Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “The Last Boy Scout,” on the imminent end of the Boy Scouts. (more…)
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May 12, 2024 Jim Goad
The Last Boy Scout
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May 10, 2024 Counter-Currents
EChecks are Back!
Subscribers: Please Read This in Order to Continue Your Support!550 words
We received the devastating news three weeks ago that we were being de-banked after 14 years as a result of the cyberattack against our eCheck donation and payment system. Since we have been blocked from ordinary credit card processing due to our views, this was the only way we were able to accept online payments directly through the Counter-Currents site.
The good news for the whole movement is that deplaforming isn’t what it used to be. Five years ago, when we were put on the MATCH list — a blacklist for credit card companies — due to our views, we had no other options: just paper checks, money orders, and cash in the mail. Over time, however, allies and friends built systems such as eChecks, alternative processing sites such as Entropy, and now, banks that respect freedom of speech. (more…)
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I want to thank the nearly 400 readers who have responded thus far to the Counter-Currents poll and share some interesting results. Keep in mind that these are all subject to change as more people take the poll. Also, since knowledge is power, we will not be releasing our overall results to the public.
Those who haven’t taken the poll yet will receive one more invitation email in the coming days. But act soon. The poll ends on May 15th, when we will have the drawing for the $500 prize. Remember: your answers are anonymous. (more…)
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I enjoyed Fred Reed’s April 24 essay “Ignorance, Its Uses and Nurture,” which refers to universal suffrage in anything larger than a small town as a “crackpot” idea. In a mere thousand words, Reed painted the American public as entirely incapable and unqualified to understand United States foreign policy, let alone vote on it. Therefore, he concludes, the entire democratic system is a sham. Yes, the statistics he presents bolster his point admirably. But maybe not as much as epic burns such as this one: (more…)
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For [the Polish Jews], there is only one solution to the Jewish question in the world, and that is their own country. They don’t want a host country, however good it may be. They want to be a normal nation among the others, because up to now the world has not understood that there is “neither Greek nor Jew,” but only human beings, all equal in their misfortunes, their weaknesses, and greatnesses, all capable of the same horror as of the same heroic deeds, because up to now the world has entrenched itself behind numerous groups, which are becoming more and more numerous, each one enclosing itself twice over, living in mistrust and doubt against its neighbor. (more…)
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It is the run-in to a British General Election in which the Labour Party is certain to replace a Conservative Party which has been in power for almost 15 years. The charismatic Labour leader is warning his party against what he calls “triumphalism,” although he knows almost to a certainty that in half a year’s time the keys to 10 Downing Street will be in his expensively-tailored pocket. (more…)
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Translations: French, Polish, Spanish
This essay was originally published in July 2013, but has become relevant again in light of the recent disclosure that R. Derek Black now identifies as transsexual, as revealed in his new memoir: The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism.
Derek Black’s renunciation of White Nationalism raises questions of wider significance about how people form and reject beliefs. (more…)
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It’s official: There will be no more Boy Scouts.
Don’t panic: There will still be Scouts who are boys. There will also be Scouts who are girls.
There will also continue to be Girl Scouts who are boys, so long as they identify as girls. And there will still be Girl Scouts who are biological girls.
Just no more Boy Scouts. (more…)
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A new trend has emerged in the country where I live. Maybe it has been going on for quite some time elsewhere, but it’s advent in my neck of the woods is recent.
I am, of course, talking about the sudden (for me at least) prevalence of bottle caps which are attached to the bottle. Milk, juice, pop, energy drinks . . . all now come with caps that cling to the bottle with a stubborn fortitude. (more…)
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Pssst — white people! There is no shame in being white. There is only shame in ever thinking there was. In the 50 short, sharp, incisive essays contained in his book Whiteness: The Original Sin, author Jim Goad examines why the idea of being white has become the modern version of the unpardonable sin. On the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, which was the fifth meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club, host Greg Johnson was joined by author Jim Goad as well as John Derbyshire and Angelo Plume (Telegram, YouTube) to discuss the book and anti-whiteness more generally. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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The following is reprinted from the Homeland Institute (website, Telegram).
Of white Americans aged 18 to 35, 87.3% of Democrats, 85.1% of Independents, and 72.2% of Republicans plan on below-replacement reproduction, meaning two or fewer children.
33.2% of all respondents, 35.9% of Democrats, 38.5% of Independents, and 23.1% of Republicans said that the financial cost of raising children overall was a barrier to having children. (more…)
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The Milesian philosophers were wrong about everything, but they asked the right questions, and for the first time sought natural explanations instead. — Luke Mueshaller, Pre-Socratics: A Painless Introduction
The limit of all wisdom is in me. — Epigram on Pythagoras, Boundaries, Duris
Although the twilight is darkening around Western philosophy, she is still just visible through the gloom. She had already been demoted from her role as theology’s handmaiden and queen of the sciences to a kind of antiquarian pursuit, like collecting moths in glass-covered frames or old jazz records. (more…)
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Matthew Dallek
Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
New York: Basic Books, 2023A couple of months back I reviewed a biography of Robert Welch (A Conspiratorial Life) that I regarded as superficial and facile.[1] The author, Edward H. Miller, seemed to have no real feel for the issues that motivated Welch and his followers in the late 1950s and early ‘60s. In fact, Miller displayed little sense of that time at all — as a political era, I mean. (more…)