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  • The Counter-Currents Newsletter, December 2019

    Counter Currents - Jan 1st 2020 9:29am EST

    1,198 words Dear Friends of Counter-Currents, December was a very good month for Counter-Currents: 195,000+ unique visitors, and I didn’t even have to get arrested to do it! In 2019, we had 4,205,172 visits to the site from 1,966,053 unique visitors, who viewed 19,101,390 pages. 1. Our Webzine and Traffic In December, we added 91 […]

  • Give Your Amygdala a Vacation

    Counter Currents - Jan 1st 2020 7:40am EST

    1,914 words As I write this, a baby is staring up at me from a stroller, tightly packed with blankets to protect her from the chilly air. A bonnet fringed with pink lace covers her small head, and tiny blonde curls peek out from the edges. She is parked beside her parents and a third […]

  • The Irony of Fate

    Counter Currents - Dec 31st 2019 4:28pm EST

    1,286 words If you did an internet search of movies about or taking place on New Year’s Eve, the majority would most likely fall under the romantic comedy genre. Which makes sense, given that when you think about New Year’s Eve, your first thoughts are probably of drinking parties with friends, and more importantly, waiting […]

  • Ben Novak’s Hitler & Abductive Logic

    Counter Currents - Dec 31st 2019 11:30am EST

    1,659 words Ben Novak Hitler and Abductive Logic: The Strategy of a Tyrant Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2014 “Search your feelings. You know it to be true.” Ben Novak’s Hitler and Abductive Logic is one of the most exciting academic books I have ever read, a daring and imaginative synthesis of philosophy, history, biography, and […]

  • Last Chance: Donate to Counter-Currents, not the IRS

    Counter Currents - Dec 31st 2019 7:11am EST

    395 words Today, 31 December, is our American supporters’ last chance in 2019 to do like Robin Hood and take from the rich (the establishment) and give to poor freedom fighters (us), by making a tax-deductible donation to the Counter-Currents Foundation. If you donate today, your money will literally be taken from the coffers of […]

  • Jewish Discomfort in New York

    Counter Currents - Dec 31st 2019 6:35am EST

    Hanukkah machete attacker 1,585 words Jews were faced with two uncomfortable events last weekend. One was a black man stabbing Jews at a rabbi’s home in New York. The other was a New York Times op-ed that said Jews were genetically smarter than other people. Both events made Left-wing Jews deny the obvious facts before […]

  • Why I WriteBocca della Verita

    Counter Currents - Dec 31st 2019 5:39am EST

    918 words Orwell once wrote that “intellectual honesty is a crime in any totalitarian country; but even in England it is not exactly profitable to speak and write the truth.” I come downstairs, drop the stylus on my crackling vinyl of Furtwängler conducting Wagner’s Parsifal Prelude, spread Oxford marmalade on warm toast, and lift my […]

  • Downton Abbey

    Counter Currents - Dec 31st 2019 5:22am EST

    1,028 words Julian Fellowes’ Downton Abbey is an extremely popular British period drama, set in the years 1912 to 1926, which ran six seasons (the Brits call them series) on television and is now a feature film set in 1927. I very much enjoyed the first two seasons of Downton Abbey. Like many Downton Abbey […]

  • Right Ho, Jeeves: A Double Review

    Counter Currents - Dec 30th 2019 11:23am EST

    2,125 words It’s a rare thing to discover a work of art transposed impeccably across genres. How this can be accomplished has always fascinated me. Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is a great example because it captures not just the substance of Tolkien’s story but its spirit […]

  • Remembering Rudyard Kipling: December 30, 1865 to January 18, 1936

    Counter Currents - Dec 30th 2019 10:51am EST

    3,063 words John Collier, Portrait of Rudyard Kipling, circa 1891 Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling was born on this day in 1865. For an introduction to his life and works, see the following articles on this site. William Pierce, “Rudyard Kipling: The White Man’s Poet” (French translation here) Andrew Hamilton, “Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The […]

  • Eastern European Women, IKEA Dates, & Airport Farewells.

    Counter Currents - Dec 30th 2019 5:40am EST

    1,453 words I’m at the airport right now. Being in Eastern Europe for the past two years, I’ve spent a lot of time at various European airports. In regards to my personal life, I’ve found myself in a revolving cycle of meeting Eastern European women on Tinder, taking them on dates to the local IKEA, […]

  • The Bomb Inside My Brain

    Counter Currents - Dec 29th 2019 10:26am EST

    868 words Jim Goad The Bomb Inside My Brain Stone Mountain, Ga.: Obnoxious Books, 2019 One thing White Nationalists need to change the cultural and political mainstream are people who are not White Nationalists but who nevertheless publicly support some of our claims and stand up for the legitimacy of our concerns, our right to […]

  • The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Race & Racial Differences

    Counter Currents - Dec 27th 2019 6:02am EST

    3,706 words Race has been discussed to the point of weariness, yet most discussion consists of little more than wishful thinking, contradiction, and outright malice: “All the races are equal, but whites oppress everyone else. Then again, race doesn’t really exist, which is why we must strive for greater racial diversity.” It is understandable that […]

  • Definitely no logic:Björk’s Debut

    Counter Currents - Dec 27th 2019 4:49am EST

    Björk 2,068 words Björk’s music is full of range and dimension. This is true both in the sense of her voice, which sweeps across octaves with equal helpings of elegance and coarseness, but also in her varied inflection and choice of songwriting material. One could plot her music on a chart with two poles that […]

  • 1676: A Year That Shaped White America

    Counter Currents - Dec 27th 2019 3:53am EST

    2,640 words Edmund Morgan American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia New York: W.W. Norton, 1975 Jill Lepore The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity New York: Vintage, 1999 The Dissident Right must take back American history. Conservatives envision our nation’s history as a giant expansion of […]

  • Encouraging Signs for 2020

    Counter Currents - Dec 26th 2019 2:39pm EST

    Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, circa 1766 1,166 words I believe that optimism is a sucker’s game. Motivation is for losers. If you cannot find motivation within yourself no amount of cheerleading will make you succeed. Optimism is the enemy of reality, and reality is the only path to truth. […]

  • You’re Going to Love Our New Country!

    Counter Currents - Dec 26th 2019 7:11am EST

    1,319 words Do you think guns are more dangerous than they are protective? Do you think 20 percent is a passing grade in mathematics? Do you think free speech is merely a tool whites use to spew racist propaganda? Do you think it’s good when smart whites don’t get admitted to good schools because room […]

  • “I’ll go make you a sandwich.” Celebrating the Trad Wife in Emmerich’s Midway

    Counter Currents - Dec 26th 2019 3:03am EST

    1,012 words The best present I’ve given myself over this holiday season was the two hours and thirteen minutes I sat in a mostly empty theater on a rainy afternoon watching Midway (2019) the latest epic film by the great Roland Emmerich. Thanks to Robert Hampton for his insightful review which steered me to the […]

  • Richard Jewell

    Counter Currents - Dec 26th 2019 3:02am EST

    1,485 words Everyone loves a good underdog story. It’s what Hollywood does well. Not to give Hollywood too much credit since I’ll posit that the underdog story is uniquely suited for cinema, regardless if it’s Hollywood or Bollywood or some independent genius shelling out the shekels behind the scenes. I suspect the reason can be […]

  • 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 EST

    Merry 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 EST

    Philippe 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 […]