Tag: the family

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Author’s Note: This is essay reworks and extends a couple of essays published back in 2023 (here and here)

“All that is solid melts into air . . .”

The chief values of modern capitalist society are long life, freedom of choice, and the pursuit of comfort and security. But capitalist society is also characterized by technological and economic dynamism, which makes all social institutions, roles, and statuses fluid and fleeting. This leads to a pervasive and gnawing insecurity, both economic and social. (more…)

You can buy F. Roger Devlin’s Sexual Utopia in Power here.

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Our latest livestream was the third meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club, where author F. Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, Travis LeBlanc, and Counter-Currents Program Director Cyan Quinn discussed F. Roger Devlin’s Sexual Utopia in Power. The stream is now available for download and online listening.

Topics discussed include:

00:03:57 Summary of Sexual Utopia in Power
00:14:04 On the superiority of monogamy
00:18:43 On racial differences in breeding patterns
00:27:22 What is “hypergamy”? (more…)

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Part 1 here

If the family is a haven in the heartless world of global liberalism, so is the nation. What is the connection between family and nation? Both are related by blood. (more…)

Ted Kaczynski outside his Montana cabin in 1972.

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Rich Houck: There’s also other parts I find a small problem with. Ted Kaczynski seems to think that without these modern technologies, people cannot be controlled or subverted or treated poorly, but it seems to me that throughout history that’s not been the case. He talked about some of these movements. He mentioned Communism and Nazism in in the same line, as mass movements, but it seems to me that even if we can imagine a society where there’s no modern technology, you could still have a group of people come that is hostile to your interests for various reasons. (more…)

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Ever since Monday
I’ve seen it comin’
When I say what’s wrong
She just says nothin’ (more…)

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Wilhelm Reich
The Mass Psychology of Fascism
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1946

What makes Fascists tick? Wilhelm Reich said he had the answer in his groundbreaking book The Mass Psychology of Fascism. (more…)

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Richard Lyman Bushman
The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2018

Most of us who are not farmers are tempted to take farming for granted. We certainly see the results of farming in the produce sections of our supermarkets. Beyond that, we have pleasant images of industrious country folk in denim overalls just doin’ their thing amid amber waves of grain. (more…)

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Mary Eberstadt
Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics
West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2019

Mary Tedeschi Eberstadt is a onetime speechwriter for George Schultz, author of several books, sometime fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institute, and currently senior fellow at something called the Faith & Reason Institute. (more…)

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Translated by G. A. Malvicini

We have already had the occasion to point to the illusoriness of the claim that modern man, in general, has achieved an autonomy and self-consciousness he previously lacked. This illusion can in part be explained by the fact that attention today is primarily directed towards external conditions, to the disappearance of certain material limits to the freedom of the individual — (more…)

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This article should be read in conjunction with my brief essay “On Family” (2014).

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Jewish actress Dennie Moore, L., and Rosalind Russell in “The Women”

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I first tried watching The Women (1939) years ago. It is the story of a happily married, upper-class Manhattan woman who lets her bitchy, backbiting, catty Park Avenue friends talk her into a divorce after her husband strays.

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Buffalo Bill Cody

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Editor’s Note:

The following text is excerpted from chapter 5 of James J. O’Meara’s book The Homo and the Negro: Masculinist Meditations on Politics and Popular Culture, forthcoming from Counter-Currents. 

Many of today’s “alternative” Rightists aspire to a pre-modern, even Traditional worldview that they hope will return us to the vital sources of our civilization. (more…)

London: Arktos, 2011
270 pages

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In Revolution from Above, Dr. Kerry Bolton demonstrates that the supposed rivalry between Marxist-inspired movements and capitalism has always been an illusion. (more…)