When the Family Becomes Predation
Counter Currents - Jul 7th 2026 9:15am EDT 4,420 words A senior bribe-guzzling bureaucrat I knew in Delhi once broke down after dinner and a few expensive drinks paid for by my company. He was highly educated and held major responsibilities, but like every Indian bureaucrat I have known, his working life revolved around bribes, status, and sadistic pleasure. He could justify any […]
RICU: The Gentle Art of Persuasion
Counter Currents - Jul 7th 2026 7:45am EDT 3,528 words On May 22, 2017, an American pop-star named Ariana Grande played a concert at the Manchester Arena in the north of England. The target market for Ms. Grande’s music is young girls, thousands of whom were in attendance. They became targets of a different kind. Salman Abedi was a young Muslim man, and […]
Mind of Darkness:
Counter Currents - Jul 7th 2026 6:37am EDT 4,512 words Lipton Matthews Busting African Delusions 2026 There is, within the human soul, the eternal struggle between the head and the heart. And so it goes with Lipton Matthews’s new book, Busting African Delusions. It concerns the economic development of Africa. It is intended to be an intellectual work: cold, hard analysis filled with […]
Remembering Revilo Oliver
Counter Currents - Jul 7th 2026 12:03am EDT 408 words Revilo Pendleton Oliver was born in Texas on this day in 1908. He received his undergraduate degree at Pomona College in California and his doctorate in classics at the University of Illinois under William Abbot Oldfather. He was Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois for many years. Revilo Oliver was a […]
Some Advantages of Irish Nationalism
Counter Currents - Jul 6th 2026 11:01am EDT 2,620 words This talk was delivered at the Irish National Party Summer Conference on July 4th, 2026. I want to thank everyone who made this event possible. This is my first visit to Ireland. I didn’t come to see the Cliffs of Moher, the Guinness Storehouse, the Book of Kells, the Ring of Kerry, or […]
America at 250 from the National Cathedral
Counter Currents - Jul 6th 2026 8:19am EDT From the National Cathedral website. 967 words “That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government…” […]
Why Not Stop All the Clocks?
Counter Currents - Jul 6th 2026 6:47am EDT 3,331 words Explaining why he was already disappointed by the forces of modern political “conservatism” way back in 1951, the great satirical English novelist and Catholic convert Evelyn Waugh once observed that there was no point in voting Tory (as the UK Conservative Party is also often called) anymore, as, whenever returning back into office […]
Remembering Jean Raspail
Counter Currents - Jul 5th 2026 11:40am EDT 596 words Jean Raspail was born on July 5, 1925 and died in 2020, less than a month before his 95th birthday. He was a French explorer, travel writer, and novelist. He published 40 books in a literary career that lasted almost 60 years, from 1952 to 2019. The Académie française awarded Raspail two of […]
Editor’s Update
Counter Currents - Jul 3rd 2026 6:24am EDT 244 words Two New Books for Pre-Order Counter-Currents has two new titles coming out on July 21. Preorder them before that date, for a discount: F. Roger Devlin’s Not Hooking Up, his sequel to Sexual Utopia in Power (now out in a new expanded edition as well) Greg Johnson’s The Battle of the Books Our […]
Tucker’s New Party
Counter Currents - Jul 3rd 2026 3:25am EDT Tucker Carlson in 2025. By Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. 1,543 words On June 22, 2026, during an appearance on the Can’t Be Censored podcast, Tucker Carlson said “I’m out” of the Republican Party and there was “no chance” he would support them moving forward. The specific reason he gave is […]
Ethiopia Against Italy
Counter Currents - Jul 3rd 2026 2:35am EDT 3,662 words Ian Campbell Holy War: The Untold Story of Catholic Italy’s Crusade Against the Ethiopian Orthodox Church London: C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2023 And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. […]
Please Vote
Counter Currents - Jul 2nd 2026 2:17pm EDT You can buy Greg Johnson’s The Philosopher Is In here. 179 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 […]
Kolberg: The Last Nazi (or Prussian?) Film
Counter Currents - Jul 2nd 2026 7:33am EDT 3,012 words Kolberg, like Jud Suss (reviewed here) is directed by Veit Harlan, is a period film that stars Harlan’s wife Kristina Soederbaum, and is accused of being clouded with “Nazi” themes. It was one of the last films distributed by the Third Reich, and always shown as an example of Nazi fanaticism and resistance […]
America 250 & The Fate of Empires
Counter Currents - Jul 2nd 2026 6:21am EDT2,057 words As America approaches its 250th anniversary, the ideas of a nation, an empire, a civilization, all begin to become rather salient. I was not around for the bicentennial celebrations of 1976. From what I have heard from family members who were there, the entire atmosphere was wildly different. There has been little fanfare […]
The Battle of the Books Preorder
Counter Currents - Jul 1st 2026 12:04pm EDT 173 words Release Date: July 21, 2026. Special pre-order price until then. Greg Johnson understands the importance of the battle of ideas. In The Battle of the Books, he gets down in the trenches, critically engaging with a wide range of critics, defenders, and scholars of the Right. Johnson reviews such thinkers of the Right […]
Why All the Silence About Blacks Being Kicked Out of South Africa?
Counter Currents - Jul 1st 2026 9:09am EDT 1,284 words Each year, if you are living in America or Europe, there are certain important deadlines every responsible foreign-born citizen must meet or suffer the consequences: tax-deadline day, visa-renewal time, things like that. If you are foreign-born and live in South Africa, however, there is an even more important one which was due this […]
Zelensky, the Jewish Conspiracy Narrative, & the Demographic Replacement of Ukraine
Counter Currents - Jul 1st 2026 8:30am EDT 3,941 words Abstract This article critically examines two intertwined narratives circulating within European identitarian and dissident Right-wing circles: first, that Volodymyr Zelensky is an agent of supranational Jewish interests; and second, that Ukraine is undergoing a deliberate program of ethnic replacement through the mass importation of African and Asian workers. Through analysis of primary sources, […]
1The Original Congressional Debate on Birthright Citizenship
Counter Currents - Jul 1st 2026 5:06am EDT 2,069 words We are rerunning this article which was originally published on November 2, 2018, due to the Supreme Court’s ruling on birthright citizenship on June 30, 2026. Leftists are fond of mocking conservative defenders of the Constitution, but they mysteriously morph into strict constructionists whenever anything threatens to overturn a law that suits their […]
Unmanifested Destiny
Counter Currents - Jun 30th 2026 12:43pm EDT 1,263 words Greg Johnson has said that after a certain age, remarking that someone has great potential ceases to be a compliment and becomes an insult. It’s just a euphemism for loser. The same applies to countries. In community college, a girl shared with me the idea for a play. It was so striking that […]
The Normies are Waking Up
Counter Currents - Jun 30th 2026 8:14am EDT 1,109 words The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship ran from June 23 to 25 in London. The billing is civilizational renewal. The crowd is donors, intellectuals, politicians, and people who flew in because they wanted to be in a room where certain conversations could happen without consequences. Some call it the WEF of the Right. The […]
Ethnic Vigilantism: The Movie
Counter Currents - Jun 30th 2026 7:20am EDT 2,915 words Two of the biggest stories of the last week look as though they couldn’t differ more. The release of additional police bodycam footage of the murder of Henry Nowak in the UK needs following as closely as any film script, and we will. We all need to be film reviewers here. It shows […]
Lothrop Stoddard’s The Revolt against Civilization
Counter Currents - Jun 29th 2026 9:47am EDT 1,386 words The following is from an introduction for an out of print edition of Lothrop Stoddard’s The Revolt Against Civilization. There was a time when evolutionary thinking was widely considered to be the key to racial self-defense. Although it didn’t play a role in the Congressional debates (itself an indication of the rapidly changing […]
David Zsutty on Political Organizing
Counter Currents - Jun 29th 2026 6:23am EDT70 words David Zsutty discusses lessons learned from Identity Evropa; how “people first is mission first,” centralized vision and decentralized execution, and networking. Despite Identity Evropa being crushed as a formal organization due to mass doxing, many of it’s members continued the fight in both dissident and mainstream politics which contributed to RINOS complaining that […]
Remembering Lothrop Stoddard
Counter Currents - Jun 29th 2026 4:24am EDT Lothrop Stoddard in 1926. 236 words Theodore Lothrop Stoddard was born on this day in 1883. Stoddard was a historian, political theorist, and white advocate. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, Stoddard attended Harvard College, graduating magna cum laude in 1905. He then studied law at Boston University. Stoddard received his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1914. […]
Editor’s Update
Counter Currents - Jun 26th 2026 4:17pm EDTYou can order Greg Johnson’s Loving Our Own here 277 words Our Fundraiser: Some June Incentives Are Coming to an End This year, Counter-Currents is trying to raise $300,000 to sustain and expand our work (like paying our great new videographer). So far we have raised $61,511.90. Thank you! We used up our first $20,000 […]
