Monthly Archives: December 2018

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Maybe I am fooling myself when I do this, but whenever I feel myself losing all hope, I ease up a bit and start hoping again.

Published: December 31, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, North American New Right, optimism and pessimism, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, the New Year, white dispossession | 3 Responses

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Feminism & the Oppression Olympics

Irmin Vinson

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According to mainstream accounts, the current disarray of the Women’s March movement began almost at the moment of its inception. A black feminist and a brown feminist spoke disrespectfully to a Jewish feminist, and through that original sin the seeds of the movement’s subsequent troubles were sown.

The Jewish victim was Vanessa Wruble, Read more …

Published: December 31, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Bob Bland, feminism, Irmin Vinson, Linda Sarsour, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Tamika Mallory, the Jewish question, Vanessa Wruble, Women's March | 12 Responses

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My Five Favorite Books of 2018

Samantha Hilton

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Although it probably needs no print space, I wanted to begin with the worst book I read because it is so awful that it inspired me to read a couple on my real top five list. In fact, I’m even cheating a little bit because I started it in 2017, but it really made an impression on me.

Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (New York: Tim Duggan Books 2017). Read more …

Published: December 31, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2018 Roundups, A Return to Modesty, Chris Voss, feminism, Hess: The Missing Years, Leonard Sax, Malcom Gladwell, modesty, negotiating, Never Split the Difference, On Tyranny, parenting, Rudolf Hess, Samantha Hilton, sexual liberation, Tahl Raz, The Collapse of Parenting, The Tipping Point, Timothy Snyder, Wendy Shalit | 5 Responses

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The Counter-Currents 2018 Fundraiser
We’re Getting Warmer . . .

Greg Johnson

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Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,

Okay, I’m starting to get worried. Since our last update, we have received 11 donations totaling $875, for which we are enormously grateful.

Our goal this year is to raise $70,000. So far, we have received 300 donations totaling $66,239.87. So we are almost 95% of the way to our goal, with only $3,760.13 to raise by the end of December 31, Pacific Standard Time. Read more …

Published: December 30, 2018 | Posted in news item | Tagged 2018 Fundraiser | 5 Responses

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Storm over Kiev:
Report on Asgardsrei 2018

Jarosław Ostrogniew

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If I wanted to provide an example of the Faustian spirit at work, I would probably point to the Asgardsrei festival. Just think about what would be the most extreme and difficult event to organize. A NSBM festival would be high on the list. After you organize it, authorities in your country attack it, and you become an unwanted and unwelcome person in your own fatherland. What do you do? You move to a different country and proceed with your work. Read more …

Published: December 30, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Absurd, Acherontas, articles, Asgardsrei 2018 Festival, Asgardsrei Fest, Baise Ma Hache, Baron von Ungern-Sternberg, Black Metal, Dark Fury, Der Stürmer, Frangar, Frodi Midjord, Goatmoon, Hendrik Möbus, Ivan Mikheev, Jarosław Ostrogniew, Kataxu, M8l8th, metapolitics, Moloth, Nokturnal Mortum, Nordglanz, North American New Right, Olena Semenyaka, originals, Pact of Steel Conference, Peste Noire, Stahlfront, Sunwheel, Terrosphära, Ukraine, Wehrwolf | 5 Responses

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Supreme Avantgarde Death Metal:
The Metapolitical Struggle of The Monolith Deathcult

Buttercup Dew

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The Monolith Deathcult are a three-piece extreme Death Metal band formed and led by Dutch high-school history teacher, Michiel Dekker. TMDC is a one-band musical vanguard for the coming inevitable National Populist cultural explosion of the European New Right. Read more …

Published: December 30, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Buttercup Dew, Death Metal, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, popular music, The Monolith Deathcult | 1 Response

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Remembering Rudyard Kipling:
December 30, 1865 to January 18, 1936

Greg Johnson

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John Collier, Portrait of Rudyard Kipling, circa 1891

Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling was born on this day in 1865. For an introduction to his life and works, see the following articles on this site.

William Pierce, “Rudyard Kipling: The White Man’s Poet” (French translation here)
Andrew Hamilton, “Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Burden of Jerusalem’“
Margot Metroland, “The Conundrum of the Kipling: Rudyard Kipling, 1865–1936“
William Solniger, “The White Man’s Burden, 2013“

Published: December 30, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, originals, poems, poetry, Rudyard Kipling | Leave a comment

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Moralsk alvor

Greg Johnson

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English original here

Forfatterens bemærkninger:

Dette er et uddrag fra ‘New Right vs. Old Right’. Hvis du ikke allerede har læst det, så skal du læse det. Hvis du allerede har læst det, så læs det igen og igen, til det bundfælder sig.

“This ain’t no party. This ain’t no disco.
This ain’t no foolin’ around.”
—Talking Heads, “Life During Wartime”

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What Populism Isn’t

Greg Johnson

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Jan-Werner Müller
What is Populism?
Penguin, 2017

When a political establishment feels threatened by a growing force like National Populism, Plan A is to defend the establishment and attack its opponents by dispatching middle-brow journalists to sneer and jeer and middle-brow political hacks to construct partisan talking points. Read more …

Published: December 28, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, Carl Schmitt, democracy, Greg Johnson, Jan-Werner Müller, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, liberalism, National Populism, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, populism, What Is Populism? | 10 Responses

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Inshallah, the THOTs

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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Why do we have such things as white Sharia?

I mean, it’s a funny meme, and sharing images of Ramzan “Ginger Sharia” Kadyrov to trigger jihad-watching BoomerCons is highly entertaining, but hardly anything is done just for the lulz. Now, whether there are people out there who sincerely support white Sharia is of no consequence. People support all sorts of stupid ideas, as the success of Scientology will attest. Read more …

Published: December 28, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Islam, manliness, memes, MemriTV, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, rap, whiggers, white sharia | 6 Responses

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The Counter-Currents 2018 Fundraiser
Down to the Wire

Greg Johnson

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Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,

Now that you’ve had a chance to unwind just a bit before the final onslaught of Holiday Cheer, here’s an update to our 2018 fundraiser. Since our last update, we have received 7 donations totaling $467, for which we are enormously grateful.

Our goal this year is to raise $70,000. So far, we have received 289 donations totaling $65,364.87. Read more …

Published: December 27, 2018 | Posted in news item | Tagged 2018 Fundraiser | 3 Responses

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Perused with Pleasure in 2018
My Top 5 Books

Margot Metroland

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I was using my Spectator-co-uk digital subscription to search for odds and ends in its wonky archive. What, I wondered, did the Speccy have to say about the Angry Young Men in the late 1950s? Better yet, what did they have on Colin Wilson and his friend, the ever-elusive Bill Hopkins?

Not an awful lot, as it turns out. Read more …

Published: December 27, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2018 Roundups, articles, Ben Macintyre, Bernard Levin, Bill Hopkins, book reviews, Charles De Gaulle, Charles DeGaulle, Colin Wilson, David Halberstam, Julian Jackson, KGB, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, Paul Willetts, railroads, Richard White, space program, T. S. Eliot, The Spectator | 4 Responses

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Against Escapism

Eordred

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Escapism is one of the major issues plaguing young white men. Virtually all of them are gamers of some sort. If not a gamer, he typically immerses himself in board games, or else fantasy and science fiction novels and television series. The more disciplined and intelligent among us might use this as a springboard toward developing some useful skills. Read more …

Published: December 27, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Éordred, Ernst Junger, escapism, gaming, heroism, masculinity, modernity, North American New Right, originals, pain, video games | 14 Responses

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Five Books that Shook My World (2018)

James J. O'Meara

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1. Camille Paglia, Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education (New York: Pantheon, 2018).

Paglia is self-recommending, of course. I was a bit let down, as the subtitle seemed to promise a career-wide retrospective, while this is more like a reunion tour, with emphasis on more recent works. The key essays are a vast survey, “Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960s,” a liberal education in itself; Read more …

Published: December 26, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2018 Roundups, Adjustment Day, Alec Nevala-Lee, articles, Astounding, book reviews, Camille Paglia, Chuck Palahniuk, Colin Wilson, Isaac Asimov, James J. O'Meara, John W. Campbell, L. Ron Hubbard, Mitch Horowitz, New Thought, North American New Right, originals, Provocations, Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction, The Age of Defeat, The Miracle Club | 3 Responses

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My Favorite Books of 2018

Greg Johnson

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I have read about 40 books in 2018 (so far). These are my five favorites. (Modesty requires that I exclude my own books and other Counter-Currents titles.)

1. Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin, National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy (New York: Pelican, 2018).

As I mentioned in my “Toward a New Nationalism” essay, Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin’s National Populism is a very exciting book. Read more …

Published: December 26, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2018 Roundups, Adjustment Day, articles, book reviews, Christine McKenna, Chuck Palahniuk, David Lynch, Greg Johnson, How Fascism Works, Jason Stanley, José Pedro Zúquete, Matthew Goodwin, National Populism, North American New Right, originals, Roger Eatwell, Room to Dream, The Identitarians, The Virtue of Nationalism, Yoram Hazony | 13 Responses

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A Nice Book by a Nice Lady:
Heather Mac Donald’s The Diversity Delusion

Spencer J. Quinn

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Heather Mac Donald
The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018

How can a struggle be both righteous and meaningless?

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Christmas at Counter-Currents
On Yule & Millenniyule

Jared George

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When the Sun largely vanished from the sky as cold and darkness overtook the world of our ancestors, they would band together. The warmth they conjured up to endure this time of year emanated from their turning their attention toward one another.

Published: December 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Christmas, Jared George, Millennial Woes, Millenniyule Hangouts, North American New Right, originals, social media, Yule | 4 Responses

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We Are Doomed Revisited:
An Interview with John Derbyshire

Travis LeBlanc

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2019 is almost here.

As everyone knows, 2019 is the year when the dystopian sci-fi movie Blade Runner takes place. 2019 will also be the ten year anniversary of the release of John Derbyshire’s paradigm-shifting bestseller We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism, a book which paints a dystopian future for America even more disturbing and unsettling than the one portrayed in Blade Runner. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alt-Right, conservatism, Dissident Right, interviews, John Derbyshire, North American New Right, originals, pessimism, Travis LeBlanc, We Are Doomed, writing | 6 Responses

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Christmas at Counter-Currents
Christmas:
Beauty in Life

Dominique Venner

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Translated by Greg Johnson; Spanish translation here

We are approaching Christmas (another name for the winter solstice). Associated with the evergreen tree, Read more …

Published: December 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged aesthetics, beauty, Christmas, Dominique Venner, ethics, North American New Right, originals, Stoicism, translations | 4 Responses

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Christmas at Counter-Currents
Some Thoughts on Yule

Collin Cleary

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Yule is the midwinter festival celebrated by my ancestors and by Germanic neo-pagans today. Midwinter is a time when much of nature seems to die or to depart. The trees are stripped of their leaves. The birds abandon us, flying off to warmer climes. Bears, badgers, chipmunks, and squirrels hibernate. Water freezes over. The earth is covered in ice and snow, so that nothing can grow. The air is so chilled that when we are out in it for too long, death becomes something tangible, and we rush inside. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Christmas, Collin Cleary, finitude, holidays, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Yule | 3 Responses

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Christmas at Counter-Currents
Christmas & the Winter Solstice

Julius Evola

Sol Invictus crowned with a diadem of sun rays

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Translation and commentary by Cologero Salvo

In “Roma e il natale solare nella tradizione nordico-aria” (La Difesa della razza, 1940), Evola writes:

Very few suspect that the holidays [i.e., Catholic holy days] of today, in the century of skyscrapers, radio, great movements of the masses, are celebrated and continue . . . a remote tradition, Read more …

Published: December 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged ancient Rome, articles, Christmas, holidays, Julius Evola, North American New Right, paganism, reprints, Sol Invictus, the Winter Solstice, Traditionalism, translations | 1 Response

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Moral Seriousness

Greg Johnson

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Translations: Czech, Danish, Spanish

Author’s Note:

This is an excerpt from New Right vs. Old Right. If you haven’t read it, you need to. If you have, read it again and again until it sinks in.

“This ain’t no party. This ain’t no disco.
This ain’t no foolin’ around.”
—Talking Heads, “Life During Wartime”

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Guide to Kulchur
Episode 5: Yuletide Special with Survive the Jive

Counter-Currents Radio

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Survive the Jive joins Fróði Midjord on the latest episode of the new podcast series, Guide to Kulchur. Read more …

Published: December 22, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Tagged Christmas, Counter-Currents Radio, European paganism, Frodi Midjord, Guide to Kulchur, Survive the Jive, Yule | 6 Responses

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Remembering Filippo Marinetti:
December 22, 1876–December 2, 1944

Greg Johnson

Marinetti in the First World War.

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Those on the Right who believe that modern art is always “decadent” need to come to grips with Italian Futurism. In commemoration of the birthday of Filippo Marinetti, the founder of Italian Futurism and one of the prophets of Fascism, I would like to draw your attention to several writings on this Website.

1. Marinetti’s own “Futurist Manifesto” of 1909.

2. Kerry Bolton’s essay “Filippo Marinetti,” which has also been published in his book Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence. (Portuguese translation here.)

Published: December 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged art, articles, commemorations, fascism, Filippo Marinetti, futurism, Greg Johnson, modern art, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

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Beyond the Alt Right
Toward a New Nationalism

Greg Johnson

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The Alt Right is dead. But the Alt Right was so useful—and so much fun—that we need to create a replacement for it, the sooner the better. Read more …

Published: December 21, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alt-Right, articles, democracy, elitism, fascism, globalization, Greg Johnson, Matthew Goodwin, metapolitics, National Populism, North American New Right, originals, populism, Roger Eatwell, the Alternative Right, white nationalism, yellow vests | 40 Responses

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The Way of the Gang in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Buttercup Dew

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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (more frequently Gurren Lagann) is a 2007 fantasy adventure by Gainax. It’s an explosive, white-knuckle roller-coaster ride of mecha action, as well as featuring stunning dialogue and character design. Read more …

Published: December 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged anime, articles, Buttercup Dew, gangs, Gurren Lagann, Neon Genesis Evangelion, North American New Right, reprints, television reviews | 3 Responses

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Video of the Day
Alain de Benoist on the Yellow Vests Revolution

Alain de Benoist

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The founder and primary thinker of the French New Right, Alain de Benoist, discusses his view of the ongoing Yellow Vests movement in France and their significance for French politics during his visit to Budapest, Hungary last week. In French with English subtitles.

Published: December 19, 2018 | Posted in video of the day | Tagged Alain de Benoist, Emmanuel Macron, France, French New Right, gilets jaunes, populism, video of the day, yellow vests, Yellow Vests movement | 1 Response

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Le Peuple, C’est Moi

F. Roger Devlin

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Jan-Werner Müller
What Is Populism?
Penguin, 2017

Jan-Werner Müller, a native of Germany, is Professor of Politics at Princeton University and the author of several previous books. The present study of populism was published in 2016 by the University of Pennsylvania Press and quickly reprinted in a popular paperback format by Penguin Books in the UK Read more …

Published: December 18, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, democracy, F. Roger Devlin, Jan-Werner Müller, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, populism, What Is Populism? | 5 Responses

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Communism & Globalism

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Jean-Marie Le Pen as an MP in 1957.

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Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: The following is a translation from the concluding chapter of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Mémoires: Fils de la nation (Paris: Muller, 2018), pp. 389-391. The title is editorial.

When I began to write these Memoirs in 2016, I decided to divide them into two volumes covering equal periods of forty-four years, the first going from my birth to that of the Front National, the second telling the history of the Front National as I had experienced it. Read more …