Monthly Archives: June 2019

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Everyone loves a good social media implosion.

A good implosion is, among other things, a comeuppance: one where the mask falls at last and a hotsy totsy e-celeb is exposed to be every bit the no-good son of a bitch that you always kinda knew he was, but now everyone knows. His status as a no-good son-of-a-bitch becomes a matter of public record and public knowledge. Read more …

Published: June 15, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Ashley St. Clair, cuckservatism, North American New Right, originals, social media, Travis LeBlanc, Turning Point USA | 6 Responses

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Middle America Discovers It’s Been Had

Morris V. de Camp

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The Tillman Story (2010)
Directed by Amir Bar-Lev

Pat Tillman of the 75th Ranger Regiment was killed in action on April 22, 2004 in Afghanistan. In the grand scheme of things, Tillman’s death was not all that remarkable. America was engaged in two wars at the time, and soldiers, especially those in especially dangerous jobs like the Combat Engineers or the Rangers, were being killed every day. Read more …

Published: June 14, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged film reviews, Iraq War, Jessica Lynch, Middle America, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, Pat Tillman, Patriotism, The Tillman Story, US military, War in Afghanistan | 4 Responses

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Woke Capital’s Free Option

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, a definite woke capitalist.

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As many of you already know, YouTube has recently embarked on a campaign to purge dissident voices from its platform. As expected, the Dissident Right was the hardest hit, with such luminaries as Dr. Patrick Slattery and my fellow contributor here at Counter-Currents, Jared George, losing their channels outright. Many others have had their videos removed or demonetized. It’s all anyone’s been able to talk about on YouTube, and it is a cause for concern. YouTube gives our movement a link directly to Generation Z’s hindbrain. Read more …

Published: June 14, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, capitalism, censorship, CEOs, corporations, James Burnham, managerial class, managerial revolution, Nassim Taleb, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, Samuel Francis, Susan Wojcicki, woke capital, YouTube | 8 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 236
The Alt-Lite Civil War, YouTube Wasn’t Broken, Anti-Censorship Legislation

Counter-Currents Radio

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Greg, John, and Frodi reconvene the weekly podcast with a round table on recent events: our latest deplatforming, the Alt-Lite civil war, YouTube censorship, YouTube “victim” Caleb Cain, apostate Derek Black, legislative paths to roll back censorship and deplatforming, etc. Read more …

Published: June 14, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2019 fundraiser, Alt Lite, Caleb Cain, Caolan Robertson, censorship, Counter-Currents Radio, deplatforming, Derek Black, Ezra Levant, free speech, Lauren Southern, Milo Yiannopoulos, podcasts, Tommy Robinson, YouTube | 4 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 235
Rich Houck on 7-11 Nationalism

Richard Houck

74 words / 1:06:17

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Published: June 13, 2019 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | 3 Responses

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The Counter-Currents 2019 Fundraiser
Majority Estate Planning

Anonymous

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Editor’s Note:

Please consider a bequest to Counter-Currents in your will. Your simple provision today could sustain our work far into the future. The wording can be quite simple: “I hereby bequeath $___ to Counter-Currents Publishing, PO Box 22638, San Francisco, CA 94122.” Or: “I hereby bequeath the remainder of my estate, free of all death taxes, creditors’ claims and expenses of administration of my estate, to . . .” Read more …

Published: June 13, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2019 fundraiser, articles, estate planning, North American New Right, reprints | 8 Responses

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Spengler on Unfruitfulness

Quintilian

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Perhaps Oswald Spengler’s greatest contribution to the philosophy of history is his removal of history from the mechanistic realm of cause and effect and placing it instead within the sphere of biology. Human societies are, after all, composed of living human beings, and so it is only logical that cultures and civilizations are themselves subject to biological, rather than mechanical, laws. Read more …

Published: June 13, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, cultural decline, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, Quintilian, The Decline of the West | 14 Responses

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The Empire of Nothing vs. the Historic American Nation

Robert Hampton

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Is America a nation or an empire?

Published: June 13, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged American empire, articles, empires, globalization, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, white America | 2 Responses

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Orwell, Molotov, & the “Crisis of Capitalism”

Margot Metroland

O’Brien (Richard Burton) demonstrates that 2 + 2 doesn’t always equal 4.

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Did the international crises of 1947 and 1948 leave their mark on the writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four? I’ve spent a lot of time on this question, and so far as I can tell, the answer is – yes; but only obliquely. And George Orwell may not even have been conscious of the fact.

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Feminism, End & Beginning

Vernon Winley

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It is superficial thought that causes some to call themselves feminist or anti-feminist. The usual definitions of feminism, from womyn’s empowerment to sexual egalitarianism, serve to curtail thought – therefore we shall not define feminism here. Instead, we will look at synchronicities, to help us better understand our time and place.

Published: June 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, feminism, North American New Right, originals, Vernon Winley | 37 Responses

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Hungary: Illiberal Democracy in Action

John Morgan

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The following is the text of the talk that Counter-Currents editor John Morgan delivered at the American Renaissance conference on May 18, 2019. It is reprinted from the American Renaissance site. The video is included as well.

It’s great to be back here. It’s the first time I’ve been at AmRen since 2014, and of course the world has changed a lot since then. This is why I think it’s timely that I talk about what’s happening in Hungary today, since I spoke about that in 2014 as well, but at that time, Europe’s migrant crisis was nothing more than a twinkle in George Soros’ eye. Read more …

Published: June 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged American Renaissance, American Renaissance 2019, articles, Fidesz, Hungarian identity, Hungary, illiberalism, Jobbik, John Morgan, mass immigration, Mi Hazánk, migrant crisis, North American New Right, populism, reprints, Transylvania, Viktor Orbán | 2 Responses

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Happy Birthday to Us!

Greg Johnson

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It was nine years ago today that the Counter-Currents website went online. I can’t count the number of writers, YouTubers, podcasters, websites, and entire movements that have come and gone in our ideological sphere in the last nine years. The attrition is understandable. Deplatforming, demonetization, and demoralization take their toll. But Counter-Currents is still here, and we are not going anywhere.

In Year Nine, we published online 791 articles and reviews and more than 6,000 comments. Read more …

Published: June 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2019 fundraiser | 13 Responses

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New from Counter-Currents!
Return of the Son of Trevor Lynch’s CENSORED Guide to the Movies

Trevor Lynch

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Trevor Lynch
Return of the Son of Trevor Lynch’s CENSORED Guide to the Movies
Edited by Greg Johnson
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2019
232 pages

Hardcover: $35

Paperback: $20

Published: June 11, 2019 | Posted in Counter-Currents title, news item | Tagged Lynch book, Trevor Lynch | 5 Responses

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7-11 Nationalism

Richard Houck

Remember what they stole from us.

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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” — L. P. Hartley

There’s an old time capsule video from 1987 titled “2:30am at a 7-11 near Disney World” that has made its way around the Internet over the years and has been viewed millions of times. Read more …

Published: June 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, black criminality, diversity, immigrants and crime, mass immigration, multiculturalism, North American New Right, nostalgia, originals, Richard Houck, the civil rights movement, white flight | 19 Responses

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Transgender Ideology:
The Left’s Cardboard Castle

Morris V. de Camp

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Ryan T. Anderson
When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment
New York: Encounter Books, 2018

“At the heart of the transgender moment are radical ideas about the human person – in particular, that people are what they claim to be, regardless of contrary evidence.” — Ryan T. Anderson[1]

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The Greatest Anti-Immigration Film of All Time: Brightburn

Quintilian

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The best propaganda approaches its subject in an oblique manner. The most effective way to present a message is to insinuate it within the context of a seemingly unrelated narrative. This is a common practice of the Left, and is one that is seldom used by the Right; or when it is used, is generally done so in a clumsy and/or laughable manner. Think Dinesh D’Souza or the Left Behind movies which are so beloved by fundamentalists. Read more …

Published: June 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Brightburn, David Yarovesky, film reviews, immigration, North American New Right, originals, Quintilian, science fiction | 10 Responses

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White Nationalists, White Blood Cells

Vernon Winley

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Every living thing seeks to reproduce itself. This is the Iron Rule that cannot be broken.

Published: June 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, North American New Right, originals, Vernon Winley, white nationalism | 6 Responses

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What Will a Hispanic United States Look Like? Part 3

Benjamin Villaroel

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Part 3 of 3 (Part 2 here)

The Racial Makeup of America’s Hispanics

Published: June 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Benjamin Villaroel, Hispanic demographics, Hispanics, mass immigration, North American New Right, originals | 7 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 234
Happy Birthday Nineteen Eighty-Four!

Margot Metroland

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June 8th is the 70th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Greg Johnson interviews Margot Metroland on some of Orwell’s sources and influences, the loosely “Trotskyite” political context in which he wrote, and the possibility that he was bumped off by Stalinists. Read more …

Published: June 8, 2019 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Tagged Communism, Counter-Currents Radio, Cyril Connolly, dystopian fiction, George Orwell, interviews, James Burnham, Margot Metroland, Nineteen Eighty-Four, podcasts, Trotskyites | 5 Responses

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There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be Alive
The Ultimate White Pill

Jef Costello

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My friends on the Right bemoan the fact that we’re not living in Leave It To Beaver. They play the “what era would you like to live in?” game, picking any time other than this one. Because this is the End Time, you see; the Kali Yuga, the Wolf Age. Hell, yes! It is all those things and more. But I, for one, feel privileged to live in Dystopia. Truly, there has never been a better time to be alive. Read more …

Published: June 7, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, cultural renewal, decadence, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jef Costello, living well, North American New Right, originals, the left, the liberal mind, white activism | 24 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 233
You Are Miserable Because You Are Free

Counter-Currents Radio

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Greg Johnson is joined by Rob Freeman (Kievsky) to discuss a number of topics including:

Munchausen by Proxy and cat lady politics
Pathological altruism, pet hoarding, co-dependent enabling as clues to the liberal mind
Freedom, paternalism, and self-actualization
Parenting, homeschooling, and self-improvement

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Your Nineteen Eighty-Four Sources in Full

Margot Metroland

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Connolly, Burnham, Orwell, & “Corner Table”

“In the torture scenes, he is merely melodramatic: he introduces those rather grotesque machines which used to appear in terror stories for boys.”
—V. S. Pritchett, The New Statesman, June 18, 1949

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What Will a Hispanic United States Look Like? Part 2

Benjamin Villaroel

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Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

SALVADORANS

Percent of American Hispanics: 3.9

Today, Salvadorans make up almost as much of America’s Hispanic population as Cubans, but given their differing fertility levels (more on that below), they will almost certainly surpass Cubans inside of a generation. Read more …

Published: June 7, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Benjamin Villaroel, Hispanic demographics, Hispanics, mass immigration, North American New Right, originals | 2 Responses

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Bulba the Aryan Aristocrat

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol’s Taras Bulba is one of the defining works of Russian literature. Indeed, it is often said that without Pushkin and Gogol, there would have been no Russian literature, only books written by Russians. Taras Bulba is a window deep into the grandeur and sorrow of the tempest which is the Russian soul, and more specifically, the soul of the men who inhabit the lands of the Rus which have been called Ukraine, or Little Russia. Read more …

Published: June 6, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Cossaks, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, Nikolai Gogol, North American New Right, originals, Poland, Taras Bulba, the Jewish question, thumos, Ukraine, warrior ethics | 4 Responses

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Spengler on Causation

Quintilian

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One of the most interesting and original aspects of Oswald Spengler’s philosophy is his separation of history from causality. For Spengler, history is an examination of the fulfillment of a particular group’s destiny that is not necessarily subject to the strictures of cause and effect: Read more …

Published: June 6, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, causality, cultural idealism, Decline of the West, destiny, fate, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, Quintilian | 5 Responses

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What Will a Hispanic United States Look Like? Part 1

Benjamin Villaroel

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Part 1 of 3

Published: June 5, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Benjamin Villaroel, Hispanics, mass immigration, North American New Right, originals | 14 Responses

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Spengler on Fate

Quintilian

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Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) is one of the thinkers most admired by the Dissident Right, yet it is obvious that this admiration largely stems from Spengler’s portrayal of Western civilization as being “Faustian” in nature, that Western man (i.e., the white man) is a seeker of the infinite, which can be expressed by analytical mathematics, instrumental polyphony, perspective painting, etc. Read more …

Published: June 5, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Darwinism, destiny, fate, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, Quintilian | 5 Responses

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A New & Improved Conservatism?

Robert Hampton

Sohrab Ahmari

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A curious debate erupted within American conservatism last week.

New York Post opinion editor Sohrab Ahmari took aim at Conservative Inc. foolishness, which he dubs “David French-ism,” in a First Things essay. Ahmari, a Persian Catholic convert, argues French-ism makes conservative Christians surrender to the awe-inspiring power of secular liberalism. Read more …

Published: June 4, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged American Affairs, articles, Catholicism, conservatism, David French, Donald Trump, Edmund Burke Foundation, illiberalism, Integralism, Julius Krein, liberalism, libtertariaism, National Populism, North American New Right, originals, populism, Robert Hampton, Sohrab Ahmari, Turning Point USA, Yoram Hazony | 11 Responses

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Who Lost Syria? How Israel Was Won through Terrorism

Morris V. de Camp

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J. Bowyer Bell
Terror Out of Zion: The Fight for Israeli Independence
New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1996

Stephen Wise, a prominent Zionist and “American [sic] Jew,” said in a 1931 speech that “I would say to England [then ruling Palestine under a League of Nations Mandate] if I could, an Arab Palestine is a threat to Great Britain and a menace to the world, and a Jewish Palestine is an asset to Great Britain and a blessing to the world!” Read more …

Published: June 4, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, British colonialism, Israel, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, Palestine, Palestinians, Syrian Civil War, terrorism, the Irgun, Zionism | 1 Response

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Video of the Day
Mark Collett on the Preservation of Europe

Video of the Day

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This is the video of Mark Collett’s talk at the Scandza Forum that was held in Stockholm on March 30, 2019. Mark Collett is a political activist and author from Great Britain who has been actively involved in the nationalist movement for nearly two decades. He was formerly the youth leader and Head of Publicity for the British National Party. Read more …