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  • Final Reminder to Take the Counter-Currents Movement Poll!

    Counter Currents - May 14th 2024 2:40pm EDT

    914 words As of this writing, 464 people have taken the Counter-Currents reader poll. Thank you! We have already learned a lot, as David Zsutty reported last week. We have sent a total of 4985 invitations out. We would like to get at least 500 responses — around 10% of the total. That’s an excellent […]

  • Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I Part 3

    Counter Currents - May 14th 2024 1:09pm EDT

    2,360 words Part 3 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) In the second part of this series, Socrates shows Alcibiades that he doesn’t know what justice is, so he should not be too eager to get involved in politics. He needs to get educated beforehand. But Alcibiades thinks he’s found a way around […]

  • The Folly of Quixotism, Part 2

    Counter Currents - May 14th 2024 9:00am EDT

    3,353 words Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here) The past decade or two have seen the rise and fall of an alternative to mainstream conservatism in libertarianism. If we were to use the political compass as a model, conservatism would sit in the center between the upper and lower right quadrants, while libertarianism would […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: May 5-May 12, 2024

    Counter Currents - May 13th 2024 1:27pm EDT

    John Swinney (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia) 2,016 words Scotland’s New Leader: White As of late March, after the appointment of the Zambia-born Vaughan Gething as the First Minster of Wales, the only country in the British Isles with a white leader — albeit a female one — was Northern Ireland. In April, a white male […]

  • Are Whites Finally Waking Up?

    Counter Currents - May 13th 2024 9:00am EDT

    1,943 words Jeremy Carl The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart New York: Regnery, 2024 Instauration, an underground newsletter that ran from 1975 through 2000, used to have a section called “Stirrings,” where editor Wilmot Robertson featured examples of our people pushing back against anti-whiteness. These brief write-ups were often about local […]

  • The Last Boy Scout

    Counter Currents - May 12th 2024 9:57am EDT

    26 words / 9:34 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “The Last Boy Scout,” on the imminent end of the Boy Scouts. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/Goad-TheLastBoyScout.mp4

  • Saturday’s Livestream: British Pop Culture of the 1990s

    Counter Currents - May 10th 2024 5:35pm EDT

    62 words We’ll be reminiscing and talking about 1990s British pop culture on Saturday’s livestream, where Greg Johnson will be joined by Brits Millennial Woes (official website here) and Morgoth (Substack, Odysee), as well as Counter-Currents’ resident expert on all things pop, Travis LeBlanc. Join us at noon PST/3 PM EST/9 PM CET on: DLive: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/ccradio Send […]

  • Interesting Results from the Counter-Currents Reader Survey

    Counter Currents - May 10th 2024 11:08am EDT

    Literally us 1,075 words I want to thank the nearly 400 readers who have responded thus far to the Counter-Currents poll and share some interesting results. Keep in mind that these are all subject to change as more people take the poll. Also, since knowledge is power, we will not be releasing our overall results […]

  • EChecks are Back! Subscribers: Please Read This in Order to Continue Your Support!

    Counter Currents - May 9th 2024 5:34pm EDT

    Albert Potter, Brother Can You Spare a Dime? (ca. 1933-36) Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art 550 words We received the devastating news three weeks ago that we were being de-banked after 14 years as a result of the cyberattack against our eCheck donation and payment system. Since we have been blocked from […]

  • Five Years’ Hard Labour? The British General Election

    Counter Currents - May 9th 2024 4:41pm EDT

    The likely next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and also the author’s former schoolmate. (Photo courtesy of the World Economic Forum’s Flickr) 2,262 words It is the run-in to a British General Election in which the Labour Party is certain to replace a Conservative Party which has been in power for almost 15 years. […]

  • The Last Boy Scout

    Counter Currents - May 9th 2024 9:00am EDT

    1,227 words / 9:28 It’s official: There will be no more Boy Scouts. Don’t panic: There will still be Scouts who are boys. There will also be Scouts who are girls. There will also continue to be Girl Scouts who are boys, so long as they identify as girls. And there will still be Girl […]

  • Bottled Up

    Counter Currents - May 8th 2024 4:22pm EDT

    1,033 words A new trend has emerged in the country where I live. Maybe it has been going on for quite some time elsewhere, but it’s advent in my neck of the woods is recent. I am, of course, talking about the sudden (for me at least) prevalence of bottle caps which are attached to […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 584: The Counter-Currents Book Club — Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin

    Counter Currents - May 8th 2024 3:12pm EDT

    You can buy Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin here. 321 words / 2:02:40 Pssst — white people! There is no shame in being white. There is only shame in ever thinking there was. In the 50 short, sharp, incisive essays contained in his book Whiteness: The Original Sin, author Jim Goad examines why the […]

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  • The Origins of Western Philosophy: Diogenes Laertius

    Counter Currents - May 8th 2024 9:00am EDT

    A seventeenth-century engraving of Diogenes Laertius (image courtesy of Wikipedia). 2,377 words The Milesian philosophers were wrong about everything, but they asked the right questions, and for the first time sought natural explanations instead. — Luke Mueshaller, Pre-Socratics: A Painless Introduction The limit of all wisdom is in me. — Epigram on Pythagoras, Boundaries, Duris […]

  • Birch Watchers

    Counter Currents - May 7th 2024 9:00am EDT

    2,144 words Matthew Dallek Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right New York: Basic Books, 2023 A couple of months back I reviewed a biography of Robert Welch (A Conspiratorial Life) that I regarded as superficial and facile.[1] The author, Edward H. Miller, seemed to have no real feel for the issues […]

  • Fill Out the Counter-Currents Movement Poll Now!

    Counter Currents - May 6th 2024 4:47pm EDT

    723 words Dear Counter-Currents readers, I am very pleased that almost 350 of you have taken our poll. I wish to thank you for taking the time to help us build a better movement together. I am not so pleased, however, that this number was out of almost 5,000 people who were invited to take […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: April 28-May 4, 2024

    Counter Currents - May 6th 2024 1:21pm EDT

    2,181 words House Passes New “Antisemitism Awareness Act” to Protect America’s Most Underprivileged Group With the planet ramping up for what may become yet another World War designed to answer the Jewish Question, last week the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved of H. R. 6090, aka the “Antisemitism Awareness Act.” Why, they almost make it […]

  • Elizabeth Dilling on the Evil of the Talmud

    Counter Currents - May 6th 2024 9:00am EDT

    1,401 words Elizabeth Dilling The Plot Against Christianity: The Jewish Religion and Its Influence Today Lincoln, Nebr.: The Elizabeth Dilling Foundation, 1964 Many prominent Americans attempted to keep the United States neutral during the Jewish-led push to embroil the country in the Second World War. These included Reverend Gerald L. K. Smith, Father Coughlin, Charles Lindbergh, and Senator Gerald P. Nye. Perhaps the bravest of […]

  • Remembering Bill Hopkins

    Counter Currents - May 6th 2024 4:45am EDT

    255 words Bill Hopkins (May 5, 1928–May 6, 2011) was a Welsh novelist and critic who made his living dealing in art and antiques. Associated with the so-called Angry Young Men literary group of the 1950s, Hopkins was a thinker of the Right, notable for his friendships with Colin Wilson and Jonathan Bowden. Over the […]

  • White Women Got 99 Problems, but Being White Ain’t One

    Counter Currents - May 5th 2024 11:27am EDT

    32 words / 9:22 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “The Only Reason White Women Shouldn’t Hate Themselves,” on the one reason why white women shouldn’t hate themselves. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/Goad-99Problems.mp4

  • Wholesome Escapism: The BBC Farm Series

    Counter Currents - May 3rd 2024 9:00am EDT

    2,062 words I made a resolution several months ago that I would, to the best of my abilities, write mostly about positive, constructive things. “Mostly,” because there will always be not-so-positive things worth writing about. But I would like my main focus to be on uplifting topics and ideas, not on those that drag us […]

  • What You Need to Know about the German New Right: An Interview with Martin Lichtmesz

    Counter Currents - May 2nd 2024 9:06pm EDT

    3,599 words The following interview with occasional Counter-Currents contributor Martin Lichtmesz was published in Hungarian by the news portal Magyar Jelen on March 2, 2024. Could you introduce yourself and describe the scope of your activities? I was born in Vienna in 1976, lived for 14 years in Berlin, and returned to my home country […]

  • The Only Reason White Women Shouldn’t Hate Themselves

    Counter Currents - May 2nd 2024 3:06pm EDT

    1,264 words / 9:15 Since growing up cocooned in economic wealth is far likelier to shield a person from life’s harsher realities than merely growing up white, writer Nellie Bowles is spoiled to the point where she stinks. She’s descended from Henry Miller, but not the softcore porno novelist — the Evil White Male who […]

  • Saturday’s Livestream: The Counter-Currents Book Club — Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin

    Counter Currents - May 1st 2024 4:32pm EDT

    You can buy Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin here. 183 words Pssst — white people! There is no shame in being white. There is only shame in ever thinking there was. In the 50 short, sharp, incisive essays contained in his book Whiteness: The Original Sin, author Jim Goad examines why the idea of […]

  • America First Legal — or Is It Israel First?

    Counter Currents - May 1st 2024 2:16pm EDT

    1,383 words The first and fiercest punishment ought to fall first on the traitor, second on the enemy. — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu I was cautiously optimistic about America First Legal (AFL). Their mission statement proudly proclaims in part: “We believe that all Americans deserve a government that puts their needs, their interests, and their country […]