Jamell Demons, aka YNW Melly 1,404 words Audio version: To listen in a player, use the one below or click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” On February 11, 2019, a 19-year-old rapper who calls himself YNW Melly — the “YNW” stands for “Young Nigga […]
Thomas Achord 1,918 words A year or two ago, I received a large, unsolicited, and apparently self-published book in the mail: Who Is My Neighbor? An Anthology in Natural Relations, edited by Thomas Achord and Darrell Dow. Neither name was familiar to me. Since my available reading time is somewhat constrained, I did no more […]
1,406 words Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. — Proverbs 16:18 (King James) The video of Joe Biden’s “I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!” moment has gone viral. That swath of the populace whose recurring nightmare is a rerun of the Orangeman’s jackbooted feet resting on the Oval Office […]
Kevin Alfred Strom 2,416 words Who Said It: Elon Musk, Voltaire, or Kevin Alfred Strom? To learn that Nazis don’t rule over you, all you have to do is say bad things about Nazis. Nothing bad will happen to you. Last weekend, Twitter CEO Elon Musk found himself swirling in another maelstrom of online fart-rage […]
47 words / 09:42 Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “June Is the Gayest Month,” on the signs that the Pride coalition is sparking a backlash by inundating America with ever-more ridiculous propaganda for the LGBTQ agenda in relation to Pride Month. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/JUNEISTHEGAYESTMONTH540.mp4 * * * Counter-Currents […]
Mau Mau leaders. 3,128 words Introduction It can be instructive to look at the racial politics of 50 or 60 years ago, so here are three illustrative episodes. The first section below paraphrases six pages of Tom Wolfe’s essay “Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers” (1970). The second summarizes Wikipedia’s article about the Black Power movement (1965-c. […]
1,242 words Canada’s Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario is a premier amusement park for those who enjoy the thrill of roller coasters, water parks, family fun, unhealthy but delicious snacks, robberies, swarmings, and even the odd bird explosion. For some mysterious reason, this year’s opening of the park was fraught with “teen” violence, unruly behavior, and […]
Plato and Aristotle from Raphael’s The School of Athens 318 words Mark your calendars! On Sunday, June 11th, Counter-Currents will celebrate its 13th birthday and launch our annual fundraiser. A select group of Counter-Currents writers, donors, and friends will be gathering on the 10th and 11th for a celebration. One of the highlights of the […]
Taking a tremendously daring stand for the silenced and marginalized. 4,149 words In recent times, Woke Capital has become increasingly aggressive. The results included strange virtue-signaling the likes of which would have been unimaginable until not long ago. How much can the Limousine Leftists rub our noses in their bizarre values before customers refuse to […]
1,251 words Audio version: To listen in a player, use the one below or click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” “April is the cruellest month,” wrote T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) in his 1922 poem “The Waste Land.” As we all now know — whether […]