Steven Clark reviews the 1944 German film Grosse Freiheit Nummer 7, a romantic drama about a sailor who performs at a cabaret in Hamburg. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/grosse-freiheit-nummer-7-the-best-german-film-on-world-war-ii/
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Grosse Freiheit Nummer 7: The Best German Film on World War II?
1,998 words When we think about Third Reich films, we always go to the usual: Triumph of the Will, Der Ewige Jude, Jud Süß, and Kolberg, Goebbels’ final, fist-shaking epic call to resistance as the Reich crumbled. Yet, German film a the time was quite varied…
Thomas Steuben on the qualities which make Americans more prone to extremism than Europeans — and why this isn't always a bad thing. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/finding-roots/
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Finding Roots | Counter-Currents
1,561 words We on the dissident Right hold that demographics is destiny in regards to race. If so, then it is natural that the same can be said for sub-racial genetic characteristics such as extremism, conscientiousness, and so on. Due to the fact that various…
Margot Metroland's essay on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, an early proponent of eugenics and race realism who has since been unfairly maligned by the academic establishment, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/pierre-teilhard-de-chardin-prophet-of-eugenics-and-race-realism/
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Prophet of Eugenics and Race-Realism | Counter-Currents
3,092 words On April 10, 1955 -- Easter Sunday -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin collapsed and died of a heart attack in a friend's Manhattan apartment. He was 74 and had done nothing more strenuous that day than take a stroll through Central Park. At this time…
Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay on the Karen phenomenon, which has led to a great deal of unjust suffering for white women and has become yet another anti-white trope. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/lets-scare-karen-to-death-video/
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Let’s Scare Karen to Death | Counter-Currents
43 words / 14:03 Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, "Let's Scare Karen to Death," on the Karen phenomenon, which has led to a great deal of unjust suffering for white women and has become yet another anti-white trope. See below.…
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Alt-media is outraged over an anti-Ukrainian grifter clown getting arrested for being a subversive fifth columnist during war, while radio silence over Russia arresting thousands of its own citizens for protesting the war, giving them stiff jail sentences (up to 15 years) for voicing an opinion.
Alt-media = Kremlin media. No difference.
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Alt-media = Kremlin media. No difference.
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Morris van de Camp's essay on Robert McCormick efforts as one of America's most prominent newspaper men to keep America out of World War II has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/robert-rutherford-mccormick-midwestern-man-of-the-right-part-2/
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Robert Rutherford McCormick, Midwestern Man of the Right: Part 2 | Counter-Currents
1,945 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Military mid-level management McCormick’s military career couldn’t be replicated today. In today’s United States military, either a college student is recruited to take classes in military leadership, or an enlisted man…
Jef Costello on King Charles III's coronation, and how the fact that he's a constitutional monarch in fact adds mystique to his symbolic office. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/the-mystery-of-constitutional-monarchy/
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The Mystery of Constitutional Monarchy | Counter-Currents
2,109 words Let’s just get it out of the way right now: There were too many multi-culti annoyances at the coronation of King Charles III. For me the worst part was this -- but it’s not even that bad. Not nearly as bad as the black preacher at Harry’s wedding.…
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Beau Albrecht's essay on the metapolitical strategies that the Left has used to achieve dominance over society — and how the Right can use them to its own advantage — has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/why-does-cthulhu-always-swim-left-part-1/
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Why Does Cthulhu Always Swim Left? Part 1 | Counter-Currents
3,253 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) Pondering America’s political landscape since the 1960s can be rather maddening. For the most part, the Right has been spinning its wheels in a rut. The best showing was in the 1980s, when the leftward slide into the…
Jim Goad on a black man who murdered two white men at random in Tulsa, Oklahoma; protests in New York City after a homeless Michael Jackson impersonator and serial criminal died while being held in a chokehold; protestors displaying an "EMBRACE WHITE PRIDE" banner in San Luis Obispo, California — and more. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/the-worst-week-yet-126/
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The Worst Week Yet: April 30-May 6, 2023
3,103 words Black Homeless Man in Tulsa Charged with Hate Crime for Shooting Two White Men in the Back of the Head Stop the presses, batten down the hatches, and hold the fort: Police in Tulsa, Oklahoma — which is one of the bleakest, grimiest, and nastiest…
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Stephen Paul Foster commemorates Edward Gibbon's 286th birthday by showing how his masterwork, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was one of the first historical studies to treat religion from a purely sociological perspective — something that was not entirely welcome in his own time. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/remembering-edward-gibbon/
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Remembering Edward Gibbon
5,714 words How fares the Truth now? — Ill? — Do pens but slily further her advance? May one not speed her but in phrase askance? Do scribes aver the Comic to be Reverend still? — Thomas Hardy, “Lausanne, In Gibbon’s Old Garden: 11-12 p.m.” The 110th anniversary…
Anthony Bavaria on (500) Days of Summer, a film that highlights the architectural glories of Los Angeles while ignoring the city's ever-worsening state of decay. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/500-days-of-summer/
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(500) Days of Summer | Counter-Currents
1,417 words (500) Days of Summer is a romantic comedy released in 2009. It is certainly a cut above the rest of modern rom-coms, but this review will focus on the story’s setting in lieu of the plot. Though there is only one mention of the city in its dialogue…
New writer D. H. Corax on why humor and embarrassment are important tools to use to bring normies to the dissident Right. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/info-parody-a-strategy-for-reaching-normies-part-1/
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Info-Parody: A Strategy for Reaching Normies, Part 1 | Counter-Currents
853 words Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here) There is an unfortunate bias on the dissident Right in general toward focusing their efforts and techniques on logic in the narrower sense: that is, on calmly and methodically pointing out the internal contradictions and…
Kenneth Vinther on how "democracy" today has become completely disconnected from the will of the people, and is a label the elites use to manipulate the masses into defending their own disenfranchisement. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/liberal-anti-democracy-part-1/
Greg Johnson's Introduction to New Right vs. Old Right is now in Spanish. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/nueva-derecha-vs-vieja-derecha-introduccion/
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Nueva Derecha vs. Vieja Derecha: Introducción | Counter-Currents
1.271 palabras INTRODUCCIÓN[*] Este libro fue escrito en medio de una apremiante sensación de peligro. Los Europeos, mi pueblo, tanto en nuestro continente originario como los esparcidos a lo largo de todo el globo, viven ahora bajo un sistema político, económico…
Counter-Currents presents a new video of Greg Johnson’s classic essay “Restoring White Homelands,” on how the slow ethnic cleanse is the path to establishing white homelands. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/restoring-white-homelands-video/
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Restoring White Homelands
26 words/18:40 Counter-Currents presents a new video of Greg Johnson’s classic essay “Restoring White Homelands,” on how the slow ethnic cleanse is the path to establishing white homelands. * * * Counter-Currents has extended special privileges to those…
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D. H. Corax on how breaking the liberals' monopoly over humor and social embarrassment could win normiecons over to our side. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/info-parody-a-strategy-for-reaching-normies-part-2/
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Info-Parody: A Strategy for Reaching Normies, Part 2 | Counter-Currents
1,305 words Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here) As I hope I've shown in the first part of this series, embarrassment and/or humor are operative with virtually all people under all circumstances. The heart of clown world in the present is no exception;…
Gunnar Alfredsson reviews Jonathan Bowden's Right, an early statement of his political beliefs that foreshadows many of the themes that would recur in his later speeches. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/visions-of-a-new-right-jonathan-bowdens-right/
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Visions of a New Right: Jonathan Bowden’s Right
1,964 words Jonathan Bowden ed. by Alex Kurtagić Right London: The Palingenesis Project, 2016 To commemorate the late Jonathan Bowden on what would have been his 61st birthday, Greg Johnson provided a thoughtful tribute essay, accompanied by a comprehensive…
Kenneth Vinther continues his critique of democracy by showing how the original formulators of liberal democracy in fact intended it as a means of preventing ordinary citizens from exercising power, contrary to popular belief. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/liberal-anti-democracy-part-2/
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Liberal Anti-Democracy, Chapter 2: The Plutocratic Origins of Representative Government
3,552 words Part 2 of 9 (Chapter 1 here) In all countries the rights of the majority take care of themselves, but it is only in countries like England, enjoying constitutional liberty, and safe from the tyranny of a single despot, or of an unbridled democracy…