Gertrude Stein. 6,991 words Barbara WillUnlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma (Gender and Culture Series) Columbia University Press, 2011 The joy of the body, the most honorable and fecund joy of all, reign[s] in America. — Bernard Faÿ We do amuse ourselves with ourselves and each other and it is rather […]
4,642 words This is what I believe: “That I am I.” “That my soul is a dark forest.” “That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest.” “That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back.” “That I […]
2,474 words Earlier this month, the New York Times revealed that top-level Democrats have been wargaming possible outcomes of the November 2020 election and are considering secession if things don’t go their way. This should come as a surprise to no one. Since the epoch-changing George Floyd riots — which began in May and are […]
Mårten Eskil Winge, Thor’s Fight with the Giants, 1872. 1,839 words When the average person thinks of Sweden, they probably think of IKEA, meatballs, ABBA, and PewDiePie. When people in the Dissident Right think about Sweden, we often think of a country at the pinnacle of anti-white propaganda and anarcho-tyranny. Nevertheless, Swedish culture has had […]
136 words Saturday, August 8, at noon PST, 3 pm EST, 21:00 CET, Greg Johnson and Nicholas Jeelvy will join Fullmoon Ancestry on his Writers Bloc livestream on Dlive: https://dlive.tv/Fullmoon-ancestry. Sunday, August 9, at noon PST, 3 pm EST, 21:00 CET, Greg Johnson will devote the first hour to a conversation with Kievsky and the […]
1,718 words Author’s note: Tomorrow marks one year of my writing for Counter-Currents. Folklore is Taylor Swift’s eighth studio album. It joined the hallowed halls of other so-called “isolation records” on July 24, 2020, in a surprise release that has begun to mark the production of America’s pop stars during this absurd period of COVID-19 […]
1,076 words The cries for justice over the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were hoaxes. Both men were criminals who died because they were dumb enough to assault men with guns. The same is true of Ahmaud Arbery. They got justice. Jussie Smollet and Bubba Wallace were hoaxers painting themselves as victims of […]
5,026 words Known mostly as a novelist, memoirist, and historian, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had actually completed four plays before his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, was published in 1962. He composed his first two, Victory Celebrations and Prisoners, while a zek in the Soviet Gulag system in 1952. These Solzhenitsyn composed […]
2,373 words Sometimes a ray of sunshine peeks through otherwise dark and gloomy clouds in the midst of a volatile storm, such as the torrential political post-Floyd world. I experienced such a moment of illumination today in the most unlikely of places, my local corporate grocery store. Well, technically, it was while I was on […]
1,297 words The Washington Post made a surprising announcement last week: it will now capitalize “White.” This seemingly minor change speaks volumes about the changing discourse on white identity and how whites fit in a multicultural America. Many newspapers have changed their style guides to insist on the capitalization of Black, but most have refused […]
3,483 words Gianfranco de TurrisJulius Evola: The Philosopher and Magician in War: 1943–1945 Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2020 This English translation of Gianfranco de Turris’s Julius Evola: Un filosofo in guerra 1943–1945 has come along at just the right time, for it shows us how a great man coped both with societal collapse and with […]
427 words Knut Hamsun was born Knut Pedersen in Lom, Norway on August 4, 1859. He died in Grimstad, Norway, on February 19, 1952. The author of more than twenty novels, plus poems, short stories, plays, and essays, Hamsun was one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers. His rejection of both Romanticism and naturalism, […]
1,819 words Dear Friends of Counter-Currents, People keep asking me for my predictions for the 2020 US Presidential elections. It is really impossible to say. As the incumbent, Donald Trump, would normally enjoy the advantage, but incumbency has been nullified by two serious disadvantages: Trump’s margin of victory was narrow, and demographics is destiny. Thus […]
Hermann Göring on the stand. 4,304 words Part I During the trials, almost all of the prisoners remained true to their Führer. The Leader had always repaid this extraordinary devotion in kind, valuing loyalty and continuity above all else, with remarkably little turnover in his government. A couple of the defendants, however, turned on the […]
Hans Gude, Likferd Pa Sognefjorden, 1853. 1,703 words I watched American History X with my roommate last night. Watching the film brought back memories and nostalgia for my teenage years. When I first saw the movie as a teen, I was obsessed with Scandinavia due to my passion for heavy metal and my own Danish […]
Mark Weber 119 words Saturday, August 1, at noon PST, 3 pm EST, 21:00 CET, Greg Johnson and Nicholas Jeelvy will join Fullmoon Ancestry on his Writers Bloc livestream on Dlive: https://dlive.tv/Fullmoon-ancestry. Sunday, August 2, at noon PST, 3 pm EST, 21:00 CET, Greg Johnson will do an Ask Me Anything livestream with special guest […]
921 words The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. — Yevgeny Zamyatin, from Tomorrow (1919) We are heretics because we abhor the fact that a Rwandan refugee can set fire to Nantes Cathedral, or for looking with disdain upon the […]
Justice Robert H. Jackson at the Nuremberg Trials. 8,526 words David IrvingNuremberg: The Last Battle London: Focal Point Publications, 2004 Author’s Note: Thanks are due to the great Mark Weber of the Institute for Historical Review for his editorial advice. Mr. Weber’s own discussion of the tragedy that was the Nuremberg Trials is well worth […]
1,058 words Oh, what strange freaks one’s thoughts are guilty of when one is starving. — Knut Hamsun, Hunger Back in my misspent youth, I took a seminar on creative writing. One of the instructors gave the class a piece of advice which I never heeded. She said that if you want to be good […]
Caspar David Friedrich, Wall at Dusk, 1837-40. 3,000 words My ancestors arrived in the Tidewater region of this continent around 400 years ago, and lived and died almost entirely beneath the Mason-Dixon line. As a Catholic, a Southron, and an Anglo-American, I am filled with sorrow and impotent rage at the sight of my forebears […]
255 words Counter-Currents has produced or become the curator of a great number of audio and video recordings over the years. Some of these have already been transcribed, but many have not. Having these important documents available in multiple formats allows us to reach as wide an audience as possible, and transcripts also make it […]
1,390 words We have now reached the last chapter of Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition. This indispensable book argues that both the rise and decline of the West can be explained in terms of the genetically selected predisposition Europeans have for creating communities that emphasize the moral reputation of individuals for honesty, […]
Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton. 1,409 words Alexander Hamilton is arguably the most popular Founding Father of our era — and it’s all thanks to one incredibly cringe hip-hop musical. Hamilton first premiered in 2015 and has been a popular sensation ever since. Its tickets go for astronomical prices and its soundtrack sold millions of […]
8,561 words Emmanuel ToddLineages of Modernity: A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus Cambridge, England, and Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2019 Much of today’s dominant globalist ideology derives from development theory, a body of thought which shares with Marxism the view that economic relations are the basis of social life and […]
1,256 words Earlier this year, the Marian Consort, a vocal ensemble known for performing Renaissance music, released an album of Catholic sacred music by English composer William Byrd. The album, entitled Singing in Secret: The Clandestine Catholic Music of William Byrd, is one of the finest sacred music releases in recent memory. It is also […]
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