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  • Five Habits of Highly Effective Nationalists

    Counter Currents - Apr 18th 2025 11:48am EDT

    1,893 words Let’s say that you have something to contribute to the White Nationalist movement. But you don’t just want to contribute. You want to excel. You want to have an impact. Here are five habits that you should cultivate if you want to be a highly effective nationalist. These recommendations are based upon personal […]

  • Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 15

    Counter Currents - Apr 14th 2025 5:32am EDT

    Karl von Blaas, Allegory of Self-Control, 1859 2,703 words Part 15 (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) Thus far, […]

  • Remembering Jonathan Bowden

    Counter Currents - Apr 12th 2025 9:25am EDT

    1,362 words Jonathan Bowden was born 63 years ago today, on April 12, 1962. He died on March 29, 2012, just short of his 50th birthday. Jonathan was a painter, novelist, essayist, playwright, actor, and orator. He was also a friend. His ideas and personality have had a real and permanent impact on my approach […]

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  • The Record of the Time

    Counter Currents - Apr 11th 2025 7:00am EDT

    1,960 words Laurie Anderson Big Science Warner Brothers, 1982 In the Seventies, Laurie Anderson made a modest name for herself in the “performance art” scene. Performance art is when talentless scammers do things like move dirt from one pile to another, or sit on blocks of ice and yodel, or have themselves crucified on the […]

  • Simple Minds New Gold Dream

    Counter Currents - Mar 31st 2025 1:20pm EDT

    1,236 words Simple Minds New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) Virgin UK/A&M USA, 1982 New Gold Dream is arguably Simple Minds’ greatest album, the other leading candidate being 1985’s Once Upon a Time. New Gold Dream is also one of the best albums of the Eighties, which was an extraordinarily rich musical decade. Thus it seems appropriate […]

  • The Rest of Marianne Faithfull

    Counter Currents - Mar 27th 2025 9:02am EDT

    1,740 words See part 1 here Dreamin’ My Dreams (1976; re-released in 1978 as Faithless) *** Imagine Lotte Lenya singing Patsy Cline’s greatest hits and you’ll get a sense of Marianne Faithfull’s first comeback, Dreamin’ My Dreams. Faithfull’s voice had changed strikingly from her Sixties albums. It was lower, husky, cracked, ravaged by drugs, alcohol, […]

  • Remembering Flannery O’Connor

    Counter Currents - Mar 25th 2025 10:11am EDT

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Flannery O’Connor, 2021. 1,957 words Today is the 100th birthday of Flannery O’Connor, one of America’s greatest storytellers and an underappreciated woman of the Right. In her short life of 39 years, O’Connor wrote two novels, 31 short stories, more than a hundred lectures, essays, and reviews, and a vast number of […]

  • Response to Greg Johnson and Joel Davis

    Counter Currents - Mar 24th 2025 11:21am EDT

    1,582 words I enjoyed the discussion between Dr. Greg Johnson and Joel Davis about the NS question in White Nationalism. I strongly recommend that you listen to it. Here is my reaction to it. The first issue I want to address is National Socialist nordicism and chauvinism. Trying to deny or minimize the Third Reich’s […]

  • The Cloud

    Counter Currents - Mar 22nd 2025 9:45am EDT

    Nationalist propaganda depicting Italy and France expelling Austria from their borders. 3,818 words There’s a cloud[1] over nationalism. As soon as you say that nations should put their own citizens and interests first, people immediately raise the specter of wars and genocides. Since the Second World War, National Socialism and the Holocaust are always evoked. […]

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  • “Jonathan, I Hardly Knew Ye”

    Counter Currents - Mar 4th 2025 9:54am EST

    768 words This is my Foreword to Edward Dutton’s biography of Jonathan Bowden, Shaman of the Radical Right: The Life and Mind of Jonathan Bowden (Imperium Press, 2025). *** Edward Dutton’s biography of Jonathan Bowden is a revelation. I thought I knew Jonathan Bowden. I even thought we were becoming friends. But the truth was, […]

  • Flannery O’Connor & Racism, Part 1 The Cancellation of Flannery O’Connor

    Counter Currents - Mar 3rd 2025 12:46pm EST

    3,341 words In 2020, the anti-racists came for Flannery O’Connor. Paul Elie led the charge in an article for The New Yorker, the online version of which was entitled “How Racist Was Flannery O’Connor?”[1] Elie’s answer was: pretty racist. Elie had been seething about this issue for years. In his book The Life You Save […]

  • Havens in a Heartless World

    Counter Currents - Feb 20th 2025 7:27pm EST

    6,024 words Author’s Note: This is essay reworks and extends a couple of essays published back in 2023 (here and here) “All that is solid melts into air . . .” The chief values of modern capitalist society are long life, freedom of choice, and the pursuit of comfort and security. But capitalist society is […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 626

    Counter Currents - Feb 18th 2025 11:54am EST

    94 words / 43:25 This is the second half of the most recent Counter-Currents Radio episode. It is now available to download or listen to online. Topics include: 1:27 – Are Jews unaware of the damage their behavior causes? 8:00 – Do women lament right wing political victories? 10:02 – Tips on brevity and clarity […]

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  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 626 Leonarda Jonie

    Counter Currents - Feb 17th 2025 2:47pm EST

    107 words / 1:19:05 Greg Johnson interviewed comedian Leonarda Jonie in the latest episode of Counter-Currents Radio. It is now available to download or listen to online. Topics include: 1:10 – Introducing Leonarda 9:02 – How did Leonarda end up doing comedy? 16:00 – The toxic narcissism of transgenders 22:43 – Leonarda’s thought-crime career 30:55 […]

  • Meritocracy, Entitlement, and Competition

    Counter Currents - Feb 17th 2025 8:37am EST

    2,350 words There is a fundamental divide in the MAGA movement. On the one hand are those who understand and embrace the full meaning and implications of national populism. On the other hand are those who still cling, openly or implicitly, to globalist, elitist, and civic nationalist ideas. This conflict emerged most clearly in the […]

  • The Book They Dare Not Name

    Counter Currents - Feb 12th 2025 3:25pm EST

    You can buy Greg Johnson’s The White Nationalist Manifesto here 1,641 words Little Free Libraries are those little “birdhouses for books” that you usually see in high-trust white communities. The books are free, but you are supposed to leave a book for every book you take. The idea is to promote the free exchange of […]

  • What Are They Counting On?

    Counter Currents - Feb 7th 2025 1:04pm EST

    1,198 words Whenever I hear of a blatantly irresponsible and destructive policy—like “Defund the police”—I always ask myself, “What are they counting on?” By this I mean: “What are they counting on to avoid disaster/produce good results?” Since people respond to opportunities, and defunding the police will create more opportunities for crime, the predictable result […]

  • Black History Month Resources

    Counter Currents - Feb 3rd 2025 6:06pm EST

    1,649 words In the United States, Black History Month — formerly known as “February” — is, unfortunately, not just about history. It is also an occasion for lies and propaganda to stoke black pride over spurious achievements and white guilt over spurious crimes. To combat this propaganda, we have assembled the following articles. Please link […]

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  • Black History Month Resources

    Counter Currents - Feb 3rd 2025 4:22am EST

    1,577 words In the United States, Black History Month — formerly known as “February” — is, unfortunately, not just about history. It is also an occasion for lies and propaganda to stoke black pride over spurious achievements and white guilt over spurious crimes. To combat this propaganda, we have assembled the following articles. Please link […]

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  • We Need to Fortify the 2028 Election

    Counter Currents - Jan 31st 2025 5:21pm EST

    1,140 words As I argue in my piece, “The End of American Democracy,” multiparty democracy depends on the willingness of different factions to trade political power. In effect, one has to be willing to hand a loaded gun to one’s political opponents every few years. Obviously, though, you would not do that if you thought […]

  • техно утопизм

    Counter Currents - Jan 25th 2025 6:50pm EST

    2,447 words Технологический утопизм и этнический национализм Это текст моего выступления на четвёртой встрече Scandza Forum, которая прошла в Копенгагене 15 сентября 2018 года. В своём предыдущем докладе на Scandza Forum, «Переосмысление мейнстрима» (перепечатан ниже), я утверждал, что нам нужно разрабатывать этнонационалистические месседжи для всех белых групп, даже для поклонников «Звёздного пути» (Trekkies). Это моё […]

  • фридом оф спич

    Counter Currents - Jan 25th 2025 6:43pm EST

    2,123 words Это моя речь на третьей конференции «Эркенбранд» в Нидерландах, которая состоялась в субботу, 3 ноября 2018 года. У меня есть хорошие и плохие новости. Хорошая новость заключается в том, что всем нравится получать хорошие новости. Их легко приносить и легко принимать. Плохая новость в том, что никто не любит получать плохие новости. Их […]

  • Remembering Yukio Mishima

    Counter Currents - Jan 14th 2025 8:29am EST

    2,155 words Yukio Mishima, one of the giants of twentieth-century Japanese literature, was born 100 years ago today. He has exercised an enduring influence on the post-World War II New Right, not just for his ideas but also for his public images and actions, including his spectacular suicide at the age of 45. I deal […]

  • Emperor Trump, Part 2

    Counter Currents - Jan 10th 2025 5:48am EST

    1,265 words Part 2 of 2 In Part 1, we looked at Emperor Trump’s rationales for annexing Canada and Greenland. Now let’s look south of the Rio Grande. Trump has a somewhat better case for annexing the Panama Canal, since the canal was built by the United States and the Canal Zone used to be […]

  • The End of American Democracy

    Counter Currents - Jan 3rd 2025 6:57am EST

    1,806 words  “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”—Yogi Berra “We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.”—Plan 9 from Outer Space Note: On September 14th, 2024, Greg Johnson spoke to the Institute for Historical Review on the question, “Will America Survive […]