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  • Purifying American History

    Counter Currents - Jul 30th 2025 9:38am EDT

    3,123 words Kermit Roosevelt III The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story University of Chicago Press, 2022 On the first night of September of 2022, President Joe Biden delivered a speech in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, outside of Independence Hall, the building where the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776 and where the Constitutional Convention […]

  • On the Essence of Europeanism: Excellence or Evil?

    Counter Currents - Jul 30th 2025 6:52am EDT

    1,669 words Ricardo Duchesne Greatness and Ruin: Self-Reflection and Universalism Within European Civilization Antelope Hill Publishing, 2025 Everyone agrees that we Europeans are distinct from (and therefore stand out amongst) the other members of our species. Where the disagreement begins is when we attempt to apprehend the precise nature and substance of this difference. Those […]

  • What Constitution Are We Even Talking About?

    Counter Currents - Jul 29th 2025 8:14am EDT

    2,217 words The Left clutches their pearls about the Constitution whenever the Right attempts to do anything productive, especially on immigration. Using buzzwords like “due process,” which they do not themselves believe in (as shown by the Covid lockdowns and treatment of the J6ers), is a standard Saul Alinsky tactic which is becoming less effective […]

  • Well, What Do You Know? Plato’s Theaetetus

    Counter Currents - Jul 29th 2025 7:00am EDT

    3,213 words “What do I know?” asked French thinker Michel de Montaigne in the 16th century. Two hundred years later, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant refined the question, asking rather, “What can I know?”. In philosophy, however, there is rarely anything new under the sun, and this was not a new query. Both Montaigne’s and […]

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  • America’s Foreign Policy Has Lost the Plot — and Trump Isn’t Making It Better

    Counter Currents - Jul 29th 2025 5:09am EDT

    1,079 words American foreign policy is in disarray. Once the architect of a global order based on alliances, commerce, and shared values, the United States now seems confused about its mission in the world. Under Donald Trump, that confusion has deepened. His trademark slogan, “America First,” has not translated into a coherent strategy. Instead, it […]

  • The Origins of Christian Zionism

    Counter Currents - Jul 28th 2025 8:37am EDT

    5,026 words Defining Christian Zionism and Dispensationalism It’s difficult to imagine Western Christianity these days without its zealous, almost unshakeable support for Israel. A curious position, one might think, given the historical theological stances and attitudes of most of Christianity. We’ll dive headfirst into the peculiar marriage of Christianity and Zionism, tracing their rather recent […]

  • Helen Gurley Brown

    Counter Currents - Jul 28th 2025 7:08am EDT

    2,372 words Helen Gurley Brown (1922-2012), longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, was one of the most influential American women of the late twentieth century, although virtually all of this influence was harmful. A native of Arkansas, she graduated from Woodbury Business College in California. Her first professional success came in the advertising business, a fact […]

  • Iron & Soil: Journey Through the Battle for Ukraine 8

    Counter Currents - Jul 28th 2025 6:46am EDT

    793 words All parts here. We are back in Odessa. The delivery round has been successfully completed. Only one crate of medical supplies remains to be taken to Kyiv. But before that, one day of rest. A day to explore the city, to talk to the locals. The streets are crowded, yet somehow quiet. Footsteps, […]

  • Editor’s Update

    Counter Currents - Jul 25th 2025 4:15pm EDT

    You can order Alain de Benoist’s The Populist Moment here 200 words 1. The Counter-Currents 2025 Fundraiser Since our last update, our fundraiser total has increased to $64,892.00. We very much appreciate it. We are now more than 20% of the way toward our total of $300,000. Thanks to everyone who has helped out so far. […]

  • Did Hitler Take Credit for the Holocaust?

    Counter Currents - Jul 25th 2025 10:06am EDT

    1,232 words “The Holocaust” has come to mean the mass killing of Jewish civilians by Germany during the Second World War. In Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Politisches Testament” (My Political Testament) dictated on April 29, 1945, the day before his suicide, there is a passage that seems to mention and justify the Holocaust. The German original […]

  • By Any Other Name: Was Shakespeare a Woman?

    Counter Currents - Jul 25th 2025 7:02am EDT

    3,430 words My first Jodi Picoult novel, Wish You Were Here, didn’t exactly whet my appetite for her, but her style is enjoyable, so I picked up By Any Other Name, curious and ready for another Picoult joyride.   “Picoult is the master of wading through the darkness to find the light,” exulted one back cover […]

  • Afghanistan and the Rape of Britain

    Counter Currents - Jul 25th 2025 5:18am EDT

    1,244 words A Brief History of Immigration and Sexual Assault in the UK According to the World Population Review, Great Britain had 73,590 cases of rape in 2022, making it even then the rape capital of Europe. This is in contrast to the number of rapes in Britain in 2017 (57,133) according to the same […]

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  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 646 Karl Thorburn

    Counter Currents - Jul 24th 2025 10:01am EDT

    112 words / 1:59:50 Greg Johnson welcomed back Bitcoin guru and commentator Karl Thorburn to discuss Trump, Musk, Epstein, and a whole lot more, including your questions. The episode is now available to download or listen to here. Topics include: 1:40 – How has Bitcoin been doing? 5:00 – Karl’s thoughts on the Epstein debacle. […]

  • Judeo-Christian

    Counter Currents - Jul 24th 2025 9:17am EDT

    1,322 words In American public life, few phrases are as pervasive—and as misleading—as “Judeo-Christian values.” Politicians from both parties routinely invoke the term to describe the moral foundations of the United States, suggesting a shared religious heritage between Jews and Christians that supposedly binds the nation together. But this unity is an illusion. Judaism and […]

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  • Iron & Soil: Journey Through the Battle for Ukraine 7

    Counter Currents - Jul 24th 2025 9:03am EDT

    1,254 words All parts here. The road winds through beautiful pine forests, following the banks of the Oskil River. The trees are tall and old, but their trunks bear fresh, black wounds where fire and shrapnel have torn through them. The wind whispers through the needles. Rusting signs still invite travelers to resorts, lodges, and […]

  • Will Israel Realign with China?

    Counter Currents - Jul 23rd 2025 10:38am EDT

    1,834 words Screencap this: within two to ten years, Israel will ditch the US and realign itself with China. This sounds unlikely based on the past, but the past is already gone. My prediction is based on applying the main principle from George Friedman’s The Next Hundred Years (which I reviewed here): world leaders may […]

  • The Yellow Submarine Revisited

    Counter Currents - Jul 23rd 2025 10:25am EDT

    3,158 words During my misspent youth, back when wooly mammoths still walked the Earth, I caught a replay of the Yellow Submarine movie at an indie theatre. It went into production during the Summer of Love, and the film premiered in 1968. One way of regarding the movie is as a framing story to showcase […]

  • Berserkers in Burkas: Falsely Blaming Vikings and Nazis for Acts of Muslim Terror and Crime

    Counter Currents - Jul 23rd 2025 7:08am EDT

    2,412 words This month marks twenty years since the 7/7 attacks of 2005, when suicide-bombers blew themselves up on public transport in London. Naturally, in the run-up to this potentially dangerous anniversary, the British public were warned to be on high alert for the most likely future perpetrators of such obscenities: Vikings. This is the […]

  • Nietzsche’s Untimely Meditations At 150

    Counter Currents - Jul 22nd 2025 8:32am EDT

    4,139 words The collection of essays by Friedrich Nietzsche which came to be known as Untimely Meditations was not actually published in 1875, but was comprised of four pieces written in or around that year. The essays were published separately and compiled only later into Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen. The German word Unzeitgemässe is also translated as […]

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  • They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else 3

    Counter Currents - Jul 22nd 2025 7:36am EDT

    2,017 words Part 1, Part 2 As would be expected, Ronald Suny ends They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else, his comprehensive history of the Armenian Genocide, by placing the genocide within its historical context and comparing it to other genocides of the 20th century, primarily the Jewish Holocaust. Suny makes pains to […]

  • American Elites Are Making Their Subjects Fat, Expense-Ridden, and Brown

    Counter Currents - Jul 22nd 2025 4:11am EDT

    1,751 words If you’re looking for an airport gate headed to America, just look for racially mixed groups of fat people. America is one of the fattest nations in the world. Nearly half of all Americans are obese, that is, 40 pounds overweight. One culprit is that American food contains a lot of fattening ingredients. […]

  • How Trump Could Have Gotten Away with the Epstein Coverup

    Counter Currents - Jul 21st 2025 7:30am EDT

    Trump’s White House: Where “transparency” is a slogan. 1,488 words Donald Trump could have easily covered up Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. All he needed to say is: “I have been promising for years to release the Epstein files. I’ve created a lot of expectations. Now that I’ve actually looked at the files, they are worse than […]

  • Iron & Soil: Journey Through the Battle for Ukraine

    Counter Currents - Jul 21st 2025 7:01am EDT

    1,873 words Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 We head out of the steppes, moving north into Ukraine. Here, the landscape becomes more familiar to an Estonian eye: we pass through pine forests and once again see log houses by the roadside. In the Lyman region, we enter liberated territory. This […]

  • Editor’s Update

    Counter Currents - Jul 19th 2025 12:03pm EDT

    You can order Alain de Benoist’s Against Liberalism here 355 words 1. The Counter-Currents 2025 Fundraiser Since our last update, our fundraiser made a great leap forward to $63,947.87 thanks in large part to two donors. We very much appreciate it. We are now more than 20% of the way toward our total of $300,000. Thanks […]

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  • The Attack on European Swimming Pool Culture

    Counter Currents - Jul 18th 2025 11:34am EDT

    1,474 words Most western countries feature public outdoor and indoor pools that allow citizens to cool down, swim, and socialize during the summer months. It is especially important part of social life in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, especially for those who live in apartments. One of the many downfalls of mass migration is the presence […]