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This is the second of two parts of a lecture on the Platonic dialogue Euthyphro, which deals with the nature of piety. As with the Theages, I interpret the Euthyphro as in part a reply to Aristophanes’ Clouds. Read more …

Published: April 3, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Tagged Aristophanes, Counter-Currents Radio, Euthyphro, Greg Johnson, originals, philosophy, piety, Plato, podcasts, Socrates | Comments closed

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From the Editor
“No Comment”

Greg Johnson

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Due to a much increased workload, I no longer have time to moderate and respond to comments on our articles. Thus, I am shutting down comments at Counter-Currents.

I want to thank our loyal commenters for their work. I understand that this will diminish the experience of some of our readers and authors, and I apologize for that. Read more …

Published: April 2, 2013 | Posted in news item | Tagged Greg Johnson, news item | Comments closed

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Food for Thought

Greg Johnson

Ukrainian Easter Eggs

90 words

Did you know that Counter-Currents sends out a FREE monthly electronic Newsletter?

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Published: April 1, 2013 | Posted in news item | Tagged Greg Johnson, mailing list, news item | Comments closed

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Riccardo Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini

Greg Johnson

Ary Scheffer, “Francesca da Rimini,” 1854

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In 1902, Gabriele D’Annunzio published Francesca da Rimini, a tragedy based on Boccaccio’s elaboration of an episode in Dante’s Inferno.

Francesca was the Daughter of Guido I da Polenta, lord of Ravenna. Read more …

Published: March 29, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, classical music, Dante, Francesca da Rimini, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Giovanni Boccaccio, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, opera, originals, Riccardo Zandonai | Comments closed

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Remembering Ernst Jünger:
March 29, 1895–February 17, 1998

Greg Johnson

Arno Breker’s portrait of Ernst Jünger

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Ernst Jünger was born on this day in 1895.

In commemoration, we wish to draw your attention to the following works published on this site.

First, there are two pieces by Jünger himself:

Published: March 29, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged commemorations, Ernst Junger, Greg Johnson, North American New Right | Comments closed

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A Little Death:
Hegelian Reflections on Body Piercing & Tattoos

Greg Johnson

Antonio Canova’s “Amor and Psyche,” 1793, Louvre

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It is safe to say that urban youth culture in the contemporary West is pretty much saturated with hedonism. Yet in the midst of all this hedonism, tattooing and body piercing are huge industries, and they hurt.

It is, moreover, shared pain, broadcast to and imposed upon all who see it. It is natural for human beings to feel sympathy for people in pain, or who show visible signs of having suffered pain. Perhaps this is a sign of morbid oversensitivity, but I believe I am not the only person who feels sympathy pains when I see tattoos and piercings, especially extensive ones. Read more …

Published: March 28, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, body piercing, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, philosophy of history, tattoos | Comments closed

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The Trial of Socrates:
Plato’s Euthyphro, Part 1 of 2

Greg Johnson

The veneration of Zeus Meilichios, relief, Berlin

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This is the first of two parts of a lecture on the Platonic dialogue Euthyphro, which deals with the nature of piety. As with the Theages, I interpret the Euthyphro as in part a reply to Aristophanes’ Clouds. Read more …

Published: March 27, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Tagged Aristophanes, Counter-Currents Radio, Euthyphro, Greg Johnson, originals, philosophy, piety, Plato, podcasts, Socrates | Comments closed

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Stalin: The Enduring Legacy

Greg Johnson

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Kerry Bolton
Stalin: The Enduring Legacy
London: Black House Publishing, 2012

At the beginning of 1989, I thought that “Russia” (the USSR) was an evil empire, a totalitarian system built on repression and propaganda and bent on global domination. I also thought that the United States was the principal impediment to Soviet world domination, the bulwark of freedom. Read more …

Published: March 26, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, Cold War, Communism, Greg Johnson, Joseph Stalin, Kerry Bolton, Leon Trotsky, Moscow Trials, neoconservatism, North American New Right, originals, Stalin: The Enduring Legacy, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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Guillaume Faye & the Battle of Europe

Greg Johnson

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Michael O’Meara
Guillaume Faye and the Battle of Europe
London: Arktos, 2013

Guillaume Faye is a brilliant and prolific French social and political philosopher and polemicist who is one of the leading lights of the French New Right. Faye’s reputation as a visionary and iconoclast created a global interest in his writings long before they became available in translation. Read more …

Published: March 25, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, Christianity, Greg Johnson, Guillaume Faye, Guillaume Faye and the Battle of Europe, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Movement or “Stuckment”: It’s Up to You

Greg Johnson

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Back on February 25th, I posted a special fundraising appeal, “Seven Ways You Can Help Counter-Currents.” I was delighted that fully a dozen readers responded with donations nearing $2,000, Read more …

Published: March 18, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Greg Johnson, news item | Comments closed

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The Beginning & the End of History

Greg Johnson

1,493 words

The duel to the death over honor is a remarkable phenomenon. Animals duel over dominance, which insures their access to mates. But these duels result in death only by accident, because the whole process is governed by their survival instincts, and their “egos” do not prevent them from surrendering when the fight is hopeless. Read more …

Published: March 15, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alexandre Kojève, articles, C. S. Lewis, capitalism, David Hume, Francis Fukuyama, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, honor, John Locke, liberalism, manliness, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, the bourgeoisie, Thomas Hobbes, thumos, warrior ethics | Comments closed

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Postmodernism, Hedonism, & Death

Greg Johnson

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Hieronymus Bosch, “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” right panel, detail

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“Postmodernism” is one of those academically fashionable weasel words like “paradigm” that have now seeped into middlebrow and even lowbrow discourse. Those of us who have fundamental and principled critiques of modernity quickly learned that postmodernism is not nearly postmodern enough. Read more …

Published: March 14, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, culture, death, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, hedonism, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism | Comments closed

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Leo Strauss, the Conservative Revolution, & National Socialism, Part 2

Greg Johnson

Leo Strauss

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Part 2 of 4

Editor’s Note:

The second installment of this essay was delayed because I had to acquire, read, and digest a major new book before I could move forward: William F. Altman’s The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2012), which argues that Strauss was indeed a kind of “Nazi” Jew Read more …

Published: March 13, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Carl Schmitt, conservative revolution, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, Leo Strauss, Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Now in Kindle E-Book!
North American New Right, vol. 1

Greg Johnson

North American New Right, volume 1
Edited by Greg Johnson
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2012
366 pages

Kindle E-Book: $7.99

hardcover: $120

Published: March 11, 2013 | Posted in news item | Tagged Greg Johnson, news item | Comments closed

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The Trial of Socrates:
Plato’s Theages

Greg Johnson

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Published: March 6, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Tagged Aristophanes, Clouds, Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, Socrates, Theages | Comments closed

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Bryan Magee’s Aspects of Wagner

Greg Johnson

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Bryan Magee
Aspects of Wagner
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988

In preparation for the Wagner bicentennial on May 22, I have been listening to, watching, and reading about Wagner non-stop. But one’s enjoyment of art and ideas is magnified by sharing them with others. So I am going to get you in the Wagner spirit, or drive you crazy trying, Read more …

Published: March 5, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, Bryan Magee, classical music, drama, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, opera, originals, Richard Wagner, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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

Greg Johnson

Jean Raoux, “Young Woman Reading a Letter,” before 1734

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Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,

1. Counter-Currents Radio

I am sorry to tell you that Counter-Currents Radio has lost Matt Parrott. Matt has had to step away due to the demands of work and family. Unfortunately, this means that we will have to shut down the Counter-Currents Radio Network project, as neither Mike Polignano nor I have the time or expertise to continue it, nor do we have the money or desire to try to relaunch it under another person’s management.

Published: March 4, 2013 | Posted in news item | Tagged Greg Johnson, news item, newsletter | Comments closed

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Counter-Currents Now Has Amazon Affiliate Accounts World-Wide

Greg Johnson

Gaetano Gandolfi, “Venus in the Forge of Vulcan,” c. 1770-5

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Counter-Currents now has affiliate marketing accounts with the major Amazon stores world-wide, so if you enter these Amazon stores through our affiliate marketing links, Counter-Currents will receive a percentage of whatever you buy, at no extra cost to you.

Now, when you click one of our Amazon affiliate links, you will be taken to the nearest Amazon store with which we have an account.

We now have accounts with: Read more …

Published: March 1, 2013 | Posted in news item | Tagged Greg Johnson, new item | Comments closed

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Free Information on the Internet?

Greg Johnson

Giovanni Francesco Maria Mazzola (Parmigianino), “Portrait of a Man Reading a Book,” 16th century

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The next letter will go out on March 3rd.

Sign up by completing the form below. If you do not find something in your inbox by the end of the day on the 3rd, check your spam folder.

Published: February 28, 2013 | Posted in news item | Tagged Greg Johnson, mailing list, news item | Comments closed

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Freude durch Krafft

Greg Johnson

Charles Krafft, Hitler Idaho teapot, 2003

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In 2005, Seattle artist Charles Krafft won the revisionist Holocaust Historiography Project’s prize for the most absurd World War II atrocity tale.

In 2006, in an interview published on the blog The eXTra finGer, Krafft answered the question, “What else are you interested in besides visual arts?” as follows:

Travel, interbellic Romanian history, psychedelics, Holocaust revisionism, Read more …

Published: February 27, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged art, art criticism, Charles Krafft, Greg Johnson, Jen Graves, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, the Jewish question, the racially conscious left, tolerance, West Coast White Nationalism, white nationalism | Comments closed

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