Asier Abadroa's essay on the distinction between identity and culture is now in Spanish. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/identidad-versus-cultura/

There will be no Counter-Currents Radio stream today.

Greg Johnson's third lecture on Plato's Gorgias, focusing on the first third of Socrates’ discussion with Callicles, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-542-greg-johnson-on-platos-gorgias-lecture-3/

Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “A Cow Named Jigaboo,” on the uproar over a cow that was presented at the Wisconsin State Fair. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/a-cow-named-jigaboo-video/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_think_tanks_in_the_United_States

If you take a look at the “Politics and economy” tab & you’ll see the largest number of these organizations style themselves as “nonpartisan”. There’s a hefty amount of conservative & libertarian type organizations in there too with a smaller number of “liberal” and “progressive”. Of course in my opinion anything “nonpartisan/bipartisan/centrist/independent etc.” is code for libtard but I digress.

The reason I find this interesting however, isn’t because of the ideological representation but because of the outsized influence some of these have in comparison to the way things are going.

You look around at what’s going on and you’d think something named “The Intersectional Justice Institute for BIPOC Worship” would be the think tank with the most stroke & influence vis-à-vis the regime.

You’d be mistaken. It’s actually the conservatarian types like CATO, Heritage, AEI & so forth whose suggestions & ideas seem to get implemented most often. As long as they stay in their lane of “big line goes up”(both immigrants & GDP), while also keeping their gentlemen’s agreement to not get into actually defending the culture & nation, then they’ll keep their place in respectable beltway society.

So we have a situation where there’s practically a complete vacuum of actual opposition (imagine that, shocking I know) in the policy institute realm. This is why things like the Homeland Institute are obviously needed and I’m stoked to see where it goes.

“Building a Third Force” means having the institutions & infrastructure as well as the ability to lay out an alternative path forward, without regard for the regime.

HI is one of those institutions.

Jim Goad on a Chicago activist who is asking gangs to only shoot at each other between 9 PM and 9 AM, a black mother who encouraged her son to murder the mother of his child, a woman who fabricated "racist" text messages from her landlord to try to get him charged with racial discrimination, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/the-worst-week-yet-141/

Ondrej Mann interviews Marcus Follin, aka The Golden One, the well-known Swedish activist and author. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/fight-for-our-future-today

Morris van de Camp on the many reasons why the Ukrainian spring offensive hasn't been meeting expectations. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/the-disaster-of-the-ukrainian-spring-offensive/

Here is the video of the last public lecture Jonathan Bowden ever gave in his life on March 24, 2012 — five days before his death on March 29. The topic was Charles Maurras and the Action Française. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/the-video-of-jonathan-bowdens-final-lecture/

The video of Bowden’s lecture “Tragedy, Horror, and the Transcendent,” also known as “Western Civilization: A Bullet Through Steel,” which he gave to the Isles of the North Atlantic (IONA) group in November 2011 has been added to The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/speeches/tragedy-horror-and-the-transcendent/

Bowden’s Introduction to a reprint of Oswald Spengler’s Man and Technics that was published by the European Books Society in 1993 has been added to The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/articles_reviews/introduction-to-spenglers-man-and-technics/

Long-time Counter-Currents contributor Ondrej Mann recently conducted an interview with our most prolific writer, Jim Goad. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/the-great-white-power-shark-an-interview-with-jim-goad/

Today is the 121st birthday of the great German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, who went on to become one of the first victims of what we today call "cancel culture." Find out more about her life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/remembering-leni-riefenstahl-10/

Counter-Currents is putting out a call for rare materials pertaining to the life of Jonathan Bowden for an upcoming biography, as well as for The Jonathan Bowden Archive, with rewards for contributors. See the link for details. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/jonathan-bowden-biography-project/

Mark Gullick on the legacy of the fairy tale of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" in Western culture, and the news that the tale is about to be filmed yet again — with a black leading actress and no dwarves or Prince Charming. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/a-child-as-white-as-snow/

Greg Johnson's "The Relevance of Philosophy to Political Change" is now in Spanish. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/nueva-derecha-vs-vieja-derecha-capitulo-6/

And here I thought that Russia is making war on Ukraine and killing countless people. I am glad The American Conservative is there to set us straight. Actually, the US is making war on Russia and killing countless people.

This is pure Russian propaganda. Why are Tucker Carlson, The American Conservative, and others promoting Moscow's mendacious framing?

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/make-peace-you-fools/

When I was young I used to enjoy "JayWalking" on the Jay Leno show, where they go up to strangers and ask questions that everyone should know the answer to.

Like "at what temperature does water boil?" and "where on this map is Europe" - and the person would always get it wrong. He'd point to Australia for France, for example.

That's all I can think about when I hear Americans talk of "the war against Russia".

There is no war against Russia (outside the Q-anon mind), but the propagandists don't have to take that little fact into consideration.

The sheep are now so stuck in the metaverse that propagandists no longer have to relate their propaganda to reality at all. They can just build their narrative and it will stick, no matter how crazy.

And so we have the whole Anglosphere Right becoming Q-anon style experts in geopolitics, talking about a war that doesn't exist... and what will happen when "America loses the war" that it's not even in.

But at least the conservatives are living up to their reputation of being anti-intellectual.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/make-peace-you-fools/

Forgive me for not following closely all one million schizo takes on Oliver Anthony. But from what I heard, they took the form of "He's being astroturfed to make the right look bad/deflect from race/keep people from joining NJP/keep people voting Republican." I don't recall anyone saying he was astroturfed to get to #1 as a populist hero only to unmask himself as a hick lib Biden supporter.

Gunnar Alfredsson offers a round-up of numerous incidents of black criminality and violence in recent weeks from across Canada, the United States, and Europe. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/barking-up-the-wrong-eritrea/

In short: Africans will replace us.