• Budapest Journal, Part Two

    Counter Currents - Oct 7th 2019 4:25am EDT

    Typical Budapest hostel 4,055 words Part 1 here September 4, 2018 I worked this morning at the English used bookstore/café, where I’m having a flirtation with the younger girl who works here. Her female boss, who owns the place, is older, and is cruel and cold with her predominantly tourist clientele, which is understandable. But […]

  • Joker

    Counter Currents - Oct 6th 2019 5:14am EDT

    1,785 words Note: Contains Spoilers Audio Version: To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” One of the great things about Heath Ledger’s Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is that he does not have an origin story. Or, actually, […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2019 Fundraiser Voluntarily Donate Now or Involuntarily Pay Slavery Reparations Later

    Counter Currents - Oct 4th 2019 9:33am EDT

    743 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 288 donations totaling $60,338.79. We set our goals high because the task we have before us is formidable, but with your help, we will succeed. We […]

  • A Flash of Dissident Genius in Estonia

    Counter Currents - Oct 4th 2019 2:32am EDT

    The Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), Tallin, Estonia 1,615 words When You Say We Belong to the Light We Belong to the Thunder July–October 2019 First of all, the actual building and location of the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia has a great, youthful, Do-It-Yourself aesthetic. It’s informally known as the EKKM (cool). Its […]

  • Eyes Wide Shut

    Counter Currents - Oct 3rd 2019 1:08am EDT

    4,473 words The day Jeffrey Epstein turned up dead in a New York jail cell, I decided I needed to write something about Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Stanley Kubrick’s last and weakest movie. Epstein has quickly faded from the headlines, so let me remind you briefly of who he was. Epstein was an American Jew […]

  • Charlottesville’s Silver Lining: The Decline & Fall of the Alt Lite

    Counter Currents - Oct 2nd 2019 6:48am EDT

    2,002 words Stefan Molyneux has not had a good year. In fact, he says it’s been a brutal year. The world’s most popular philosophy show is in dire straits. He’s losing subscribers, he’s losing views. He’s got a bone to pick with YouTube and its bosses, and he needs more money to make more unprofitable […]

  • The Roots of Liberalism’s Contemporary Crisis

    Counter Currents - Oct 2nd 2019 4:45am EDT

    2,654 words Patrick J. Deneen Why Liberalism Failed New Haven, Ct./New York: Yale University Press, 2018 Patrick Deneen, a Professor of Political Science at Notre Dame University, wrote the present study in 2016, completing it shorty before Donald Trump’s election. In February 2019, a paperbound edition with a few revisions and a new Preface was […]

  • Remembering Roy Campbell: October 2, 1901–April 22, 1957

    Counter Currents - Oct 2nd 2019 4:12am EDT

    Roy Campbell 1,561 words Roy Campbell was a South African poet and essayist. T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Edith Sitwell praised Campbell as one of the best poets of the inter-war period. Unfortunately, his conservatism, Nietzscheanism, and Catholicism, as well as his open contempt for the Bloomsbury set and his participation in the Spanish […]

  • Remembering Louis de Bonald:October 2, 1754–November 23, 1840

    Counter Currents - Oct 2nd 2019 3:56am EDT

    Louis de Bonald 137 words Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald, is one of the great French counter-Revolutionary conservative thinkers. For an overview of his life, see “Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald,” here at Counter-Currents. F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right: “Louis de Bonald’s […]

  • The Counter-Currents Newsletter, September 2019

    Counter Currents - Oct 1st 2019 8:49am EDT

    925 words Dear Friends of Counter-Currents, September was our best month ever in terms of traffic: 234,278 unique visitors, almost 100,000 over what we had in June! There has been a steep and steady rise in traffic since June. This is not merely due to a few viral articles, although those helped. There are also […]

  • The Karl Muck Scandal: A Study in Ethnocentrism

    Counter Currents - Oct 1st 2019 8:06am EDT

    3,940 words Melissa D. Burrage The Karl Muck Scandal: Classical Music & Xenophobia in World War I Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2019 This year saw the publication of a curious little history about a curious little event from the First World War. Karl Muck is a name that might not be on the […]

  • American Cattle: The Cucking of Carson King

    Counter Currents - Oct 1st 2019 4:17am EDT

    1,568 words Why do so many whites accept political correctness? Because their lives are too good and they’re too afraid to fight back. If it doesn’t directly affect them, why should they care? These American cattle are grazing the strip mall pastures, mooing at their favorite sports teams. The epitome of these complacent bovines is […]

  • Remembering Maurice Bardèche: October 1, 1907–July 30, 1998

    Counter Currents - Oct 1st 2019 3:25am EDT

    643 words Today is the birthday of Maurice Bardèche (1907–1998), the French Neo-Fascist writer. Bardèche was a prolific and highly versatile author of literary, film, and art criticism, history, journalism, and social and political theory. He published twenty-odd books and countless essays, articles, and reviews. Born in modest circumstances in provincial Dun-sur-Auron near the geographical […]

  • Ailis

    Counter Currents - Sep 30th 2019 5:06am EDT

    Henry Holiday, Dante and Beatrice (1883) 4,395 words Google threw up no results and that surprised him. She had been ambitious, determined to become a famous actress, but he had not heard anything about her since she disappeared. Disappeared? That seemed a hard word . . . The Internet told him nothing, or rather by […]

  • Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon

    Counter Currents - Sep 30th 2019 4:19am EDT

    2,258 words Every year is getting shorter; we never seem to find the time. The world-famous British psychedelic outfit Pink Floyd released the seminal work The Dark Side of the Moon on March 1, 1973, inspiring endless musicians around the world and ultimately leading to the rise of loose women wearing T-shirts with a prism […]

  • Remembering Savitri Devi: September 30, 1905–October 22, 1982

    Counter Currents - Sep 30th 2019 3:27am EDT

    792 words Savitri Devi was a philosopher, a religious thinker, and a tireless polemicist and activist for the causes of animal rights, European pagan revivalism, Hindu nationalism, German National Socialism, and — after the Second World War — pan-European racial nationalism.She also sought to found a religion, Esoteric Hitlerism, fusing National Socialism with the Traditionalism […]

  • The Scandza Forum Returns to Copenhagen Last Call for Tickets!

    Counter Currents - Sep 28th 2019 5:01am EDT

    1,011 words On Saturday, October 12, 2019, the Scandza Forum is returning to the Danish capital after our successful event there in September 2018. Only two weeks remain until it happens! As usual, we give you an all-star line-up of speakers: Dr. Tomislav (Tom) Sunic (official Website), a former professor at UC Santa Barbara and […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 250 European Cooperation & Other Questions

    Counter Currents - Sep 28th 2019 2:01am EDT

    183 words / 60:18 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, John Morgan, and Frodi reconvene our roundtable to discuss more “normie” questions and objections regarding white identity politics shared by our readers. 0:00: Introduction 0:08: Donations The […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2019 Fundraiser Welcome to Reality

    Counter Currents - Sep 27th 2019 7:57am EDT

    971 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 274 donations totaling $59,018.79. We set our goals high because the task we have before us is formidable, but with your help, we will succeed. We […]

  • Ash Donaldson’s From Her Eyes a Doctrine: A Review

    Counter Currents - Sep 27th 2019 7:20am EDT

    2,206 words Ash Donaldson’s novel From Her Eyes a Doctrine accomplishes several striking things which make it stand out among dissident literature. For one, it does what all novels should do: It tells an entertaining story – although in this case, we have multiple stories, some new, some old, some present, some past. A few […]

  • New Notes on The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft

    Counter Currents - Sep 27th 2019 5:52am EDT

    4,119 words The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham Foreword and notes by Leslie S. Klinger Introduction by Victor LaValle New York: Liveright, 2019 It doesn’t take much to confuse me, I guess. Having enthusiastically reviewed Leslie Klinger’s previous The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft,[1] I now find he has put out another New Annotated […]

  • Electric Warrior

    Counter Currents - Sep 27th 2019 5:29am EDT

    1,487 words Let’s steal some stars For Avalon . . . Let’s make a quest For Avalon Quest for finger cymbal and gong For Avalon — Tyrannosaurus Rex, “Stones for Avalon” (1969) He may have been a fey, miscegenation-prone, alcohol- and drug-bloated part-Semite – with an air of sexual ambiguity to boot – but Marc […]

  • Minhas memórias de Julius Evola

    Counter Currents - Sep 26th 2019 8:58am EDT

    Renato del Ponte 814 words English original here Renato del Ponte é uma figura central no Evolianismo Europeu. Fundador do Centro studi evoliani em Gênova em 1969 e editor da revista Arthos, ele também dirige o Movimento Tradicionalista Romano. Pergunta: Renato del Ponte, seu nome está intimamente relacionado com o de Evola. Você pode nos contar […]

  • Remembering September 11, 1541

    Counter Currents - Sep 26th 2019 6:15am EDT

    970 words The following translation was contributed by the Chilean identitarian organization Fuerza Nacional-Identitaria. The original Spanish version is here. For decades, local Left- and Right-wing oligarchies have been feeding on the decaying body of Chilean society. Today, these two vultures are fighting over a date in our history which offers both of them a […]

  • How “Civil Rights” Happened: A First-Draft Overview

    Counter Currents - Sep 26th 2019 3:56am EDT

    Harry Truman announcing the Democratic Party’s commitment to “civil rights” at the 1948 convention, after the party’s leadership realized they didn’t need the South’s support to pursue their agenda. 3,770 words Historians puzzle over how the French Revolution happened. How did a powerful monarchy in a powerful nation fall apart and succumb to a radical […]