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  • Is There a Right Wing after Postmodernity? “Euronormativity” and Biopoliticized Resistances to the “Counterhegemonic” Left

    Counter Currents - Apr 19th 2024 3:06pm EDT

    Discobolus, a Roman copy of the Greek original from the fifth century BC. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons. 2,899 words From a liberal perspective, there exists a logical (and also emotional) resistance to the use of concepts, terminologies, and ideas that are foreign to modernity, since for liberalism, being born detached from the latter, such […]

  • Thailand: Lower House of Parliament Overwhelmingly Votes for So-Called “Anal Marriage”

    Daily Stormer - Mar 27th 2024 9:30pm EDT

    Thailand gets described as “liberal” by Westerners. It’s actually not. Thais are just pretty “libertarian” when it comes to people’s personal decisions. That doesn’t mean it’s a pro-gay country, or that the people support so-called “anal marriage.” Reuters: Thailand’s parliament overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill on Wednesday, a landmark step that moves one of […]

  • Ireland Getting Ready to Legalize Euthanasia

    Daily Stormer - Mar 23rd 2024 7:29am EDT

    Ireland is continuing the suicide drive into oblivion, despite the Paki PM resigning after anti-immigrant violence. European Conservative: The defeat of two referenda to remove the word woman from the constitution and alter the legal definition of what constitutes a family under Irish law appears not to have blunted progressives in Ireland. On Thursday, March […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 574: James Tucker on George Grant and Nationalism

    Counter Currents - Feb 28th 2024 1:46pm EST

    252 words / 54:40 Greg Johnson and guest Keith Woods (Substack, Twitter) were joined by James Tucker (Substack, Twitter), author of the recent Counter-Currents essay “Where George Grant Went Wrong,” for the second half of the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio. James’ essay is on why only racial nationalism, rather than blank-slate conservatism such as […]

  • Where George Grant Went Wrong

    Counter Currents - Feb 16th 2024 2:23pm EST

    George Grant 1,844 words George Grant’s Lament for a Nation was most obviously wrong in its immediate predictions about Canada. He thought that Anglo-Canada would seek direct annexation by the dynamic American Republic. Many of his errors stem from a conflation of economics with cultural and political destiny. Even now that Canada is almost entirely […]

  • NY Mag: Guide To Polyamory

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 17th 2024 10:10am EST

    I’ve always had a lot of White Nationalist readers who are either confused by or critical of my support for Southern Nationalism and Christian Nationalism. While I agree that race is important and that race matters, I have always believed it isn’t the only thing that matters. Even in a homogeneous White ethnostate, our values […]

  • Havens in a Heartless World, Part 1: The Family

    Counter Currents - Dec 27th 2023 2:47pm EST

    John Singleton Copley, “The Copley Family,” 1776 2,340 words Christopher Lasch famously described the family as a “haven in a heartless world.”[1] How is the world heartless, and how is the family a haven? For Lasch, the heartlessness of the world has everything to do with the increasing liberalization and economization of life. Liberalism’s ideal […]

  • The Atlantic: The Patriot

    Occidental Dissent - Sep 21st 2023 11:31am EDT

    I can’t even … In what f***ing universe is Donald Trump the dangerous warmonger and Joe Biden – who has spent upward of $100 billion dollars on a proxy war with Russia, which has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths on both sides – a steady pair of hands? The Atlantic: In normal times, […]

  • The Atlantic: Chemo for Democracy

    Occidental Dissent - Sep 8th 2023 11:09am EDT

    Democracy Defenders are out in force this morning. In case you missed it, someone named Quinta Jurecic who is a fellow at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare, which is a journal about the use of the law as a weapon of conflict, has a new article in The Atlantic in which […]

  • Why Liberal Values Collapse on Contact With Reality

    Amerika.org - Sep 5th 2023 7:32am EDT

    We on the Right spend too much analyzing liberalism-as-it-claims-to-be, and not enough time looking into the pathology behind it. This psychological state is both less malevolent and more unrealistic than most people could imagine. If we view liberalism as a phenomenon emerging from socializing, instead of politics, the disparity between its promised results and actual […]

  • Christopher Rufo: No to the Politics of “Whiteness”

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 31st 2023 10:43am EDT

    Charlie Kirk’s recent tweet about how whiteness is great has been getting some pushback from Conservatism, Inc. Christopher Rufo has been working with Gov. Ron DeSantis to wage a war on wokeness in Florida. Rufo thinks we are trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. City Journal: In recent years, I have devoted […]

  • American Renaissance 2023: Reasons for Optimism

    Counter Currents - Aug 16th 2023 11:18am EDT

    3,765 words I was down in the dumps last weekend when I headed once more to the annual American Renaissance conference. This year was a significant milestone for the organization, founded by Jared Taylor in 1990: It was the twentieth such conference. I was hoping that spending some time with fellow haters would perk me […]

  • Individualism Begins the Civilization Death Process

    Amerika.org - Aug 13th 2023 7:32am EDT

    Starting in the late 1980s, my writing focused on heavy metal music and how its spirit got corrupted. This was important because bands “broke,” selling out either for money, crowd approval, or ideological goodwill, and never regained whatever former glory they had. This naturally morphed into writing about philosophy because the concepts had become too […]

  • American History Series: Intellectual Change In The 1930s

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 8th 2023 11:24am EDT

    The ideas which have dominated the post-World War II liberal consensus triumphed in the 1930s during the Great Depression. The American victory in World War II was the capstone on their dominance. The following excerpt comes from the chapter “The Intellectuals Abandon the Caste Establishment” in E. Digby Baltzell’s book The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy & […]

  • Michael Anton: The Pessimistic Case for the Future

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 22nd 2023 12:16pm EDT

    This is a very good summary of our present moment from Michael Anton. I’m sure pretty much everyone here would cosign it. This has been the radical view for at least twenty years. Compact: “Recently, I was asked to make the “pessimistic case for the future.” I present instead more of a “pessimistic take on […]

  • The Intellectual Counterattack on Caste

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 18th 2023 2:32pm EDT

    I haven’t been completely inert over the past few months. I have resumed my research into late 19th century / early 20th century intellectual history. I traced the roots of our current cultural decline back to this period a few years ago. There is a tendency in our circles to blame everything on the Jews […]

  • Open Debate -Ancient Faith Comes After Us Again! Orthodrama on Twitter, TAG, Atheism & Energies

    Jay Dyer - Jul 15th 2023 8:37pm EDT

    TODAY we will open it up again for an apologetic exchange and discourse as we allow the opponents from Protestantism, Catholicism, Islam and any manner of cults and sectarian groups to come on and make their argument for why their position is correct. Topics include: atheism, philosophy, thomism, energies and divine simplicity, TAG and presuppositional […]

  • Europe At War & Affirmative Action Is Over For College Admissions? – FF Ep218 – Hour 1

    Red Ice TV - Jul 1st 2023 2:00am EDT

    Henrik and Lana cover the war that has begun in France and the rest of Europe + developments in the US, June 30, 2023.

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  • What Most People Want Is Insane

    Amerika.org - Jun 16th 2023 7:32am EDT

    Those who grow up in established civilizations are inculcated since birth in what we might call the Founding Lie, namely that you have to do what makes other people happy in order to get what you want, at which point you are accountable to no one. Every group adopts this because it is convenient for […]

  • Keith Woods: The Idea That Shaped The Modern World

    Occidental Dissent - Jun 2nd 2023 9:58pm EDT

    Keith Woods has put together an excellent video on the philosophical underpinnings of the postwar liberal consensus. Note: I reviewed R.R. Reno’s book Return of the Strong Gods here in 2019.

  • Leftism Originates From Narcissism

    Amerika.org - May 24th 2023 7:32am EDT

    For a couple decades, the writers behind this site have indicated the root of Leftism as individualism, which as a philosophy means the self first before all else. This provoked resistance on a number of fronts. Conservatives resisted it because they confuse convention and tradition. Where tradition means a continuous goal and set of principles […]

  • Men, Women & Feminism: Traditional Living Vs Nihilism – Brittany Seller & Jay Dyer

    Jay Dyer - May 23rd 2023 11:49am EDT

    Brittany joins me to discuss the dangers and dark side of feminism and how it leads to nihilism. Far from empowerment, it seems built on the notion that there is no meaning or purpose in nature beyond what each individual creates. But created meaning is a futile enterprise for beings that are finite: we need […]

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  • Institutional Capture Explained: The State Dept, CIA & Orthodox, Roman Catholic & Protestant Churches – Jay Dyer Pt. 1

    Jay Dyer - May 11th 2023 5:46pm EDT

    By: Jay Dyer An Introduction to the historical and geopolitical factors of state and private interference in ecclesial and religious affairs The notion of state interference in the life of the Church is well known to students of Church history: Arian Emperors, Imperial support for iconoclasm, the Frankish and Germanic control of the papacy, as […]

  • Liberal Anti-Democracy, Part 1: How Western Elites Thwart the Will of the People

    Counter Currents - May 9th 2023 1:51pm EDT

    4,909 words Part 1 of 8 There is no doubt: the digital space has incredible power for good. But . . . we’ve also seen the threat it can pose to our democratic values, systems, and our citizens. — Justin Trudeau I think it [the Internet] is the single biggest threat to our democracy. — […]

  • Pluralism versus Essentialism

    Amerika.org - Apr 27th 2023 10:55pm EDT

    As Late Stage Democracy winds down, people are becoming curious about what went wrong, which leads us to wonder what is right. This has set the stage for a clash between pluralism and essentialism, the former representing the Left and the latter, the sane parts of the Right. Pluralism is a cornerstone of Leftist thinking, […]