• London: No City for White Men

    Counter Currents - Apr 8th 2021 6:45am EDT

    London Mayor Sadiq Khan 1,231 words Genetically speaking, I am almost 100% a child of the British Isles, with my strongest links to recent ancestry being London, Dublin, and County Cork. Even that stubborn and pesky 4.3% “Spanish and Portuguese” quotient of my genetic makeup may simply be “Black Irish” DNA resulting from when the Spanish Armada […]

  • An Interview with Béla Incze: The Man Who Destroyed a BLM Statue

    Counter Currents - Apr 7th 2021 11:45am EDT

    Béla Incze 1,100 words Editor’s note: This is a translation of an interview originally published in Vasárnap with Béla Incze. We would like to thank Tamás Fehér for this translation. The man who toppled the BLM statue told Vasárnap that his actions against the statue had expressed the feelings of the average Hungarian. Béla Incze, the man […]

  • Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part Six: G. W. Leibniz’s Will-to-Power

    Counter Currents - Apr 7th 2021 6:45am EDT

    G. W. Leibniz Memorial in Leipzig 7,565 words Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here 1. Introduction: Leibniz and the Completion of Metaphysics Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von Leibniz (1646–1716) is one of the most extraordinary figures in the history of ideas. A true polymath, he was not […]

  • The Oslo Incident

    Counter Currents - Apr 7th 2021 6:15am EDT

    6,433 words Editor’s note: This is a heavily edited transcript of my interview for Red Ice on November 7, 2019. We wish to thank Lana Lokteff for the interview and Hyacinth Bouquet for the transcript. Lana Lokteff: Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, because there’s no in-between! Joining me is Greg Johnson, of Counter-Currents. He was detained, strip-searched, and deported […]

  • Mihai Eminescu: Romania’s Morning Star

    Counter Currents - Apr 6th 2021 6:15am EDT

    4,994 words Of peasant ancestry on his father’s side and boasting aristocratic (boyar) maternal roots, the Romanian poet, prose writer, and editorialist Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889) had not put his modest inherited wealth to waste. Educated in the German language since childhood, Eminescu was culturally — if not always geopolitically — an enthusiastic Germanophile. As a […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: March 28-April 3, 2021

    Counter Currents - Apr 5th 2021 6:45am EDT

    G. Gordon Liddy, photographed by Paul Hosefros in 1992. 1,918 words White Supremacists Wearing Realistic-Looking “Black Men” Masks Continue Attacking Asians Tariq Nasheed is a prophet and a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction — a walking contradiction. He’s also the dumbest person on Twitter. Back in 2017, this mentally handicapped black supremacist who was probably advised […]

  • Easter Livestream: Ask Counter-Currents with Greg Johnson, Millennial Woes, & Frodi Midjord

    Counter Currents - Apr 4th 2021 8:10am EDT

    Happy Easter from Counter-Currents! 55 words On Easter Sunday, April 4 at noon PST, 3 PM EST, 8 PM UK time, 9 PM CET, tune in to the Counter-Currents Radio weekly livestream on DLive: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents The panelists will discuss current events and take your questions for two hours. Donations, comments, questions: https://entropystream.live/countercurrents You can also […]

  • Our Big, Beautiful Wall

    Counter Currents - Apr 2nd 2021 11:45am EDT

    Our Big, Beautiful Wall Will Be Real 1,367 words Counter-Currents is trying to raise $200,000 this year to sustain and improve our work. Since last week’s update, we have received 61 donations totaling $8,888.78 for a total of 127 donations and a grand total of $23,716.23 since we started our fundraiser on March 10th. We are […]

  • Agrarian Populism & Cargo Cult Fascism

    Counter Currents - Apr 2nd 2021 7:00am EDT

    The Falangist Sección Femenina salutes before delivering food to the needy, Pascual Marín, 1937. 1,908 words Allow me, dear reader, to take you on a fantastic journey to a mythical time known as the “middle tens.” It was a period between 2012 and 2018 when the hottest political movement was populism. All the cool kids […]

  • One Carjacking Embodies the New America

    Counter Currents - Apr 2nd 2021 6:45am EDT

    1,086 words An elderly Pakistani UberEats driver was murdered by black teens in DC last week. Sixty-six-year-old Mohammad Anwar died after he was thrown out of the vehicle two black girls carjacked in broad daylight, right in front of National Guardsmen. The black teens survived the car wreck, unlike the hapless Anwar. The Pakistani driver […]

  • Requiem for a Jigger

    Counter Currents - Apr 1st 2021 6:45am EDT

    Michael Rapaport 1,593 words Erstwhile actor, would-be political activist, and aspirant transracial icon Michael Rapaport might be the dumbest Jew who ever lived. He grew up in a wealthy Ashkenazi family on the hard, hard streets of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, but to hear him speak, you’d think he was auditioning for the movie role […]

  • Making Lions out of Lambs: A Response to Max Morton of American Greatness

    Counter Currents - Mar 31st 2021 6:45am EDT

    1,671 words Two kinds of conservatives constitute the mainstream Right: those who take conservatism seriously as a political creed, and those who are merely conservative liberals, or, as the Z-Man once called them, the rearguard of the Left. The latter, as we all know, may as well be the enemy of the Right and deserve […]

  • Culture, History, & Metapolitics in Poland: An Interview with Jaroslaw Ostrogniew, Part 2

    Counter Currents - Mar 31st 2021 6:15am EDT

    Wawel Castle in Kraków, Poland 3,012 words Part 1 here This part of the interview was published in the XXXIV issue of the magazine Reconquista. In this part, Jaroslaw will discuss metapolitics, Polish culture, music, art, his travels, and writing. Ondrej Mann: Have you organized any metapolitical conferences in the past? Do you plan to organize any again? […]

  • Culture, History, & Metapolitics in Poland: An Interview with Jaroslaw Ostrogniew, Part 2

    Counter Currents - Mar 31st 2021 6:15am EDT

    Wawel Castle in Kraków, Poland 3,012 words Part 1 here This part of the interview was published in the XXXIV issue of the magazine Reconquista. In this part, Jaroslaw will discuss metapolitics, Polish culture, music, art, his travels, and writing. Ondrej Mann: Have you organized any metapolitical conferences in the past? Do you plan to organize any again? […]

  • With Brasillach in Spain & Germany: Remembering Robert Brasillach (March 31, 1909 – February 6, 1945)

    Counter Currents - Mar 31st 2021 6:00am EDT

    4,721 words Here we have a continuation of the narrative presented in past installments, describing Brasillach’s auto-tour through wartime Spain in July 1938, accompanied by his brother-in-law Maurice Bardèche and their friend Pierre Cousteau. As before, I have translated it directly from Brasillach’s memoir Notre avant-guerre (1938-41). In the last section, Robert Brasillach gave a quick summary of […]

  • Et tu, AOC?

    Counter Currents - Mar 30th 2021 6:45am EDT

    3,785 words There’s that old saying that politics is showbiz for ugly people. If that’s true, I think it is fair to say that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has “gone Hollywood.” I’ve mused on the concept of “going Hollywood” in a previous article. Many people move to Los Angeles to make it big. Every day, starry-eyed kids from […]

  • Mrs. America Redux

    Counter Currents - Mar 30th 2021 6:30am EDT

    2,785 words One of the great unexpected pleasures of the Covid lockdown last spring was discovering oddball television series you otherwise wouldn’t have approached with a barge pole. Producers and programming executives detected a nice angle here, so they moved up launch dates by a few months. This is what happened with Mrs. America, a nine-part […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: March 21-27, 2021

    Counter Currents - Mar 29th 2021 6:45am EDT

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets convicted spy Johnathan Pollard upon his arrival to Israel 2,154 words Charlottesville Mayor Writes Weird Poem About How Charlottesville Rapes You Unless things turn around right quick and proper, the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, will be seen as the Waterloo of white identity politics for the foreseeable future. Even […]

  • Today’s Livestream: Ask Counter-Currents with Greg Johnson, Millennial Woes, & Frodi Midjord

    Counter Currents - Mar 28th 2021 1:06pm EDT

    45 words On Sunday, March 28 at noon PST, 3 PM EST, 8 PM UK time, 9 PM CET, I will be hosting the Counter-Currents Radio weekly livestream on our DLive channel: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents The panelists will discuss current events and take your questions for two hours. Donations, comments, questions: https://entropystream.live/countercurrents  

  • Another Brick in the Paywall

    Counter Currents - Mar 26th 2021 11:30am EDT

    Persian archers, glazed bricks from the palace of Darius I at Susa. 1,376 words Counter-Currents is trying to raise $200,000 this year to sustain and improve our work. Since last week’s update, we have received 46 donations totaling $8,290.45 for a total of 66 donations and a total of $14,827.45 since we started our fundraiser […]

  • It’s a Hit!

    Counter Currents - Mar 26th 2021 6:45am EDT

    2,180 words Dalrymple: Then why am I watching it?Costanza: Because it’s on TV!   Let’s start with three statements that are in no way, shape or form, related to each other.  1. Narcocorrido artists are sometimes used by Mexican cartels to launder money. Cartel allies in the media and music business will catapult artists to fame to […]

  • He’s Back! Hitler does Friday the 13th

    Counter Currents - Mar 26th 2021 6:30am EDT

    2,272 words Nature is a temple, where the livingColumns sometimes breathe of confusing speech;Man walks within these groves of symbols, eachOf which regards him as a kindred thing. — Charles Baudelaire, “Correspondence” Si Dieu n’existait pas, il faudrait l’inventer. “If God did not exist, then it would be necessary to invent him” is, perhaps, one […]

  • The Power of Myth: Remembering Joseph Campbell (March 26, 1904–October 30, 1987)

    Counter Currents - Mar 26th 2021 6:00am EDT

    Joseph Campbell & his wife, Jean Erdman Campbell, c. 1939. 2,319 words Joseph Campbell, the famed teacher of comparative mythology, was born on this day in 1904. For many people, including yours truly, he has served as a “gateway drug” into not only a new way of looking at myths, but into a non-materialistic way […]

  • Heroic Gunman Kills 10 Potential White Supremacists

    Counter Currents - Mar 25th 2021 6:45am EDT

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Rules of the Game 2021. 1,345 words In the immediate wake of 2013’s Boston Marathon bombing, writer David Sirota — a skinny dork with delusions of being a tough guy — wrote an article for Salon.com called “I Hope the Bomber is a White American.” I hope that Sirota was disappointed to the point […]

  • Remembering Flannery O’Connor (March 25, 1925–August 4, 1964)

    Counter Currents - Mar 25th 2021 6:00am EDT

    1,842 words Like her near-contemporary Gore Vidal (both were born in 1925), the fiction writer Mary Flannery O’Connor had her first brush with fame via a Pathé movie newsreel. She had a pet chicken whom she’d taught to walk backward. Gore’s fame came a few years later when he piloted an airplane, age ten. O’Connor […]