This is the most exciting week in years. It feels like history is accelerating.
1. Our 2024 Fundraiser
Our annual fundraiser is chugging along. This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000. Thus far we have received $81,775.05, (more…)
This is the most exciting week in years. It feels like history is accelerating.
1. Our 2024 Fundraiser
Our annual fundraiser is chugging along. This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000. Thus far we have received $81,775.05, (more…)
President Donald Trump is the avatar of white America — its embodiment — and any attack on him is an attack on the historic American nation. The only way that this ends without an explosion of political violence and a second civil war is if Trump survives the campaign and goes on to win the upcoming election against the most corrupt system in the history of modernity. (more…)
Corey Comperatore, who was killed during the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, with his daughters. (Image source: Facebook)
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Former President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated on July 13 at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old former Fire Chief and father of two who had lived his entire life in nearby Sarver, Pennsylvania was not so lucky. He was shot and killed while shielding his family from the gunfire. Two other innocent bystanders were likewise seriously injured in the shooting. (more…)
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Part 11 of 14 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here, Part 7 here, Part 8 here, Part 9 here, Part 10 here)
After beating Polus, Socrates continued to badger him with intentionally provocative and paradoxical arguments until Callicles cuts in. The conversation between Socrates and Callicles takes up the rest of the Gorgias. (more…)
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Someone tried to assassinate Donald Trump as he gave a speech in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania last Saturday. The shooter missed by centimeters, only grazing Trump’s ear. Three other people were shot, however, one fatally. The iconic image of Trump raising his fist in defiance is the stuff memes are made of. It was an emotional event.
In the days since, some Right-wingers have been trying to “cancel” those liberals who have made light of the event, or more commonly lamenting that the assassin did not succeed. The first such major example involved the Gen-X musical comedy duo Tenacious D. (more…)
Image source: Wikimedia Commons
Image source: Wikimedia Commons
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As we all commemorate National Watermelon Month and finalize plans to celebrate National Watermelon Day on August 3, it has come to my attention that many black people are terrified of eating watermelon in front of whites.
What a strange thing to fear. I’d think it’s better than being tied to a post and whipped for getting uppity with your slave master, but I’ve never been a black slave, so I wouldn’t know. (more…)
Image source: UEFA website.
Image source: UEFA website.
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This rot has spread from the Anglosphere and is now found even in nations with far less “diversity.” Italy, the defending champions going into Euro 2024, were very disappointing this time around. (more…)
John Terhune (image source: Maine Public)
John Terhune (image source: Maine Public)
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To say that there’s something wrong with the media is as obvious as saying that water is wet. Good journalists are almost as hard to find as unicorns. The bad ones are Public Enemy Number One. In an article called “America’s 15 Most and Least Trusted Professions,” journalists were rated just ahead of lawyers — ouch! This was according to (ahem) Newsweek. They added in conclusion:
In the 21st century, the 24-hour news cycle, rise of Fox News, and online publications that ape journalistic outlets without adhering to basic standards have blurred the line between pundit and journalist for many Americans. (more…)
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Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided . . . will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual, and economical exhaustion.
That is a line from an apocryphal letter claimed to have been written by the nineteenth-century American Freemason Albert Pike, in which he made a few amazingly accurate predictions about the future of civilization. He never wrote those words, but by the gods, someone should have. Does that sentence not perfectly describe the state of the West right now? (more…)
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A near-forgotten journal of occasional significance, The Truth Seeker, turned 150 years old last September. That makes it, by its own claim, the “World’s Oldest Freethought Publication.” Not that there’s an awful lot of competition there, unless you wish to make mischievous arguments in favor of The Atlantic Monthly or The Economist.
Over the years I crossed paths with the Truth Seeker a few times, yet somehow managed to remain oblivious to key points in its history. For example, I only recently discovered — or was reminded again — that The Truth Seeker Company was the original American publisher of Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium. (more…)
Felicia & Leonard Bernstein with Black Panthers leader Donald L. Cox in January 1970. (Image source: GetArchive)
Felicia & Leonard Bernstein with Black Panthers leader Donald L. Cox in January 1970. (Image source: GetArchive)
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They [the Black Panthers] exist as a continual barometer to measure ourselves against — both in terms of lessons that have been garnered as well as challenges in terms of where we can improve and deepen our analysis. — Ainslin Pulley, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Chicago
The place had sunk back into its wonted quiet. The blended murmur of the unceasing city, which during the party had been shut out and forgotten, now penetrated the walls of the great building and closed it once more upon these lives. (more…)
Cartoon courtesy of CGTN.
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The media has gotten rather predictable. Today’s journalists seem like youthful guitarists who learn two chords and are thereby qualified to join a bar band. Once you’ve seen enough stories, the tropes start to look awfully familiar. For example, in news items about mass violence or heinous deeds attributed to “youths,” “teenagers,” or some other conspicuously nondescript reporting, what really happened? (more…)