• Remembering Louis-Ferdinand Céline (May 27, 1894–July 1, 1961)

    Counter Currents - May 27th 2024 7:59am EDT

    238 words Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French novelist, essayist, and physician Louis-Ferdinand-Auguste Destouches, who was born on this day in 1894. Céline is one of the giants of twentieth-century literature. And, like Ezra Pound and so many other great writers of the last century, he was an open and unapologetic racial nationalist. […]

  • Is America Doomed?

    Counter Currents - May 24th 2024 12:21pm EDT

    Image courtesy of NARA & DVIDS Public Domain Archive. 2,486 words On May 9, 2024, Jared Taylor released a video entitled “What Is Our Goal?” that, quite frankly, surprised me. After a litany of well-chosen illustrations of America’s decline, he declares: It doesn’t matter who is elected President this year or four years from now […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 588: The Future of the Movement, Part 2

    Counter Currents - May 22nd 2024 6:15am EDT

    158 words / 1:15:29 In the second half of our latest broadcast, Greg Johnson and David Zsutty (Counter-Currents, Telegram, Twitter) of the Homeland Institute (website, Telegram) turned to  a more general discussion of politics, current events, and Counter-Currents’ recent movement poll. The recording is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:00:59 Question […]

  • Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I Part 4

    Counter Currents - May 20th 2024 10:39am EDT

    Xerxes I of Persia and his wife, queen Amestris 2,741 words Part 4 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here) In our previous installment, Socrates has convinced Alcibiades that he is ignorant of justice. Therefore, he should not go into politics until he is educated. But Socrates undermines his argument by […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 586: British Pop Culture in the 1990s, Part 2

    Counter Currents - May 16th 2024 9:00am EDT

    216 words / 1:12:00 The second half of the most recent broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio continued with the discussion of 1990s British pop culture before moving on to more general topics about politics, current events, and the movement today. Host Greg Johnson was joined by Millennial Woes (official website here), Morgoth (Substack, Odysee), and Travis LeBlanc, and it is […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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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  • 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 […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 583: Judd Blevins on His Recall and Pro-White Politics

    Counter Currents - Apr 30th 2024 3:05pm EDT

    308 words / 1:01:38 Judd Blevins was host Greg Johnson and co-host David Zsutty‘s (Counter-Currents, Telegram, Twitter) very special guest on the most recent broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download and online listening. Blevins, until recently a City Councilman in Enid, Oklahoma, was subjected to a recall election earlier this […]

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

    Counter Currents - Apr 29th 2024 9:00am EDT

    Sam T. Francis by Phil Eiger Newmann, 2021 1,095 words Samuel Todd Francis was born April 29, 1947, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He died February 15, 2005 in the Maryland suburbs of the imperial capital. Francis took his BA from Johns Hopkins University in 1969 and his PhD in modern history from the University of North […]

  • Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I Part 2

    Counter Currents - Apr 22nd 2024 10:56am EDT

    2,359 words Part 2 of 5 (Part 1 here) In the first part of this series, Socrates accuses Alcibiades of wanting to be a tyrant and argues that if he wishes to fulfill this ambition, he must study philosophy. Alcibiades won’t admit that he aspires to be a tyrant, but “if” he did, he wants […]

  • Remembering Dominique Venner (April 16, 1935–May 21, 2013)

    Counter Currents - Apr 16th 2024 9:00am EDT

    627 words Today is the eleventh anniversary of Dominique Venner’s dramatic suicide at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, which he carried out as a protest against the degradation of the traditional family’s central importance as well as the demographic replacement of European man, and to indicate what we must be prepared to give […]

  • Remembering Jonathan Bowden (April 12, 1962–March 29, 2012)

    Counter Currents - Apr 12th 2024 9:00am EDT

    1,287 words Jonathan Bowden was born 62 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 […]

  • New Energy and New Projects: Announcing the 2024 Fundraiser — & What We’re Up To Behind the Scenes

    Counter Currents - Mar 29th 2024 11:55pm EDT

    1,482 words Spring is a time of renewal, energy, and strength. Here at Counter-Currents, we have you to thank for our vitality and success. Our annual fundraiser begins every year in March in part because this is the anniversary of the month our enemies tried to destroy us. Fortunately, all of you, our generous supporters, […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 577: Jason Lee Van Dyke on the Law and the Dissident Right

    Counter Currents - Mar 19th 2024 4:07pm EDT

    Jason Lee Van Dyke 242 words / 1:18:16 Texas attorney Jason Lee Van Dyke (Twitter) was Greg Johnson and David Zsutty‘s guest on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed the challenges of representing the dissident Right in the legal process and answered listener questions. It is now available for download and online […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 576: Greg Johnson & Morgoth on Dune: Part Two

    Counter Currents - Mar 13th 2024 2:42pm EDT

    320 words / 2:15:38 Morgoth (Substack, Odysee) was Greg Johnson‘s special guest on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed Denis Villeneuve’s new film Dune: Part Two and of course answered listener questions. (See Trevor Lynch’s reviews of Dune and Dune: Part Two for Counter-Currents; also see our Frank Herbert commemoration for links […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 574: James Tucker on George Grant and Nationalism

    Counter Currents - Feb 28th 2024 1:46pm EST

    252 words / 54:40 Greg Johnson and guest Keith Woods (Substack, Twitter) were joined by James Tucker (Substack, Twitter), author of the recent Counter-Currents essay “Where George Grant Went Wrong,” for the second half of the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio. James’ essay is on why only racial nationalism, rather than blank-slate conservatism such as […]

  • Crowdsourcing Request: Missing Citations in Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium

    Counter Currents - Feb 20th 2024 2:49pm EST

    You can pre-order the Centennial Edition of Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium here. 597 words Whenever possible, the new Centennial Edition of Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium provides citations for all quotes as well as explanatory notes for unfamiliar terms and references. (The other volumes in the set, The World in Flames: The Shorter Writings of Francis Parker […]

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  • Black History Month Resources

    Counter Currents - Feb 2nd 2024 11:46am EST

    1,643 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 […]

  • Bill Hopkins’ The Leap!

    Counter Currents - Jan 31st 2024 1:26pm EST

    3,098 words Bill Hopkins (1928–2011) was a British Right-wing writer and intellectual who was associated in the 1950s with the so-called Angry Young Men, which was less a movement than a loose journalistic appellation for writers from mostly working- and middle-class backgrounds who were dubbed “angry” because of their disillusionment with post-Second World War British […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 569: Paul Kersey’s Whitey on the Moon

    Counter Currents - Jan 31st 2024 12:28pm EST

    You can buy Paul Kersey’s Whitey on the Moon here. 145 words / 57:41 Author Paul Kersey was Greg Johnson‘s special guest on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed Antelope Hill’s reissuing of his book Whitey on the Moon, about NASA’s demise as the result of racial politics, as well as other […]

  • Paul Kersey’s Whitey on the Moon

    Counter Currents - Jan 24th 2024 11:01am EST

    82 words This coming Saturday, Greg Johnson welcomes Paul Kersey to Counter-Currents Radio to talk about the reissue of his book Whitey on the Moon. Be sure to join us, and have your questions ready. The stream will start at noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern Standard Time, 8pm UK time, and 9pm Central European Time on: […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 567: The First Meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club

    Counter Currents - Jan 17th 2024 1:57pm EST

    You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s collection The Cultured Thug here. 236 words / 1:57:46 Every month in 2024, Greg Johnson will invite some of our authors and friends to read and discuss some of the best material from our catalog and more in what we are calling The Counter-Currents Book Club. The first meeting was […]

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

    Counter Currents - Jan 15th 2024 1:51pm EST

    Image courtesy of Jim Goad. 382 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 […]

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  • Remembering Yukio Mishima: January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970

    Counter Currents - Jan 14th 2024 1:06pm EST

    971 words Spanish translation here Yukio Mishima was one of the giants of twentieth-century Japanese literature. He has exercised an enduring influence on the post-World War II European and North American New Right. In commemoration of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website: By Mishima: “A Call […]