• The Fall: The White Crap that Talks Back

    Counter Currents - Jun 7th 2022 12:57pm EDT

    3,047 words When I first heard The Fall, I thought the music was annoying and incomprehensible. Then that was what became fascinating. — Stewart Lee, English comedian Everyone who works for The Fall, you know, they’re just regular people. I wouldn’t pick them otherwise. I don’t want Fall fans in the band. — Mark E. […]

  • Self-Improvement or Societal Improvement?

    Counter Currents - Jun 7th 2022 10:13am EDT

    1,212 words There comes a point in every man of the Right’s life — or more likely every year — in which he asks if it’s all worth it. Is it time to pack up his bags, “ride the tiger,” and work on himself as opposed to caring about the wider world? Yes, my friends, […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 452 The Best Month Ever on The Writers’ Bloc with Stephen Paul Foster

    Counter Currents - Jun 7th 2022 9:39am EDT

    292 words / 2:07:42 Frequent Counter-Currents writer Stephen Paul Foster was host Nick Jeelvy‘s honored guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where they discussed The Best Month Ever — a selection of particularly interesting Counter-Currents articles published in May 2022. The broadcast is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: May 29-June 4, 2022

    Counter Currents - Jun 6th 2022 10:32am EDT

    US Senate candidate Charles Booker of Kentucky tried a novel approach in a recent campaign add to let the 8% of Kentucky voters who are black know what will happen to them if Rand Paul is reelected. 2,582 words Chicago Opens an “AIDS Garden” to Celebrate Millions of Dead Gay People In case you were […]

  • Civic Nationalism’s Last Gasp: F. H. Buckley’s American Secession

    Counter Currents - Jun 6th 2022 8:43am EDT

    2,600 words F. H. Buckley just doesn’t get it. He has good instincts and intentions. He’s sniffing around in all the right places. He uses his training in statistics and social science to good effect. (And he’s warm, I’ll give him that.) With all his effort, he could probably discern the exact dimensions of the […]

  • This Weekend’s Livestreams Stephen Paul Foster on The Writers’ Bloc

    Counter Currents - Jun 4th 2022 10:46am EDT

    278 words This week, there will be no Counter-Currents Radio livestream, but if you want to hear Greg Johnson, check out these recent appearances: Discussing Yockey, Ukraine, & whether America has a future with Gregory Hood Discussing Jonathan Bowden’s Reactionary Modernism with Patriotic Alternative Discussing Giambattista Vico with Academic Agent On Sunday, June 5th, 2022, […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2022 FundraiserJoin Our Birthday Party! Counter-Currents is Turning 12

    Counter Currents - Jun 4th 2022 8:32am EDT

    Otto Rethel (1822-1892), The Birthday Cake 400 words This year Counter-Currents is raising $300,000. Our total is $92,865.63, which is 31% of the way toward our goal. Thank you to all our supporters. In just seven days — on Saturday, June 11th — we will mark Counter-Currents’ 12th birthday! To celebrate, we will be hosting […]

  • “Fortune of the Field Shall Cast from forth His Chariot”: Elements of Catastrophe & the Bronze Age Collapse

    Counter Currents - Jun 3rd 2022 1:43pm EDT

    Mycenaean bust of a Bronze Age warrior wearing a boar’s-tusk helmet 10,118 words By the late spring of 1185 BC, something had gone terribly wrong in the palace-complex of Syrian Ugarit. The city’s leader, Amurabi, had just received a letter from the grand supervisor of Alashiya (Cyprus), asking Amurabi to send what men he could […]

  • “Take Care of Russia”: Thomas Fasbender’s Biography of Vladimir Putin, Part 3

    Counter Currents - Jun 3rd 2022 11:38am EDT

    Putin at the Victory Day parade in 2012, shortly after winning his third term as President. 4,606 words Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) One might have expected that Western leaders were adequately forewarned that Putin’s ambition, priorities, and values were different from those of liberal globalists — that Christopher Hitchens […]

  • O Manifesto Nacionalista Branco: Parte 5, A Curto Prazo

    Counter Currents - Jun 3rd 2022 8:29am EDT

    Você pode comprar o Manifesto Nacionalista Branco aqui. 2,347 palavras Parte 5 di 16 (Parte 1, Parte 4) Se as tendências demográficas atuais não forem travadas e revertidas pelo Nacionalismo Branco, a raça branca vai acabar por se extinguir. Eventualmente. A longo prazo. Mas isto traz-nos um problema. É difícil justificar a execução de mudanças […]

  • Another Civil War? Don’t Get Your Hopes Up

    Counter Currents - Jun 2nd 2022 9:56am EDT

    Michigan Militia members, who will presumably be in the front lines of whatever civil war the US ends up having. 1,149 words A friend from Oklahoma recently texted me: How close are we from civil war anyway? My reply came suddenly and effortlessly, almost as if a higher power had seized my typing fingers: I […]

  • “Take Care of Russia”: Thomas Fasbender’s Biography of Vladimir Putin, Part 2

    Counter Currents - Jun 2nd 2022 9:33am EDT

    Putin meeting with families of the victims of the Kursk submarine disaster in 2000. 4,319 words Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here) In the several chapters which deal with Russia’s transformation from a state-run to a mixed economy, Putin is described as frequently involved, but only indirectly: never the main mover and never in […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 451 The Writers’ Bloc with Josh Neal on Political Ponerology

    Counter Currents - Jun 2nd 2022 9:21am EDT

    70 words / 2:01:19 Josh Neal was host Nick Jeelvy‘s guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where they to discussed Andrzej Łobaczewski’s Political Ponerology, a work attempting to describe evil in scientific terms which has greatly influenced Mr. Neal’s own book, American Extremist. The broadcast is now available for download and online […]

  • An Interview with Spencer J. Quinn

    Counter Currents - Jun 1st 2022 11:48am EDT

    2,950 words Spencer J. Quinn is one of Counter-Currents’ most prolific writers. I personally enjoy reading his articles on topics such as forgotten figures in history, music, and current political issues. In addition to writing articles, Spencer is the author of several books. His love of wisdom is evidenced by his avatar, Thucydides. We spoke […]

  • “Take Care of Russia”: Thomas Fasbender’s Biography of Vladimir Putin, Part 1

    Counter Currents - Jun 1st 2022 8:11am EDT

    Putin during his time as a KGB agent in the 1980s. 4,873 words Part 1 of 3 Thomas FasbenderWladimir W. Putin: Eine politische Biographie (Vladimir Putin: A Political Biography) Neuruppin Landt Manuscriptum 2021, 565 pp. “Beregitje Rossiju” (“Take care of Russia”) are the words quoted on page 249 of what Thomas Fasbender calls his “political […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 450 The Latest Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson

    Counter Currents - Jun 1st 2022 7:57am EDT

    172 words / 57:49 Last weekend’s Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson on Counter-Currents Radio is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:55 Question about the relationship between government, democracy, and the elites 07:20 Do Europeans in Europe have an advantage over European-Americans because they can claim to be on their […]

  • Solipsism to Nihilism: A “Ceaușescu Moment”?

    Counter Currents - May 31st 2022 10:12am EDT

    Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife shortly before their televised execution on December 25, 1989. 2,188 words “A regime built on lies always ends in collapse.” — Z-Man, “An Empire of Lies” Solipsism: a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing. I’ve […]

  • A Tale of Two Jonathans

    Counter Currents - May 31st 2022 9:23am EDT

    Jonathan Meades 1,065 words “Everything builds on something that existed before you, and without the concrete that is beneath your feet, you’re lost, aimless, and atomized.” — Jonathan Bowden A decade after his untimely demise, Jonathan Bowden continues to be a cult figure on the Dissident Right famous both for his political oratory and the […]

  • My Response to RightWingWatch

    Counter Currents - May 31st 2022 8:55am EDT

    794 words Last week I made my debut in the anti-white extremist tabloid, RightWingWatch. The article is a farcically dishonest and cynical hit piece, of course, but we shouldn’t let these scoundrels slander us without striking back. Americans want gladiatorial leadership, and stepping into the arena with the Left is marvelous sport. I am shy about in-fighting, […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 449 Greg Johnson &Gregory Hood on The Northman

    Counter Currents - May 31st 2022 8:26am EDT

    208 words / 1:12:42 Gregory Hood was Greg Johnson‘s guest on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they talked about the new movie The Northman plus YOUR QUESTIONS, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:01:57 Overview of The Northman‘s themes 00:06:12 Destiny and fate vs. the modern […]

  • O Manifesto Nacionalista Branco: Parte 4, Travar o Genocídio Branco

    Counter Currents - May 31st 2022 7:52am EDT

    Você pode comprar o Manifesto Nacionalista Branco aqui. 2,122 palavras Parte 4 di 16 (Parte 1, Parte 3) Os brancos são uma raça ameaçada. Então o que é que precisamos fazer para nos salvarmos? As mesmas coisas que se fazem para salvar qualquer espécie ameaçada. Temos de determinar porque é que os brancos não se […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: May 22-28, 2022

    Counter Currents - May 30th 2022 12:39pm EDT

    Nancy Crampton Brophy, a writer who claims that the fact that she once wrote a blog post entitled “How to Murder Your Husband” has nothing to do with the fact that she actually shot her husband to death. 2,336 words “Malevolent” Ram Kills African Woman, Gets Three Years in Prison In a shocking case of […]

  • Will NATO Ruin Eastern Europe’s Demographics?

    Counter Currents - May 30th 2022 11:32am EDT

    Estonian soldiers in action in Latvia during the Estonian War of Independence, in May 1919. 1,165 words There is an argument I hear from pro-Kremlin so-called nationalists all the time. It goes something like this: “If Estonia and other countries in Eastern Europe continue as NATO members, their demographics will be ruined . . . […]

  • From Ezra Pound to Mike Pence

    Counter Currents - May 30th 2022 7:37am EDT

    713 words Mosely, Yockey, Evola, and Pound: Their marbles lost, but genius found. Or perhaps it’s just The System’s guise To sully, defame, and pathologize All those eccentric in speech and prose Who point out the emperors’ lack of clothes. The price is further loss of mind Assigned asylum (of the psychiatric kind). Much simpler […]

  • This Weekend’s LivestreamsGregory Hood on Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson on Patriotic Alternative Book Club, & Josh Neal on The Writers’ Bloc

    Counter Currents - May 28th 2022 12:19pm EDT

    334 words On Saturday, May 28th, 2022, Greg Johnson will be joined by Gregory Hood to talk about the new movie The Northman plus YOUR QUESTIONS. In the second hour, Greg will do another solo 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 […]