The Death of Anglo-Saxon England
Counter Currents - Oct 9th 2019 4:43am EDT1,820 words . . . and there was great slaughter on either side. There were killed King Harold, and Earl Leofwine his brother, and Earl Gyrth his brother, and many good men. And the French had possession of the place of slaughter . . . — The Worcester Manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Unlike the […]
Tragedy as Comedy: The Downfall of Jim Ignatowski
Counter Currents - Oct 8th 2019 10:05am EDT1,484 words I remember being fascinated by an episode of the TV series Taxi as a kid. It was the one which offers the origin story of the frazzled, drugged-addled cabbie Jim Ignatowski, who was memorably played by Christopher Lloyd. Even at such a young age, I was aware of hippies, drugs, and their prominence […]
Nineteen Eighty-Four Revisited, Part III: What Orwell Can Still Teach Us
Counter Currents - Oct 8th 2019 8:54am EDTSoviet propaganda poster from 1931 telling the workers that the 5-year plan can be completed in 4 years with enough enthusiasm. 3,175 words Part 1 here, Part 2 here 4. Doublethink Among the many useful concepts bequeathed to us by Orwell, “doublethink” tops the list. It is a priceless tool for understanding how “normies” function […]
Morse Peckham on Corporations & Cultural Incoherence
Counter Currents - Oct 8th 2019 4:40am EDTMorse Peckham 826 words Morse Peckham (1914-1993) was a literary critic and cultural historian who was very well-known during his lifetime but who has been largely forgotten today. He had all the qualities that make him anathema in today’s academia: Besides being white, brilliant, and a writer of enormous clarity and precision, Peckham was also […]
The Case for Trump in 2020
Counter Currents - Oct 7th 2019 8:02am EDT1,725 words Would identitarians be better off if Democrats take back the White House? Of course not. Many people on the Dissident Right voice the opinion that Donald Trump needs to lose in 2020. Trump didn’t build the Wall, he didn’t reduce immigration, he bows before Israel, he passed terrible criminal justice reform, he hasn’t […]
Budapest Journal, Part Two
Counter Currents - Oct 7th 2019 4:25am EDTTypical 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 EDT1,785 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 EDT743 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 EDTThe 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 EDT4,473 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 EDT2,002 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 EDT2,654 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 EDTRoy 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 EDTLouis 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 EDT925 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 EDT3,940 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 EDT1,568 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 EDT643 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 EDTHenry 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 EDT2,258 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 EDT792 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 EDT1,011 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 EDT183 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 EDT971 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 EDT2,206 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 […]