Counter-Currents/North American New Right Newsletter: December 2012

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Carl Larsson, "The Letter," [1]

Carl Larsson, “The Letter,” watercolor

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Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,

There is a lot of good news from Counter-Currents for December.

1. Our Readership and Web Traffic

In terms of web traffic, December was a very good month. November was our best month ever, buoyed by post-election discussion, especially Gregory Hood’s viral article “A White Nationalist Memo to White Male Republicans [2],” which was read  21,602 times on our site alone and widely reprinted on the web. But even without such a viral article — and despite Christmas, which does depress traffic — in December we had 109,265 unique visitors (down from 110,851 in November). Our other December statistics were very close to November’s too.

Month Unique Visitors Number of Visits Pages Viewed “Hits” Bandwidth
June 2010 6,145 10,328 70,732 200,824 6.08 GB
July 2010 9,387 17,329 119,254 348,172 10.01 GB
August 2010 12,174 22,348 93,379 333,614 10.17 GB
September 2010 17,063 34,510 147,051 580,550 16.39 GB
October 2010 17,848 35,921 140,365 611,367 17.93 GB
November 2010 26,054 48,336 171,833 915,553 26.39 GB
December 2010 26,161 50,975 192,905 1,101,829 27.79 GB
January 2011 28,583 60,005 198,249 1,736,067 34.06 GB
February 2011 29,737 61,519 213,121 2,081,558 40.13 GB
March 2011 29,768 62,077 220,053 2,485,001 52.21 GB
April 2011 20,091 58,037 223,291 2,729,449 54.65 GB
May 2011 36,596 78,103 274,841 1,334,472 47.59 GB
June 2011 28,629 57,920 264,928 1,004,128 22.78 GB
July 2011 30,186 66,093 416,309 1,952,047 71.23 GB
August 2011 40,002 81,012 502,282 2,083,593 53.18 GB
September 2011 45,427 88,782 422,902 481,909 11.67 GB
October 2011 45,590 90,444 337,137 468,197 17.78 GB
November 2011 44,445 88,824 330,664 339,521 14.22 GB
December 2011 49,845 97,223 337,881 344,210 13.65 GB
January 2012 56,633 107,644 408,373 433,736 21.38 GB
February 2012 53,345 99,607 376,288 411,915 14.43 GB
March 2012 55,572 106,029 441,170 475,719 16.36 GB
April 2012 56,772 110,029 421,446 428,678 16.08 GB
May 2012 56,323 111,533 400,243 404,483 15.70 GB
June 2012 55,112 110,246 400,141 404,162 13.66 GB
July 2012 52,304 108,340 367,589 373,470 12.52 GB
August 2012 41,616 96,314 305,729 329,353 12.23 GB
September 2012 66,719 132,503 455,938 493,856 17.73 GB
October 2012 81,739 157,152 410,096 416,362 16.36 GB
November 2012 110,851 241,552 1,044,628 1,214,237 47.95 GB
December 2012 109,265 224,793 926,117 1,143,248 37.53 GB

 

2. Our Webzine

In December, we added 66 posts to the website, for a total of 2,297 posts since going online on June 11, 2010. We also added over 500 new comments.

3. December’s Top 20 Articles (with date of publication and number of reads)

1. Trevor Lynch, Review of Pulp Fiction [3], June 29, 2011: 9,137
2. Dominique Venner, “Christmas: Beauty in Life [4],” December 20, 2012: 5,100
3. Gregory Hood, Review of Scarface [5], February 27, 2011: 4,794
4. Gregory Hood and Luke Gordon, “Dark Right Rising: Christopher Nolan as Fascist Filmmaker [6],” December 7, 2012: 4,302
5. Gregory Hood, “Can You Drop Out? [7],” December 4, 2012: 4,134
6. Greg Johnson, “Introduction to Aristotle’s Politics [8],” Parts 1 & 2, June 21, 2012: 4,015 
7. Irmin Vinson, “Some Thoughts on Hitler [9],” April 20, 2011: 3,820
8. Jonathan Bowden, “Frank Frazetta: The New Arno Breker [10],” November 19, 2010: 3,462
9. Gregory Hood, “The Solution is State Power [11],” December 24, 2012: 3,256
10. Gregory Hood, “A White Nationalist Memo to White Male Republicans [2],” November 9, 2012: 3,225
11. Dan Michaels, “Exposing Stalin’s Plan to Conquer Europe [12],” April 21, 2011: 3,134
12. Jack Donovan,”First World Values or Tribal Values?: On Jax, Tara, and the Sons of Anarchy [13],” December 25, 2012: 3,067
13. Greg Johnson, “Metapolitics and Occult Warfare [14],” Part 1, December 10, 2012: 2,832
14. Alex Kurtagić, “Why All that Theory? [15],” December 6, 2012: 2,815
15. Gregory Hood, Review of Red Dawn (1984) [16], December 13, 2012: 2,795
16. Trevor Lynch, Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey [17], December 15, 2012: 2,662
17. Kerry Bolton, “The New Inquisitors: Heretical Scientists Purged from Academia [18],” December 3, 2012: 2,490
18. Matt Parrott, “The Old Order vs. the New Right [19],” December 28, 2012: 2,223
19. Trevor Lynch, Review of The Dark Knight [20], September 27, 2010: 2,139
20. Greg Johnson, “Metapolitics and Occult Warfare [21],” Part 4, December 12, 2012: 2,107

Special congratulations are due Gregory Hood, who had 5 of the top 10 articles (and a 6th in the top 20).

December’s top articles are a blend of metapolitics (Aristotle, Traditionalism, etc.), political commentary, history (Stalin’s plans to conquer Europe, Hitler), and popular culture (Scarface, Pulp Fiction, Christopher Nolan, Frank Frazetta, The Dark Knight, Red Dawn, The Hobbit, Sons of Anarchy). Thirteen of our top 20 articles were published in December or November, and the rest were older articles that people are finding through web searches.

4. Where Our Readers Are: The Top 20 Countries

Our web statistics program gives us a country-by-country breakdown of our readership. Here are the top 20 countries:

1. United States
2. Great Britain
3. Canada
4. Germany
5. China
6. France
7. Australia
8. Sweden
9. Portugal
10. Czech Republic
11. India
12. Netherlands
13. Japan
14. Poland
15. Norway
16. Italy
17. Spain
18. Brazil
19. Russia
20. Greece

5. Where Our Readers Are: The Top 20 Cities

1. New York City
2. London
3. San Francisco
4. Sydney
5. Melbourne
6. Stockholm
7. Toronto
8. Chicago
9. Washington, D.C.
10. Los Angeles
11. Athens
12. Seattle
13. Dublin
14. Philadelphia
15. Berlin
16. Houston
17. Paris
18. Zagreb
19. Vancouver, B.C.
20. Budapest

Eight of our top 20 cities are in the United States. Four are on the West Coast of North America: San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Vancouver, B.C. Two are in Australia: Melbourne and Sydney. Two are in Canada: Toronto and Vancouver.  Nine are national capitals: London, Berlin, Stockholm, Athens, Washington, D.C., Dublin, Zagreb, Budapest, and Paris.

6. Upcoming Book Projects

In January, we are working to get three books to the printers: Savitri Devi’s And Time Rolls On, Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies (with a Foreword by Kevin MacDonald), and Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s “I do not belong to the Baader-Meinhof group” and Other Poems.

The other titles listed below are in rough chronological order:

18. Savitri Devi, The Lightning and the Sun (February)
19. Greg Johnson, New Right vs. Old Right and Other Essays (February)
20. Savitri Devi, Pilgrimage
21. William Joyce, Twilight Over England, with an Introduction by Greg Johnson
22. Francis Parker Yockey, The World in Flames and Other Essays, ed. Kerry Bolton
23. Saint-Loup, Hitler or Judah? A Second Nuremberg Tribunal
24. Derek Hawthorne, Above the Clouds: Arnold Fanck, Leni Riefenstahl, and the Metaphysics of Sex (on the German mountain films)
25. Collin Cleary, L’appel aux dieux (French translation of Summoning the Gods)

Other longer term projects include Anthony M. Ludovici’s Confessions of an Anti-Feminist: The Autobiography of Anthony M. Ludovici, ed. John V. Day, Julius Evola’s East and West: Essays in Comparative Philosophy, a new edition of Brooks Adams’ The Law of Civilization and Decay with an Introduction by Greg Johnson, and a collection of Alain de Benoist’s essays on Ernst Jünger.

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Once again, I want to thank our writers, donors, and proofreaders; our webmaster/Managing Editor; and above all, you, our readers, for making Counter-Currents possible.

Greg Johnson
Editor-in-Chief
Counter-Currents Publishing Ltd.
& North American New Right