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Since yesterday’s update on our Summer Fundraiser, we have received 4 donations totaling $2,710. Our total is now $40,097, which puts us over the top. On Monday, I will publish a final tally of donations that come in between now and the end of Halloween (and over the weekend as well). (more…)
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“Black lives matter,” goes the sign held by those demonstrating the entirely justified killing of giant wannabe thug Michael Brown. Yes, black lives matter, except when it comes to the major cause of deaths by violent crime among blacks: blacks themselves. (more…)
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Editor’s Note:
This is the transcript by V. S. of the question and answer session after Jonathan Bowden’s speech “Western Civilization Bites Back,” delivered at a Counter-Currents event in California on February 25, 2012.
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During last year’s Counter-Currents Summer Fundraiser, a number of our writers issued statements of support. They are just as valid now as then, so we are reprinting them here. (more…)
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LOQUITUR: En Bertrans de Born.
Dante Alighieri put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer up of strife.
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Since yesterday’s update on our Summer Fundraiser, we have received 2 donations totaling $450. Our total is now $37,387. We are now $2,613 from our goal of $40,000 with just 2 days to go. Again, I want to thank all of our donors for your generous support.
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A reader suggested that I reprint last year’s fundraiser “In My Grandiose Moments . . .” (more…)
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“A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.” — Ezra Pound
One of the ongoing projects of the North American New Right is the recovery of our tradition. One does not have to go too far back before one discovers that every great European thinker and artist is a “Right Wing extremist” by today’s standards.
What is even more remarkable is the number of great 20th century figures who belong in our camp as well. (more…)
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Since yesterday’s update on our Summer Fundraiser, we have received 5 donations totaling $580 in amounts ranging from $10 to $350, including the first of recurring donations of $10/month and $20/month. Our total is now $36,937. We are now $3,063 from our goal of $40,000 with just 3 days to go. (more…)
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“The dead came back from Jerusalem,
where they found not what they sought.”
—Carl Jung, Seven Sermons to the Dead, Sermon I, 1916
Beneath a leaden sky:
street merchants peddling wares,
old harlots exposing breasts,
grimaces and stares,
rats, flies and other pests.
T. S. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets can be considered amongst the greatest English poetry of the 20th century, and arguably amongst the greatest English poetry ever. The four poems meditate repetitively and brilliantly on man’s relationship to time and eternity, and posit a religious solution to the problem of man’s need for meaning in the face of death. (more…)
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Author’s Note:
The following text was written 21 years ago when I was in graduate school. I think it is a useful synthesis of the material available at the time, but I make no claims to originality. I tried to remove the kind of preciousness and pedantry that one finds in graduate student papers, but given the subject matter, what remains is necessarily somewhat densely written.
Everybody knows that Martin Heidegger was deeply interested in “Being,” indeed obsessed with it. (more…)
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Since yesterday’s update on our Summer Fundraiser, we have received 5 donations totaling $540 in amounts ranging from $10 to $250, including the first of a recurring donation of $30/month. Our total is now $36,357. We are now $3,643 from our goal of $40,000 with just 4 days to go. (more…)
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Back at the beginning of 2012, I stuck my neck out a bit by writing an article on economics, “Money for Nothing” (audio version here), in which I offered my take on Social Credit theory. The subsequent discussion thread, as well as private communications with Social Credit experts, convinced me that I was on the right track. (more…)
