1,492 words Director David Lynch was born on this day in 1946 in Missoula, Montana. Lynch’s father was a research scientist with the US Department of Agriculture, which moved him around a good deal, thus Lynch grew up in the Pacific Northwest, North Carolina, and Northern Virginia. Lynch studied art and design at several schools. […]
4,961 words During our formative years, most Americans heard much about the celebrated civil rights activist Martin Luther King and his lofty teleological vision. His doctrines, promulgated under the halo of reverence, present a compelling vision of racial harmony best exemplified in the “I have a dream” speech. This discourse ornamented with biblical flourishes conceived […]
1,236 words Reparations have become a central and highly emotive issue in American politics. What was once framed as a moral or symbolic demand has now entered the realm of concrete policy. California has moved further than any other state. In December 2025, lawmakers voted to create a Reparations Fund, transforming reparations from rhetoric into […]
444 words I treat MLK Day like every other Monday: I take the trash to the curb and let it rot there until Tuesday. It is a fitting symbol of the “content of his character,” for King was a vicious fraud and operator who, in death, was turned into the whitewashed saint of America’s egalitarian […]
4,441 words In our last installment we continued telling the tale of “Otter’s Ransom.” This is the story Regin the dwarf smith tells young Sigurd, about how Regin’s brother Fafnir killed their father and made off with the hoard of gold that had belonged to the dwarf Andvari. It is a fabulous treasure, but before […]
Norman Podhoretz. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. 4,057 words Nous laisserons le monde aussi sot et aussi méchant que nous l’avons trouvé. We will leave this world as stupid and nasty as we found it when we came into it. Voltaire, “Letter to Madame la Comtesse de Lutzelburg” There was a recent post on The Unz […]
3,652 words Richard Wolstencroft is a 56-year-old Australian film director, writer, film festival organiser (Melbourne Underground Film Festival), former nightclub promoter, thinker, philosopher, and podcaster. He has directed eight feature films and twenty short films, including music videos. He founded a nightclub called The Hellfire Club, which was very successful in the 1990s and early […]
5,985 words Gen. Turgidson: Ahem . . . The Duty Officer asked General Ripper to confirm the fact that he had issued the go code, and he said, uh, “Yes gentlemen, they are on their way in, and nobody can bring them back . . . God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, […]
1,917 words Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up & His Disastrous Choice to Run Again New York: Penguin Press, 2025 Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished. Deuteronomy 34:7 The days of our years are threescore years […]
1,974 words If Hollywood was making a WWII film in your neighborhood, set in Nazi Germany, what kind of props do you think they would need to put up around the place to make it actually resemble the Third Reich? That’s correct, Nazi-related ones. Waltham Forest Council in London did not appear to realize this […]
2,881 words James Howard Kunstler, whose blog Clusterfuck Nation covers both political and cultural events, published Young Man Blues last year, a fast-paced and enthralling memoir about his troubled adolescence. When he was released from a mental institution he called The Laughing Academy, he judged “My childhood was over and the statute of limitations on […]
Still from Officer Ross’s cell phone footage. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. 1388 words The fatal shooting of anti-ICE activist Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this month provides an excellent focal point to demonstrate the stark difference between the Left and Right in today’s politics. The primary points of contention here are whether the shooting was […]
1,321 words Trump’s raid to capture Nicolas Maduro was well-executed. While the situation remains open-ended, Trump has made it clear that he is following Hegseth’s vow to avoid mission creep and open-ended commitments. And it advanced American interests. It’s about the oil. And it was a refreshing break from the farce of international law. Shortly […]
3,090 words Earle Labor Jack London: An American Life Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013 “The greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived.” – Alfred Kazin American writer Jack London was born John Griffith Chaney on January 12, 1876. Born into poverty in San Francisco, London later said that “life is not […]
Thomas Dixon. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. 2,412 words Thomas Dixon Jr. was a committed White Nationalist who worked tirelessly to promote race realism and white solidarity. At various points in his life, he was an attorney, a legislator, a Baptist minister, a lecturer, a novelist, and a filmmaker. He is best known as the […]
45 words This Saturday’s Counter-Currents Radio Stream.s Saturday, January 10th: Hour 1: Sarah Dye of Above Time Coffee Roasters, Hour 2: Greg Johnson AMA Join us at the normal time: noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern, 9 pm Central Europe at: Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/ccradio DLive: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents Send questions & donations to Entropy: entropystream.live/countercurrents
Renee Good 1,612 words In response to massive and systematic Somali organized crime in Tim Walz’s Minnesota, President Trump sent a large task force to beef up immigration enforcement. In addition to DHS, FBI, and IRS agents conducting door-to-door raids on Somali-owned businesses in Minneapolis, ICE was also out in force. On January 7, an […]
1,050 words Editor’s Note: This is the audio and transcript of the Q&A from Jonathan Bowden’s lecture “Lillith before Eve” at the London Forum on September 24, 2011. I want to thank J.H. for his help with the transcript. If you can spot any errors or make out the words marked “unintelligible” please post your […]
1,050 words Editor’s Note: This is the audio and transcript of the Q&A from Jonathan Bowden’s lecture “Lillith before Eve” at the London Forum on September 24, 2011. I want to thank J.H. for his help with the transcript. If you can spot any errors or make out the words marked “unintelligible” please post your […]
Detail of Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787. 1,790 words “Life is a tricky business. I’ve decided to spend it trying to understand it.” —Arthur Schopenhauer, Remark made to Christoph Martin Wieland I am a philosopher, drawn to philosophy from an early age, initially Plato’s Dialogues. I’ve also been rewarded with a long healthy […]
Detail of Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787. 1,790 words “Life is a tricky business. I’ve decided to spend it trying to understand it.” —Arthur Schopenhauer, Remark made to Christoph Martin Wieland I am a philosopher, drawn to philosophy from an early age, initially Plato’s Dialogues. I’ve also been rewarded with a long healthy […]
Detail of Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787. 1,790 words “Life is a tricky business. I’ve decided to spend it trying to understand it.” —Arthur Schopenhauer, Remark made to Christoph Martin Wieland I am a philosopher, drawn to philosophy from an early age, initially Plato’s Dialogues. I’ve also been rewarded with a long healthy […]
Detail of Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787. 1,790 words “Life is a tricky business. I’ve decided to spend it trying to understand it.” —Arthur Schopenhauer, Remark made to Christoph Martin Wieland I am a philosopher, drawn to philosophy from an early age, initially Plato’s Dialogues. I’ve also been rewarded with a long healthy […]
1,021 words After a recent break-up with a girlfriend, I decided to make a go at “Facebook Dating.” I have heavy skepticism about any nonorganic means of dating, but I needed a distraction to take my mind off my recent relationship woes. I am not new to resourcing the internet for dating options, but some […]
3,181 words As you may have noticed, the Moomins have white skin. This automatically makes them potentially “problematic” for some people. Are they just white neo-Nazis in disguise? It depends who you ask. Being a race of hippo-like, blue-eyed Scandinavian trolls who live in a land so frozen it may as well be Hyperborea, the […]
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