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  • Celebrate July Fourth with Counter-Currents!

    Counter Currents - Jul 4th 2023 9:47am EDT

    601 words Happy Independence Day to our American readers! It is easy for race-conscious Americans to become cynical about July 4th, which is now an occasion for celebrating an egalitarian civil religion fabricated from a misinterpreted line in the Declaration of Independence, “. . . all men are created equal . . . ,”  sometimes paired […]

  • Ted Talk: An Analysis of Ted Kaczynski’s Manifesto, Part 2

    Counter Currents - Jul 3rd 2023 9:07am EDT

    Ted Kaczynski outside his Montana cabin in 1972. 6,122 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Rich Houck: There’s also other parts I find a small problem with. Ted Kaczynski seems to think that without these modern technologies, people cannot be controlled or subverted or treated poorly, but it seems to me that throughout […]

  • Ted Talk: An Analysis of Ted Kaczynski’s Manifesto, Part 1

    Counter Currents - Jun 30th 2023 2:49pm EDT

    Ted Kaczynski teapot by Charles Krafft 6,103 words Part 1 of 2 The following is an edited transcript of the conversation between Greg Johnson and Richard Houck on the subject of Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future, that was broadcast on Counter-Currents Radio in April 2021. You can listen to the recording here. […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 538 Greg Johnson on Plato’s Gorgias, Lecture 1

    Counter Currents - Jun 27th 2023 1:55pm EDT

    Seated Socrates, fresco from ancient Ephesus 373 words / 1:47:48 Greg Johnson began a five-week course on Plato’s Gorgias on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, which will continue for the next four Saturdays (July 1, 8, 15, and 22). The first lecture, which will both introduce the dialogue as a whole and also examine […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2023 Fundraiser Continents Apart, Common Ancestry: The 2023 Retreat

    Counter Currents - Jun 23rd 2023 2:27pm EDT

    583 words This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000 to sustain our work. We have raised $48,613.30 leaving $251,386.70 to go. Please give today to ensure our operating expenses are met and help us meet our goals. (Read more here about what we’re up to this year.) On June 10th and 11th, Counter-Currents celebrated our birthday by […]

  • Reply to Gregory Hood

    Counter Currents - Jun 23rd 2023 2:13pm EDT

    3,465 words This is a continuation of the debate on one white state or many between Greg Johnson and Gregory Hood. Greg Johnson’s opening statement is here. Gregory Hood’s is here.  Dear Greg, I decided to collect into a single document my responses to your debate statement together with some afterthoughts and treatments of issues […]

  • Upcoming Livestreams Greg Johnson on Plato’s Gorgias

    Counter Currents - Jun 22nd 2023 5:19pm EDT

    Seated Socrates, fresco from ancient Ephesus 406 words Every educated person should be familiar with Plato, but higher education today is usually a barrier to understanding the great thinkers of the past. Hence the need for Counter-Currents, which Jonathan Bowden described as an online university of the Right. In the next five Saturday Counter-Currents Radio […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 535 Ask Me Anything

    Counter Currents - Jun 1st 2023 9:08am EDT

    141 words / 59:09 The second part of last weekend’s Counter-Currents Radio was a solo Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 01:23 What do nationalists in Eastern Europe think of Germany today? 06:14 How do you morally strike a balance between work […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 534 Interview with Alexander Adams

    Counter Currents - May 31st 2023 11:54am EDT

    109 words / 57:22 Greg Johnson welcomed Alexander Adams (WordPress, Substack), author of the recently-published book from Imperium Press Blood, Soil, Paint, to the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed Romanticism and modern art. Topics discussed include: 00:00 Introduction 04:16 On Counter-Currents” “reactionary modernism” 08:00 On Salvador Dalí 10:52 On Blood, Soil, Paint […]

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

    Counter Currents - May 27th 2023 9:11am 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. […]

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

    Counter Currents - May 21st 2023 10:17am EDT

    627 words Today is the tenth 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 Julius Evola (May 19, 1898–June 11, 1974)

    Counter Currents - May 19th 2023 8:10am EDT

    1,205 words Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola was born on May 19, 1898 in Rome. Along with René Guénon, Evola is one of the writers who has most influenced the metapolitical outlook and project of Counter-Currents, which is reflected in the fact that Evola is one of the most-tagged writers on this website. In commemoration […]

  • Do It for Western Civilization!

    Counter Currents - May 14th 2023 6:37pm EDT

    817 words First things first: Go call your mom. Okay! Now that you’re back, let’s talk about how wonderful she is for raising you, a person who ended up here at this publication. Motherhood is not easy, and more women today are opting for a child-free lifestyle due to financial pressure or climate concerns (check […]

  • Restoring White Homelands

    Counter Currents - May 9th 2023 3:50pm EDT

    26 words/18:40 Counter-Currents presents a new video of Greg Johnson’s classic essay “Restoring White Homelands,” on how the slow ethnic cleanse is the path to establishing white homelands. *  *  * Counter-Currents has extended special privileges to those who donate $120 or more per year. First, donor comments will appear immediately instead of waiting in […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 533 Ask Me Anything

    Counter Currents - May 3rd 2023 11:21am EDT

    146 words / 1:19:45 The second part of last weekend’s Counter-Currents Radio was an Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson, Jim Goad, and Thomas Steuben, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:00:32 What do you think of non-white White Nationalists? 00:04:37 Questions about James Lindsay’s cynical theories 00:09:46 […]

  • Aristophanes’ Clouds, Part II

    Counter Currents - Apr 21st 2023 5:10pm EDT

    Aristophanes 6,912 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Strepsiades Flunks Out It hasn’t gone well. First Socrates bursts out of the Thinkery swearing an oath: “By Respiration, by Chaos, by the Air.” The usual places of gods in his oath are occupied by three natural forces. Socrates then rants about a particularly bad […]

  • Metapolitics and Occult Warfare

    Counter Currents - Apr 15th 2023 9:35am EDT

    5,876 words Parts 1-4 In 1897, Robert Lewis Dabney prophesied the triumph of women’s suffrage based on his estimate of the history and character of the only force opposed to it, Northern conservatism: This is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, […]

  • Remembering Jonathan Bowden

    Counter Currents - Apr 12th 2023 7:57am EDT

    1,179 words Jonathan Bowden was born 61 years 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 to […]

  • Tucker Carlson on White Identity Politics

    Counter Currents - Apr 7th 2023 3:39pm EDT

    Tucker Carlson 1,645 words Tucker Carlson deserves a lot of thanks for being America’s most outspoken critic of the insanity of America’s ruling family: the demented and abusive husband (the Democrats); the abused and clinging wife who enables him (the Republicans); their spoiled and insane daughter (the Left); and their pet, an increasingly aggressive Pitbull […]

  • How to Leave the Movement

    Counter Currents - Apr 4th 2023 11:50am EDT

    Edmund Blair Leighton, Farewell, 1922 1,782 words What do you do if you believe that nothing in the world is more important than White Nationalism — that we are not just fighting for our race’s survival, but for all that is good and holy; indeed, for the very survival of life on Earth — and […]

  • Revolution with Full Benefits

    Counter Currents - Mar 27th 2023 2:50pm EDT

    1,044 words Jason Kessler recently offered a critique of the White Nationalist movement on his Telegram channel: “If White Nationalism is totally devoid of single White women and cannot provide basic social networking functions for single men, it is unsustainable.”[1] Indeed, White Nationalism is “worthless” because it “isn’t providing basic social functions for its adherents,”[2] particularly […]

  • The Machiavellian Method

    Counter Currents - Mar 17th 2023 3:30pm EDT

    James Burnham 1,130 words In The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom,[1] James Burnham sets forth a Machiavellian method for interpreting political texts. (Methods of interpretation are also known as “hermeneutic” methods.) Burnham distinguishes between the “formal” and the “real” meanings of texts. The formal meaning of a text is “what it explicitly states when taken at […]

  • Remembering Richard M. Weaver (March 3, 1910–April 1, 1963)

    Counter Currents - Mar 3rd 2023 12:30pm EST

    Richard M. Weaver 681 words America wasn’t always a liberal country. The founders drew more upon classical republicanism than liberalism. In the nineteenth century, the populist movement was decidedly anti-liberal. But the founders and the populists were never consistently anti-liberal, because consistency is the province of intellectuals, not statesmen. America never had a genuinely anti-liberal […]

  • White Fragility & The White Nationalist Manifesto: A Comparative Analysis

    Counter Currents - Feb 17th 2023 3:33pm EST

    You can buy Greg Johnson’s The White Nationalist Manifesto here 2,244 words “Parallelomania” is a term used in the study of history and religion. It entails ascribing a significant relationship between two works of scripture, myth, or literature simply because they parallel each other in some way. These parallels can be trivial or taken out […]

  • Don’t Blame Your Parents!

    Counter Currents - Feb 16th 2023 11:05am EST

    28 words / 9:34 Counter-Currents presents a new video of Greg Johnson’s essay “Blaming Your Parents,” about why it’s a bad idea to blame your misfortunes on your upbringing or genetic heritage. *  *  * Counter-Currents has extended special privileges to those who donate $120 or more per year. First, donor comments will appear immediately […]