Rousseau as Conservative:The Theodicy of Civilization
Nicolas Poussin, “Et in Arcadia Ego,” 1637 4,637 words In 1762, Immanuel Kant did something unprecedented. He missed his daily walk. He stayed home to read Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s new book Emile, a...
View ArticleCounter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 94Vico & the New Right
54:49 / 99 words To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.” To subscribe to our podcasts, click here. This is my lecture “Giambattista Vico and Modern Anti-Liberalism,”...
View ArticleHeidegger on Nietzsche, Metaphysics, & Nihilism
3,298 words Spanish translation here One of Heidegger’s most striking claims is that modern nihilism is the consummation of Western metaphysics. Generally, people think of nihilism and metaphysics as...
View ArticleHeidegger sobre Nietzsche, Metafísica y Nihilismo
3,431 words English original here El tema central de la filosofía de Heidegger tiene un gran número de nombres: el sentido (Sinn) o significado del Ser, la verdad (Wahrheit) del Ser, el claro...
View ArticleCounter-Currents Radio Podcast 147 The Pursuit of Happiness The Conquest of...
67:53 / 223 words To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.” To subscribe to our podcasts, click here. Beginning in August of 1999, I...
View ArticleCounter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 149 The Pursuit of Happiness Pleasure,...
40:21 / 156 words To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.” To subscribe to our podcasts, click here for iTunes and here for RSS....
View ArticleEpicurean Spiritual Exercises
Bust of Epicurus 1,291 words Trans. Guillaume Durocher Translator’s Note: The following is drawn from Pierre Hadot, Qu’est-ce que la philosophie antique ? (Paris: Gallimard, 1995), 191-96. Some...
View ArticleBlaming Your Parents
Young Sailor Ripley lacked “parental guidance.” 1,444 words In the past, people used to blame the gods or the fates for their misfortunes. These days, they like to blame their parents. “My parents were...
View ArticleOur Marx, Only Better:Vico & Modern Anti-Liberalism
Giambattista Vico 5,481 words Author’s Note: This is the transcript by V.S. of my speech “Vico and Modern Anti-Liberalism,” given at The London Forum on Saturday, September 27, 2014. I have heavily...
View ArticleNow in Audio Version! Blaming Your Parents
Young Sailor Ripley lacked “parental guidance.” 73 words / 10:18 Greg Johnson has published a recording of himself reading his 2018 essay “Blaming Your Parents,” on the fallacy of blaming one’s parents...
View ArticleNew Video! Don’t Blame Your Parents!
28 words / 9:34 Counter-Currents presents a new video of Greg Johnson’s essay “Blaming Your Parents,” about why it’s a bad idea to blame your misfortunes on your upbringing or genetic heritage. * * *...
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