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Nationalism This Week 5
Counter Currents - Sep 19th 2025 1:00pm EDT
1,650 words Antifa Is Now a Terrorist Organization Future historians will have to piece together why it took eight years for Donald Trump to declare antifa a terrorist organization, even though antifa were out in force committing violence on inauguration day in 2017. I would love to know what sweet treasons were being whispered in […]
Nationalism This Week
Counter Currents - Sep 12th 2025 1:01pm EDT
You can buy Greg Johnson’s Is America Doomed? here. 2,135 words This was another radicalizing week. The Murder of Iryna Zarutska On Tuesday, September 9th, full video of the murder of Iryna Zarutska was released. We watched in horror as she cringed, terrified of the hulking black orc who loomed over her and stabbed her. […]
Is Wisdom Alone Sufficient For Happiness?
Counter Currents - Sep 8th 2025 9:36am EDT
Socrates accepting his fate. The Death of Socrates – Jacques-Louis David, 1787 2,083 words In Plato’s Euthydemus, Socrates argues for the paramount importance of philosophy because philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom, and wisdom is the most reliable way to attain happiness, which all men are pursing. Happiness requires many goods, but they won’t be […]
Nationalism This Week
Counter Currents - Sep 5th 2025 2:22pm EDT
2,352 words 1. Chain Reactions & Control Rods If the elites who rule us were truly far-sighted, they would have strangled the Internet in its crib. Their control was never greater than when there were only three major television networks and all newspapers followed the Associated Press. The old media were one-way conduits delivering standardized […]
Tito Perdue’s Fields of Asphodel
Counter Currents - Sep 1st 2025 11:54am EDT
You can buy Tito Perdue’s Fields of Asphodel here. 1,210 words Tito Perdue Fields of Asphodel Second Edition Brent, Alabama: Standard American Publishing Co., 2023 Imagine if Dante’s Divine Comedy were actually funny, and you’ll begin to understand what’s going on in Tito Perdue’s remarkable novel Fields of Asphodel, the journey of elitist misanthrope and cultured thug Lee […]
Nationalism This Week
Counter Currents - Aug 29th 2025 2:16pm EDT
2,077 words 1. Common-Sense Troon Control On Wednesday, August 27, 23-year-old Robert Westman, a male transexual who changed his name to Robin, opened fire on a Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Two children were killed and 17 other victims were wounded, most of them children. Then the troon shot himself. Westman is only the most […]
Nationalism This Week
Counter Currents - Aug 22nd 2025 12:59pm EDT
Harjinder Singh 1,648 words The Anti-Immigration Juggernaut The number one cause of death for tourists in India is not the food or the water or the rapists. It is getting behind the wheel of a car. In India, if there are two lanes painted on the road, there will be at least six lanes of […]
Is Wisdom the Only Unconditional Good?
Counter Currents - Aug 22nd 2025 6:56am EDT
You can buy Greg Johnson’s The Trial of Socrates here. 1,317 words In my essay “The Most Important Thing in the World,” I presented Plato’s argument in the Euthydemus for the importance of philosophy. All men are pursuing happiness. To do so, we try to secure certain goods. Something is good if it contributes to […]
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The Most Important Thing in the World
Counter Currents - Aug 19th 2025 12:29pm EDT
Seated Socrates, fresco from ancient Ephesus 1,732 words Sometimes the most momentous truths can be established with the simplest arguments. A good example is Plato’s argument in his little-known dialogue Euthydemus for why philosophy, the pursuit of wisdom, is more important than any other pursuit. I found this argument completely convincing. It shattered and remade […]
The Most Important Thing in the World
Counter Currents - Aug 19th 2025 12:29pm EDT
Seated Socrates, fresco from ancient Ephesus 1,732 words Sometimes the most momentous truths can be established with the simplest arguments. A good example is Plato’s argument in his little-known dialogue Euthydemus for why philosophy, the pursuit of wisdom, is more important than any other pursuit. I found this argument completely convincing. It shattered and remade […]
Did Hitler Take Credit for the Holocaust?
Counter Currents - Jul 25th 2025 10:06am EDT
1,232 words “The Holocaust” has come to mean the mass killing of Jewish civilians by Germany during the Second World War. In Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Politisches Testament” (My Political Testament) dictated on April 29, 1945, the day before his suicide, there is a passage that seems to mention and justify the Holocaust. The German original […]
How Trump Could Have Gotten Away with the Epstein Coverup
Counter Currents - Jul 21st 2025 7:30am EDT
Trump’s White House: Where “transparency” is a slogan. 1,488 words Donald Trump could have easily covered up Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. All he needed to say is: “I have been promising for years to release the Epstein files. I’ve created a lot of expectations. Now that I’ve actually looked at the files, they are worse than […]
The Battle of the Books
Counter Currents - Jul 11th 2025 9:45am EDT
2,405 words Most academic publishers — and all of the most prestigious ones — are affiliated with universities. Routledge is one of the largest private academic publishers. Routledge is fair-to-middling in terms of prestige but above average in production and marketing. Nobody places their best work there, but Routledge provides plenty of opportunities for established […]
Remembering Jean Raspail
Counter Currents - Jul 7th 2025 5:34am EDT
586 words Jean Raspail was born on July 5, 1925 and died in 2020, less than a month before his 95th birthday. He was a French explorer, travel writer, and novelist. He published 40 books in a literary career that lasted almost 60 years, from 1952 to 2019. The Académie française awarded Raspail two of […]
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The Battle of the Books
Counter Currents - Jul 4th 2025 3:57pm EDT
2,802 words Rita Abrahamsen, Jean-François Drolet, Michael C. Williams, Srdjan Vucetic, Karin Narita, & Alexandra Gheciu World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024 If you ever try to convince a political “normie” that White Nationalism is the best political option, you are going to face some questions and […]
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The Battle of the Books
Counter Currents - Jul 1st 2025 9:04am EDT
2,060 words Recently, I discovered that Counter-Currents, my writing, and the writings of other Counter-Currents authors have been discussed — sometimes extensively, sometimes in passing — in a number of academic books. This is a rather exciting development, which I shall chronicle from time to time in a new series, The Battle of the Books. The […]
Trump vs. Trumpism
Counter Currents - Jun 13th 2025 2:19pm EDT
1,092 words I got lot of pushback last year when I declared that Donald Trump has always been the weakest link in the Trump movement. I am genuinely grateful for the good things that Trump has done. But recent events have only confirmed my judgment that he is a weak, foolish, and unprincipled man. First, […]
America and Europe in the Age of Trump Johnson
Counter Currents - Jun 10th 2025 8:14am EDT
616 words From the Counter-Currents 2025 Spring Retreat symposium on America and Europe in the Age of Trump. If you’re a man of means, and you are attracted to a young, strong, financially independent woman, how do you turn her into your mistress? The problem is her independence. Therefore, you need to make her dependent. […]
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 640
Counter Currents - Jun 9th 2025 7:31am EDT
93 words At this year’s Counter-Currents 2025 Spring Retreat, we had a symposium on “America and Europe in the Age of Trump.” The participants were Jared Taylor, Ed Dutton, Keith Woods, Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, Angelo Plume, David Zsutty, & Endeavour. Counter-Currents retreats are private gatherings of writers and friends of Counter-Currents who wish to share […]
Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 20
Counter Currents - May 23rd 2025 7:47am EDT
Hermanubis, Vatican Museum 3,398 words (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here, Part 7 here, Part 8 here, Part 9 here, Part 10 here, Part 11 here, Part 12 here, Part 13 here, Part 14 here, Part 15 here, Part 16 here, Part 17 […]
Yes to the Rule of Law
Counter Currents - May 14th 2025 6:58am EDT
Aristotle 1,936 words Many people on the populist right are cynical and dismissive about “the rule of law.” They’re not simply bemoaning the failures of politicians, judges, and bureaucrats to follow the law. They dismiss the very idea of the rule of law. They aren’t saying we need to rid ourselves of arbitrary rule, they […]
Jonathan, apenas te conocí
Counter Currents - May 9th 2025 2:41pm EDT
712 palabras La biografía de Jonathan Bowden de Edward Dutton es una revelación. Pensé que conocía a Jonathan Bowden. Incluso pensaba que estábamos empezando a ser amigos. Pero la verdad es que apenas lo conocía. Sí, conocía sus ideas. Pero no conocía al hombre ni su mente. Después de la muerte prematura de Jonathan, a […]
Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 19
Counter Currents - May 6th 2025 2:14pm EDT
Bust of Pericles 2,714 words (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here, Part 7 here, Part 8 here, Part 9 here, Part 10 here, Part 11 here, Part 12 here, Part 13 here, Part 14 here, Part 15 here, Part 16 here, Part 17 […]
Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 18
Counter Currents - Apr 29th 2025 4:12am EDT
Artemisia Gentileschi, Allegory of Rhetoric, 1650 1,983 words (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here, Part 7 here, Part 8 here, Part 9 here, Part 10 here, Part 11 here, Part 12 here, Part 13 here, Part 14 here, Part 15 here, Part 16 […]
Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 17
Counter Currents - Apr 22nd 2025 4:59am EDT
Titian, Allegory of Time Governed by Prudence, c. 1550–1565 3,298 words (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here, Part 7 here, Part 8 here, Part 9 here, Part 10 here, Part 11 here, Part 12 here, Part 13 here, Part 14 here, Part 15 […]