Canceling Cancel Culture
Counter Currents - Aug 2nd 2024 10:41am EDT2,041 words Almost two thirds of white voters would support a law making it illegal for an employer to fire an employee for exercising a Constitutionally protected right while off duty. Almost half of white voters are less likely to support a business if it fires an employee due to pressure from the Left. Our […]
Interview with Ruuben Kaalep: James Edwards
Counter Currents - Aug 2nd 2024 10:16am EDT3,733 words James Edwards: Five years ago, at just 25 years old, you were elected to the Estonian Parliament. How did you manage to accomplish such a feat at such a young age? Ruuben Kaalep: My journey in Estonian politics began long before my election to the parliament. I was driven by my sense of […]
Elspeth in Wonderland
Counter Currents - Aug 2nd 2024 9:06am EDT2,472 words Elle Reeve BLACK PILL: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics New York: Simon & Schuster, 2024 It’s often intriguing to compare a new book’s actual content and theme with its promotional blurb. Often enough, lazy reviewers can’t be bothered to read […]
Why Are All Those Racist White Thugs Rioting in England?
Counter Currents - Aug 1st 2024 3:56pm EDTSeven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, one of three young girls stabbed to death in Southport, England on Monday. Photo courtesy of Merseyside Police. 1,129 words As someone who covers breaking stories under deadline, this much I know to be true: News travels fast online, much of it untrue. England has seen a spate of riots over […]
Road House 2024
Counter Currents - Aug 1st 2024 11:44am EDT1,352 words I wanted to like it. Going in I told myself, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Give it a chance.” But nothing could prepare me for this big-buck adulteration. Jake Gyllenhaal’s Road House is similar in name only to Patrick Swayze’s Road House from 1989. It takes some of the latter’s key […]
Race Matters in the Language Wars
Counter Currents - Aug 1st 2024 8:11am EDT3,298 words Even though it does not receive quite as much attention as it deserves, one important aspect of the Cultural Revolution in the 60s is the sudden rise and rapid dominance of “descriptivism” in academia, education, and editorial staff in dictionaries, usage guides, and grammar manuals. As summarized in “The Mockery of Language I: […]
The Silent Genocide of the American Francophones
Counter Currents - Jul 31st 2024 1:11pm EDTImage source: New Orleans official website. 1,399 words Celebrated French explorer Jacque Cartier founded New France in 1534 when he erected a cross on the shores of what is known today as Quebec City. Thus begins the 269-year story of the French colonization of North America. During those years, the French colonized Canada and the […]
Remembering Frederick Charles Ferdinand Weiss (July 31, 1885–March 1, 1968): Smith, Griffith, Yockey, & Hang On and Pray
Counter Currents - Jul 31st 2024 9:46am EDT1,911 words A short while ago I wrote about the connections between Willis Carto and the Truth Seeker magazine and its owner Charles Smith, who published the original American edition of Imperium. An equally significant connection there is Frederick C. F. Weiss, who was linked to both the Truth Seeker and the National Renaissance Party […]
Let’s Party Like It’s 1789!
Counter Currents - Jul 30th 2024 3:10pm EDT1,920 words Another day, another article written in response to an act of desecration and vandalism perpetrated by those who seek to spoil whatever is left of that thing we once could call “Western Civilization.” Honestly, I was reluctant to write this. After having typed thousands of words on the exhausting farce that was last […]
The Union Jackal, July 2024
Counter Currents - Jul 30th 2024 12:52pm EDTThe Albert Memorial in London. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons) 2,598 words A Tale of Two Cities It’s always instructive to compare the respective fortunes of England and France, those old enemies. And what better way than to follow the lead of Charles Dickens, take the cultural temperature of both London and Paris, and so tell […]
The Worst Week Yet: July 21-28, 2024 — J. D. Vance Defends His Remarks About “Childless Cat Ladies”
Counter Currents - Jul 29th 2024 1:42pm EDT1,969 words / 14:20 With only 99 days left until November 5, a hyperkinetic and implicitly schizophrenic election season kicks into full gear, meaning that both sides are flinging shit at one another like rabid island chimps, hoping that at least some of it sticks. Sometimes the flung feces consist of old comments that came […]
Ireland Rising: When “Come Out Ye Black and Tans” Takes On a New Meaning
Counter Currents - Jul 29th 2024 11:00am EDT1,359 words The uprising is organic, local, and working class. As far as militant street activism goes, the Irish are leading the way: thousands of natives marching against their replacement, families protesting at the hotels full of economic infiltrators, disused factories set aside for fake refugees made uninhabitable, rental properties boldly spray painted with “Irish […]
Sonya Massey Is This Election Cycle’s George Floyd
Counter Currents - Jul 28th 2024 10:00am EDT55 words / 8:41 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Sonya Massey Is This Election Cycle’s George Floyd,” on how Massey, a black woman who was killed by police as she was preparing to throw a pot of boiling water at them, is set to become this election season’s […]
Editor’s Update
Counter Currents - Jul 26th 2024 1:33pm EDTYou can order Derek Hawthorne’s book Being & The Birds or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Heidegger (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) here. 1,018 words 1. VDARE Closes When I first became a White Nationalist, I took an intense interest in immigration reform. I rapidly found my way to VDare.com, which was […]
1Sonya Massey Is This Election Cycle’s George Floyd
Counter Currents - Jul 25th 2024 2:17pm EDTSheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson and Sonya Massey about one minute before he shot and killed her. Source: Illinois State Police 1,342 words / 8:35 Nearly two weeks ago after surviving an attempt on his life, it appeared as if Donald Trump had sewn up November’s election. Then, on Sunday night, Joe Biden dropped out of […]
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 599: More on the US Presidential Election
Counter Currents - Jul 25th 2024 10:23am EDT128 words / 1:19:09 Greg Johnson, Angelo Plume (Telegram, YouTube), and David Zsutty continued their discussion of the 2024 US presidential election on the second half of the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio. It is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:00:32 Right-wing cancel culture 00:15:25 On spite 00:21:32 When you can’t hit […]
Kissing the Dragon: A Probe into the Danger China Poses to the White World, Part 2
Counter Currents - Jul 24th 2024 2:51pm EDT1,447 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) This is not a continuation of Part I, which is complete in itself; instead, it is a collection of facts, coupled with some analyses, that pertain to China’s evil ambitions as it actively and meticulously engages the West in an all-out war to subvert both it […]
Sunil Sharan’s India’s Muslims and Lessons for the West
Counter Currents - Jul 24th 2024 11:54am EDTSunil Sharan (Image source: RosettaBooks) 2,603 words I can date my study of British politics quite precisely to a few days after 9/11. I heard a Muslim woman on the BBC’s Today program, sounding very pious and concerned about something which has become a regular Islamic stratagem following any terrorist attack: the danger of an […]
One Small City Destroyed, One Giant Leap Backward for Whites
Counter Currents - Jul 23rd 2024 10:37pm EDTThe Haitian National Centre for Geospatial Information (CNIGS) is the closest thing Haiti has to a space program. Possessing no spacecraft launch facilities, satellites, or even telescopes, its sole purpose seems to be to collect satellite data that is donated to it by the French Space Agency which is then used to help Haitians to […]
Kissing the Dragon: Wisdom or Misguidance? Part 1
Counter Currents - Jul 23rd 2024 8:56pm EDTImage source: Flickr 1,841 words Part 1 of 2 I haven’t commented on this website for a long while, and have only managed to read some occasional essays and comments over the past two years or so due to major life changes and heavier loads of work. Now, in my summer vacation as a college […]
Virginia Is Where America was Born
Counter Currents - Jul 23rd 2024 12:12pm EDT2,647 words Brion T. McClanahan, Editor Virginia First: The 1607 Project McClellanville, S. C.: Abbeville Institute Press, 2024 Virginia itself was the mother of States and in Colonial times extended in fact, as other colonies did in theory, to the Mississippi . . . — Madison Grant The earliest Anglo colony in what is now […]
The Worst Week Yet: June 30-July 6, 2024
Counter Currents - Jul 22nd 2024 1:41pm EDTImage source: Wikimedia Commons 2,601 words / 18:14 Joe Biden Quits the Race and Endorses Kamala Harris In January I’d written about how I found myself “violently disinterested” in this year’s upcoming presidential election. I’m still cynical about the idea that it matters who’s president when it seems obvious that the country is like a […]
Defining the Far Right
Counter Currents - Jul 22nd 2024 10:00am EDTNick Lowles, founder and Chief Executive of the antifa organization Hope Not Hate. (Image source: Gov.uk) 2,616 words The first point in occult science is by no means the advancing of assertions or opinions which are to be proven, but the communication, in a purely narrative form, of experiences which are to be met with […]
Eating Watermelon Is Hardly the Worst Thing Black People Do
Counter Currents - Jul 21st 2024 9:26am EDT35 words / 12:28 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Eating Watermelon Is Hardly the Worst Thing Black People Do,” given that it’s hardly the worst thing they do in public. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/Goad-EatingWatermelons.mp4
Editor’s Update
Counter Currents - Jul 19th 2024 6:01pm EDT326 words This is the most exciting week in years. It feels like history is accelerating. 1. Our 2024 Fundraiser Our annual fundraiser is chugging along. This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000. Thus far we have received $81,775.05, so we are now well over one-quarter of the way to our goal. And remember: half of […]