• Don’t Learn This From the Germans

    Counter Currents - Mar 17th 2020 8:11am EDT

    2,022 words Susan Neiman Learning From the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil Farrar, Straus, and Giroux: New York, 2019 Germans are notorious for their ethno-masochism. Their official identity is built on guilt and the need for atonement. Germans can only look back at their past with shame; pride is impossible. More Germans are […]

  • Reflecting on Anita Bryant

    Counter Currents - Mar 17th 2020 7:43am EDT

    2,476 words Anita Bryant The Anita Bryant Story: The Survival of our Nation’s Families and the Threat of Militant Homosexuality Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1977 The culture wars of the 1970s deserve considerable study. One of the cultural warriors was Anita Bryant. When I saw a used copy of her book […]

  • The Lion, the Elf, & the Quarantine

    Counter Currents - Mar 17th 2020 7:40am EDT

    Turku Castle, Finland 1,449 words When King Gustav Adolf II of Sweden visited Turku Castle in 1614, a fire broke out around the complex, destroying one of the area’s oldest medieval sites. Left in ruins, the abandoned castle would become the setting of Zachris Topelius’s novel The Tomten of Åbo Castle (Åbo being the Swedish […]

  • Elle King’s Love Stuff & Shake the Spirit

    Counter Currents - Mar 17th 2020 7:37am EDT

    2,243 words Tanner Elle Schneider, better known by her stage name Elle King, is an up-and-coming musician in the genre of American roots music. Her specific style has several influences, the confluence of which arrives at a triple point between rock, country, and blues. The overall effect often is a bit hypnotic. Her singing voice […]

  • The WASP in the Wilderness

    Counter Currents - Mar 16th 2020 11:38am EDT

    3,121 words Despite their many social ills, one might judge the decades prior to World War I to be the last period of sanity in the West. It was truly the last epoch in American history in which the values of old Europe still held any sway, when criticism of modernity by men of the […]

  • Fróði Midjord & Ruuben Kaalep: Defending a Modern Ethnostate

    Counter Currents - Mar 16th 2020 10:04am EDT

    211 words Fróði Midjord sits down with Ruuben Kaalep, a member of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu) for EKRE, the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia (Eesti Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond) for an interview inside of the chambers of Estonia’s Parliament building in Tallinn. Kaalep is also the leader of EKRE’s youth wing, known as Sinine Ӓratus, or Blue […]

  • Is Coronavirus the Wrath of God?

    Counter Currents - Mar 16th 2020 7:49am EDT

    John Martin, The Great Day of His Wrath, 1853. 2,901 words The epidemic began in Australia and spread from there to other countries. I am referring to the panic buying of toilet paper. Aussies were even brawling over it. Don’t bother to ask why, at least not if you are looking for a rational explanation. […]

  • Burzum’s Thulêan Mysteries

    Counter Currents - Mar 13th 2020 1:06pm EDT

    2,232 words Thulêan Mysteries is the 13th album released by infamous Varg Vikernes under his working name Burzum. Mysteries comes after Vikernes previously stated that he was finished recording under the Burzum name. To that effect, Mysteries is a collection of tracks that Vikernes has been working on since his last album that were not […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 264 Four French Collaborationists:Châteaubriant, Céline, Drieu, Brasillach

    Counter Currents - Mar 13th 2020 9:56am EDT

    Alphonse de Châteaubriant 369 words / 58:30 To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” This is a lost London Forum talk by Michael Walker on four French artists of the Right: Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, […]

  • What I Learned Running For Office

    Counter Currents - Mar 12th 2020 9:19am EDT

    3,603 words For the last two weeks, my time has been primarily occupied by an unsuccessful bid to become a member of Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia. Together with my fellow members of the national populist Boycott Movement, we endeavored to get on the ballot for the upcoming election in April as an independent […]

  • White Advocate Stands His Ground in Nebraska

    Counter Currents - Mar 12th 2020 9:18am EDT

    David Pringle 3,035 words Americans like to think that theirs is the greatest country in the world. And there was indeed a time when one could have made a fairly good case for that. But in looking at America today, it’s difficult to discern ways in which it could be called better than other developed […]

  • Remembering Gabriele D’Annunzio (March 12, 1863 — March 1, 1938)

    Counter Currents - Mar 12th 2020 7:36am EDT

    1,284 words Reviewing a story collection in 1925, an American critic compared Gabriele d’Annunzio’s influence on the Italian mindset to that of Rudyard Kipling in England. “[T]o understand him is to understand pre-war and immediately post-war Italy.” [1] That sort of remark is almost inaccessible to us today; when we think of the Great War, […]

  • A White Nationalist Take on St. Patrick’s Day

    Counter Currents - Mar 12th 2020 5:49am EDT

    1,202 words Richard Spencer says he hates St. Patrick’s Day. He seems to view it as a negation of white American identity, which he says is WASP identity. We’ll address that in a bit, but let’s first look at just who WASPs are and whether they are an elite or not. Among those earning over […]

  • Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young’s Déjà Vu

    Counter Currents - Mar 11th 2020 1:23pm EDT

    1,344 words Déjà Vu, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young’s first recording as a quartet, was released on this day, March 11th, in 1970. It was greeted with a mixed reception by critics at the time of its release, but has since come to be included in innumerable “best of” lists and is frequently cited as […]

  • The Ugly Truth Behind Beauty

    Counter Currents - Mar 11th 2020 10:43am EDT

    1,629 words It was tempting for me to write off this opinion piece from Elle as lightweight, semi-feminist pap. That, of course, was my first thought, judging from its precious and angst-ridden title: “There’s Nothing Effortless About Being A Woman — And I’m Done Pretending Otherwise.” Not surprisingly, reading the article did reinforce this impression. […]

  • The Korean Burden: Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings

    Counter Currents - Mar 11th 2020 10:06am EDT

    1,510 words Cathy Park Hong Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning New York: One World, 2020 Is it really wise to allow the immigration of people who find it so difficult and painful to assimilate into the American majority? — Peter Brimelow It would take a heart of stone to read the self-absorbed, neurotic words […]

  • Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition Part 3: The Origins of the Weird Whites

    Counter Currents - Mar 11th 2020 9:05am EDT

    2,069 words The essence of liberalism is individualism, and the primordial evolutionary fact of individualism is the “the cutting-off from the wider kinship group,” and the origins of this cutting-off can be traced back to Northern hunter-gatherers in Europe during the last glacial age in the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods. This argument becomes transparent […]

  • Counter-Currents Under Attack

    Counter Currents - Mar 10th 2020 12:11pm EDT

    1,100 words Once again, Counter-Currents is without a credit card processor. But it’s worse than ever, folks. We have not been dropped by our credit card processor. In fact, when the usual suspects pressured them to drop their dissident clients, they stood by us. So instead, our enemies managed to put our credit card processor […]

  • Queen of the AWFLs

    Counter Currents - Mar 10th 2020 11:27am EDT

    1,165 words Affluent white female liberals (AWFLs) suffered their own personal 9/11 last week. Their queen Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the presidential race. The news was greeted with much wailing and gnashing of teeth. There is now not a single viable female candidate in the race for president. (Tulsi Gabbard is still in the […]

  • La Dolce Vita

    Counter Currents - Mar 10th 2020 10:54am EDT

    966 words “What is in store for my children tomorrow?” — Steiner, from the movie La Dolce Vita (1961) I was staying in Neive, a tiny red-roofed Piedmont village caught in a time-warp, where the traditions and ingrained habits of centuries, like the rolling vine-clad hills, remain unchanged. True, there was the internet, mobile phones, […]

  • A Tear For Argos & Ivar

    Counter Currents - Mar 10th 2020 4:39am EDT

    Emil Doepler, Heimdall an der Himmelsbrücke, 1905. 1,641 words As I have gotten older, certain events always seem to bring up specific memories and thoughts. This last week, I have struggled to fall asleep as I kept thinking about Homer’s Odyssey. The scene in question is when Odysseus returns home in disguise, only to see […]

  • Democracy Dies in Darkness

    Counter Currents - Mar 9th 2020 12:19pm EDT

    1,183 words The Democratic Party is profoundly stupid. The unholy alliance of neoliberal oligarchs and neoconservative Jews that constitute the American ruling class, armed with the cudgel of POC puppets (or as Tucker Carlson referred to them, “a constellation of aggrieved interest groups animated by their hostility to traditional Americans. . . united in their […]

  • Treason Uncloaked: Jordan & Stokes’ From Major Jordan’s Diaries

    Counter Currents - Mar 9th 2020 11:57am EDT

    2,886 words George Racey Jordan & Richard L. Stokes From Major Jordan’s Diaries New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1952 Increasing numbers of the public realize the government doesn’t always work the way their civics classes taught. A government is only as good as the politicians and bureaucrats running it. There’s been much discussion about […]

  • It’s the Population, Stupid: Gunnar Heinsohn’s Söhne & Weltmacht

    Counter Currents - Mar 9th 2020 11:05am EDT

    4,564 words Gunnar Heinsohn Söhne und Weltmacht: Terror im Aufstieg und Fall der Nationen Zürich, Switzerland: Orell Füssli Verlag, 2020 (2003) Robert Malthus’s essay on population growth is widely known and widely refuted, mostly by commentators who have not read it. In his Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus argued that population growth undermined […]

  • A Few More Spankings Needed: Edward Dutton’s Churchill’s Headmaster

    Counter Currents - Mar 9th 2020 9:31am EDT

    2,580 words Edward Dutton Churchill’s Headmaster: The “Sadist” Who Nearly Saved the British Empire Melbourne, Australia: Manticore Press, 2019 I recently discovered Edward Dutton when I listened to a series of Scandza Forum talks on an internet video service. Needless to say, I was intrigued by what he had to say, so I picked up […]