• Unmourned Funeral: Chapter 10

    Counter Currents - Oct 15th 2024 9:49am EDT

    4,944 words Chapter 1 begins here CHAPTER 10 THE RETURN OF THE QUEEN A Quiet Homecoming   O what can it mean To a daydream believer Or a homecoming queen? The Monkees, Daydream Believer Can the Queen return to what was once her kingdom? Any return, any cultural reconquista by philosophy would require philosophers who […]

  • Политика ресентимента

    Counter Currents - Oct 15th 2024 9:18am EDT

    1,421 words (Original essay in English, here.) Белые националисты считают, что существующая мультирасовая и мультикультурная система поставила нашу расу на путь вымирания. Рождаемость белых во всем мире ниже уровня воспроизводства населения, в то время как наши родные земли наводнены быстро размножающимися небелыми, которые подрывают заработную плату белых и забирают из наших социальных учреждений гораздо больше, […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: October 6-12, 2024 Stern Derangement Syndrome: Reformed “Shock Jock” Gives Kamala Harris an Hourlong Tongue Bath

    Counter Currents - Oct 14th 2024 1:05pm EDT

    2,171 words Howard Stern interviews Kamala Harris on Tuesday, October 8. YouTube screenshot It’s always sad to see someone become everything they once hated, especially if they hated all the right things. As hard as it might be to believe, there was a fertile patch of time about thirty to forty years ago when the […]

  • In 1492, Columbus Sailed the Ocean Jew

    Counter Currents - Oct 14th 2024 11:11am EDT

    1,649 words October 12 is the Spain’s national holiday, La Fiesta Nacional de España, also more commonly known as Día de la Hispanidad. The date also coincides with Christopher Columbus’ arrival to the Americas in 1492. To ring in both the national holiday and commemorate Columbus’ voyage,   Spanish national broadcaster RTVE aired a documentary which […]

  • George Orwell on Kamala Harris

    Counter Currents - Oct 14th 2024 7:49am EDT

    1,524 words Vice President Kamala Harris is a vacuous twit. People on the Right know this. People in the center, independents, and the unaligned know this as well. It’s obvious. When she was selected to run against Donald Trump after Joe Biden’s humiliating exit from the race this past July, this woman did not speak […]

  • Counter Currents - Oct 11th 2024 5:43pm EDT

    You can buy Alain de Benoist’s Ernst Jünger between the Gods and the Titans here. 305 words 1. This Saturday’s Counter-Currents Radio Livestream Greg Johnson will be joined by Matt Parrott (and perhaps a special surprise guest) on this Saturday’s Counter-Currents Radio livestream, which will focus on the upcoming US presidential election and, as always, […]

  • Counter-Currents 2024 Fundraiser: Spend Money to Make Change

    Counter Currents - Oct 11th 2024 8:10am EDT

    428 words The annual budget for Counter-Currents is $300,000. For someone from the so-called “working class”, that’s a lot of money. For a movement with many thousands of members, many of whom are quite wealthy, it’s a humble sum. Let’s consider what that money goes to: publishing books, putting on conferences, paying for domain names […]

  • Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil

    Counter Currents - Oct 11th 2024 6:31am EDT

    3,729 words Portrait of Schelling by Karl Joseph Stieler. 1885. Part 5 of 15 (Part 1 begins here.) Unintelligibility is the Core of What is Real It is tempting to think of Schelling’s ground as a “material principle” along the lines of Aristotle’s hulē or Plato’s hupodochē – or, for that matter, the “indefinite dyad” […]

  • A Farewell to Reason: Houellebecq’s Annihilation

    Counter Currents - Oct 10th 2024 2:36pm EDT

    3,292 words Michel Houellebecq Annihilation Translation by Shaun Whiteside London: Picador, 2024 In terms of its emotional impact, Annihilation is Michel Houellebecq’s finest novel. In his previous works, Houellebecq created and perfected a new genre of sorts: novels whose settings are worlds in decline, whose protagonists are utterly petty and impotent in the face of […]

  • The Tulsa Race Riot

    Counter Currents - Oct 10th 2024 1:36pm EDT

    544 words This is a short historical essay from 1929’s Oklahoma: A History of the State and Its People, Volume 2, (Appendix L-2, p921) THE TULSA RACE RIOT It is difficult to account for such sudden outbreaks as the Tulsa race riot. Muskogee narrowly escaped a similar outbreak a few years before, when a white […]

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  • A State of Enchantment

    Counter Currents - Oct 10th 2024 6:12am EDT

    1,161 words It was once said of Jim Bridger, that pioneering explorer of the Old West, that he liked places better than he liked people. This Jim can relate. I love to travel far more than I like to socialize. But places, just like people, are not all equal. Most are bland and forgettable. Some […]

  • Ike Is My Shephard

    Counter Currents - Oct 9th 2024 3:09pm EDT

    166 words Ike is my shephard. I shall live in want. He leadeth me beside still factories of the world. He restoreth my doubt in the Republican party. He putteth bayonets in the backs of young schcol girls. He maketh them go to school with negroes against their wishes. Yes, though I walk the breadlines […]

  • Ike Is My Shepherd

    Counter Currents - Oct 9th 2024 3:09pm EDT

    166 words Ike is my shepherd. I shall live in want. He leadeth me beside still factories of the world. He restoreth my doubt in the Republican party. He putteth bayonets in the backs of young school girls. He maketh them go to school with negroes against their wishes. Yes, though I walk the breadlines […]

  • Maniac: Psychotic ‘Joker’ Antecedent Probes the Unsettling Line Between Romance and Murder

    Counter Currents - Oct 9th 2024 2:55pm EDT

    1,183 words A recent viewing of the 2012 movie Maniac remake made me question the unsettling parallels between a man hunting for love and one hunting with murderous intent. The film is very good if you like a giallo slasher in the style of Dario Argento. Producer of both versions, William Lustig, even worked on […]

  • Unmourned Funeral: Chapter 9

    Counter Currents - Oct 9th 2024 9:35am EDT

    5,738 words CHAPTER 9 AUTOGNOSIS Know thyself 2.0   The beginning of philosophy is to know the condition of your own mind. Epictetus “Know thyself” was famously inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and seen by Socrates’ friend Caepheron on a visit there to enquire as to whether Socrates was the wisest of […]

  • The Great Lawfare Event of 1944

    Counter Currents - Oct 9th 2024 6:46am EDT

    2,103 words Lawrence Dennis & Maximilian St. George A Trial on Trial: The Great Sedition Trial of 1944 First published in 1945 by the National Civil Rights Committee Torrence California: Institute for Historical Review, 1984 In 1944, when the Allies were on the cusp of winning the Second World War, the Roosevelt administration’s Justice Department […]

  • Stranger Danger: Part 2

    Counter Currents - Oct 8th 2024 11:59am EDT

    1,261 words Read Part 1 here The movement frequently criticizes older people for being vulnerable to Zionism, and rightfully diagnoses decades of Jewish dominance of the media, and especially TV, as the biggest cause. Once one steps back it seems odd, even from a Christian perspective, to place Israel on a pedestal as a defender […]

  • Remembering Frank Herbert: October 8, 1920–February 11, 1986

    Counter Currents - Oct 8th 2024 10:01am EDT

    Frank Herbert. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia  Commons 438 words Frank Herbert was born on this day in 1920 in Tacoma, Washington. Herbert is best-known as the creator of Dune, which is the most widely-read and influential science fiction novel of all time. Herbert, moreover, is an artist of the Right. As I wrote in my […]

  • Anti-White History Month

    Counter Currents - Oct 8th 2024 6:05am EDT

    3,094 words Reduced, then, to teaching and preaching, the Negroes will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties. Carter Godwin Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933)   Hey […]

  • Anti-White History Month

    Counter Currents - Oct 8th 2024 6:05am EDT

    3,094 words Reduced, then, to teaching and preaching, the Negroes will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties. Carter Godwin Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933)   Hey […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: September 29-October 5, 2024

    Counter Currents - Oct 7th 2024 9:35am EDT

    1,761 words Washed-out section of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Image source: National Park Service Last week I spoke of my morose dread that when Hurricane Helene passed through the Atlanta suburbs, my house would be uprooted and start spinning in the air Wizard of Oz-style, but […]

  • Muad’Dib Shrugged: In a Year of Bad Movies, Francis Ford Coppola Says: “Hold My Beer.”

    Counter Currents - Oct 7th 2024 6:49am EDT

    6,206 words Francis Ford Coppola Megalopolis: A Fable Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Shia LaBeouf, Aubrey Plaza, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne Produced, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola “This is typical of new directors, too many good ideas. Or, in this case, no ideas.” –Mystery Science Theater.[1] “It was like watching […]

  • Editors Update

    Counter Currents - Oct 4th 2024 5:33pm EDT

    The limited hardcover edition of Imperium is now shipping. Order your copy here. 397 words 1. Our 2024 Fundraiser Update Last week I asked you to check back to see if our fundraiser total passed $150,000, the midway point to our goal of $300,000. Thanks to our generous supporters, we are now at $159,974.74. This […]

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  • Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil

    Counter Currents - Oct 4th 2024 2:02pm EDT

    3,805 words Part 4 of 15 The Internal Differentiation of God Schelling now throws us another curve, and it is a major one. All this time we have been speaking of the “immanence” of all things within God. But now Schelling tells us that “the concept of immanence is to be set aside completely insofar […]

  • Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil

    Counter Currents - Oct 4th 2024 2:02pm EDT

    3,805 words Part 4 of 15 The Internal Differentiation of God Schelling now throws us another curve, and it is a major one. All this time we have been speaking of the “immanence” of all things within God. But now Schelling tells us that “the concept of immanence is to be set aside completely insofar […]