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Greg Johnson

Greg Johnson, Ph.D., is the Editor-in-Chief of Counter-Currents Publishing, Ltd. and North American New Right. Email

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What Socrates Knew:
Plato’s Gorgias, Part 1 of 10

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In August of 1999, I started an eight-week lecture course called “What Socrates Knew: Plato on Art, Wisdom, and Happiness.”

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The Counter-Currents 2013 Summer Fundraiser
Free E-Book Promotion: Irmin Vinson’s Some Thoughts on Hitler

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In the first week of the Counter-Currents Summer Fundraiser, we received seven donations totaling $6,550. Our goal is to raise $50,000 by October 31, so we are $43,450 away from our goal. I want to thank our donors for their generous support. Without it, Counter-Currents could not continue.

To thank all of our readers — and maybe win a few new ones — I would like to announce a week-long free E-Book promotion. Read more …

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What Socrates Knew:
Plato’s Alcibiades I

Jean-Baptiste Regnault, "Socrates Tears Alcibiades from the Embrace of Sensual Pleasure," 1791.

Jean-Baptiste Regnault, “Socrates Tears Alcibiades from the Embrace of Sensual Pleasure,” 1791.

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This lecture on the Alcibiades I is a rather superficial overview and is shorter than the others, so it will be released in one part. The very last sentence (around 50:00 minutes) is cut off, but the gist of the missing words is that Socrates’ discussion of knowledge of ignorance aimed at shaming Alcibiades into philosophical reflection. Read more …

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Happy Birthday to Us!

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It was three years ago today that the Counter-Currents Publishing/North American New Right website went online.

In our third year, we published online 937 posts and 8,844 comments. We also published 6 new books, with many more in the pipeline.  Read more …

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What Socrates Knew:
Socratic Ignorance, Eros, & the Daimonion, Part 2 of 2

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In August of 1999, I started an eight-week lecture course called “What Socrates Knew: Plato on Art, Wisdom, and Happiness.”

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Irmin Vinson’s Some Thoughts on Hitler in French Translation!

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Irmin Vinson’s Some Thoughts on Hitler and Other Essays has been translated into French under the title L’ « Holocauste »: une arme de dissuasion massive (The “Holocaust”: A Massive Deterrent).

I encourage all friends of Counter-Currents, whether you read French or not, to buy this book to reward this noble yet risky effort and to encourage more of them.

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The Trial of Socrates:
Aristophanes’ Clouds, Part 1

Socrates: a good 5 cent cigar

Socrates: among other things, a good 5 cent cigar

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Author’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V. S. of the second part of my lecture on Aristophanes’ Clouds. As usual, I have edited this transcript to remove excessive wordiness and any factual errors. The quotes come from the translation of the Clouds in Four Texts on Socrates.  

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Counter-Currents/North American New Right Newsletter: May 2013

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Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,

Due to technical problems, I am posting this letter on the front page rather than emailing it to our mailing list.

1. Our Readership and Web Traffic

If you visited Counter-Currents in May, you were one of 95,667 unique visitors.  Read more …

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Food for Thought

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Every month, Counter-Currents publishes a free electronic newsletter. It includes information on our web traffic, most popular articles, upcoming books, special offers, etc.

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What Socrates Knew:
Socratic Ignorance, Eros, & the Daimonion, Part 1 of 2

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Remembering Oswald Spengler:
May 29, 1880–May 8, 1936

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Oswald Spengler was born on this day in 1880. For his contributions to the philosophy of history and culture, Spengler is one of the most important philosophical influences on the North American New Right, largely by way of his disciple Francis Parker Yockey. Spengler is often wrong, but even when he errs, he does so magnificently. Read more …

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Remembering Louis-Ferdinand Céline:
May 27, 1894–July 1, 1961

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French novelist, essayist, and physician Louis-Ferdinand-Auguste Destouches, who was born on this day in 1894. Céline is one of the giants of 20th-century literature. And, like Ezra Pound and so many other great writers of the last century, he was an open and unapologetic racial nationalist. For more on Céline, see the following works on this website:  Read more …

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Suicide in the Cathedral:
The Death of Dominique Venner

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Dominique Venner is too big for me to judge. Thus I am not going to criticize or second-guess his decision to end his life with a bullet at the altar of the Cathedral of Notre Dame on May 21, 2013.

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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium 
Remembering Richard Wagner:
May 22, 1813–February 13, 1883

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Richard Wagner was born 200 years ago today in Leipzig in the kingdom of Saxony. He died on February 13, 1883 in Venice. As an artist, intellectual, author, and cultural force, Wagner has left an immense metapolitical legacy, which is being evaluated and appropriated in the North American New Right’s Wagner Bicentennial Symposium, which will continue through the end of May with articles by Collin Cleary, Christopher Pankhurst, and others. Read more …

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What Socrates Knew:
Thirty Socratic Theses, Part 2 of 2

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Reyer van Blommendael, “Xantippe Dousing Socrates,” c. 1665

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Remembering Julius Evola:
May 19, 1898–June 11, 1974

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Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola was born on May 19, 1898 in Rome. Along with René Guénon, Evola is one of the writers who has most influenced the metapolitical outlook and project of Counter-Currents, which is reflected in the fact that Evola is one of the most-tagged writers on this website. In commemoration of his birthday, I wish to draw your attention to the following resources. Read more …

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The Trial of Socrates:
Antiphon the Sophist

A third century AD papyrus attributed to the first book of On Truth (P.Oxy. XI 1364 fr. 1, cols. v-vii)

Papyrus fragment of Antiphon’s “On Truth,” 3rd century A.D.

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Author’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V. S. of the prefatory remarks on Antiphon the Sophist from the first part of my lecture on Aristophanes’ Clouds. As usual, I have edited this transcript to remove excessive wordiness. The quotes come from the first edition of A Presocratics Reader, ed. Patricia Curd.  

Antiphon the Sophist was a younger contemporary of Socrates. He was the author of the treatise On Truth, only fragments of which survive. Read more …

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What Socrates Knew:
Thirty Socratic Theses, Part 1 of 2

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On Violence

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The following essay is a reworking of two earlier essays for republication in my forthcoming book New Right vs. Old Right. I am publishing it now as it is something of a companion piece to my recent essay “Premature Populism.”

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R. H. S. Stolfi’s
Hitler: Beyond Evil & Tyranny, Part 2

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Part 2 of 2

R. H. S. Stolfi
Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny
Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2011

Russell Stolfi deals with a number of episodes in Hitler’s life that are adduced as evidence of evil. Stolfi argues that some of these acts are not evil at all. He others that others were necessary or mitigated evils. Read more …

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