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  • Katharine the Great: The State of British Education

    Counter Currents - Apr 23rd 2024 4:30pm EDT

    Katharine Birbalsingh (photo from the UK government website). 2,205 words The Jesuits famously pronounced, after Aristotle, “Give me the child and I will give you the man.” This maxim, or a version of it, reappears throughout the history of education, and by the time it reaches Vladimir Illyich Lenin, it has taken on a more […]

  • Thank You, O. J. Simpson

    Counter Currents - Apr 23rd 2024 2:27pm EDT

    Black members of the live studio audience on The Oprah Winfrey Show celebrating news of the O. J. verdict on October 3, 1995. 1,095 words I think it was the outcome of the O. J. Simpson trial in October 1995 which first introduced me to tribalism. As a young man I had seen it around […]

  • Race Recap

    Counter Currents - Apr 22nd 2024 1:46pm EDT

    Hank Willis Thomas, The Embrace 1,551 words On April 15, the day my bank check landed in the Treasury Department’s post office box to perhaps help fund the welfare state or assist in promoting multiracialism and transgenderism at home and abroad, I was running the 128th Boston Marathon — the oldest annual marathon in the […]

  • Why Buy When You Can Squat?

    Counter Currents - Apr 22nd 2024 1:05pm EDT

    Photo courtesy of Sandor Csudai from knum.org 1,203 words Things are bad when shady characters move into your wealthy neighborhood, right into your house, set up shop, and then throw enormous parties for all the other peripatetic migrant-squatters passing through. This is what is happening in the United States and the rest of the Western […]

  • Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I Part 2

    Counter Currents - Apr 22nd 2024 10:56am EDT

    2,359 words Part 2 of 5 (Part 1 here) In the first part of this series, Socrates accuses Alcibiades of wanting to be a tyrant and argues that if he wishes to fulfill this ambition, he must study philosophy. Alcibiades won’t admit that he aspires to be a tyrant, but “if” he did, he wants […]

  • Earth Day Special

    Counter Currents - Apr 22nd 2024 9:00am EDT

    710 words Today is Earth Day, which has been an occasion to call for conservationism and environmental protection since it was first celebrated in America with bipartisan support in 1970, in response to the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969. Although in recent decades environmentalism has come to be identified with the political Left, taking […]

  • Saturday’s Livestream: Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson

    Counter Currents - Apr 20th 2024 2:32am EDT

    Photo courtesy of Picryl. 70 words Saturday’s livestream will be a solo Ask Me Anything with our esteemed Editor-in-Chief, Greg Johnson. Take advantage of this opportunity to pick his brain on current events, the movement, philosophy, or whatever else is on your mind. The stream will start at noon Pacific, 3 PM Eastern Time, 8 […]

  • Update on the Counter-Currents Movement Poll

    Counter Currents - Apr 20th 2024 12:00am EDT

    Image courtesy of GetArchive 653 words Last week, we sent out an invitation to everyone on our mailing list to take our movement poll. We are sending out a reminder e-mail today. Please check your inbox or spam folder and fill out the poll today! The purpose of this poll is to get a clear […]

  • Is There a Right Wing after Postmodernity? “Euronormativity” and Biopoliticized Resistances to the “Counterhegemonic” Left

    Counter Currents - Apr 19th 2024 3:06pm EDT

    Discobolus, a Roman copy of the Greek original from the fifth century BC. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons. 2,899 words From a liberal perspective, there exists a logical (and also emotional) resistance to the use of concepts, terminologies, and ideas that are foreign to modernity, since for liberalism, being born detached from the latter, such […]

  • Stalin’s Affirmative Action Policy

    Counter Currents - Apr 19th 2024 9:00am EDT

    1,940 words Terry Martin The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in The Soviet Union, 1923-1939 Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001 Empires are based on a core ethnic group with a well-organized military, a robust economy, and a functional government whose history of fairmindedness and even judgement is such that those outside the core […]

  • The Big Implications of a Small-Town Election

    Counter Currents - Apr 18th 2024 5:44pm EDT

    Judd Blevins 1,431 words Judd Blevins was recently recalled from his position as a City Councilman in Enid, Oklahoma. This was not because of any malfeasance on his part, but because he has views and past associations which are deemed as “problematic” in Our Democracy.™ Blevins received 40% of the vote to his opponent Cheryl […]

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  • The Nigga They Are, The Hard “R” They Fall

    Counter Currents - Apr 18th 2024 3:14pm EDT

    1,187 words / 8:25 Only one word in the English language can get you killed if you say it — or, in many cases, merely if your murderer claims you said it. In his essay “Why The N-Word Is Not Just Another Word,” black writer H. Lewis Smith attempts to explain why this word has […]

  • Introduction to Mihai Eminescu’s Old Icons, New Icons

    Counter Currents - Apr 18th 2024 9:00am EDT

    745 words The following is editor and publisher Amory Stern‘s Introduction to his collection of previously untranslated essays by the Romanian writer Mihai Eminescu. The book is available in both Kindle and paperback editions. Of peasant ancestry on his father’s side and boasting aristocratic (boyar) maternal roots, the Romanian poet, prose writer, and editorialist Mihai […]

  • Już dostępne! Nowej Prawicy przeciw Starej Prawicy

    Counter Currents - Apr 17th 2024 8:23pm EDT

    663 słowa Greg Johnson Nowej Prawicy przeciw Starej Prawicy Z przedmową Kevina MacDonalda Przekład: Jarosław Ostrogniew Greg Johnson’s New Right vs. Old Right is now in Polish. Dr Greg Johnson, bazując na ideach europejskiej Nowej Prawicy, proponuje nowe podejście do białego nacjonalizmu w Ameryce Północnej. Nowa Prawica przeciw Starej Prawicy jest zbiorem 32 esejów, w których dr […]

  • Pour Dieu et le Roi!

    Counter Currents - Apr 17th 2024 4:20pm EDT

    1,809 words As you probably already know, the “Left wing” versus “Right wing” political chasm first appeared when it cracked through the French National Assembly during the Revolution of 1789, when defenders of France’s monarchy and the Catholic faith positioned themselves on the right side of the Assembly, and supporters of the republican revolutionaries aligned […]

  • Police, in the Real World

    Counter Currents - Apr 17th 2024 9:00am EDT

    Photo courtesy of SHYCITYNikon on Flickr. 1,010 words For years I worked as police reporter for the Washington Times, spending long hours in squad cars in various cities getting to know cops well. Now I listen to nice white people in the suburbs, and self-assured voices from National Public Radio (NPR), talking about the police. […]

  • Sperging the Second World War: A Response to Travis LeBlanc

    Counter Currents - Apr 16th 2024 3:39pm EDT

    Bolshevism Without a Mask, National Socialist propaganda poster (1937) 2,347 words Travis LeBlanc dropped a lot of wisdom and perspective on us regarding the Second World War and the Jewish Holocaust in two recent essays for Counter-Currents. Judging from the comments in response to them, it seems the Counter-Currents readership is well aware of this […]

  • Popcult Humor from Wilmot Robertson: Remembering Wilmot Robertson (April 16, 1915–July 8, 2005)

    Counter Currents - Apr 16th 2024 9:15am EDT

    2,487 words In the early 1980s I was involved with the startup of a “humor magazine” that never went anywhere after its colorful-but-vague pilot issue. Apart from a couple of National Lampoon veterans, we were mostly post-collegiate types, full of quirky, off-the-wall ideas from our own days at colorful-but-vague college humor mags. It was around […]

  • Remembering Dominique Venner (April 16, 1935–May 21, 2013)

    Counter Currents - Apr 16th 2024 9:00am EDT

    627 words Today is the eleventh anniversary of Dominique Venner’s dramatic suicide at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, which he carried out as a protest against the degradation of the traditional family’s central importance as well as the demographic replacement of European man, and to indicate what we must be prepared to give […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: April 7-13, 2024

    Counter Currents - Apr 15th 2024 1:51pm EDT

    O. J.’s 1994 mug shot, courtesy of Wikipedia. 2,105 words O. J. Simpson: 1947-2024 Up until June 12, 1994, white America was convinced that O. J. Simpson was “one of the good ones.” When it turned out that he wasn’t — and that black America supported him, anyway — race relations took a permanent turn […]

  • Civil War

    Counter Currents - Apr 15th 2024 9:00am EDT

    1,501 words Civil War: based or cringe? That is the million-dollar question. Your gut tells you that because it is a Hollywood film, it will be an evil MAGAs versus virtuous libtards cringefest with lots of woke anti-white messaging. Yet, part of you holds out hope that maybe it will be unintentionally based. Jews will […]

  • The Woman-Punching MAGAts of Manhattan

    Counter Currents - Apr 14th 2024 11:35am EDT

    56 words / 8:43 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “The Woman-Punching MAGAts of Manhattan,” on a journalist who contends that the men who are punching random white women on the streets of New York City are MAGA supporters — without a shred of corroborating evidence and a great […]

  • Noticing

    Counter Currents - Apr 13th 2024 1:09pm EDT

    251 words Today on the Counter-Currents Radio livestream, Angelo Plume talks to Greg Johnson, Endeavour, David Zsutty, and some surprise guests on formative experiences that got them to question whether multiculturalism can work. Plus, we will answer all of YOUR QUESTIONS. The stream will start at noon Pacific, 3 PM Eastern Time, 8 PM UK […]

  • It’s Back! The Jonathan Bowden Cultured Thug Mug

    Counter Currents - Apr 12th 2024 3:01pm EDT

    339 words Jonathan Bowden would have been 62 years old today. He 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 to New Right metapolitics. To celebrate, any gift of $120 or above will receive: At […]

  • The Holocaust Card Can No Longer Be Played

    Counter Currents - Apr 12th 2024 2:11pm EDT

    Photo courtesy of Ali Madad Sakhirani on Pexels. 1,433 words In my last essay, I discussed my distaste for spergery about the Second World War. As I was writing it, there’s one argument that I thought to address but then didn’t for reasons of narrative flow. But on second thought, I believe this argument deserves […]