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My Five Favorite Books of 2019
Counter Currents - Dec 26th 2019 3:00am EST
1,297 words 1. Steele Brand, Killing for the Republic: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019) This is an excellent work of military history that examines the tradition of civic militarism in the Roman Republic. Brand combines detailed analyses of battles with insights about Roman culture and society. His […]Christmas at Counter-Currents Gabrieli’s “Hodie Christus natus est”
Counter Currents - Dec 25th 2019 4:40am ESTMerry Christmas to all friends of Counter-Currents. “Hodie Christus natus est” (Today Christ is born) is my favorite motet by Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557 to 12 August 1612). My favorite recording is an out-0f-print Decca release by Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. This performance is the best I could find on YouTube. Enjoy! — Greg […]
Christmas at Counter-Currents Some Thoughts on Yule
Counter Currents - Dec 25th 2019 3:49am EST
3,342 words Yule is the midwinter festival celebrated by my ancestors and by Germanic neo-pagans today. Midwinter is a time when much of nature seems to die or to depart. The trees are stripped of their leaves. The birds abandon us, flying off to warmer climes. Bears, badgers, chipmunks, and squirrels hibernate. Water freezes over. […]Christmas at Counter-Currents Christmas & the Winter Solstice
Counter Currents - Dec 25th 2019 3:46am EST
611 words Translation and commentary by Cologero Salvo In “Roma e il natale solare nella tradizione nordico-aria” (La Difesa della razza, 1940), Evola writes: Very few suspect that the holidays [i.e., Catholic holy days] of today, in the century of skyscrapers, radio, great movements of the masses, are celebrated and continue . . . a […]Christmas at Counter-Currents Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily
Counter Currents - Dec 25th 2019 3:43am ESTPhilippe de Champaigne, “Saint Augustin,” 1645-1650 2,587 words The key problem of our age is disconnection from truth. This takes several distinct forms. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of lies. As everyone knows, modern, western civilization is founded upon lies about human nature, culture, and history. The most significant of these – […]The Literal War on Christmas
Counter Currents - Dec 24th 2019 11:16am EST
Syrians celebrate Christmas as Israel rains down bombs 1,063 words Can you feel that magic in the air? It is the most wonderful time of the year. People from all over the world retreat to their hearths and homes to celebrate Christmas, to be with their families, to enjoy warmth, to remember good times, to […]All I Want for Christmas
Counter Currents - Dec 24th 2019 3:41am EST
Albert Chevallier Tayler, The Christmas Tree, 1911 1,060 words All I want for Christmas is for white men to be happy. Yes, you read that correctly. I want you, white man, to be happy this Christmas. Wherever you are and whoever you are with, I want you to be happy. What do I mean by […]My Five Favorite Books of 2019
Counter Currents - Dec 24th 2019 3:02am EST
2,921 words 1. John Sutherland Orwell’s Nose: A Pathological Biography London: Reaktion Books, 2016 This small but brilliant volume is a joy to read, maybe the best single Orwell critique in recent years. “A Quirky and Snarky Treat” somebody at Amazon called it, and that it certainly is. “The lower classes smell,” Orwell famously offers […]What Impeachment Really Means
Counter Currents - Dec 24th 2019 3:00am EST
634 words It finally happened. Donald Trump has been impeached by Nancy Pelosi and her army of malcontents in the House of Representatives. Trump joins just two other presidents in all of American history to hold this distinction, the other two being Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. There is something far deeper and more sinister […]Christmas at Counter-Currents Christmas: Beauty in Life
Counter Currents - Dec 24th 2019 2:46am EST
Viggo Johansen, Glade Jul, 1891 401 words Translated by Greg Johnson; Spanish translation here We are approaching Christmas (another name for the winter solstice). Associated with the evergreen tree, Christmas has always been celebrated in European countries since time immemorial as the great feast presaging the revival of nature and life after the repose of […]Asgardsrei 2019: A Stormride & Tribute to an Eternal Legend
Counter Currents - Dec 23rd 2019 4:06am EST
3,851 words In order to fully understand the importance of this year’s Asgardsrei festival, one must understand the impact that the Blazebirth Hall scene, and in particular, its most prolific artist, Kaldrad, had on both NSBM (National Socialist Black Metal) and the overall sound of Eastern European black metal. I never met Kaldrad, and I […]Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Counter Currents - Dec 23rd 2019 1:34am EST
3,115 words In memory of Raven. Even I didn’t expect Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to be this bad. It is simply a terrible movie: derivative, incoherent, arbitrary, superficial, and deeply boring and uninvolving—despite, or maybe because of, the frenetic action sequences, dazzling duels, and effects so special they’ll leave carbon scoring on your […]The Last Day of Christmas
Counter Currents - Dec 20th 2019 12:39pm EST
Salvador Dalí Christmas card 1,062 words A few years ago I took my four-year-old son to a Santa Claus event being held at a local supermarket. They were offering snacks and goodies and craft activities as well as the opportunity to sit on the bearded man’s lap and tell him what you want to find […]Yiannopoulos vs. Fuentes
Counter Currents - Dec 20th 2019 11:45am EST
4,787 words Milo Yiannopoulos recently interviewed Nick Fuentes because of his movement’s demolition of Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA. Milo told Fuentes that “the purpose of this interview is to let you speak in your own words about what you in fact do believe,” but Milo must have spoken for at least five minutes […]Scorsese’s The Irishman
Counter Currents - Dec 20th 2019 4:36am EST
2,825 words Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is a return to well-trod ground – not just for the director, but for the actors concerned as well, not to mention Hollywood. It’s an organized crime story, the twist being that it has a political aspect to it as well. The cast is a veritable reunion of all […](Too Many) Whites On Ice
Counter Currents - Dec 20th 2019 4:20am EST
1,410 words The Wall Street Journal says the National Hockey League must diversify or die. The NHL is overwhelmingly white. In 2011, it was 93 percent white. It’s roughly the same today. There are 50 black NHL players, which is apparently an outrage. There needs to be much much more diversity, according to supposedly the […]Christmas at Counter-Currents Winter & the European Soul
Counter Currents - Dec 19th 2019 3:18am EST
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow, 1565 (Detail) 1,878 words If you’re milling around Counter-Currents, you’re probably savvy to the notion that human beings are biological creatures, that we are shaped and molded by our environment’s ruthless Darwinian pressures into our present form. To think this way is heresy in the contemporary West. […]The American Kshatriya
Counter Currents - Dec 19th 2019 3:01am EST
Horatio Greenough, George Washington, 1840 3,341 words Valor, fearlessness, fortitude, resourcefulness, and also, not fleeing in war, charity, and the ability to rule, are the natural duties of a Kshatriya. — Bhagavad Gita 18:23 According to a widely-accepted hypothesis of Georges Dumézil, prehistoric Indo-European society was divided into three basic functions: a sacral, a martial, […]Orange Man Bad: The Game Life is Strange 2 as seen from the Right
Counter Currents - Dec 18th 2019 7:30pm EST
5,241 words Life is Strange 2 is arguably the most topical video game to deal with Trump’s presidency, though his name is not even mentioned. Naturally it’s staunchly anti-American and anti-white in its messaging, starring Mexican-Americans fleeing racist white police officers and citizens, complete with references to “the wall” and ICE. Bizarrely, this propaganda […]Risen from the Ashes David Hoggan’s The Forced War
Counter Currents - Dec 18th 2019 3:16pm EST
2,386 words Despite nearly being lost following the destruction of its manuscript in a terrorist attack, David Hoggan’s The Forced War continues to be a relevant tome in our era. Hoggan details how the Second World War was certainly not inevitable, and how the propaganda machine that succeeded in pushing the nations of the West to […]The UK Voted for National Populism
Counter Currents - Dec 18th 2019 12:06pm EST
1,236 words When Brexit won and I heard “Land of Hope and Glory” played at one of the celebrations, I found myself tearing up, much to my surprise. Of course, it makes sense. England is my ancestral homeland. But actually feeling it came as a surprise. It was one of those “Welcome to the human […]Remembering H. Keith Thompson: September 17, 1922–March 3, 2002
Counter Currents - Dec 18th 2019 4:47am EST
The rarely-photographed H. Keith Thompson, Jr. in 1954 988 words Charles Harold Keith Thompson Jr. (September 17, 1922 – March 3, 2002), more familiarly known as Keith Thompson, was Francis Parker Yockey’s primary US colleague. He was born in Orange, New Jersey of English, German, and Scottish descent. Dr. Hans Thomsen, Keith’s cousin, was the […]Christmas Reading at Counter-Currents
Counter Currents - Dec 18th 2019 4:17am EST
182 words The Meaning and History of Christmas Collin Cleary, “Some Thoughts on Yule” Jef Costello, “Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily” William DeVere, “Autumnal Reflections“ Julius Evola, “Christmas and the Winter Solstice” Juleigh Howard-Hobson, “Nothing Much at All” Juleigh Howard-Hobson, “Of Winter Kings & Snap Dragons: John & Caitlín Matthews’ The Winter Solstice” Juleigh […]Thank You For Your Service, Bureaucrat
Counter Currents - Dec 17th 2019 10:29am EST1,232 words Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2019 series epitomizes wine aunt liberalism. Its person of the year was globalist psy-op Greta Thunberg. The 16-year-old autist’s solutions are comfort food to urban elites who fear climate change, but refuse to acknowledge that the non-western world is now the chief source of environmental devastation. It […]Frederick Weiss & Francis Parker Yockey
Counter Currents - Dec 17th 2019 8:53am EST
595 words Frederick Charles Ferdinand Weiss (July 31, 1885 to March 1, 1968) was along with H. Keith Thompson, Yockey’s primary US collaborator. Yockey, Thompson and Weiss engaged in joint literary projects, with numerous pamphlets published by Weiss and written with the common designation X.Y.Z. Weiss had migrated to the USA from Germany in 1909, […]
