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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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The Gift of Corona

Jef Costello

2,331 wordsShuttered windows.

I arrived at the gym the other night at 7:50 p.m. only to be told: “By the way, we’re closing in ten minutes.” The governor had ordered all gyms to close at 8:00 that night and to remain closed until further notice. I was the last guy to hear, apparently. This was the climax in a series of events that led to my finally recognizing the gift of Corona.

I had been in a state of denial for a couple of weeks. I am still not convinced that the whole thing isn’t being massively overblown (as I argued here.) Read more …

Published: March 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 13 Responses
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Is Coronavirus the Wrath of God?

Jef Costello

John Martin, The Great Day of His Wrath, 1853.

2,901 words

The epidemic began in Australia and spread from there to other countries.

I am referring to the panic buying of toilet paper. Read more …

Published: March 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 35 Responses
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What Will Liberals Do When Trump is Re-Elected?

Jef Costello

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If you enjoyed the salty taste of liberal tears as much as I did in 2016, get ready for 2020. All signs point to a Trump win. (Don’t take my word for it. See here, here, here, here, and here.) But it is what happens next that really interests me. Read more …

Published: February 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 45 Responses
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RIP!

Jef Costello

2,294 words

Last week was deliciously bad for the Democrats. Utterly humiliated and reduced to impotent rage, they have been slammed with one major loss or crisis after another. Are we witnessing the self-destruction of a political party? Are the Democrats coming apart at the seams? Yes to both.

The results of the Iowa caucus are still in doubt Read more …

Published: February 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 19 Responses
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Freedom is Willing Our Determination

Jef Costello
Gustav Klimt, Death and Life

Gustav Klimt, Death and Life, 1915

1,769 words

Twenty years ago I remember being absolutely outraged by an acquaintance, an M.D. by trade, who told me he was a strict biological determinist. Everything about us, he related to me over coffee, was attributable to heredity. I was flabbergasted – and indignant. Especially because he insisted that his position left no room at all for freedom of will, which he regarded as a myth. Read more …

Published: January 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , | 12 Responses
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Give Your Amygdala a Vacation

Jef Costello

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As I write this, a baby is staring up at me from a stroller, tightly packed with blankets to protect her from the chilly air. A bonnet fringed with pink lace covers her small head, and tiny blonde curls peek out from the edges. She is parked beside her parents and a third person, who seems to be a family friend. They are next to me at a café, where I am trying to concentrate on reading a newish translation of Being and Time. Now and then, the baby breaks my concentration by making little chirping, birdlike noises. Uncharacteristically, I am not annoyed by this. Why?  Read more …

Published: January 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 16 Responses
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Christmas at Counter-Currents
Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

Jef Costello
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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 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Response
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In 2020, Will It Be ’68 or ’72?

Jef Costello

1,964 words

Marx once said “History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.” In 2020, the Democratic party seems poised to relive mistakes it made less than a lifetime ago, and to my knowledge, few have drawn the obvious parallels.

In August of 1968, at the highpoint of the anti-war, hippie countercultural movement, the Democrats met in Chicago to anoint one of their own as the man who would take on Richard Nixon. Read more …

Published: December 9, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 26 Responses
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How to Survive Thanksgiving

Jef Costello

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A Counter-Currents classic first published in 2017.

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.” Read more …

Published: November 28, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , | 7 Responses
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Prince Andrew Officially Declared Upper Class Twit of the Century

Jef Costello

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Many of my readers will remember the “classic” Monty Python sketch in which a gaggle of impossibly stupid aristocrats, all with buckteeth and double-barreled names, gimp about an athletic field competing for the title of “Upper Class Twit of the Year.” Read more …

Published: November 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , | 17 Responses
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No, Mr. Glassner, Trump’s Amazing Rallies Are Not a Measure of His Success

Jef Costello

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Michael Glassner, Chief Operating Officer of Donald J. Trump for President, has written an op-ed for The Minnesota Sun in which he attempts to explain the amazing turnout at Trump’s rallies. Trouble is, he gets it all wrong.

The Trump rally phenomenon demands a serious sociological study. It’s too bad there are no longer any serious sociologists. Read more …

Published: September 23, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 29 Responses
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Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones

Jef Costello

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Chappelle’s Show (2003-2006) is a favorite of many Right-wingers for its politically incorrect humor and, in particular, its irreverent attitude towards race. (It is right up there with Curb Your Enthusiasm in the estimation of many of my friends.) Only thirteen years have passed since the demise of Chappelle’s Show, but the world has changed a lot since then. The pole up the butt of the Left has now expanded to Giant Redwood dimensions. Read more …

Published: September 13, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , | 25 Responses
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Soporific Cinema

Jef Costello

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I like to fall asleep in front of the TV, and I’ve established a ritual for it. After a hard day of writing inspirational articles for Counter-Currents (under various pennames), I mix myself a drink that consists of vodka, soda water, lots of lime juice, and lots of ice. I thought I had invented this carb-less drink until, to my embarrassment, I discovered it already had a name: “The Skinny Bitch.” Apparently, it is also enjoyed by rail-thin rich bitches sitting poolside at the country club (like that mother on Arrested Development). Read more …

Published: July 9, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 24 Responses
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The Counter-Currents 2019 Fundraiser
Do Not Throw Away the Hero in Your Soul

Jef Costello

Finnish hero Lauri Törni

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Our goal this year is to raise $100,000 in order to expand our efforts to build a metapolitical vanguard for White Nationalism. So far, we have received 80 donations totaling $18,115.92. We set our goals high because the task we have before us is formidable, but not impossible. And we need your help to succeed.

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I sometimes wonder who I am writing for. I know that a couple of my friends read every essay I post (though recently, one of them has been falling down on the job). Read more …

Published: July 5, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 7 Responses
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There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be Alive
The Ultimate White Pill

Jef Costello

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My friends on the Right bemoan the fact that we’re not living in Leave It To Beaver. They play the “what era would you like to live in?” game, picking any time other than this one. Because this is the End Time, you see; the Kali Yuga, the Wolf Age. Hell, yes! It is all those things and more. But I, for one, feel privileged to live in Dystopia. Truly, there has never been a better time to be alive. Read more …

Published: June 7, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 32 Responses
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The Assange Outrage

Jef Costello

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A little more than two years ago I published a piece on this site titled “I Keep Forgetting that I’m Not an American.” The occasion was Wikileaks’ release of “Vault 7” and the reaction from establishment Republicans. Vault 7 consisted of thousands of documents revealing the CIA’s ability to compromise smartphones and smart TVs, as well as Web browsers and even cars. As I mentioned in my essay from 2017, I greeted this news with elation: “The bastards have been exposed!” Read more …

Published: April 15, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 10 Responses
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2018: The Year to End all Years
(And What to Expect from 2019!)

Jef Costello

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It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times. Actually, it wasn’t all that bad. In fact, quite a few good things happened in 2018 – in the world, and even in our Movement.

Just for kicks, let’s first look at what the Establishment is celebrating. CNN ran an article on its website with the encouraging title “2018 Wasn’t ALL Bad: Here Are All the Good Things that Happened in the World.” Read more …

Published: January 1, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , | 4 Responses
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Mad as Hell:
How Broadway Ruined Network

Jef Costello

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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.

Read more …

Published: November 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 11 Responses
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The Brief, Shining Moment of Lindsey Graham

Jef Costello

1,895 words

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 , , , , , , , , , | 10 Responses
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You’re Going to Regret Committing Suicide

Jef Costello

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 , , , , , , | 23 Responses
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A Greater Gift than Fight Club?
Chuck Palahniuk’s Adjustment Day

Jef Costello

5,323 words

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 , , , , , , , , , , , , | 34 Responses
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Has the Left Gone Completely Crazy? No, Actually.

Jef Costello

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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 , , , , , , , | 8 Responses
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I Will Not Become My Father

Jef Costello

4,811 words

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 , , , , , , , , , , , , | 39 Responses
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They’re Coming

Jef Costello

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 , , , , , , , , | 8 Responses
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Film Klub rváčů coby Písmo svaté

Jef Costello

9,556 slov

English original here

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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment
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Seriál Vikingové

Jef Costello

2,168 slov

English original here

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 , , , , , | Leave a comment
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In Praise of Jared Taylor:
A Model for Would-be Leaders of the Right

Jef Costello

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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 , , , , , , | 20 Responses
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Wardruna in New York

Jef Costello

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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 , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Responses
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All Hail the God-Emperor’s State of the Universe Address!

Jef Costello

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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 , , , , , , , , | 13 Responses
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Why We Are So Good Looking

Jef Costello

Frank Franz of Germany’s NPD

1,637 words

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 , , , , , , , | 26 Responses

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