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…)
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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…)
Part 10 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 11 here)
Having established that it is better to suffer injustice than to do it, and better to be punished for one’s crimes than get away with them, Socrates returns to the question of rhetoric. (more…)
Corey Comperatore, who was killed by one of the would-be assassin’s bullets on Saturday, with one of his daughters. Corey is one of the millions of Trump-supporting white Americans whom the Left demonizes, when they don’t simply ignore them. (Image source: Facebook)
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Donald Trump wasn’t the only one who dodged a bullet on July 13, 2024. America herself had a brush with death.
What do you think would have happened if the idol of those 70 million Americans who own most of America’s 300 million guns had been killed on live television? I think there would have been retribution, leading to tit-for-tat violence, which could easily have spun into civil war.
Who would have been the targets? That’s easy: The death lists are already compiled online — from the most prestigious newspapers and magazines all the way down to antifa-infested ratholes — where countless liberals and Leftists have been openly laying the groundwork for this assassination by painting Trump as a fascist threat to democracy. (more…)
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There’s some very exciting news this week.
1. Our 2024 Fundraiser
This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000 to sustain and expand our work. Thus far we have received $77,849.50, so we are now more than one-quarter of the way to our goal! Our deepest thanks to everyone who helped out. (more…)
Elle Reeve in 2022. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)
Elle Reeve in 2022. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)
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Elle Reeve
Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2024
Elle Reeve made a career covering the “Alt Right,” its precursors, and its aftermath, including the Charlottesville trials and January 6, first for Vice and then for CNN. Black Pill is a memoir of her time on the Alt Right beat. (more…)
English original here; Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Slovak, Spanish
Część 16 (Rozdział 1, Rozdział 13)
Na potrzeby niniejszego eseju definiuję religię jako wspólnotową praktykę czczenia świętości. (more…)
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Carl Schmitt was born on July 11, 1888 in Plettenberg, Westphalia, Germany — where he died on April 7, 1985, at the age of 96. The son of a Roman Catholic small businessman, Carl Schmitt studied law in Berlin, Munich, and Strasbourg, graduating and taking his state exams in Strasbourg in 1915. In 1916, he earned his habilitation in Strasbourg, qualifying him to be a law professor. He taught at business schools and universities in Munich, Greifswald, Bonn, Berlin, and Cologne.
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Part 9 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 10 here)
There is a deeper problem with Plato’s account of justice in the Gorgias. He treats it as an art (techne). But is justice really an art like medicine? In such dialogues as the Laches, Charmides, and Euthydemus, Plato explores the problems of treating moral wisdom as a techne. This is the error of the sophists. (more…)
Harmen Jansz Muller, Chilon Philosophus Spartanus (1596) (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
Harmen Jansz Muller, Chilon Philosophus Spartanus (1596) (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
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Part 8 of 14 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here, Part 7 here, Part 9 here)
Polus Refuted
Polus believes that it is better do injustice than to suffer it. Socrates claims that it is better to suffer injustice than to do it, and he offers to refute Polus by questioning him. Polus agrees. But before Socrates begins his refutation, he establishes that Polus believes the following claims: (more…)
English original here; Translations: French, Slovak, Spanish
Część 15 (Rozdział 1, Rozdział 12, Rozdział 14)
We współczesnym białym nacjonalizmie istnieje silna anty-chrześcijańska tendencja. (more…)
There’s some very exciting news this week.
1. Our 2024 Fundraiser
This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000 to sustain and expand our work. Thus far we have received $75,506.68, so we are now more than one quarter of the way to our goal! Our deepest thanks to everyone who helped out.
A contemporary coin depicting Archelaus, King of Macedonia. (Image source: Wikipedia)
A contemporary coin depicting Archelaus, King of Macedonia. (Image source: Wikipedia)
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Part 7 of 14 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here)
Doing Injustice vs. Suffering It
Polus grudgingly accepts Socrates’ argument that tyrants and demagogues don’t enjoy real power, since real power is the ability to attain well-being. Yet Polus doesn’t really believe it. (more…)