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  • The Queen of Bohemia

    Counter Currents - Apr 18th 2025 7:41am EDT

    2,021 words The English rock band Queen needs no introduction. Unless you are so averse to rock and pop music that you have completely blocked it from your life, you will have heard the group, and their most famous song, the operatic “Bohemian Rhapsody”. The latter was also the title of a 2018 biopic movie […]

  • Trans-Atlantic Beef: Thoughts on Europe and America

    Counter Currents - Apr 18th 2025 7:23am EDT

    3,964 words I recently encountered a Twitter thread of Americans spewing hatred for Europeans. I decided to ask where this hatred comes from, and received many helpful replies, and many stupid ones. (For example, one person bizarrely blamed Europe for America’s liberal immigration policies.) Of course, when condemning or celebrating a country, one should distinguish between its elites, its […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 633: Gamer Nationalism

    Counter Currents - Apr 17th 2025 3:32pm EDT

    126 words / 1:53:33 David Zsutty and Christian Secor chatted about political theory, “gamer nationalism”, and other subjects in this episode of Counter-Currents Radio. It is now available to download or listen to online. Topics include: 1:29 – On the importance of political theory. 7:45 – The Machiavellian streak. 13:20 – Everyone in Washington DC […]

  • Night of the Wrong Knives: Using Adolescence To Deny Acts of Anti-White ‘Blancocide’ in France

    Counter Currents - Apr 17th 2025 8:00am EDT

    3,947 words Adolescence is the stubborn turd that just won’t flush. Here in its country of origin, the United Kingdom, the dismayingly popular Netflix series about so-called “toxic masculinity” is still dominating the mainstream news agenda, over a month after it was first released. The leader of the opposition Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has been […]

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  • Limiting Out of State Campaign Contributions

    Counter Currents - Apr 17th 2025 7:27am EDT

    2,373 words   In American elections, candidates who outspend their opponents tend to win. Some question whether correlation is the same as causation because donors may want to bet on the stronger horse to ensure access after the election. But when the top spending Congressional candidate usually wins 90% of the time or more, its hard […]

  • Is Everyone Really Equal?

    Counter Currents - Apr 16th 2025 1:10pm EDT

    3,746 words Özlem Sensoy, Robin DiAngelo Is Everyone Really Equal? Teachers College Press, 2017 I just got a second edition copy of the book Is Everyone Really Equal? subtitled An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education. Already it looks like quite a beaut. At the time of writing, this fine book presently enjoys […]

  • Sex and Sex-Talk in the 1970s

    Counter Currents - Apr 16th 2025 12:40pm EDT

    1,509 words Part 1 here. Part 2 here. Cosmopolitan was not the only magazine whose covers caught my attention as a child. There were also celebrity gossip magazines dishing all the latest on Liz and Dick (Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton). Another celebrity couple I particularly remember from childhood is Gregg Allman and Cher, then recently […]

  • Rack ‘Em Up: Feminism And Hubris

    Counter Currents - Apr 16th 2025 7:09am EDT

    1,703 words Men pretending to be women in order to gain sporting advantage is not a brand-new phenomenon. Perhaps the first of these cheats to gain a public profile was William Thomas, who changed his name to Lia (why do they always choose such crappy names?) when he decided it was easier to beat girls […]

  • The Vietnam War’s Insider Threat

    Counter Currents - Apr 16th 2025 6:58am EDT

    2,959 words George Lepre Fragging: Why US Soldiers Assaulted their Officers in Vietnam Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2011 America’s first truly imperialist war, that against Spain in 1898, was waged by an army whose recruits were upper class, old-stock American men. The American soldier walking the point ahead of the rest of US […]

  • New Merch!

    Counter Currents - Apr 15th 2025 3:45pm EDT

    Have you ever wanted to go to the gym, grocery store, or a family outing displaying Jonathan Bowden depicted as a delightful frog speaking in front of the Union Jack while engulfed in flames? 165 words Leading up to Jonathan Bowden’s birthday, we offered 15% off all his anthologies. Thank you to everyone who participated […]

  • Sex and IQ: “The Developmental Theory”

    Counter Currents - Apr 15th 2025 8:54am EDT

    1,142 words Richard Lynn Sex Differences in Intelligence Arktos Media Ltd, 2021 Psychologist Richard Lynn is known for tackling controversial topics, and Sex Differences in Intelligence is no exception. His work challenges mainstream assumptions that men and women have equal cognitive abilities by scrutinizing existing literature with a critical eye. Lynn posits that sex differences […]

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  • Blacks Rally to Defend Killer of White Teen Austin Metcalf

    Counter Currents - Apr 15th 2025 6:35am EDT

    Karmelo Anthony 902 words A black judge has released accused murderer Karmelo Anthony in the latest case of “we should not be forced to live with these people.” Angela Tucker, a graduate of SMU’s ironically named Dedman School of Law, serves on the bench of Texas’ 199th District Court where she was elected as a […]

  • David Foster Wallace and the Christianity of Filling in Forms

    Counter Currents - Apr 14th 2025 8:15am EDT

    3,429 words The reason I believe that Infinite Jest is David Foster Wallace’s masterpiece is that it takes for granted that there is no real reason for him, or really anyone to embrace the mundane horrors of modern life— unless (and he isn’t), you’re willing to defend the transcendent ideal of your people, which if […]

  • Sex and Sex-Talk in the 1970s

    Counter Currents - Apr 14th 2025 7:00am EDT

    1,442 words Part 1 here 1973 witnessed professional tennis’s heavily promoted “Battle of the Sexes” between 55-year-old former Wimbledon Champion Bobbie Riggs and 29-year-old feminist Billie Jean King. The gallant Mr. Riggs, of course, let Miss King win. Three years later, the tennis world was rocked by a controversy surrounding a certain Renée Richards, the […]

  • The More Things Change

    Counter Currents - Apr 14th 2025 6:29am EDT

    1,474 words Friedrich Merz Perhaps you recall that Germany held snap elections in February. If you’ve forgotten by now, I don’t blame you; the government-forming process took a while. As the Federal Government’s website informs us (my translation): The Basic Law does not stipulate a fixed deadline for the election of a Federal Chancellor and […]

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  • Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 15

    Counter Currents - Apr 14th 2025 5:32am EDT

    Karl von Blaas, Allegory of Self-Control, 1859 2,703 words Part 15 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here, Part 7 here, Part 8 here, Part 9 here, Part 10 here, Part 11 here, Part 12 here, Part 13 here, Part 14 here) Thus far, […]

  • Remembering Jonathan Bowden

    Counter Currents - Apr 12th 2025 9:25am EDT

    1,362 words Jonathan Bowden was born 63 years ago today, on April 12, 1962. He died on March 29, 2012, just short of his 50th birthday. Jonathan was a painter, novelist, essayist, playwright, actor, and orator. He was also a friend. His ideas and personality have had a real and permanent impact on my approach […]

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  • I Went to See Joker and Didn’t Get Shot

    Counter Currents - Apr 12th 2025 5:16am EDT

    1,196 words I saw a matinee of the feverishly hyped film Joker at a megaplex in rural Georgia on the first day of its official release. As we handed our tickets to the small, doughy, middle-aged female theater worker, she demanded to inspect my wife’s purse. She found no weapons, and I have no idea […]

  • Editor’s Update

    Counter Currents - Apr 11th 2025 4:57pm EDT

    Niccolò Machiavelli 105 words 1. This Saturday on Counter-Currents Radio: David Zsutty and Christian Secor discuss political theory & gamer nationalism on Counter-Currents Radio. Join us at noon Pacific/3 PM Eastern/9 PM Central European Time on: Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/ccradio DLive: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents Send questions & donations to Entropy: entropystream.live/countercurrents 2. How to Help Counter-Currents There are many ways to donate […]

  • The Geometry of Virtue: Plato’s Meno

    Counter Currents - Apr 11th 2025 11:12am EDT

    2,243 words Socrates: Tell me, boy, do you know that a figure like this is a square? Boy: I do. -Plato, Meno But geometric existence is not psychic existence. -Jacques Derrida, Introduction to Edmund Husserl’s The Origin of Geometry *** The dialogue known as Meno is generally placed in the early period of the Platonic […]

  • Sex and Sex-Talk in the 1970s

    Counter Currents - Apr 11th 2025 7:29am EDT

    1,539 words The decade of the 1970s coincided with my seventh through the seventeenth years. They made a strong impression on me, as those years of one’s life generally do. I remember a lot of what I saw, experienced, and thought about growing up. Much of this has to do with sex, not only because […]

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  • The Record of the Time

    Counter Currents - Apr 11th 2025 7:00am EDT

    1,960 words Laurie Anderson Big Science Warner Brothers, 1982 In the Seventies, Laurie Anderson made a modest name for herself in the “performance art” scene. Performance art is when talentless scammers do things like move dirt from one pile to another, or sit on blocks of ice and yodel, or have themselves crucified on the […]

  • I debated James Lindsay about the “Woke Right”

    Counter Currents - Apr 10th 2025 12:54pm EDT

    3,020 words To be honest, it was really more of a panel discussion. James is touring New Zealand with the Free Speech Union, speaking at events in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. I’m a former Free Speech Union employee and have made critical comments on social media about James’ use of the term “woke right”. So […]

  • Death And The Maiden: Martin Amis’ London Fields

    Counter Currents - Apr 10th 2025 11:32am EDT

    2,020 words This is London; and there are no fields. Only fields of operation and observation, only fields of electromagnetic attraction and repulsion, only fields of hatred and coercion. -Martin Amis, London Fields *** The late Martin Amis was an English novelist and the son of a novelist, Sir Kingsley Amis. Amis Junior dedicated one […]

  • On the Shortcomings of Literacy

    Counter Currents - Apr 10th 2025 6:22am EDT

    1,035 words In an era where reading is popularly promoted as a gateway to intelligence and success, it is necessary to interrogate the actual benefits of literacy beyond surface-level assumptions. While reading may improve verbal ability, it is not strongly associated with general intelligence (g), and its efficacy largely depends on how the knowledge acquired […]

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