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Our goal this year is to raise $100,000 in order to expand our efforts to build a metapolitical vanguard for White Nationalism. So far, we have received 93 donations totaling $19,942.92. Read more …

Published: July 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2019 Counter-Currents Fundraiser, articles, conservatism, mass immigration, North American New Right, race replacement, Spencer J. Quinn, the left, white nationalism | 1 Response

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Hope for a Non-White Savior

Robert Hampton

Cardinal Robert Sarah

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Some on the Dissident Right hope that the next Pope will be black.

Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah has distinguished himself from the open borders crowd that controls the Vatican. In a March interview, Cardinal Sarah said:

The Church cannot cooperate with this new form of slavery that mass migration has become. Read more …

Published: July 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Africa, articles, book reviews, Cardinal Robert Sarah, Catholic Church, Christian conservatives, evangelical Christians, Jean Raspail, North American New Right, Philip Jenkins, Robert Hampton, The Next Christendom, Third World Christianity, traditional Catholicism | 4 Responses

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The Saxon Savior:
Converting Northern Europe

Ash Donaldson

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“There were many whose hearts told them that they should begin to tell the secret runes.” Thus begins an ancient manuscript written in Old Saxon. It may surprise the reader to learn that these are, in fact, the opening lines of the Christian Gospel in the version known as the Heliand, produced for the Saxons in the early ninth century, after their conquest by Charlemagne. Read more …

Published: July 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander the Great, Ancient Greece, Aristotle, articles, Ash Donaldson, Christianity, Christianity and Northern Europe, Christianity in the Roman Empire, Christianity vs. paganism, community, Heliand, North American New Right, Saxons, tribalism, universalism | 16 Responses

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The Original Optics Cucks, Part 3:
Narcissism & Honor

Greg Johnson & Hugh MacDonald

Rousseau’s Émile

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Part 3 of 3 (Part 2 here)

This conversation took place in the spring of 2015. We would like to thank KC for making this transcript.

Greg Johnson: When people talk about vanity, another term that they’ll use is narcissism. “So and so is very narcissistic.” Again, I think that there’s a certain sense of narcissism in which it’s not a bad thing. The myth of Narcissus is that he’s captivated by his own reflection in the water, and he basically exists as a prisoner of his own image, reflected in something external. Read more …

Published: July 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, beauty, degenerate art, elitism, Greg Johnson, honor, Hugh MacDonald, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, narcissism, North American New Right, pretentiousness, snobbery, taste, the left, the Right, transcripts, vanity | Leave a comment

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Remembering Carl Schmitt:
July 11, 1888–April 7, 1985

Greg Johnson

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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Carl Schmitt was born on July 11, 1888 in Plettenberg, Westphalia, Germany — where he died on April 7, 1985, at the age of 96. The son of a Roman Catholic small businessman, Carl Schmitt studied law in Berlin, Munich, and Strasbourg, graduating and taking his state exams in Strasbourg in 1915. In 1916, he earned his habilitation in Strasbourg, qualifying him to be a law professor. He taught at business schools and universities in Munich, Greifswald, Bonn, Berlin, and Cologne.

Published: July 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Carl Schmitt, commemorations, geopolitics, Greg Johnson, law, political philosophy | 3 Responses

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Cargo-Cult Sociology:
Ashley Jardina’s White Identity Politics

Margot Metroland

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Ashley Jardina
White Identity Politics
Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019

The big takeaway from White Identity Politics is that there’s been a huge raising of white American racial consciousness in recent years. This is due to a number of factors, none of them imaginary or rhetorical. Read more …

Published: July 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ashley Jardina, book reviews, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, white identity, white identity politics, whiteness | 3 Responses

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The Citizens’ Councils:
White Metapolitics 1.0

Morris V. de Camp

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Stephanie R. Rolph
Resisting Equality: The Citizens’ Council, 1954–1989
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018

The definitive book on the “civil rights” movement remains to be written, but Stephanie Rolph, a Professor (and a privileged “Becky,” no matter what she believes) at Mississippi’s Millsaps College has provided a solid reference for such a book. Read more …

Published: July 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Citizens Councils, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Movement, Mississippi, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, Resisting Equality, Robert B. "Tut" Patterson, segregation, Stephanie Rolph, William J. Simmons | 4 Responses

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The Original Optics Cucks, Part 2:
Pretentiousness, Snobbery, & Elitism

Greg Johnson & Hugh MacDonald

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This conversation took place in the spring of 2015. We would like to thank KC for making this transcript.

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

Greg Johnson: We also got into the question of pretentiousness when we were walking around Hyde Park. I think pretentiousness always has a negative connotation, but I think that one can actually say that there is a positive connotation of pretense in this sense: Read more …

Published: July 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, beauty, elitism, Greg Johnson, Hugh MacDonald, North American New Right, pretentiousness, snobbery, taste, the left, transcripts, vanity | 3 Responses

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The Original Optics Cucks, Part 1:
In Defense of Vanity

Greg Johnson & Hugh MacDonald

John William Waterhouse, Vanity

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Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here)

This conversation took place in the spring of 2015. We would like to thank KC for making this transcript.

Greg Johnson: I’m Greg Johnson. Welcome to Counter-Currents Radio. I’m going to have another conversation today with Canadian filmmaker Hugh MacDonald. Read more …

Published: July 9, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, beauty, Greg Johnson, honor, Hugh MacDonald, North American New Right, pretentiousness, snobbery, taste, transcripts, vanity | 3 Responses

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Soporific Cinema

Jef Costello

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I like to fall asleep in front of the TV, and I’ve established a ritual for it. After a hard day of writing inspirational articles for Counter-Currents (under various pennames), I mix myself a drink that consists of vodka, soda water, lots of lime juice, and lots of ice. I thought I had invented this carb-less drink until, to my embarrassment, I discovered it already had a name: “The Skinny Bitch.” Apparently, it is also enjoyed by rail-thin rich bitches sitting poolside at the country club (like that mother on Arrested Development). Read more …

Published: July 9, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, Andrei Tarkovsky, articles, Coleman Francis, Columbo, film reviews, Ivan the Terrible, Jef Costello, Luchino Visconti, Ludwig, Manos the Hands of Fate, Meetings with Remarkable Men, North American New Right, Sergei Eisenstein, silent films, Solaris, Stanley Kubrick, The Wrecking Crew | 22 Responses

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A Note on the “Islamic Question”

Alexander Wolfheze

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Recently, Counter-Currents posted the transcript of an important interview with Dr. Johnson entitled “Conversation with a Philosopher: Greg Johnson Interviewed About the New Right.” As always, it is a pleasure to read Johnson’s incisive insights. Already, his exact and thorough metapolitical analyses provide fundamental building blocks of the New Right. In the case of this interview, one – somewhat marginal – note should be allowed: a note regarding “Islam.”

Published: July 8, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Wolfheze, articles, Elahi Qomshe'i, Greg Johnson, Islam, Islamophobia, North American New Right, the Islamic Question, Traditionalism | 31 Responses

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Rembrandt’s The Night Watch

Alex Graham

Rembrandt, The Night Watch

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Today, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum will begin its restoration of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, or Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (1642). It is the largest research and restoration project the Museum has undertaken and will last several years. The process will be broadcast live online.

Published: July 8, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, articles, Dutch art, Frans Hals, North American New Right, painting, Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands, The Night Watch | 3 Responses

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Remembering Revilo Oliver (July 7, 1908–August 20, 1994)
Revilo Oliver in Winter

Margot Metroland

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Today is the birthday of Revilo Pendleton Oliver, born in Texas in 1908. He was Professor of Classics and Modern Languages at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) for many years, an analyst with the War Department in the 1940s, and a contributor to the National Review and other publications from the 1950s onward.

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Remembering Revilo Oliver (July 7, 1908–August 20, 1994)
The Professor & the Carnival Barker

Margot Metroland

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Professor Revilo Pendleton Oliver died in 1994, full of years and honors, as they say; and also notoriety. Long a Classics professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana, he gained his PhD in 1938 with a translation and commentary on a 1500-year-old Sanskrit drama. At age 80 was capable of holding lengthy telephone conversions with a young fellow linguist, in which (just to show off) they would switch back and forth between German and Attic Greek.

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Remembering Revilo Oliver:
July 7, 1908–August 20, 1994

Greg Johnson

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Revilo Pendleton Oliver was born in Texas on this day in 1908. He received his undergraduate degree at Pomona College in California and his doctorate in classics at the University of Illinois under William Abbot Oldfather. He was Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois for many years. Read more …

Published: July 7, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, conservatism, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, Revilo Oliver, white nationalism | 2 Responses

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The Counter-Currents 2019 Fundraiser
Do Not Throw Away the Hero in Your Soul

Jef Costello

Finnish hero Lauri Törni

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Our goal this year is to raise $100,000 in order to expand our efforts to build a metapolitical vanguard for White Nationalism. So far, we have received 80 donations totaling $18,115.92. We set our goals high because the task we have before us is formidable, but not impossible. And we need your help to succeed.

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I sometimes wonder who I am writing for. I know that a couple of my friends read every essay I post (though recently, one of them has been falling down on the job). Read more …

Published: July 5, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2019 Counter-Currents Fundraiser, articles, Freidrich Nietzsche, heroism, Jef Costello, North American New Right, pessimism, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, white pills | 7 Responses

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Avengers: Endgame – Thanocaust Commemoration

Buttercup Dew

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Endgame is an undeniably popular film. Concluding a twenty-two film run of Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movies featuring home comic book names like Iron Man, Spiderman, Thor, Captain America, the Hulk, and Guardians of the Galaxy, Endgame has the accumulated attention of multiple franchises supporting its monumental box office numbers. It is the largest-grossing superhero film of all time and is the capstone on the MCU cinematic project. Read more …

Published: July 5, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Buttercup Dew, Captain America, comics, film reviews, Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, Marvel universe, North American New Right, Spiderman, the Hulk, Thor | 1 Response

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Propertarianism, Part 3

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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Part 3 of 3 (Part 2 here)

Social control

The core problem of Propertarianism is its phobia of naked power, Read more …

Published: July 5, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Curt Doolittle, guerrilla warfare, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, Propertarian Institute, Propertarianism, property, violence | 7 Responses

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Our Flag

Robert Hampton

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The Betsy Ross flag is now a “hate” symbol — and that’s a good thing.

The first flag of the United States of America became a controversial icon this week thanks to former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Nike cancelled its upcoming Betsy Ross shoe line after Kaepernick, a spokesman for the corporation, complained. He said the flag has a “connection to an era of slavery.” That argument was persuasive enough to nix the entire shoe line.

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The Founders of Ohio

Alex Graham

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David McCullough
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019

David McCullough’s latest book tells the story of the pioneers who settled the Northwest Territory (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and most of Minnesota), mostly focusing on Ohio and spanning the signing of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 up to 1853. Read more …

Published: July 4, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, American colonization, American history, articles, book reviews, David McCullough, North American New Right, Northwest Territory, Ohio, Pioneers, The Pioneers | 1 Response

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The Man, the Meme, Morrissey

Travis LeBlanc

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You would think that after more than thirty-five years in the public eye that there would be no more surprises left. You would think that now that he’s turning 60, all the youthful rebellion would be long gone. And you would think that after the last two months of the media losing their collective marbles over Moz’s red-pilled statements and his support for the Right-wing populist party For Britain, that Morrissey would be ready to lay low for a while.

Published: July 4, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, For Britain, John Cleese, Morrissey, North American New Right, political correctness, punk rock, Travis LeBlanc | 12 Responses

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Propertarianism, Part 2

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

Curt Doolittle

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

Whiggery vs. Abrahamism

First of all, let’s say that there’s been no systematic exposition of Propertarian philosophy, either from Curt Doolittle or John Mark. There’s no book to read and precious few online resources to peruse, and so we’re left with trying to discover the philosophy from Curt’s many Facebook updates and online interviews. Read more …

Published: July 4, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Abrahamism, articles, Christianity and Europe, Curt Doolittle, guerrilla warfare, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, Propertarian Institute, Propertarianism, property, violence | 13 Responses

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Propertarianism, Part 1

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

The logo of the Propertarian Institute.

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Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here)

Anyone involved in Dissident Rightist politics has probably heard of Propertarianism, which purports to be a system of law that will ensure a society immune to the various pathologies of modernity by redefining property to include those intangibles which are earned, built, and protected (homesteaded in the Lockean sense), and thus protecting such property – especially property common to a community of people. Read more …

Published: July 3, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Curt Doolittle, guerrilla warfare, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, No White Guilt, North American New Right, Propertarian Institute, Propertarianism, violence | 12 Responses

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Cabaret

Trevor Lynch

The Polish poster for the film

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Bob Fosse’s 1972 film Cabaret is supposed to be propaganda for Weimar decadence and against Nazi brutality. But the film utterly fails as propaganda insofar as it changes no minds. In fact, Cabaret is more akin to a diagnostic tool—like inkblot tests or gestalt images—for distinguishing between fundamentally different human types: people who love beauty versus people who love ugliness, people who love order versus people who love chaos, people who love health versus people who love decadence. Read more …

Published: July 3, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Bob Fosse, Cabaret, decadence, musicals, North American New Right, Trevor Lynch, Weimar Republic | 12 Responses

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Reality: Ain’t It a BITCH-100

Quintilian

Probably the chairman of a university department somewhere.

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The past four months have been a rather hectic round of presentations at scholarly conferences for your favorite ancient Roman rhetorician. This is my main contribution to the movement. I attend scholarly conferences so that the rest of you don’t have to. Also, it’s the best way of doing reconnaissance of the enemy. And even though I’m fairly inured to the nonsense that passes for “humanistic scholarship” these days, sometimes it’s just more than one can stand.

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The Open Borders Party

Robert Hampton

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the least horrifying among the current crop of Democratic candidates — but who won’t get the nomination.

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Open borders is no longer a meme; it’s the official stance of most Democratic presidential candidates.

During last week’s debates, which were held over two nights, most Democratic candidates said they want illegal immigration decriminalized. Nearly every candidate thinks illegal immigrants deserve free healthcare. The only debate in this area was over who was the most favorable toward open borders of them all. Read more …

Published: July 1, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 US Presidential Election, Andrew Yang, articles, Democratic candidates, Democratic debates, Democratic Party, illegal immigration, Joe Biden, North American New Right, Robert Hampton, Tulsi Gabbard | 24 Responses

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Clueless in Portland:
Blake Nelson’s The Red Pill

James J. O'Meara

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Blake Nelson
The Red Pill: A Novel
Nashville/New York: Bombardier Books, 2019

“We weren’t conducive. We got together and hypered each other into a frenzy. His wife left for a younger woman; he couldn’t make love. Eventually he was hospitalized for being such a nerd.” — The Big Chill

Published: July 1, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Blake Nelson, book reviews, fiction, James J. O'Meara, North American New Right, the red pill | 1 Response

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Attack the System Interview with Robert N. Taylor

Robert N. Taylor

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The following is a transcript of a conversation which took place in November 2012. The transcription was made by Tyler Harding. The original audio is here.

Keith Preston: Good evening, and welcome to Attack the System. I’m your host, Keith Preston, here on Counter-Currents; with me tonight is Mr. Robert N. Taylor.

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The Soul of a Vincent ’52

Spencer J. Quinn

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It’s very possible that one of the greatest songs written in the rock era gets almost no air time and is largely unknown – at least in the United States. Read more …

Published: June 28, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1952 Vincent Black Lightning, articles, North American New Right, rebels, Richard Thompson, Spencer J. Quinn | 2 Responses

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What is the Metaphysics of the Right?

Collin Cleary

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In my essay “What is the Metaphysics of the Left?” I identified the fundamental presuppositions underlying the Leftist worldview. In the present essay, I intend to build on that analysis by showing how it can enable us, with relative ease, to identify our own metaphysics, the metaphysics of the Right. In short, my approach is indirect: I intend to arrive at our own most fundamental presuppositions by, in essence, negating the metaphysics we reject and revile. Read more …