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Jef Costello

Jef Costello is that guy on the New York Subway talking to himself. But he is all right.

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Mad as Hell:
How Broadway Ruined Network

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When asked to name my favorite film, I have a tough time choosing between Fight Club and Network. I was delighted, therefore, when I learned that Network had been turned into a Broadway play starring Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad. What could possibly go wrong?

Well, everything, as it turned out.

Published: November 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Bryan Cranston, dehumanization, drama reviews, film reviews, Jef Costello, Lee Hall, Network, North American New Right, originals, Paddy Chayevsky, television | 11 Responses

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The Brief, Shining Moment of Lindsey Graham

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I’ve always thought of Lindsey Graham as a milquetoast and a useless RINO. But – surprise, surprise – last Thursday he emerged as the man of the hour, with his impassioned defense of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Graham’s unscripted remarks (totaling less than five minutes) are fascinating in part because they give us a window into the mind of a conventional establishment conservative – Read more …

Published: October 1, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged American conservatism, articles, Brett Kavanaugh, cuckservatism, Jef Costello, Lindsey Graham, North American New Right, originals, Republican party, US Supreme Court | Comments closed

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You’re Going to Regret Committing Suicide

Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey, contemplating jumping off a bridge in It’s a Wonderful Life

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I think about suicide about once a week. I don’t mean that I am doing any serious planning. Nor am I whiling away the hours spinning the cylinder on my revolver. It’s just that, in one way or another, suicide enters my mind on a regular basis as a possibility, as a question, or as a social phenomenon. Read more …

Published: September 21, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, cowardice, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, suicide, the meaning of life | Comments closed

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A Greater Gift than Fight Club?
Chuck Palahniuk’s Adjustment Day

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Chuck Palahniuk
Adjustment Day: A Novel
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2018

The characters and plot of Chuck Palahniuk’s new novel Adjustment Day are thoroughly grounded in the politics of the New Right.

Here you will find withering parodies of feminism, “diversity,” and political correctness, Read more …

Published: August 31, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Adjustment Day, articles, Blacks in America, book reviews, Chuck Palahniuk, ethnostates, Fight Club, homosexuality, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, white ethnostate, white guilt | Comments closed

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Has the Left Gone Completely Crazy? No, Actually.

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Undeniably, we are seeing madness on display. But with some of them, there’s method in the madness. And the method is far more frightening. Read more …

Published: July 23, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Donald Trump, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, the Leftist mind, the liberal mind, Trump derangement syndrome | Comments closed

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I Will Not Become My Father

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When my father died last month, we had not spoken since Christmas. A few terse emails were exchanged, but that was it. You see, over Christmas dinner my father had revealed that he was contributing money to the SPLC. This didn’t exactly sit well with me. Read more …

Published: July 2, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, biological determinism, death, family drama, free will, hoarding, Jef Costello, living well, North American New Right, old age, originals, self-improvement, the meaning of life | Comments closed

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They’re Coming

The “Pueblo Sin Fronteras” caravan on March 25.

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Why is a caravan of 1,500 Central American families headed toward the U.S.-Mexico border? You will search the mainstream media in vain for this news – so far only Fox, Breitbart, the Daily Mail, and something called the Canada Free Press have reported the story. As best as I can determine, CNN, MSNBC, the “big three” networks, and the major papers have said little or nothing at all.

The caravan began on March 25 in the Mexican state of Chiapis, which borders Guatemala. It is expected to reach Tijuana within a month. Read more …

Published: April 2, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Donald Trump, Jef Costello, mass immigration, Mexico, North American New Right, open borders, originals, Pueblo Sin Fronteras | Comments closed

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Film Klub rváčů coby Písmo svaté

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1. Jsem Jackova nejoddanější Vesmírná opice

Dlouho jsem se zdráhal psát o Klubu rváčů, jelikož bych tím porušil první dvě pravidla Klubu rváčů. Read more …

Published: March 25, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Brad Pitt, Chuck Palahniuk, Edward Norton, emasculation, end of history, fascism, feminism, Fight Club, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Helena Bonham Carter, homosexuality, in Czech, Jef Costello, manliness, movie reviews, North American New Right, philosophy, religion, reprints, the last man, the Männerbund, thumos, Tyler Durden | Comments closed

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Seriál Vikingové

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Rozesmutněn nad ztrátou Perníkového táty (Breaking Bad) jsem několik let hledal seriál, kterým bych ho dokázal nahradit. Read more …

Published: March 23, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged in Czech, Jef Costello, North American New Right, reprints, television reviews, Vikings | Comments closed

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In Praise of Jared Taylor:
A Model for Would-be Leaders of the Right

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For quite a while now, I’ve been advising friends on the Right by suggesting they ask themselves a simple question: “What would Jared Taylor do?” Aside from the solid work he has done for our cause for close to thirty years now, you will be hard-pressed to find anyone who has anything bad to say about Jared. When it comes to leadership, character is the be-all and end-all. Jared has plenty of it, while others on the Right who proclaim themselves “leaders” (something Jared has never done) often seem to have very little. Read more …

Published: March 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged alpha males, American Renaissance, articles, Jef Costello, leadership, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Wardruna in New York

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On Saturday February 3rd, in the company of a few friends, I attended Wardruna’s concert in New York City. This was not my first introduction to them: I’ve been using their albums as workout music for months. In case you do not know, Wardruna is a Norwegian “Nordic folk” band who have recorded three albums, and become quite popular in the politically-ambiguous “neo-heathen” scene in Europe and America. Read more …

Published: February 9, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, concert reviews, folk music, implicit whiteness, Jef Costello, Nordic identity, North American New Right, originals, popular music, Vikings, Wardruna | Comments closed

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All Hail the God-Emperor’s State of the Universe Address!

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I’ve been on this Trump rollercoaster now since the summer of 2015, which was when I first began paying attention to him. Since then I’ve feared every time a crisis hit – smarted with every new smear, every new calumny, every new attempt to derail his garish, golden train. Read more …

Published: February 1, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, immigration, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, State of the Union Address 2018, the liberal mind | Comments closed

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Why We Are So Good Looking

Frank Franz of Germany’s NPD

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A recent study in the Journal of Public Economics draws a conclusion we arrived at a long time ago: Right-Wingers are better looking than Leftists. Researchers conducted several experiments, one of which involved showing subjects photos of various politicians and political candidates: members of the European Parliament, U.S. gubernatorial and congressional candidates, candidates for the Australian House of Representatives, etc. Read more …

Published: January 15, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, beauty, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, resentment, ugliness | Comments closed

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Vikings—The TV Series

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Czech translation here

Still mourning the loss of Breaking Bad, I have been searching for several years for another series to follow religiously – without success. Now and then I try a few episodes of something, only to be reminded in yet another way of the depth of the doodoo we are sunk in. Read more …

Published: January 2, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, television reviews, Vikings | Comments closed

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Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

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Philippe de Champaigne, Saint Augustin, 1645-1650

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The key problem of our age is disconnection from truth. This takes several distinct forms. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of lies. As everyone knows, modern, western civilization is founded upon lies about human nature, culture, and history. The most significant of these – underlying, in one form of another, most of the rest – is the equality lie; the myth of human equality, which is the chief myth of our age. (“Myth,” as most of my readers know, can have a positive or a negative connotation, as there are salutary myths; here, obviously, I am using the term in its purely negative sense.) Read more …

Published: December 21, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, authenticity, ethics, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, Parmenides, philosophy, relativism, truth | Comments closed

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I Am Officially Done with These People

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I’ve written before about my peculiar love for the British Royal Family. But I’m now officially out of love, and even tending toward republicanism. The final straw, of course, is the recent announcement of Prince Harry’s engagement to the mulattress Meghan Markle. Let’s sum up the problems: (1) She’s half black, (2) She’s American, (3) She’s divorced, (4) She’s an actress (which, to the Queen Mother’s generation basically meant the same thing as whore), Read more …

Published: December 4, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Jef Costello, Meghan Markle, North American New Right, originals, Prince Harry, royalty | Comments closed

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Sleeping Beauty — & the Eternal Sleep of Feminism

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A mother in the U.K. (Sarah Hall of Newcastle) recently achieved some notoriety when several news outlets reported that she had called for the story of “Sleeping Beauty” to be banned from schools. Sleeping Beauty, you may recall, does not give Prince Charming permission to kiss her. She is, after all, asleep. Mrs. Hall states: “While we are still seeing narratives like this in school, we are never going to change ingrained attitudes to sexual behavior. In today’s society, it isn’t appropriate.” Read more …

Published: November 28, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, fairy tales, feminism, Jef Costello, manliness, North American New Right, originals, Sleeping Beauty | Comments closed

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How to Survive Thanksgiving

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The annual American ritual. The annual American ordeal. The overcooked turkey that takes forever to come out of the oven. Those little round rolls, hard as flint. That sweet potato and marshmallow (yes, marshmallow) casserole that has no name but ought to be called “carbicide.” In fact, the whole meal is carbicide. But we want that after a while — cide in any form — because the people can be worse. Oh Death, where is thy sting? Read more …

Published: November 22, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, Thanksgiving | Comments closed

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Why I Write

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Since I was a small child I have felt that I had to devote my life to something tremendously important. This is it. You are looking at it.

My life now easily divides into “before Counter-Currents” and “after.” Read more …

Published: November 20, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Jef Costello, living well, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, why we write, writing | Comments closed

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One Hundred Years of Communism

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Tuesday, November 7th, marked the one hundredth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution (called the “October Revolution,” since in the Julian calendar it took place on October 25th). But you would never know it.

Vladimir Putin declared last year that discussion of the Revolution should be left to professional historians— Read more …

Published: November 13, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Bolshevik Revolution, Communism, egalitarianism, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, resentment, the Leftist mind | Comments closed

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I Wake Up Screaming:
My Top Ten Halloween Horror Flick Picks

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It’s not clear why human beings enjoy being frightened. Indeed, in most circumstances we don’t. I find nothing particularly “thrilling,” for example, about the frightening threat posed by mass non-white migration into the lands of my ancestors. Nor do I enjoy how I feel when I’m the only white person on the J train at midnight. But I thoroughly enjoy the imaginary threats posed by ghosts, witches, and vampires. There’s a lot to be said here about the human fascination with the uncanny, and what it reveals about us. Read more …

Published: October 30, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, articles, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Dan Curtis, Dark Shadows, F. W. Murnau, Francis Ford Coppola, Halloween, horror movies, House of Dark Shadows, Ingmar Bergman, Jef Costello, movie reviews, Nosferatu, originals, Roman Polanski, Rosemary’s Baby, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, The Birds, The Hour of the Wolf, The Innocents, The Shining, the supernatural, The Witch | Comments closed

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Our Sheep Are the Best

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Now and then I encounter fellow travelers who have become fed up with our movement due to what they perceive as the incorrigible stupidity of white people. Let us take stock. Whites are on a fast track to being replaced by some other people (in Europe by black and Arab Muslims, in America by mestizos). Their culture is literally being torn down all around them. Read more …

Published: October 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, conformism, elitism, Jef Costello, misanthropy, North American New Right, originals, populism, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Unintended Consequences:
How the Left Keeps Helping Us

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Götz Kubitschek

Everything is going exactly according to plan. This is what super-villains always say, usually just before their plans are upset. (“Seize him, you fools! He’s getting away!”) So, I am may be tempting fate by saying such a thing, but actually I don’t think so. As of late it really does seem like something — Providence, the Invisible Hand, the Cunning of Reason, or what have you — has been at work behind the scenes, helping our cause. In truth, we don’t have a plan, but events are unfolding as if someone does, and as if that someone is smiling upon us (perhaps from atop his perch in Asgard). Read more …

Published: October 16, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged antifa, articles, Götz Kubitschek, Greg Johnson, Jef Costello, Martin Lichtsmesz, Mike Enoch, North American New Right, originals, self-defeating behavior, the media | Comments closed

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How to Live as a Dissident

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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A friend of mine got doxed recently. I have other friends who live in fear of being exposed, vilified, and fired from their jobs. I’ve accepted the danger for over a decade now. But the danger is greater now than it has ever been before. The danger of physical violence is also now very real. Our people are being recognized and attacked on the street, and Antifa and others have called for violence — claiming that it’s okay if you’re attacking a “Nazi” (which now basically means any white person at all, especially one who isn’t racked with guilt over being white). Read more …

Published: October 10, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, doxing, Jef Costello, living well, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, political correctness, self-defense., warrior ethics, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Jim Goad’s The New Church Ladies

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Jim Goad
The New Church Ladies: The Extremely Uptight World of “Social Justice”
Stone Mountain, Georgia: Obnoxious Books, 2017

I’ve been enjoying Jim Goad’s work for years, and would even say that he has been an influence on my writing style. I laughed (and sometimes barfed) my way through ANSWER Me! Then, of course, there was The Redneck Manifesto, which may be Goad’s best writing, and Shit Magnet. Read more …

Published: October 2, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book reviews, Jef Costello, Jim Goad, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, satire, social justice warriors, The New Church Ladies | Comments closed

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De Mythen Waarnaar Wij Leven

Franz von Stuck, Sisyphus

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Vertaald door Otharus; English original: here

Noot van de redacteur:

Wat volgt is de tekst van een toespraak die dhr. Costello hield voor een kleine groep not-fully-red-pilled nieuwelingen. – Greg Johnson

Men vroeg mij aandacht te besteden aan de vraag, “wat is de leidende mythe van de moderne tijd?” Om deze vraag te beantwoorden, moeten we onderscheid maken tussen twee betekenissen van het woord “mythe”. Read more …

Published: October 1, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, biological race differences, equality, in Dutch, in translation, Jef Costello, myth, North American New Right, originals, Third Reich, white nationalism, World War II | Comments closed

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The Myths We Live By

Franz von Stuck, Sisyphus

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Dutch translation here

Editor’s Note:

The following is the text of a talk Mr. Costello recently delivered to a small group of not-fully-red-pilled neophytes. — Greg Johnson

I have been asked to address the question, “what is the prevailing myth of the modern era?” In order to answer that question, we first have to distinguish between two senses of “myth.” Read more …

Published: September 25, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, biological race differences, egalitarianism, equality, Homer, inequality, Jef Costello, myth, North American New Right, occultism, originals, political correctness, Third Reich, white guilt, white nationalism, World War II | Comments closed

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This Means War

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As everyone knows by now, just three days after the “Unite the Right” debacle in Charlottesville, a coordinated attack was launched by the Left against multiple individuals, organizations, and websites on the Right.

Counter-Currents had its PayPal account shut down, Read more …

Published: August 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged anti-white censorship, articles, deplatforming, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, Unite the Right | Comments closed

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Does Hope Lie in the Proles?

Thomas Hart Benton, Coal, 1930

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Author’s Note:

This talk was given at the Fourth Meeting of the Northwest Forum on Saturday, June 24th. I want to thank everyone who organized and attended this event.

Does hope lie in the proles, as Winston Smith asserts in Nineteen Eighty-Four? Read more …

Published: June 26, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2016 US Presidential Elections, articles, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Jef Costello, liberalism, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, populism, the left, The Northwest Forum, Thomas Edsall, white community organizing, white dispossession, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Now in Kindle!
The Importance of James Bond

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Jef Costello
The Importance of James Bond & Other Essays
Ed. Greg Johnson
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2017

Hardcover: $35

Paperback: $20

Kindle E-book: $4.99 Read more …

Published: June 14, 2017 | Posted in art, Counter-Currents title, film, literature, men's studies, news item, philosophy, religion | Tagged Costello book, Counter-Currents title, Jef Costello | Comments closed

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