• Culture, History, & Metapolitics in Poland: An Interview with Jaroslaw Ostrogniew, Part 2

    Counter Currents - Mar 31st 2021 6:15am EDT

    Wawel Castle in Kraków, Poland 3,012 words Part 1 here This part of the interview was published in the XXXIV issue of the magazine Reconquista. In this part, Jaroslaw will discuss metapolitics, Polish culture, music, art, his travels, and writing. Ondrej Mann: Have you organized any metapolitical conferences in the past? Do you plan to organize any again? […]

  • With Brasillach in Spain & Germany: Remembering Robert Brasillach (March 31, 1909 – February 6, 1945)

    Counter Currents - Mar 31st 2021 6:00am EDT

    4,721 words Here we have a continuation of the narrative presented in past installments, describing Brasillach’s auto-tour through wartime Spain in July 1938, accompanied by his brother-in-law Maurice Bardèche and their friend Pierre Cousteau. As before, I have translated it directly from Brasillach’s memoir Notre avant-guerre (1938-41). In the last section, Robert Brasillach gave a quick summary of […]

  • Et tu, AOC?

    Counter Currents - Mar 30th 2021 6:45am EDT

    3,785 words There’s that old saying that politics is showbiz for ugly people. If that’s true, I think it is fair to say that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has “gone Hollywood.” I’ve mused on the concept of “going Hollywood” in a previous article. Many people move to Los Angeles to make it big. Every day, starry-eyed kids from […]

  • Mrs. America Redux

    Counter Currents - Mar 30th 2021 6:30am EDT

    2,785 words One of the great unexpected pleasures of the Covid lockdown last spring was discovering oddball television series you otherwise wouldn’t have approached with a barge pole. Producers and programming executives detected a nice angle here, so they moved up launch dates by a few months. This is what happened with Mrs. America, a nine-part […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: March 21-27, 2021

    Counter Currents - Mar 29th 2021 6:45am EDT

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets convicted spy Johnathan Pollard upon his arrival to Israel 2,154 words Charlottesville Mayor Writes Weird Poem About How Charlottesville Rapes You Unless things turn around right quick and proper, the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, will be seen as the Waterloo of white identity politics for the foreseeable future. Even […]

  • Today’s Livestream: Ask Counter-Currents with Greg Johnson, Millennial Woes, & Frodi Midjord

    Counter Currents - Mar 28th 2021 1:06pm EDT

    45 words On Sunday, March 28 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 The panelists will discuss current events and take your questions for two hours. Donations, comments, questions: https://entropystream.live/countercurrents  

  • Another Brick in the Paywall

    Counter Currents - Mar 26th 2021 11:30am EDT

    Persian archers, glazed bricks from the palace of Darius I at Susa. 1,376 words Counter-Currents is trying to raise $200,000 this year to sustain and improve our work. Since last week’s update, we have received 46 donations totaling $8,290.45 for a total of 66 donations and a total of $14,827.45 since we started our fundraiser […]

  • It’s a Hit!

    Counter Currents - Mar 26th 2021 6:45am EDT

    2,180 words Dalrymple: Then why am I watching it?Costanza: Because it’s on TV!   Let’s start with three statements that are in no way, shape or form, related to each other.  1. Narcocorrido artists are sometimes used by Mexican cartels to launder money. Cartel allies in the media and music business will catapult artists to fame to […]

  • He’s Back! Hitler does Friday the 13th

    Counter Currents - Mar 26th 2021 6:30am EDT

    2,272 words Nature is a temple, where the livingColumns sometimes breathe of confusing speech;Man walks within these groves of symbols, eachOf which regards him as a kindred thing. — Charles Baudelaire, “Correspondence” Si Dieu n’existait pas, il faudrait l’inventer. “If God did not exist, then it would be necessary to invent him” is, perhaps, one […]

  • The Power of Myth: Remembering Joseph Campbell (March 26, 1904–October 30, 1987)

    Counter Currents - Mar 26th 2021 6:00am EDT

    Joseph Campbell & his wife, Jean Erdman Campbell, c. 1939. 2,319 words Joseph Campbell, the famed teacher of comparative mythology, was born on this day in 1904. For many people, including yours truly, he has served as a “gateway drug” into not only a new way of looking at myths, but into a non-materialistic way […]

  • Heroic Gunman Kills 10 Potential White Supremacists

    Counter Currents - Mar 25th 2021 6:45am EDT

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Rules of the Game 2021. 1,345 words In the immediate wake of 2013’s Boston Marathon bombing, writer David Sirota — a skinny dork with delusions of being a tough guy — wrote an article for Salon.com called “I Hope the Bomber is a White American.” I hope that Sirota was disappointed to the point […]

  • Remembering Flannery O’Connor (March 25, 1925–August 4, 1964)

    Counter Currents - Mar 25th 2021 6:00am EDT

    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 […]

  • “He Doesn’t Worry Too Much If Mediocre People Get Killed in Wars and Such” Tito Perdue’s The Smut Book & Cynosura

    Counter Currents - Mar 24th 2021 6:45am EDT

    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 […]

  • Racial Whiteness

    Counter Currents - Mar 23rd 2021 6:45am EDT

    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 […]

  • Frontier Stories

    Counter Currents - Mar 22nd 2021 11:00am EDT

    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 […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: March 14-20, 2021

    Counter Currents - Mar 22nd 2021 6:45am EDT

    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, […]

  • Today’s Livestream: Ask Counter-Currents with Greg Johnson, Millennial Woes, & Frodi Midjord

    Counter Currents - Mar 21st 2021 11:30am EDT

    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 […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2021 Fundraiser: Off to a Good Start

    Counter Currents - Mar 19th 2021 3:45pm EDT

    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 […]

  • Playing Dress-Up

    Counter Currents - Mar 19th 2021 6:45am EDT

    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 […]

  • Thwarting Jewish Conquest: Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together Part 6 of 6

    Counter Currents - Mar 19th 2021 6:15am EDT

    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 […]

  • It’s Time to Admit That Massage Parlors Have an Asianness Problem

    Counter Currents - Mar 18th 2021 6:45am EDT

    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 […]

  • Remembering John C. Calhoun (March 18, 1782–March 31, 1850)

    Counter Currents - Mar 18th 2021 6:00am EDT

    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 […]

  • Look out honey, ’cause I’m using technology! Eumaios, Evola, & Neville on Race

    Counter Currents - Mar 17th 2021 11:45am EDT

    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 […]

  • Look out honey, ’cause I’m using technology! Eumaios, Evola, & Neville on Race

    Counter Currents - Mar 17th 2021 6:45am EDT

    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 […]

  • Erwin Strauss’ How to Start Your Own Country

    Counter Currents - Mar 17th 2021 6:30am EDT

    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 […]