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  • This Weekend’s Livestreams Greg Johnson vs. Mark Collett on the Ukraine War & James O’Meara on The Writers’ Bloc

    Counter Currents - Oct 15th 2022 2:12pm EDT

    280 words On Saturday, October 15th, 2022, Greg Johnson will have a civil airing of differences about the Ukraine war with Patriotic Alternative’s Mark Collett on Joel Davis’ YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/Er2TzQVuR68 After the debate, Greg will do an AMA on Counter-Currents Radio: DLive: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/ccradio Send questions & donations to Entropy: entropystream.live/countercurrents On Sunday, […]

  • Remembering Friedrich Nietzsche (October 15, 1844–August 25, 1900)

    Counter Currents - Oct 15th 2022 3:49am EDT

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Friedrich Nietzsche, 2020. 846 words Friedrich Nietzsche was born this day in 1844 in the small town of Röcken, near Leipzig, Saxony, in the Kingdom of Prussia. He died in August 25, 1900, in Weimar, Saxony, in the Second German Reich. The outlines of Nietzsche’s life are readily available online. Nietzsche is […]

  • Raised Lutheran: The Life of Friedrich Nietzsche

    Counter Currents - Oct 14th 2022 9:58am EDT

    2,156 words “Have you accepted Jesus, Agent Starling? Do you have faith?” “I was raised Lutheran.” “That’s not what I asked.” — Thomas Harris, Hannibal I am a sick man. I am an angry man. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground “I am one thing,” wrote Friedrich Nietzsche, “my writings another.” Although a few decades […]

  • Awakening Arminius

    Counter Currents - Oct 14th 2022 9:23am EDT

    Ludwig Fahrenkrog: Germania, Your Day is Coming 1,253 words We are being buffeted by an unrelenting storm of chaos. The global economy lies in ruins, with leading stocks having shed as much as 80% of their value while European countries face the prospect of the lights going out this winter. A major conflict rages on […]

  • Jef Costello’s Heidegger in Chicago

    Counter Currents - Oct 14th 2022 8:24am EDT

    You can buy Jef Costello’s Heidegger in Chicago here 1,472 words Jef Costello’s Heidegger in Chicago: A Comedy of Errors is the philosopher’s novel. Luckily, being (no pun intended) a scholar on Heidegger is by no means a prerequisite but, by the same token, you certainly would never find this book in the young adult […]

  • George Floyd Meets Rodney King

    Counter Currents - Oct 13th 2022 10:45am EDT

    Noni Olabisi’s mural Freedom Won’t Wait was inspired by the 1992 Rodney King riots. 2,318 words George Floyd most likely never met Rodney King. They are both dead. Their lives really “made a difference.” It would be good for them to meet. Comparatively speaking, that is. The difference these particular agents of the feral underclass […]

  • A Deadly Kind of Forgiveness

    Counter Currents - Oct 13th 2022 9:18am EDT

    18-year-old Elijah DewItt and his girlfriend, Bailey Reidling. Dewitt was gunned down by two “youths” in a parking lot while on a date with Reidling. 1,663 words On Wednesday, October 5 at about 8:15 PM, 18-year-old high-school football star Elijah Dewitt was shot dead in the parking lot outside the Sugarloaf Mills Mall in Lawrenceville, […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 495 The Writers’ Bloc: Stephen Paul Foster on Desolation’s March

    Counter Currents - Oct 13th 2022 8:52am EDT

    949 words / 2:09:17 Nick Jeelvy welcomed frequent Counter-Currents contributor Stephen Paul Foster back to The Writer’s Bloc to discuss his eerily predictive 2003 book Desolation’s March: The Rise of Personalism and The Reign of Amusement in 21st Century America. Topics discussed: 00:09:00 Stephen Paul Foster, “The Rise of the “Bubble People”” 00:11:00 Stephen Paul Foster, […]

  • Nuggets from the Mainstream Media Pot-Poo-Ri

    Counter Currents - Oct 13th 2022 3:30am EDT

    4,750 words Not long ago I was chatting with some people I’d just met, and TV programs came up for discussion. I had nothing to add because I don’t own a television. They were wondering why, and I said that I don’t need all that propaganda. There were understanding nods all around the table. It’s […]

  • Remembering Ralph Vaughan Williams (October 12, 1872–August 26, 1958)

    Counter Currents - Oct 12th 2022 2:18pm EDT

    Ralph Vaughan Williams 2,806 words Today is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams, one of England’s greatest composers. Breaking with the German tradition, which nineteenth-century English composers sought to emulate, Vaughan Williams forged a distinctly English style that drew upon England’s musical heritage. He is also remembered as one of the […]

  • Love Drinking Less

    Counter Currents - Oct 12th 2022 9:38am EDT

    2,023 words Adrian Chiles The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less London: Profile Books, 2022 See also: British TV & Cutting Down on Booze Alcohol is a two-edged sword. On the one hand it makes life fun and turns strangers into intimate friends in the course of an evening; on the other, it […]

  • Remembering Aleister Crowley (October 12, 1875–December 1, 1947)

    Counter Currents - Oct 12th 2022 9:25am EDT

    Aleister Crowley by Charles Krafft 666 words Aleister Crowley was an English poet, novelist, painter, and mountaineer who is most famous as an occultist, ceremonial magician, and founder of the religion and philosophy of Thelema. Sadly, he was also an egomaniac, a pervert, and a drug addict. But at least he did not sacrifice babies […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2022 Fundraiser We Are More than Half-Way to Our Columbus Day All-Or-Nothing $5,000 Matching Grant!

    Counter Currents - Oct 11th 2022 3:27pm EDT

    Salvador Dali, The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, 1959 779 words A generous donor has offered Counter-Currents a $5,000 ALL-OR-NOTHING, ONE WEEK ONLY matching grant in honor of Columbus Day. This offer ends on Friday, October 14th. I am proud to announce that we are more than half way to our goal. This is a […]

  • How I Met Lemmy Kilmister: An Interview with Mark Gullick

    Counter Currents - Oct 11th 2022 11:56am EDT

    Lemmy Kilmister 3,707 words Mark Gullick is a rarity for Counter-Currents. He is a professional writer and an expert on the English cultural milieu. Mark is mainly interested in current politics, but his interests also include bars, travel, funny stories, philosophy, Tarot, adventure, and professional literature. Let’s get to know him better. Ondrej Mann: Could […]

  • Human Capital & the Slave Trade

    Counter Currents - Oct 11th 2022 10:40am EDT

    854 words The link between the transatlantic slave trade and industrial growth in Britain is a recurring theme in public discussions. There is a widespread assumption that the slave trade’s profitability required Britain to compensate the descendants of Africans, since it helped to enrich some institutions. It is true that the slave trade made profits, […]

  • The Stockholm Free Speech Book Fair

    Counter Currents - Oct 11th 2022 10:03am EDT

    2,088 words I attended the Stockholm Free Speech Book Fair back in August in order to network, sell Counter-Currents books, and report back to headquarters. I updated my online profiles to Director of European Operations for a high-profile publisher and took out my finest pointy shoes to look the part. Freshly inflated with importance, I […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 493 Sarah Dye of Above Time Coffee Roasters

    Counter Currents - Oct 11th 2022 9:02am EDT

    206 words / 58:06 Greg Johnson welcomed Sarah Dye of Above Time Coffee Roasters, a recently-established nationalist-owned business, to the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download or online listening. Topics discussed include: 01:33 Sarah’s story 05:10 The Mayor of Bloomington, Indiana spoke out in support of antifa 08:03 What percentage […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: October 2-8, 2022

    Counter Currents - Oct 9th 2022 9:12pm EDT

    2,266 words Young Black Males Committed 60% of USA Homicides in 2021 Exactly 50 years ago in the blaxploitation film Super Fly, black cocaine kingpin Youngblood Priest (Ron O’Neal) boasted, “I hire the very best killers there are! White killers.” Although it’s true that blacks were never able to develop technological devices capable of killing […]

  • Remembering Frank Herbert: October 8, 1920–February 11, 1986

    Counter Currents - Oct 8th 2022 10:51am EDT

    Frank Herbert 462 words Frank Herbert was born on this day in 1920 in Tacoma, Washington. Herbert is best-known as the creator of Dune, which is the most widely-read and influential science fiction novel of all time. Herbert, moreover, is an artist of the Right. As I wrote in my review of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2022 Fundraiser Our Columbus Day All-Or-Nothing $5,000 Matching Grant!

    Counter Currents - Oct 7th 2022 12:59pm EDT

    Salvador Dalí, The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, 1959 1,000 words Counter-Currents aims to raise $300,000 this year to sustain and expand our work, including organizing real-world community events and creating a new public policy institute. Last week, we crossed the half-way point. This week we got one percent more toward our goal. Thus […]

  • This Weekend’s Livestreams Above Time Coffee Roasters on Counter-Currents Radio & Stephen Paul Foster on The Writers’ Bloc

    Counter Currents - Oct 7th 2022 12:37pm EDT

    280 words On Saturday, October 8th, 2022, Greg Johnson welcomes Sarah Dye of Above Time Coffee Roasters to Counter-Currents Radio to discuss her family’s businesses and battles with the forces of political correctness. Counter-Currents Radio starts at noon PST, 3 pm EST, and 9 pm CET on: DLive: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/ccradio Send questions & donations […]

  • A Reading List on White Slavery

    Counter Currents - Oct 7th 2022 9:06am EDT

    1,710 words A sharp, functional sense of victimhood may grate on the pride of many white people. After all, it was whites who ushered in the modern world these past few centuries, and because of their phenomenal success in such a wide array of fields, many Western whites simply don’t and never did feel like […]

  • Biden’s Title IX Reforms

    Counter Currents - Oct 7th 2022 8:04am EDT

    President Trump’s Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, enacted reforms to protect students accused of sexual misconduct. Those reforms have now been undone. 1,517 words This June, the Biden administration proposed sweeping reforms to current Title IX regulations that would jeopardize single-sex spaces in schools and would roll back due process protections for those accused of […]

  • The American Colonization Society

    Counter Currents - Oct 6th 2022 10:39am EDT

    2,334 words Eric Burin Slavery & the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida Press, 2005 See also Herman Husband & Hinton Rowan Helper The American Colonization Society is an organization whose mission, had it been successful, would have turned America into a white ethnostate and nipped a great many troubles […]

  • Sometimes, There’s Just No Pleasing These Sodomites

    Counter Currents - Oct 6th 2022 9:39am EDT

    1,557 words If one day I were to find myself in the improbable situation of being so well-heeled and immune to social ostracism that I convinced a Hollywood studio to produce a romantic comedy that was sympathetic to the KKK, you would find it incredibly undignified if I were to whine that no black people […]