This article is hilarious. Real dissidents do not get fawning attention from the New Yorker. Real dissidents don't meet in named establishments in Manhattan. If real dissidents meet in unfurnished houses and entertain themselves with folk songs on the guitar, it is not in Georgetown, where you'd be lucky to find a house under $1 million. We are told that these gatherings are "mostly white": yes, with whites with surnames like Siskind, Katz, and Gold.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-party-is-cancelled
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-party-is-cancelled
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A Club for the Cancelled
Inside a monthly New York City hangout, where fired university professors and controversial TikTokers get together to have discussions they feel they can’t have anywhere else.
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The broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio where Greg Johnson and Pox Populi discussed the intellectual origins of wokeness, with special attention to Paul Gottfried’s recent Chronicles article "Marx Was Not Woke," has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-530-the-genealogy-of-wokeism
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 530 The Genealogy of Wokeism | Counter-Currents
126 words / 1:02:05 Greg Johnson was joined by Pox Populi (Telegram, YouTube) on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio to discuss the intellectual origins of wokeness, with special attention to Paul Gottfried’s recent Chronicles article “Marx Was…
Today is the 125th birthday of the great Italian philosopher of Tradition and man of the Right, Julius Evola. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/remembering-julius-evola-11/
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Remembering Julius Evola (May 19, 1898–June 11, 1974)
1,205 words Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola was born on May 19, 1898 in Rome. Along with René Guénon, Evola is one of the writers who has most influenced the metapolitical outlook and project of Counter-Currents, which is reflected in the fact that Evola…
Veiko Hessler reports on the Scandza Forum that was held in Tallinn, Estonia last weekend — and to which one of the speakers, Jared Taylor, was barred entry by Poland — as well as the current political situation there, where the Left and Right are neck-and-neck in struggle. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/springtime-in-tallinn/
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Springtime in Tallinn
1,914 words Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the Scandza Forum in Tallinn, Estonia. In his opening address to the conference, organizer Frodi Midjord stated that he had chosen Tallinn as the venue because it showcases the best of Europe architecturally…
Kenneth Vinther concludes his in-depth analysis of how liberal democracy thwarts the will of the people by calling for dissidents to begin calling out and attacking this exposed flank of the neoliberal elite. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/liberal-anti-democracy-chapter-6-part-2/
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Liberal Anti-Democracy, Chapter 6, Part 2: Conclusion | Counter-Currents
2,418 words Part 9 of 9 (Chapter 1 here, Chapter 6 Part 1 here) In a representative “democracy,” “public opinion” is a fiction. The people have no voice. They are never consulted directly on policy matters, and they are not given any mechanism through which…
Forwarded from Jared Howe / So To Speak
"Diversity is our strength."
Uttered by Putin and emphatically reiterated by Dugin
"Our state was built up with the values of multinational harmony. This is the most important foundation of our consolidation, which is only getting stronger in the face of external aggression and threats. And our opponents, people with neocolonial ideas, half-wits, in fact, do not understand that it is this diversity that makes us stronger," the Russian President noted."
https://t.iss.one/Dugin_Aleksandr/9377
Uttered by Putin and emphatically reiterated by Dugin
"Our state was built up with the values of multinational harmony. This is the most important foundation of our consolidation, which is only getting stronger in the face of external aggression and threats. And our opponents, people with neocolonial ideas, half-wits, in fact, do not understand that it is this diversity that makes us stronger," the Russian President noted."
https://t.iss.one/Dugin_Aleksandr/9377
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They think Russia's cultural diversity is our weakness, Russian President Putin says
President Putin holds a meeting of the Council on Interethnic Relations.
"Our state was built up with the values of multinational harmony. This is the most important foundation…
President Putin holds a meeting of the Council on Interethnic Relations.
"Our state was built up with the values of multinational harmony. This is the most important foundation…
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Richard Knight describes what he has learned about the psychology of political correctness from discussions he has had with a friend who refuses to recognize reality even when confronted with it. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/the-psychology-of-the-politically-correct/
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The complete PDF of an anthology of Bowden’s novels, Omnibus 2, has been added to The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2010_Omnibus-II.pdf
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Greg Johnson's lecture on Aristophanes' Clouds, a classical Greek play that satirizes Socrates as well as those who defy social conventions, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/aristophanes-clouds/
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Aristophanes’ Clouds, Part I | Counter-Currents
7,651 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) “The Thinkery, a likeness of death, teaching Whirligig and Bamboozle, ‘back to nature’ without families, without the old paternal gods, and without nomoi (not paying back money owed and using unusual forms of words) .…
Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “Clash of the Billionaire Comic-Book Supervillains,” on Elon Musk’s recent tweet comparing George Soros to X-Men supervillain Magneto — and the predictable outrage that followed. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/clash-of-the-billionaire-comic-book-supervillains-video/
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Clash of the Billionaire Comic-Book Supervillains | Counter-Currents
39 words / 09:11 Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, "Clash of the Billionaire Comic-Book Supervillains," on Elon Musk's recent tweet comparing George Soros to X-Men supervillain Magneto -- and the predictable outrage that followed.…
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Today is the tenth anniversary of Dominique Venner’s dramatic suicide at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, which he carried out as a protest against the degradation of the traditional family’s central importance as well as the demographic replacement of European man, and to indicate what we must be prepared to give to save our people: everything. Over the years, Counter-Currents has published many translations of Venner’s work, including his suicide note, as well as essays about him, which are listed here. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/remembering-dominique-venner-5/
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Remembering Dominique Venner (April 16, 1935–May 21, 2013) | Counter-Currents
627 words Today is the tenth anniversary of Dominique Venner's dramatic suicide at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, which he carried out as a protest against the degradation of the traditional family's central importance as well as the demographic replacement…
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A Czech translation of Bowden’s essay “Murnau’s Nosferatu,” “Murnau a Nosferatu” has been added to The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/articles_reviews/murnau-a-nosferatu/
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Murnau a Nosferatu | The Jonathan Bowden Archive
The Jonathan Bowden Archive is a repository for information on the life and work of the British author, orator, and artist Jonathan Bowden (April 12, 1962–March 29, 2012)
A collection of excerpts offering Savitri's view of Mohandas Gandhi has been added to The Savitri Devi Archive. https://savitridevi.org/savitri_devi_works/gandhi/
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Gandhi | The Savitri Devi Archive
The Savitri Devi Archive is a repository for writings and documents related to the philosopher and religious thinker Savitri Devi, born Maximine Portaz (1905-1982).
An essay by Peter Rushton in which he presents the first known evidence proving that Savitri and her husband A. K. Mukherji collaborated with Japanese intelligence during the Second World War, as Savitri herself attested, has been added to The Savitri Devi Archive. https://savitridevi.org/about_her/a-special-connection/
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“A Special Connection” | The Savitri Devi Archive
The Savitri Devi Archive is a repository for writings and documents related to the philosopher and religious thinker Savitri Devi, born Maximine Portaz (1905-1982).
The second half of Greg Johnson's commentary on Aristophanes' Clouds, including a discussion with Greg's former class about the role of social customs in the life of a healthy civilization, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/aristophanes-clouds-part-ii/
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Aristophanes’ Clouds, Part II | Counter-Currents
6,912 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Strepsiades Flunks Out It hasn’t gone well. First Socrates bursts out of the Thinkery swearing an oath: “By Respiration, by Chaos, by the Air.” The usual places of gods in his oath are occupied by three natural forces.…
Jim Goad on a Jewish middle-school teacher who began screaming violent threats against his class after he saw two of them drawing swastikas in a notebook, the NAACP issuing a travel advisory for blacks to stay away from Florida, a cop who forgave a black felon who tried to run him down in a stolen car, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/the-worst-week-yet-128/
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The Worst Week Yet: May 14-20, 2023 | Counter-Currents
2,166 words Jewish Teacher Finds Swastika Drawings in Classroom, Makes Terroristic Threats Against His Entire Seventh-Grade Class In what may prove to be a watershed legal victory for young, marginalized, and underserved Nazi children from coast to coast…
Alex Graham on the Thought Criminals, a group of highly privileged and mostly Jewish New York intellectuals recently profiled in The New Yorker who see themselves as being on the cutting edge of challenging political correctness. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/the-so-called-new-york-thought-criminals-the-intellectual-dark-web/
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The (So-Called) New York “Thought Criminals” & the “Intellectual Dark Web” | Counter-Currents
1,399 words Every few months or so, a mainstream news outlet rolls out another puff piece on “national conservatism,” Curtis Yarvin and Neoreaction, the “Dimes Square” scene, or the so-called “Intellectual Dark Web” (IDW). These subcultures have little in…
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Spencer J. Quinn on why the work that those of us on the dissident Right are doing isn't only about documenting the decline, but also on devising ways to survive it. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/documenting-the-decline/
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Documenting the Decline | Counter-Currents
1,475 words So are we merely documenting the decline? This is a question I often see posed among people on the Right. Things are not exactly ascending for us these days, and so the decline that we see dripping all around us like dirty water from a cracked…
Today marks the 210th birthday of the giant of European culture, Richard Wagner. Celebrate the occasion by learning more about his life, work, and legacy. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/remembering-richard-wagner-10/
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Remembering Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813-February 13, 1883) | Counter-Currents
541 words Richard Wagner was born on May 22, 1813 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…
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Morris van de Camp on how the new miniseries Waco: The Aftermath deals with the subjects of Christian Identity and Timothy McVeigh's 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/after-waco/
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After Waco | Counter-Currents
2,530 words See also: “Waco: The Incident that Kickstarted the Right” Waco: The Aftermath, which follows 2018's miniseries Waco and was made by the same production team, is a historical-fiction miniseries that examines the cultural impact of the FBI’s calamitous…
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