• Black Friday Special It’s Time to STOP Shopping for Christmas

    Counter Currents - Nov 24th 2021 8:56am EST

    1,048 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 Did the system cancel your Thanksgiving? Time to cancel their Black Friday. Even though I am an unbeliever, the Christmas season is my favorite time of […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 392 The 2021 American Renaissance Conference with Gaddius Maximus, Karl Thorburn, Cyan, & Arthur

    Counter Currents - Nov 23rd 2021 10:53am EST

    Michelle Malkin 93 words / 1:14:16 Host Greg Johnson invited Gaddius Maximus, Karl Thorburn, Cyan, and Arthur to discuss their experiences at the recent American Renaissance conference on this installment of Counter-Currents Radio, and it’s now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: Colin Flaherty and David Cole Favorite speeches Gregory Hood’s speech […]

  • Remembering P. R. Stephensen (November 20, 1901-May 28, 1965)

    Counter Currents - Nov 20th 2021 4:30am EST

    P. R. Stephensen, circa 1934 249 words Percy Reginald Stephensen was born on November 20, 1901. Stephensen was a writer, publisher, and political activist dedicated to the interests of the white race and the Australian nation. Like Jack London, Stephensen was an archetypal man of the racially conscious Left. He began his political career as […]

  • Remembering Madison Grant (November 19, 1865-May 30, 1937)

    Counter Currents - Nov 19th 2021 7:11am EST

    110 words Today is the birthday of Madison Grant, American aristocrat and pioneering advocate of white racial preservationism, immigration restriction, eugenics, anti-miscegenation laws, and the conservation of wildlife and wilderness. To learn more about Grant’s life and legacy, see these articles at Counter-Currents: Jonathan Bowden, “The E-Word: Eugenics and Environmentalism, Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddard“ […]

  • Remembering Wyndham Lewis (November 18, 1882-March 7, 1957)

    Counter Currents - Nov 18th 2021 10:08am EST

    166 words Wyndham Lewis was born on this day in 1882. A first-rate novelist, critic, and painter, he was a leading English exponent of fascist modernism. In honor of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website: Kerry Bolton, “Wyndham Lewis” (French translation here) Jonathan Bowden, “Classical Modernism […]

  • Remembering René Guénon: November 15, 1886–January 7, 1951

    Counter Currents - Nov 15th 2021 6:47am EST

    387 words René Guénon was born on November 15, 1886. Along with Julius Evola, Guénon was one of the leading figures in the Traditionalist school, which has deeply influenced my own outlook and the metapolitical mission and editorial agenda of Counter-Currents Publishing and North American New Right. (For a sense of my differences with Guénon, see my […]

  • Fundraiser Update Bring Us Ravens

    Counter Currents - Nov 12th 2021 12:25pm EST

    Elijah & the ravens 700 words This year, Counter-Currents is trying to raise $200,000 to sustain and improve our work. Since our last update, we have had 28 donations totaling $1,516. This means we have received a total of 1039 donations and a grand total of $141,601.24 since we started our fundraiser on March 10th. […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 387 Jason Kessler on the Charlottesville Trial

    Counter Currents - Nov 8th 2021 8:25am EST

    144 words / 2:03:01 Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler joined Counter-Currents Radio host Greg Johnson on Saturday to talk about the ongoing Charlottesville trial and, of course, YOUR QUESTIONS, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: A summary of the court case The budget for the trial The […]

  • Remembering Guillaume Faye: November 7, 1949–March 7, 2019

    Counter Currents - Nov 7th 2021 3:16am EST

    1,242 words Today is Guillaume Faye’s birthday. He passed away in 2019 after a battle with cancer. Faye had been sick for some time, but he was so focused on writing what will now be his last book that he postponed seeing a doctor until it was complete. When he finally sought medical attention, he […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 380 Greg Johnson & Endeavour Discuss James Bond

    Counter Currents - Oct 19th 2021 8:03am EDT

    64 words / 1:05:37 Greg Johnson and Endeavour discussed the new James Bond film, No Time to Die, on last weekend’s Counter-Currents Radio broadcast, and it is now available for download and online listening. Other topics include whether Right-wingers should engage with pop culture, and the James Bond franchise more generally. To listen in a […]

  • Racial Solidarity & Moral Hazard

    Counter Currents - Oct 18th 2021 8:53am EDT

    1,468 words “. . . if you told me you were drowning I would not lend a hand.” — Phil Collins “We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” — Benjamin Franklin Race-conscious whites believe that our race as a whole is too individualistic compared to other races. We would […]

  • Remembering Friedrich Nietzsche (October 15, 1844–August 25, 1900)

    Counter Currents - Oct 15th 2021 7:10am EDT

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Friedrich Nietzsche, 2020. 734 words Friedrich Nietzsche was born this day in 1844 in the small town of Röcken, near Leipzig, Saxony, in the Kingdom of Prussia. He died in August 25, 1900, in Weimar, Saxony, in the Second German Reich. The outlines of Nietzsche’s life are readily available online. Nietzsche is […]

  • Remembering Aleister Crowley (October 12, 1875–December 1, 1947)

    Counter Currents - Oct 12th 2021 7:51am EDT

    Aleister Crowley by Charles Krafft 424 words Aleister Crowley was an English poet, novelist, painter, and mountaineer who is most famous as an occultist, ceremonial magician, and founder of the religion and philosophy of Thelema. But ironically Crowley’s supposed Satanism and Black Magic are far less frightening to most people than his politics. For Aleister […]

  • Contre le sectarisme de droite

    Counter Currents - Oct 8th 2021 12:29pm EDT

    2,243 words English original here Il est important pour les Nationalistes Blancs de visualiser ce à quoi la victoire ressemblerait. Il y a en réalité deux réponses à cette question. La réponse ultime est notre vision de l’Utopie Blanche, la société que nous voulons créer. Mais avant de construire l’Utopie Blanche, nous devons remporter la […]

  • Qu’est-ce que l’Alt Right ?

    Counter Currents - Oct 8th 2021 12:09pm EDT

    10,191 words English original: Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here L’Alternative Right n’a pas d’essence, mais elle a une histoire, une histoire qui commence et finit avec Richard Spencer. L’histoire comporte quatre chapitres. D’abord le terme « Alternative Right » fut forgé en 2008. Puis le webzine Alternative Right fut lancé […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 375 Greg Johnson, Stephen Paul Foster, & Richard Houck on How to Respond to Being Called a “Hater!”

    Counter Currents - Oct 5th 2021 6:54am EDT

    92 words / 2:00:05 On last Saturday’s episode of Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson was joined by Counter-Currents authors Stephen Paul Foster and Richard Houck for another Argument Clinic. The topic was how to deal with the charge of being a “hater!”, and it’s now available for downloading and online listening. Topics discussed include: Being called […]

  • Remembering Roy Campbell (October 2, 1901–April 22, 1957)

    Counter Currents - Oct 2nd 2021 10:04am EDT

    Roy Campbell 1,562 words Roy Campbell was a South African poet and essayist. T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Edith Sitwell praised Campbell as one of the best poets of the inter-war period. Unfortunately, his conservatism, Nietzscheanism, and Catholicism, as well as his open contempt for the Bloomsbury set and his participation in the Spanish […]

  • Remembering Louis de Bonald:October 2, 1754–November 23, 1840

    Counter Currents - Oct 2nd 2021 9:20am EDT

    Louis de Bonald 137 words Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald, is one of the great French counter-Revolutionary conservative thinkers. For an overview of his life, see “Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald,” here at Counter-Currents. F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right: “Louis de Bonald’s […]

  • Remembering Maurice Bardèche (October 1, 1907–July 30, 1998)

    Counter Currents - Oct 1st 2021 8:40am EDT

    648 words Today is the birthday of Maurice Bardèche (1907–1998), the French Neo-Fascist writer. Bardèche was a prolific and highly versatile author of literary, film, art criticism, history, journalism, and social and political theory. He published twenty-odd books and countless essays, articles, and reviews. Born in modest circumstances in provincial Dun-sur-Auron near the geographical center […]

  • Liberté d’expression

    Counter Currents - Sep 30th 2021 1:29pm EDT

    2,824 words English original here Ceci est mon discours à la troisième Conférence d’Erkenbrand aux Pays-Bas le samedi 3 novembre 2018. J’ai de bonnes et de mauvaises nouvelles. La bonne nouvelle est que tout le monde aime recevoir de bonnes nouvelles. Il est facile d’apporter de bonnes nouvelles et facile d’en recevoir. La mauvaise nouvelle […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 374 Greg Johnson, Richard Houck, Gaddius Maximus, & Thomas Steuben on How to Respond to Being Called “Racist”

    Counter Currents - Sep 29th 2021 12:28pm EDT

    138 words / 2:03:10 On last Saturday’s episode of Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson was joined by Counter-Currents authors Richard Houck and Thomas Steuben, as well as voice performer Gaddius Maximus, to hold an “argument clinic” on how to respond to the charge of “racism.” The topic was also the subject of Aylmer Wedgwood’s recent article, […]

  • Pourquoi les boomers n’ont pas besoin de craindre le Nationalisme Blanc

    Counter Currents - Sep 29th 2021 11:40am EDT

    932 words English original here Je n’aime pas les mèmes anti-boomers. Nous avons besoin de convertir autant des nôtres que possible, pas d’abandonner d’énormes parties de la population blanche. Et dresser une génération contre une autre me fait penser à une tactique juive de guerre culturelle, comme nous l’avons vu quand les boomers étaient incités […]

  • Remembering Martin Heidegger: September 26, 1889–May 26, 1976

    Counter Currents - Sep 25th 2021 8:57am EDT

    4,704 words Translations: Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian Martin Heidegger is one of the giants of twentieth-century philosophy, both in terms of the depth and originality of his ideas and the breadth of his influence in philosophy, theology, the human sciences, and culture in general. Heidegger was born on September 26, 1889, in the town of Meßkirch in […]

  • Remembering Sam Francis (April 29, 1947–February 15, 2005)

    Counter Currents - Apr 28th 2021 6:45am EDT

    Sam T. Francis by Phil Eiger Newmann, 2021 1,061 words This year, Counter-Currents is adding Sam Francis to our list of thinkers of the Right whose birthdays we commemorate. We are also running a symposium on his work, beginning today. Samuel Todd Francis was born April 29, 1947, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He died February 15, […]

  • Verdict on America

    Counter Currents - Apr 21st 2021 6:45am EDT

    1,317 words  Officer Derek Chauvin should not have been convicted for murder in the death of George Floyd. But the conviction comes as no surprise, because it comes at the end of a long list of things that shouldn’t have happened. Chauvin never should have been tried in the first place. No crime was committed. […]