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2019 was Counter-Currents’ best year in terms of traffic and overall performance:

We published 895 pieces on the site.
After being plateaued for more than a year, our traffic began to rise in June. In November, it was basically double what it was in May.
We had a total of 4,205,172 visits to the site in 2019.
We had 1,966,053 unique visitors for the year.

Published: January 1, 2020 | Posted in news item | Also tagged 2019 roundups, 80/20 rule, Greg Johnson, originals, Vilfredo Pareto | 21 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 | Also tagged alienation, Christmas, Eastern Europe, Jef Costello, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, white dispossession | 16 Responses

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Jewish Discomfort in New York

Robert Hampton

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Jews were faced with two uncomfortable events last weekend.

One was a black man stabbing Jews at a rabbi’s home in New York.

The other was a New York Times op-ed that said Jews were genetically smarter than other people.

Published: December 31, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-Semitism, blacks and Jews, Blacks in America, Bret Stephens, IQ, Jews in America, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, the Jewish question | 11 Responses

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Why I Write
Bocca della Verita

Fenek Solère

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Orwell once wrote that “intellectual honesty is a crime in any totalitarian country; but even in England it is not exactly profitable to speak and write the truth.”

Published: December 31, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged bocca della verita, Fenek Solère, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, the media, Why I Write | 4 Responses

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Remembering Rudyard Kipling:
December 30, 1865 to January 18, 1936

Greg Johnson

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John Collier, Portrait of Rudyard Kipling, circa 1891

Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling was born on this day in 1865. For an introduction to his life and works, see the following articles on this site.

William Pierce, “Rudyard Kipling: The White Man’s Poet” (French translation here)
Andrew Hamilton, “Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Burden of Jerusalem’”
Margot Metroland, “The Conundrum of the Kipling: Rudyard Kipling, 1865–1936”
William Solniger, “The White Man’s Burden, 2013”

Published: December 30, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, North American New Right, originals, poems, poetry, Rudyard Kipling | 4 Responses

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Eastern European Women, IKEA Dates, & Airport Farewells

Fullmoon Ancestry

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I’m at the airport right now. Being in Eastern Europe for the past two years, I’ve spent a lot of time at various European airports. In regards to my personal life, I’ve found myself in a revolving cycle of meeting Eastern European women on Tinder, taking them on dates to the local IKEA, and then breaking up and saying goodbye to them at the airport. Read more …

Published: December 30, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged dating, Eastern Europe, Fullmoon Ancestry, IKEA, North American New Right, originals | 22 Responses

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The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Race & Racial Differences

F. Roger Devlin

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Race has been discussed to the point of weariness, yet most discussion consists of little more than wishful thinking, contradiction, and outright malice: “All the races are equal, but whites oppress everyone else. Then again, race doesn’t really exist, which is why we must strive for greater racial diversity.” It is understandable that many people are at once confused by, and sick of, the entire subject—especially white people, the targets of so much blame and hostility. Read more …

Published: December 27, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged biological race differences, creativity, crime, ethnocentrism, F. Roger Devlin, intelligence, North American New Right, originals | 32 Responses

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Definitely no logic:
Björk’s Debut

Scott Weisswald

Björk

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Björk’s music is full of range and dimension. This is true both in the sense of her voice, which sweeps across octaves with equal helpings of elegance and coarseness, but also in her varied inflection and choice of songwriting material. One could plot her music on a chart with two poles that span innocence and seductiveness, alongside harmony and discordance, and find that she dances around in all four quadrants Read more …

Published: December 27, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Björk, Debut, feminism, Iceland, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, popular music, Scott Weisswald | 4 Responses

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1676: A Year That Shaped White America

Robert Hampton

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Edmund Morgan
American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
New York: W.W. Norton, 1975

Jill Lepore
The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity
New York: Vintage, 1999

The Dissident Right must take back American history. Read more …

Published: December 27, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American history, American Indians, American Slavery American Freedom, Bacon's Rebellion, Blacks in America, book reviews, Edmund Morgan, Jamestown, King Philip's War, North American New Right, originals, populism, Robert Hampton, Sir Nathaniel Bacon, Sir William Berkeley, slavery, White Over Black, Winthrop Jordan | 4 Responses

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Looking Back at 2019

Morris V. de Camp

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I’m happy to say that I can look back upon 2019 with a great deal of satisfaction. In my private life, the one with the kids, the pets, the job, the mortgage, etc. I’ve made great strides.

After a great deal of drama and tough love, I was able to pull some teenagers out of less-than-helpful relationships that stressed me (and them) out a great deal. Read more …

Published: December 27, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2019 roundups, Donald Trump, immigration, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question | 8 Responses

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Encouraging Signs for 2020

Quintilian

Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, circa 1766

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I believe that optimism is a sucker’s game. Motivation is for losers. If you cannot find motivation within yourself no amount of cheerleading will make you succeed. Optimism is the enemy of reality, and reality is the only path to truth. Likewise, the dire pessimism expressed by so many on the Dissident Right is a constraint on the perception of reality. Read more …

Published: December 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 prospects, academia, Boris Johnson, groyper war, J. K. Rowling, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Quintilian | 17 Responses

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You’re Going to Love Our New Country!

Severinus

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Do you think guns are more dangerous than they are protective? Do you think 20 percent is a passing grade in mathematics? Do you think free speech is merely a tool whites use to spew racist propaganda? Do you think it’s good when smart whites don’t get admitted to good schools because room needs to be made for Pakistani immigrants? Do you love fetuses being removed, limb by limb from a mother’s womb? Then you’ll love our impending multi-racial utopia, coming now! Read more …

Published: December 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Christianity, demographics, North American New Right, originals, race replacement, Severinus, white dispossession | 22 Responses

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“I’ll go make you a sandwich.”
Celebrating the Trad Wife in Emmerich’s Midway

Anton

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The best present I’ve given myself over this holiday season was the two hours and thirteen minutes I sat in a mostly empty theater on a rainy afternoon watching Midway (2019) the latest epic film by the great Roland Emmerich. Read more …

Published: December 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anton, Midway, North American New Right, originals, Roland Emmerich, sex roles | 28 Responses

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My Five Favorite Books of 2019

Alex Graham

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1. Steele Brand, Killing for the Republic: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)

This is an excellent work of military history that examines the tradition of civic militarism in the Roman Republic. Brand combines detailed analyses of battles with insights about Roman culture and society. His analysis of the Battle of Sentinum (295 BC), for instance, includes diagrams of battle formations as well as a discussion of the history of the devotio, Read more …

Published: December 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2019 roundups, Ale Graham, ancient Rome, asceticism, Barbarian Days, Barry Cunliffe, book reviews, Hindu nationalism, hinduism, Killing for the Republic, living well, Michel Danino, militias, North American New Right, originals, Peter Sloterdijk, self-actualization, Sri Aurobindo and India’s Rebirth. Sri Aurobindo, Steele Brand, surfing, The Scythians, warrior ethics, William Finnegan, You Must Change Your Life | 1 Response

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Christmas at Counter-Currents
Some Thoughts on Yule

Collin Cleary

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Yule is the midwinter festival celebrated by my ancestors and by Germanic neo-pagans today. Midwinter is a time when much of nature seems to die or to depart. The trees are stripped of their leaves. The birds abandon us, flying off to warmer climes. Bears, badgers, chipmunks, and squirrels hibernate. Water freezes over. The earth is covered in ice and snow, so that nothing can grow. The air is so chilled that when we are out in it for too long, death becomes something tangible, and we rush inside. Read more …

Published: December 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Christmas, Collin Cleary, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, Winter Solstice, Yule | 2 Responses

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Christmas at Counter-Currents
Christmas & the Winter Solstice

Julius Evola

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Translation and commentary by Cologero Salvo

In “Roma e il natale solare nella tradizione nordico-aria” (La Difesa della razza, 1940), Evola writes:

Very few suspect that the holidays [i.e., Catholic holy days] of today, in the century of skyscrapers, radio, great movements of the masses, are celebrated and continue . . . a remote tradition, Read more …

Published: December 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Rome, Christmas, Julius Evola, North American New Right, paganism, reprints, Sol Invictus, Traditionalism, translations, Winter Solstice | 1 Response

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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 | Also tagged authenticity, Christmas, ethics, Jef Costello, living well, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, truth | 1 Response

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The Literal War on Christmas

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

Syrians celebrate Christmas as Israel rains down bombs

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Can you feel that magic in the air? It is the most wonderful time of the year. People from all over the world retreat to their hearths and homes to celebrate Christmas, to be with their families, to enjoy warmth, to remember good times, to reflect on the year past. It is a time of good cheer, of rest after a grueling 12 months of labor, Read more …

Published: December 24, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Christianity, Christmas, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, Syria, the Jewish question, the war against Christmas | 10 Responses

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All I Want for Christmas

Fullmoon Ancestry

Albert Chevallier Tayler, The Christmas Tree, 1911

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All I want for Christmas is for white men to be happy. Yes, you read that correctly. I want you, white man, to be happy this Christmas. Wherever you are and whoever you are with, I want you to be happy. What do I mean by this? Let’s find out!

I’ve had the opportunity to spend Christmas in various places in the world, Read more …

Published: December 24, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Christmas, Fulmoon Ancestry, living well, North American New Right, originals | 7 Responses

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My Five Favorite Books of 2019

Margot Metroland

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1. John Sutherland
Orwell’s Nose: A Pathological Biography
London: Reaktion Books, 2016

This small but brilliant volume is a joy to read, maybe the best single Orwell critique in recent years. “A Quirky and Snarky Treat” somebody at Amazon called it, and that it certainly is. “The lower classes smell,” Orwell famously offers as an upper-class folk belief, in The Road to Wigan Pier. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2019 roundups, banking, book reviews, Cecily Mackworth and Jan Stransky, Commander in Chief, Czechoslovakia, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George Orwell, Hope and History, J. P. Morgan, John Sutherland, Margot Metroland, Nigel Hamilton, North American New Right, originals, Orwell's Nose, Ron Chernow, The House of Morgan, The Mantle of Command, War and Peace, William J. vanden Heuvel | 12 Responses

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What Impeachment Really Means

John Wilkinson

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It finally happened. Donald Trump has been impeached by Nancy Pelosi and her army of malcontents in the House of Representatives. Trump joins just two other presidents in all of American history to hold this distinction, the other two being Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton.

There is something far deeper and more sinister at work here than a sitting US President being indicted by Congress for a criminal act. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 US Presidential Election, Donald Trump, John Wilkingson, North American New Right, originals, Trump impeachment, white dispossession | 19 Responses

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Christmas at Counter-Currents
Christmas: Beauty in Life

Dominique Venner

Viggo Johansen, Glade Jul, 1891

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Translated by Greg Johnson; Spanish translation here

We are approaching Christmas (another name for the winter solstice). Associated with the evergreen tree, Christmas has always been celebrated in European countries since time immemorial Read more …

Published: December 23, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, beauty, Christmas, Dominique Venner, ethics, North American New Right, originals, Stoicism, translations, winter | 1 Response

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Asgardsrei 2019:
A Stormride & Tribute to an Eternal Legend

Fullmoon Ancestry

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In order to fully understand the importance of this year’s Asgardsrei festival, one must understand the impact that the Blazebirth Hall scene, and in particular, its most prolific artist, Kaldrad, had on both NSBM (National Socialist Black Metal) and the overall sound of Eastern European black metal.

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The Sexes:
Complementary, Not “Equal”

F. Roger Devlin

Peter Paul Rubens, Venus and Mars, between 1632 and 1635

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A key component of the ideology currently dominant in the West is the “equality” of the sexes and the consequent struggle to eliminate “discrimination” between them. If this doctrine seems plausible to many people, it is because it appeals to the basic principle of fairness that like cases ought to be treated alike. If women are no different from men, it cannot be fair to treat them differently. Read more …

Published: December 22, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged biologial sex differences, F. Roger Devlin, feminism, North American New Right, parenting, reprints | 21 Responses

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The Last Day of Christmas

Spencer J. Quinn

Salvador Dalí Christmas card

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A few years ago I took my four-year-old son to a Santa Claus event being held at a local supermarket. They were offering snacks and goodies and craft activities as well as the opportunity to sit on the bearded man’s lap and tell him what you want to find under the tree that year. Of course, my son loved every moment of it. But he started to love it even more when one of his best friends from daycare showed up. This was a little Indian kid with whom he was inseparable at the time. And with him was his father who was all smiles and wanting to make chitchat with me. Read more …

Published: December 20, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Christmas, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, Spencer Quinn, white dispossession | 25 Responses

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Yiannopoulos vs. Fuentes

Severinus

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Milo Yiannopoulos recently interviewed Nick Fuentes because of his movement’s demolition of Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA. Milo told Fuentes that “the purpose of this interview is to let you speak in your own words about what you in fact do believe,” but Milo must have spoken for at least five minutes to every 30 seconds Fuentes was allotted – Read more …

Published: December 20, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged asceticism, biological race differences, Christianity, holocaust revisionism, intelligence testing, Milo Yiannopoulos, Nick Fuentes, North American New Right, originals, Severinus, the holocaust, the Jewish question | 15 Responses

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Scorsese’s The Irishman

John Morgan

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Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is a return to well-trod ground – not just for the director, but for the actors concerned as well, not to mention Hollywood. It’s an organized crime story, the twist being that it has a political aspect to it as well. The cast is a veritable reunion of all the still-living actors who have played famous Italian-American mobsters in cinema or television over the past half-century: Read more …

Published: December 20, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged crime dramas, film reviews, Italian mafia, Jimmy Hoffa, John Morgan, mafia films, Martin Scorsese, North American New Right, organized crime, originals, The Irishman | 6 Responses

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(Too Many) Whites On Ice

Robert Hampton

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The Wall Street Journal says the National Hockey League must diversify or die.

The NHL is overwhelmingly white. In 2011, it was 93 percent white. It’s roughly the same today. There are 50 black NHL players, which is apparently an outrage. Read more …

Published: December 20, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged hockey, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Robert Hampton, sports, white dispossession | 13 Responses

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Winter & the European Soul

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow, 1565 (Detail)

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If you’re milling around Counter-Currents, you’re probably savvy to the notion that human beings are biological creatures, that we are shaped and molded by our environment’s ruthless Darwinian pressures into our present form. To think this way is heresy in the contemporary West. To consider the possibility that man is subject to the laws of nature offends the prideful sensibilities of our Gnostic and Luciferian elites. To think of oneself as a thread in the great tapestry of being offends the petty individualism of the modern Westerners. Read more …

Published: December 19, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged beauty, Christmas, individualism, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, Santa Claus, white identity, winter | 18 Responses

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The American Kshatriya

William de Vere

Horatio Greenough, George Washington, 1840

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Valor, fearlessness, fortitude, resourcefulness, and also, not fleeing in war, charity, and the ability to rule, are the natural duties of a Kshatriya. — Bhagavad Gita 18:23

According to a widely-accepted hypothesis of Georges Dumézil, prehistoric Indo-European society was divided into three basic functions: a sacral, a martial, and an economic class. This tripartite ideology survived the Indo-European migrations throughout Europe and Asia and has persisted, with various modifications, into modernity. Read more …