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Many mainstream observers and analysts in the West struggle to grasp how Russia – considered a key force in the Allied victory over Nazi Germany – now exhibits behaviors strikingly similar to the ideology it helped defeat. Even more perplexing to mainstream observers is Russia’s use of World War II’s legacy as a tool of militaristic pride. (more…)
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A letter by Osama bin Laden addressed to the people of the United States was posted in Arabic in 2002 to a Saudi Arabian website that was then being used by bin Laden’s organization, Al Qaeda, to distribute its messages. In November of that year it was translated by Islamists in the United Kingdom and then posted to various English-language websites in that country, and was also sent out to e-mail lists run by opponents of the Saudi regime who were living in Britain, according to The Observer at the time. On November 24 the full text was published at the Guardian as well. (more…)
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I have had a difficult relationship with Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Parts of this film are so emotionally powerful as to be almost unendurable. Indeed, before I began work on this review, I had seen Once Upon a Time in the West only one time in full, on a rented VHS tape in the 1990s. I knew it was a great film, so I bought the VHS. But I could not bring myself to watch it again. (more…)
Francis Fukuyama heralded a return to a Western-centered universal conception of history — but one which sees universal liberalism as its endpoint.
Francis Fukuyama heralded a return to a Western-centered universal conception of history — but one which sees universal liberalism as its endpoint.
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Part 7 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 6 here)
We have no standards to judge what are “good” and “bad” forms of being a human, since there are no subjects existing outside the contingencies of historical time and power relationships. All we can do is engage in “discourse analysis” so as to uncover existing hierarchies by analyzing the fields of knowledge through which they are legitimated. We can engage in questioning how we came to be the “humans” we think we are, such as how we came to think that we have natural rights to life, liberty, and happiness, but such a questioning can only show us how our current way of being human is historically contingent and thus changeable. (more…)
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There is an elective affinity — a relationship of reciprocal attraction and mutual reinforcement — between a) John Locke’s argument that a child’s mind initially resembles an “empty cabinet” or a “white paper void of all characters” which can be shaped by controlling the education impressed upon the child’s mind, and b) the origins of a literature specifically written for children in the 1700s in England. (more…)
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From the very start of the conflict in Ukraine I’ve made clear that I don’t take a side, because the very fact that a World War is brewing while the world economy is already teetering on collapse will be bad for the United States no matter who wins, assuming that there will be any winners when the radioactive dust settles. (more…)
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This latest episode of Counter-Currents Radio features Greg Johnson answering reader questions about any topics and discussing aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war, and the broadcast is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
Samuel Huntington
Samuel Huntington
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The decline of the West is still in the first slow phase, but at some point it might speed up dramatically. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations & the Remaking of World Order
In 1993, academic and White House strategist Samuel P. Huntington wrote a piece for the American geopolitical journal Foreign Affairs entitled “The Clash of Civilizations?” Three years later, Huntington dropped the “generally ignored question mark” and expanded his work into a book. (more…)
Winslow Homer, The Woodcutter, 1891.
Winslow Homer, The Woodcutter, 1891.
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I read Neil Gaiman’s American Gods sometime in college. I found it more Flannery O’Connor than Marvel Studios, but it’s hardly surprising that the latter interpretation seems to have driven the new television series’ production team (but I haven’t watched). (more…)
