• When Life Imitates Rap

    Counter Currents - Jun 8th 2023 8:21am EDT

    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 […]

  • Anti-Racism Comes for the Church: The Case of Thomas Achord

    Counter Currents - Jun 7th 2023 6:27pm EDT

    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 […]

  • The Fall of the House of Biden

    Counter Currents - Jun 6th 2023 9:52am EDT

    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 […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: May 28-June 3, 2023

    Counter Currents - Jun 5th 2023 10:45am EDT

    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 […]

  • June Is the Gayest Month

    Counter Currents - Jun 4th 2023 11:18am EDT

    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 […]

  • Three Episodes from the History of Racial Politics

    Counter Currents - Jun 2nd 2023 12:44pm EDT

    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. […]

  • Alice’s Police Escort in Wonderland

    Counter Currents - Jun 2nd 2023 11:43am EDT

    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 […]

  • The Great Debate

    Counter Currents - Jun 1st 2023 3:52pm EDT

    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 […]

  • Will Woke Capital Soon Go the Way of the Dinosaur?

    Counter Currents - Jun 1st 2023 11:09am EDT

    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 […]

  • June is the Gayest Month

    Counter Currents - Jun 1st 2023 9:31am EDT

    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 […]