By the time you read this, just about every angle surrounding Saturday’s failed assassination of Donald Trump will have been covered. How is Trump doing? Who was the shooter? (more…)
Author: Spencer J. Quinn
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When I look back on all of America’s wars, sometimes I wonder how many of them were justified. By entering a certain war, did America’s leaders truly have the welfare of the people in mind? Or were they more concerned about their own power and enrichment? I certainly don’t have the historical chops to exhaustively break down every war the United States has ever fought, but if there is one thing the dissident Right has taught me these past few years, it’s that when the government tells you it’s time for war, hold on to your wallet — because you’re likely to get fleeced. (more…)
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Image from Shawn Braley, Valley News
Image from Shawn Braley, Valley News
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About a year and a half ago, an associate professor at a European university reached out to me over Facebook. He politely invited me to an interview. This is what he wrote (links added):
I am working on an academic project about novels, novellas and short stories published by Counter-Currents Publishing and Arktos Media. (more…)
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Urban myths are insidious enough when they are false. But when they assume universality in the broader culture — while reflecting negatively on that culture — then they can cause people to lose faith in themselves. This is one way in which civilizations begin to decline.
For the last 60 years, one such myth is that of Kitty Genovese.
Thanks to the New York Times reporting of her grisly 1964 murder in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens — during which 38 people supposedly watched and did nothing while she was stabbed to death — her name has become synonymous with bystander apathy. (more…)
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Archibald Ramsay in 1937. (Image source: Wikipedia)
Archibald Ramsay in 1937. (Image source: Wikipedia)
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Everyone loves a good conspiracy theory.
If it is plausible and helps explains something a person knows to be true but cannot prove, then it provides comfort. It makes the truth seem less daunting. It also helps if the theory is entertaining. Sometimes conspiracy theories are correct, sometimes only partially so, and sometimes — maybe most of the time — not at all. The centuries-old conspiracy theory positing that the Jews are behind the destruction of Christian Europe is a combination of all three as packaged in an essential little volume entitled The Nameless War by Archibald Ramsay. (more…)
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Tim Scott (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)
Tim Scott (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)
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Black United States Senator Tim Scott placed a $14 million bet against Spencer J. Quinn’s theory about black voting patterns in the United States earlier this month. The former presidential candidate and current vice-presidential hopeful revealed that his Great Opportunity Super PAC will dedicate the above gaudy sum on minority outreach in battleground states during the run-up to the 2024 election. The money will especially go toward canvassing, paid advertising, digital marketing, and research and analytics. Efforts will be made to convince black men in particular to vote for Donald Trump and the Republicans in November. (more…)
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The proposed state of Greater Idaho (in red). Source: Greater Idaho.
The proposed state of Greater Idaho (in red). Source: Greater Idaho.
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Residents of Crook County, Oregon recently voted on joining the latest secessionist effort gaining steam within the rapidly-polarizing United States. The Greater Idaho movement seeks to incorporate up to 14 counties of eastern Oregon into the state of Idaho, which would extend Idaho’s border several hundred miles westward to the Cascade Mountains. (more…)
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The Kinks have been one of my favorite rock bands for many years. I have written about them for Counter-Currents on three occasions, most recently in my review of their great 1969 album Arthur. I also included their 1978 reggae number “Black Messiah” as one of the “Four Classic Rock Songs for the Dissident Right.” Their most famous song, however, is one I would never include on such a list, and in fact, I have always wondered about its lasting appeal in rock circles. Of course, I am talking about their evergreen 1970 hit “Lola.” (more…)
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Donald Trump sat down for an extended interview with Time magazine reporter Eric Cortellessa on April 12 to discuss what a second Trump administration would look like. Two weeks later the pair talked again over the phone, and Time published the story soon after. An example of classic Leftist spin, Cortellessa’s story, with the chilling title “How Far Trump Would Go,” is not worth even a fraction of the 26 minutes Time says it will take to read. (more…)
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I enjoyed Fred Reed’s April 24 essay “Ignorance, Its Uses and Nurture,” which refers to universal suffrage in anything larger than a small town as a “crackpot” idea. In a mere thousand words, Reed painted the American public as entirely incapable and unqualified to understand United States foreign policy, let alone vote on it. Therefore, he concludes, the entire democratic system is a sham. Yes, the statistics he presents bolster his point admirably. But maybe not as much as epic burns such as this one: (more…)
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Brian Moore’s 1985 novel Black Robe thankfully slipped through the cracks of political correctness. It tells the story of French missionary Paul Laforgue, who travels to the Canadian wilderness in the early seventeenth century to bring Christianity to the indigenous Savages of North America. Yes, Moore capitalizes that term when describing the Indians because, according to his research, this is the very term (les Sauvages) the French used back then. Moore explains this in his author’s note, along with the circuitous manner in which he stumbled upon this fascinating subject (more…)
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Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.
Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.
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It seems that there has not been a worse time since the formation of Israel to be a diaspora Jew.
The friends and allies that the diaspora has traditionally counted on are beginning to turn on them with the same determination and ferocity that gentiles have always possessed on the eve of a pogrom or mass expulsion. (more…)
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Black members of the live studio audience on The Oprah Winfrey Show celebrating news of the O. J. verdict on October 3, 1995.
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I think it was the outcome of the O. J. Simpson trial in October 1995 which first introduced me to tribalism. As a young man I had seen it around me, especially among blacks — but also among Jews and Asians. I knew what it was, and I was fairly well-versed in its literature. (more…)