On Oratory
Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, "Demosthenes Practicing Oratory," 1870 3,389 words There is a vast gulf between oratory, on the one hand, and public speaking on the other. By oratory I mean the art...
View ArticleHitler’s Speeches
Adolf Hitler, Sportpalast, Berlin, Germany, September 14, 1930 2,882 words I read that Hitler delivered about 5,000 major speeches during his lifetime running to many thousands of pages. I am unaware...
View ArticleHitler as Orator
Hitler practicing oratory by Heinrich Hoffman 3,006 words “I know that men are won over less by the written than by the spoken word, that every great movement on this earth owes its growth to orators...
View ArticleCounter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 37 The Real Meaning of Punch & Judy
56:35 / 10,232 words To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target as.” To subscribe to our podcasts, click here. Editor’s Note: The following text is...
View ArticleHitler in the German Consciousness
968 words Translated by Guillaume Durocher Translator’s Note: Translated from the French. Improvements from the original Romanian are therefore welcome. No politician in the world today inspires as...
View ArticleVideo of the Day Underneath the Mind: Bowden on Oratory
4:11 The post Video of the Day Underneath the Mind: Bowden on Oratory first appeared on Counter-Currents.
View ArticleRichard Weaver’s The Ethics of Rhetoric
2,309 words Richard Weaver The Ethics of Rhetoric Muriwai Books, 2017 (1953). The great task that lies ahead of us is to persuade our people of the rightness of our ideas. It behooves us, then, to...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Jonathans
Jonathan Meades 1,065 words “Everything builds on something that existed before you, and without the concrete that is beneath your feet, you’re lost, aimless, and atomized.” — Jonathan Bowden A decade...
View ArticleThe Enduring Appeal of Jonathan Bowden
1,404 words It is fair to say that Jonathan Bowden lived an unconventional life: bohemian intellectual, artist, filmmaker, Cultural Officer for the British National Party, and raconteur par excellence....
View ArticleCounter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 538 Greg Johnson on Plato’s Gorgias,...
Seated Socrates, fresco from ancient Ephesus 372 words / 1:47:48 Greg Johnson began a five-week course on Plato’s Gorgias on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, which will continue for the...
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