• 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 […]

  • Randy Newman vs the South: A Review of Good Old Boys

    Counter Currents - Oct 4th 2024 10:03am EDT

    2,329 words Edgy satires often achieve greatness proportional to the power of the thing they satirize. For example, a novel satirizing Communist Russia in the 1920s, such as Mikhail Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog, would have lost much of its edge had it been written in, say, 1987, during the final years of Communism. But […]

  • Stranger Danger: Part 1

    Counter Currents - Oct 4th 2024 8:22am EDT

    934 words At the start of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, both the “Dissident Right” and mainstream conservatives in America quickly became lockstep in praising Putin and criticizing Ukraine. Nationalists in Europe were not so easily taken in. Part of this was undoubtedly due to geographical proximity. The Russian bear looks more cute and cuddly the […]

  • NAXALT Stole My Bike

    Counter Currents - Oct 3rd 2024 3:17pm EDT

    872 words There are outliers. There are extraordinary people who are physical freaks of nature imbued with innate attributes like Larry Bird, Shawn Bradley, Nolan Ryan, Wayne Gretzky, Connor McDavid, or Bill Buckner (who may or may not have opened a chain of laundromats). These are athletes that come around every generation or so. There […]

  • How Infiltrated is Conservative Inc.?

    Counter Currents - Oct 3rd 2024 2:56pm EDT

    1,822 words I try to avoid the subject of the upcoming election because honestly, I see validity in both the pro- and anti- Trump arguments. I’m not sure there would be much difference between Trump and Kamala in how they govern. Yes, Kamala is promising to grant amnesty to millions of people. That doesn’t mean […]

  • Escaping Georgia

    Counter Currents - Oct 3rd 2024 11:55am EDT

    1,147 words Smoke from chemical plant fire in Conyers, GA on Sunday, September 29. Image source X I’ve lived in the Atlanta area for seventeen and a half years. That’s at least seventeen years too many. The first few weeks were OK, though. I’ve wanted and tried to leave for years. Now that my departure […]

  • Why the Right Can’t Unite

    Counter Currents - Oct 3rd 2024 7:33am EDT

    3,186 words When George Orwell arrived in Aragon to fight against Franco in 1937, it wasn’t the poor state of the weaponry that worried him, and it wasn’t the enemy. As chronicled in Homage to Catalonia, he was more alarmed at the number of factional squabbles there were on his side. In-fighting in the face […]

  • The Brigitte Nielsen-Thomas Sowell Fallacy: Examining NAXALT and How Exceptions Do Not Disprove the Rule

    Counter Currents - Oct 2nd 2024 10:21am EDT

    2,931 words Brigitte Nielsen photographed with Nancy and Ronald Reagan and Sylvester Stallone. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Europe and the West have been crippled by an intellectual and ideological paralysis, whereby any call to action or indeed any empirical observation of repeatable, observable trends are met with unending obfuscation. Such obfuscation takes many forms, […]

  • The Pint Glass Half Empty

    Counter Currents - Oct 2nd 2024 8:00am EDT

    2,903 words The last time I was in Ireland, a little under a year ago now, I made it a point to avoid Dublin. I don’t say this to offend any Dubs. The main reason I didn’t want to set foot Dublin is because I didn’t want to see how bad thing have got in […]

  • Unmourned Funeral: Chapter 8

    Counter Currents - Oct 2nd 2024 5:49am EDT

    5,475 words Chapter 8 ICE AND HIGH MOUNTAINS Nietzsche as Meta-philosopher [M]any disapprove of all philosophers, because their aims are not ours; they are those whom I call “strangers to us.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks   Nietzsche is a meta-philosopher. He writes philosophy about philosophy, and about what it […]

  • The NAXALT Argument as Distraction Premise

    Counter Currents - Oct 1st 2024 12:58pm EDT

    715 words The NAXALT argument is based not on a false premise but a misleading one which is intended to distract from, and pose as, the main premise. It is reducible to logical form, but with the proviso that this is analogous, and the whole problem is partly rhetorical. Analogously, then, the NAXALT argument is […]

  • NAXALT

    Counter Currents - Oct 1st 2024 11:08am EDT

    1,217 words Since I began to discuss and debate political and cultural issues publicly, I have been relentlessly pursued by midwits and their incessant “NAXALT” refutation of my points. Nearly any assertion made about a group is met somewhere with, “well, to be fair, not all Jews / blacks / women / Hispanics / immigrants […]

  • Kill, Rape, Control

    Counter Currents - Oct 1st 2024 10:06am EDT

    1,642 words “Kill, Rape, Control” is the slogan of one of the most notorious gangs in the history of organized crime, MS-13. And yet it could also be the motto for the hostile elite that holds sway in the United States, Great Britain, and in other countries across the Western world. Sexual violence is the […]

  • The Solipsism of NAXALT

    Counter Currents - Oct 1st 2024 5:50am EDT

    933 words The NAXALT fallacy (“Not All [members of group X] Are Like That”) is one of the most common objections to White Nationalism. Its proponents insist that generalizations about groups must be resisted on the grounds that stereotypes do not apply to every individual member of a group. I would like to raise the […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: September 22-28, 2024

    Counter Currents - Sep 30th 2024 12:36pm EDT

    1,794 words Kaci Lenise-Charlie Sloan. Photo courtesy of Maricopa County Jail. It was just another day for two teenage girls attending class at Arizona State University. One of the girls was black and overweight. Her name is Kaci Lenise-Charlie Sloan. Hey, don’t kill the messenger—I didn’t name her, I’m only reporting her name. I have […]

  • Commander-in-Queef of the neuroconvergent Left

    Counter Currents - Sep 30th 2024 8:32am EDT

    1,685 words The most processed, stage-managed, and synthetic candidate in political history may just be the Frankensteinian perfection that America’s machine politics deserve. The cackle of Hillary, the tan of Obama, and the perspicacity of Biden, have all managed to reincarnate their way into the political avatar of DEI anointed-one, Kamala Harris. And yet she’s […]

  • NAXALT is a Meaningless Tautology

    Counter Currents - Sep 30th 2024 6:34am EDT

    758 words A statement like the ball is green or not green is always true, but it is meaningless. One cannot play basketball with a bowling ball. One the stumbling blocks keeping ordinary whites from becoming white advocates is the idea that not all of “X” are like that – NAXALT. This usually refers to […]

  • Editors Update

    Counter Currents - Sep 27th 2024 3:13pm EDT

    You can buy Greg Johnson’s Against Imperialism here. 580 words 1. Our 2024 Fundraiser Update Last week our fundraiser total was $105,232.86. A generous patron offered us a $10,000 matching grant to move things forward. It worked, bigly. I am pleased to announce that our total is now $140,554.92. Our goal this year is $300,000, […]

  • Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil

    Counter Currents - Sep 27th 2024 1:18pm EDT

    3,695 words A young Martin Heidegger. Part 3 of 15 (Part 1 here. Part 2 here.) Self-Affirmation as Being We have seen that Schelling claims “there is no being other than will. Will is primal being [Ursein] to which alone all predicates of being apply: groundlessness, eternality, independence from time, self-affirmation.” We must now look more […]

  • Rediscovering a Politics of Limits

    Counter Currents - Sep 27th 2024 9:03am EDT

    5,816 words Patrick J. Deneen Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future Sentinel, 2023 Patrick J. Deneen, a professor of Political Science at Notre Dame, came to prominence as the author of Why Liberalism Failed (2018), a book that contrasted our present circumstances with the rosy promises of previous generations of liberals. I published a favorable […]

  • The City Formerly Known As “America’s Whitest City”

    Counter Currents - Sep 26th 2024 11:37am EDT

    1,225 words Photograph of KKK meeting with Portland Leaders, 1921. Image source: Wikimedia Commons For years, Portland, OR had an unshakable reputation as America’s whitest city: “How the whitest city in America appears through the eyes of its black residents” (Washington Post, 2015)  “Portland is the Whitest U.S. City – Why Demographics are Rapidly Shifting” […]

  • Russian Culture as Pseudomorphosis

    Counter Currents - Sep 25th 2024 2:55pm EDT

    6,331 words Western historians and analysts have always failed to comprehend Russia. Among many other things, its imperial nature has been puzzling to Westerners. For obvious reasons, there has been a tendency to compare it to Western colonial empires. As a prominent historian of Russia, Richard Pipes, once noted, unlike Western colonial empires which first […]

  • George H.W. Bush and His Tangle with the Genuine Far-Right

    Counter Currents - Sep 25th 2024 10:53am EDT

    5,536 words George H.W. Bush. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The common narrative regarding the career of George Herbert Walker Bush, is that the 41st US President was a good man who put a steady hand upon the tiller of the ship of state. In international affairs, this was unquestionably true. He successfully managed the […]