• The Groupie Question in White Nationalism

    Counter Currents - Oct 25th 2019 5:00pm EDT

    1,254 words I received this question from a Counter-Currents reader: Andrew Marantz’s Antisocial tells the story of “Samantha,” who got involved with Identity Evropa and the Alt-Right, rose through the ranks, became disaffected, and then left the movement and talked to the enemy. In view of Samantha and other doxings by ex-scene groupies like Katie […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2019 Fundraiser The Struggle Continues

    Counter Currents - Oct 25th 2019 8:52am EDT

    226 words Our goal this year is to raise $100,000 in order to expand our efforts to build a metapolitical vanguard for White Nationalism. So far, we have received 331 donations totaling $83,998.71. We set our goals high because the task we have before us is formidable, but with your help, we will succeed. We […]

  • An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part XI: Concerning Queen Hjordis and King Alf

    Counter Currents - Oct 25th 2019 3:18am EDT

    Johannes Gehrts, Sigmund’s Sword (1889) 2,325 words Part I here, Part X here After many twists and turns in the story of the Volsungs, Sigurd, the greatest of them all, is about to burst onto the scene. In our last installment, we saw Sigmund taking a second wife, the beautiful Hjordis, daughter of King Eylimi. […]

  • I Miss the Old Kanye

    Counter Currents - Oct 24th 2019 9:15am EDT

    1,252 words Kanye West broke his ten-month silence on Twitter with a square photo of an indigo record, captioned “‘JESUS IS KING’ OCT 25TH” in an apparent announcement of his long-anticipated studio album. West has made multiple claims about an album release in the past, but none of them have come to fruition, leading many […]

  • Tradition Isn’t Socialism

    Counter Currents - Oct 24th 2019 6:55am EDT

    2,589 words Suppose you’re out there on social media and you’re arguing for nationalism. Suppose you make the argument that the activities of transnational gigacorporations undermine the health, security, and welfare of independent nations. Suppose you put forth an argument for state intervention on behalf of the health, security, and welfare of that nation against […]

  • Memory: The Origins of Alien

    Counter Currents - Oct 24th 2019 5:29am EDT

    2,076 words Director Alexandre O. Philippe has followed up his 2017 documentary on the shower scene in Psycho (78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene) with Memory: The Origins of Alien, a documentary on the creation of Alien that attempts to chart the film’s wide-ranging influences and explore its mythic resonance. The result is an underwhelming muddle that […]

  • The Madness of the Awokened Crowds

    Counter Currents - Oct 24th 2019 4:21am EDT

    2,226 words Douglas Murray The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019 I discovered Douglas Murray when he was interviewed by the Hoover Institute’s Peter Robinson. What struck me about Murray was that he used phrases found in Counter-Currents articles. For example, in the interview Murray says that Europe “doesn’t […]

  • Video of the Day We Will Not Be Replaced!

    Counter Currents - Oct 24th 2019 4:02am EDT

    38 words / 28:28 Mark Collett, the longtime British movement veteran and popular political activist and author, speaks about National Populism — what the establishment thinks it is, as opposed to what it actually is — at the recent Scandza Forum conference in Copenhagen.

  • Antisocial: A Review

    Counter Currents - Oct 23rd 2019 6:03am EDT

    2,484 words Andrew Marantz Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation New York: Viking, 2019 For the past five years, New Yorker scribe Andrew Marantz has been working a steady beat, writing about Internet trolls and dank memes on the Far Right (which in his mind is still the “Alt Right”). […]

  • On Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Warning to the West

    Counter Currents - Oct 23rd 2019 3:45am EDT

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 3,604 words And all of us are standing on the brink of a great historical cataclysm, a flood that swallows up civilization and changes whole epochs. –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, BBC speech, March 24, 1976 In the summer of 1975, the recently-exiled Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delivered three speeches in the United States: two to labor organizations […]

  • Lessons in Marketing from Coke

    Counter Currents - Oct 23rd 2019 3:24am EDT

    722 words If you took the opportunity to read my introductory essay, “Coyote Ugly,” you will recall my thesis that Western institutions are as much, if not more, to blame for our demise as a people than any historic or current tribal conflicts. I painted my argument with a broad brush, and touched upon the […]

  • Who Watches the Watchmen?

    Counter Currents - Oct 22nd 2019 6:50am EDT

    4,217 words As much as I feared that this series, which departs significantly from the Alan Moore canon, would be weighed down by the usual PC nonsense, I never imagined its very first episode would revel in visceral anti-white sentiment and Leftist Id-expression fantasies. If we extrapolate from this show’s first episode, HBO’s Watchmen may […]

  • Why the Dissident Right Should Remain Secular

    Counter Currents - Oct 22nd 2019 5:48am EDT

    1,135 words  A new Pew Forum survey shows that fewer Americans call themselves Christian than ever before. Only sixty-five percent of Americans now say they’re Christian, a thirteen percent decline since 2007. Twenty-six percent of Americans say they’re religiously unaffiliated, a ten percent increase since 2007. The majority of America is no longer Protestant, with […]

  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s

    Counter Currents - Oct 22nd 2019 2:13am EDT

    1,899 words Blake Edwards’ 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s—loosely based on Truman Capote’s 1958 novel of the same name—stars Audrey Hepburn in her iconic role of Holly Golightly, a charming, flighty, feminine, haunted young woman trying to create a life—and an identity—in a gorgeous Technicolor New York City at what is arguably the peak of […]

  • Iamthemorning

    Counter Currents - Oct 21st 2019 6:26am EDT

    1,093 words The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880) I first heard her name whispered over cocktails at the Decabrist bar on St. Isaac’s Square in St. Petersburg. Some of my friends had been hanging out with sound […]

  • National Populism for Elitists

    Counter Currents - Oct 21st 2019 5:11am EDT

    Philipp Foltz, Pericles’ Funeral Oration (1852) 1,560 words When the story of the late 2020s is written, it will have to address the phenomenon of National Populism. Due to a combination of several long-term and deep-seated factors, the people of the West started gravitating towards charismatic leaders cultivating popular and populist movements aimed at restoring […]

  • Ten Questions for Radical Environmentalist Derrick Jensen, Part II

    Counter Currents - Oct 21st 2019 4:00am EDT

    6,773 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) HC: Historically in the United States, a sizable sector of environmentalists have found common cause with parts of the political Right when it comes to restricting immigration, and sometimes even in preserving not just biodiversity in the broad sense, but human biodiversity as well. Madison Grant, […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 252 The Siege of Scandza

    Counter Currents - Oct 19th 2019 4:16am EDT

    100 words / 57:58 To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” Greg Johnson and Frodi Midjord talk about their experiences inside and outside antifa siege of the Scandza Forum in Copenhagen on October 12, 2019. 0:00: Introduction 0:08: Donations 5:07: […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2019 Fundraiser Over Target, Taking Flak

    Counter Currents - Oct 18th 2019 9:02am EDT

    528 words This year, Counter-Currents is trying to raise $100,000. So far we have received 309 donations totaling $82,632.40, for which we are immensely grateful. It hasn’t been easy, though, and it is getting harder. We have been deplatformed by four payment processors this year, two in just the last week. But as the saying […]

  • Warsaw Journal #2

    Counter Currents - Oct 18th 2019 5:07am EDT

    4,542 words September 21, 2018 Reading Breitbart News online this morning. Sometimes I get depressed and I don’t want to be on either side of these political fights. The Leftists are deranged, controlling, addicted to their power, and the Right appear to be without sympathy or empathy for anyone but themselves. And yet, it is […]

  • Ten Questions for Radical Environmentalist Derrick Jensen, Part I

    Counter Currents - Oct 18th 2019 3:31am EDT

    Derrick Jensen 8,852 words Part 1 of 2 Derrick Jensen, the hardcore and prolific Green activist, is easily one of the most interesting public intellectuals of our time. His willingness to take ideas to their logical end point – and make no apology for it – keeps him from being easily categorized. As a radical […]

  • Blade Runner 2049: White Slavery

    Counter Currents - Oct 17th 2019 8:47am EDT

    3,496 words Blade Runner 2049 is a deep and interesting film fueled by visual spectacle and cleverly-handled ambiguity. The film’s dialogue is sparse and carefully weighted, and the intricate plot resolves itself fairly satisfactorily (even though the film takes its sweet time getting there). Nonetheless, it fails to live up to its predecessor. It struggles […]

  • The Beautiful Game

    Counter Currents - Oct 17th 2019 5:01am EDT

    983 words Some people think football (soccer) is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. — Bill Shankly, former manager of the Liverpool Football Club Sport is tribal. It is a contest between individuals and teams. It evokes instinctive and […]

  • Video of the Day Regenerate Against the Machine

    Counter Currents - Oct 17th 2019 4:55am EDT

    48 words / 18:28 This is the video of Millennial Woes’ talk from the Scandza Forum in Copenhagen last Saturday, in which he discusses the various types of positive and negative narratives that are promoted by social elites in order to either benefit the people they govern — or only to benefit themselves.

  • The New Right: A Review

    Counter Currents - Oct 16th 2019 8:07am EDT

    2,746 words Michael Malice The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019 What do you get when you have an anarchist diaspora Jew from the former Soviet Union who cannot abide the hypocrisy of the Left, but who is really nervous around the Right? Add to […]