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Plato, 1st century marble bust, Capitoline Museum, Rome

45:05 / 399 words

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This is the first of two parts of a lecture on the Platonic dialogue Apology of Socrates to the Jury, which I interpret in the light of Plato’s Euthyphro and Aristophanes’ Clouds.

Published: April 10, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Apology, Aristophanes, Counter-Currents Radio, originals, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, Socrates | Comments closed

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

Greg Johnson

897 words

Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,

1. Our Readership and Web Traffic

Published: April 7, 2013 | Posted in news item | Also tagged news item, newsletter | Comments closed

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Greg Johnson & Matt Parrott
Interview with Thomas Goodrich

Counter-Currents Radio

65:01 / 397 words

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Greg Johnson and Matt Parrott interview historian Thomas Goodrich about his book Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944-1947 (Sheridan, Colorado: Aberdeen Books, 2010). Read more …

Published: April 5, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Allied atrocities, Counter-Currents Radio, Hellstorm, interviews, Matt Parrott, podcasts, revisionism, Thomas Goodrich, World War II | Comments closed

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

Greg Johnson

46:12 / 416 words

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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 | Also tagged Aristophanes, Counter-Currents Radio, Euthyphro, 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 | Also tagged 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?

It includes information on our web traffic, most popular articles, upcoming books, special offers, etc. Read more …

Published: April 1, 2013 | Posted in news item | Also tagged mailing list, news item | Comments closed

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Greg Johnson, Matt Parrott, & Michael Polignano
Round Table on Bitcoin

Counter-Currents Radio

52:36/ 118 words

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Published: March 29, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged banking, Bitcoin, Counter-Currents Radio, Matt Parrott, Michael Polignano, podcasts, Social Credit | 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 | Also tagged articles, classical music, Dante, Francesca da Rimini, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Giovanni Boccaccio, 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 | Also tagged commemorations, Ernst Junger, 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 | Also tagged articles, body piercing, G. W. F. Hegel, 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

46:58 / 415 words

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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 | Also tagged Aristophanes, Counter-Currents Radio, Euthyphro, 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 | Also tagged book reviews, Cold War, Communism, 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 | Also tagged book reviews, Christianity, 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 | Also tagged news item | 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 | Also tagged articles, culture, death, G. W. F. Hegel, 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 | Also tagged articles, Carl Schmitt, conservative revolution, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Leo Strauss, Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Interview with Charles Krafft

Counter-Currents Radio

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Published: March 12, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, art criticism, Charles Krafft, Counter-Currents Radio, holocaust revisionism, Jen Graves, Laibach, originals, podcasts, the holocaust | 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 | Also tagged news item | Comments closed

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Counter-Currents Radio
The Trial of Socrates:
Plato’s Theages

Greg Johnson

54:34 / 342 words

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

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Bryan Magee’s Aspects of Wagner

Greg Johnson

2,373 words

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 | Also tagged book reviews, Bryan Magee, classical music, drama, North American New Right, opera, originals, Richard Wagner, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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