The Slithering Sarah Silverman, Part 2
Counter Currents - Oct 27th 2021 10:31am EDT2,787 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Another turn… Why am I writing about Sarah Silverman in the first place? It’s because she has rebranded yet again, this time as an “anti-cancel culture” centrist (I guess?), and I think she may become dangerous in the future. She may even try to slither in […]
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, Part I
Counter Currents - Oct 27th 2021 9:04am EDT2,374 words Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, Part I is now in theatres. I can’t recommend it. It isn’t terrible. It is merely mediocre. I found it dull to the eyes, grating to the ears, and a drag on my patience. Villeneuve spends 156 minutes and only gets halfway through the novel. David Lynch told the whole […]
Uncle Tom’s Cabin & the Origins of Wokeness
Counter Currents - Oct 26th 2021 12:20pm EDT6,251 words Some eminent notables have claimed that the American Civil War had substantial roots in literature. Mark Twain, for example, said of Sir Walter Scott that he was “in great measure responsible for the war.” That proposition is debatable, of course. This argument hinges on how much the widespread influence of his romanticized chivalric […]
The Slithering Sarah Silverman, Part 1
Counter Currents - Oct 26th 2021 9:37am EDT2,399 words An edgelord is born . . . It seems like Sarah Silverman has been around forever, and in a way, she has, but she has only been a household name for about 15 years. In other words, she’s been famous for about as long as Rihanna. Silverman is a Gen X-er and it […]
Announcing the Passage Prize Contest for Art
Counter Currents - Oct 26th 2021 7:50am EDT709 words “I am concerned with the subjection of life and the suffocation of vitality. I hope to show you that things don’t need to be this way, and that you don’t need to limit yourself to small things.” — Bronze Age Mindset Do you miss art? Are you tired of finding ugliness and virtue-signaling […]
The Worst Week Yet: October 17-23, 2021
Counter Currents - Oct 25th 2021 9:32am EDTJewess comedienne Sarah Silverman, who is trying to lead the charge against white people playing Jews in what she calls “Jewface,” in blackface. 3,641 words Neovaginas and Why They Stink In almost no time at all — seemingly less time than it takes to surgically repurpose part of a slimy colon or an inverted scrotum […]
MGTOW as a Slave Religion
Counter Currents - Oct 25th 2021 8:41am EDT979 words Author’s note: I wrote most of this in January of 2017 and forgot about it. Back then, the Singles Epidemic wasn’t quite as far along as it is today, and it wasn’t in the news, so I didn’t incorporate it into my analysis, but the thesis still holds true: namely, that men should not […]
Four Weekend Livestreams & a Fundraiser Update
Counter Currents - Oct 22nd 2021 2:22pm EDTCarl Schmitt, 1888–1985 914 words Today, Friday, October 22, Greg Johnson will join Academic Agent and Endeavour on Academic Agent’s YouTube channel to discuss Carl Schmitt’s The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy. Tune in at 1 pm PST, 4 pm EST, 9 pm UK time, and 10 pm CET at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAcademicAgent If you’d like to get […]
Kathleen Stock’s Witch Trial
Counter Currents - Oct 22nd 2021 8:13am EDTJacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates (1787) 2,576 words Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. — Exodus 22.18 The lady’s not for burning. — title of a 1948 play by Christopher Fry I wrote recently of the ongoing erasure of philosophy from the Western canon and also mentioned my own alma mater, The […]
Ignore the MAGA Grift & Join the Gentlemen’s Salon
Counter Currents - Oct 22nd 2021 7:50am EDT2,016 words MAGA was a movement of great energy and hope in 2016. It was the hope that the globalists can be defeated, that sovereignty shall return to international relations, and that the inexorable movement towards ever-closer global interconnectedness can be halted. In 2016, MAGA meant Make America Great Again. It meant concrete proposals, concrete […]
La métaphysique de l’écologie intégrale
Counter Currents - Oct 22nd 2021 7:22am EDTCaspar David Friedrich, Paysage avec un lac de montagne au matin, 1823. 4,095 words English original here Parmi les gens de droite qui s’occupent de la relation de l’homme avec le reste du monde naturel, on trouve un certain nombre d’approches. Il y a les conservatistes anthropocentriques, qui promeuvent l’« utilisation sage » ou la gestion prudente des ressources […]
Can You Spare Us Some Cutter, Me Brothers?
Counter Currents - Oct 21st 2021 9:24am EDT1,283 words The last website I was paid to write for was funded by a sole wealthy benefactor. The site bore his name. I never had even the hint of a problem with him nor a single misgiving about him. I only met him once, and he was so amiably well-oiled that night that he […]
No Taliban Ever Called Me Incel
Counter Currents - Oct 21st 2021 8:55am EDTHitler bin Laden 1,148 words There is a certain type of story that has been coming out of the liberal press lately in which they discuss White Nationalists saying nice things about Islamic fundamentalists. There were several of them a couple of months ago, when the Taliban overthrew the government in Afghanistan. VICE in particular […]
No Time to Die: Bond’s Essential Whiteness Affirmed
Counter Currents - Oct 21st 2021 8:25am EDT3,210 words No Time to Die is a magnificent film. This review will contain major spoilers after the fifth paragraph, as they are necessary to meaningfully analyze the film, though only those relevant to the points made. For a spoiler-free review, listen to Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 380, where Greg Johnson bravely attempts to discuss […]
By Any Other Name: The Great Replacement & Replacement Migration
Counter Currents - Oct 20th 2021 1:34pm EDTPeter Sutherland, a UN champion of Third World migration who was a member of every sinister globalist institution you’ve ever heard of. 4,804 words The concept of “The Great Replacement,” which holds that there are shadowy forces at work trying to dispossess and indeed obliterate physically the European peoples through the use of immigration, has […]
The Facebook Blacklist Reveals Who Most Terrifies the Regime
Counter Currents - Oct 20th 2021 10:45am EDT1,145 words Facebook’s list of “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” was leaked last week. It was about what you’d expect. Alleged “hate”-mongers are placed alongside terrorist leaders and cartel kingpins. Jared Taylor is just as grave a threat as ISIS, according to Facebook’s list. There were a lot of familiar names on it. Both Taylor and […]
Nicholas Kristof: The Walter Duranty of the Twenty-First Century
Counter Currents - Oct 20th 2021 9:46am EDTNicholas Kristof in Bahrain 3,386 words Guess who is going to be running for Governor of Oregon? Current Governor-sociopath, Kate Brown, is term limited. Who best to replace the state’s pretend Governor? Why not Nicholas Kristof, a pretend journalist who, until recently, wrote for a pretend newspaper? From DNYUZ: After 37 years at The New […]
America’s Top Third-World Mercenary
Counter Currents - Oct 19th 2021 9:53am EDT2,431 words Colin Powell is dead. The media claims he is yet another victim of the ongoing COVID-19 plague. I won’t get into the whole vaccine morality play; once a person reaches their biblical three score and ten, diseases that are easily curable in young adults become deadly. After all, Powell’s storming front-line warhorse, Norman […]
Racial Solidarity & Moral Hazard
Counter Currents - Oct 18th 2021 8:53am EDT1,468 words “. . . if you told me you were drowning I would not lend a hand.” — Phil Collins “We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” — Benjamin Franklin Race-conscious whites believe that our race as a whole is too individualistic compared to other races. We would […]
The Worst Week Yet: October 10-16, 2021
Counter Currents - Oct 18th 2021 7:30am EDTNFL Executive Director DeMaurice Smith, whom Raiders coach Jon Gruden described as possessing “lips the size of Michelin tires.” 2,405 words NFL Coach Resigns After His Hilarious Emails are Leaked Black Americans are as statistically overrepresented in the ranks of professional football players as they are when it comes to committing homicide. With his Nordic […]
Dave Chappelle & Anti-Israel Chic
Counter Currents - Oct 15th 2021 1:41pm EDTDave Chappelle 2,804 words One thing I have always admired about the British is that they know when to quit. Just think of all the legendary British bands that broke up at the height of their popularity: The Beatles, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Police, The Smiths. I’ll even throw in Led Zeppelin. They […]
Our Weekend Livestreams & More
Counter Currents - Oct 15th 2021 1:13pm EDT580 words 1. Our Weekend Livestreams On Saturday, October 16th, Counter-Currents Radio’s host Greg Johnson will be joined by Endeavour to talk about the controversy surrounding the new Bond film No Time to Die, plus cinema, current events, white identity politics, and of course YOUR QUESTIONS. Counter-Currents Radio will be streaming on DLive and Odysee at noon PST, 3 pm […]
Leaving Father’s House: The Early Nietzsche
Counter Currents - Oct 15th 2021 7:49am EDTNietzsche at age 18. 3,017 words In the Alps I am unconquerable, that is, when I am alone and have no enemy other than myself. — Nietzsche, letter to Malwida von Meysenburg Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most enigmatic of philosophers. Claimed by both the political Left and Right over the 121 years since his death […]
The Counter-Currents 2021 FundraiserCounter-Currents & the Facebook “Enemies List”
Counter Currents - Oct 15th 2021 7:39am EDT1,456 words 1. Our Fundraiser This year, Counter-Currents is trying to raise $200,000 to sustain and improve our work. Since our last update, we have had 38 donations totaling $5,599.72, including the remainder of a $5,000 matching grant. This means we have received a total of 915 donations and a grand total of $118,855.42 since we […]
Remembering Friedrich Nietzsche (October 15, 1844–August 25, 1900)
Counter Currents - Oct 15th 2021 7:10am EDTPhil Eiger Newmann, Friedrich Nietzsche, 2020. 734 words Friedrich Nietzsche was born this day in 1844 in the small town of Röcken, near Leipzig, Saxony, in the Kingdom of Prussia. He died in August 25, 1900, in Weimar, Saxony, in the Second German Reich. The outlines of Nietzsche’s life are readily available online. Nietzsche is […]