Category: North American New Right, Page 15

Buttocks-‘n’-Basketball Bash Banned in Blacktown

67 words / 8:50 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Buttocks-‘n’-Basketball Bash Banned in Blacktown,” on the cancellation of and fallout that followed from a high school event featuring a group of lard-assed black women in bikinis dribbling and twerking in the school gym for cash prizes in a […]

editors update

You can pre-order the Centennial Edition of Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium here. 358 words There’s always a lot going on at Counter-Currents, and this week is no exception. 1. Our 2024 Fundraiser This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000 to sustain and expand our work. We had a slow start to the campaign because of debanking, […]

Talking to the Police: A Very, Very Bad Idea

Prof. James Duane (Image source: Regent University website) 1,993 words James Duane You Have the Right to Remain Innocent: What Police Officers Tell Their Children about the Fifth Amendment New York: Little A, 2016. Most Americans know very little about police interrogations. If a police officer wants to ask you some questions, and you know […]

When Neither a Marketplace nor Ideas are Proffered: On the Promises and Platitudes of the So-Called Marketplace of Ideas

4,170 words None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A vast majority in American society remain confident in so-called First-Amendment values. A foundational premise to this belief in free speech — not knowledge, but belief — is the concept of the “free marketplace of ideas.” This construct postulates that conflicting ideas or positions compete in an […]

Buttocks and Basketball Bash Banned in Blacktown

1,153 / 8:42 When you hear “NBA,” do you think “National Basketball Association” or “Nuttin’ But Azz”? Newark, New Jersey, that bleak post-industrial mega-ghetto posing as a city, doesn’t have a professional basketball team, so all signs point to “Nuttin’ But Azz.” As of the 2020 Census, Newark was 47% black, 36% Hispanic, and a […]

The Witness: How Lies about Kitty Genovese’s Murder Were Used to Undermine White America

2,387 words Urban myths are insidious enough when they are false. But when they assume universality in the broader culture — while reflecting negatively on that culture — then they can cause people to lose faith in themselves. This is one way in which civilizations begin to decline. For the last 60 years, one such […]

Whatever Happened to the Dirtbag Left?

The hosts of Chapo Trap House in November 2017. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons) 1,927 words The year was 2016. Donald Trump had just stunned the world by getting elected despite the entire media establishment being against him. The only support Trump had during his campaign was on the Internet, particularly the Alt Right, which was […]

Colin Wilson’s The Angry Years

1,839 words Colin Wilson The Angry Years: The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men London: Anova Books, 2007 When Colin Wilson sat down in 2006 to write his own history of the “Angry Young Men,” it was mainly a matter of settling accounts. There had been at least two other similarly-named books on […]

Remembering Colin Wilson

603 words Colin Henry Wilson (June 26, 1931–December 5, 2013) was an extraordinarily prolific English author of well over 100 books, both fiction and non-fiction, including volumes on philosophy, literature, psychology, religion, crime, sex, music, mysticism, and the paranormal, as well as a number of biographies and memoirs. From a working-class home and largely self-educated, […]

A Final Solution to the Palestinian Question

Image source: Wikimedia Commons 1,105 words The Israeli solution to the perennial Palestinian problem has emerged: The only way to be rid of them once and for all is to purge them from Gaza altogether. It has been difficult to achieve this aim, however, as fighting in the war-torn region is ongoing. It is unethical […]

Are We On the Brink of War?

Chrissy Houlahan, a US Congresswoman whose parents were Jewish refugees from Ukraine who is very eager to have young Americans registered for the draft. (Image source: Wikipedia) 1,659 words The House of Representatives passed a bill earlier this month that will require all men aged 18-26 to be automatically registered for conscription into the military. […]

Orwell and the Angries: A Listicle

1,352 words The following is being published in commemoration of George Orwell’s 121st birthday today. I’ve been trying to figure out how George Orwell fits into that 1950s literary phenomenon, or cult, called the Angry Young Men. The Angries, as a movement, were partly an invention of the British popular press of 1956-58. Some writers […]

The Worst Week Yet: June 16-22, 2024

Mug shot of Lexi Jade Brown from the Gulfport Police Department. 2,022 words / 14:42 15-Year-Old Mississippi Girl Who Stabbed Her Sleeping Mother: Mom Was a “Weird Bitch” Who Was “Suppressing the Black in Me” I think that we can all agree that, regardless of your race, creed, religion, or where you live, it’s incredibly […]

Juneteenth: It’s All So Junetiresome

35 words / 10:05 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Juneteenth: It’s All So Junetiresome,” on this year’s round of Juneteenth-related violence, and why Juneteenth is growing to be so Junetiresome. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/Goad-JuneteenthJunetiresome.mp4

265 words There’s always a lot going on at Counter-Currents, and this week is no exception. 1. Our 2024 Fundraiser This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000 to sustain and expand our work. We had a slow start to the campaign because of debanking, but we have caught up. Thus far we have received $72,364.11, so […]

265 words There’s always a lot going on at Counter-Currents, and this week is no exception. 1. Our 2024 Fundraiser This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000 to sustain and expand our work. We had a slow start to the campaign because of debanking, but we have caught up. Thus far we have received $72,364.11, so […]

Editor’s Update

Childe Hassam, The Fourth of July, 1916, 1916 265 words There’s always a lot going on at Counter-Currents, and this week is no exception. 1. Our 2024 Fundraiser This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000 to sustain and expand our work. We had a slow start to the campaign because of debanking, but we have caught […]

Blue Sunshine: The Whiteness of Goth

Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons 3,623 words The following essay was originally published at Radix Journal under a different pen name, but is being reprinted here with the permission of the author. In “Psychology and White-Ethnocentrism,” Kevin MacDonald discusses groups he calls “implicitly exclusionary” on race, and explores how these groups may be used to […]

Juneteenth: It’s All So Junetiresome

1,357 words / 9:57 Imagine existing as a distinct racial group on a continent for 400 years. Now imagine that your group’s greatest collective “achievement” is being freed from slavery — not rebelling against your slaveowners and freeing yourselves, but walking into freedom atop a red carpet of 600,000 or so bloody cracker corpses that […]

The Proclamation from Hell

3,204 words Kirkpatrick Sale Emancipation Hell: The Tragedy Wrought by Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation Columbia, S. C.: Shotwell Publishing, 2015 The emancipation of African slaves following the War Between the States is almost universally perceived as a great moral triumph, hence the enshrinement of Juneteenth as America’s newest federal holiday. While one will occasionally hear objections […]

So Long as They Replace Us Legally

Courtesy of Stonetoss 1,831 words The latest Homeland Institute poll corroborated mainstream polls showing that support for mass deportations of illegal immigrants is widespread. But support for legal immigration is still disturbingly high, even among young Republicans. Pundits and podcasters lampoon the centrist stance that illegal immigrants are bad but legal immigrants are great as […]

The Empire Strikes Back: The Myth of the Empire Windrush

2,724 words True myth may be defined as the reduction to narrative shorthand of ritual mime performed on public festivals . . . — Robert Graves, Greek Myths The word “narrative” has had something of a gain of function in recent years. Its Latin root is narrare, meaning “to tell a story,” and English-speaking children […]

Voting in the Shadow of Death: The 2024 European Parliamentary Elections in Poland

Mateusz Sitek, the 21-year-old Polish soldier who died from injuries he sustained after being stabbed by a migrant while defending the Polish border. 1,848 words The European Parliament elections in Poland in 2024 were considered by all the main players and commentators as a follow-up to the Polish parliamentary elections of 2023 — so I […]

Was There a Dutch Shift to the Right in the European Elections?

The leaders of the Labor Party (PvdA) of the Netherlands. 1,347 words While there is no end to the international mass media’s hysteria surrounding the gaining of even a single seat gain for any moderately conservative party in the European Parliament, the Netherlands seems to be inching closer to this point at glacial speed. While […]

The Worst Week Yet: June 9-15, 2024 — Nashville Shooter Audrey Hale’s Imaginary Penis

Audrey Hale (Photo from Metropolitan Nashville Police Department) 2,431 words / 16:56 Ever since the dead-eyed, boyish-looking Audrey Hale blasted her way into the Nashville Covenant School on March 27, 2023 and killed three students and three adult staffers before two cops shot her dead, the unanswered question remains: Why did she do it? Early […]