It’s Time to Retire “Dissident Right”
Counter Currents - Oct 6th 2025 8:00am EDT 1,472 words It is said that Alexander the Great wept for there were no worlds left to conquer. I feel you, Alex. Sometimes it feels like there are no normies left to redpill and all the debates have been won. On X, the epicenter of right-wing internet culture, various factions and denominations of, essentially, White […]
Counter Currents - Oct 3rd 2025 8:18pm EDT
You can buy Greg Johnson’s Toward a New Nationalism here. 152 words 1. The Counter-Currents 2025 Fundraiser Our fundraiser total now stands at $89,862.45. Once again, my sincerest thanks. Our goal this year is $300,000, and we are now more than $70,000 behind where we were at the same time last year ($159,974.74). A generous […]
“If White People Had a Country of Our Own . . .”
Counter Currents - Oct 3rd 2025 2:16pm EDT 1,447 words Years ago, a terrible person said a wonderful thing: White Nationalists need to sum up our position in a simple “mantra” that we can repeat whenever there is an atrocity against white people: “If white people had a country of our own, this would not have happened.” This needs to be our first […]
Hegseth Unleashes the War Department
Counter Currents - Oct 3rd 2025 2:01pm EDT 1,226 words This week, Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth ordered every general to attend a meeting with himself and President Trump at Quantico on short notice. The purpose was to clearly emphasize that the era of the Department of Defense, which Hegseth characterized as the Department of Woke, is over. It is not just a […]
The Demon Headmasters, Part One: Outbreaks of Magical Mass Hysteria in African Schools
Counter Currents - Oct 3rd 2025 5:27am EDT 3,061 words Being a former high school English teacher, every autumn the beginning of the new academic year brings back memories of my former life in the classroom, and some of its odder incidents – none odder than the time I was accused of possessing magical powers. Teaching a play in which one character is […]
Left vs. Right, Post-Charlie Kirk: A Rebuttal to Greg Conte’s “Keith Woods and the Jews’ New Class War”
Counter Currents - Oct 2nd 2025 2:12pm EDT 1,201 words I had major disagreements with Charlie Kirk on immigration and Israel, as I do with much of mainstream conservatism. In fact, my first article was about roasting Charlie at UCLA during the Groyper War. But we fought each other with words, not bullets. After the death of Charlie Kirk, many on the Right […]
Race As An Occam’s Razor
Counter Currents - Oct 2nd 2025 7:12am EDT 1,758 words Except for a few individuals with a “bad guy” complex (the same people who derive some sort of pleasure from being labeled intolerant, xenophobic, and homophobic), generally speaking, no one in Western societies likes to be accused of being discriminatory. Discrimination is regarded as something negative, and no one wants to be accused […]
The Based Jew
Counter Currents - Oct 1st 2025 2:50pm EDT 2,352 words Diaspora Jews—especially left-wing ones—have been a problematic ethnic minority for multiracial egalitarian societies in the West for many years. This is not merely because Jewish elites tend to feel that they are in a constant state of conflict with their host populations, but also because they often adhere to the following behavior pattern. […]
Cancelling Our Galileo pt. 2
Counter Currents - Oct 1st 2025 9:13am EDT 2,769 words Nobel laureate Dr. James D. Watson, Chancellor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Many of the people who joined in the attacks on Watson in 2007 must have known that what he said about racial differences was accurate. After all, if he had simply been unaware of all the studies demonstrating that racial IQ gaps […]
Eating People Is Not Wrong: Taste-Testing the Anti-Racist, Anti-Homophobic, Cannibal Rights Movement
Counter Currents - Sep 30th 2025 2:24pm EDT 1,936 words Cannibals Contemplating Human Remains – Jean François Gigoux Asked to review a book about cannibalism for another outlet recently, [1] I was pleased to be reminded of a 1970 Monty Python sketch in which a group of sailors stranded in a lifeboat eagerly compete to see who should be served for dinner to […]
I Have Never Felt More Represented
Counter Currents - Sep 30th 2025 8:34am EDT 1,581 words Marjorie Taylor Green. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. There are plenty of minority constituencies that are relatively small in number but can still point to one or more elected officials who champion their interests and act as a public face for their cause. Libertarians, for instance, have Rand Paul in the Senate and […]
Cancelling Our Galileo
Counter Currents - Sep 30th 2025 6:42am EDT 2,558 words Edward Dutton Genius Under House Arrest: The Cancelation of James Watson Washington: Academica Press, 2025 Ed Dutton’s latest offering is a continuation of two of his favorite themes: the nature of genius, and the personality profile of those who suffer from the woke mind virus. In October, 2007, the two clashed dramatically when […]
What White Liberals Need To Know
Counter Currents - Sep 29th 2025 8:00am EDT 4,607 words Meaningful dialogue across an ideological divide can be quite difficult. It’s enough of a challenge with mainstream conservatives, who just need a helpful nudge out of the kiddie pool, but often are hung up on ineffectual positions such as civic nationalism, neocon military adventures, misplaced egalitarianism, and libertarian economism. Liberals are another matter […]
Oscar Wilde’s The Decay of Lying: What is Aestheticism?
Counter Currents - Sep 29th 2025 7:08am EDT 3,244 words In the late 19th century, there was a debate raging in the salons across Europe over what is the proper aim of art. You had the modernists who believed that art should try to reflect reality and then you had the aesthetes who believed that the purest art was art that was entirely […]
Editor’s Update
Counter Currents - Sep 26th 2025 4:45pm EDT You can buy Greg Johnson’s Graduate School with Heidegger here 453 words 1. The Counter-Currents 2025 Fundraiser: A New $7,000 Matching Grant Thanks to a generous donor, the next $7,000 donated to Counter-Currents will be matched dollar for dollar. Our fundraiser total now stands at $85,154.97. Thank you for your help! Our goal this year […]
About Face!
Counter Currents - Sep 26th 2025 12:58pm EDT 1,789 words Trump’s H-1B About-Face Last Christmas, “The Counter-Jeethad on X” revealed s a massive fissure in the MAGA coalition between tech oligarchs and American national populists. Tech oligarchs favor H-1B visas that allow them to bring in cheaper foreign workers for tech jobs. A now common abuse in the tech industry is to lay […]
The Counter-Currents 2025 Fundraiser Refugees Welcome
Counter Currents - Sep 26th 2025 6:29am EDT 705 words If anything positive can come from the political assassination of Charlie Kirk, then it might be movement. Not a movement, perhaps we have enough of those already. I mean movement itself, movement of people who have been uneasy about their political affiliation for a long time and for whom September 10 was the […]
Hate Now, Forgive Later
Counter Currents - Sep 26th 2025 6:22am EDT 1,158 words On Sunday, September 21, 200,000 people showed up at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, for a memorial service for Charlie Kirk. More than 100 million people watched all over the world. The speakers included President Trump, Vice President Vance, Erika Kirk, Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, Jr., Tucker Carlson, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., […]
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 655: We Got What We Voted For
Counter Currents - Sep 25th 2025 12:11pm EDT 145 words / 1:52:30 Matt Parrott joined Greg Johnson on this episode of Counter-Currents Radio. It is now available to download or listen to here. Topics include: 2:04 – The new policy on H1B visas. 14:24 – Who in the Trump administration talks sense to the President? 19:58 – A history of Indian migrants in […]
Why Trumpian Populism Won’t Work in Canada
Counter Currents - Sep 25th 2025 9:00am EDT3,196 words In late 2024, the Conservative Party of Canada appeared poised to claim a landslide electoral victory in the upcoming 2025 Canadian Federal Election. With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s approval rating hitting rock bottom, the Liberal Party seemed dead in the water. Pierre Poilievre, the populist leader of the Conservative Party, becoming the country’s […]
Leftist Political Violence Believes in You
Counter Currents - Sep 25th 2025 7:00am EDT 1,499 words The politics of personal destruction are now accompanied by outright assassinations and murder. Unfortunately, political violence is here to stay. The Left and other nefarious actors not only think they have the monopoly on violence but are confident that they control the media apparatus necessary to deflect from its aggression. It is important […]
The Best President the UK Ever Had?
Counter Currents - Sep 24th 2025 10:09am EDT 3,495 words Prime Ministers and Presidents are both the political premiers of their respective countries, but there is a subtle difference in status between the two. The British Prime Minister (PM) has always operated on the primus inter pares principle first recognized in Imperial Rome: first among equals. The office of President of the United […]
Polarization Is Not Inherently Evil
Counter Currents - Sep 24th 2025 6:49am EDT 1,121 words Eric Voegelin Anyone who wishes to live in a relatively tranquil society knows that polarization—that is, the times of das Politische—is anything but reassuring. This is not difficult to understand: during moments of polarization, every situation, act, subject, or object, no matter how insignificant it might appear in more “normal” times, becomes unbearably […]
“Do It Yourself” Hormones: The Illegal Drug Trade You’ve Never Heard Of
Counter Currents - Sep 23rd 2025 8:10am EDT 1,359 words One of the most problematic aspects of the trans movement, largely ignored by the mainstream media, is the sale of “DIY HRT”: Do It Yourself Hormone Replacement Therapy. This involves the illegal trafficking of hormones by trans activists and online pharmacies. The rate of DIY HRT use varies depending on country and age […]
The Janissaries of the Russian World How Russia Seeks To Weaponize Ukraine’s Children
Counter Currents - Sep 23rd 2025 6:49am EDT 4,449 In the shadowed corners of the internet, a Russian website emerged like a grim auction block, eerily resembling an online slave market, where profiles of Ukrainian children – kidnapped from Russian-occupied territories – were advertised for “adoption.” Accompanied by descriptions of their physical builds, eye and hair color, temperaments, and ages, these listings reduced […]
