• Cultural Marxist vs. Material Marxist, Part 3: Could Bernie Split the American Left?

    Counter Currents - Feb 14th 2020 8:47am EST

    1,298 words The ideal 2020 election scenario is for Bernie Sanders to lose the Democratic primary race, and for it to be black people’s fault. Say it comes down to Bernie versus the establishment’s chosen Not Bernie candidate. Blacks rally around Not Bernie — just to be unpleasant — and tilt the nomination in Not […]

  • Black History Month Blues: The Tipping Point

    Counter Currents - Feb 14th 2020 6:17am EST

    2,160 words Conservative blogger Kim du Toit had a revealing post earlier this month entitled “Blacktops.” In his words: Anyone who’s ever worked in the restaurant business will know exactly what the title of this post means. Basically, it’s a denigrating [sic] term that waiters (of all races, by the way) use as shorthand to […]

  • Veni, Vidi, Vici

    Counter Currents - Feb 13th 2020 10:39am EST

    1,057 words “The legionary spirit is that fire of one who will choose the hardest road, who will fight to the death even when all is already lost.” — Julius Evola Despite the distractions of luxury shopping arcades like the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, or sipping Fu-Go at cafes like it’s 1930, I had come […]

  • Cultural Marxist vs. Material Marxist, Part 2: Is Capitalism the Real Racist?

    Counter Currents - Feb 13th 2020 10:03am EST

    2,696 words There are reasons why the neoliberal establishment hates Bernie Sanders so much, and it’s not just because he’s a threat to their donors’ stock portfolios. Class-based material Marxism — once a pillar of Leftist thought — is not only incompatible with but also heretical to the neoliberal worldview and agenda. We’ve all heard […]

  • Bugpod Clans Won’t Replace the Family

    Counter Currents - Feb 13th 2020 7:52am EST

    1,422 words Sleeping area of a PodShare co-living space. Right-wing Twitter fumed earlier this week over the provocatively-titled essay “The Nuclear Family Was A Mistake.” The Atlantic essay, written by New York Times columnist David Brooks, wasn’t necessarily an attack on traditional families. But that didn’t stop the deluge of anger that Brooks would dare […]

  • If You Build It, They Will Come: On the Importance of Political Infrastructure

    Counter Currents - Feb 13th 2020 6:53am EST

    1,867 words Show of hands, who here remembers the groypers? Who remembers the Groyper War? Who remembers the plague of frogs which descended upon Conservative Inc.? Who remembers Counter-Currents’ blow-by-blow coverage of the events? Who remembers the incisive analysis, the reports from the trenches, and even the humorous retrospective? Many of you, I suspect, have […]

  • #SASGate

    Counter Currents - Feb 12th 2020 11:57am EST

    846 words Talk about backfiring. Flag-carrying Scandinavian Airlines, commonly known by their initials SAS, released a short video advertisement on YouTube this Monday. It was entitled: “What is truly Scandinavian?” Well, if you ask SAS, nothing. In just under three minutes, we’re told that the culture of the North was simply pilfered from the rest […]

  • Cultural Marxist vs. Material Marxist, Part 1: Here’s How Bernie Could Still Win!

    Counter Currents - Feb 12th 2020 8:45am EST

    1,211 words Last week, Counter-Currents published an article by Robert Hampton called “The Bernie Temptation,” where he made the case as to why nationalists should not support Bernie Sanders for president. I can’t find much to disagree with in his assessment. Bernie has said some “based” things in the past about immigration, guns, and foreign […]

  • The Art of N. C. Wyeth

    Counter Currents - Feb 12th 2020 7:34am EST

    2,062 words Newell Convers Wyeth, or N. C. Wyeth, was one of America’s greatest artists and illustrators. Over the course of his lifetime, he created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated over 100 books, including several Scribner Classics. His son, Andrew Wyeth, and grandson, Jamie Wyeth, also became prominent artists. Wyeth was born in 1882 and […]

  • No Greeks or Germans Allowed: Yoram Hazony’s Anglo-Hebrew Nationalism

    Counter Currents - Feb 11th 2020 9:45am EST

    Horatio Greenough, George Washington 1,547 words Israeli scholar Yoram Hazony wants to define nationalism for the entire West. And that nationalism leaves no room for our classical heritage. Counter-Currents readers are probably familiar with Hazony, his book The Virtue of Nationalism, and his “National Conservatism” conferences. Greg Johnson’s recent series on Hazony’s book is recommended […]

  • Target: The 1964 Civil Rights Act Christopher Caldwell’s Age of Entitlement

    Counter Currents - Feb 11th 2020 9:18am EST

    1,643 words Christopher Caldwell The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020 In 2015, Kim Davis, a frumpy county clerk from a Nowheresville in Appalachia, refused to issue gay marriage licenses and was briefly jailed as a result. Additionally, Davis and her fellow office workers were subjected to the […]

  • The Flag Above Me

    Counter Currents - Feb 11th 2020 9:02am EST

    1,488 words I’ve spent the last few days contacting friends in order to make plans for my upcoming birthday. I always try to make my birthday memorable, whether it be with a group of friends or by myself. Last year’s birthday was one that I would never forget, as I found myself singing a Polish […]

  • Crossing the Rubicon

    Counter Currents - Feb 10th 2020 9:37am EST

    1,195 words “Sardines” rally in Bologna. (Andreas Solaro, for AFP.) “Ālea iacta est” — “The die has been cast” — Julius Caesar. My heart sank when I saw the flash mob, nicknamed the Sardines, crowding the 15th-century Piazza Maggiore in Bologna to oppose Matteo Salvini’s Lega campaign launch in the PalaDozza, waving their banners and […]

  • Super Bowl LIV: America’s Death Rattle

    Counter Currents - Feb 10th 2020 7:41am EST

    2,420 words I know, the fifty-fourth Super Bowl is old news. Who cares about something that occurred more than 24 hours ago? We might as well discuss a Babylonian sporting event. However, this Super Bowl averaged 102 million viewers, which makes it the eleventh most-watched event in US history — the top 10 are nine […]

  • Hazony on National Self-Determination

    Counter Currents - Feb 10th 2020 6:34am EST

    His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama 2,104 words Read more on Yoram Hazony’s The Virtue of Nationalism here, here, and here. The right of peoples to self-determination is one of the basic norms of contemporary international law. In the words of Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, “National aspirations must be respected; people may now be dominated […]

  • RIP!

    Counter Currents - Feb 10th 2020 5:59am EST

    2,294 words Last week was deliciously bad for the Democrats. Utterly humiliated and reduced to impotent rage, they have been slammed with one major loss or crisis after another. Are we witnessing the self-destruction of a political party? Are the Democrats coming apart at the seams? Yes to both. The results of the Iowa caucus […]

  • Scandza Forum: Zagreb, CroatiaAnnouncement Update and Registration

    Counter Currents - Feb 8th 2020 7:00am EST

    875 words “Fróði Midjord’s Scandza Forum is one of Europe’s most important identitarian metapolitical gatherings, providing fellowship and networking to those who attend and powerful ideas to those watching on the world-wide web. I am continually impressed by the Scandza Forum’s commitment to quality and attention to detail.” — Greg Johnson, Counter-Currents “Scandza Forum is […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 259 Fróði Midjord on the Jared Taylor vs. E. Michael Jones Debate

    Counter Currents - Feb 7th 2020 12:28pm EST

    70 words / 59:33 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 interviews Fróði Midjord on the upcoming Scandza Forum in Zagreb, Croatia on May 2, 2020, where E. Michael Jones and Jared Taylor will debate on the question […]

  • Iggy and the Stooges’ Raw Power

    Counter Currents - Feb 7th 2020 9:27am EST

    1,563 words Iggy and the Stooges released the proto-punk slammer Raw Power on this day, February 7th, in 1973. It’s a raw, aggressive record that set the tone for genres as diverse in sound and era as punk, hardcore, grunge, and metal. Raw Power is also an early example of the importance of mixing and […]

  • To Our Once & Future Monthly Donors

    Counter Currents - Feb 7th 2020 8:49am EST

    It is going to be a long winter for White Nationalism. 1,060 words Monthly recurring donations are an enormous help to Counter-Currents because they allow us to make long term plans and commitments. Counter-Currents built up a large number of dedicated monthly donors over our first seven years online, only to lose them when PayPal […]

  • “Resistance is Futile”: Hazony on Nations, Empires, & Minorities

    Counter Currents - Feb 6th 2020 6:16pm EST

    1,835 words Yoram Hazony’s argument in The Virtue of Nationalism (reviewed here and here) depends on a hard either/or between the nation-state and the empire. A nation is either sovereign or it isn’t. Empires inevitably destroy the sovereignty of the states they incorporate, even if this fact is cloaked in lovey liberal euphemisms. Hazony, moreover, […]

  • Australian Artists of the Right: Ian Mudie

    Counter Currents - Feb 6th 2020 10:56am EST

    6,512 words The idea of “Australianity,” the uniqueness of Australia as a nation and new nationality, has its origins both in the pioneer labor movement and in the novelists, poets, and artists who saw vast possibilities in building a new civilization unencumbered by the decay of the Old World. The first saw their “socialism” in […]

  • Ash Donaldson’s Brother War

    Counter Currents - Feb 6th 2020 7:06am EST

    2,097 words Ash Donaldson Brother War: A Modern Myth for Those of European Descent Independently published, 2019 Ash Donaldson’s latest novel Brother War: A Modern Myth for Those of European Descent combines the best of history, myth, and fantasy to spin an unforgettable story about World War I. Not only is it his best novel […]

  • The Bernie Temptation

    Counter Currents - Feb 5th 2020 8:23pm EST

    1,670 words A septuagenarian “socialist” may be the Democratic presidential nominee, and some on the Dissident Right can’t wait to support him. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is rising in the polls, in spite of the Democratic establishment’s opposition. He narrowly lost to Hillary Clinton in 2016 under similar circumstances. But 2020 is a very different […]

  • Squarepusher’s Be Up a Hello

    Counter Currents - Feb 5th 2020 11:03am EST

    1,626 words Tom Jenkinson, the Warp Records mainstay better known as Squarepusher, released his 15th studio album on January 30th. It’s called Be Up a Hello, likely a reference to the old days of game controller cheat code combinations, and it marks a return to Jenkinson’s old production methods. The sounds of Be Up a […]