• On Right-Wing Primal Urges (or, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Debating with Yourself over Politics in the Wee Hours of the Morning, and Forgot to Ask)

    Counter Currents - Sep 15th 2022 8:36am EDT

    1,772 words Much of the friction within the Right in this country, and especially on the Dissident Right, can be rendered into a schematic conflict between two primal urges of the spirit. I call these the Republican Urge and the Monarchal Urge. Everyone on the Right has these urges, and falls into one of three […]

  • Queen of the World

    Counter Currents - Sep 14th 2022 11:50am EDT

    1,048 words When anyone on planet Earth spoke of “the Queen,” nobody ever asked, “Which Queen?” Everyone knew that “the Queen” meant Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. In that sense, she was the Queen of the world. In the global imagination, Elizabeth II stood for all the queens of the world, indeed all […]

  • Southern Nationalism: An Interview with Padraig Martin of Identity Dixie

    Counter Currents - Sep 14th 2022 10:40am EDT

    4,094 words Tell us about Identity Dixie. How is it similar to other Southern nationalist and identitarian organizations? How is it different? Thank you for the opportunity to answer this question. Identity Dixie (ID) is a voluntary collective of content producers, primarily — but not exclusively — writers. The purpose is to advance Southern Nationalism: […]

  • Utopian Visions, War, & Mass Starvation

    Counter Currents - Sep 14th 2022 9:40am EDT

    Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping. 2,236 words In August of this year, China engaged in military exercises and heated rhetoric against Taiwan and the United States in light of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the embattled island nation. Veteran paleoconservative pundit Pat […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 485 Blair Cottrell Discusses Pharmacology on The Writers’ Bloc

    Counter Currents - Sep 14th 2022 8:59am EDT

    428 words / 2:00:33 Australian nationalist activist Blair Cottrell was Nick Jeelvy‘s guest on the most recent broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc where they discussed the phenomenon of pharmacology and its origins, as well as answer your questions, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:05:00 Who is Blair […]

  • The Dutch Farmer Protests: What Has It Accomplished & Where Will It Go?

    Counter Currents - Sep 13th 2022 1:09pm EDT

    2,043 words The world has been gripped for a year now by the farmer protests in the Netherlands as the latest icon of anti-globalist activity, supplanting the Canadian truckers, who themselves supplanted the French Yellow Vests, who in turn had spiritually supplanted Occupy Wall Street from many years before. What have all these efforts wrought, and why is it […]

  • Fisherman’s Friends

    Counter Currents - Sep 13th 2022 11:45am EDT

    1,103 words We live in an odd era when films like Fisherman’s Friends still get made. In spite of all the woke nonsense, someone still made a film about (mostly) white people in Britain. A trip to the film’s Wikipedia page revealed an amusing “controversy”: one of the few black actors, who had a minor […]

  • A Russian Romance Russian Views, Part Two

    Counter Currents - Sep 13th 2022 11:03am EDT

    5,037 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) In January of 2007, my e-mail offered a suspiciously cheery post: “Hello my dear Steven. Thank you for your answer!” I sent no answer nor, to my knowledge, any questions to the sender. The addressee was named Lyudmilla, a 25-year-old Russian woman whose letter was very […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 484 New Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson

    Counter Currents - Sep 13th 2022 9:09am EDT

    155 words / 1:02:12 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: 01:52 On the universal immorality of population replacement 06:15 Do you have any updates on your court-case regarding your detainment in Norway? […]

  • Bidet Said Something

    Counter Currents - Sep 12th 2022 11:33am EDT

    2,885 words At the beginning of the month, I saw a video about a lady who got a bidet, boasting that her toilet paper consumption was merely a quarter of what it used to be. “Why, that’s nothing!” I reflected to my girlfriend, who was playing the video showing that America already has a Bidet […]

  • King Cotton & President Gas

    Counter Currents - Sep 12th 2022 10:30am EDT

    2,468 words [Without cotton] . . . Old England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her . . . No, you dare not make war on cotton. No power on Earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king. — Senator James Hammond of South Carolina The famine will start […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 483 The Ayatollah on His Doxing

    Counter Currents - Sep 12th 2022 9:43am EDT

    173 words / 1:17:26 Recently-doxed British commentator The Ayatollah (Odysee, Telegram) was Greg Johnson‘s special guest on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include 00:02:41 Who is “The Ayatollah”? 00:05:39 On British accents 00:07:45 The Ayatollah explains his avatar (Derek Day) 00:11:49 How […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 483 The Ayatollah: Doxed & Defiant

    Counter Currents - Sep 12th 2022 9:43am EDT

    173 words / 1:17:26 Recently-doxed British commentator The Ayatollah (Odysee, Telegram) was Greg Johnson‘s special guest on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:02:41 Who is “The Ayatollah”? 00:05:39 On British accents 00:07:45 The Ayatollah explains his avatar (Derek Day) 00:11:49 How […]

  • Remembering D. H. Lawrence: September 11, 1885–March 2, 1930

    Counter Currents - Sep 11th 2022 4:20am EDT

    409 words David Herbert Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England and died from tuberculosis on March 2, 1930 in Vence, France, at the age of 44. The fourth son of a nearly-illiterate coal miner, Lawrence rose by dint of genius and hard work to become an internationally famous, often censored, […]

  • The Counter-Currents 9/11 Symposium

    Counter Currents - Sep 11th 2022 4:14am EDT

    475 words For the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Counter-Currents published a symposium (linked below) which, sadly, still remains relevant as the organized Jewish community and various white traitors, dupes, and tools agitate for yet another war with one of Israel’s enemies based upon lies and sanctimony. These are my opening remarks. * […]

  • This Weekend’s Livestreams The Ayatollah on Counter-Currents Radio & Blair Cottrell on The Writers’ Bloc

    Counter Currents - Sep 10th 2022 6:00am EDT

    Blair Cottrell 305 words On Saturday, September 10th, 2022, Greg Johnson welcomes recently doxed British commentator the Ayatollah to the first hour of Counter-Currents Radio. In the second hour, he will do an Ask Me Anything. 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 […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2022 Fundraiser The Price of Independence

    Counter Currents - Sep 10th 2022 5:12am 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, $130,365.10, which is 43% of our goal. But I am getting a bit nervous, since we now have less than four months to […]

  • The Queen is Dead. Long Live the King!

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

    1,932 words I was shocked when, yesterday afternoon, a friend informed me that the Queen had died. I had only just heard a report that she was under medical supervision at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. A BBC news reader noted — twice — that she was “comfortable.” I didn’t like the sound of that, but […]

  • Four Flags Over Alabama: The Strange & Marvelous Career of a Confederate Raider

    Counter Currents - Sep 8th 2022 7:57am EDT

    The Fate of the Rebel Flag, William Bauly, ca. 1861 5,576 words Part 1 of 2 Prologue: The “Alabama Claims” Sir Alexander E. Cockburn, official of Her Majesty’s Empire, couldn’t wait for the Conference to end.[1] The Geneva setting was picturesque: Tourist treks to the “High Alps” had just closed for autumn, and as the […]

  • Conservatism Without White Men

    Counter Currents - Sep 8th 2022 7:38am EDT

    Britain’s new “conservative” Prime Minister, Liz Truss (right), has just appointed the first cabinet in British history including no white men. 1,496 words In a 2009 essay for the for the London Evening Standard titled “Don’t listen to the whingers — London needs immigrants,” former Tony Blair speechwriter and Labour Party advisor Andrew Neather famously […]

  • President Gas: Putin & Power

    Counter Currents - Sep 7th 2022 11:56am EDT

    The Nord Stream 1 pipeline: the actual ruler of Europe. 2,234 words You have to have a party When you’re in a state like this. You can really move it all . . . — “President Gas,” The Psychedelic Furs Raw power got a magic touch. Raw power is much too much. — “Raw Power,” […]

  • Let Them Drink Kool-Aid

    Counter Currents - Sep 7th 2022 11:28am EDT

    Jackson, Mississippi’s Public Works Director and City Engineer Charles Williams Jr., PE, PhD, who is presiding over the city’s current water crisis. 1,663 words The coverage of the ongoing water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi signifies much that has become dysfunctional in modern America. If future historians (Hey, guys!) are ever searching for a symbol of […]

  • Annie Hall

    Counter Currents - Sep 7th 2022 11:03am EDT

    1,449 words I remember a time — long ago, almost antediluvian — when a consumer could go on Amazon and simply purchase a Greg Johnson book. As an avid film enthusiast, one of my first Counter-Currents acquisitions was Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies. The book’s perspective was fresh, and the elevation of […]

  • Evola, Magical Idealism, & Western Metaphysics, Part Two

    Counter Currents - Sep 6th 2022 3:02pm EDT

    4,214 words Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here) 4. The Principles of Magical Idealism Evola’s critique of transcendental idealism, which we examined in the last installment, is insightful and interesting — though grand choruses of academic voices would be raised against every step of it, insisting that Evola has misunderstood idealism. That may be […]

  • Nicky’s Nullification: Schadenfreude in Oregon

    Counter Currents - Sep 6th 2022 11:36am EDT

    2,158 words There is good news, and there is bad news. The good news is that Walter Duranty II, aka Nicholas Kristof, is not going to be Governor of Oregon — not soon, anyway. That’s good news if you believe that a man whose 37-year career consisting of scribbling for the New York Times and […]