Category: Greg Johnson

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  • Please Vote

    Counter Currents - Feb 4th 2026 11:49am EST

    Franz von Stuck, The Spirit of Victory 172 words At the beginning of every month, Counter-Currents Subscribers can vote on the Writer and the Article of the Month for the previous month. If you are looking at Counter-Currents on your computer, look at the sidebar menu to your right. If you are on your phone, […]

  • The Philosopher vs. the Scholar in Plato’s Lovers

    Counter Currents - Feb 4th 2026 9:28am EST

    You can buy Greg Johnson’s The Trial of Socrates here. 3,821 words “Knowledge is not wisdom.”—Frank Zappa Plato’s Lovers is one of his shortest dialogues, but it deals with one of his weightiest topics: the nature of philosophy. The setting is the school of Dionysus the grammarian. Socrates encounters two attractive young men from good […]

  • Epistemology & Technocracy in Plato’s Charmides

    Counter Currents - Jan 26th 2026 8:16am EST

    Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. 2,865 words In Greece in the fifth century BCE, “sophists” like Gorgias, Protagoras, Hippias, and Thrasymachus taught a combination of rhetoric and political science to ambitious young men who wished to pursue political careers. In his dialogue Gorgias, Plato depicts sophistry as a counterfeit form of philosophy. For Plato, philosophy is […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 671

    Counter Currents - Jan 20th 2026 7:19pm EST

    52 words / 58:44 Greg Johnson catches up with coffee roaster, weaver, and white advocate Sarah Dye of Above Time Coffee Roasters, Loom Woven, and the Hearth and Helm podcast. You can now download or listen here. To listen in a player, click here or below. To download, right-click the link and click “save as.” […]

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Resources at Counter-Currents

    Counter Currents - Jan 19th 2026 5:34am EST

    444 words I treat MLK Day like every other Monday: I take the trash to the curb and let it rot there until Tuesday. It is a fitting symbol of the “content of his character,” for King was a vicious fraud and operator who, in death, was turned into the whitewashed saint of America’s egalitarian […]

  • Poetic Justice

    Counter Currents - Jan 9th 2026 2:00pm EST

    Renee Good 1,612 words In response to massive and systematic Somali organized crime in Tim Walz’s Minnesota, President Trump sent a large task force to beef up immigration enforcement. In addition to DHS, FBI, and IRS agents conducting door-to-door raids on Somali-owned businesses in Minneapolis, ICE was also out in force. On January 7, an […]

  • The Venezuela Adventure

    Counter Currents - Jan 5th 2026 11:20am EST

    1,226 words  America is a dying nation, with dim prospects for survival and an ever-narrowing window of opportunity to turn things around. Our problems, moreover, are overwhelmingly domestic. Short of nuclear war, our survival is not threatened by any foreign power. The rest of the world is hardly a threat and barely an inconvenience. The […]

  • Casey’s Putsch

    Counter Currents - Jan 2nd 2026 10:58am EST

    1,647 words My best Christmas present this year was the sudden emergence of a genuine American challenger to Vivek Scamaswamy, Trump’s anointed candidate for Ohio governor. The challenger’s name is Casey Putsch. As soon as he declared his intent to run, he became the favorite of the online identitarian Right, and his candidacy went viral. […]

  • Looking Backward, Looking Forward

    Counter Currents - Dec 31st 2025 9:49pm EST

    1,420 words There’s good news and bad news, but mostly good. 2025 was a great year for white identity politics. I am going to refer you to Jared Taylor to review political progress in the United States. I want to deal with something else. Political change depends on ideas about identity, morality, and what is […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2025 Year in Review

    Counter Currents - Dec 31st 2025 8:14am EST

    You can order Greg Johnson’s Loving Our Own here 1,033 words As 2025 comes to a close, we thank you all for being a part of Counter-Currents’ successes and welcome you to share our goals for the year to come. We are the only webzine and publisher that analyzes politics, culture, art—everything, really—from a pro-white […]

  • The Ethnostate Progress Report

    Counter Currents - Dec 30th 2025 5:05pm EST

    You can buy Greg Johnson’s The White Nationalist Manifesto here 403 words There are only two days left to give tax-deductibly in 2025! If you would like to receive a tax deduction for supporting our educational work, please mail a check to: The Counter-Currents Foundation, PO Box 22638, San Francisco, CA 94122 The Counter-Currents Foundation […]

  • A Very Bowden Christmas

    Counter Currents - Dec 25th 2025 8:26am EST

    396 words This is an especially merry Christmas for Jonathan Bowden fans. First, on December 21, Bowdenian Investigations on X announced that he had found Bowden’s lost film on his own art, Fenris Devours Odin. The file was on Archive.org but unplayable because it required Flash. It is now on the Jonathan Bowden Archive. Unfortunately, […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Correspondence with Greg Johnson, 2012

    Counter Currents - Dec 25th 2025 12:20am EST

    1,792 words Edited by Greg Johnson Editor’s Note What follows is all my extant correspondence with Jonathan Bowden from the beginning of 2012 to his untimely death on March 29th—and after, because I sent him a couple of emails before learning late in April about his death. This correspondence deals primarily with Jonathan’s visit to […]

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  • Tucker Carlson’s Colorblind Christianity

    Counter Currents - Dec 24th 2025 4:41pm EST

    1,571 words  On December 18th, Tucker Carlson took the stage at Turning Point USA’s AmFest with a message from Yahweh: it is immoral to notice that His chosen people work together as a team against the interests of individualists like Tucker himself. At least that is how I interpreted the following: I’m not an anti-Semite […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Correspondence with Greg Johnson, June–December, 2011

    Counter Currents - Dec 22nd 2025 8:00am EST

    You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Pulp Fascism here. 3,635 words Edited by Greg Johnson Editor’s Note What follows is the second of two collections of my extant correspondence with Jonathan Bowden from 2011. Once he started sending me articles for Counter-Currents, Jonathan would typically send the entire article as an email. For brevity, I have […]

  • Three Murders and a Suicide

    Counter Currents - Dec 19th 2025 5:33pm EST

    Terrorist Naveed Akram. It’s always the ones that you most suspect. 1,549 words  Anarcho-Tyranny in Australia On Sunday, December 14, two South Asian Muslims, Sajid Akram and his son Naveed, attacked a Hannukah celebration in Bondi Beach, Australia. They killed fifteen people and injured over forty. Police killed Sajid and injured Naveed. The attack appears […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Correspondence with Greg Johnson, January–May, 2011

    Counter Currents - Dec 19th 2025 6:24am EST

    You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics here. 4,261 words Edited by Greg Johnson Editor’s Note What follows is all my extant correspondence with Jonathan Bowden from 2011. Once he started sending me articles for Counter-Currents, Jonathan would typically send the entire article as an email. For brevity, I have included just the titles. […]

  • Loving Our Own

    Counter Currents - Dec 17th 2025 10:09am EST

    4,293 words What is the place of love in politics? Given humanity’s long history of wars, revolutions, and civil strife, the place of love seems very small indeed. But if politics is filled with battles between “us” and “them,” then at least there is some room for love among “us.” I call this “loving our […]

  • Musk, Trump, and the EU

    Counter Currents - Dec 12th 2025 3:31pm EST

    1,494 words  On Friday, December 5, 2025, the European Commission issued its first-ever fine under the Digital Services Act (DSA), penalizing X with €120 million (approximately $140 million) for multiple breaches of obligations to protect users against deceptive practices and harmful content, including “disinformation” as defined by the Left. Elon Musk’s reaction was swift and […]

  • Trump Embraces Remigration

    Counter Currents - Dec 5th 2025 10:08am EST

    “Bye . . .” 1,552 words On Thanksgiving Day, Donald Trump gave me something to be thankful for. On the day before Thanksgiving, an Afghani refugee named Rahmanullah Lakanwal shot two national guardsmen about two blocks from the White House. U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, age 20, is dead. Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, age 28, remains […]

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene & the Future of MAGA

    Counter Currents - Nov 28th 2025 2:21am EST

    Wikimedia  Commons 1,659 words  Tensions between President Donald Trump and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene have been escalating for some time. But now there has been a permanent split. Trump not only withdrew his endorsement of MTG but promised his “Complete and Unyielding Support” to the right person who runs against her in the Republican primary […]

  • It’s Time to STOP Shopping for Christmas

    Counter Currents - Nov 26th 2025 2:24pm EST

    1,019 words / 5:45 Audio version: To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.” Translations: Danish, French Even though I am an unbeliever, the Christmas season is my favorite time of the year. Christmas, like dogs, brings out the best in people. It awakens […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Correspondence with Greg Johnson, November-December 2010

    Counter Currents - Nov 26th 2025 10:33am EST

    1,122 words Edited by Greg Johnson Editor’s Note: What follows is all my extant correspondence with Jonathan Bowden from 2010. Once he started sending me articles for Counter-Currents, Jonathan would typically send the entire article as an email. For brevity, I have included just the titles. The articles themselves are found on Counter-Currents. There is one exception: […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Correspondence with Greg Johnson, November-December 2010

    Counter Currents - Nov 26th 2025 10:33am EST

    1,122 words Edited by Greg Johnson Editor’s Note: What follows is all my extant correspondence with Jonathan Bowden from 2010. Once he started sending me articles for Counter-Currents, Jonathan would typically send the entire article as an email. For brevity, I have included just the titles. The articles themselves are found on Counter-Currents. There is one exception: […]

  • American Renaissance 2025: A Call for a New Whiteness

    Counter Currents - Nov 19th 2025 5:20pm EST

    5,143 words From November 14th to 16th, about 230 stalwart white advocates gathered at Tennessee’s beautiful Montgomery Bell State Park for the 22nd annual American Renaissance conference. Last year the mood was positively giddy. After all, just days before we met, Donald Trump had won the presidential election. I wondered if this year’s mood would […]