My whole adult life, I have had my own Christmas tree on only two occasions. The reason is simple: I always spent Christmas at home or with the family of a friend. But even so, I love Christmas trees. Read more …
It was about twenty years ago when I first noticed that the greeting “Merry Christmas” was being replaced by the bland, neutral “Season’s Greetings” and “Happy Holidays.”
We are approaching Christmas (another name for the winter solstice). Associated with the evergreen tree, Christmas has always been celebrated in European countries since time immemorial as the great feast presaging the revival of nature and life after the repose of winter. Read more …
Even though I am an unbeliever, the Christmas season is my favorite time of the year. Christmas, like dogs, brings out the best in people. It awakens a desire to beautify one’s world and adorn one’s soul with good deeds.
Like Christmas, Easter is for everyone. For Christians, it commemorates the resurrection of Christ. For pagans, it is a festival of spring: of nature’s resurrection. Read more …
Two years ago I wrote about jewish influence on Christmas music. Sometime later I ran across a passage from Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock praising Irving Berlin for de-Christing Christmas (and Easter). What I didn’t realize until today was that Roth’s book frames jewish hostility toward Christmas in a much broader context of jewish hostility toward Christianity, Christians, and Whites in general.
Roth, like Berlin, is not some marginal, inconsequential jew. Read more …
It’s that time of year again: politicians around the country—city, state, and federal, Democrat and Republican, left, right, and center—congregate to display fealty to Judaism, the Jews, and Israel. Read more …
Like many suburban kids, I spent a lot of time at the mall. There was one in particular in a neighboring suburb that I went to more than any other. Read more …
Every year, new battles are fought in an ongoing “War on Christmas.” But behind the generic war on Christmas is the Jewish War on Christmas. For some background, see these articles on Counter-Currents: Read more …
The Winter Solstice is divided in two, like the day it celebrates, but instead of an even mix of dark and light, this book remains enlightening all the way through. Read more …
In keeping with my policy of regifting, I am reprinting this oldie, because the points it makes are still valid. Merry Christmas!
It was about twenty years ago when I first noticed that the greeting “Merry Christmas” was being replaced by the bland, neutral “Season’s Greetings” and “Happy Holidays.”
Christmas—or Yule, to use the name originally given to this sacred time by our pre-Christian ancestors—is one of those times when I am particularly reminded of how much who we were still strongly influences who we are. Read more …
Thanksgiving Day is America’s incarnation of the traditional harvest festival, a celebration of the end of the summer harvest, often marked by lavish feasts. Read more …
Plastic Christmas
My whole adult life, I have had my own Christmas tree on only two occasions. The reason is simple: I always spent Christmas at home or with the family of a friend. But even so, I love Christmas trees. Read more …