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

    Counter Currents - Mar 14th 2021 2:33pm EDT

    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 […]

  • The Struggle is Real

    Counter Currents - Mar 12th 2021 6:45am EST

    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 […]

  • Remembering Gabriele D’Annunzio (March 12, 1863–March 1, 1938)

    Counter Currents - Mar 12th 2021 6:00am EST

    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 […]

  • The Smartest Damn Boy in All of Baltimore

    Counter Currents - Mar 11th 2021 3:45pm EST

    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 […]

  • Critical Race Theory:

    Counter Currents - Mar 11th 2021 3:30pm EST

    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 With Audio Version

    Counter Currents - Mar 11th 2021 3:15pm EST

    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 […]

  • Welcome to Our New Site

    Counter Currents - Mar 10th 2021 8:32pm EST

    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 […]

  • Welcome to Our New Site

    Counter Currents - Mar 10th 2021 8:32pm EST

    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 […]

  • Throne & Altar, King & Prophet: A Study of Marvelous Dysfunction

    Counter Currents - Mar 10th 2021 3:46pm EST

    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 […]

  • British TV & Cutting Down on Booze

    Counter Currents - Mar 10th 2021 3:46pm EST

    British television presenter Adrian Chiles 1,837 words Not too long ago I got an app for my streaming service that features British TV shows, which led to me developing an obsession with reality shows featuring poverty-stricken Englishmen and their troubles. Naturally, I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole of voyeurism and judging. Please don’t judge me, […]