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As most of us are probably aware by now, Curtis Yarvin has dropped an article titled “You Can Only Lose the Culture War.” Some have gone so far as to call this “Yarvin’s bomb” — quite the bomb drop, indeed, which has kicked the hornet’s nest of the Dissident Right.
The article’s gist is as follows: America is divided, roughly speaking, into hobbits and elves. (more…)
You’ve got to hand it to this hipster. The slogan is even better than “Nuke the gay whales for Jesus.”
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What are the political dimensions of globalism?
There are various possible implementations of globalism. A Rightist version would be straight up imperialism, but on a worldwide scale. Military conquest of the entire planet hasn’t been attempted, despite what you might’ve heard from certain feverish wartime propaganda that still keeps getting dredged up after eight decades.
From the far Left, Communism has some rather obvious globalist dimensions. (more…)
Santi di Tito, Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli, ca. 1550.
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Gregory Hood was host Greg Johnson‘s guest on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and they discussed James Burnham and Machiavellianism, the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court, and answered YOUR QUESTIONS, and it is now ready for download and online listening. (more…)
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The Question of Public Virtue
When Lasch wonders whether American democracy can survive crime, drugs, and urban decay, he is sounding another populist theme that harks back to classical republicanism: the dependence of popular government on public virtue. (more…)
Christopher Lasch
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Christopher Lasch
The Revolt of the Elites & the Betrayal of Democracy
New York: W. W. Norton, 1995
Christopher Lasch (1932–1994) was an American historian who taught for many years at the University of Rochester, authored a number of important books, and spoke beyond academia to the broad, educated public. (more…)
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The Vice President of the United States: It’s a lousy job, but someone’s got to do it. So why not cut to the chase and get a lousy person?
This was the premise of the comedy series Veep, which ran from 2012-2019 on HBO, chronicling the rise and fall and semi-rise of Selena Meyer, who schemes, rules, dominates, cowers, and obfuscates her way to power. Selena, aided (and generally hindered) by her staff, carries the water for President Hughes, and is almost totally ignored except when he orders her out to show the flag, take the heat, or be his pit bull, although Selena winds up as a Chihuahua more often than not, especially when a last-minute bit of political expediency by the unseen President leaves Selene as the fall guy . . . or gal, less a pit bull than sacrificial lamb. (more…)
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Last weekend’s Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson on Counter-Currents Radio is now available for download and online listening.
Topics discussed include:
00:55 Question about the relationship between government, democracy, and the elites
07:20 Do Europeans in Europe have an advantage over European-Americans because they can claim to be on their native land? (more…)
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The second half of last weekend’s broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio was a solo Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson, and it is now available for download and online listening.
Topics discussed include:
01:20 What is your Myers-Briggs personality type?
03:28 What is Greg’s idea of musical hell?
05:00 How do you know you’re having an effect as a white advocate? (more…)
Apotheosis of the Renaissance by Mihály von Munkácsy
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A specter is haunting the anti-culture: the specter of Western man digging for his own roots. For decades, the nefarious Leftist academics who have infested the educational system have had control over the Western canon, the classics, philosophy, literature, and high culture writ large. For all the things that the Left can do with all their power and influence over just about every institution, there is one thing they are still incapable of — a thing which seems so basic: to love the beautiful. (more…)
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Brianna Kupfer was born in 1997, a year in which many of you reading this may have been older teenagers, fresh adults, or middle-aged. Maybe you were just getting started in putting your adult life in order by buying a home, getting married, or perhaps having your first child. With your life ahead of you, you may have felt optimistic. In the 1990s, it was still not that difficult to join the middle class, and the commanding heights of our society were nowhere near as anti-white as they are today — at least not openly. (more…)
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Ever since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, conspiracy theories have been the talk of the Internet. One of the most interesting phenomena in relation to the pandemic has been witnessing conspiracy theories evolve into “science,” and vice versa. (more…)
Boris Johnson and colleagues enjoying some wine at Downing Street in May 2020, when the British police were using drones to harass ordinary citizens who weren’t following social distancing guidelines and lockdown measures.
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Now I can say that I’ve lived in a plague house. Everyone caught the coof here. I became one of the critics of The Narrative about COVID-19 who caught its latest incarnation. Normally this sort of thing is a great occasion for critics of the critics to throw around a lot of snark. Not so fast, though — I caught it from a boarder who is double vaxxed, and of all of us, seems to have had the worst of it. (more…)