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One of the most interesting and original aspects of Oswald Spengler’s philosophy is his separation of history from causality. For Spengler, history is an examination of the fulfillment of a particular group’s destiny that is not necessarily subject to the strictures of cause and effect: Read more …

Published: June 6, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged causality, cultural idealism, Decline of the West, destiny, fate, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, Quintilian | 5 Responses

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What Will a Hispanic United States Look Like? Part 1

Benjamin Villaroel

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Part 1 of 3

Spengler on Fate

Quintilian

902 words

Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) is one of the thinkers most admired by the Dissident Right, yet it is obvious that this admiration largely stems from Spengler’s portrayal of Western civilization as being “Faustian” in nature, that Western man (i.e., the white man) is a seeker of the infinite, which can be expressed by analytical mathematics, instrumental polyphony, perspective painting, etc. Read more …

Published: June 5, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Darwinism, destiny, fate, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, Quintilian | 5 Responses

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A New & Improved Conservatism?

Robert Hampton

Sohrab Ahmari

1,898 words

A curious debate erupted within American conservatism last week.

New York Post opinion editor Sohrab Ahmari took aim at Conservative Inc. foolishness, which he dubs “David French-ism,” in a First Things essay. Ahmari, a Persian Catholic convert, argues French-ism makes conservative Christians surrender to the awe-inspiring power of secular liberalism. Read more …

Published: June 4, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Affairs, Catholicism, conservatism, David French, Donald Trump, Edmund Burke Foundation, illiberalism, Integralism, Julius Krein, liberalism, libtertariaism, National Populism, North American New Right, originals, populism, Robert Hampton, Sohrab Ahmari, Turning Point USA, Yoram Hazony | 11 Responses

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Who Lost Syria? How Israel Was Won through Terrorism

Morris V. de Camp

2,257 words

J. Bowyer Bell
Terror Out of Zion: The Fight for Israeli Independence
New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1996

Stephen Wise, a prominent Zionist and “American [sic] Jew,” said in a 1931 speech that “I would say to England [then ruling Palestine under a League of Nations Mandate] if I could, an Arab Palestine is a threat to Great Britain and a menace to the world, and a Jewish Palestine is an asset to Great Britain and a blessing to the world!” Read more …

Published: June 4, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged British colonialism, Israel, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, Palestine, Palestinians, Syrian Civil War, terrorism, the Irgun, Zionism | 1 Response

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What Defeat Looks Like

Mitch Smith

Sky Hopinka

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I went with some friends to see a Native American art show called: What Was Always Yours and Never Lost. The group show (seven video installations) was curated by Sky Hopinka who is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and a descendant of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians.

My friends and I were sorry to learn we’d missed the big powwow held on opening night Read more …

Published: June 3, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Indians, art criticism, colonialism, demographics, Mitch Smith, originals, Sky Hopinka, white dispossession | 10 Responses

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Tolkien, A Review

Spencer J. Quinn

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One of the advantages of reading biographies is that even if they’re not very good, there remains the consolation of having learned something. Sadly, this is one of the few positive things that can be said about the recent biopic Tolkien.

Biographies can be tricky to adapt for the screen. Filmmakers will want to adhere to the truth as much as possible while still being able to tell a coherent and thematic story. How much artistic license is too much? Read more …

Published: May 31, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dome Karukoski, film reviews, J. R. R. Tolkien, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings | 14 Responses

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TERFs & Transsexual Men

Irmin Vinson

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TERF is an acronym for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist.” It is also a slur. Unlike most political slurs, it is an accurate description of the people that the acronym describes.

TERF names the subset of radical feminists that opposes the inclusion of transsexual men (aka “transwomen”) in the category “woman.” Some radical feminists welcome men who believe they are women, and many others do not. TERF names the latter and contrasts them to the former. Read more …

Published: May 31, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged feminism, gender politics, Irmin Vinson, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, TERFs, transgenderism, transsexuals | 22 Responses

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Zen & Martial Arts

Taisen Deshimaru

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Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: The following extracts are drawn from Taisen Deshimaru, Zen et Arts martiaux (Paris: Albin Michel, 1983 [1977]). The style reflects the rambling, spontaneous speaking of many Zen masters, whose “writings” are often not of their own initiative, but rather sayings recorded by their pious (often Western) followers. Another example of this would be Shunryū Suzuki, who was popular in California. This does raise the question of how “Taisen Deshimaru” authored the books ascribed to him. Read more …

Published: May 31, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged French translations, Guillaume Durocher, martial arts, North American New Right, originals, samurais, Taisen Deshimaru, Zen, Zen Buddhism | 8 Responses

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Bret Easton Ellis’ White

Margot Metroland

2,103 words

Bret Easton Ellis
White
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019

When you see Bret Easton Ellis emerge as a Generation X elder, you know you’ve moved pretty far along the abattoir ramp. Technically he’s not Gen X at all, as he was born in 1964, but Simon & Schuster brought out his first novel (Less Than Zero) when he was still an undergraduate at Bennington, and Ellis’ precocity was part of the sales pitch. Read more …

Published: May 30, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Psycho, book reviews, Bret Easton Ellis, Charlie Sheen, Dwight Madonald, James Wolcott, Jay McInerney, Lauren Hutton, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, Patrick Bateman, Richard Gere, Robert Taylor, The Daily Beast, Tom Cruise | 12 Responses

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Us & Them

Spencer J. Quinn

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For any political movement to flourish and obtain tangible results, its proponents must establish a clear distinction between us and them. If this fails to happen, the movement ceases to exist. Read more …

Published: May 30, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged infighting, Jared Taylor, John Derbyshire, North American New Right, originals, punching right, Spencer J. Quinn, white nationalism | 16 Responses

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Social Justice Wars in Video Games:
A Review of Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption

Howe Abbott-Hiss

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Last summer, Transolar Games released Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption, a role-playing adventure game which the creators characterized as the “spiritual successor to our Quest for Glory series.” The title stands as an interesting study of how far video game developers are now under the spell of social justice in terms of issues such as race and gender, and to what degree they can still express independent thoughts.

Breaking the Tyrant Spell:
An Interview with Darkest Sky

Eordred

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I believe there is a certain inertia to political ideas. As in Newtonian laws of motion, it takes force to get ideas going, and once an idea is in motion, it takes even more force to stop their momentum. In order to generate enough force to overcome the inertia in our ideas and to get society to start adopting them, I believe in a multi-pronged approach: one that speaks to all levels, classes, and interests of society. Read more …

Published: May 30, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Darkest Sky, Éordred, music reviews, neofolk, North American New Right, originals, the United Kingdom | Leave a comment

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And Then They Came for Ricardo Duchesne

Collin Cleary

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Several years ago, I published a mammoth review essay on Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization. I regard it as one of the most interesting and important books I have ever read. Duchesne is a valiant defender of Western civilization against the madness of politically correct academics – and now, it seems, he may be paying the price. Read more …

Published: May 29, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged academia, censorship, Collin Cleary, Huffington Post, Leftists in academia, Matthew Sears, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Ricardo Duchesne, the left, University of New Brunswick | 7 Responses

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Work Stinks

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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There are several boomer-tier jokes going around the internet, and most of them predate it, about voter turnout at different times of day in the US. Something about Democrats getting an early lead but then losing it when Republicans get off from work and vote. It’s supposed to be a dig at Democrats for being unemployed, welfare leeches, or working for the government. It’s a clever dig if you value working, which I suppose a part of the population should. But here at Counter-Currents, we value honesty and truth, no matter how ugly, and we take a massive sledgehammer to pretty lies, no matter how useful. Read more …

Published: May 28, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, leisure, liberal arts, neets, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, the work ethic, warrior ethics, work | 30 Responses

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Morrissey Strikes Back:
The Pin is Mightier than the Sword

Travis LeBlanc

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“I straighten up, and my position is one of hope. The march backwards is over, and life has begun again.” — Morrissey

A couple weeks ago, I wrote an article about the iconic ex-Smiths singer and champion of the white race Morrissey and his drift to the Right and support of Anne-Marie Waters and her party For Britain. Read more …

Published: May 28, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anne-Marie Waters, Donald Trump, For Britain, Morrissey, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, popular music, Travis LeBlanc | 6 Responses

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Rune Scrape

Robert Hampton

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Sweden may ban the runes to curb racism.

Justice Minister Morgan Johansson is investigating the proposal to see if the ban would stifle “incitement of ethnic hatred.” Along with the runes, several other Norse pagan symbols could be banned under the proposal, such as Mjolnir (Thor’s Hammer) and the Valknut. The move is clearly directed at the Nordic Resistance Movement, which uses a tiwaz rune as its logo, and other White Nationalists. Read more …

Published: May 28, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Asatru, North American New Right, originals, paganism, political correctness, Robert Hampton, runes, Sweden, white dispossession | 6 Responses

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Helgi: The Return of the Dead
An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part IX

Collin Cleary

Ernest Wallcousins, Helgi Returns to Valhalla

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Part I here, Part VIII here

In our last installment, we explored the career of the legendary Norse hero Helgi. Chapter Nine of the Volsung Saga is devoted to Helgi, and it constitutes a rich and entertaining digression from the main story. At one time, Helgi must have been a very important hero. The anonymous author of the Volsung Saga draws on two poems concerning Helgi compiled in the Poetic Edda: Helgakvitha Hundingsbana I (The First Poem of Helgi, Killer of Hunding; henceforth HH I), and Helgakvitha Hundingsbana II (or HH II). Read more …

Published: May 27, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Beowulf, Collin Cleary, death, Germanic paganism, Germanic tradition, Helgi, Hunding, Norse sagas, North American New Right, Odin, originals, paganism, Poetic Edda, reincarnation, Sigmund, Sigrun, Svava, Valhalla, Valkyrie, Volsung Saga, werewolves, Wotan | Leave a comment

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How a Pennsylvania Race War Gave Birth to White America

Morris V. de Camp

1,540 words

Peter Silver
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008

The colony of Pennsylvania was unique. In was developed as a socio-religious scheme by a British Lord named William Penn to provide a place of religious toleration for all comers, run by Quakers. On the surface, a society founded on religious liberty will lead to social peace. But it did not. Read more …

Published: May 27, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Indians, book reviews, colonial America, colonial Pennsylvania, French and Indian Wars, Indian Wars, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, Our Savage Neighbors, Peter Silver, white identity, whiteness | 8 Responses

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Jennifer Eberhardt’s Biased

Donald Thoresen

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Jennifer Eberhardt
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
New York: Viking, 2019

If one were to design the perfect vessel for the transmission of anti-racist dogma framed wholly at the embarrassing level of superficiality liberals have come to regard as adequately stimulating, it would look exactly like Jennifer Eberhardt. Read more …

Published: May 24, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Biased, black crime, book reviews, Donald Thoresen, implicit racism, induction, Jennifer Eberhardt, North American New Right, political correctness, prejudice, stereotypes | Comments closed

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IndyRef2: Electric Boogaloo

Quinlan Quatermass

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It’s a curious phenomenon that we should hate our neighbors more than we hate a visitor. But it’s the way things are. Familiarity breeds contempt, after all. We can fight with a sibling in a way we can’t with a visitor, and yet, we can also make up with a sibling in a way we can’t with a visitor. Read more …

Published: May 24, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Brexit, Euroskepticism, North American New Right, originals, Quinlan Quartermass, Scotland, Scottish Independence, Scottish National Party, United Kingdom | Comments closed

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It’s Not Just the Zombies That are Braindead:
The Walking Dead Video Game

Hugo Adrian

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Telltale’s The Walking Dead is an episodic video game series boasting an original, interactive story that takes place in the same universe as the show and comic. There are four seasons of five episodes each, emphasizing narrative over game play. Read more …

Published: May 23, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-white propaganda, Hugo Adrian, North American New Right, originals, Telltale Games, The Walking Dead, video game reviews | Comments closed

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Five Concepts from Chateau Heartiste

Mitch Smith

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Like everyone, I held my breath almost every time I checked in on the website Chateau Heartiste. It seemed destined to be shut down in the present hostile climate. It was too spicey, too radical, too honest.

Then, on Friday, May 10, as I did my usual cruise around the internet, I summoned it from my bookmarks and was met with a blunt cancellation notice. This hit me harder than other recent shutdowns. Read more …

Published: May 23, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarcho-tyranny, Chateau Heartiste, credentialism, deplatforming, egalitarianism, feminism, Mitch Smith, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, poz, publishing | Comments closed

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Remembering Richard Wagner:
May 22, 1813–February 13, 1883

Greg Johnson

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Richard Wagner was born 206 years ago today in Leipzig in the Kingdom of Saxony. He died on February 13, 1883 in Venice. As an artist, intellectual, author, and cultural force, Wagner has left an immense metapolitical legacy, which is being evaluated and appropriated in the North American New Right. I wish to draw your attention to the following writings which have been published at Counter-Currents/North American New Right. Read more …

Published: May 22, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged classical music, commemorations, Greg Johnson, metapolitics, North American New Right, Richard Wagner | Comments closed

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This Milkshake Kills Fascists

Robert Hampton

1,094 words

“Plastic chairs and fake shakes
To help it all go down
Polluting your children with their lies
And trying to destroy your mind”

So screamed MDC on their 1982 song, “Corporate Deathburger.” The hardcore punk band aimed its vitriol at McDonald’s, yelling that the multinational corporation starves third world children and delivers crappy food. Read more …

Published: May 22, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged antifa, corporate leftism, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, violence | Comments closed

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The Modern Prophecy in the Final Episode of Game of Thrones

Gregory Hood

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The final episode of Game of Thrones had an important message about the nature of modern politics. It was almost surely unintended.

The writing of the final episode, of the final season in general, was atrocious. Balerion the Black Dread could fly through the plot holes showrunners David Beinoff and D.B. Weiss created. Read more …

Published: May 21, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Game of Thrones, Gregory Hood, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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A Triumphant Conference

Gregory Hood

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Everyone felt it. The 2019 American Renaissance Conference had a palpable sense of forward movement. Read more …

Published: May 20, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Renaissance, American Renaissance 2019, Gregory Hood, James Allsup, Jared Taylor, Jean-Yves Le Gallou, John Derbyshire, John Morgan, Lana Lokteff, North American New Right, Patrick Casey, reprints, Sam Dickson, signs of hope, white racial consciousness | Comments closed

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Überfolk: Music for Nations

Jared George

1,841 words

The cover art of Überfolk‘s debut album, Music for Nations, depicts a winding path over hills, focusing the eye on a distant central point, implying a journey towards an ideal. Such a journey nonetheless requires us to traverse over land and soil, through the brush and bramble of earthly life. Read more …

Published: May 20, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Cat Weiss, George Burdi, Jared George, music reviews, neofolk, North American New Right, originals, PhilosophiCat, Überfolk | Comments closed

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Staying Out of the Abortion Fight

Robert Hampton

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Alabama effectively banned abortion in its state this week. The new law only allows abortions if they are needed to save the life of the mother; incest and rape exceptions are not granted. Doctors who perform the procedure face up to 99 years in jail.

Two Red Pills from the World of Chess

Spencer J. Quinn

Alexandra Botez, one of Canada’s top women chess players.

2,763 words

For a race and gender realist, the world of professional chess provides an embarrassment of riches, even if very few in the English-speaking parts of it wish to claim them. In chess, men dominate – specifically white, Jewish, and Asian men. Only three women have ever cracked the top hundred rated players in the world, according to the international chess federation FIDE.[1] And if current ratings of girls and boys are any indication, this arrangement will maintain itself indefinitely.[2] Read more …