• Editor’s Update

    Counter Currents - Jun 5th 2026 7:53pm EDT

    126 words This year, Counter-Currents is trying to raise $300,000 to sustain and expand our work (like paying our great new videographer). We are off to a strong start. So far we have raised $57,677.69. Thank you! We used up our first $20,000 matching grant so quickly that another donor has offer a grant of […]

  • Who’s Looking Back?

    Counter Currents - Jun 5th 2026 12:09pm EDT

    774 words In Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, palantirs are basically crystal balls, allowing people to see things at a distance. They are also like video phones. Two people with palantirs can communicate at a distance. In Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring, Gandalf chides Saruman for using a palantir to collect information […]

  • China’s Threat to American Security

    Counter Currents - Jun 5th 2026 10:39am EDT

    Trump and Xi Jinping (Official WH Photo by Daniel Torok) 3,809 words Beneath the surface of everyday American life, the pork on supermarket shelves, the seeds planted across Midwestern fields, and the agrochemicals sprayed on crops from Texas to Iowa, lies a quietly assembled architecture of Chinese influence. Through corporate acquisition, land accumulation, data harvesting, […]

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  • Heidegger on Nietzsche, Part Two

    Counter Currents - Jun 5th 2026 9:12am EDT

    5,500 words 1. The Metaphysics of Presence In the last installment, we introduced Heidegger’s claim that Western metaphysics ends with Nietzsche. For Heidegger, metaphysics is the expression of an anthropocentrism that culminates in the meaninglessness and inhumanity of modern technological civilization. With Nietzsche, metaphysics comes full circle and “reverses” Platonism. Nietzsche prepares the ground for […]

  • The Killing of Henry Nowak

    Counter Currents - Jun 4th 2026 10:44am EDT

    2,912 words “I can’t breathe.” The last words of George Floyd. “I can’t breathe.” The last words of Henry Nowak. Henry Nowak was an 18-year-old Englishman, a student of Polish descent, and was studying for a degree in Accounting and Finance at Southampton University, England. On the evening of December 3, 2025, he had gone […]

  • The Crisis of Chinese Technology Thieves

    Counter Currents - Jun 4th 2026 9:31am EDT

    1,979 words David R. Shedd & Andrew Badger The Great Heist: China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets New York: Harper, 2025 Certainly no one has ever denied the Chinaman’s extraordinary economic efficiency. Winnowed by ages of grim elimination in a land populated to the uttermost limits of subsistence, the Chinese race is selected as […]

  • The Strange World of Gender Bender Fiction

    Counter Currents - Jun 4th 2026 7:29am EDT

    A scene from Ranma 1/2. 1,506 words After Governor Kristi Noem’s husband was exposed as a cross-dresser with a “bimbofication fetish,”1 I found myself reading about autogynephilia. This is a paraphilia in which males are aroused by the idea of being a woman (or otherwise feminine). A quick search reveals that the mainstream media has […]

  • The Remigration Movement Solidifies 

    Counter Currents - Jun 3rd 2026 11:22am EDT

    3,482 words Originally published at American Renaissance. @RESUM26 on X When the first Remigration Summit went forward last year in a small town near Milan, Italy, organizers had to count as a success that it managed to happen at all, so fierce was opposition from leftist groups and establishment politicians. This year’s event in the […]

  • Casting Aspersions

    Counter Currents - Jun 3rd 2026 7:33am EDT

    1,706 words Hers was the race that launched a thousand quips—most of them asking, in very blunt terms, just since when had Helen of Troy been a forty-plus Kenyan. It has been confirmed that average-looking middle-aged black African actress Lupita Nyong’o has been cast to play history’s most beautiful woman in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming version […]

  • Don’t Forget to Vote

    Counter Currents - Jun 2nd 2026 2:25pm EDT

    Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Robot 176 words At the beginning of every month, Counter-Currents Subscribers can vote on the Writer and the Article of the Month for the previous month. If you are looking at Counter-Currents on your computer, look at the sidebar menu to your right. If you are on your phone, click the three […]

  • The Robot Hotdog Stand

    Counter Currents - Jun 2nd 2026 7:24am EDT

    1,275 words No matter what happens with AI, it’s going to be an economic catastrophe. If AI is just a giant bubble, obviously that bubble is going to burst, and it will bring down the whole economy. Indeed, the American economy is mostly stagnant. All the growth right now is in AI. If AI actually […]

  • The Zodiac Killer

    Counter Currents - Jun 2nd 2026 6:14am EDT

    3,068 words This is the Zodiac speaking. I like killing people because it is so much fun. It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest because man is the most dangerous animal of all. –The Zodiac Killer There many stock characters embedded in the psyche of the movie-going public. Vampires, aliens, cowboys, […]

  • Jared Taylor: What Rome Means to Me

    Counter Currents - Jun 1st 2026 2:33pm EDT

    16 words Jared Taylor discusses what Rome means to him. From the 2026 Counter-Currents Spring Retreat in Rome.  https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Jared-Taylor-Rome.mp4

  • An Interview with Endeavour:

    Counter Currents - Jun 1st 2026 8:18am EDT

    Samuel Atkins, HMS Endeavour off the coast of New Holland, c. 1794. 2,062 words Endeavour was born in Canada in the 1990s, but has lived in several different countries. He writes essays and makes videos on various topics, including politics, history, culture, classic films, and technology, from the perspective of a Canadian nationalist, or more […]

  • José Pedro Zúquete’s The Identitarians

    Counter Currents - Jun 1st 2026 5:15am EDT

    2,904 words José Pedro Zúquete The Identitarians: The Movement against Globalism and Islam in Europe South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018 José Pedro Zúquete is a Portuguese political scientist. He is the author of Missionary Politics in Europe (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2007) which focuses on Umberto Bossi’s Northern League in Italy […]

  • Editor’s Update

    Counter Currents - May 29th 2026 9:09pm EDT

    114 words There will be no CC Radio livestream on Saturday, May 30th because we want you to watch the Remigration Summit, which you can stream here. This year, Counter-Currents is trying to raise $300,000 to sustain and expand our work (like paying our great new videographer). We are off to a strong start. We […]

  • Heidegger on Nietzsche, Part One

    Counter Currents - May 29th 2026 11:54am EDT

    5,058 words 1. Nietzsche as Essential Thinker Friedrich Nietzsche is an extraordinarily significant thinker for the Right. His affirmation of hierarchy and natural inequality and his analysis of Leftism as moved by ressentiment are extremely important to us. Yet, viewed from the Right, there are also major problems with Nietzsche’s thought. His historicism and relativism […]

  • Berlin: City of Stones

    Counter Currents - May 29th 2026 7:27am EDT

    1,370 words To describe Jason Lutes’ masterful graphic novel series Berlin as enemy fiction would be harsh—but technically true. Sadly. Lutes exhibits enough vision and artistry on every page to impress upon the reader his love of the sequential art medium as well as of his subject matter, which, in the case of Berlin: City […]

  • Remigration is Inevitable Part 3

    Counter Currents - May 28th 2026 10:24am EDT

    2,102 words Part 3 of 3 (whole series here) Break Big Problems Down into Small Ones The numbers of people who need to be remigrated are immense and growing. Thus, at first glance, the problem seems overwhelming. But just as the biggest meal is consumed bite by bite, the best way to solve intimidatingly large […]

  • Why Billionaires Should Fund White Identity Politics

    Counter Currents - May 28th 2026 9:00am EDT

    Yes, this photo is real. (Photo via Kanye West / X, 2020) 1,932 words I have been watching videos of Jared Taylor, Keith Woods, and David Zsutty making an elevator pitch to billionaires, and the exercise raises a question that most people would rather not seriously engage with: why not? The instinctive answer is brand […]

  • How Cold War Two Came About

    Counter Currents - May 28th 2026 6:18am EDT

    3,025 words David E. Sanger New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West New York: Crown, 2024 The Second Cold War has started. This simmering conflict is one in which Russia and China are united against Western Civilization in general and America more specifically. This situation developed day by […]

  • The Philosopher Is In Preorder

    Counter Currents - May 27th 2026 6:01pm EDT

    200 words Greg Johnson The Philosopher Is In San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2026 Release Date: June 20, 2026. Special pre-order price until then. What is philosophy? Why should you study it? How can simple arguments shatter and remake your life? Greg Johnson’s The Philosopher Is In a lucid and engaging introduction to philosophy. It explores the […]

  • David Zsutty’s Elevator Pitch to a Billionaire 

    Counter Currents - May 27th 2026 1:23pm EDT

    583 words David Zsutty makes an “elevator pitch” to a billionaire to put his money behind white survival. From the Counter-Currents Spring Retreat in Rome. Please share far and wide, especially with the billionaire next door. Also available on X. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Zsutty-Elevator-Pitch.mp4 If I had a large sum of money, I would start an offensive law […]

  • Headbanging Lite

    Counter Currents - May 27th 2026 6:55am EDT

    3,467 words When I first chanced across Counter-Currents almost a decade ago, two things kept me coming back. Firstly, it was the first site I had seen which featured philosophy from a Right-wing perspective. Philosophy is my academic environment, and my BA, MA, and PhD are all in the subject, but online philosophy magazines are […]

  • White Advocacy Past and Present

    Counter Currents - May 27th 2026 5:27am EDT

    1,503 words “We need a white Jesse Jackson.” That was my first thought when I confronted racial reality in the late 1980s. After growing up in a nearly all-white New England town, I quickly realized that blacks weren’t like they were portrayed in movies and on TV. The reverse was true as well: white Southerners, […]