• Why the Dissident Right Should Remain Secular

    Counter Currents - Oct 22nd 2019 5:48am EDT

    1,135 words  A new Pew Forum survey shows that fewer Americans call themselves Christian than ever before. Only sixty-five percent of Americans now say they’re Christian, a thirteen percent decline since 2007. Twenty-six percent of Americans say they’re religiously unaffiliated, a ten percent increase since 2007. The majority of America is no longer Protestant, with […]

  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s

    Counter Currents - Oct 22nd 2019 2:13am EDT

    1,899 words Blake Edwards’ 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s—loosely based on Truman Capote’s 1958 novel of the same name—stars Audrey Hepburn in her iconic role of Holly Golightly, a charming, flighty, feminine, haunted young woman trying to create a life—and an identity—in a gorgeous Technicolor New York City at what is arguably the peak of […]

  • Iamthemorning

    Counter Currents - Oct 21st 2019 6:26am EDT

    1,093 words The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880) I first heard her name whispered over cocktails at the Decabrist bar on St. Isaac’s Square in St. Petersburg. Some of my friends had been hanging out with sound […]

  • National Populism for Elitists

    Counter Currents - Oct 21st 2019 5:11am EDT

    Philipp Foltz, Pericles’ Funeral Oration (1852) 1,560 words When the story of the late 2020s is written, it will have to address the phenomenon of National Populism. Due to a combination of several long-term and deep-seated factors, the people of the West started gravitating towards charismatic leaders cultivating popular and populist movements aimed at restoring […]

  • Ten Questions for Radical Environmentalist Derrick Jensen, Part II

    Counter Currents - Oct 21st 2019 4:00am EDT

    6,773 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) HC: Historically in the United States, a sizable sector of environmentalists have found common cause with parts of the political Right when it comes to restricting immigration, and sometimes even in preserving not just biodiversity in the broad sense, but human biodiversity as well. Madison Grant, […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 252 The Siege of Scandza

    Counter Currents - Oct 19th 2019 4:16am EDT

    100 words / 57:58 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 and Frodi Midjord talk about their experiences inside and outside antifa siege of the Scandza Forum in Copenhagen on October 12, 2019. 0:00: Introduction 0:08: Donations 5:07: […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2019 Fundraiser Over Target, Taking Flak

    Counter Currents - Oct 18th 2019 9:02am EDT

    528 words This year, Counter-Currents is trying to raise $100,000. So far we have received 309 donations totaling $82,632.40, for which we are immensely grateful. It hasn’t been easy, though, and it is getting harder. We have been deplatformed by four payment processors this year, two in just the last week. But as the saying […]

  • Warsaw Journal #2

    Counter Currents - Oct 18th 2019 5:07am EDT

    4,542 words September 21, 2018 Reading Breitbart News online this morning. Sometimes I get depressed and I don’t want to be on either side of these political fights. The Leftists are deranged, controlling, addicted to their power, and the Right appear to be without sympathy or empathy for anyone but themselves. And yet, it is […]

  • Ten Questions for Radical Environmentalist Derrick Jensen, Part I

    Counter Currents - Oct 18th 2019 3:31am EDT

    Derrick Jensen 8,852 words Part 1 of 2 Derrick Jensen, the hardcore and prolific Green activist, is easily one of the most interesting public intellectuals of our time. His willingness to take ideas to their logical end point – and make no apology for it – keeps him from being easily categorized. As a radical […]

  • Blade Runner 2049: White Slavery

    Counter Currents - Oct 17th 2019 8:47am EDT

    3,496 words Blade Runner 2049 is a deep and interesting film fueled by visual spectacle and cleverly-handled ambiguity. The film’s dialogue is sparse and carefully weighted, and the intricate plot resolves itself fairly satisfactorily (even though the film takes its sweet time getting there). Nonetheless, it fails to live up to its predecessor. It struggles […]

  • The Beautiful Game

    Counter Currents - Oct 17th 2019 5:01am EDT

    983 words Some people think football (soccer) is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. — Bill Shankly, former manager of the Liverpool Football Club Sport is tribal. It is a contest between individuals and teams. It evokes instinctive and […]

  • Video of the Day Regenerate Against the Machine

    Counter Currents - Oct 17th 2019 4:55am EDT

    48 words / 18:28 This is the video of Millennial Woes’ talk from the Scandza Forum in Copenhagen last Saturday, in which he discusses the various types of positive and negative narratives that are promoted by social elites in order to either benefit the people they govern — or only to benefit themselves.

  • The New Right: A Review

    Counter Currents - Oct 16th 2019 8:07am EDT

    2,746 words Michael Malice The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019 What do you get when you have an anarchist diaspora Jew from the former Soviet Union who cannot abide the hypocrisy of the Left, but who is really nervous around the Right? Add to […]

  • The Battle of Britain

    Counter Currents - Oct 16th 2019 4:34am EDT

    2,762 words Let me make this very clear, Mr. Sassoli. You have no right to go and speak to the UK Speaker of Parliament, having conversations that are directly interfering in our domestic politics. It exposes your intention to intervene at all levels to stop Brexit. It is immoral. Shame on you! And,, Mr. Barnier […]

  • Four Hundred Years Together: Wilmot Robertson on “The Negroes”

    Counter Currents - Oct 16th 2019 3:44am EDT

    1,519 words The New York Times has undertaken a “1619 Project” designed to place “the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the center of the national narrative.” In other words, more of the same. While the Times presents the usual fairy tales about put-upon yet angelic blacks being oppressed by malevolent […]

  • Woke Capital Stops at China’s Borders

    Counter Currents - Oct 15th 2019 5:47am EDT

    World leaders don Chinese dress at an APEC conference in China in 2014. Other world powers do as the Chinese say, not vice versa. 1,459 words The American public is starting to take notice of corporate submission to China. National Basketball Association (NBA) officials and players issued several effusive apologies to the Chinese government last […]

  • Travis Bickle, American Hero

    Counter Currents - Oct 15th 2019 5:19am EDT

    2,254 words Taxi Driver is the defining film for every bastard child of our times. How many men today can relate to Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), a fucked up, lonely loser trying to make rent and find love in a disgusting, criminal, and uncaring concrete hive? The guy is nuts, but who could blame […]

  • Video of the Day This is Terrorism: Millennial Woes & Frodi Midjord on the Antifa

    Counter Currents - Oct 15th 2019 4:37am EDT

    101 words / 8:57 The antifa turned up at the Scandza Forum conference that was held in Copenhagen last Saturday and attempted to disrupt the proceedings throughout the day. While the conference went ahead as planned, a number of the attendees were prevented from entering the venue because the antifa blocked the entrance and assaulted […]

  • Remembering Friedrich Nietzsche: October 15, 1844–August 25, 1900

    Counter Currents - Oct 15th 2019 3:43am EDT

    717 words Friedrich Nietzsche was born this day in 1844 in the small town of Röcken, near Leipzig, Saxony, in the Kingdom of Prussia. He died in August 25, 1900, in Weimar, Saxony, in the Second German Reich. The outlines of Nietzsche’s life are readily available online. Nietzsche is one of the most important philosophers […]

  • Counter-Currents Loses Its Payment Processor Yet Again

    Counter Currents - Oct 14th 2019 12:21pm EDT

    345 words Last week, we were cut off from yet another credit card processor – at least the fourth time just this year that this has happened. This means that for the time being, we are not able to receive payments for books or donations from credit cards. We are working full-time to set up […]

  • Trolling as an Art: Travis LeBlanc Interviews Porsalin

    Counter Currents - Oct 14th 2019 9:11am EDT

    3,862 words Porsalin is no mere drama channel, and if it, it’s Drama with a capital D. A documentarian and Internet cultural critic, his videos are not merely collections of random, boneheaded moments, but in-depth character studies which cut through to the essence of the of their target with white-hot, witty insults. After starting out […]

  • Columbus Day Special The Autochthony Argument

    Counter Currents - Oct 14th 2019 5:54am EDT

    Michelangelo, Unfinished Slave 2,115 words Translations: French, Spanish One of the perennial accusations against white colonial societies around the globe—in the Americas, Africa, and the Antipodes—is that they are morally illegitimate because other people were there first. This is what I call the “autochthony argument,” from the Greek “αὐτόχθων,” meaning “springing from the land,” i.e., indigenous.  […]

  • Columbus Day Special The Memory of Columbus in the Western Diaspora

    Counter Currents - Oct 14th 2019 5:35am EDT

    Christopher Columbus vandalized in Detroit 2,766 words Commemoration of the 15th-century European discovery of the Americas has seen better days. From Seattle to Caracas to Buenos Aires, the Spanish-Italian explorer Christopher Columbus is increasingly considered a villainous embodiment of pure evil. While the American government still observes October 9th as Columbus Day, that hasn’t stopped […]

  • Columbus Day Special Indigenous Peoples Day

    Counter Currents - Oct 14th 2019 5:24am EDT

    1,647 words Editor’s Note: This essay is from Michael Polignano’s book Taking Our Own Side, available in hardcover, paperback, and e-book here. Multiculturalism is not an attempt to “enrich” White cultures by adding sundry non-White cultures. It is an attempt to replace White cultures with non-White cultures—or, more precisely, with fantasies, lies, and sanitized half-truths […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 251 Uppity White Folks & How to Reach Them

    Counter Currents - Oct 12th 2019 8:47am EDT

    76 words / 45:14 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 the audio of Greg Johnson’s talk in Gothenburg, Sweden, on Sunday, September 22, on the occasion of the publication of the Swedish translation of The White Nationalist […]