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  • Editor’s Update

    Counter Currents - May 31st 2024 5:57pm EDT

    437 words Dear Friends of Counter-Currents, There’s always a lot going on at Counter-Currents. The 2024 Fundraiser We started the 2024 Fundraiser at the end of March. Our goal is $300,000. We have now raised $23,208.23. That’s about $1,800 since last week. I want to thank everyone who helped out. But frankly, I am starting […]

  • Red-State Secession Gaining Steam in Oregon

    Counter Currents - May 31st 2024 9:58am EDT

    The proposed state of Greater Idaho (in red). Source: Greater Idaho. 1,367 words Residents of Crook County, Oregon recently voted on joining the latest secessionist effort gaining steam within the rapidly-polarizing United States. The Greater Idaho movement seeks to incorporate up to 14 counties of eastern Oregon into the state of Idaho, which would extend […]

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  • Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I, Part 6

    Counter Currents - May 30th 2024 12:03pm EDT

    John William Waterhouse, Psyche Opening The Golden Box, 1903 2,055 words Part 5 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here) The final part of the Alcibiades I deals with the self and self-knowledge. Most ancient commentators held that this discussion is the core of the […]

  • Chaos at the Jersey Shore

    Counter Currents - May 30th 2024 12:00pm EDT

    Screenshot 1,250 words / 8:22 The beach resort town of Wildwood, New Jersey was home to some of my sunniest childhood memories. Located about 100 miles south of our suburban Philly brick row home, Wildwood was our go-to summer vacation spot. Wildwood’s boardwalk was like the Yellow Brick Road to me, a nearly two-mile stretch […]

  • Abigail Shrier’s Bad Therapy

    Counter Currents - May 30th 2024 11:02am EDT

    2,559 words Abigail Shrier Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up New York: Sentinel, 2024 Abigail Shrier is a journalist associated with the “Intellectual Dark Web” (IDW) who is known for her writing on adolescent girls who identify as transgender. Her previous book, Irreversible Damage, was previously reviewed at Counter-Currents. Her most recent book, […]

  • Charlottesville: The Day the Mask Came Off

    Counter Currents - May 29th 2024 8:59am EDT

    4,814 words Jason Kessler Charlottesville and the Death of Free Speech Dissident Press, 2024 A number of books have already been written about the suppressed “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. I have already reviewed the excellent Charlottesville Untold by Anne Wilson Smith. Padraig Martin’s A Walk in the Park also enjoys a good […]

  • Remembering Oswald Spengler (May 29, 1880-May 8, 1936)

    Counter Currents - May 29th 2024 7:14am EDT

    660 words Oswald Spengler was born on this day in 1880. For his contributions to the philosophy of history and culture, Spengler is one of the most important philosophical influences on the North American New Right, largely by way of his disciple Francis Parker Yockey. Spengler is often wrong, but even when he errs, he […]

  • The Union Jackal, May 2024

    Counter Currents - May 28th 2024 12:09pm EDT

    Photo courtesy of Number 10 on Flickr. 2,658 words Dependence Day Rishi Sunak, Britain’s diminutive Hindu Prime Minister, has named the date of the British General Election, and it will fall on American Independence Day. In Britain, of course, this would have to be re-christened Dependence Day as, in line with all European states and […]

  • Rebel Yell

    Counter Currents - May 28th 2024 9:07am EDT

    2,055 words The hit song for summer 2024 is here, and who could have guessed that it would come not from the contemporary assortment of scantily-clad bimbos and dress-wearing soyboys whom the music industry promotes as the ‘‘artists’’ of our time, but from a goofy Italian DJ circa 1999? The future really is the past. […]

  • Including audio version by Jim Goad! The Worst Week Yet: May 19-25, 2024

    Counter Currents - May 27th 2024 12:16pm EDT

    Source: Wikipedia. 2,185 words / 15:04 Steve Sailer: A Satanic Jewish Agent of the Deep State? I used to edit Steve Sailer’s articles at Taki’s Mag from around 2010 to 2014. His points were always impeccably argued and perfectly sourced. I can’t ever recall running across a typo or even a wisp of illogic. This […]

  • Charlotte York and Globalism’s Orgasm Machine

    Counter Currents - May 27th 2024 8:46am EDT

    Trey MacDougal (Kyle MacLachlan) and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) — no longer the ideal American couple. 811 words I gave the Sex and the City revival series And Just Like That . . . a fair chance, but after three hours of diversity, wokeness, and “body positivity,” I found myself returning to binge on the […]

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  • Remembering Louis-Ferdinand Céline (May 27, 1894–July 1, 1961)

    Counter Currents - May 27th 2024 7:59am EDT

    238 words Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French novelist, essayist, and physician Louis-Ferdinand-Auguste Destouches, who was born on this day in 1894. Céline is one of the giants of twentieth-century literature. And, like Ezra Pound and so many other great writers of the last century, he was an open and unapologetic racial nationalist. […]

  • The Aspiring-Rapper-to-Expired-Rapper Pipeline

    Counter Currents - May 26th 2024 8:15am EDT

    35 words / 8:50 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “The Aspiring-Rapper-to-Expired-Rapper Pipeline,” on Rylo Huncho, the aspiring rapper who accidentally killed himself while showing off a gun on a livestream. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/Goad-TheAspiringRapperToExpiredRapperPipeline.mp4

  • Editor’s Update

    Counter Currents - May 24th 2024 5:32pm EDT

    310 words Dear Friends of Counter-Currents, Again, there’s a lot going on at Counter-Currents, so I thought I would combine several announcements into a single post. The 2024 Fundraiser We started the 2024 Fundraiser at the end of March. Our goal is $300,000. We have now raised $20,929.32. That’s a major step forward from last […]

  • Is America Doomed?

    Counter Currents - May 24th 2024 12:21pm EDT

    Image courtesy of NARA & DVIDS Public Domain Archive. 2,486 words On May 9, 2024, Jared Taylor released a video entitled “What Is Our Goal?” that, quite frankly, surprised me. After a litany of well-chosen illustrations of America’s decline, he declares: It doesn’t matter who is elected President this year or four years from now […]

  • Eternal City Blues

    Counter Currents - May 24th 2024 12:25am EDT

    “Which multiculti- fakeugee-dumping-ground should we go to for our next holiday, darling?” 1,581 words Last week, for the first time in too long a time, I found myself again in Rome. Europe is changing so rapidly that returning to once-familiar places no longer feels like a homecoming. It feels like entering an alien terrain for […]

  • The Aspiring-Rapper-to-Expired-Rapper Pipeline

    Counter Currents - May 23rd 2024 10:38am EDT

    Source: Crocker Funeral Home 1,143 words / 8:44 The news reports agree: Last Wednesday’s self-inflicted accidental gunshot death of a 17-year-old Virginia rapper was a tragic event. MSN reprints an article from something called Hip Hop Vibe: Virginia’s drill rap scene was shaken by the tragic news of 17-year-old rapper Rylo Huncho. He wound up […]

  • Tom Wolfe’s The Painted Word

    Counter Currents - May 22nd 2024 7:50am EDT

    words Tom Wolfe The Painted Word New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux. 1975 (many editions since) Long before he died, Tom Wolfe deeded his archives to the New York Public Library (NYPL). When he passed on in 2018, the NYPL put up a little “pop-up” exhibition in commemoration. It would have been bigger, but the Library […]

  • Statistics Show Racial Disparities in Social Outcomes

    Counter Currents - May 21st 2024 8:56am EDT

    Source: The Bakken Museum on Flickr. 1,325 words Statistics communicating racial gaps in earnings convey nothing about the depth of racial discrimination in society. Invariably, inequalities in socioeconomic outcomes are an ineluctable consequence of group differences in ability and aptitude. For example, the observation that white Americans out-earn blacks is an indication that one group […]

  • Why I Read

    Counter Currents - May 21st 2024 6:39am EDT

    Image courtesy of Theen Moy on Flickr. 2,475 words If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company. — Lord Byron There’s more to life than books, you know, But not much more. — Morrissey Writing has a lot in common with sex and driving in that those who take part […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: May 12-18, 2024

    Counter Currents - May 20th 2024 3:02pm EDT

    Oleksandr Usyk (photo courtesy of Wikimedia) 1,860 words The World’s Greatest Boxer Is a White Man Apologies, oh trusted and cherished readers, because this article is a trifle late. I also beg you to forgive me for the fact that I’m straying from my usual path of chronicling all the week’s bad news. The reason […]

  • Trump’s Deportations: Bluster or Promise?

    Counter Currents - May 20th 2024 11:20am EDT

    1,000 words Donald Trump, always interesting if not obsessively cogent, says that he will deport perhaps 20 million illegal aliens if again elected. Can he? Legally, of course, Trump is in the right. The illegals are in the country illegally and the law clearly says that they may be deported. Polls show that a great […]

  • Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I Part 4

    Counter Currents - May 20th 2024 10:39am EDT

    Xerxes I of Persia and his wife, queen Amestris 2,741 words Part 4 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here) In our previous installment, Socrates has convinced Alcibiades that he is ignorant of justice. Therefore, he should not go into politics until he is educated. But Socrates undermines his argument by […]

  • Fear of Calling a Spade a Spade

    Counter Currents - May 19th 2024 7:01am EDT

    50 words / 9:41 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Fear of Calling a Spade a Spade,” on the recent arrest of Joshua Cobb, a black US Marine who was planning a mass shooting of white people — and which is being largely ignored by the media. See below. […]

  • Remembering Julius Evola (May 19, 1898–June 11, 1974)

    Counter Currents - May 19th 2024 6:46am EDT

    1,230 words Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola was born on May 19, 1898 in Rome. Along with René Guénon, Evola is one of the writers who has most influenced the metapolitical outlook and project of Counter-Currents, which is reflected in the fact that Evola is one of the most-tagged writers on this website. In commemoration […]