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Crowd Control: How Is It “Brave” for a Black Athlete to Get a Disabled White Man in a Wheelchair Arrested at a Soccer Game?

1,939 words Antoine Semenyo As a primarily American-facing website, many readers of Counter-Currents may not possess much interest in the subject of English Premier League soccer. In which case, I have one simple piece of advice for you: tune in to any given Premier League soccer match! Rather than boring old sportsball, the main topic […]

Overcoming the Will to Live: An Introduction to Schopenhauer 3

3,832 words The Lonely Tree – Caspar David Friedrich, 1822 Part 1, Part 2 The Platonic Ideas So far we have discussed extensively how Schopenhauer frames his argument in The World as Will and Representation in terms of Kantian philosophy, and how he misunderstands Kant. The other major influence he acknowledged was Plato, and it […]

The Cringe Majority

2,310 words George Hawley The Moderate Majority: Real GOP Voters and the Myth of Mass Republican Radicalization Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2025 Since 2016, we have been perpetually on the brink of a fascist revolution. Or so the left likes to claim, as do many on the Alt Right, albeit for entirely different reasons. There […]

Is Wisdom the Only Unconditional Good?

You can buy Greg Johnson’s The Trial of Socrates here. 1,317 words In my essay “The Most Important Thing in the World,” I presented Plato’s argument in the Euthydemus for the importance of philosophy. All men are pursuing happiness. To do so, we try to secure certain goods. Something is good if it contributes to […]

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 650

124 words / 1:54:53 Eric Orwoll, aka Aarvoll, made a second appearance on Counter-Currents Radio to talk geopolitics and philosophy, and address some new controversies surrounding his Return to the Land project. You can now listen to or download the episode here. Topics include: 1:10 – More media attention and hit pieces since Orwoll’s first […]

1381 Revisited

3,967 words Juliet Barker 1381: The Year of the Peasants’ Revolt Belknap Press, 2014 Despite rumors of civil war increasing across the United Kingdom, the English Civil War(s) of the 1640s are not getting much of a mention, even on alternative media. I wrote on the subject here a year ago, and there are certainly […]

The Chud’s Guide To Radical Politics

2,196 words There are probably few political theorists who have been as systematically misread as Carl Schmitt. Perhaps this is the destiny of any thinker whose influence extends well beyond his academic field, but Schmitt’s recent revival among the online right in recent years has produced especially crude appropriations. The Schmitt of the modern right […]

Why We No Longer Have Heroes

3,438 words Achilles Dragging the Body of Hector on His Chariot – Giulio Romano, 1538 Thomas D’Arcy McGee was born in Carlingford, Ireland on April 13, 1825. From a young age, he was fascinated with Irish history and folklore. At age 17, he crossed the Atlantic for the first time, settling in Boston, Massachusetts in […]

Hoisted By Their Own Placard: The Strangely Misleading Banners of Britain’s Far-Left Pro-Migrant Protestors

2,997 words Who is behind all this summer’s protests of ordinary white British people outside asylum hotels and hostels right across the nation? Logic would dictate that the main answer would be “ordinary white British people”, but no, it is in fact the special child-rape wing of the NSDAP. Some left-wingers in the UK appear […]

A Critical Primer on Lawfare

1,134 words Henry Martin Lawfare: A Practical Guide Imperium Press, 2025 Perhaps the most important political website in recent American domestic politics was vdare.com. Vdare focused on patriotic immigration reform. Because immigration and racial and ethnic politics cannot be fully separated, the website occasionally published white advocates. The website was destroyed by the legal staff […]

The Most Important Thing in the World

Seated Socrates, fresco from ancient Ephesus 1,732 words Sometimes the most momentous truths can be established with the simplest arguments. A good example is Plato’s argument in his little-known dialogue Euthydemus  for why philosophy, the pursuit of wisdom, is more important than any other pursuit. I found this argument completely convincing. It shattered and remade […]

The Most Important Thing in the World

Seated Socrates, fresco from ancient Ephesus 1,732 words Sometimes the most momentous truths can be established with the simplest arguments. A good example is Plato’s argument in his little-known dialogue Euthydemus  for why philosophy, the pursuit of wisdom, is more important than any other pursuit. I found this argument completely convincing. It shattered and remade […]

We & Film Part 4

2,579 words Just two months after the victory of the National Socialist German Workers Party in the March 1933 elections and the subsequent “takeover” of power, the Film Credit Bank was established in Germany (the NSDAP had had a film division since 1930). In order to free the local film industry from the direct or […]

Zionism in Steady Decline

2,550 words The forecast is looking pretty cloudy for Zion. For the last century, they’ve wielded tremendous power, far beyond their numbers and largely behind the scenes. They’ve been treading on thin ice for a while, and lately they’re finally starting to hit the skids. At the very least, they’ve run out of gas. Defining […]

The Occult Roots of Wokeism Part 2 The Mother Strikes Back

3,492 words Satana – Fidus, 1896 Part 1 For thousands of years, it seemed like a natural law that men should have the final say in society, but thanks to the diligent work of Johann Jacob Bachofen, professor of Roman law at the University of Basel, the truth would finally come to light: long ago, […]

Jonathan Bowden’s Craze Part 5

You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Pulp Fascism here. 4,529 words Part 5 of 5 Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi In 1995, Jonathan Bowden self-published his Collected Works in 6 volumes (London: Avant-Garde, 1995), edited by Jürgen Schwartz, one of Bowden’s pen names. The six volumes comprise 27 distinct books, 12 of which had […]

Big Balls & Big Crime

1,887 words Earlier this month a 19-year-old former DOGE staffer named Edward Coristine, otherwise known as “Big Balls,” thwarted a carjacking in Washington, DC. He was with his girlfriend when ten black teenaged thugs approached and threatened to steal his car. He pushed his girlfriend into the car to protect her and then faced the […]

Editor’s Update

You can order The Best of Trevor Lynch here 164 words 1. This Saturday on Counter-Currents Radio: Greg Johnson welcomes Eric Orwoll back to Counter-Currents Radio to talk about Return to the Land and all the amazing things that have happened since his last appearance. We will also talk about philosophy, Current Things, and YOUR […]

The End of Jewish Power?

1,083 words The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain – Emilio Sala Francés, 1889 One of the most important lessons I learned from reading Bertrand de Jouvenel’s On Power is that revolutions happen against weak regimes, not against strong ones. This is not the romanticized version of history that we frequently get from the media […]

Overcoming the Will to Live: An Introduction to Schopenhauer 2

Portrait of Arthur Schopenhauer – Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl, 1815 4,050 words Part 1 What “Will” Is In our last installment we began to discuss Schopenhauer’s magnum opus, The World as Will and Representation, and we covered, in essence, the “first half” of the case he makes: we discussed why the world is “representation.” Like Kant, […]

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 649

109 words / 2:05:51 Josh Neal and BasilianThought joined Greg Johnson to talk about social media savoir faire, MAGA grifters, Eric Orwoll’s duels with journalists, and more. It is now available to listen to or download here. Topics include: 2:07 – The controversies with Eric Orwoll and Return to the Land. 21:40 – What is […]

3,889 words John Sweeney & Evelyn Grant Antipolitics, Volume 1 Wyflings Publishing, 2025 Many a time, if you meet political science students at even the most prestigious institutions, you will encounter readers of Carl Schmitt, Joseph De Maistre, and even Thomas Carlyle who ostensibly grasp what they are talking about when they mention power, but […]

Jonathan Bowden’s Craze Part 4

You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Western Civilization Bites Back here. 4,649 words Part 4 of 5 Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi In 1995, Jonathan Bowden self-published his Collected Works in 6 volumes (London: Avant-Garde, 1995), edited by Jürgen Schwartz, one of Bowden’s pen names. The six volumes comprise 27 distinct books, 12 of […]

Miss Zuckerberg Regrets

3,460 words The men of the Red Pill are predominantly white. -Not All Dead White Men, Donna Zuckerberg, PhD Miss Otis regrets she’s unable to lunch today. Miss Otis Regrets, Ella Fitzgerald *** I wrote a piece here at Counter Currents recently about Plato’s Theaetetus, and classical philosophy in general. It seems to me that […]

We & Film Part 3

914 words Part 1, Part 2 From Siegfried to Triumph of the Will: Impulses of the Avant-Garde The most distinctive artistic language of pre-revolutionary German cinema is expressionism. Silent films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, dir. Robert Wiene), The Tired Death (1921, dir. Fritz Lang) and Nosferatu (1922, dir. Friedrich W. Murnau), […]