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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 9: The Moral Argument for White Interests

1,390 words

We have now reached the last chapter of Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition. This indispensable book argues that both the rise and decline of the West can be explained in terms of the genetically selected predisposition Europeans have for creating communities that emphasize the moral reputation Read more …

Published: July 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, ethnocentrism, identity, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, Kevin MacDonald, kinship, moral communities, morality, North American New Right, reprints, rhetoric, Ricardo Duchesne, white identity | 8 Responses

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Now in Audio Version!
Confessions of a Mall Rat

Richard Houck

4,316 words

To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” Read more …

Published: July 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged black crime, black criminality, crime, North American New Right, originals, race replacement, social capital, social cohesion, white dispossesion, white flight | 18 Responses

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The Hamilton Cult

Robert Hampton

Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton.

1,409 words

Alexander Hamilton is arguably the most popular Founding Father of our era — and it’s all thanks to one incredibly cringe hip-hop musical.

Hamilton first premiered in 2015 and has been a popular sensation ever since. Its tickets go for astronomical prices and its soundtrack sold millions of copies. Read more …

Published: July 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Hamilton, anti-white propaganda, Broadway, cancel culture, Hamilton, hip-hop, musical theater, musicals, North American New Right, originals, plays, rap music, Robert Hampton, the Founding Fathers, theater | 5 Responses

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Family Systems & History

F. Roger Devlin

8,561 words

Emmanuel Todd
Lineages of Modernity: A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus
Cambridge, England, and Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2019

Much of today’s dominant globalist ideology derives from development theory, a body of thought which shares with Marxism the view that economic relations are the basis of social life and sees the races of mankind as fundamentally equivalent beneath the superficial cultural differences which have arisen over history. Read more …

Published: July 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged authoritarianism, book reviews, capitalism, Catholicism, demographics, economics, education, Emmanuel Todd, essays, F. Roger Devlin, family, family dynamics, hierarchy, higher education, history, identity, individualism, industrialization, language, Lineages of Modernity, literacy, memory of places, modernity, monogamy, nationalism, North American New Right, patriarchy, Protestantism, religion, secularism, secularization, stem families, the nuclear family, tradition | 3 Responses

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Hokusai:
Beyond the Great Wave

Buttercup Dew

2,021 words

Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave was an exhibition of Hokusai’s works mounted by the British Museum in the summer of 2017. This ambitious event sought to contextualize Hokusai’s famous In the Hollow of The Wave, better known as “The Great Wave,” Read more …

Published: July 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art, art reviews, Buttercup Dew, commercial art, folklore, Hokusai, Japan, Japanese art, Mt. Fuji, North American New Right, originals, pop art, printing, religion, sacredness, woodblocks | 1 Response

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Brief Thoughts on Tao Te Ching

Winston E. Bakewell

1,489 words

Author’s note: Cited passages are taken from the 1988 Stephen Mitchell translation, London, Macmillan.

Tao Te Ching, the “Book of the Way,” was ostensibly composed by the pseudonymous Lao Tzu, about whom next to nothing is known, sometime around the time of Confucius (551-479 BC). It’s things like this that add even more irresistible mystique to this slender volume, Read more …

Published: July 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged action, Eastern philosophy, Eastern religion, hubris, identity, North American New Right, originals, Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Winston E. Bakewell | 1 Response

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Singing in Secret:
William Byrd’s Catholic Music

Alex Graham

1,256 words

Earlier this year, the Marian Consort, a vocal ensemble known for performing Renaissance music, released an album of Catholic sacred music by English composer William Byrd. The album, entitled Singing in Secret: The Clandestine Catholic Music of William Byrd, is one of the finest sacred music releases in recent memory. Read more …

Published: July 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, Anglicanism, anti-Catholicism, Catholicism, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, religion, the church | 5 Responses

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Storytelling

Trevor Lynch

2,246 words

Storytelling (2001) is the most politically incorrect movie I have ever seen. Indeed, it is so un-PC that it could never have been made today.

Director Todd Solondz is a really sick guy. His films Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, Palindromes, and Life During Wartime can justly be accused of fixating on bullying, rape, pedophilia, abortion, suicide, and murder. Read more …

Published: July 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged feminism, Jews in the media, lying, movie reviews, North American New Right, political correctness, postmodernism, reprints, satire, sex, Trevor Lynch, victimhood | 6 Responses

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The Little Things

John Wilkinson

Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Want, 1943.

1,995 words

I think it is safe to assume that most Counter-Currents readers are familiar with the phrase “death by 1000 cuts,” which is an expression translated into English from the protracted Chinese torture process known as lingchi. In political-speak, its close cousin is the analogy of the slow boiling frog. Dissidents on our side of the great divide have an intuitive understanding that we’ve come to our current impasse through subtle but profound changes in policy and attitudes that our political enemies call “progress.” Read more …

Published: July 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged consumerism, discipline, family, individualism, John Wilkinson, modernity, North American New Right, originals | 26 Responses

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Angel of Avalon

Fenek Solère

1,746 words

“My favorite singer out of all the British girls that ever were.”

— Robert Plant

I first came across the name Sandy Denny on the liner notes of the classic Led Zeppelin IV. Read more …

Published: July 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Britain in the 1960s, England, Fairport Convention, Fenek Solère, folk music, Led Zeppelin, music reviews, mysticism, North American New Right, originals, poetry | 9 Responses

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Here I Go Again On My Own

Fullmoon Ancestry

Christian Krohg, Leif Eriksson Discovers America, 1893.

1,702 words

After being stuck in the US for the last five months during the COVID-19 pandemic, I am finally back in Europe. Thanks to my friends in the Dissident Right, I get to spend the next few months in a small town that is overwhelmingly white. Reflecting on my travels this week reminded me of the many European historians and explorers Read more …

Published: July 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged COVID-19, exploration, Fullmoon Ancestry, identity, language, North American New Right, originals, Scandinavia, travel | 9 Responses

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Wallet Lives Matter!
Or, Will the Real Racist Please Stand Up

Spencer J. Quinn

1,268 words

The anti-white, former ESPN personality Jemele Hill tweeted something stupid again recently. But it was inadvertently interesting, and so worthy of comment. She initially tweeted this: Read more …

Published: July 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Black Lives Matter, black supremacism, Donald Trump, identity, North American New Right, originals, racism, rhetoric, Spencer J. Quinn | 39 Responses

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Pop Music is a Satanic Mind-Virus!
Part Three: Sweden, Yes

Scott Weisswald

Icona Pop performs at Summerburst Festival, Gothenburg.

1,813 words

White people are the undisputed masters of making catchy music. American and European pop songs make their way onto the airwaves of the entire world through a robust mechanism of economic globalization and sheer memetic power. But why is the music we make so catchy to just about all ears? And who doesn’t find our music appealing? It would be easy to chalk it up to the undeniable creative strength of our people, but like all endeavors in the arts in the modern world, songwriting has taken on the forms of science and cynical commercialism. Read more …

Published: July 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged education, music, North American New Right, originals, pop music, psychology, science, Scott Weisswald, Sweden | 14 Responses

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It’s Okay to Be White

Greg Johnson

Just download and print!

2,068 words

The Left characterizes the United States and other white countries around the world as systems of “white supremacy” and “white privilege.”

White Nationalists claim that the United States and most other white countries are committed to “white genocide”: the “great replacement” of whites by nonwhites, which is the predictable consequence of political decisions to promote sub-replacement white fertility, race-mixing, and race-replacement immigration. Read more …

Published: July 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Greg Johnson, It's Okay to be White, North American New Right, originals, white genocide, White Lives Matter | 20 Responses

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Towards a Right-Wing Critical Theory

Coomeraswamy

2,503 words

Amid the social turmoil of the late 1960s, the German Communist student Rudi Dutschke called for a “long march through the institutions” as the preferred strategy of ensuring the victory of global Marxist revolution. The success of this initiative is no more prominent in the West than in today’s academia, where Frankfurt School Read more …

Published: July 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged colonialism, conservatism, critical theory, deconstructivism, East vs. West, epistemology, Frankfurt School, globalism, imperialism, Imperium, Julius Evola, materialism, modernism, neoliberalism, North American New Right, originals, Paleoconservatism, Patrick Buchanan, philosophy, post-colonialism, postmodernism, progress., Rene Guénon, Traditionalism | 18 Responses

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We’re the Bad Guys?

Winston E. Bakewell

René Magritte, Golconda, 1953.

2,173 words

The twofold crises of the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic are perfect opportunities for modern nihilists and culture-destroyers of every stripe to let off all the brakes. It is not often that world events align so cleanly with the rhetoric and goals of our enemies, which presents some troubling developments Read more …

Published: July 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, amoralism, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19 pandemic, George Floyd, ideology, individualism, leftism, liberalism, lying, moral signaling, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, rhetoric, self-righteousness, virtue signaling, Winston E. Bakewell | 6 Responses

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Are We Really Heading To A Civil War?

Robert Hampton

1,522 words

Morris V. de Camp pondered the prospects of Civil War 2.0 in the pages of Counter-Currents this week, comparing our current situation to the tumultuous 1860s. While we’re experiencing high levels of social rancor, there’s little chance it will turn into another Civil War.

Here’s why a civil war is not likely to occur anytime soon. Read more …

Published: July 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, Black Lives Matter, cancel culture, Civil War, identity, individualism, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, white identity | 38 Responses

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Life at the End of History:
Against Nineties Nostalgia

Travis LeBlanc

4,673 words

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I grew up in the final years of the Cold War. If you aren’t old enough to remember the Cold War, let me tell you that it was a trip.

Rhodesia Fights Back!

Beau Albrecht

3,011 words

If you’re watching a helicopter combat scene with the opening song in Act 3 of Die Walküre as the soundtrack, then the film is Apocalypse Now. If you’re watching a helicopter combat scene with music by Clem Tholet, John Edmond, or maybe even a disco track, it’s probably a documentary of the Rhodesian Bush War.

The results are familiar to us as what happens when whites are disunited and opposed by our own government. However, Read more …

Published: July 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Beau Albrecht, Black Nationalism, Civil War, colonialism, globalism, imperialism, international relations, North American New Right, originals, Rhodesia, terrorism, the United Kingdom | 23 Responses

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Chinese Handcuffs

John Wilkinson

922 words

Imagine, if you will, the perfect system of torture and restraint. A device so effective that the more forcefully you resist it, the tighter it grips you, and the more hopeless your chance of escape. Such a contraption does in fact exist. You might recognize it as the anodyne but frustrating toy called “Chinese handcuffs.” Read more …

Published: July 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, 2020 presidential election, Black Lives Matter, democracy, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, John Wilkinson, liberalism, North American New Right, originals | 15 Responses

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White Lives Matter

Giles Corey

3,371 words

Paul Kersey
Their Lives Matter Too
Self-published, 2019

White lives matter. Not “black lives matter.” Not “all lives matter.” Not even “blue lives matter.” White lives matter. For us, that’s it — only white lives matter. Nothing could possibly matter more. Our forefathers saddled us with an intractable curse, Read more …

Published: July 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged black criminality, black on white crime, Blacks in America, book reviews, Giles Corey, North American New Right, originals, violence, white dispossession, White Lives Matter | 15 Responses

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Not So Funny Anymore: Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities

Spencer J. Quinn

2,418 words

Tom Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities
New York: Bantam, 1987

When the Left finally gets around to banning (or burning) classic novels, Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities will likely be on the top of the list. Unlike Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Bonfire’s great sin is not merely being linguistically taboo but substantively taboo as well. Read more …

Published: July 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Blacks in America, book reviews, Jews in America, justice, mainstream media, New York City, North American New Right, originals, satire, Spencer J. Quinn, Tom Wolfe, WASPs, white dispossession | 8 Responses

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Civil War II?
Thoughts on the George Floyd Riots of 2020

Morris V. de Camp

Charleston, 1865.

2,528 words

Counter-Currents has some excellent authors. One of my favorites is Spencer Quinn. He can take the complexities of current events and type out an excellent summation of them and what they mean. In one article, Quinn states:

And now that we are in Year 1 AFE (After-Floyd Era), we must all realize that the United States has been irrevocably damaged, Read more …

Published: July 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, American imperialism, Civil War, conflict, culture wars, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, paradigm shifts, war | 9 Responses

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No Fantasy for White Men

Fullmoon Ancestry

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Defending the Sampo, 1896.

1,641 words

I grew up reading fantasy books. Throughout my teenage years, fantasy books gave me countless hours of entertainment. Yet with any form of entertainment that has a predominantly white male audience, Read more …

Published: July 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged adventure, fantasy literature, Fullmoon Ancestry, literature, mythology, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

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The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Nine

Derek Hawthorne

5,423 words

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8

Mitch gathers Melanie’s still unconscious body into his arms and carries her down the stairs. Lydia walks ahead of him, carrying an oil lamp. “Oh, poor thing! Poor thing!” she says. Her resentment toward Melanie now completely gone, she feels only pity. Lydia goes to fetch bandages, as Mitch lays Melanie on the living room sofa. He asks Cathy to get some brandy, Read more …

Published: July 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, Alfred Hitchcock, being, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, das Ereignis, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, family, Martin Heidegger, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, scientism, The Birds | 16 Responses

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Pop Music is a Satanic Mind-Virus!
Part Two: The Rubish Question

Scott Weisswald

Jay-Z and Rick Rubin.

2,237 words

Part 1

Who is Rick Rubin?

If you asked in the early part of his career, he was a member of the provocative hardcore punk band, The Pricks. He would also stress that he was a nobody. Rubin’s purpose for being in the Pricks was, functionally, to piss off his rich Jewish father; Read more …

Published: July 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged blacks in music, hip-hop, Jews in music, Jews in the media, mainstream media, music, New York City, North American New Right, originals, rap music, Scott Weisswald, subcultures | 19 Responses

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When You’re Black, They Let You Name ‘Em

Robert Hampton

1,611 words

Rapper Nick Cannon is the most unlikely person to be embroiled in an “anti-Semitism” controversy. Cannon gained popularity as a clean, family-friendly rapper. No one has ever mistaken him for hardcore or gangsta — he’s the nice rapper white families can listen to on their drive to church. His inoffensiveness and bourgeois image Read more …

Published: July 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-Semitism, anti-white double standards, anti-white propaganda, Black Lives Matter, cancel culture, hip-hop, Nation of Islam, North American New Right, originals, rap music, Robert Hampton | 15 Responses

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We Need a White Underground Railroad

Spencer J. Quinn

1,504 words

On July 1st, 2020, what should have been a minor dust-up in a suburb of Detroit has become international news. As a result, it’s becoming clear that more and more whites are having their lives trampled upon by the self-destructive madness that’s been engulfing America in the After-Floyd Era. Read more …

Published: July 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-white double standards, anti-white media, anti-white propaganda, black criminality, North American New Right, originals, self-defense., Spencer J. Quinn, violence, white dispossession | 34 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 8: Why Are Whites Canceling Each Other?

Ricardo Duchesne

Whites cleaning up the mess blacks made of Minneapolis.

1,582 words

Do you know why Europeans across the political spectrum — liberals, conservatives, socialists — are morally committed to a politics that is leading to the dissolution of their millennial racial identities while promoting the racial identities of non-white immigrants within their own nations? Read more …

Published: July 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, ethnocentrism, history, identity, individualism, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Kevin MacDonald, morality, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints, reputation, Ricardo Duchesne, sociology | 5 Responses

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You Know You’re Right

Winston E. Bakewell

Mars, ca. 2nd century AD.

2,096 words

You are here because you are convinced of the rightness of your ideas. This is not meant in a specific, epistemological sense; as in, your ideas have been verified by some kind of universal truth or that they are backed by data drawn from rigor, though these things could be applied to many of the ideas we hold on the Right. I mean that you are convinced enough of what you hold to be true that you are taking a risk in upholding it, even in the face of great adversaries. Read more …