Our very special guest on Saturday’s livestream will be Judd Blevins. Blevins, until recently a City Councilman in Enid, Oklahoma, was subjected to a recall election earlier this month that he lost — which was hardly surprising given that he was opposed not only by his Republican challenger, but by the Enid political establishment, the state of Oklahoma’s Democratic Party, the “Enid Social Justice Committee,” and the mainstream media at both the local and national levels. The reason why this local election fought between two Republican candidates garnered so much attention? (more…)
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April 26, 2024 Counter-Currents
5th Meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club
May 4: Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin182 words
Pssst — white people! There is no shame in being white. There is only shame in ever thinking there was. In the 50 short, sharp, incisive essays contained in his book Whiteness: The Original Sin, author Jim Goad examines why the idea of being white has become the modern version of the unpardonable sin.
Join the fifth meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club with host Greg Johnson on Saturday, May 4 at noon PST/3 PM EST/9 PM CET to talk about the book. Jim Goad will also join us, and our two panelists will be John Derbyshire and Angelo Plume (Telegram, YouTube). (more…)
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April 26, 2024 Greg Johnson
Second Update on the Counter-Currents Movement Poll
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It seems that there has not been a worse time since the formation of Israel to be a diaspora Jew.
The friends and allies that the diaspora has traditionally counted on are beginning to turn on them with the same determination and ferocity that gentiles have always possessed on the eve of a pogrom or mass expulsion. (more…)
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Eduard Habsburg
The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times
Manchester, N. H.: Sophia Institute Press, 2023Unless you’re one of those people who reads the gossipy autobiographies of the British royal family, chances are it’s not often that you hold in your hands a book written by actual nobility. Thanks to Eduard Habsburg, Archduke of Austria and Ambassador of Hungary to the Holy See, that privilege can be yours! (more…)
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England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare’s much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr. Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons. — George Orwell, “England, Your England”
Evening has fallen, the swans are singing.
The last of Sunday’s bells is ringing.
The wind in the trees is sighing,
And old England is dying.
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War shapes societies. The so-called “forgotten war,” the Korean War of 1950 to 1953, shaped America in many ways. It was the first genuinely hot conflict between the free world, led by the United States, and the Communist world, led by the Soviet Union. Events in Korea led to a multi-decade Cold War which either blew hot or threatened to blow hot in many parts of the globe. The Korean War also came as a surprise. A bigger surprise was the fact that the American military, which had so overwhelmingly triumphed in the Second World War, had atrophied in just five years. The first year of the conflict was filled with humiliating retreats and setbacks.
The war also shaped America in that the conflict caused the national security state to come into being. (more…)
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I fought in the Optics War for six years. Then, last December I declared that the Optics War was over for several reasons. The Right Stuff closing down the National Justice Party project took the question of real-world activism off the table. Andrew Anglin and Nick Fuentes falling out over the Richard Spencer Question was a sign that old Optics War rules were no longer being adhered to by its most prominent figure. (more…)
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One of the most common arguments against a National Divorce is that the states could not survive without federal funding. But why would one oppose red-state secession if red states are essentially charity cases? Why would opponents of red-state secession be so eager to continue funding people whom they openly despise? This is contrary to common sense and sounds like gaslighting in an abusive relationship: “You can’t live without me!”
The truth is that scarcely any money is “federal money” to begin with. (more…)
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Democracy may not be the silliest idea concocted by man but, for anything larger than a small town, it is crackpot. It consists in the idea that a public, on average knowing almost nothing, can choose leaders in popularity contests among provincial lawyers who know little more and are required to know nothing, except how to get elected.
In a democracy, this ignorance is both a protected quality, such as motherhood, and a valued resource. By common consent, the ruled do not look too closely at the mentality of elected rulers, and the rulers speak solemnly of the wisdom of the people, who have none. (more…)
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The Jesuits famously pronounced, after Aristotle, “Give me the child and I will give you the man.” This maxim, or a version of it, reappears throughout the history of education, and by the time it reaches Vladimir Illyich Lenin, it has taken on a more sinister tone, as you might expect: “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” The modern Western state has accepted the baton, and effectively says the same thing.
I am not a parent, but I have to feel for those who are. (more…)
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I think it was the outcome of the O. J. Simpson trial in October 1995 which first introduced me to tribalism. As a young man I had seen it around me, especially among blacks — but also among Jews and Asians. I knew what it was, and I was fairly well-versed in its literature. (more…)
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Japan is considered something of a utopia on the world stage today, standing among the lauded Nordic countries and wealthy microstates in terms of its civilizational level. Japan has virtually eliminated violent crime, has a high standard of living, is technologically advanced, stays out of wars, and remains a top world economy despite having seen better days. Japan even has a homogeneous population. Many on the Right therefore point to Japan as an example of the success of positive nationalism. (more…)