Contra Parrott: The Emptiness of Third-Way Anthropology
This will be a exercise in the reduction ad absurdum and a response to a couple of articles by Matt Parrott at Counter-Currents.com (CC).
Weird Science: Liberal Creationism vs. Christian Creationism
By Matt Parrott I’m a bit old for Bill Nye. By the time his children’s science show came on in the early ’90′s, I had already graduated to reading Carl Sagan’s more advanced presentation of the vapid and vacuous “I Fucking Love Science!” worldview. My love of critical […]
Cody Wilson Philosophy Part I
Cody Wilson Philosophy Part II
Anarchy as Spiritual Practice: An absolutely brilliant presentation
Modernity vs. Tradition: The Next Cold War
Is Putin gearing up the lead the resistance of traditional societies to Western liberal imperialism? Article by Matt Parrott James Kirchick, writing for Foreign Policy, rather accurately describes how Russia is creeping deeper and deeper into fulfilling Alexander Dugin’s vision for her as the world’s savior from American cosmopolitanism . . . The […]
Westboro Atheists
An excellent critique of atheist fundamentalism. By Robert M. Price “My disagreement with religion and religious people is, I hope, a gentleman’s disagreement. As a humanist, I cannot despise the cultural fruits of religion, including the art, literature, music, and even the fascinating theology it has given rise […]
Why Conservative Christians Need to Be Libertarians
By Laurence Vance I admire much of the work of the Acton Institute. I recently very favorably reviewed Robert Sirico’s new book (he is the organization’s president). However, I deplore the people there that are Christian warmongers. The Acton Institute is advertising a new event to be held […]
Why Do Some Libertarian Atheists Get So Upset When You Mention Religion?
By Laurence Vance It happens every time I even mention religion in an article or blog post. Some libertarian atheists get so upset. Today I was referred to the work of the atheist George Smith, something I was already familiar with. For an introduction to Smith, here is […]
The “War on Christmas” As Blowback
By Roderick Long I spent my last two years of elementary school in Idaho Falls, a town that was at that time 70% Mormon. In the public school the only Christmas songs that were permitted were purely secular ones with no religious references. I spent high school in […]
Saudi blogger may face death penalty for apostasy
Russia Today Saudi blogger and activist, Raif Badawi, currently serving his 7-year prison term for “insulting Islam”, may soon appear in a higher court on graver charges of apostasy. If found guilty, he could be sentenced to death. Bringing Badawi back to court to face graver charges was […]
Is the Politics of the Future Chauvinism vs. Multiculturalism?
By Patrick J. Buchanan “Across Europe, globalism and transnationalism, as represented by the eurozone and EU, seem in retreat, as nationalism is resurgent. Now it is the UKIP, a new British independence party, which seeks to secede from the EU that is surging—at the expense of the Tories. […]
The Psychology of the System’s Stooges
By Roderick Long When invisible-hand or spontaneous-order mechanisms are invoked in libertarian social theory, it is customarily as a benign alternative to state power. Yet there are reasons for thinking that state power itself likewise depends for its maintenance on spontaneous-order mechanisms.
Remembering to Remember
by Gilbert Cavanaugh
The holidays are all about remembering: remembering our traditions, remembering to be grateful – remembering each cousin’s name, etc. Part of holiday
Evil in Plain Sight
Interesting discussion. By Bryan Caplan 12 Years a Slave is a great chance to feel morally superior to monstrous slavers of yore. But it is also a time to reflect: Will our descendents ever look back on us with contempt for our blatant wickedness? If so, what will […]
Attack the System: An Interview with Todd Lewis
Attack the System An Interview with Todd Lewis November 24, 2013 Keith Preston interviews Christian philosopher Todd Lewis. Topics include: Anti-state traditions within historic Christianity. The essence of the Christian faith and the nature of an organic Christian community. The Christian pacifist tradition of thinkers such as Leo […]
Machiavelli Was Right
The Atlantic Paul Windle You remember the photograph: President Obama hunched in a corner of the Situation Room with his national-security staff, including Hillary Clinton with a hand over her mouth, watching the live feed from the compound in Pakistan where the killing of Osama bin Laden is […]
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Demonizing Muslims: America’s Worldwide Witch Hunt
Global Research The U.S. has launched a witch hunt “reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition” to “demonize” Muslims. “While President Obama may uphold freedom of religion, the U.S. inquisitorial social order has institutionalized patterns of discrimination, prejudice and xenophobia directed against Muslims,” writes Professor Michel Chossudovsky of the Centre for […]
OJ Simpson Planning to Become Televangelist
Christian Post Disgraced American football legend and retired actor O.J. Simpson is reportedly planning to become a televangelist after his release from a five year prison term some time this Christmas. The troubled star’s manager Norman Pardo told The Enquirer that Simpson found God in prison and has been […]
Nietzsche’s Olympian Synthesis
By Gwendolyn Taunton Dionysus with more than a hint of Apollo. Lucidity’s task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. Emil Cioran Understanding the role Tradition could or should play in the modern era is a central topic in the study of philosophy. Today, in a world […]
Keith Preston Still Doesn’t Get It: A Reply to a Reply
By Todd Lewis Read the original critique by Mr. Lewis and the responding podcast here. Mr. Preston, thank you for wrestling with my work and giving me a voice, as well as for being open-minded in dealing with these subjects. However, I believe that your response was misdirected […]
The Prescient Proudhon
“Let us seek together, if you wish, the laws of society, the manner in which these laws are realized, the process by which we shall succeed in discovering them; but, for God’s sake, after having demolished all the a priori dogmatisms, do not let us in our turn […]
Where Keith Preston Falls Short: A Critique from the Right
What follows is a letter I received from a reader, Mr. Todd Lewis. I believe this to be the most accurate yet thorough critique of my own work issued to date. It is certainly the most thorough critique I have received from the Right, and makes an excellent […]
The American Jacobins and the roots of the U. S. Civil War
By Thomas DiLorenzo Historian and novelist Thomas Fleming is the author of more than fifty books, including two very good revisionist histories of the two world wars: The New Dealers’ War, and The Illusion of Victory in World War I. He has authored biographies of George Washington and […]
Republicans Weep as Survey Shows 18-30 Year-Olds Prefer No Religion
Mad Mike’s America For the past two decades, there has been a rapid national shift away from identification with organized religion. Last year, according to the best available measurement of long-term trends in American religious identification, a new milestone was reached as more Americans between the ages of […]
Libertarians, Abortion, and Natural Rights
By Jordan Bloom Reason held a panel last week on libertarian perspectives on abortion featuring their own Katherine Mangu-Ward and Ronald Bailey, alongside the strongly pro-life Mollie Hemingway. The video is above. All seem to agree that viability is a sliding scale that is difficult to use as a […]
A Critique of Robert Nozick from the Left
Unfortunately, this writer is clueless as to the differences between neoliberalism and actual libertarianism and reacts with stereotypical left-wing hysteria when the welfare state is criticized. This article also fails to discuss what is most interesting about Nozick. Yet many of the criticisms of vulgar libertarianism are warranted […]
The Gospel According to Nietzsche
Step Out of My Sunshine! Reflections of a Libertarian Cynic
MRDA’S Inferno Kevin I. Slaughter, Satanic Reverend and owner of publishing house Underworld Amusements, expressed this sentiment not-so-long ago: I don’t adhere to any specific political party or platform, but reading comments on the internet underlines the folly of any political system that involves “the people” making informed […]
Welcome to Islamberg
Law Enforcement Today In Hancock, NY an Islamic community that sits on 80 acres of land has decided to form its own government. They call their community: The Town of Islamberg. They have their own mayor, deputy mayor and five town council members. None of them are elected, […]
Encountering the Left: My Meetings with Herbert Marcuse | Paul Gottfried
The “New Atheists” and Their Sectarian Wars
Walls Must Be Felled
by Mark Dyal
Counter-Currents is set to publish part three of my continuing examination of Deleuze and Guattari’s potential to influence what I am now calling the revolutionary Right, including
The Pro-Death Movement
From TakiMag ______________ by Jim Goad I once read that all societies throughout history were consistent in that they deemed it wrong to kill another human being…but they were wildly inconsistent in how they defined the term “human being.” Such universal contradictions are compounded by the monotheism under […]
Human Progress is a Myth
Vice.Com John Gray, photo by Justine Stoddart Haven’t we humans come such a long way? In the past 200 years alone we’ve managed to abolish slavery (by moving it to the sweatshops of the Third World), rid our lives of industrial pollution (by moving it to the factories […]
The Conservative Catholic Anarcho-Pacifist Dorothy Day
By Stephen Beale She lamented the encroachment of the state and the perils of the welfare system. She once compared abortion to genocide and the U.S. government to Nazi Germany. She cheered on income tax resisters, dismissed the benefits of the minimum wage, and worried about the decline […]
Conspiracy Theories vs. the Religion of Democracy
by Gary North I wrote an article on Austrian School economist Murray Rothbard. I argued that one of the reasons why tenured Austrian School economists want to distance themselves from him, is his writings on conspiracies in American history. Rothbard was quite clear about his commitment to apply […]
What Germany outlawing bestiality tells us about changing attitudes to sex
I personally find the practice of bestiality to be utterly revolting, only a half step above pedophilia, and I hardly consider a ban on the practice in the name of curbing animal abuse to be any kind of human rights violation. But I do worry when things start […]
The Slave Morality Of Social Justice – Part One
By Legionscatz To provide a quick background to the slave morality/master morality dichotomy. Firstly, this concept was described by Friedrich Nietzsche to explain a dichotomy between deontological ethics and consequentialism in relation to how Nietzsche viewed aspects of human behavior. To Nietzsche master morality was the morality of the powerful. It emphasizes individual autonomy, […]
Libertarian Social Morality: Progressive, Conservative or Liberal?
By Kevin Vallier Libertarians regularly argue about the relationship between their political commitments and their “moral views.” The disagreement seems to proceed by answers to two questions. 1. Do libertarian political commitments imply moral commitments? 2. If yes, which moral commitments?
Am I a Right-O?
By Khadija Umayyad If you’ve been reading this blog [i], you’ve probably noticed that I am fairly critical of the left, especially the liberal and ‘rights’ oriented left. You might wonder if I’m some kind of right-winger. Well, some people might say so, but I don’t think so. […]
What Happened?
Towards a Christian Zionist Foreign Policy
By Philip Giraldi Countries frequently define themselves by what they believe to be true. When reality and belief conflict that definition might well be referred to as a “national myth.” In the United States many believe that there exists a constitutionally mandated strict separation between religion and government. […]
Philosopher Alvin Plantinga Receives Prestigious Rescher Prize
By David J. Theroux The world-renowned philosopher Alvin C. Plantinga has recently received the prestigious Nicholas Rescher Prize for Contributions to Systematic Philosophy, awarded by the University of Pittsburgh’s Departments of Philosophy, History, and Philosophy of Science, and the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science.
Betrayal of the Discipline
by R.J. Jacob
Friedrich Nietzsche described the “free spirit” as one who takes his acquired positions, his instincts, his experiences, and holds them as foreground—stressing them, straining them, and discovering
France’s censorship demands to Twitter are more dangerous than ‘hate speech’
From the Guardian. Glenn Greenwald is on fire with this one! _____________ Writing in the Guardian today, Jason Farago praises France’s women’s rights minister, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, for demanding that Twitter help the French government criminalize ideas it dislikes. Decreeing that “hateful tweets are illegal”, Farago excitingly explains how […]
Paul Gottfried’s Calm Despair
By John Derbyshire Gottfried, Paul. War and Democracy: Selected Essays 1975-2012. London; Arktos Media, Ltd., 2012. The last time I saw Paul Gottfried was at the Mencken Club bash last November. At one point between lectures I passed him in a hallway having an animated conversation in French […]
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