• The Worst Week Yet: April 25-May 1, 2021

    Counter Currents - May 3rd 2021 6:45am EDT

    Jessica Beauvais drinking wine from a plastic cup 1,970 words Black Woman Livestreams Two-Hour “Fuck Tha Police” Rant,” Then Kills Rather Than Fucks a White Policeman Jessica Beauvais is a 32-year-old black New Yorker whose major accomplishments up to last week were receiving four separate citations for driving with a suspended license. Because everyone’s a star […]

  • Fundraiser Update, this Weekend’s Livestreams, & A New Way to Support Counter-Currents

    Counter Currents - Apr 30th 2021 1:17pm EDT

    1,107 words Greg Johnson will appear on two broadcasts this weekend. On Saturday, May 1, Greg will be on the second hour of James Edwards’ The Political Cesspool, 5 pm PST, 7 pm CT, 8 pm EST. You can tune in at https://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/ On Sunday, May 2nd, at noon PST, 3 pm EST, 8 pm […]

  • Within Our Gates:

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

    5,911 words In my life, I have encountered people who enjoy watching bad movies. I don’t mean that they have bad taste in movies, but that they revel in watching objectively terrible, often low-budget movies in an MST3K sort of way. I guess they find something endearing about the amateurish charm. I mean, knock yourself out. But I’ve never […]

  • Do White People Exist?

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

    1,144 words Imagine if I screamed my lungs bloody all day and all night, for years on end, about the Devil and how he’s the greatest threat to humanity. And then, let’s say a well-tempered Satanist tried to counter my caterwauling by saying, “Relax, fella — the Devil’s not that bad.” If I replied, “The Devil doesn’t […]

  • Remembering Sam Francis (April 29, 1947–February 15, 2005)

    Counter Currents - Apr 28th 2021 6:45am EDT

    Sam T. Francis by Phil Eiger Newmann, 2021 1,061 words This year, Counter-Currents is adding Sam Francis to our list of thinkers of the Right whose birthdays we commemorate. We are also running a symposium on his work, beginning today. Samuel Todd Francis was born April 29, 1947, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He died February 15, […]

  • Remembering Sam Francis: Francis & the Fire Bird

    Counter Currents - Apr 28th 2021 6:15am EDT

    Schedel’s Phoenix from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493 2,484 words If I had to recommend one book on politics, it would be James Burnham’s The Machiavellians. If I had to recommend one pamphlet, it would be an overlooked gem of American political discourse, Sam Francis’s The Other Side of Modernism: James Burnham and His Legacy. There is no white identitarian, […]

  • Remembering Sam Francis: The Rising Tide of Anarcho-Tyranny

    Counter Currents - Apr 28th 2021 6:00am EDT

    1,977 words Author’s note: An earlier version of this appeared at Return of Kings as “How Our Government Is Sanctioning A New Kind Of Tyranny.” The following expanded version is in my compilation Deplorable Diatribes.  My first encounter with anarcho-tyranny was when my grandfather got busted in a sting. His “crime” was cutting hair without a license, which got […]

  • Don’t Feed the Enemy

    Counter Currents - Apr 27th 2021 6:45am EDT

    Cars parked outside Joe the Barber’s house in Apalachin, New York, 1957. 2,362 words How many friends have we over there? The border guards fight unconvincingly. Whate’er we do it seems things are arranged. We always have to feed the enemy. — Magazine (Howard Devoto), “Feed the Enemy“ I believe it was Pamela Geller who […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: April 18-24, 2021

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

    Squaw Tit Mountain postcard, from James R. Powell’s Route 66 collection, 1937. 2,005 words Chauvin Found Guilty — But There’s More Work To Be Done, So Let’s Keep Rioting!  After being found guilty on all three counts last week, Derek Chauvin has become the nation’s white-boy-summer piñata — anyone can feel free to club him […]

  • Fundraiser Update, this Weekend’s Livestreams, & A New Way to Support Counter-Currents

    Counter Currents - Apr 23rd 2021 3:30pm EDT

    1,120 words There will be two Counter-Currents Radio livestreams this weekend. On Saturday, April 24, at noon Pacific, 3 pm EST, 8 pm GMT, & 9 pm CET, join Greg Johnson & Rich Houck for some “Ted talk.” We will be discussing the Unabomber’s manifesto Industrial Society and its Future, plus YOUR QUESTIONS, on DLive […]

  • Barbarians

    Counter Currents - Apr 23rd 2021 6:30am EDT

    1,019 words For a while now, I’ve found that I cannot bring myself to enjoy new films, new TV shows, and other new media, not only due to the active war on whiteness waged therein. I expected Netflix’s Barbarians to be no different, but people were talking it up and I was having trouble sleeping, so I […]

  • Thomas Nelson Page’s Bred in the Bone

    Counter Currents - Apr 23rd 2021 6:15am EDT

    1,807 words Thomas Nelson PageBred in the Bone New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904 Bred in the Bone, a 1904 novella by Thomas Nelson Page, epitomizes race realism through the proxy of horses and horse racing. It also embodies the author’s characteristic nostalgia for the aristocratic white supremacy of the antebellum South. In a sense, it […]

  • We Are Derek Chauvin

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

    Andrea del Sarto, The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1527. 1,545 words Officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts for the “murder” of the beatified George Floyd. The jury, consisting of only two white men among twelve, found him guilty within a matter of hours. It was a quick decision that sent a clear message […]

  • Pressing the Snooze Button on the Ziological Clock

    Counter Currents - Apr 22nd 2021 6:30am EDT

    Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin 1,328 words I consider social media the biggest pestilence on the culture since the opioid crisis. . . and before that, the mass-dosing of the populace with antidepressants. . . and before that, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. . . but social media is good […]

  • Seneca on Keeping Cool

    Counter Currents - Apr 22nd 2021 6:15am EDT

    1,495 words Seneca and James Romm, ed., trans.How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger ManagementPrinceton University Press, 2019 Long before self-help books, pop-psychology gurus, TED talks, non-fiction political punditry, and “anger-management” classes, the ancients dispensed wisdom on a variety of topics, personal and societal. Princeton University Press is in the process of […]

  • Verdict on America

    Counter Currents - Apr 21st 2021 6:45am EDT

    1,317 words  Officer Derek Chauvin should not have been convicted for murder in the death of George Floyd. But the conviction comes as no surprise, because it comes at the end of a long list of things that shouldn’t have happened. Chauvin never should have been tried in the first place. No crime was committed. […]

  • Verdict on America

    Counter Currents - Apr 21st 2021 6:45am EDT

    StoneToss, Justice is Bind, 2021. 1,317 words  Officer Derek Chauvin should not have been convicted for murder in the death of George Floyd. But the conviction comes as no surprise, because it comes at the end of a long list of things that shouldn’t have happened. Chauvin never should have been tried in the first […]

  • Irreconcilable Differences: The Case for Racial Divorce

    Counter Currents - Apr 21st 2021 6:30am EDT

    1,455 words Translations: Finnish, French, Spanish To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” Black America and White America need to go our separate ways. We need a racial divorce. Political separation along ethnic lines does not happen every day, and […]

  • Humorous Masquerades: The Rise of Anglo-Franco Melodrama

    Counter Currents - Apr 21st 2021 6:15am EDT

    Jules Chéret, 1880 Parisian advertisement for a recurring Saturday masque performance 8,691 words This past winter I lost my last grandparent — the most stubborn one, still to the end a strict English schoolteacher after having long since retired from the profession in the 1970s. She suffered through the desegregation years while working at Marshall […]

  • Peak Redpill

    Counter Currents - Apr 20th 2021 6:30am EDT

    2,200 words There’s a kind of conservative article which is by now very predictable. Leftists are doing something outrageous. Where before they did it in the shadows, they are now doing it with impunity, which is causing dissatisfaction not only among conservatives, but also among normal, law-abiding, hard-working, and otherwise platitudinal people. This dissatisfaction will […]

  • Darwin & Conflict

    Counter Currents - Apr 20th 2021 6:15am EDT

    1,284 words Bradley A. ThayerDarwin and International Relations: On the Origins of War and Ethnic ConflictLexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press, 2004 Every summer it happens. Warriors head out to meet their foes on the field of battle. These fighters tear each other’s bodies apart in one-on-one combat. They also summon reinforcements, deploy in complex […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: April 11-17, 2021

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

    1,57 words America Braces for Mass Insomnia as Floyd Trial Wraps Up As the Trial of the Century winds down in Ol’ Minneapolis Way, news outlets are prognosticating a vicious wave of “unrest” all across the country. In Philadelphia — which had nothing to do with George Floyd’s death — businesses are said to be […]

  • Fundraiser Update & this Weekend’s Livestreams

    Counter Currents - Apr 16th 2021 3:12pm EDT

    Jared Taylor 1,398 words There will be two Counter-Currents Radio livestreams this weekend. On Saturday, April 17, at noon Pacific, 3 pm EST, 8 pm GMT, & 9 pm CET, Greg Johnson will interview Jared Taylor on his book White Identity, race realism, white advocacy, & YOUR QUESTIONS, on DLive and Odysee On Sunday, April […]

  • Two Nationalisms

    Counter Currents - Apr 16th 2021 6:30am EDT

    Dimitar Pandilov, Harvesters, 1936. 2,226 words Let’s talk about nationalism.  You’ve probably been told that there are two kinds of nationalism: ethnic and civic. This is true. You’ve probably been told that nationalism is a Left-wing phenomenon. This is partially true. If you’re an American, you’ve probably been told that America is a nation of […]

  • A Robertson Roundup: Remembering Wilmot Robertson (April 16, 1915 – July 8, 2005)

    Counter Currents - Apr 16th 2021 6:15am EDT

    July 1976 cover of Instauration 1,181 words Wilmot Robertson has been a perennial favorite in these pages, and it’s time to provide a list of relevant links and articles published over the years. The ever-intriguing fact about Robertson is that he thrived for decades as an original, often contrarian, thinker on the racialist Right; yet […]