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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 116 donations totaling $21,003.92. Read more …

Published: July 19, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1980 Cuban refugee crisis, 2019 Counter-Currents Fundraiser, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, the red pill | Leave a comment

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An Open Letter to President Trump

Spencer J. Quinn

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Dear President Trump,

First, I would like to give you a triple thank you.

Published: July 19, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-white racism, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, North American New Right, originals, Republican party, Spencer J. Quinn | 2 Responses

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“A New Type of Right Has Emerged”:
A Conversation with Alain de Benoist

Alain de Benoist

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Translated from the Hungarian by György Balázs Kun

The following interview appeared in the Hungarian conservative quarterly journal Kommentár, in its second issue for 2019. The footnotes were added by Counter-Currents.

“The Old Right is dead, long live the New Right!” could be our cry after seeing the joyful political changes of the last decade. Read more …

Published: July 18, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1968 student protests, Alain de Benoist, Barnabás Leimeiszter, Charles De Gaulle, European New Right, French New Right, GRECE, Hungarian translations, Kommentár, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, Situationism, Yellow Vests movement | 13 Responses

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Multimodal Ethics

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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There’s no love lost between me and Jordan Peterson. I have contempt for him and his kind that I don’t really feel for outright enemies of the Dissident Right. He is a deceiver and a speaker of half-truths who doesn’t even have the decency or chutzpah to craft a lurid lie. Read more …

Published: July 18, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged alpha males, aristocracy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, incels, Jordan Peterson, losers, masculinity, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, nobility, North American New Right, originals, snobbery, Vox Day | 14 Responses

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Antifa Terror is Here to Stay

Robert Hampton

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Antifa terrorism is not a Right-wing fantasy. It’s all too real after last week. A lone anarchist attacked an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Tacoma, Washington. The armed anarchist launched explosives at ICE vehicles before he was gunned down by security. The only fatality was the terrorist himself.

Published: July 17, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged antifa, antifa violence, liberal elite, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, terrorism, WIllem Van Spronsen | 13 Responses

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Remembering Willis Carto:
July 17, 1926–October 26, 2015

Margot Metroland

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If you know the broad outlines of Willis Allison Carto’s life (biography review here), you know that he was, for well over a half-century, the founder and patron of those political movements we now variously call paleoconservatism, race realism, Dissident Right, or White Nationalism.

Pause and consider. When you imbibe the heady sophistication and philosophical analyses here at Counter-Currents— Read more …

Published: July 17, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Free Press, commemorations, David McCalden, Elisabeth Carto, Francis Parker Yockey, Institute for Historical Review, Keith Stimely, Liberty Lobby, Margot Metroland, Noontide Press, North American New Right, originals, Paleoconservatism, The American Mercury, The Barnes Review, The Spotlight, Western Destiny, Willis Carto | 2 Responses

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National Populism is Here to Stay

Greg Johnson

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This is F. K.’s transcript of an extemporaneous lecture that was delivered at the Blue Awakening Youth Conference in Tallinn, Estonia on February 25, 2019. It has been heavily edited and augmented. I wish to thank the organizers for inviting me to speak.

According to the Left, the peoples of the world are about to join hands and step together into a new age of global government and multicultural harmony under the rule of benevolent, cosmopolitan elites. Read more …

Published: July 16, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Blue Awakening conference, Brexit, Donald Trump, Greg Johnson, Matthew Goodwin, National Populism, North American New Right, originals, populism, Roger Eatwell, transcripts, white identity politics | 4 Responses

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True Muslims, True Scotsmen

Spencer J. Quinn

The Adana Massacre of 1909, in which Muslim Turks massacred tens of thousands of Armenian Christians – an example of True Islam?

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Earlier this month, Counter-Currents published an interview in which Greg Johnson made some negative comments regarding Islam. He described Islam as an “inherently political” religion and a “memetic virus” which cannot be permitted in white societies since it will “destroy white societies and create societies that are foreign to, and unpleasant for, white people.”

In response, Alexander Wolfheze offered a qualified defense of Islam in which he concedes that “what many Westerners have experienced as ‘Islam’ is negative.” Read more …

Published: July 16, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Wolfheze, globalism, Islam, liberalism and Islam, Muhammad, North American New Right, originals, Qur'an, Spencer J. Quinn, the Islamic Question | 8 Responses

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Artist & Autist:
Crowley in the Light of Neville, Part 1

James J. O'Meara

Aleister Crowley, presumably after having consumed his daily drug regimen.

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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

“It’s when one gets to the parents that a bottomless pit opens. My dear, such a pair.”[1]

“Can we ever be certain that it was not our mother while darning our socks who began that subtle change in our minds? Read more …

Published: July 16, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleister Crowley, Gary Lachman, Israel Regardie, James J. O'Meara, magick, Neville, New Thought, North American New Right, originals, the occult, will | 3 Responses

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Can a New Elite Save Us?
Martin Gurri’s The Revolt of the Public & the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

Donald Thoresen

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Martin Gurri
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
San Francisco: Stripe Press, 2018

Though the recent wave of social media censorship has been particularly harsh, those active in Rightist politics are well aware that the struggle between corporate and governmental information controllers and political dissidents is not new. Read more …

Published: July 15, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged authority, book reviews, Donald Thoresen, elites, illiberal democracy, information, Martin Gurri, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, social media, The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium | Leave a comment

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What Can We Learn from the BDS Movement?

Eordred

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There has been a lot of talk recently about Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), a Leftist movement which aims to hurt the Israeli economy in support of the Palestinian cause through the boycotting of Israeli businesses and products. Read more …

Published: July 15, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged activism, BDS, Boycott Divest and Sanctions movement, boycotts, Éordred, legislation, mass immigration, megacorporations, North American New Right, originals, sanctions, small businesses, woke capital | 9 Responses

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The Counter-Currents 2019 Fundraiser
Only White Identity Can Save Western Civilization

Spencer J. Quinn

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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 93 donations totaling $19,942.92. Read more …

Published: July 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2019 Counter-Currents Fundraiser, conservatism, mass immigration, North American New Right, originals, race replacement, Spencer J. Quinn, the left, white nationalism | 1 Response

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Hope for a Non-White Savior

Robert Hampton

Cardinal Robert Sarah

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Some on the Dissident Right hope that the next Pope will be black.

Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah has distinguished himself from the open borders crowd that controls the Vatican. In a March interview, Cardinal Sarah said:

The Church cannot cooperate with this new form of slavery that mass migration has become. Read more …

Published: July 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Africa, book reviews, Cardinal Robert Sarah, Catholic Church, Christian conservatives, evangelical Christians, Jean Raspail, North American New Right, originals, Philip Jenkins, Robert Hampton, The Next Christendom, Third World Christianity, traditional Catholicism | 11 Responses

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The Saxon Savior:
Converting Northern Europe

Ash Donaldson

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“There were many whose hearts told them that they should begin to tell the secret runes.” Thus begins an ancient manuscript written in Old Saxon. It may surprise the reader to learn that these are, in fact, the opening lines of the Christian Gospel in the version known as the Heliand, produced for the Saxons in the early ninth century, after their conquest by Charlemagne. Read more …

Published: July 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander the Great, Ancient Greece, Aristotle, Ash Donaldson, Christianity, Christianity and Northern Europe, Christianity in the Roman Empire, Christianity vs. paganism, community, Heliand, North American New Right, originals, Saxons, tribalism, universalism | 23 Responses

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The Original Optics Cucks, Part 3:
Narcissism & Honor

Greg Johnson & Hugh MacDonald

Rousseau’s Émile

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Part 3 of 3 (Part 2 here)

This conversation took place in the spring of 2015. We would like to thank KC for making this transcript.

Greg Johnson: When people talk about vanity, another term that they’ll use is narcissism. “So and so is very narcissistic.” Again, I think that there’s a certain sense of narcissism in which it’s not a bad thing. The myth of Narcissus is that he’s captivated by his own reflection in the water, and he basically exists as a prisoner of his own image, reflected in something external. Read more …

Published: July 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged beauty, degenerate art, elitism, Greg Johnson, honor, Hugh MacDonald, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, narcissism, North American New Right, originals, pretentiousness, snobbery, taste, the left, the Right, transcripts, vanity | 2 Responses

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Remembering Carl Schmitt:
July 11, 1888–April 7, 1985

Greg Johnson

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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Carl Schmitt was born on July 11, 1888 in Plettenberg, Westphalia, Germany — where he died on April 7, 1985, at the age of 96. The son of a Roman Catholic small businessman, Carl Schmitt studied law in Berlin, Munich, and Strasbourg, graduating and taking his state exams in Strasbourg in 1915. In 1916, he earned his habilitation in Strasbourg, qualifying him to be a law professor. He taught at business schools and universities in Munich, Greifswald, Bonn, Berlin, and Cologne.

Published: July 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Carl Schmitt, commemorations, geopolitics, Greg Johnson, law, originals, political philosophy | 4 Responses

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Cargo-Cult Sociology:
Ashley Jardina’s White Identity Politics

Margot Metroland

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Ashley Jardina
White Identity Politics
Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019

The big takeaway from White Identity Politics is that there’s been a huge raising of white American racial consciousness in recent years. This is due to a number of factors, none of them imaginary or rhetorical. Read more …

Published: July 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ashley Jardina, book reviews, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, white identity, white identity politics, whiteness | 3 Responses

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The Citizens’ Councils:
White Metapolitics 1.0

Morris V. de Camp

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Stephanie R. Rolph
Resisting Equality: The Citizens’ Council, 1954–1989
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018

The definitive book on the “civil rights” movement remains to be written, but Stephanie Rolph, a Professor (and a privileged “Becky,” no matter what she believes) at Mississippi’s Millsaps College has provided a solid reference for such a book. Read more …

Published: July 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Citizens Councils, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Movement, Mississippi, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, Resisting Equality, Robert B. "Tut" Patterson, segregation, Stephanie Rolph, William J. Simmons | 5 Responses

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The Original Optics Cucks, Part 2:
Pretentiousness, Snobbery, & Elitism

Greg Johnson & Hugh MacDonald

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This conversation took place in the spring of 2015. We would like to thank KC for making this transcript.

Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

Greg Johnson: We also got into the question of pretentiousness when we were walking around Hyde Park. I think pretentiousness always has a negative connotation, but I think that one can actually say that there is a positive connotation of pretense in this sense: Read more …

Published: July 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged beauty, elitism, Greg Johnson, Hugh MacDonald, North American New Right, originals, pretentiousness, snobbery, taste, the left, transcripts, vanity | 3 Responses

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The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part IV

Ricardo Duchesne

Georg Friedrich Kersting, Faust in his Study

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Part 4 of 4 (Part 3 here)

Definition of “Axial thought”

The Axial Age idea is the most concerted effort to retain aspects of the idea of progress while disallowing Western civilization from claiming to be the most progressive in the sciences, technology, cultural creativity, and forms of state organization. This idea has historical merits. Read more …

Published: July 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Greeks, anti-white propaganda, aristocracy, Aristotle, Axial Age, China, Council of European Canadians, egalitarianism, India, individualism, Israel, Mycenae, North American New Right, Plato, pre-Socratic philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, ritual, Robert N. Bellah, Western uniqueness | 1 Response

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The Original Optics Cucks, Part 1:
In Defense of Vanity

Greg Johnson & Hugh MacDonald

John William Waterhouse, Vanity

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Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here)

This conversation took place in the spring of 2015. We would like to thank KC for making this transcript.

Greg Johnson: I’m Greg Johnson. Welcome to Counter-Currents Radio. I’m going to have another conversation today with Canadian filmmaker Hugh MacDonald. Read more …

Published: July 9, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged beauty, Greg Johnson, honor, Hugh MacDonald, North American New Right, originals, pretentiousness, snobbery, taste, transcripts, vanity | 3 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 | Also tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, Andrei Tarkovsky, Coleman Francis, Columbo, film reviews, Ivan the Terrible, Jef Costello, Luchino Visconti, Ludwig, Manos the Hands of Fate, Meetings with Remarkable Men, North American New Right, originals, Sergei Eisenstein, silent films, Solaris, Stanley Kubrick, The Wrecking Crew | 23 Responses

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The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part III

Ricardo Duchesne

The Mask of Agamemnon

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Part 3 of 4 (Part 2 here, Part 4 here)

Rituals in simple mythic cultures

According to Bellah, humans express their highest values and cultural practices in those activities we define as “play” and “ritual,” because these activities are performed when humans are in a “relaxed” state away from evolutionary pressures. Read more …

Published: July 9, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, Axial Age, Council of European Canadians, egalitarianism, individualism, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Kalapalo, Mycenae, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, ritual, Robert N. Bellah, Western uniqueness | 2 Responses

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A Note on the “Islamic Question”

Alexander Wolfheze

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Recently, Counter-Currents posted the transcript of an important interview with Dr. Johnson entitled “Conversation with a Philosopher: Greg Johnson Interviewed About the New Right.” As always, it is a pleasure to read Johnson’s incisive insights. Already, his exact and thorough metapolitical analyses provide fundamental building blocks of the New Right. In the case of this interview, one – somewhat marginal – note should be allowed: a note regarding “Islam.”

Published: July 8, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Wolfheze, Elahi Qomshe'i, Greg Johnson, Islam, Islamophobia, North American New Right, originals, the Islamic Question, Traditionalism | 31 Responses

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Rembrandt’s The Night Watch

Alex Graham

Rembrandt, The Night Watch

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Today, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum will begin its restoration of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, or Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (1642). It is the largest research and restoration project the Museum has undertaken and will last several years. The process will be broadcast live online.

Published: July 8, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, Dutch art, Frans Hals, North American New Right, originals, painting, Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands, The Night Watch | 3 Responses

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The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part II

Ricardo Duchesne

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Part 2 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

“New capacities” under conditions of “relaxed selection”

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Remembering Revilo Oliver (July 7, 1908–August 20, 1994)
Revilo Oliver in Winter

Margot Metroland

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Today is the birthday of Revilo Pendleton Oliver, born in Texas in 1908. He was Professor of Classics and Modern Languages at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) for many years, an analyst with the War Department in the 1940s, and a contributor to the National Review and other publications from the 1950s onward.

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Remembering Revilo Oliver (July 7, 1908–August 20, 1994)
The Professor & the Carnival Barker

Margot Metroland

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Professor Revilo Pendleton Oliver died in 1994, full of years and honors, as they say; and also notoriety. Long a Classics professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana, he gained his PhD in 1938 with a translation and commentary on a 1500-year-old Sanskrit drama. At age 80 was capable of holding lengthy telephone conversions with a young fellow linguist, in which (just to show off) they would switch back and forth between German and Attic Greek.

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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 | Also tagged 2019 Counter-Currents Fundraiser, Freidrich Nietzsche, heroism, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, pessimism, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, white pills | 7 Responses

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Avengers: Endgame – Thanocaust Commemoration

Buttercup Dew

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Endgame is an undeniably popular film. Concluding a twenty-two film run of Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movies featuring home comic book names like Iron Man, Spiderman, Thor, Captain America, the Hulk, and Guardians of the Galaxy, Endgame has the accumulated attention of multiple franchises supporting its monumental box office numbers. It is the largest-grossing superhero film of all time and is the capstone on the MCU cinematic project. Read more …