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The Game of Thrones Finale

Trevor Lynch

2,225 words

I loved the Game of Thrones series when it first got started. I watched it on the recommendation of Greg Hood’s Counter-Currents reviews of Season One and Season Two. I was so taken with it that, when I ran out of episodes, I actually picked up George R. R. Martin’s books to see how the stories continued, Read more …

Published: June 2, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , | 10 Responses
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The Rise & Fall of South Park, Part 2
South Park in the Age of Trump

Travis LeBlanc

Canadian Donald Trump from “Where My Country Gone?”

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Matt and Trey: Never Trumpers

On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama defeated John McCain in the presidential election, and the next evening, South Park had an episode about it. Read more …

Published: December 6, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , | 14 Responses
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The Rise & Fall of South Park, Part 1
South Park Conservatism

Travis LeBlanc

3,991 words

Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

Novelist Robert Anton Wilson once famously said, “It only takes twenty years for a liberal to become a conservative with changing a single idea.”  Read more …

Published: December 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , | 14 Responses
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The Sci-Fi Channel’s Dune & Children of Dune

Trevor Lynch

1,723 words

David Lynch’s Dune (1984) is a flawed masterpiece. When I first saw it, I was deeply disappointed. Frank Herbert’s original novel made a powerful impression on me. I could see Herbert’s world, and Lynch’s vision was not my vision. But when my initial impression faded and I returned to Lynch’s film with an open mind, I found it immensely imaginative and compelling. Even the score by Toto managed to grow on me.  Read more …

Published: October 23, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | 22 Responses
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Jack Ryan Viewed from the Right

Morris V. de Camp

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Morris V. de Camp
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (2018)
Season 1
Produced by Amazon Prime

Starring:[1] John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Ali Suliman, John Hoogenakker, Dana Shihabi, Abbie Cornish, and others

The late Tom Clancy (1947–2013) was a novel-writing genius. Read more …

Published: September 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , | 1 Response
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The Expanse

Trevor Lynch

1,249 words

The Expanse is a SyFy network original series that is now nearing the end of its third season. The Expanse is the most imaginative and absorbing science fiction series since the reboot of Battlestar Galactica (2003–2009). Read more …

Published: June 26, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , | 12 Responses
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Waco: The Incident that Kickstarted the Right

Morris V. de Camp

3,407 words

Waco
Developed by John Erick Dowdle & Drew Dowdle
Directed by John Erick Dowdle & Dennie Gordon
Starring Michael Shannon, Taylor Kitsch, Andrea Riseborough, Paul Sparkes, Rory Culkin, Shea Wigham, Melissa Benoist, John Leguizamo, & Julia Garner
Paramount Network, 2018 Read more …

Published: March 6, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Responses
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A Note on The Orville

Marian Van Court

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The Orville is a new science fiction/satire series created by Seth MacFarlane (Fox, 9 p.m., Thursdays). It takes place 300 years in the future, and MacFarlane is captain of a space ship, the Orville.

If Seth MacFarlane hasn’t read The Culture of Critique, he must have guessed what it has to say. Read more …

Published: October 17, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , | 4 Responses
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More than a Tawdry Tabloid:
The Meaning of the O. J. Simpson Affair, Part II

C. F. Robinson

3,733 words

The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Directed by Ryan Murphy & Anthony Hemingway
Starring, Sterling K. Brown, Kenneth Choi, Christian Clemenson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Bruce Greenwood, Nathan Lane, Sarah Paulson, Steven Pasquale, David Schwimmer, John Travolta, Courtney B. Vance, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, and others
2016
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Published: September 6, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , | 6 Responses
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The Kings of Winter

Telemachus

2,493 words

In the first part, we examined the concept of the Kali Yuga and its parallel in A Song of Ice and Fire, The Long Night. In this part, we will cover the Stark family, who sits at the core of the fantasy saga.

The fledgling Night’s Watch and Bran the Builder win the Battle for the Dawn and civilization is spared an early grave. Read more …

Published: August 24, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment
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The Long Night of the Kali Yuga

Telemachus

2,103 words

“I don’t want any more stories,” Bran snapped, his voice petulant. He had liked Old Nan and her stories once … They left her with him all day now, to watch over him and clean him and keep him from being lonely, but she just made it worse. “I hate your stupid stories.”
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Published: August 17, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , | 1 Response
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More than a Tawdry Tabloid:
The Meaning of the O. J. Simpson Affair

C. F. Robinson

3,156 words

The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Directed by Ryan Murphy & Anthony Hemingway
Starring, Sterling K. Brown, Kenneth Choi, Christian Clemenson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Bruce Greenwood, Nathan Lane, Sarah Paulson, Steven Pasquale, David Schwimmer, John Travolta, Courtney B. Vance, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, and others
2016
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Published: August 10, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , | 9 Responses
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Prelude to A Song of Fire & Ice

Telemachus

2,567 words

A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF), better known for its TV counterpart Game of Thrones, became a pop culture phenomenon late in the last decade. It has since garnered a worldwide fan base and a cult of die-hard fans that seek clues and dream up theories of the story’s arc and plots. Of course, this isn’t the first time medieval fantasy has swept the modern world by storm. Read more …

Published: July 14, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , | 7 Responses
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Shinsekai Yori & the Impossibility of Coexistence

Buttercup Dew

Squealer

2,528 words

Reviewing anime for a White Nationalist site can be hard, for the want of good subject matter. There are infinite complaints that can be made against mainstream anime that reflects Western memes. Read more …

Published: June 30, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , | 4 Responses
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Cultural Marxism & a Race-Mixing Agenda:
13 Reasons Why

Jacob Storms

2,233 words

13 Reasons Why, a novel by Jay Asher and now a Netflix original series, follows the trail left behind by the late Hannah Baker, a high school junior who committed suicide. She leaves behind thirteen tapes – each dedicated to a specific individual at her high school, each of whom served as the building blocks to her suicide. Read more …

Published: May 4, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Responses
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An All-American Dad:
A Review of The Man in the High Castle

Will Windsor

3,548 words

Obergruppenführer John Smith (Rufus Sewell)

The Man in the High Castle
Amazon Studios, created by Frank Spotnitz
2015-present

The second season of the record-breaking show, The Man in the High Castle (hereafter TMHC), debuted last December on Amazon’s streaming service. The story is loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s novel of the same name, which establishes the setting: an alternative history scenario where the Third Reich and Imperial Japan won the Second World War and now (the show is set in 1962) occupy the United States, with Japan controlling everything west of the Rockies and Germany the Eastern seaboard. Read more …

Published: February 14, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , | 15 Responses
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Lessons from Reality TV:
PBS’s Colonial House & Texas Ranch House

C. F. Robinson

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Reality TV, it’s the lowest of the low, right? Not really. Reality TV has been a powerful genre precisely because it allows one to watch a person ripped from modern day life into an entirely different world. Reality TV is a perfect venue to see how a person reacts to a severe social change and project oneself into that situation.  Read more …

Published: June 17, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Responses
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Counter-Currents Valentine’s Day Special 
The Vermont Teddy Bear is a Giant Phallus

Jef Costello

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February 5, 2014

Last night I was so bored I actually turned on Fox News. I do this now and then, with the same sort of feeling I get when I pass a roadside accident and, against my better judgment, turn briefly to glimpse the carnage. It was around 10:30, so the execrable Sean Hannity was on. After a minute or so of the usual Obamacare coverage they went to a commercial. It was then that I received the revelation, and my life changed forever.  Read more …

Published: February 6, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | 6 Responses
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The Man From U.N.C.L.E. — A Cautionary Tale, Part 2

Jef Costello

3,631 words

9 David McCallum and Robert Vaughn in an early episodeAct Three: “The Mush from U.N.C.L.E.”

Eventually someone pointed out that there is a law in New York State prohibiting the exploitation of “U.N.” or “United Nations” for commercial purposes, so “U.N.C.L.E.” had to be given a meaning. Read more …

Published: August 12, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Responses
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The Man From U.N.C.L.E. — A Cautionary Tale, Part 1

Jef Costello

3,989 words

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Teaser:

On August 14th, Warner Bros. will release its big-screen adaptation of a television series most moviegoers under the age of 60 have never even heard of: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 1964-1968). Read more …

Published: August 11, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , | 8 Responses
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Better Call Saul!

Jef Costello

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Readers of this site are aware of my great love for Breaking Bad (see here and here). Just about every like-minded man I know who saw the series found the story of Walter White, high school chemistry teacher turned drug king pin, to be as inspirational as I did. Weirdly inspirational, of course. But these are weird times. Walt’s story was not intended to be a glorification of crime (though, well, it does kind of turn out to be). It’s the story of a man becoming a man; becoming what he is. It’s the televisual, inspirational equivalent of Fight Club.  Read more …

Published: June 18, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , | 3 Responses
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True Detective & The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

Christopher Pankhurst

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“It is a book of great truths,” I said.

“Yes, he replied, “of ‘truths’ which send men frantic and blast their lives. I don’t care if the thing is, as they say, the very supreme essence of art. It’s a crime to have written it, and I for one shall never open its pages.”

 — The Repairer of Reputations, Robert W. Chambers

True Detective is widely considered to be one of the best TV series ever broadcast. Read more …

Published: June 2, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | 10 Responses
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Don Draper’s Last Diddle
The Finale of Mad Men

James J. O'Meara

1,722 wordsJon Hamm as Don Draper - Mad Men _ Season 7B, Key Art - Photo Credit: Frank Ockenfels 3/AMC

Having followed Mad Men from the start, with initial enthusiasm[1] gradually tempered by the increasingly exposed triumphalist agenda,[2] I found the series finale, pumped (or pimped) by the network as “the end of an era,” Read more …

Published: May 18, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Response
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“This is a shirtsleeve operation”:
Judaic Crypsis in the Final Season of Mad Men

James J. O'Meara

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Caddy Danny Noonan (working-class Irish American): “I planned to go to law school after I graduated, but it looks like my folks won’t have enough money to put me through college.”

Judge Smails (rich WASP): “Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.”

— Caddyshack (Harold Ramis, 1980)

Read more …

Published: May 5, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , | 2 Responses
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A Dearth of Intelligence
Robert Durst, Jinx or Jew?

James J. O'Meara

2,768 words

Robert Durst

Robert Durst

“What the hell did I do? Killed them all of course.” — Robert Durst

One of the oddities of the current scene is that only White Nationalists, or “race realists,” are allowed to mention the intelligence of the Jews. In fact, they seem to have a shameful obsession with it, especially the latter group, who seem to think it can provide evidence for another of their hobby-horses, the all-pervasive relevance of IQ and genetics.  Read more …

Published: March 18, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , | 15 Responses
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Breaking Badge:
Touch of Evil through the Lens of Breaking Bad

James J. O'Meara

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Breaking Bad (AMC)
Created and produced by Vince Gilligan.
January 20, 2008 – September 29, 2013 (62 episodes)

Touch of Evil (Universal)
Written, directed, and starring Orson Welles
“Preview” version (108 min., released on DVD 1993); Theatrical release, 1958 (93 min.)
“Restored” version, 1998 (112 min.)[1]
Based on the novel Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson Read more …

Published: January 30, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | 4 Responses
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Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner

Collin Cleary

8,581 words

Editor’s Note:

patrick-mcgoohanI am reprinting Collin Cleary’s classic essay on Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner as a sequel to Andrew Hamilton’s article on Danger Man. Cleary’s essay is available in print form in his Summoning the Gods: Essays on Paganism in a God-Forsaken World, Read more …

Published: June 16, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Responses
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Danger Man

Andrew Hamilton
Danger Man star Patrick McGoohan

Danger Man star Patrick McGoohan

3,818 words

“Somewhere along the line I am going to meet with an arm of this octopus, and when I do it will lead me to a head, and when I find that I shall cut it off.” — John Drake in “You Are Not in Any Trouble, Are You?” (1965)

I recently watched the 1960s English television series Danger Man (1960–1962, 30 mins.; 1964–1968, 1 hour) starring Patrick McGoohan. It was a popular spy show that made McGoohan a star and enabled him to produce his cult television series The Prisoner (UK, 1967–1968). Read more …

Published: June 13, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , | 9 Responses
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Counter-Currents Valentine’s Day Special 
The Vermont Teddy Bear is a Giant Phallus

Jef Costello

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Last night I was so bored I actually turned on Fox News. I do this now and then, with the same sort of feeling I get when I pass a roadside accident and, against my better judgment, turn briefly to glimpse the carnage. It was around 10:30, so the execrable Sean Hannity was on. After a minute or so of the usual Obamacare coverage they went to a commercial. It was then that I received the revelation, and my life changed forever.

Read more …

Published: February 5, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | 21 Responses
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Benefits Street:
A Snapshot of the British Underclass

Simon Lote

2,236 words

benefitsstreet2Benefits Street is a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the day-to-day lives of the residents of James Turner Street in Birmingham, England, 95% of whom are unemployed and claiming benefits. It is a compelling snapshot of the underclass that is growing in every city in the Western world.  Read more …

Published: January 29, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged , , , , , | 14 Responses

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