• Remembering T. S. Eliot:September 26, 1888–January 4, 1965

    Counter Currents - Sep 26th 2022 9:04am EDT

    231 words Thomas Stearns Eliot was one of the 20th century’s most influential poets, as well as an essayist, literary critic, playwright, and publisher. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, from old New England stock, Eliot emigrated to England in 1914 and was naturalized as a British […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2022 Fundraiser We’re More Than Half-Way There!

    Counter Currents - Sep 24th 2022 12:10pm EDT

    800 words Exciting news! 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. This week, we crossed the half-way point. Thus far, we have raised, $162,540.70, which is 54% of our goal. Thank you, everyone who has helped out. […]

  • This Weekend’s Livestreams Woes & Morgoth on Counter-Currents Radio & Marko Marjanović on The Writers’ Bloc

    Counter Currents - Sep 23rd 2022 6:02am EDT

    305 words On Saturday, September 24th, 2022, Greg Johnson welcomes Millennial Woes and Morgoth to Counter-Currents Radio to discuss the death and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, as well as the reactions around the globe. 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 […]

  • A Beginner’s Guide to the Jewish Question

    Counter Currents - Sep 22nd 2022 12:17pm EDT

    A Yiddish election poster from Ukraine in 1917 which reads, in Yiddish, “Vote for the United Jewish Socialist Workers’ Party.” 5,861 words Introduction When approaching the Jewish Question, a beginner should keep in mind that the ultimate goal of his investigation should be the normalization of the white and Jewish populations. Normalization, in this case, […]

  • Mamma Mia, It’s Pussolini!

    Counter Currents - Sep 22nd 2022 8:55am EDT

    The jury is still out as to whether Giorgia Meloni, who may become Italy’s new Prime Minister after Sunday’s elections, is the new Mussolini. 1,408 words Look out — here comes Hitler in a bra. On Sunday, Italian voters are expected to propel a “far-Right” coalition led by a saucy and fetching 45-year-old woman into […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 488 Jason Kessler & American Krogan on the Carny Question

    Counter Currents - Sep 22nd 2022 8:09am EDT

    785 words / 2:13:09 Jason Kessler and American Krogan were host Nick Jeelvy‘s guests on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where they had a panel discussion on the Carny Question in Right-wing politics, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:01:30 We have a carny problem on […]

  • The Ayatollah Answers

    Counter Currents - Sep 21st 2022 12:03pm EDT

    9,718 words Editor’s Note: Dominic Kennedy, who is Investigations Editor at The Times of London, spent well over a year trying to dox an obscure British nationalist YouTuber who goes by “The Ayatollah.” When he learned The Ayatollah’s identity, he sent him 63 questions, which he answers below. Why do you run a racist YouTube […]

  • Kathryn S.’s Recommended Military History Reading List

    Counter Currents - Sep 21st 2022 10:35am EDT

    Horace Vernet, Napoleon at Jena: “En Avant!” 1,990 words Homer, Iliad. W. C. Bryant, trans. Perth, Aus.: Imperium Press, 2019, 576 pp.: While everyone knows the story, few people today have actually read it. You can bet that almost every great military commander in Western history read it. Composed during the Greek “Dark Ages” and […]

  • Country Music: The Truthful & Untruthful

    Counter Currents - Sep 21st 2022 10:08am EDT

    1,998 words The sound of much country music these days is bland and monotonous. The lyrics often seem to be written with commercial use in mind as they concern products, such as “my beer,” “my truck,” and so on. I especially dislike the song “I Can Fix a Drink.” Here is a sample of the […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 487 New Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson

    Counter Currents - Sep 21st 2022 9:20am EDT

    219 words / 53:18 Greg Johnson did a new solo Ask Me Anything on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:33 Thoughts on envy and Bronze Age Pervert 06:46 On Yuval Noah Harari 17:08 How do we change the minds of those […]

  • Is the British Monarchy Obsolete?

    Counter Currents - Sep 20th 2022 10:42am EDT

    3,468 words The recent passing of Queen Elizabeth II is a sad occasion. It’s comforting that she lived to an advanced age, however. Moreover, she remained physically able, kept her wits about her, and the end was peaceful and not prolonged. Fate was kind to her in that regard. Of course, she lived a remarkably […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 486 The Golden One Offers White Pills on the Swedish Election

    Counter Currents - Sep 20th 2022 9:49am EDT

    142 words / 1:03:15 Marcus Follin, aka The Golden One, was Greg Johnson‘s special guest on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio to talk about the recent Swedish election, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:01:15 Give us the basics on Swedish politics 00:06:05 On Alternative for Sweden […]

  • The Central Issue of Our Lives: Five Essential Books on Military History

    Counter Currents - Sep 20th 2022 9:20am EDT

    1,783 words Studying military history is entertaining and practical. You might not be interested in war, but war is certainly interested in you. On September 10, 2001, I was expecting to spend as much free time as I could hunting that autumn, but by mid-morning the next day I was focused on training for a […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: September 11-17, 2022

    Counter Currents - Sep 19th 2022 8:08am EDT

    Transsexual high school shop teacher Kayla Lemieux 2,385 words Illegal Aliens Get Tossed from State to State Like Hot Potatoes Because No One Likes Illegal Aliens The phrase “not in my backyard” — represented with the anagram NIMBY — refers to the time-tested tendency of superficially progressive rich people to demand that the social compassion […]

  • Books Displayed During Banned Books Week vs. Actual Banned Books

    Counter Currents - Sep 19th 2022 7:41am EDT

    2,329 words The week of September 18-24 in the year 2022 is Banned Books Week in libraries across the United States. It’s something of an oxymoron, because the library will feature books that are “banned” — sort of doing the opposite of banning them by calling attention to them. A better name would be “Books […]

  • Remembering Charles Krafft: September 19, 1947–June 12, 2020

    Counter Currents - Sep 19th 2022 5:32am EDT

    260 words Painter, ceramicist, poet, and political provocateur Charles Wing Krafft was born on this day in Seattle. Charlie was a friend of Counter-Currents from the start. He appeared on Counter-Currents Radio podcasts, attended Counter-Currents retreats, spoke at Counter-Currents events, contributed artworks for the front and blurbs for the back of Counter-Currents books, and even […]

  • Francis Parker Yockey Birthday Giveaway!

    Counter Currents - Sep 18th 2022 4:33pm EDT

    171 words To celebrate Francis Parker Yockey’s 105th Birthday, we are giving away copies of the rare The Occidental Quarterly, Francis Parker Yockey edition published Winter 2010. These are first-come, first serve, still wrapped in the original protective plastic. Between now and October 1st, anyone who initiates a new recurring monthly donation of $20 and […]

  • Remembering Francis Parker Yockey: September 18, 1917–June 16, 1960

    Counter Currents - Sep 18th 2022 4:01am EDT

    493 words Francis Parker Yockey was born 105 years ago today, September 18, in Chicago. He died in San Francisco on June 16, 1960, an apparent suicide. Yockey is one of America’s greatest anti-liberal thinkers and an abiding influence on the North American New Right. In honor of his birthday, I wish to draw the […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2022 Fundraiser In My Grandiose Moments

    Counter Currents - Sep 17th 2022 9:15am EDT

    1,120 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. Thus far, we have raised, $132,341.90, which is 44% of our goal. Thank you, everyone who has helped out. We’ve made a lot of progress. Still, I am […]

  • This Weekend’s Livestreams The Golden One on Counter-Currents Radio & American Krogan & Jason Kessler on The Writers’ Bloc

    Counter Currents - Sep 17th 2022 8:56am EDT

    305 words On Saturday, September 17th, 2022, Greg Johnson welcomes the Golden One, Marcus Follin, to the first hour of Counter-Currents Radio to talk about the recent Swedish election. In the second hour, Greg will do an Ask Me Anything. Counter-Currents Radio starts at noon PST, 3 pm EST, and 9 pm CET on: DLive: […]

  • Passage Prize, Volume 1

    Counter Currents - Sep 16th 2022 6:11pm EDT

    2,749 words A chronic problem with the arts and politics is that explicitly political art is often not the best art, regardless of the message. Jared Taylor of American Renaissance has noted that novels which are written with the intention of delivering a pro-white message are generally not very good. We see a similar problem […]

  • FDR & His Triumvirate of Stooges

    Counter Currents - Sep 16th 2022 12:24pm EDT

    2,825 words “We are determined that nothing shall stop us from sharing with you all that we have . . .  Generations unborn will owe a great measure of freedom to the unconquerable power of the Soviet people.”[1] — Harry Hopkins, Advisor to FDR, “Madison Square Garden Speech,” June 22, 1942 “Stalin gives the impression […]

  • An Ethnographic Guide to Political Groups in America

    Counter Currents - Sep 16th 2022 9:20am EDT

    2,316 words My samples may not be representative of the whole. I can only tell of what I have seen. Mainstream Leftists Mainstream leftists care primarily about being seen as good people. Some of them really are, but some of them are not. They don’t mind politically incorrect references if they can get away with […]

  • Talent: A Review

    Counter Currents - Sep 15th 2022 10:03am EDT

    2,148 words Tyler Cowen & Daniel Gross Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2022 The identification and proper allocation of talent is essential to the success of any organization. Hiring the wrong people is costly, especially for groups with limited capital. It would thus behoove […]

  • The Problem with Memphis

    Counter Currents - Sep 15th 2022 9:02am EDT

    Memphis resident and future quantum physicist Ezekiel Kelly, who recently went on a shooting spree that claimed three lives. 1,542 words During the weeklong span from September 2-8 in Memphis, Tennessee, a black career criminal abducted and murdered a white female jogger, a black teenager went on a prolonged murder spree that he livestreamed on […]