1,842 words Like her near-contemporary Gore Vidal (both were born in 1925), the fiction writer Mary Flannery O’Connor had her first brush with fame via a Pathé movie newsreel. She had a pet chicken whom she’d taught to walk backward. Gore’s fame came a few years later when he piloted an airplane, age ten. O’Connor […]
Edmund Dulac, “The Buried Moon” from The Red Cross Fairy Book, 1916. 4,430 words He had me at: “It was still the South, he knew it for a certainty when they passed an aged negro in overalls hobbling down along the highway toward no conceivable destination. The land was cursed. God, he loved it.” [1] Tito Perdue, author […]
John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, ca. 1778. 1,858 words Lipton Matthews over at Taki’s Magazine is giving White Nationalists some advice, and I think we’d better sit up and listen. In his essay “Cultural Whiteness,” he tells us we should stop being White Nationalists and instead view whiteness as a “philosophy of progress.” In other […]
Edgar Samuel Paxson, Battle of Little Bighorn, 1911. 1,622 words American history was always taught to me in a way that shamed and vilified white people. Despite all the efforts and propaganda to make me feel sorry for the Native Americans, I always resented them for their attacks on the European colonists and settlers. Even […]
Phil Eiger Newmann, Dysgenic, 2021. 2,211 words The Ritual Denazification of Teen Vogue Teen Vogue was founded in 2003 and has earned international respect as the go-to source for confused girl teens who want to learn how to have anal sex and worship Karl Marx. But now the venerable online publication has been rocked by accusations of racism that, amusingly, […]
72 words On Sunday, March 21 at noon PST, 3 PM EST, 7 PM UK time, 8 PM CET, I will be hosting the Counter-Currents Radio weekly livestream on our DLive channel: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents The panelists will discuss current events and take your questions for two hours. In the second hour, we will be joined by […]
Kim Selig, Keeneland, 2014. 1,347 words This year, Counter-Currents is trying to raise $200,000 to sustain and expand our work. We started our fundraiser last Wednesday, March 10th, which was the one-year anniversary of Counter-Currents being completely deplatformed and blacklisted from the credit card industry. It was also the debut of our new website. Since […]
Norman Rockwell, Doctor and Doll, 1942. 1,692 words I’m a blond bimbo girl, in a fantasy worldDress me up, make it tight, I’m your dolly! We live in an era of apparently rampant transsexualism. The media insist upon spotlighting various gender-benders and forcing them down the throat of a captive audience, at which point vinegar-drinking […]
3,162 words Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here Much of the tremendous value of Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together rests in how it was written completely without rancor. Only a highly cynical or unreasonable person could call it anti-Semitic — that is, a work that professes animosity or […]
Phil Eiger Newmann, Rubbed the Wrong Way, 2021. 1,638 words If there’s anything to be learned from the shooting sprees at three Atlanta-area massage parlors on Tuesday afternoon that left eight people dead, it’s that the massage-parlor industry is disproportionately Asian to a degree that would be comical if, you know, it hadn’t led to […]
1,988 words Anyone familiar with 19th-century American history will recognize John C. Calhoun as the man who, more than anyone else, represented the antebellum South. He, along with John Randolph of Roanoke, Virginia, provided much of the intellectual heft behind the character and institutions of the South and defined its position as a distinct economic […]
Frederic Remington, The Bronco Buster, 1895. 6,316 words Gen. Turgidson: Now, wouldn’t that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned? Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. “Is ‘Short Time Preference’ Really Such […]
Frederic Remington, The Bronco Buster, 1895. 6,316 words Gen. Turgidson: Now, wouldn’t that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned? Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. “Is ‘Short Time Preference’ Really Such […]
4,019 words Erwin S. StraussHow to Start Your Own CountryPort Townsend, Washington: Loompanics, 1984 Have you ever wanted to be the leader of your own micro-nation? Erwin S. Strauss might have the answer in How to Start Your Own Country. The author is a colorful character: a minor libertarian notable, a major organizer of science fiction […]
4,056 words Well, it looks like the honeymoon is over for the Dirtbag Left. And as Counter-Currents’ official Dirtbag Left correspondent, I’m here to tell you about it. I’ve always pushed back against people who accuse the Dirtbag Left of being “controlled opposition.” Sure, they are cucked on race (although some are semi-woke on Jews). They […]
Phil Eiger Newmann, Too White, 2021. 2,593 words Jew-Baiting Capitol Rioter With Ironic Hitler Mustache Finally Found! If you’re even half-awake at this juncture in history, you’d realize that nearly all of the participants in January 6’s Capitol Stampede — or Capitol Blitzkrieg, Capitol Lynching, Capitol Hate Crime, or Kapitallnacht, whatever they’re calling it this week […]
78 words On Sunday, March 15, at noon PST, 3 PM EST, 8 PM UK time, 9 PM CET, I will be hosting the Counter-Currents Radio weekly livestream on our DLive channel: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents In this episode we will be experimenting with a new format. Millennial Woes, Frodi Midjord, and I will be taking your questions […]
Detail, Henry Arthur McArdle, Dawn at the Alamo, 1905. 2,144 words Say what you want about white nationalists, they play life on the highest difficulty. — Some leftoid on twitter dot com If you read Leftist and conservative treatments of why people join terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda or ISIS, you see a lot of hand-wringing […]
142 words Today is the birthday of Gabriele D’Annunzio, novelist, poet, playwright, aesthete, dandy, playboy, war hero, and the first fascist dictator, who from 1919 to 1920 ruled over the Adriatic city-state of Fiume, establishing many of the political and aesthetic forms followed by Mussolini a few years later. To learn more about D’Annunzio’s life […]
Phil Eiger Newmann, Dumbin’ it Down, 2021. 1,480 words “Think of how stupid the average person is,” comedian George Carlin once told an audience, “and then realize half of ’em are stupider than that.” Since I’m an innately kind soul who abhors cruelty in all its forms, I won’t instruct you to think of how stupid the […]
Trofim Lysenko 2,149 words Thinking about the continuing plague of neo-Bolshevik assaults on our intelligence and our institutions brought me around to reflect on the difference between pure and applied disciplines of knowledge. Consider: pure or theoretical mathematics is the abstract science of number, quantity, and space, as distinct from applied mathematics, “which involves the application […]
The hierarchy of culture, to be referred to while reading. 3,157 words To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” I believe there is a hierarchy/pyramid to culture, I have been working on this theory for a while now, I think […]
Franz von Stuck, The Spirit of Victory 1,740 words Welcome to our new site. The new site looks similar to the old one, but both inside and outside it is less cluttered and more functional. On the front page, we have preserved the basic blog format, with our featured posts in the main panel, most […]
Franz von Stuck, The Spirit of Victory 1,740 words Welcome to our new site. The new site looks similar to the old one, but both inside and outside it is less cluttered and more functional. On the front page, we have preserved the basic blog format, with our featured posts in the main panel, most […]
Illustration of a firebird by Kay Nielsen in Hansel and Gretel & Other Stories (1925) 6,744 words Yet more and greater ills by land remain.The coast, so long desir’d . . .Thy troops shall reach, but, having reach’d, repent.Wars, horrid wars, I view a field of blood,And Tiber rolling with a purple flood. — The Æneid [1] I […]
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