• Losing a Lose-Lose Scenario

    Counter Currents - Jan 5th 2024 11:10pm EST

    Claudine Gay 1,249 words It would appear that the saga of black female Harvard President Claudine Gay has come to an end with her resignation on January 2. The tale ended as it began: as a farce. One of the reasons that I find myself incapable of getting too emotionally invested in the matter is […]

  • Havens in a Heartless World, Part 2: The Homeland

    Counter Currents - Jan 5th 2024 1:21pm EST

    1,506 words Part 1 here If the family is a haven in the heartless world of global liberalism, so is the nation. What is the connection between family and nation? Both are related by blood. Indeed, your nation is just your extended family. You enter your family and your nation at the same time, in […]

  • On Treason and Loyalty

    Counter Currents - Jan 5th 2024 12:36pm EST

    F. O. C. Darley, The Last Words of Captain Nathan Hale, the Hero-Martyr of the American Revolution (1861) 1,452 words “There is only personal history, and consequently only personal politics.” — Oswald Spengler[1] The Leftists have an unending supply of tedious takes in regards to Charlottesville, the Confederacy, and January 6. These usually involve pontificating […]

  • Counter-Currents Book Club Sale

    Counter Currents - Jan 4th 2024 7:15pm EST

    173 words The Librarian by André Martins De Barros Every month in 2024, join Counter-Currents Editor-in-Chief Greg Johnson, our authors, and friends to read and discuss some of the best material from our catalogue and more. We’ll host group discussions, discover new material, and #readbannedbooks! (Banned from Amazon to be precise.) The first meeting will […]

  • Straining to Care About This Year’s Election

    Counter Currents - Jan 4th 2024 1:35pm EST

    1,093 words / 7:27 Now that we’ve taken off our holiday party masks and furtively tiptoed into 2024, the presidential election looms only ten months away. I find myself violently disinterested in the whole sorry affair. I can’t recall a time in my life when I cared less about the candidates or the outcome. It […]

  • Thought Criminal: Stephen Paul Foster’s Fatal Friendship

    Counter Currents - Jan 3rd 2024 12:38pm EST

    You can buy Stephen Paul Foster’s novel Fatal Friendship here. 1,987 words Stephen Paul Foster Fatal Friendship: A Philosophical Novel Foster & Dobson, 2023 To subtitle one’s fiction A Philosophical Novel throws down a weighty gauntlet. Some novels which could be described as philosophical slip in and out of the discipline with ease, weaving speculative […]

  • English, What’s Left of It, & Its Management

    Counter Currents - Jan 2nd 2024 1:01pm EST

    Leonid Pasternak, The Passion of Creation (1892) 2,015 words Recently I took part in a discussion of writing and how to do it on Counter-Currents (which you can listen to here). This being a topic of some importance to me, I decided to throw together a few thoughts in a form more coherent that I […]

  • The Counter-Currents Book Club

    Counter Currents - Jan 2nd 2024 10:29am EST

    You can order Jonathan Bowden’s collection The Cultured Thug here. 285 words Beginning this year, one episode per month of the Counter-Currents Radio livestream will be devoted to the Counter-Currents Book Club. Each stream will be devoted to a particular book from Counter-Currents or allied publishers. Each stream will be hosted by Greg Johnson. We […]

  • 2023 Fundraiser Grand Total

    Counter Currents - Jan 2nd 2024 9:11am EST

    214 words The Counter-Currents 2023 Fundraiser grand total is $229,089.39. We also raised $28,710 for the Homeland Institute. Together that is $257,799.39. Thank you to everyone who contributed. We will make you proud in 2024. We came in short of our $300,000 goal, but we were almost 86% of the way there. Last year we […]

  • The 23 Most Annoying People of 2023

    Counter Currents - Jan 1st 2024 2:54pm EST

    Ali Alexander 4,905 words When it comes to their ability to disappoint me, people never disappoint me. One of the biggest compliments I can give someone is “You never annoyed me,” but it’s a compliment I use sparingly — perhaps once a year. Although I’ve skipped a year here and there, this “Most Annoying People” […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 565: The New Year’s Eve-Eve Special

    Counter Currents - Jan 1st 2024 2:05pm EST

    135 words / 2:06:10 Greg Johnson hosted a relaxed Ask Me Anything on the New Year’s Eve-eve broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio. Endeavour (Substack, Telegram, YouTube), Jim Goad, James Karlsson, Gaddius Maximus, Cyan Quinn, Karl Thorburn (Telegram), and David Zsutty all dropped for the occasion, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:01:11 What were the […]

  • How to Ruin a Good Kim Philby Story

    Counter Currents - Jan 1st 2024 1:39pm EST

    2,972 words It ought to be mighty difficult to make a bad production — be it documentary, fictionalized, semi-fictionalized — out of the career of master spy Kim Philby. Yet, somehow the makers of the six-part mini-series A Spy Among Friends have succeeded in that grim task. (First broadcast a year ago in England on […]

  • Down to the Wire

    Counter Currents - Dec 31st 2023 2:46pm EST

    314 words Today is the last day of the Counter-Currents 2023 fundraiser. Our goal this year is ambitious: $300,000. But actually the amount is modest considering our goals, namely saving our race and civilization from extinction. Our total is $206,545, which is 68% of our goal. This means we have $93,455 to go, with a […]

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  • New Year’s Eve-Eve on Counter-Currents Radio

    Counter Currents - Dec 30th 2023 1:50pm EST

    79 words It is the eve before New Year’s Eve, and today on Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson will host a relaxed AMA on the year that is closing and the year to come with special guests Gaddius Maximus, Cyan Quinn, Karl Thorburn, David Zsutty, and a few surprise drop ins. The stream will start at […]

  • A New Year’s Matching Grant to Make Your Donation Go Further!

    Counter Currents - Dec 30th 2023 1:24pm EST

    John Gast, Manifest Destiny (1872) 308 words We still need to raise $103,316 to fund everything we do through 2024! Another donor is chipping in a $5,000 New Year’s Eve matching grant to boost our efforts. We have until midnight on the West Coast on December 31 to reach our goal! From our writers: Since […]

  • Please Help Counter-Currents to Cross the Finish Line!

    Counter Currents - Dec 29th 2023 1:08pm EST

    825 words Only three days are left for us to reach our goal to fund Counter-Currents through 2024! Since we are still $103,316 away, a generous supporter offered a $10,000 matching grant to inspire everyone who is contemplating making a donation. If you’ve already given, thank you. I want you to know what a difference […]

  • When Jews Wander Right

    Counter Currents - Dec 29th 2023 12:41pm EST

    1,983 words White Americans should be prepared for a rightward shift coming their way soon. It seems that diaspora Jews are beginning to wake up to the violence of the Left — especially the anti-Jewish Left — and are deciding that the Left is no longer for them. Earlier this month, the Boston City Council […]

  • Saint Che’s Guide to Asymmetric Warfare, Part 2

    Counter Currents - Dec 29th 2023 12:13pm EST

    4,762 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Why violent accelerationism doesn’t work Before going further, this is a good opportunity for me to digress regarding certain obvious pitfalls about going postal. Again, I don’t approve of terrorism. As for those who feel otherwise, I note parenthetically that the usual sort of lone nuts […]

  • Activist of the Year: Keith Woods

    Counter Currents - Dec 28th 2023 1:53pm EST

    923 words 2023 was the year when all of the dissident Right’s most fanciful, pie-in-the-sky “what ifs” came true. What if an eccentric billionaire came along and used his vast fortune to give us a platform? What if some high-profile Conservatism Inc. shills got red-pilled and started preaching White Nationalist talking points? What if the […]

  • All He Wanted for Christmas Was White Genocide

    Counter Currents - Dec 28th 2023 1:03pm EST

    Steven Hutcherson 1,170 words / 8:23 Hearing that a black man who stands accused of stabbing two teenage girls in New York’s Grand Central Terminal on Christmas morning told arresting officers “I want all the white people dead” sounds depressingly familiar — at least if you’re white and don’t have a death wish. Both girls […]

  • The Eternal Recurrence of the Same: The New Liberal Government in Poland

    Counter Currents - Dec 27th 2023 5:29pm EST

    1,960 words The most probable scenario came to pass in the aftermath of the 2023 Polish parliamentary elections (see my report on it here). To sum up events: The conservative Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law & Justice, or PiS) party, which had been in power for the two terms, won the most votes, but not enough […]

  • The Union Jackal, December 2023

    Counter Currents - Dec 27th 2023 3:59pm EST

    Ramadan lights near Leicester Square in London, March 2023. 2,142 words Christ, you know it ain’t easy So, the union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland staggers through another year of our Lord, although that’s not a much-used phrase just at the moment. That’s because the long-simmering offensive against Christianity in the United Kingdom, which […]

  • Havens in a Heartless World, Part 1: The Family

    Counter Currents - Dec 27th 2023 2:47pm EST

    John Singleton Copley, “The Copley Family,” 1776 2,340 words Christopher Lasch famously described the family as a “haven in a heartless world.”[1] How is the world heartless, and how is the family a haven? For Lasch, the heartlessness of the world has everything to do with the increasing liberalization and economization of life. Liberalism’s ideal […]

  • “An Ethnostate, If You Can Keep It”

    Counter Currents - Dec 26th 2023 2:29pm EST

    1,493 words If the current regime disappeared, and I were given a free hand to create an ethnostate, this is what I would do. I am going to focus simply on policies and institutions, not practical questions about how we would gain and keep the power to implement them. 1. First and foremost, I would […]

  • Nueva Derecha vs. Vieja Derecha, Capítulo 11: Lidiando con el Holocausto

    Counter Currents - Dec 26th 2023 12:56pm EST

    You can buy Greg Johnson’s New Right vs. Old Right here 5.634 palabras English original here, Polish translation here Capítulo 1 aquí, Capítulo 10 aquí, Capítulo 12 aquí INTRODUCCIÓN Los Nacionalistas Blancos necesitamos abordar el Holocausto, como también necesitamos abordar la Cuestión Judía en general. Es inútil enfocarse únicamente en la defensa de los Blancos […]