• Weaponizing Language

    Counter Currents - Jan 13th 2022 9:22am EST

    Friends of Dorothy Julian and Sandy speaking palare with Kenneth Horne on Round the Horne. 2,459 words What stood out was the magical notion that the mere pronunciation of words in a ritual manner could effect a change in the character of material objects. — Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic Alice felt […]

  • Black Men Can’t Punt

    Counter Currents - Jan 13th 2022 8:14am EST

    Adam Vinatieri, the kicker who holds the NFL’s all-time scoring record. 2,014 words A long time ago, in a magical kingdom tucked safely away from the flaming hell we currently inhabit, there used to be this crazy, hate-filled idea that if some groups performed better on average than other groups regarding any given task, it’s […]

  • Colin Flaherty, RIP

    Counter Currents - Jan 12th 2022 10:41am EST

    592 words Colin Flaherty, author, journalist, and tireless reporter on black crime, has died. This is tragic in and of itself, of course, since, at the age of 66, the man was taken by cancer before his time. But for dissidents today, his passing has an even deeper meaning. As of a few years ago, […]

  • The Gettr Grift

    Counter Currents - Jan 12th 2022 10:21am EST

    Andrew Torba 1,681 words Nothing has given me more respect for the social media site Gab than watching other people try to do what Andrew Torba has done. For many years, Gab was sort of a joke. Its reputation was as a cesspool of the Alt Right’s most socially dysfunctional elements — people who had […]

  • Fichte & the Primacy of Practical Reason

    Counter Currents - Jan 11th 2022 10:37am EST

    J. G. Fichte meets Immanuel Kant, 1791 6,194 words 1. “The circumference of my world is equivalent to the limits of my will.” In my last essay, we established that for Fichte self-consciousness is an ultimate fact. We saw via our own experiments in introspection that the “I” — this “presence” that says, in effect […]

  • A Tale of Two Fires & the Fall of Old Rome

    Counter Currents - Jan 11th 2022 9:09am EST

    J. M. W. Turner, Vesuvius in Eruption, 1817-20 6,722 words It was the summer of 79 AD. The celebrated naturalist and Roman navy admiral Pliny the Elder sat on an outcrop and looked toward the western sea, lit with the fires of a setting Sun as if he was taking stock of a life well-lived, […]

  • Where Have All the Grown-Ups Gone?

    Counter Currents - Jan 11th 2022 7:26am EST

    Karl Marx, Chief Adolescent who never worked a day in his life. 1,543 words If I ruled the world,Every day would be the first day of Spring –Tony Bennett, “If I Ruled the World” When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: January 2-8, 2022

    Counter Currents - Jan 10th 2022 6:23am EST

    Varg Vikernes 3,063 words Norwegian Metalhead Who Murdered Another Norwegian Metalhead in 1993 Tweets about What Lord of the Rings Would Look Like in 2022 The very fact that he was born Kristian Vikernes, performed as Count Grishnackh, is best known to the world as Varg Vikernes, and now has the legal name Louis Cachet is […]

  • Remembering Anthony M. Ludovici: January 8, 1882–April 3, 1971

    Counter Currents - Jan 8th 2022 8:54am EST

    452 words Anthony Mario Ludovici was born on January 8, 1882. Ludovici was one of the first and most accomplished translators of Nietzsche into English and a leading exponent of Nietzsche’s thought. Ludovici was also an original philosopher in his own right. In nearly forty books, including eight novels, and hundreds of shorter works, Ludovici […]

  • This Weekend’s Livestreams

    Counter Currents - Jan 8th 2022 7:37am EST

    248 words Saturday, January 8, 2022, Greg Johnson welcomes Congressional candidate Neil Kumar to talk about his intellectual journey, his platform, his campaign, and YOUR QUESTIONS. Starting at noon PST, 3 pm EST, and 9 pm CET on: DLive: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/ccradio Send questions & donations to Entropy: entropystream.live/countercurrents Sunday, January 9, 2022, Nick Jeelvy’s […]

  • Always Check the Wooden Horse for Termites

    Counter Currents - Jan 7th 2022 8:22am EST

    2,240 words Duncan SmithConquest by Concept: A Novel About the Culture War Sydney, Australia: Afadex, 2020 Here’s a pleasant surprise for the new year (although published in 2020): a red-pill novel that has a happy ending and comes from Australia to boot! Duncan Smith is an author and musician “most notable for writing three novels […]

  • Ada Lovelace, Tech’s Biggest Lie

    Counter Currents - Jan 7th 2022 7:27am EST

    Ada Lovelace 1,093 words It is a near-universal claim that the world’s first computer programmer was Ada Lovelace. She is referred to as the “enchantress of numbers,” a mathematical genius, a visionary, and a fundamental contributor to the field of computing. The second Tuesday of October is “Ada Lovelace Day” — an event to celebrate […]

  • The Intangible Fruits of Our Labor

    Counter Currents - Jan 7th 2022 6:33am EST

    Vladimir Serov, Worker (1960) 2,086 words Dad: Son, what do you want to be when you grow up. Son: I want to be a pool cleaner. Dad: That’s a stupid answer. What else? Son: I wanna be a pizza delivery boy. Dad: No, no, no! Son: A plumber, then. Dad (turns to mom, whispers): He’s […]

  • Reflections on 2020’s Ides of March

    Counter Currents - Jan 6th 2022 10:51am EST

    2,155 words It seems a whole lifetime ago that we were free — not truly free, but free in comparison to whatever this is. It was a still a time of Jewish control, of subversion, and of the media and corporate power, and yet can any of us deny that it makes our current predicament […]

  • Apologies are Never Funny

    Counter Currents - Jan 6th 2022 9:28am EST

    3,118 words If, in a not-too-distant future when everything that is currently wrong with American culture has grown worse and I was forced to testify before a Senate Subcommittee Investigation to Uncover Hate in the Entertainment Industry, I would be able to present copious evidence that comedian Patton Oswalt has repeatedly referred to me as […]

  • Remembering Alan Watts (January 6, 1915–November 16, 1973)

    Counter Currents - Jan 6th 2022 8:10am EST

    172 words Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. A prolific scholar and dazzling stylist, Watts is best known as the chief popularizer of Asian philosophy for the Beat and Hippy movements, but he was also an original thinker in his own right and a quiet man of the Right. In commemoration of […]

  • What Jack Murphy Teaches the Right about Sociopaths

    Counter Currents - Jan 5th 2022 4:06pm EST

    2,781 words Drama gets a bad rap in dissident circles. You always hear people say, “I’m not getting myself involved in drama,” as if drama is inherently a bad thing. But I say drama can be a good thing. For one, it can be good for morale. Drama can be fun, and can thus liven […]

  • A Different Black Pill

    Counter Currents - Jan 5th 2022 2:14pm EST

    The consequences of 74 years of “cultural enrichment” in the UK. 2,568 words At the start of the millennium in the United Kingdom, an accusation of racism in the workplace might have led to a few cold shoulders in the office. Now, it is more likely you will be clearing out your desk, possibly with […]

  • Der Blutharsch’s Wish I Weren’t Here

    Counter Currents - Jan 5th 2022 11:52am EST

    1,074 words The Austrian band Der Blutharsch will certainly be familiar to Counter-Currents readers, whether through their neofolk influences, distinctive music, or musical collaborations. The latter include their 2003 split album with the classic Italian fascist rock band Zetazeroalfa, and their 2008 split album with the Italian experimental nationalist band Sottofasciasemplice. In the 1990s, singer […]

  • Mark Gullick’s Bestest Boys

    Counter Currents - Jan 4th 2022 3:40pm EST

    You can buy Mark Gullick’s Bestest Boys here. 864 words Bestest Boys is Mark Gullick’s first novel, released in 2015. If you’ve ever spent any time in London, the book is a must-read. It’s clearly written with the city’s grit, history, and culture in mind. The protagonist, Mickey Glasspool, and his drinking gang seem to […]

  • The Tragedy of the Tragedy of Macbeth

    Counter Currents - Jan 4th 2022 9:25am EST

    2,182 words Hollywood gave Shakespeare fans a Christmas present: a new version of one of the Bard’s most iconic and gripping tragedies. Although the plandemic delayed production by four months or so, Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth was released on Apple+ on December 25. According to IMDB, it should hit the theaters on January […]

  • The Kwanzaa Absurdity Will Be Dwarfed by Juneteenth

    Counter Currents - Jan 4th 2022 8:31am EST

    Eight of the 10 blacks who actually celebrate Kwanzaa. 1,401 words Public officials still pretend Kwanzaa is a real holiday. It’s taught to schoolchildren as one of the holidays of the “holiday” season, even though nobody knows anyone who actually celebrates it. It’s a day we’re all forced to pretend that being black is a […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: December 26, 2021-January 1, 2022

    Counter Currents - Jan 3rd 2022 8:36am EST

    Jack Murphy, aka John Goldman, an allegedly conservative “masculinity coach” who will get very angry with you if you suggest he’s gay, even though he’s said publicly that he’s had sex with men and has made videos while using a dildo on himself. He also used to frequently interact with a recent mass shooter on […]

  • The Matrix Resurrections

    Counter Currents - Jan 3rd 2022 8:21am EST

    1,458 words Larry and Andy Wachowski’s The Matrix (1999) is a science fiction classic. The setting is a devastated Earth in the far future. The premise is that humanity has been enslaved by artificial intelligences. Human beings spend our lives in what are essentially coffins while mechanical vampires drain our energy. We don’t know it, because we […]

  • Remembering J. R. R. Tolkien: January 3, 1892–September 2, 1973

    Counter Currents - Jan 3rd 2022 7:36am EST

    528 words “I am in fact a Hobbit.”—J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is a favorite author of New Left “hippies” and New Right nationalists, and for pretty much the same reasons. Tolkien deeply distrusted modernization and industrialization, which replace organic reciprocity between man and nature with technological dominion of man over nature, […]