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Offense Archaeology: Imaginary Racist Dinosaurs...

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2025/07/02

1,969 words The release of the new Jurassic World: Rebirth this week reminded me of the time in 2015 when a previous movie in the franchise was laughably smeared as being racist against Pakistanis. Simply called Jurassic World, some of the main celluloid baddies in this one were from a species named Pachycephalosaurus, [1] called […]

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America & Europe in the Age of Trump

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2025/07/02

739 words There are a few interesting trends playing out right now with Trump’s second term. One is the more aggressive stance his administration has taken towards Europe. I think you’re seeing that reflected in the rhetoric of some of his supporters as well, which creates something of an unnecessary rift between Europeans and Americans […]

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The Battle of the Books

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2025/07/01

2,106 words Recently, I discovered that Counter-Currents, my writing, and the writings of other Counter-Currents authors have been discussed — sometimes extensively, sometimes in passing — in a number of academic books. This is a rather exciting development, which I shall chronicle from time to time in a new series, The Battle of the Books. The […]

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Typee

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2025/07/01

2,144 words In July of 1842, a young American sailor named Herman Melville deserted a whaling vessel anchored off the island of Nukuheva in the Marquesas Archipelago in the South Pacific. He may not have known it then, but the several weeks he would spend among the Typee, the primitive Polynesian inhabitants of the island, […]

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Religion and the Right Part 3: New Religion and Its...

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2025/07/01

1,790 words The waxing and waning of religious practices, cultural customs, and social norms has been a theme throughout history. There was a time when classical paganism was decadent and it was Christianity that offered the zealous alternative. In Part 1, I laid out the glaring issues with Christianity, which remains the current predominate religion […]

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A Historiography of the Black-Jewish Alliance

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2025/07/01

1,534 words Marc Dollinger Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s New York University Press, 2024 Marc Dollinger is a member of the Jewish Studies faculty at San Francisco State University. According to the revised preface, the purpose of his book, Black Power, Jewish Politics, is to build on the supposed moral […]

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Medusa’s Curse Part One: The Cult of Stone

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2025/06/30

2,996 words First they came for elves, and I remained silent because I never met an elf. Then they came for Gods, and I remained silent because I never felt their presence. Then they came for ghosts, and I remained silent because I never saw a ghost. Then they came for consciousness, and I did […]

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The Union Jackal June 2025

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2025/06/30

2,448 words Air Defense Ain’t What It Used To Be It is not easy to know what make of this lead paragraph from a piece at Breitbart London: “Two RAF (Royal Air Force) logistics jets were damaged at one of Britain’s most theoretically secure airfields… by Palestine Action activists who were able to escape undetected.” […]

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Aporia Smears

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2025/06/30

1,394 words In its recent article titled “Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism”, The Guardian offers a textbook example of what passes for journalism in our era of moralised media. Behind the headline lies not a careful analysis of Steven Pinker’s ideas or an engagement with the content of the […]

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Ill-gotten Gains Part 5

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2025/06/30

2,556 words Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 Most viruses, like sharks or wolves, strike the weak and those with co-morbidities first and hardest, particularly the immuno-compromised. The Covid-19 virus was true to type in that respect. The great majority of those who died from Covid-19 were old, weak and/or unhealthy individuals with […]

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Editor’s Update

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2025/06/27

298 words 1. The Counter-Currents 2025 Fundraiser Our fundraiser picked up a bit since last week. Our total is now $36,662.60. I want to thank all our donors for their help. This year, as with last year and the year before, our fundraising goal is $300,000. I am still worried, however, since the year is almost […]

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The Decline of Seriousness in Women’s Political...

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2025/06/27

682 words In an era where politics increasingly resembles reality television, a troubling trend has emerged: the rise of unserious female politicians who prioritize performative activism over substantive governance. While history offers examples of formidable women like Margaret Thatcher or Jeanne Kirkpatrick—figures of intellectual rigor and strategic acumen—today’s political landscape is cluttered with women who […]

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Making Sense of Jonathan Bowden’s Life and Mind from...

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2025/06/27

1,320 words When I published Shaman of the Radical Right: The Life and Mind of Jonathan Bowden, I genuinely didn’t expect there to be quite so much interest in it. I was mainly fascinated by Bowden’s psychology: what is the nature of someone, especially when they are manifestly eccentric, who is able inspire such a […]

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Of Predators and Prostitutes

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2025/06/27

1,411 words I have made the point in previous essays that because the sexes are complementary, it is generally possible to find a counterpart in each for any phenomenon observed in the other. Women and men each have their characteristic faults of which the opposite sex is largely free. A closer look will generally reveal, […]

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My literary ballet

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2025/06/26

4,533 words After a long break, I am continuing the series I started in 2020, interviewing our website’s favorite writers. Kathryn S. is a unique writer of very long and elaborate texts that will be especially appreciated by sophisticated readers. This author writes mostly about history, battles, feasts, ballet, fairy tales, art, romanticism, orientalism, and […]

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Avoiding Fame: The Auteurs

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2025/06/26

2,716 words I think fame is to be avoided. And I’ve done pretty well at that. -Luke Haines Whatever happened to rock music? Do white teenagers still form bands, rehearse in garages with cheap guitars and a borrowed drum-kit, record demo-tapes? Rock music is disapproved of today because it is a feature of white culture, […]

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Our People or ‘America’?: Looking Beyond Trump

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2025/06/26

3,364 words Adapted from an address given on May 31, 2025, at a conference organized and hosted by James Edwards in Greenville, South Carolina. *** Our host has brought us together this weekend to do more than diagnose and explain what’s gone wrong, or to call out those who are responsible.The focus of this conference, […]

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Nothing Here Now but the Recordings Notes on the...

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2025/06/25

1,408 words Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 While we’ve entered the realm of online immortality,[1] let me end with some speculation on how Bowden’s shamanic methods have been absorbed, perhaps unknowingly, by the online Dissident Right, and even in the unlikeliest of places. While I was […]

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The Dignity of Labor

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2025/06/25

1,251 words Nicholas Eberstadt Men Without Work Templeton Press, 2016, 2022 Nicholas Eberstadt is a mainstream conservative who holds a position at the American Enterprise Institute. He has written an outstanding book on the crisis of men who are not employed. This unemployment crisis doesn’t consist of those men who have been laid off or […]

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What Is a Sexual Predator?

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2025/06/25

1,560 words Long time readers of my writings on sexual mores know that I make frequent, usually sarcastic remarks at the expense of conservative commentators who are pleased to denounce younger men as “predators.” Many writers use the term, and as a regular reader of Chronicles between 1997 and 2005 I saw it constantly—on almost […]

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