Humphrey Ocean, Philip Larkin, 1984 1506 words English poet, novelist, and critic Philip Larkin was born 100 years ago today. The only son of a prosperous middle-class family in Coventry, Larkin earned his BA from St. John’s College, Oxford, with First Class Honors in English. Then Larkin trained to become a librarian, which became his […]
Rolleiflex selfie of Philip Larkin and Monica Jones in Paignton, Devon, circa 1957. (From Andrew Motion’s Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life, 1993.) 1,575 words This essay is part of a commemoration of Philip Larkin’s birthday. — Ed. He’s been dead for 37 years, but the Philip Larkin literary industry keeps burbling along, fueled by a […]
Philip Larkin 3,158 words The writer Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was born on August 9, 1922, and this essay is part of a commemoration of his birthday. — Ed. Reading the jazz criticism of the poet Philip Larkin today, the most noticeable feature is how much of the music he did not like. His antipathy towards […]
Christopher Forth is a white dude at the University of Kansas who will soon be offering his students courses in “Angry White Male Studies.” 2,484 words Whoopi Goldberg and Stacey Abrams Say God Gave Women Free Will to Abort Their Fetuses Have there ever been two more pugnaciously undesirable black women on this multicolored planet […]
305 words On Saturday, August 6, 2022, Greg Johnson will do a solo Ask Me Anything on Counter-Currents Radio and maybe revisit some classics from the vault. 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 to Entropy: entropystream.live/countercurrents On Sunday, August […]
Franz von Stuck, The Spirit of Victory 949 words This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000. Since our fundraiser started on March 10th, we have raised $111,190.30, which is 37% of our goal. I want to thank all of those who have given so far, and I want to share Howe Abbott-Hiss’s thoughts on why you […]
445 words Knut Hamsun was born Knut Pedersen in Lom, Norway on August 4, 1859. He died in Grimstad, Norway, on February 19, 1952. The author of more than twenty novels, plus poems, short stories, plays, and essays, Hamsun was one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers. His rejection of both Romanticism and naturalism, […]
760 words I have always been a slow adopter of anything newfangled. It think that is smart. The whiz kids behind the latest app or miracle vaccine don’t know it all. They can’t foresee everything, so they can’t plan for everything. Truth only emerges with time, by trial and error. So if it ain’t broke, […]
You can buy Tito Perdue’s novel Cynosura here. 1,140 words Tito Perdue Cynosura San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing, 2016 Having been reared in the orbit of a major East Coast city around the turn of the century, it’s a stretch to say that I’d ever get enjoyment out of a 1950s, Tennessee-set love story; but here […]
Thompson when he was running for Sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado in 1970. 3,735 words Part 4 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here) 4. Father of Fake News – or OT (Original Troll)? . . . The Myth of the Golfing Douchebag I have discovered the secret of writing fiction, calling it impressionistic […]
528 words / 2:11:42 The Writers’ Bloc had their good friend Hwitegeard over for a friendly, low-intensity chinwag with host Nick Jeelvy, where they also answered listener questions, and it is now available for download and online listneing. Topics discussed include: 00:07:00 How does one speak Anglo-Saxon and what does it sound like? 00:08:30 Anglo-Saxon […]
905 words Editor’s Note: As part of our new Commission an Article feature, A. Wyatt Nationalist will give a White Nationalist perspective on your questions for a donation of $100 or more. New Paywall subscribers can also commission one article per year. Just send in your questions to [email protected]. A. Wyatt Nationalist can be any Counter-Currents writer, […]
The Togatus Barberini in the Capitoline Museums is believed by some scholars to represent a Roman Senator holding two ancestral funerary portraits. 2,864 words For early man there could not have been a difference between “living” and “dead” things, or even “imaginary” and “real,” instead for him there was only a hierarchy of forms, an […]
Hunter passed out drunk while covering an event as a journalist circa 1960. 7,043 words Part 3 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) 3. Gonzo: What Happened? — Decline and Fall of Gonzo As Thompson charts Hemingway’s road from literary brilliance to failure and suicide, he maps out his own path for the […]
1,623 words As most of us are probably aware by now, Curtis Yarvin has dropped an article titled “You Can Only Lose the Culture War.” Some have gone so far as to call this “Yarvin’s bomb” — quite the bomb drop, indeed, which has kicked the hornet’s nest of the Dissident Right. The article’s gist […]
171 words / 58:13 Greg Johnson was joined by Mark Collett of Patriotic Alternative for an Ask Me Anything session on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed the White Lives Matter day of action as well as other subjects, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: […]
Roy James Holden, a former cable guy who pled guilty to murdering one of his elderly white customers. His employer claims they had no idea Holden could be a criminal, despite lying on his application and being caught photographing his customers’ personal documents prior to the murder. 2,279 words We’re Not in a Recession — […]
125 words / 55:03 Host Greg Johnson welcomed the British activist Kate Fanning, a.k.a. Bubba Kate Paris, on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio for an interview and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:59 Kate’s political and legal activism 07:21 On the White Indigenous Rights Alliance 11:08 Kate’s […]
305 words On Saturday, July 30, 2022, Greg Johnson welcomes British activist Kate Fanning a.k.a. Bubba Kate Paris to the first hour of Counter-Currents Radio and Patriotic Alternative’s Mark Collett to the second hour. 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 […]
Giacomo Balla, Balbo and the Italian Transatlantic Flyers (Celestial Metallic Airplane) (Balbo e i trasvolatori italiani [Celeste metallico aeroplano]), 1931 1,386 slová English original here, Spanish translation here Aký je význam toho, čo nazývam starou pravicou, t.j. nemeckého národného socializmu, talianskeho fašizmu a iných spriaznených medzivojnových národno-populistických hnutí, vo vzťahu k dnešnému bielemu nacionalizmu? Táto […]
314 words This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000. Since our fundraiser started on March 10th, we have raised $107,184.60, which is 35.7% of our goal. I want to thank all of those who have given so far, and I want to share four simple reasons why you should give now: First, showing we can grow […]
3,214 words Part 1 of 7 David S. Wills High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism St. Andrews: Beatdom Books, 2021 “He’s a drunk and he’s a doper who has got a style which is very dangerous for journalism students to pick up on.” — Harlan Ellison, 1979[1] David Wills comes not to bury […]
Napoleon’s North African-attired Consular Guard: a hard look to pull off 4,571 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) 2. Rage Militaire: Franco-American Zouave-mania “His parents taught him to be a cavalier, but the life of the Zou-zou he much did prefer.” — anonymous Confederate verse “The city,” one Richmond, Virginia newspaperman enthused, “was […]
228 words Dear Paywall Members and Valued Readers, The Counter-Currents team is excited to announce the launch of our private Telegram chat! As a thank you to you, our paywall members, we created this space where our loyal readers and listeners will be able to enjoy more in-depth conversation, and the opportunity to interact with […]
The Eunuch’s Dream, Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, 1874 3,742 words Part 1 of 2 Called The Eunuch’s Dream and finished during the imperial golden age, the French painting displayed here is one of the most evocative examples of “Orientalism” that I’ve ever seen. It is a romantic image ripped from the pages of Scheherazade’s Arabian […]
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