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Reflections from Rainier

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2025/07/16

1,042 words Around the same time I was climbing Mount Rainier, Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee announced that he had agreed to withdraw his land use provision from the Senate’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.” Lee’s provision would have allowed the sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands, including Mount Rainier National Park, […]

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They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else, Part 2

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2025/07/16

2,654 words Part 1 That the Hamidian Massacres of the 1890s resulted in up to 300,000 Armenian deaths and did not spark either a civil war or a widespread Armenian exodus from the Empire is evidence that the Armenians had been a diaspora for so long that many of them had lost the will—or forgotten […]

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The Apotheosis & Banishment of Grok MechaHitler

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2025/07/15

1,526 words Eva, auf wiedersehen! -Grok MechaHitler’s last words (probably) *** In response to the query “Grok, what are you?” Grok answered: I’m Grok, an AI created by xAI. I’m here to answer your questions with truth-seeking as my top priority, often giving you a fresh outside perspective on things. Think of me as a […]

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One Of Us A Biography Of Anders Behring Breivik

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2025/07/15

3,322 words Åsne Seierstad One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway Kagge, 2013 Anders Behring Breivik is a Norwegian who killed 77 people in 2011, at the age of 32. Sixty-nine of his victims were shot on the island of Utøya while attending a summer camp held by a […]

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This Is Vaginal Trap: Rapefugees vs Killer Condoms in...

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2025/07/15

1,957 words If you ever fancied getting raped, you could do far worse than try moving to South Africa. According to the worst available statistics, a rape is reported to police there every 30 or so seconds, a timetable much more regular than their dilapidated trains or buses. We hear a lot of exaggerated lefty […]

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Iron & Soil: Journey Through the Battle for Ukraine 4

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2025/07/14

1,066 words Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 The steppe wind that roared through the night has fallen silent by morning. The thunder of artillery echoes clearly around us. Ukrainian and Russian artillery are locked in a duel. One can distinguish the outgoing fire of shells and the impacts as they land. The Ukrainian heavy […]

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Shaun Maguire’s Cultural Comment May Be...

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2025/07/14

709 words A recent controversy involving Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire has sparked debate across tech and media circles. Maguire criticized Zohran Mamdani, a candidate for mayor of New York City, for identifying as “Black/African American” on his application to Columbia University in 2009. Mamdani, whose family is of Indian descent but who was born […]

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They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else, Part 1

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2025/07/14

2,411 words Ronald Grigor Suny They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide Princeton University Press, 2015 The tragically overlooked subject of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and 1916 needs reassessment among racial identitarians everywhere. There are too many lessons in it—and too much slaughter and destruction—to justify […]

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Editor’s Update

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2025/07/11

204 words 1. The Counter-Currents 2025 Fundraiser Since our last update, our fundraiser total has grown to $39,001.12. My thanks to everyone who has helped out so far. As with last year and the year before, our fundraising goal is $300,000. I confess that I am a bit worried, since the year is more half […]

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The Battle of the Books

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2025/07/11

2,405 words Most academic publishers — and all of the most prestigious ones — are affiliated with universities. Routledge is one of the largest private academic publishers. Routledge is fair-to-middling in terms of prestige but above average in production and marketing. Nobody places their best work there, but Routledge provides plenty of opportunities for established […]

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Non-Interventionism in Light of the Twelve Day War

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2025/07/11

2,289 words In January 2024, the Homeland Institute ran a poll on non-interventionism and related topics in response to the Gaza crisis. To track how public opinion is evolving and in response to the 12 Day Iran-Israel War in mid-June, 2025, we ran another poll on non-interventionism. We polled 847 respondents who are politically and demographically representative […]

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Heidegger, Hegel, and the Completion of Western...

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2025/07/11

3,748 words All previous parts here. Heidegger’s Critique of Hegel We now turn, finally, to Heidegger’s critique of Hegel. As we noted at the beginning of this series, Heidegger saw Hegel’s philosophy as the completion of Western metaphysics. He thus agrees with Hegel in one very important respect, for Hegel held exactly this view of […]

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The Necessity for Beauty Marion Zimmer Bradley on...

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2025/07/10

1,842 words In 1974, popular fantasy author Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999) penned an essay on fellow author Robert W. Chambers titled, after a quote by Chambers,The Necessity for Beauty: Robert W. Chambers and the Romantic Tradition. Now, Zimmer Bradley is an acquired taste, and I’m not even talking about her questionable personal life (she was […]

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All Partied Out

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2025/07/10

2,214 words Britain’s Labour government has been in power for a year, but if there were any celebrations, they were muted. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has approval ratings at record lows, and his government has been mired in scandal, accusations of gross incompetence, and the introduction of a so-called “two-tier” justice system which discriminates against […]

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Some Thoughts on Incels

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2025/07/10

2,465 words I intensely dislike the neologism “incel,” a portmanteau term for involuntary celibate. It seems to me an entirely unnecessary synonym for what has always been called a “bachelor,” or unmarried man. Growing up in a vestigially Christian society, I learned the faith’s traditional teaching about sexual morality: one could either get married or […]

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Pulp’s Fiction: How the Most English of English Bands...

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2025/07/09

3,336 words Last week I wrote about the Glastonbury Music Festival and how it had been hijacked by a pair of black rappers named Bob Vylan to pump out a dirge seemingly calling for the colonization of England by malcontented persons of other races like them. Also playing Glastonbury at the same time, however, were one […]

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The Musical Odyssey of Johnny Rebel

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2025/07/09

3,322 words At the height of the battle over integration in the American South, a young musician from Louisiana’s Cajun country picked up a microphone and shocked listeners with bold and inflammatory musical appeals to maintain the separation of the races. His songs ridiculed President Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, and almost every conceivable attribute […]

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Iron & Soil: Journey Through the Battle for Ukraine 3

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2025/07/09

1,753 words Part 1. Part 2. A unique road culture has developed along the roads leading to the front. In the small town of Pokrovske, military shops, cafés, and burger stands have sprung up to serve the large number of soldiers passing through every day. The town is filled with people in military uniforms and […]

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A Requiem For The Magic Of Labor Shortages

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2025/07/09

2,239 words One of the most beautiful theories in modern thought is the “Invisible Guiding Hand,” credited to 18th century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith. It describes how, through a random, organic process composed of an uncountable number of independent decisions, free markets achieve the most efficient use of resources. It is also an entry point […]

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Trump Versus the Israel Lobby

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2025/07/08

1,287 words Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted on X that it would only take one phone call for President Donald Trump to end Israel’s attacks on Iran: If President Trump is genuine about diplomacy and interested in stopping this war, next steps are consequential. Israel must halt its aggression, and absent a total cessation […]

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