Editor’s Update
Counter Currents - Dec 20th 2024 4:23pm ESTYou can buy Alain de Benoist’s Against Liberalism here. 697 words 1. Our 2020 Fundraiser This year, Counter-Currents is struggling once again to make our annual fundraiser goal of $300,000. Thanks to our many generous donors, we are now at $218,161.92. Thank you. The glass is 72.7% full. With the amount that has come in, […]
Wicked
Counter Currents - Dec 20th 2024 12:15pm EST1,480 words I’m sure that Dissident Right interest in the latest distaff-themed, PG-rated musical hitting the cinemas is fairly tepid. If there is interest at all, it may be in how Jon M. Chu’s Wicked: Part 1, which was adapted from the musical Wicked, ranks on Spencer J. Quinn’s famous cringe scale. Does this fabulous […]
The Cold War, the Farm Crisis, & the End of History: The Career of White Advocate Richard Kelly Hoskins
Counter Currents - Dec 20th 2024 10:56am ESTRichard Kelly Hoskins 4,986 words It is ironic that Virginia’s expansive ethno-culture [1] benefits from complex commercial activity and global trade while being damaged by the same. Virginia’s main early money-making venture was the tobacco trade, which needed a large and complicated system of finance and commerce before a single penny could be made. The […]
Chaos in the North: Christmas Edition
Counter Currents - Dec 20th 2024 8:08am EST1,432 words President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shake hands during a joint press conference, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead) There is a glimmer of hope here in the north amid the crushing misery. Even though the president-elect has yet to be formally inaugurated, the Donald […]
Europa Carnaio
Counter Currents - Dec 20th 2024 2:32am EST1,602 words Francesca Totolo Le Vite delle Donne Contano Altaforte Edizioni, 2024 (English version here) Francesca Totolo è una cronista italiana con una significativa presenza sui social italiani. Ha quasi diecimila iscritti su Telegram e più di cinquantamila su X. Molto di ciò che posta ha a che fare con il declino dell’Italia, causato in […]
Hidden In Plain Sight? Agenda 2030
Counter Currents - Dec 19th 2024 12:16pm EST2,434 words Victorian children would play a game, perhaps on rainy days, called “hunt the thimble”, in which just such an object was hidden in a room, and competitors would race to be the first to find it. The only rule was that the thimble had to be hidden in plain sight. Today’s children are […]
Paul Theroux’s African Safari, Part 3
Counter Currents - Dec 19th 2024 9:20am EST2,678 words Paul Theroux Part 1, Part 2 There is more to recommend Paul Theroux’s African travelogues Dark Star Safari (2002) and The Last Train to Zona Verde (2013) than their comprehensive yet tacit uncovering of racial truths. Yes, race realism is both everywhere and nowhere in these books. Yes, these works will ward off […]
Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil – Part 15
Counter Currents - Dec 19th 2024 5:48am EST5,809 words The Temptation of Christ. Ary Scheffer (1854) Part 15 of 15 (Read all parts here) Phenomenology as Gelassenheit In our previous installment, we discussed at length Heidegger’s conception of Gelassenheit: “letting beings be” or letting things be “in their restful repose.” A question may have occurred to the reader: how exactly is Gelassenheit […]
Paul Theroux’s African Safari, Part 2
Counter Currents - Dec 18th 2024 3:20pm EST2,238 words Since Paul Theroux never stayed for long in one place while writing his African travelogues, the act of traveling itself takes up much ink in Dark Star Safari (2002) and The Last Train to Zona Verde (2013). Thus, the train becomes the leitmotif which connects both works. Theroux treats it as a symbol […]
Art, Death, & Phenomenology
Counter Currents - Dec 18th 2024 9:14am EST2,450 words I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them. -Andy Warhol Valerie Solanas took the elevator, got off at the 4th floor. She pointed the gun at Andy, saying, “You cannot control me anymore”. -Lou Reed and John Cale, Songs for Drella The Shot Heard Around the […]
What White Nationalists Want from the Trump Administration – Part 2
Counter Currents - Dec 18th 2024 8:15am EST2,631 words (Part 1 here) Policy 4: Reimagining Higher Education By “reimagine” I mean an extreme makeover with a wrecking ball, not token reforms. Higher education is a chief citadel of the left. In fact, academia working in tandem with the media is what constitutes Curtis Yarvin’s “Cathedral” of elite power. Thus far, conservatives have […]
Эаметки о суверенитете и международном порядке
Counter Currents - Dec 18th 2024 6:36am EST2,522 words Thomas Hobbes (English version here) Майк Максвелл задал мне несколько вопросов о суверенитете и международном порядке в статье Imperium Press. Этнонационалисты представляют себе мир, состоящий из суверенных родных земель для всех отдельных народов, стремящихся к автономии. Таким образом, мы выступаем против многонациональных империй, а также схем глобального правительства, все из которых подразумевают отказ […]
New Pedophilia Allegations Surface Against Nick Fuentes & the Groypers
Counter Currents - Dec 18th 2024 4:46am EST1,519 words A recent uptick in the sexualization of children by Mexican-American streamer Nicholas Fuentes and his Groyper army has exploded in a wave of child rape threats and alleged child porn proliferation. Several years ago, I was the first to report on the noticeable pandering to pedophiles from Nicholas Fuentes and his “America First” […]
The Origins of Critical Theory
Counter Currents - Dec 17th 2024 11:05am EST1,490 words Carl R. Trueman To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory from Marx to Marcuse Brentwood, Tennessee: B&H Academic, 2024 The philosophy which provided metapolitical cover for the violence of the George Floyd Riots in 2020 is called critical race theory. Carl R. Trueman, a theologian and professor at Grove City College in Pennsylvania, has […]
Paul Theroux’s African Safari, Part 1
Counter Currents - Dec 17th 2024 6:00am EST2,276 words In 2023, blacks murdered 602 whites in America according to a site called National Conservative. In return, whites murdered one-sixth of that number, despite outnumbering blacks around five-to-one. The link between black populations and high rates of violent crime is well established, with American whites being far and away the most frequent victims […]
The Judeo-Angst News Roundup
Counter Currents - Dec 17th 2024 5:39am EST3,639 words I’m hardly a hard-liner on the Jewish Question. I have nothing against Jews who are decent citizens, aren’t part of the Zio-mafia, and don’t enable the typical misbehavior of their wayward brethren. Although my patience started to wear thin a year and a half ago, still I prefer to deliver no worse than […]
The Indivisible United Canadas of America
Counter Currents - Dec 16th 2024 2:59pm EST1,116 words As a Hyperborean who is restless, gloomy, and partially frozen, I applaud the idea of integrating the once Great White North into what shall soon undoubtedly be called the United Canadas of America (Great State of Canada? We’ll have to make a final decision on nomenclature in the New Year). As a Canadian […]
Corruption Archeology: Arthur Vandenberg, a Case Study
Counter Currents - Dec 16th 2024 12:00pm EST2,569 words “Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shape, And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice.” William Shakespeare, Richard III Archeology: “the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.” I think of my professional calling as an “archeologist of human […]
The Syrian Question
Counter Currents - Dec 16th 2024 6:36am EST1,037 words Syrians in Germany celebrate the fall of the Assad regime. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Genuine love will take no account of what gratifies the other, of what is agreeable to him and gives him joy, but will only direct itself towards what will benefit him, regardless of whether it affords him pleasure […]
Review of Critical Daze: The No College Club, Book 2
Counter Currents - Dec 16th 2024 5:57am EST3,144 words You can preorder Spencer J. Quinn’s Critical Daze here. Spencer J. Quinn Critical Daze: The No College Club – Book 2 San Francisco: Counter-Currents 2024 Critical Daze follows on Spencer J. Quinn’s No College Club, reviewed at TOO by F. Roger Devlin. As Devlin notes, there is probably no area in greater need […]
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Counter Currents - Dec 14th 2024 12:35pm EST447 words This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000 to fund our operations for 2025. So far, we have raised $205,870.39. Here are some ways you can help Counter-Currents and fill out your Christmas list: Give the gift of knowledge This one is easy and instant. Give a friend a subscription here and you will then […]
Editor’s Update
Counter Currents - Dec 13th 2024 8:19pm EST234 words 1. Peter Brimelow on Counter-Currents Radio On Saturday, December 14th, Greg Johnson will be joined by Peter Brimelow to discuss the War on Christmas, 2024, plus your questions. Join us at noon Pacific/3 PM Eastern/9 PM Central European Time on: Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/ccradio DLive: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents Send questions & donations to Entropy: entropystream.live/countercurrents 2. The Counter-Currents Book Club The next […]
Why the Left Keeps Winning (For Now)
Counter Currents - Dec 13th 2024 10:34am EST1,168 words The Nation is the flagship magazine of the American Left. It is also the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The Nation was founded on July 6, 1865, on the ashes of the Confederacy. The Nation was the successor to abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator, which was closed after the […]
Kingmaker or King? Farage’s Next Move
Counter Currents - Dec 13th 2024 7:42am EST2,858 words Here was a population not convinced that old England was as good as possible. George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical In October, 2009, I was ranked No. 41 in a list of the 100 most powerful right-wingers in Britain. I am not sure about the “right winger” bit, preferring to consider myself a […]
Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil Part 14
Counter Currents - Dec 13th 2024 6:00am EST4,431 words Meister Eckhart Part 14 of 15 (Read all parts here) The Concealment of Concealment An authentic experience of beings is one that acknowledges that when beings present themselves to us in their meaningfulness, this presencing is always accompanied by absence. Whatever we may learn about beings, something else always holds itself back. We […]