest, often marked by lavish feasts. (more…)

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This time of year, when autumn fades into winter, has been particularly evocative to me ever since I was a child. Of course, “the holiday season” has a special meaning for many people, and their reasons are probably for the most part quite similar to mine. There is a shared seasonal nostalgia for the cold autumn air, the brilliant foliage, Jack-o’-lanterns and Christmas trees, eggnog and pumpkin pie and sugar cookies, Halloween costumes and Thanksgiving dinners and Christmas mornings. (more…)

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On behalf of everyone at Counter-Currents, I want to wish all our US readers safe travels and a happy Thanksgiving. (And please don’t let your dogs eat turkey bones.) Here are a few past articles on Thanksgiving for your edification: (more…)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Red Lives Matter, 2020.

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I’m not much of a holiday-celebratin’ guy, but if I had to pick my favorite, it would probably be Thanksgiving, and merely for the basic gustatory pleasures it provides. I could eat turkey, stuffing, and sweet potatoes three times a day for the rest of my life and never tire of it.

But as with everything these days, there are legions of carcinogenically bitter social-justice scolds who have made it their fundamental project to squeeze the fun out of everything as if they wake up every morning hoping to choke a baby piglet to death. (more…)

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On behalf of everyone at Counter-Currents, I want to wish all our US readers safe travels and a happy Thanksgiving. (And please don’t let your dogs eat turkey bones.) Here are a few past articles on Thanksgiving for your edification: (more…)