50,000 Years of Failure
Counter Currents - Feb 25th 2024 11:56am EST35 words / 11:45 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “50,000 Years of Failure,” on the 50,000-year-old mess that is Papua New Guinea, where the main pastimes include rape, murder, and cannibalism. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/Goad-50000YearsOfFailure.mp4
Saturday’s Livestream Greg Johnson Talks Philosophy with Keith Woods, James Tucker, & Millennial Woes
Counter Currents - Feb 23rd 2024 6:12pm ESTPlato and Aristotle, detail from Raphael’s The School of Athens, 1510-1511 159 words On Saturday, February 24th, Greg Johnson talks philosophy with on the Counter-Currents Radio Livestream. In hour one, Greg welcomes Keith Woods to talk about his debate with Neema Parvini a.k.a. Academic Agent on ideology vs. power. You can read their exchange here: […]
Tucker Carlson Interviews Lydia Brimelow as VDARE Is Under Siege
Counter Currents - Feb 23rd 2024 2:29pm ESTLydia Brimelow and family. 900 words Immigration patriots Peter and Lydia Brimelow, the husband and wife duo who run VDARE.com, are in a dogged fight for survival in the face of politically-motivated lawfare by white-hating black New York Attorney General Leticia James. Their scrappy resistance fight received a much-needed shot in the arm Tuesday night […]
Lent Observations
Counter Currents - Feb 23rd 2024 1:16pm ESTIvan Kramskoy, Christ in the Wilderness (1872) 1,465 words I started to seriously observe Lent with my grandmother on my mom’s side of the family about 15 years ago. She was Eastern Orthodox, and I am too – or at least I was baptized as such as a baby. On Fat Tuesday I usually stop […]
50,000 Years of Failure
Counter Currents - Feb 22nd 2024 2:14pm EST1,488 words / 11:35 Archeological evidence suggests that at some dim juncture 40,000 to 50,000 years ago, migrants originating from Africa arrived in what is now known as Papua New Guinea. Ever since their arrival — and I’m gonna be completely frank here — they haven’t accomplished much worth writing home to mom about. The […]
The Counter-Currents Book Club: F. Roger Devlin’s Sexual Utopia in Power
Counter Currents - Feb 21st 2024 8:03pm ESTYou can buy F. Roger Devlin’s Sexual Utopia in Power here. 196 words Join us on March 3rd at noon PST, 3 PM EST, or 9 PM CET for the next meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club, where we will be discussing F. Roger Devlin’s Sexual Utopia in Power with our panel: author F. Roger […]
Remembrance of Things Punk: Viv Albertine
Counter Currents - Feb 21st 2024 2:08pm EST2,136 words Albertine was one of those who took on too much in order to remain perpetually dissatisfied with herself. — Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past We were trying to write great pop songs, but ended up creating something new by accident. — Viv Albertine, Clothes, Boys, Music Viv Albertine Clothes Clothes Clothes Music […]
Crowdsourcing Request: Missing Citations in Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium
Counter Currents - Feb 20th 2024 2:49pm ESTYou can pre-order the Centennial Edition of Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium here. 597 words Whenever possible, the new Centennial Edition of Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium provides citations for all quotes as well as explanatory notes for unfamiliar terms and references. (The other volumes in the set, The World in Flames: The Shorter Writings of Francis Parker […]
The Boy and the Heron
Counter Currents - Feb 20th 2024 2:24pm EST677 words At the age of 83, Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki is the greatest creator of animated films since Walt Disney. But Miyazaki is not resting on his laurels. Instead, just last year he released The Boy and the Heron, his 12th feature film. The Boy and the Heron was released in Japan in July […]
Against Circumcision
Counter Currents - Feb 20th 2024 1:35pm EST2,705 words The Icelandic government considered a bill in early 2018 banning the non-therapeutic circumcision of newborn boys. If passed, the law would have found such acts punishable by up to six years in prison. The reason for the ban, according to Silja Dögg Gunnarsdóttir, the member of Parliament who created the bill, was simply […]
The Seer Alois Irlmaier and His Great Prediction
Counter Currents - Feb 20th 2024 12:26am ESTAlois Irlmaier 2,305 words If you have visions, go see a doctor! — Helmut Schmidt First comes prosperity like never before. Then follows an apostasy like never before. Then comes an unprecedented corruption of morals. Then a great number of foreigners come into the country. There is high inflation. Money loses more and more of […]
The Worst Week Yet: February 11-17, 2024
Counter Currents - Feb 19th 2024 11:36am EST2,601 words Everyone (Except White Supremacists) Agrees: It’s a White Supremacist World! As I stumble pell-mell into the morass of news stories, opinion columns, and academic essays that help me to form a mental hologram of what the hell is going on in this world every week, it seems as if everyone agrees that we […]
The Mother Who Mistook an Oven for a Crib
Counter Currents - Feb 18th 2024 11:20am EST53 words / 9:31 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “The Mother Who Mistook an Oven for a Crib,” on Mariah Thomas, a black woman who burned her one-month-old baby to death in her oven last week, telling authorities that she mistook the oven for her baby’s crib. See […]
Where George Grant Went Wrong
Counter Currents - Feb 16th 2024 2:23pm ESTGeorge Grant 1,844 words George Grant’s Lament for a Nation was most obviously wrong in its immediate predictions about Canada. He thought that Anglo-Canada would seek direct annexation by the dynamic American Republic. Many of his errors stem from a conflation of economics with cultural and political destiny. Even now that Canada is almost entirely […]
War and Genocide in Gaza with No End in Sight
Counter Currents - Feb 16th 2024 1:47pm EST1,665 words Israel’s war of annihilation against the Palestinian people grinds on. New revelations about operations in the south of war-torn Gaza and the West Bank, as well as hawkish plans for the post-Palestinian occupation of the territory, are prominent in the news. Despite condemnations from around the world, the Israeli war machine continues to […]
The Mother Who Mistook an Oven for a Crib
Counter Currents - Feb 15th 2024 1:01pm EST1,328 words / 9:23 Prosecutors in Kansas City, Missouri say that on Friday, February 9 — two days before the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl and five days before a lone Kansas City gunman shot and killed one person and injured over a dozen others during a post-Super Bowl victory parade — a […]
Caught in a Time Loop: The Eternal Return of Leftist Hysteria
Counter Currents - Feb 15th 2024 11:52am ESTAn anti-AfD rally that was held in Berlin earlier this month. 1,315 words It’s 2016-2020 all over again, it would seem. Those were the years when the German mainstream media did not go one day without publishing at least one headline telling us how dumb, dangerous, and insane Donald Trump was. Well, Trump is slowly […]
The Dark Side: Paul Kersey’s Whitey on the Moon
Counter Currents - Feb 14th 2024 2:56pm ESTYou can buy Paul Kersey’s Whitey on the Moon here. 2,500 words Black people do not like to think about history too much, because Black people don’t exactly have an excitingly stellar history . . . — Paul Kersey, Stuff Black People Don’t Like: 365 Days in Black-Run America We once went to the Moon. […]
Game 101, Part 2
Counter Currents - Feb 14th 2024 11:53am EST3,696 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Sinister Womanizer Secret 6: Don’t let rejection get you down It hurts to be rebuffed, especially when it’s done with undeserved cruelty. For some guys, getting kicked in the face enough times will produce a condition called approach anxiety. (It’s aversive classical conditioning, rather like being […]
Game 101, Part 1
Counter Currents - Feb 13th 2024 6:47pm EST2,656 words Part 1 of 2 Ovid was the world’s first pickup artist to share his secrets about the art of love, which he did in flowery Latin verse. This classic from 2 AD was one-of-a-kind for ages. Then, in 1970, Eric Weber’s groundbreaking book emerged: How to Pick Up Girls! This was the first […]
On Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car”
Counter Currents - Feb 13th 2024 3:35pm EST1,577 words Five years ago I wrote an essay called “Rediscovering a Song” in which I discussed my mistaken initial assessment of “Cat’s in the Cradle,” the famous 1970s hit by Harry Chapin. I had put that assessment in a box in my mind, sealed it up, and never bothered to reopen it until many, […]
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Counter Currents - Feb 13th 2024 12:06pm EST1,248 words John Huston’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), starring Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston, is a classic drama about three white prospectors searching for gold in the wilds of Mexico. Since the movie is older than most of my readers, I feel free to summarize key plot elements, but I will leave […]
The Worst Week Yet: February 4-10, 2024
Counter Currents - Feb 12th 2024 1:42pm EST2,347 words Joe Biden Forgets the Reasons Why People Accusing Him of Having a “Poor Memory” are Wrong Last Monday, the United States Department of Justice released a 388-page report by Special Counsel Robert K. Hur declining to prosecute President Joseph Robinette Alzheimer Biden for mishandling classified documents. What was fascinating from a strictly malevolent […]
Why I Never Gave Up on Women
Counter Currents - Feb 11th 2024 11:38am EST38 words / 10:14 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Why I Never Gave Up on Women,” on why he never gave up despite all the challenges and pitfalls he’s been through with them. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/Goad-WhyINeverGaveUpOnWomen.mp4
Counter Currents - Feb 9th 2024 5:06pm EST
76 words On Saturday, February 10th, Greg Johnson welcomes Pox Populi (Counter-Currents, Telegram, Twitter) and David Zsutty (Counter-Currents, Telegram, Twitter) of the Homeland Institute to talk about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin and the controversy swirling around it. We will also, of course, welcome your questions. The stream will start at noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern […]