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  • Easy As Pi

    Counter Currents - Jun 25th 2026 10:59am EDT

    3,085 words Eugenia Cheng How to Bake ϖ Profile Books, 2015 Something about my own cognitive ability has always frustrated me. Well, being mediocre at chess after half a century playing the game frustrates me, but perhaps that failure to improve much is linked with my main irritation. I have a PhD and a very […]

  • AI Will Destroy Capitalism, Not Save It

    Counter Currents - Jun 25th 2026 9:17am EDT

    1,861 words Communism’s hallmark, a command economy, is a failed system. Centrally planning pencil production over five years is ludicrous—even with AI. But the command economy has one use: as a reference point, or thought experiment, for other economic systems. Assuming we had a one-party state ruling the nation as conceived as one factory, one […]

  • Lothrop Stoddard on the French Colonists in San Domingo

    Counter Currents - Jun 25th 2026 8:26am EDT

    4,827 words This is a foreword that I wrote for Lothrop Stoddard’s The French Revolution in San Domingo, published in 2011. Historian Frank Moya Pons, writing in The Cambridge History of Latin America, describes Lothrop Stoddard’s The French Revolution in San Domingo as “a book now out of fashion because of its racism, although retaining some interest.” […]

  • Citizen Vigilante

    Counter Currents - Jun 24th 2026 9:43am EDT

    1,584 words This generation finally has its Death Wish. Uwe Boll’s Citizen Vigilante, a film banned in Germany, is catching a lot of attention because it slides the curtain back on the human price which must be paid for third-world immigration. Technically, it’s a revenge fueled action-thriller, the kind which pits one exceptional man against […]

  • Paul Waggener on Community Organizing 

    Counter Currents - Jun 24th 2026 5:33am EDT

    52 words Paul Waggener of the Wolves of Vinland discusses community organization, moving from early street activism to structured, real-world tribal communities. He emphasizes physical connection (“FaceTime”), economic self-sufficiency, internal hierarchies, and positive lifestyle modeling to attract and mold the next generation. From the 2026 Counter-Currents Spring Retreat in Rome.  Also available on X. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/PaulWaggenerCompressed2.mp4

  • Andy Burnham’s Dead (& Alive) Cat Bounce

    Counter Currents - Jun 24th 2026 5:24am EDT

    Andy Burnham in 2025. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. 1,984 words Andy Burnham’s main problem is that he just can’t afford to say no. The British Treasury’s main problem may soon be that it just can’t afford him to keep saying yes. Burnham is the smooth-talking, doe-eyed, Left-wing Labour Party politician strongly tipped to become the […]

  • Remembering Giambattista Vico

    Counter Currents - Jun 23rd 2026 12:10pm EDT

    230 words Giovanni Battista Vico was born on this day in 1668 in Naples. Vico was one of the first counter-Enlightenment thinkers and a pioneer of the philosophy of history and culture. Thus Vico is an important inspiration for the New Right. You can learn more about his life, work, and legacy at Counter-Currents. Works […]

  • Starmer Resigns

    Counter Currents - Jun 23rd 2026 11:26am EDT

    2,245 words Britain is about to get her sixth Prime Minister in seven years. Sir Keir Starmer announced his resignation from the highest political office in the United Kingdom from outside the famous black front door of Number 10, Downing Street on Monday, and will apparently leave in September. This is a fast-moving story, and […]

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  • The Forgotten Sin: America’s Treatment of Germans

    Counter Currents - Jun 23rd 2026 7:14am EDT

    Memorial stone for the Prisoner-of-War Camp Rheinberg 1945. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. 1,623 words Americans are routinely called upon to reckon with the darkest chapters of their history. The institution of slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War Two: these are subjects of documentaries, school curricula, museum exhibitions, and […]

  • I’m Glad He Failed

    Counter Currents - Jun 22nd 2026 9:47am EDT

    Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. July, 2025. Official WH Photo by Daniel Torok. 1,162 words When Barack Obama was sworn in as president in January of 2009, the most influential conservative commentator in the United States was talk radio host Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh was a loyal supporter of all things Republican, and hostile to government […]

  • Are Lowe’s Figures Too High?

    Counter Currents - Jun 22nd 2026 6:26am EDT

    4,877 words According to historians, the Rape of Nanking saw perhaps 20,000 victims. According to Rupert Lowe, the Rape of Britain saw perhaps 250,000. So, that makes the latter over ten times worse. Doesn’t it? In actual fact, nobody knows precisely how many underage white (and also a minority of non-white) girls were gang-raped by […]

  • Editor’s Update

    Counter Currents - Jun 19th 2026 6:09pm EDT

    You can buy Greg Johnson’s The Philosopher Is In here. 346 words The Philosopher Is In My new book The Philosopher Is In is now in print and available in all formats. Order by the end of tomorrow, Saturday, June 20, and receive a special discount. Loving Our Own Jef Costello has reviewed my recent […]

  • Leadership vs. Pandering

    Counter Currents - Jun 19th 2026 5:58am EDT

    Kaiser Wilhelm II 1,504 words One of the most fundamental distinctions in politics is between leadership and pandering. Failing to understand this distinction can lead to disaster. Leadership and pandering have the same object: the people, or more specifically the politically empowered people, the electorate. Leadership and pandering also have the same goal: to harvest […]

  • Monkeys and Typewriters

    Counter Currents - Jun 19th 2026 5:24am EDT

    An AI generated photo mocking AI generated ethnic literature. 3,318 words It turns out AI-generated “literary” slop existed long before there was any real electronic AI around to even generate it—the pre-Chat GPT-era artificial intelligence in question belonging to black and brown people. In 2005, the prestigious British literary magazine Granta ran an essay by […]

  • The Unwanted Report

    Counter Currents - Jun 18th 2026 4:28pm EDT

    1,960 words In January of 2025, Nigel Farage made a pledge to the people of Britain, and he did it on the Left-leaning radio station LBC (London Broadcasting Company). It isn’t unusual for politicians to make pledges any more than it is for them to go on to break them, but he promised to fund […]

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  • Interview with Gerhard Hallstatt of Allerseelen

    Counter Currents - Jun 18th 2026 10:05am EDT

    3,566 words Gerhard Hallstatt is an Upper Austrian musician, photographer, and writer, though he currently focuses primarily on music with his experimental band Allerseelen. He previously served as the publisher of the small but influential underground magazines Aorta and Ahnstern, using the pseudonym Adam Kadmon. These limited-circulation publications focused primarily on esoteric philosophy, magic, sacred […]

  • The Doxing of Austin Franco

    Counter Currents - Jun 18th 2026 9:07am EDT

    Austin Franco 1,834 words Giving blacks and Jews cell phones has shown the whole world the content of their character, undoing decades of their carefully curated media image. For example, blacks have begun doing the “Austin Bop” where they dance to a rap song made about Austin Metcalf’s death while reenacting his stabbing. It is […]

  • Small Is Beautiful: The Napoleon of Notting Hill

    Counter Currents - Jun 17th 2026 12:27pm EDT

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874–1936 9,193 words NOTE: This 14 June marks the 90th anniversary of the death of the great Anglo-Catholic conservative writer G. K. Chesterton in 1936. The following essay has been written for planned inclusion in a future as-yet untitled academic anthology of pieces on the subject of Chesterton and war, and deals […]

  • The Psychology Behind MrBeast’s Moronic Thought Experiment

    Counter Currents - Jun 17th 2026 5:44am EDT

    2,005 words MrBeast (real name James Stephen Donaldson) is the most successful YouTuber of all time. As of June 2026, he has amassed a subscriber base of 500 million and accumulated over 129 billion views. While MrBeast has declared himself apolitical, he is undeniably influential on today’s youth. Among younger generations, the fame of traditional […]

  • On the Roots of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in Contemporary Britain

    Counter Currents - Jun 17th 2026 4:50am EDT

    1,389 words During the past week, there have been a series of disturbances across the United Kingdom that constitute one of the more serious episodes of civil unrest the country has experienced in recent years. In Belfast, nights of rioting followed a brutal knife attack carried out by Hadi Alodid, a Sudanese national, against Stephen […]

  • Remembering Enoch Powell

    Counter Currents - Jun 16th 2026 5:27pm EDT

    750 words Enoch Powell is most famous for his “Rivers of Blood” speech on April 20, 1968, in which he warned, prophetically, of the dangers of massive non-white immigration into the United Kingdom. Powell called for cutting off legal as well as illegal immigration and for repatriating non-white immigrants whose high birthrates would eventually lead […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 691

    Counter Currents - Jun 16th 2026 6:57am EDT

    Greg Johnson and Rob Rundo on his 60 Minutes interview, activism, organizing, current events, RESUM26, women in the movement, lying journalists, and more. Now for your streaming or downloading pleasure. To listen in a player, click here or below. To download, right-click the link and click “save as.”   https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/EDIT-Rob-Rundo1.mp3

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  • The Fragile Polity that is Syria

    Counter Currents - Jun 16th 2026 6:05am EDT

    3,588 words Daniel Neep Syria: A Modern History New York: Basic Books, 2026 Syria has had a significant impact on current events. The harsh domestic politics that land has attracted international intrigue during its civil war, allowed for the temporary creation of a Salafi Jihadist ruled religious dystopia, and caused a migrant crisis in Europe. […]

  • Letter to J. D. Vance

    Counter Currents - Jun 15th 2026 9:01am EDT

    VP Vance at a WH press briefing. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. 1,960 words Dear Vice President Vance, Since this is an open letter, please indulge me as I spell out some things that you surely know but which some readers may not. Donald Trump has done the impossible. He has created a global humanitarian and […]

  • Lost In Trans-Mission

    Counter Currents - Jun 15th 2026 5:57am EDT

    1,665 words Darren “Eleanor” Rigby, who keeps not only his face, but also his breasts and his labia in a jar by the door, was in the news in Britain this June after threatening to shoot up several all-girls’ schools in The Beatles’ old stamping grounds of Liverpool and the surrounding district of Merseyside. Well, […]