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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 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 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 […]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 […]