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  • The God-Emperor Reborn!

    Counter Currents - Jul 19th 2024 5:04pm EDT

    1,094 words President Donald Trump is the avatar of white America — its embodiment — and any attack on him is an attack on the historic American nation. The only way that this ends without an explosion of political violence and a second civil war is if Trump survives the campaign and goes on to […]

  • Travis LeBlanc Against Right-Wing Cancel Culture: A Rebuttal

    Counter Currents - Jul 19th 2024 11:19am EDT

    Corey Comperatore, who was killed during the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, with his daughters. (Image source: Facebook) 1,967 words Former President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated on July 13 at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old former Fire Chief and father of two who had lived his entire life in […]

  • Why Right-Wing Cancel Culture Is a Bad Idea

    Counter Currents - Jul 18th 2024 3:17pm EDT

    Kyle Gass 1,638 words Someone tried to assassinate Donald Trump as he gave a speech in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania last Saturday. The shooter missed by centimeters, only grazing Trump’s ear. Three other people were shot, however, one fatally. The iconic image of Trump raising his fist in defiance is the stuff memes are made of. […]

  • Eating Watermelon Is Hardly the Worst Thing Black People Do

    Counter Currents - Jul 18th 2024 12:27pm EDT

    Image source: Wikimedia Commons 1,583 words / 12:19 As we all commemorate National Watermelon Month and finalize plans to celebrate National Watermelon Day on August 3, it has come to my attention that many black people are terrified of eating watermelon in front of whites. What a strange thing to fear. I’d think it’s better […]

  • Euro 2024: The Tournament that Wasn’t, Part 2

    Counter Currents - Jul 18th 2024 10:06am EDT

    Image source: UEFA website. 3,295 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) This rot has spread from the Anglosphere and is now found even in nations with far less “diversity.” Italy, the defending champions going into Euro 2024, were very disappointing this time around. Their defense of the title lasted a measly four matches: […]

  • Euro 2024: The Tournament that Wasn’t, Part 1

    Counter Currents - Jul 17th 2024 3:54pm EDT

    2,516 words Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided . . . will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual, and economical exhaustion. That is a line from an apocryphal letter claimed to have been written by the nineteenth-century American Freemason Albert Pike, in which he made a few amazingly […]

  • The Cartos, Imperium, and the Truth Seeker — Remembering Willis Carto: July 17, 1926–October 26, 2015

    Counter Currents - Jul 17th 2024 9:57am EDT

    Willis Carto 1,511 words A near-forgotten journal of occasional significance, The Truth Seeker, turned 150 years old last September. That makes it, by its own claim, the “World’s Oldest Freethought Publication.” Not that there’s an awful lot of competition there, unless you wish to make mischievous arguments in favor of The Atlantic Monthly or The […]

  • Headlines That Tell It All

    Counter Currents - Jul 16th 2024 1:50pm EDT

    Image courtesy of Craiyon 3,298 words The media has gotten rather predictable. Today’s journalists seem like youthful guitarists who learn two chords and are thereby qualified to join a bar band. Once you’ve seen enough stories, the tropes start to look awfully familiar. For example, in news items about mass violence or heinous deeds attributed […]

  • Are Migrants Biological Weapons?

    Counter Currents - Jul 16th 2024 9:21am EDT

    Personnel in hazmat suits cleaning up a migrant center. 1,594 words There was a time when I thought migrants were potential vectors for disease, and they are; however, I am convinced that characterization does not go far enough. Migrants are, in fact, biological weapons. According to the United Nations Office For Disarmament Affairs, these weapons […]

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  • The Worst Week Yet: July 7-13 — 2024 Sympathy for the Devil

    Counter Currents - Jul 15th 2024 2:28pm EDT

    Photo by Evan Vucci (Image courtesy of Wikipedia) 1,223 words / 7:59 Despite what you may have thought, heard, or read, Saturday evening’s sniper attack on Donald Trump wasn’t the first time someone attempted to cause him physical harm during a campaign rally — it was the third. But as far as I can remember, […]

  • America Has Dodged a Bullet (for Now)

    Counter Currents - Jul 15th 2024 11:18am EDT

    Corey Comperatore, who was killed by one of the would-be assassin’s bullets on Saturday, with one of his daughters. Corey is one of the millions of Trump-supporting white Americans whom the Left demonizes, when they don’t simply ignore them. (Image source: Facebook) 1,204 words Donald Trump wasn’t the only one who dodged a bullet on […]

  • I Still Love Trump

    Counter Currents - Jul 15th 2024 10:08am EDT

    Photo by Brendan McDermid of Reuters. Fair use. 1,840 words I was with a friend and his wife Saturday evening when we learned of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania. My friend’s mother — a spry, gun-toting, red-pilled granny whose favorite politician is Marjorie Taylor Greene — texted with the news. We immediately […]

  • The Unkillable Donald Trump (and a Very Killable America)

    Counter Currents - Jul 15th 2024 8:45am EDT

    1,111 words By the time you read this, just about every angle surrounding Saturday’s failed assassination of Donald Trump will have been covered. How is Trump doing? Who was the shooter? What was he doing in a BlackRock ad in 2023? Was there a conspiracy? Is the Secret Service guilty of incompetence or sabotage? Did […]

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  • Editor’s Update

    Counter Currents - Jul 12th 2024 2:55pm EDT

    Image source: UpNorthMemories on Flickr words There’s some very exciting news this week. 1. Our 2024 Fundraiser This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000 to sustain and expand our work. Thus far we have received $77,849.50, so we are now more than one-quarter of the way to our goal! Our deepest thanks to everyone who helped […]

  • Elle Reeve’s Black Pill

    Counter Currents - Jul 12th 2024 8:25am EDT

    2,146 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 Elle Reeve made a career covering the “Alt Right,” its precursors, and its aftermath, including the Charlottesville trials and January 6, first for Vice then […]

  • England Swings: Post-Election Fallout

    Counter Currents - Jul 11th 2024 2:26pm EDT

    David Lammy, the UK’s new Foreign Secretary, who made sure to mention in his very first speech in the post that he is “a descendant of enslaved people.” (Image source; UK Parliament website) 2,607 words England swings like a pendulum do. Bobbies on bicycles two by two. Westminster Abbey, the tower of Big Ben. The […]

  • Hispanics: The Race that Isn’t

    Counter Currents - Jul 11th 2024 11:22am EDT

    Image source: Wikimedia Commons 1,426 words / 10:04 In the all-white neighborhood of my youth, the faraway people who are now known as “Hispanics” . . . or, more dubiously, as “Latinos” . . . or, unforgivably, as “Latinx” . . . were referred to with the catchall slur “Spics.” It wasn’t until I reached […]

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  • Remembering Carl Schmitt (July 11, 1888–April 7, 1985)

    Counter Currents - Jul 11th 2024 9:32am EDT

    Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985 1,099 words Carl Schmitt was born on July 11, 1888 in Plettenberg, Westphalia, Germany — where he died on April 7, 1985, at the age of 96. The son of a Roman Catholic small businessman, Carl Schmitt studied law in Berlin, Munich, and Strasbourg, graduating and taking his state exams in Strasbourg […]

  • Culture as Programming: A Case Study of Frau Löwenherz, aka Leonie Plaar, Part 2

    Counter Currents - Jul 10th 2024 3:01pm EDT

    2,742 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) The role of a cultural milieu in programming each individual is not merely illustrated by considering what Leonie Plaar would have been like 80 to 100 years ago. It is further demonstrated by the realization that, in many ways, the choices and utterances she makes are […]

  • Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 9

    Counter Currents - Jul 10th 2024 9:46am EDT

    Statue of Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom, at the Austrian Parliament. 1,871 words Part 9 of 14 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here, Part 7 here, Part 8 here) There is a deeper problem with Plato’s account of justice in the Gorgias. He […]

  • Rolling Back Progressive Extremism

    Counter Currents - Jul 9th 2024 2:04pm EDT

    words Eric Kaufmann The Third Awokening: A 12-Point Plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism New York, Nashville: Post Hill Press, 2024 Eric Kaufmann is best known as the author of Whiteshift (2019), a thick book on the future of white majorities in Western nations. The book’s thesis is that whites must be offered a bit […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: June 30-July 6, 2024

    Counter Currents - Jul 8th 2024 12:27pm EDT

    Mug shot of DaShawn Watkins by the Pennsylvania State Police. 2,004 words / 13:40 Grindr Date Takes Grisly Turn: Black Male Charged With Murdering 14-Year-Old White Tranny & Dismembering Him with Electric Saw Using the homosexual hookup app Grindr, the star-crossed lovers arranged for a lakeside rendezvous in the middle of the night at a […]

  • I’m On Team Normal

    Counter Currents - Jul 8th 2024 9:48am EDT

    Image from Shawn Braley, Valley News 1,181 words About a year and a half ago, an associate professor at a European university reached out to me over Facebook. He politely invited me to an interview. This is what he wrote (links added): I am working on an academic project about novels, novellas and short stories […]

  • Reggie Jackson’s Tortured Negro Soul

    Counter Currents - Jul 7th 2024 9:05am EDT

    47 words / 8:42 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Reggie Jackson’s Tortured Negro Soul,” on the fact that although he’s widely considered a baseball legend in America, slugger Reggie Jackson still can’t get over the racism he allegedly encountered in his youth. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/Goad-ReggieJacksonsTorturedNegroSoul.mp4

  • Nowa Prawica przeciw Starej Prawicy Rozdział 13: Biały nacjonalizm a kwestia chrześcijańska

    Counter Currents - Jul 7th 2024 8:46am EDT

    874 słowa English original here; Translations: French, Slovak, Spanish Część 15 (Rozdział 1, Rozdział 12) We współczesnym białym nacjonalizmie istnieje silna anty-chrześcijańska tendencja. Argumentacja wygląda mniej więcej tak: chrześcijaństwo jest jedną z głównych przyczyn upadku białej rasy z dwóch powodów. Po pierwsze, daje ono Żydom uprzywilejowane miejsce w sakralnej historii ludzkości – rolę, którą wykorzystali […]