1,295 words This year, a quota system by the Academy Awards took effect for the benefit of disadvantaged minorities, and you know what that means. If a film doesn’t check the right intersectionality boxes, it’s ineligible to be nominated for any golden dildos. (Since I’m neither gay nor a film industry worker, I hardly could […]
1,332 words Sebastian Junger Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging Simon & Schuster, 2016 Since its first edition in 2016, this book had been on my list of books to read. Eight years later, I finally read it this weekend, coinciding with a conversation with friends about the drama of war and how it brings out […]
5,082 words One of the most bizarre moments of Kamala Harris’s shockingly inept campaign was when, speaking at a church in Philadelphia, she began screaming in the voice of a black preacher, “Joy cometh in the morning!! The path may seem hard, the work may seem heavy, but joy cometh in the morning!!” Then, inexplicably, […]
5,082 words One of the most bizarre moments of Kamala Harris’s shockingly inept campaign was when, speaking at a church in Philadelphia, she began screaming in the voice of a black preacher, “Joy cometh in the morning!! The path may seem hard, the work may seem heavy, but joy cometh in the morning!!” Then, inexplicably, […]
169 words Greg Johnson, Angelo Plume, and David Zsutty responded to listener questions and talked about the annual nationalist march in Poland which they attended this year. The episode is now available to listen to online or download. 0:34: Introduction 3:00: Idealism and the need for elite and institutional patronage 5:10: David Zsutty’s “Letter to […]
2,145 words There is an old joke in the UK about the premiership of Margaret Thatcher, between 1979 and 1990, and it runs something like this. When the Iron Lady took power, she found a country with an ailing economy. Fortunately, she reinvigorated that country in just ten years. Unfortunately, that country was Japan. Cute […]
Modern cohousing began in Denmark in the 1960s. 2,812 words Spanish translation here In 1516, Sir Thomas More published his now-famous work, Utopia. One of his recommendations was that housing be constructed for groups of about 30 families in order to create small villages which share common facilities, dinners, and child care. This idea has […]
447 words Alain de Benoist Against Liberalism: Society Is Not a Market Translated by F. Roger Devlin Budapest: Middle Europe Books, 2024 320 pages Now available for order, at a $5 discount for hardcover and paperback editions until November 30th. Hardcover: Regular $50 now $45 Paperback: Regular $30 now $25 In the West, liberalism is […]
1,646 words The FBI says that although 25-year-old Jaquez Myrick admitted firing his gun at the event, he denied aiming at anyone. (Photo: Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office) Machine Gun Fire Rings Out During Tuskegee University’s 100th Homecoming Black celebration turned to black tragedy yet again last Sunday morning at the tail end of the 100th […]
1,503 words Cram as much pleasure as you can into your life and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result. -Shane MacGowan. Stay on the other side of the road Because you can never tell. We’ve the thirst of a gang of devils, We’re the boys from the County Hell. […]
1,790 words It was apparent that the tide was turning for the Democrats when Donald Trump was being compared to Adolf Hitler. As election day loomed, the Democrats were in panic mode and the mainstream media (MSM) was desperate. Although voter fraud did occur, cheating on the scale of 2020 was off the table. At […]
You can buy Greg Johnson’s Against Imperialism here. 436 words 1. Our 2024 Fundraiser Update This year, Counter-Currents is trying to raise $300,000. A generous donor has offered us a $10,000 matching grant, so now is a very good time to help out. Thus far, our total is $167,417.06. Thank you for your support. Full […]
1,630 words Molti nemici, molto onore. Many enemies, much honor. Benito Mussolini The 2024 Presidential election and its aftermath set me to thinking about this apothegm of Il Duce, captured in a mosaic somewhere in Rome, and what could be made of it for Counter-Currents’ regular readers. I think it should serve as a maxim […]
3,381 words Part 10 of 15 (Read all parts here) Final Theological Questions Now, very late in the essay, Schelling raises new questions. Will evil ever end? If so, how? Does creation have a final purpose or end goal? If so, why is it not reached immediately? “Why,” as Schelling puts it, “does what is […]
1,390 words In what may be the dumbest sex strike in history, American feminists who are aghast that Donald Trump won the election are throwing another collective vaginal tantrum. Eight years ago, these types showed up en masse in D.C. the day after Trump’s inauguration wearing “pink pussyhats” to “reclaim” the word “pussy.” They’d somehow […]
3,543 words John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces Foreword by Walker Percy Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980 A Confederacy of Dunces is one of the greatest comic novels ever written. It takes its name from a line of Swift’s which serves as its epigraph: “When a true genius appears in the world, […]
1,622 Some diseases have different names but the effect is still the same. German Measles, for example, is also known as Rubella, which sounds as though she might be a bad girl from a sci-fi movie. Scurvy, once the scourge of the British Royal Navy until they got to the tropics and found some decent […]
649 words Keith Woods was full of promise when he first emerged as a YouTube commentator in January of 2019. But in a few short years, he has gone from promising to delivering. From video documentaries to unscripted livestreams and interviews, from highly effective social media posting to live speaking and now to long-form essays, […]
4,329 words (Read the previous installments in this series here.) It has been several years since I have published an installment in this series. As faithful readers know, I have been concentrating on my series of essays dealing with Heidegger’s history of metaphysics, from Plato to Nietzsche (now numbering some twenty-five installments; simply search my […]
1,825 words The November 2024 issue of Jüdische Rundschau features an interesting article by Julian M. Plutz, titled “Immer mehr Juden erwägen Auswanderung aus Deutschland” (“More and more Jews are considering emigrating from Germany“). This isn’t anything new. Like Iran being just weeks away from developing nuclear weapons, we have heard this narrative for years […]
1,666 words For whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. That phrase can describe the Biden regime and its pathetic coda, the Harris-Waltz ticket, in a nutshell. Biden shouldn’t have been nominated as a candidate in 2020, clearly suffered from dementia, and made terrible decisions as president from the outset. This included […]
2,996 words The Good Reset[1] This essay will complete my Trump trilogy of election essays. I truly believe for the rest of our lives people will talk about the Trump political era with extreme reverence and nostalgia. Before this era, we had the likes of McCain, Romney, the Bush family, the Obamas, and Clintons. All […]
1,106 words Within any political party it is doubtful that the donor interests and voter interests will be perfectly aligned. In the case of the GOP, they appear to be diametrically opposed on the issue of immigration. But as I will show, the interest of an oligarch who cares nothing for blood and soil, or […]
1,106 words Within any political party it is doubtful that the donor interests and voter interests will be perfectly aligned. In the case of the GOP, they appear to be diametrically opposed on the issue of immigration. But as I will show, the interest of an oligarch who cares nothing for blood and soil, or […]
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