• Warsaw Journal #1

    Counter Currents - Oct 11th 2019 12:58pm EDT

    4,601 words 9.16.2108 – Krakow Walked around the cobbled streets of Krakow today with my iPod on. Krakow is a beautiful and slightly sad little city. A high recommend, for a day. It was Sunday, that was good luck, so there were priests running around, and nuns, and churches doing their masses and services . […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2019 Fundraiser The Excellence of the White Race & the Chinese Question

    Counter Currents - Oct 11th 2019 12:37pm EDT

    1,537 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 300 donations totaling $62,448.79. We set our goals high because the task we have before us is formidable, but with your help, we will succeed. We want […]

  • Coyote Ugly

    Counter Currents - Oct 11th 2019 10:28am EDT

    923 words I spend a good deal of my time pondering the many patterns and complexities of human behavior that have spawned our current state of affairs. Itʼs quite a mess to untangle – a daunting problem with no easy solutions. I do think, however, that it is useful to enumerate our peopleʼs strengths and […]

  • Video of the Day A Gavin McInnes Documentary

    Counter Currents - Oct 11th 2019 5:01am EDT

    16 words Filmmaker Porsalin presents a hilarious exposé of the career of Gavin McInnes in this new documentary.

  • Understanding the Halle Synagogue and Kebab Shop Shootings

    Counter Currents - Oct 10th 2019 8:45am EDT

    Stephan Balliet 1,575 words It happens now with accelerating regularity: a white man who is alarmed at white ethnic displacement — “the Great replacement” — goes to a place frequented by non-whites, often a place of worship, and starts shooting. On Saturday, August 3, 2019, a 21-year-old white man, Patrick Crusius, walked into a Walmart […]

  • Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & the Western Liberal Tradition

    Counter Currents - Oct 10th 2019 5:48am EDT

    3,107 words Kevin B. MacDonald Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future Self-published, 2019 Kevin B. MacDonald is famous – or notorious, depending on who you ask – for examining the Jewish ethnic group from a genetic, Darwinian, and cultural perspective. His three published books on the subject […]

  • Three weeks to go! The Scandza Forum on Human Biodiversity: Oslo, November 2

    Counter Currents - Oct 9th 2019 11:02am EDT

    1,008 words Only three weeks to go! On November 2, 2019, the Scandza Forum returns to Oslo, Norway, with an impressive list of speakers: Kevin MacDonald, Professor Emeritus at California State University-Long Beach. He is the author of more than one hundred scholarly papers and reviews, and is the author of Social and Personality Development: […]

  • The Great Parody: Some Remarks on the Phenomenon of “Virtual Reality”

    Counter Currents - Oct 9th 2019 8:39am EDT

    4,876 words Translated from the Hungarian by Zsolt Sáfián The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the phenomenon of “virtual reality” – its increasingly dominant social role and effects, and its symbolism will be surveyed. The presentation of the latter is necessary in order to demonstrate that the emergence and development […]

  • The Death of Anglo-Saxon England

    Counter Currents - Oct 9th 2019 4:43am EDT

    1,820 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 EDT

    1,484 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 EDT

    Soviet 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 EDT

    Morse 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 EDT

    1,725 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 EDT

    Typical 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 EDT

    1,785 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 EDT

    743 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 EDT

    The 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 EDT

    4,473 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 EDT

    2,002 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 EDT

    2,654 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 EDT

    Roy 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 EDT

    Louis 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 EDT

    925 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 EDT

    3,940 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 EDT

    1,568 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 […]