1,946 words I see that an American golfer I had never previously heard of, Fuzzy Zoeller, has just died. Despite him apparently being a major and successful figure, having won the 1979 Masters and 1984 US Open, this is how the print version of The Times summarized Fuzzy’s life in the one-sentence strapline to his […]
157 words / 2:14:26 Greg Johnson returned as host of Counter-Currents Radio and was joined by Leonarda Jonie and Sam Dickson to talk about their experience at the 2025 American Renaissance conference. The episode is available to download or listen to here. Topics include: 1:51 – Leonarda and Greg talk about her inspiring speech at […]
2,419 words Can you show me even one person who sets a price on his time, who knows the worth of a day, who realizes that every day is a day when he is dying? In fact, we are wrong to think that death lies ahead: much of it has passed us by already, for […]
There’s Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday, and now White Wednesday. In coordination with our friends at other pro-white businesses, we present White Wednesday. Strategically use your gift-giving resources for the cause! (At a discount!) We are offering 15% off our entire stock, including new titles now through Saturday. Use the code […]
There’s Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday, and now White Wednesday. In coordination with our friends at other pro-white businesses, we present White Wednesday. Strategically use your gift-giving resources for the cause! (At a discount!) We are offering 15% off our entire stock, including new titles now through Saturday. Use the code […]
2,371 words Stefano Vaj Biopolitics: A Transhumanist Paradigm La Carmelina Edizioni, 2014 Biopolitica. Il nuovo paradigma, originally written in Italian and first published in its “final” form in 2005 (Società Editrice Barbarossa), later circulated online through the biopolitica.it platform and has been continuously revised and expanded over the years (including an appendix drawn from Guillaume […]
561 words Tang dynasty-era painting depicting African slave. Throughout Africa, there is a clear appreciation for China’s growing economic engagement. From infrastructure development to investment in key industries, African leaders largely see China not as a neo-colonial threat but as a partner in development. This pragmatic approach contrasts sharply with the selective moral outrage often […]
1,781 words Editor’s note: Greg Johnson will be appearing on the Decamaron Film Festival 2025 to discuss this very film. More information about the festival, including how to acquire your tickets, can be found here. *** Donnie Brasco (1997) is a paradox. It is a nearly perfect film, but I wouldn’t call it a great […]
497 Words A Portrait of Six Men, Including a Self Portrait (?) by Bartolomeo Passarotti (1529-1592) To balance out the unbridled materialism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, charities all over the world participate in Giving Tuesday — a day of generosity where everyone donates to their favorite cause. What cause could be more noble […]
5,653 words Excursus: “Nice looking young man, fairly hardworking.” Burroughs was already conducting experiments with audio recordings with Ian Sommerville, a new boyfriend he had met while in Paris. Sommerville was an audio engineer and early computer programmer. [1] When Sommerville returned to England, Burroughs followed; and although Sommerville had a new boyfriend, they continued […]
3,206 The Jury’s Out? The British people are starting to understand something vitally important, albeit at glacial speed: the current Labour government is not incompetent, it is malevolent. Nigel Farage, widely tipped as the next British Prime Minister, put it rather well in an open letter to the British people the day after the budget […]
3,849 words William S. Burroughs Dead Fingers Talk: The Restored Text Edited & with an Introduction by Oliver Harris Richmond, UK: Calder Publications, 2020 (1st ed., London: Calder, 1963) “Numbers are repetition and repetition produces events. Dead Finger Talk.” —William Burroughs [1] “Is there a better definition of digital culture than the talk of dead […]
1,688 words Over the last few months, I’ve been working as an unskilled construction helper for a local contractor who specializes in backyard decks among all sorts of other things. I ended up working for him by happenstance. I’m surprised he even hired me, given that I have no experience. I didn’t own any steel-toed […]
You can order Greg Johnson’s new book Tyranny and Wisdom here. 186 words 1. This Weekend’s Counter-Currents Radio Greg Johnson welcomes Leonarda Jonie and others to Counter-Currents Radio to discuss the latest AmRen conference and any other questions you might have. Join us at the normal time: noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern, 9 pm Central Europe […]
1,628 words Now that the dust has settled and overwhelming emotions have subsided, it is time to explain what went wrong with the Charlie Kirk discourse (spoiler: just about everything). In doing so we can also illuminate another thorny issue for the American Right, namely the intertwined problems of “low IQ” antisemitism and “schizo” conspiracy […]
Wikimedia Commons 1,659 words Tensions between President Donald Trump and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene have been escalating for some time. But now there has been a permanent split. Trump not only withdrew his endorsement of MTG but promised his “Complete and Unyielding Support” to the right person who runs against her in the Republican primary […]
3,364 words Just as the great pleasure of having a good bottle of wine is having another, so too one of the great pleasures of reading a book you enjoy is re-reading it. When you approach a book for a second time, you already know you like it, which takes the pressure off. If it’s […]
3,183 words Spiegel, spiegel on the wall, who’s the most famous of them all? Adolf Hitler, very possibly. It is a name which has great brand recognition, as PR executives might well say. According to the 2013 book Who’s Bigger? by computer engineers Steven Skiena and Charles Ward, Adolf Hitler is the seventh most famous […]
137 words On behalf of everyone at Counter-Currents, I want to wish all our US readers safe travels and a happy Thanksgiving. (And please don’t let your dogs eat turkey bones.) Here are a few past articles on Thanksgiving for your edification: Jef Costello, “How to Survive Thanksgiving.” Jef Costello, “Thankful . . . For […]
1,019 words / 5:45 Audio version: To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.” Translations: Danish, French Even though I am an unbeliever, the Christmas season is my favorite time of the year. Christmas, like dogs, brings out the best in people. It awakens […]
4,724 words Amsterdam is quite a gem. This beautiful location is the Venice of the North, full of historic architecture and other amazing sights. The fine arts museums are first-rate, a must-see especially for Van Gogh fans. If you have even a drop of saltwater in your blood, the naval museum likewise is not to […]
1,122 words Edited by Greg Johnson Editor’s Note: What follows is all my extant correspondence with Jonathan Bowden from 2010. Once he started sending me articles for Counter-Currents, Jonathan would typically send the entire article as an email. For brevity, I have included just the titles. The articles themselves are found on Counter-Currents. There is one exception: […]
1,122 words Edited by Greg Johnson Editor’s Note: What follows is all my extant correspondence with Jonathan Bowden from 2010. Once he started sending me articles for Counter-Currents, Jonathan would typically send the entire article as an email. For brevity, I have included just the titles. The articles themselves are found on Counter-Currents. There is one exception: […]
3,288 words John Ganz When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024 With the inspiration of the death of the Soviet Union before us, we now know that it can be done. We shall break the clock of social democracy. […]
1,949 words Apapale Adoum November 13 saw the annual confected commemoration of something called World Kindness Day. According to the invented non-holiday’s own Wikipedia page, “Kindness is a fundamental part of the human condition which bridges the divides of race, religion, politics, gender and location.” I think we all know what that means: #BeKind #GiveYourCountryAwayToTotalStrangers. And […]
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