To burn or not to burn? Reflections on the Burning of Refugee Centers in Ireland
Counter Currents - Aug 19th 2024 7:32am EDT1,121 words Every nation likes to be best in the world at something. As things stand, we Irish Potato Negroes are world leaders in burning refugee centres without hurting anyone. Nobody comes even close to us. The prize for burning refugee centres with refugees inside goes to the Israelis, of course, but that is not […]
Served Cold: The Fateful Consequences of Going to Dinner Parties – Part 2
Counter Currents - Aug 19th 2024 5:00am EDT2,016 words Part 2 (Read Part 1 here) Tiberius vs. Agrippina (AD 27-33) There were few imperial tables more treacherous than a Roman emperor’s. The less one ate at those gatherings, the better – except if one’s name was Agrippina, granddaughter of Emperor Augustus. According to ancient historians, “discord shook the Prince’s [Emperor Tiberius] family” […]
Editor’s Update
Counter Currents - Aug 16th 2024 2:39pm EDT382 words 1. This Saturday’s Counter-Currents Radio Livestream Angelo Plume welcomes Millennial Woes to Counter-Currents Radio to discuss his recent writing on Doctor Who, BBC subversion of British culture, and the mounting Troubles in the Disunited Kingdom. Get your questions ready. This will be a great one. Join us at noon Pacific/3 PM Eastern/9 PM Central […]
A Nice Place To Visit: Lovecraft as the Original Midnight Rambler-Part 2
Counter Currents - Aug 16th 2024 12:59pm EDT3,166 words David J. Goodwin Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft In Gotham Fordham University Press, 2023 Part 2 (Read Part 1 here) So this is the first angle to Goodwin’s book: Lovecraft’s abhorrent views crop up not only in conversations and private letters, but in his published fiction. Although this will not be a study […]
A Teacher’s Farewell Treatise: Part 2
Counter Currents - Aug 16th 2024 8:17am EDT1,170 words Part 2 (Read Part 1 here) I refused to be intimidated as a middle aged white teacher. On one occasion between classes, because it was simply more convenient, I used a student restroom. Upon exiting, a fellow teacher told me, “Man, don’t ever do that again! You lookin’ to die?” It wasn’t uncommon […]
Day of Deceit
Counter Currents - Aug 16th 2024 5:08am EDT2,454 words Robert B. Stinnett Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor Free Press, 1999 You know how Copernicus began his study of the heavenly bodies not to refute Ptolemy’s geocentric paradigm, but to restore it? The reference might seem like it’s from left field, but it perfectly suits what Robert Stinnett […]
How Do Babies Get Their Hands on Fentanyl?
Counter Currents - Aug 15th 2024 3:07pm EDT1,151 words In a world that seems more nightmarish when I open my eyes every new dawn, the news stories that really rip my guts from my stomach and string them along a clothesline to dry are the ones about babies and toddlers overdosing from accidental exposure to fentanyl that their junkie parents had carelessly […]
A Teacher’s Farewell Treatise
Counter Currents - Aug 15th 2024 11:04am EDT1,352 words Part 1 It has been said, “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism”, and it is. I just retired from education after thirty-plus years as a high school teacher. I brought tremendous creativity, energy, and a little irreverence to my teaching, and students would tell you mine was one of their most enjoyable […]
A Teacher’s Farewell Treatise
Counter Currents - Aug 15th 2024 11:04am EDT1,352 words Part 1 It has been said, “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism”, and it is. I just retired from education after thirty-plus years as a high school teacher. I brought tremendous creativity, energy, and a little irreverence to my teaching, and students would tell you mine was one of their most enjoyable […]
Served Cold: The Fateful Consequences of Going to Dinner Parties
Counter Currents - Aug 15th 2024 4:45am EDTGiovanni Martinelli, Death Comes to the Banquet, ca. 1635 3,400 words Part 1 I’m sure many readers are familiar with the French comic, Astérix le Gaulois. Ever since a fun day in high-school French, I have followed the adventures of its eponymous character and its tongue-in-cheek depiction of the Gauls and their Roman antagonists during […]
The Inherent Right of Race, Blood, and Soil: Part 2
Counter Currents - Aug 14th 2024 11:30am EDT3,478 words Part 2 (Read Part 1 here) The left dismisses such considerations of race as “social constructs,” while resorting to other such pseudo-intellectual sleight of hand. A particularly dubious assertion is that Germany, Britain, or any other European nation or people are not homogenous. Scots, English, Welsh are different groups, although one could rarely […]
Left and Right: Twin Halves of the National Lobotomy
Counter Currents - Aug 14th 2024 7:00am EDT1,537 words Consider two children, white, boys, growing up in contented middle-class families in the same suburb of Washington, DC, equally bright, popular, successful with girls, and so on. One becomes a growling conservative, the other a chirping liberal (I think of them as woofers and tweeters). Why the difference in outcome? A likely explanation, […]
A Nice Place to Visit: Lovecraft as the Original Midnight Rambler
Counter Currents - Aug 13th 2024 1:45pm EDT4,122 words David J. Goodwin Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft In Gotham Fordham University Press, 2023 Part 1 “Come on ramblers, let’s ramble.” – Joe, Reservoir Dogs “So if you ever meet the midnight rambler/Coming down your marble hall Well he’s pouncing like a proud black panther/Well, you can say I, I told you so” […]
The Inherent Right of Race, Blood, and Soil: Part 1
Counter Currents - Aug 13th 2024 11:47am EDTThe Story of the Tower of Babel warns of the ruin and chaos that multiculturalism brings. Freedom from such madness is an inherent right of man, and above all, of European peoples. 4,726 words Part 1 While certain rights are touted as “inalienable” and “self-evident” in the American mythology, “Neither Inalienable nor Self-Evident” offers a […]
Good Optics, Bad Optics
Counter Currents - Aug 13th 2024 8:35am EDT3,146 words Monika Schaefer Monika Schaefer Sorry Mom, I Was Wrong About the Holocaust The Barnes Review, 2022 This is a book that probably needs no introduction; but as it is scheduled to be released in a German-language translation by publishing house Der Schelm in the fall/winter of 2024, I thought it was appropriate to […]
Unmourned Funeral, Chapter 1
Counter Currents - Aug 13th 2024 5:00am EDT5,376 words CHAPTER 1 GOING UNDERGROUND Who killed philosophy? Philosophy bestows this boon upon us; it makes us joyful in the very sight of death, strong and brave no matter in what state the body may be, cheerful and never failing though the body fail us. Seneca, letter to Lucilius. The term “Philosophy” is derived […]
A Vote for the Democrats is a Vote for Pedophilia
Counter Currents - Aug 12th 2024 2:51pm EDTMinnesota Representative Leigh Finke (Photo from Wikipedia Commons) 1,172 words The classic question to ask a leftist true believer is “How much progress is too much progress?” In other words, at what point would today’s radical iconoclast turn into tomorrow’s stodgy reactionary? While important regarding the nature of today’s politics, this question is essentially beside […]
A Man of the Higher Prairie
Counter Currents - Aug 12th 2024 8:46am EDTPastor Peter J. Peters (1946 – 2011) Pastor Peter J. Peters (1946 – 2011) of the LaPorte Church of Christ in Colorado was a remarkable white advocate who left a body of pro-white Christian Identity literature which should be more broadly known. Additionally, Peters’ activism had an impact on American culture and politics both during […]
A Forgotten Atrocity: The Manchester Arena Bombing
Counter Currents - Aug 12th 2024 5:37am EDT1,588 words The fire-breathing imams of the Muslim international diaspora that have taken up residence in the West preach one shrill message: hate. The hatred for “Crusaders,” their children, and their way of life, is a tool that has been leveraged to perpetrate heinous acts of barbarity. Their congregations of young, fighting-aged men, gathered in […]
My Ultimate Fantasy Racist Rock And Roll Band
Counter Currents - Aug 12th 2024 4:00am EDT5,097 words In this article, I will be listing my ultimate fantasy rock and roll band. However, this will be different than your usual fantasy rock band list where people create a theoretical supergroup composed of who they think are the best and/or their favorite musicians on each instrument: “I’d have Eddie Van Halen on […]
Editor’s Update
Counter Currents - Aug 9th 2024 4:03pm EDTYou can order the Centennial Edition of Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium here. 365 words 1. Update on Imperium The long-awaited Centennial Edition of Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium is now shipping in paperback. After a long search, I have also signed a contract with a printer to produce the limited edition hardcover version. That will be […]
Unmourned Funeral
Counter Currents - Aug 9th 2024 10:37am EDT1,704 words This is the preface to a book I started writing five years ago when it occurred to me that philosophy in the West is, if not dead, then certainly dying. The book is titled Unmourned Funeral: The Welcome Death of White Western Philosophy. Philosophy is my subject. In a way, it’s what I […]
The Ideological Enforcement Industry: Part 2
Counter Currents - Aug 9th 2024 8:43am EDT3, 758 words Part 2 of 2 (read Part 1 here) Activists pretending to be moderators When Al Gore invented the Internet, this initiated some exciting new changes in technology and society. Promising new startups sprouted like flowers on a hillside. Then, quite often, one of the big players would gobble up the company, chew […]
Remembering Philip Larkin
Counter Currents - Aug 9th 2024 4:56am EDTHumphrey Ocean, Philip Larkin, 1984 1,747 words English poet, novelist, and critic Philip Larkin was born on this day in 1922. The only son of a prosperous middle-class family in Coventry, Larkin earned his BA from St. John’s College, Oxford, with First Class Honors in English. Then Larkin trained to become a librarian, which became […]
Suppose They Planned a Riot and Nobody Came
Counter Currents - Aug 8th 2024 4:02pm EDT1,210 words Right when I think that people couldn’t lie any more audaciously than they do, that the gaslighting couldn’t possibly get more migraine-inducing, and that maybe things aren’t quite as bad as they seem, along come the English media and government to remind me that George Orwell was an Englishman. First, let’s all take […]