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Saturday’s Livestream: Talking with Judd Blevins about His Recall and Pro-White Politics

197 words Our very special guest on Saturday’s livestream will be Judd Blevins. Blevins, until recently a City Councilman in Enid, Oklahoma, was subjected to a recall election that he lost — which was hardly surprising given that he was opposed not only by his Republican challenger, but by the Enid political establishment, the state […]

5th Meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club, May 4: Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin

You can buy Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin here. 182 words Pssst — white people! There is no shame in being white. There is only shame in ever thinking there was. In the 50 short, sharp, incisive essays contained in his book Whiteness: The Original Sin, author Jim Goad examines why the idea of […]

You can buy Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin here. 182 words Pssst — white people! There is no shame in being white. There is only shame in ever thinking there was. In the 50 short, sharp, incisive essays contained in his book Whiteness: The Original Sin, author Jim Goad examines why the idea of […]

Second Update on the Counter-Currents Movement Poll

Francis William Edmonds, Taking the Census, 1854 614 words Last week and the week before, we sent out an invitation to everyone on our mailing list to take our movement poll. (We are sending out a reminder email this weekend.)  Please check your inbox or spam folder and fill out the poll today! Yes, that […]

Whither Thou Goest, Diaspora?

Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons. 1,566 words It seems that there has not been a worse time since the formation of Israel to be a diaspora Jew. The friends and allies that the diaspora has traditionally counted on are beginning to turn on them with the same determination and ferocity that gentiles have always possessed […]

Get to Know Your Friendly Neighborhood Habsburg

Eduard Karl Joseph Michael Marcus Antonius Koloman Volkhold Maria Habsburg-Lothringen (photo from his Twitter/X account). 1,652 words Eduard Habsburg The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times Manchester, N. H.: Sophia Institute Press, 2023 Unless you’re one of those people who reads the gossipy autobiographies of the British royal family, chances are it’s not often […]

A Family with the Wrong Members in Control: Orwell’s England

words England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare’s much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr. Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons. — George Orwell, “England, Your England” Evening has […]

Katharine the Great: The State of British Education

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 […]

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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)

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 […]