- Counter Currents - Sep 5th 2019 6:59am EDT
4,534 words Greg Prato The Yacht Rock Book: The Oral History of the Soft, Smooth Sounds of the 70s and 80s London: Jawbone, 2018 “They kind of moved it away from just mellow/hippie/campfire music and into something new – something that was consciously pursuing the aesthetic of softness. It’s kind of hard to move into […]
- Counter Currents - Sep 5th 2019 6:12am EDT
3,125 words Part 1 of 3 (The title is a quotation from Tony Blair.) Unsurprisingly, evidence has begun to emerge that both Oxford and Cambridge universities have adopted an unofficial quota system for pupils from state schools, even if they have inferior examination results to those applying for entry from fee-paying schools. The Sunday Times’ […]
- Counter Currents - Sep 4th 2019 9:20am EDT
3,871 words Camille Paglia infuriated feminists when she observed in Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) that males – as biological beings – are responsible for the development of civilized life and most of the world’s cultural creativity. What no one has wanted to say is that the implicit argument […]
- Counter Currents - Sep 4th 2019 6:59am EDT
2,172 words Reading about China’s social credit system makes me thank my lucky stars for not having been born Chinese. I imagine that living in a state of constant surveillance and constant submission would fray my nerves to the point of aggressive antisocial behavior. I couldn’t hack public school, and I sincerely doubt that I […]
- Counter Currents - Sep 4th 2019 4:39am EDT
Alphonse de Neuville, The Huns at the Battle of Chalons 2,411 words Translated by Guillaume Durocher Translator’s Note: The following extracts are drawn from Emil Cioran, Précis de décomposition (Paris: Gallimard, 1949). The title is editorial. There are no beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: The great persecutors are recruited […]
- Counter Currents - Sep 3rd 2019 9:00pm EDT
961 words I would like to introduce Counter-Currents’ international audience to the largest annual Dutch-Flemish nationalist event in the Low Countries: the IJzerwake. In Dutch, this refers to a wake or prayer on the river Yser. It could also be translated as “wake of iron,” as ijzer means iron. It is a perfect example of […]
- Counter Currents - Sep 3rd 2019 9:00pm EDT
Lynchburg, Virginia 3,758 words Now that it is past Labor Day, I want to tell the traditional “what did you do last summer?” story. Most of my summer was spent doing what I normally do: working out, attending civic and cultural events in my home base in the state of Washington, and supporting Counter-Currents. This […]
- Counter Currents - Sep 3rd 2019 9:00pm EDT
3,028 words Telltale may have gone bankrupt, but like a zombie rising from the grave, its The Walking Dead video game series is soon to be released on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in a new collection. It contains all four “seasons” of the game (some twenty “episodes” in all), the extra chapter 400 […]
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