New Notes on The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
Counter Currents - Sep 27th 2019 5:52am EDT4,119 words The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham Foreword and notes by Leslie S. Klinger Introduction by Victor LaValle New York: Liveright, 2019 It doesn’t take much to confuse me, I guess. Having enthusiastically reviewed Leslie Klinger’s previous The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft,[1] I now find he has put out another New Annotated […]
Electric Warrior
Counter Currents - Sep 27th 2019 5:29am EDT1,487 words Let’s steal some stars For Avalon . . . Let’s make a quest For Avalon Quest for finger cymbal and gong For Avalon — Tyrannosaurus Rex, “Stones for Avalon” (1969) He may have been a fey, miscegenation-prone, alcohol- and drug-bloated part-Semite – with an air of sexual ambiguity to boot – but Marc […]
Minhas memórias de Julius Evola
Counter Currents - Sep 26th 2019 8:58am EDTRenato del Ponte 814 words English original here Renato del Ponte é uma figura central no Evolianismo Europeu. Fundador do Centro studi evoliani em Gênova em 1969 e editor da revista Arthos, ele também dirige o Movimento Tradicionalista Romano. Pergunta: Renato del Ponte, seu nome está intimamente relacionado com o de Evola. Você pode nos contar […]
Remembering September 11, 1541
Counter Currents - Sep 26th 2019 6:15am EDT970 words The following translation was contributed by the Chilean identitarian organization Fuerza Nacional-Identitaria. The original Spanish version is here. For decades, local Left- and Right-wing oligarchies have been feeding on the decaying body of Chilean society. Today, these two vultures are fighting over a date in our history which offers both of them a […]
How “Civil Rights” Happened: A First-Draft Overview
Counter Currents - Sep 26th 2019 3:56am EDTHarry Truman announcing the Democratic Party’s commitment to “civil rights” at the 1948 convention, after the party’s leadership realized they didn’t need the South’s support to pursue their agenda. 3,770 words Historians puzzle over how the French Revolution happened. How did a powerful monarchy in a powerful nation fall apart and succumb to a radical […]
Remembering Martin Heidegger: September 26, 1889–May 26, 1976
Counter Currents - Sep 26th 2019 3:29am EDT1,855 words Translations: Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian Martin Heidegger is one of the giants of twentieth-century philosophy, both in terms of the depth and originality of his ideas and the breadth of his influence in philosophy, theology, the human sciences, and culture in general. Heidegger was born on September 26, 1889, in the town of Meßkirch in […]
Remembering T. S. Eliot:September 26, 1888–January 4, 1965
Counter Currents - Sep 26th 2019 3:08am EDT231 words Thomas Stearns Eliot was one of the 20th century’s most influential poets, as well as an essayist, literary critic, playwright, and publisher. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, from old New England stock, Eliot emigrated to England in 1914 and was naturalized as a British […]
Sex & Politics at the Euro-Hostel
Counter Currents - Sep 25th 2019 8:00am EDTMax Beckmann, The Night (Die Nacht), 1918-19. 1,673 words I’ve been staying in some hostels on my recent trip to Europe. A situation that happens: I arrive late, enter a dark dorm room, crawl into one of the empty bunk beds, and wake up the next morning to find several young women asleep in the […]
“I’m Irish, Not White”
Counter Currents - Sep 25th 2019 3:15am EDT1,425 words Majority-minority America will not be kind to whites. Whiteness will mark you as a second-class citizen, a blot on your soul that excludes you from affirmative action and social respect. Ambitious social climbers will pretend they are non-white or cling to another protected class status to get out of their Caucasian hell. Signs […]
New Guest Speaker at the Upcoming Northwest Forum!
Counter Currents - Sep 24th 2019 4:25am EDT413 words We’d like to proudly announce an additional speaker and panelist to the upcoming Northwest Forum to be held on Saturday, September 28: Stephen McNallen, who will be appearing alongside Jared Taylor and Patrick Casey. An encore guest of the NW Forum, Mr. McNallen is a warm and charismatic public speaker. He is a […]
Asskicking 101
Counter Currents - Sep 24th 2019 3:59am EDT2,038 words So, you wanna fight, huh? Or maybe you’ve been given no choice – your country is overrun by hostile people with a genetic predisposition for lowbrow criminality and you have to defend your person, your loved ones, your honor, and your wallet with the weapon which God saw fit to put at the […]
The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus: Rhapsody & Repertoire
Counter Currents - Sep 24th 2019 2:52am EDT1,870 words We have always been concerned with the sacred or – perhaps more accurately – the loss of the sacred. We are searching for its echoes and traces which are scattered and hidden in surprising and forgotten places. Taking their name from a fictional terrorist group in Luis Buñuel’s last film, That Obscure Object […]
No, Mr. Glassner, Trump’s Amazing Rallies Are Not a Measure of His Success
Counter Currents - Sep 23rd 2019 3:00am EDT2,242 words Michael Glassner, Chief Operating Officer of Donald J. Trump for President, has written an op-ed for The Minnesota Sun in which he attempts to explain the amazing turnout at Trump’s rallies. Trouble is, he gets it all wrong. The Trump rally phenomenon demands a serious sociological study. It’s too bad there are no […]
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 249 Immigration: Boon or Punishment?
Counter Currents - Sep 23rd 2019 12:01am EDT154 words / 59:16 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: Introductions 0:11: Donations 1:08: […]
The Farce of Banned Books Week
Counter Currents - Sep 22nd 2019 4:14am EDT1,316 words Today is the first day of Banned Books Week, an annual event that purports to celebrate intellectual freedom and First Amendment rights by drawing attention to books that have been banned or challenged. Its organizers claim to be staunch opponents of censorship of all kinds. The American Library Association, for example, claims to […]
How Diversity is Taking Its Toll on Childrens’ Friendships
Counter Currents - Sep 21st 2019 8:41am EDTBeing looked upon with absolute contempt by an alien invader highly prone to violence, a beautiful white child is hated simply for existing in the nation her ancestors built. 1,785 words A few nights ago, I met two childhood friends for dinner after class. The week was over and we could breathe a sigh of […]
The Counter-Currents 2019 Fundraiser Reality: The Antidote for Wokefulness
Counter Currents - Sep 20th 2019 8:24am EDT563 words If there is anything that unifies the Dissident Right, it is its rootedness in reality. Truth, after all, is merely an acknowledgement of what exists in reality. Our greatest thinkers have always put a premium on reality. For Giambattista Vico, it was a metaphysical necessity that “the order of ideas must follow the […]
Race & Psychopathic Personality
Counter Currents - Sep 20th 2019 4:20am EDT2,246 words Richard Lynn Race Differences in Psychopathic Personality: An Evolutionary Analysis Augusta, Ga.: Washington Summit Publishers, 2019 Herrnstein and Murray’s The Bell Curve (1994) demonstrated that racial differences in rates of social pathology in the United States – including crime, poverty, long-term unemployment, out of wedlock births, and welfare dependency – can in part […]
Now in Print & Shipping! Tito Perdue’s The Gizmo
Counter Currents - Sep 19th 2019 4:50am EDT293 words Tito Perdue The Gizmo San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2019 156 pages Hardcover: $30 Paperback: $16 Now in print and shipping! “One of the drollest and most inspired creations of Tito Perdue’s imagination is the ‘escrubilator,’ a piece of technology whose multifarious features and functions make it as impossible for the reader to visualize as […]
We Can’t Go Back to the ‘80s: White Delusions About Identity Politics
Counter Currents - Sep 19th 2019 4:48am EDTObama and MLK, dreaming of America’s “post-racial” future. 1,467 words “[I]dentity alone should neither uphold nor invalidate an idea, or we’ve lost the Enlightenment to pure tribalism.” That’s the cry of journalist George Packer, a distraught liberal who can’t believe identity politics ruined his kids’ school system. In a widely-discussed Atlantic essay, Packer described the […]
Thou Shalt Not Lie (Except When It Supports the Approved Narrative): A “High Cuck” Attack on Sam Francis
Counter Currents - Sep 19th 2019 3:22am EDTSamuel Francis 938 words Judaism has its dual morality; Islam has its Taqqiya. Christianity, on the other hand, is distinguished by the belief that Christ is truth, and that knowing the truth is necessary for salvation. Christians, therefore, are theologically enjoined to seek the truth, and it is not difficult to see that this preoccupation […]
News about the Limited Edition Hardcover of Greg Johnson’s Toward a New Nationalism
Counter Currents - Sep 18th 2019 3:06pm EDT1,034 words When I started work on The White Nationalist Manifesto, I thought it would be a good fundraiser to offer a limited edition of 200 signed, numbered copies. That limited edition proved to be very popular, so I decided to offer a similar edition of the companion volume, Toward a New Nationalism. I have […]
Progressivism’s Willing Executioners
Counter Currents - Sep 18th 2019 7:01am EDT1,661 words The recent spate of White Nationalist mass-shootings has been seized upon by the progressive media, who are hard at work recycling every one into grist to the mill of increased surveillance and repression of white men. I imagine they must feel a sense of vindication, even of accomplishment, under the protestations of outraged […]
New from Counter-Currents!Greg Johnson’s From Plato to Postmodernism
Counter Currents - Sep 18th 2019 4:45am EDT537 words Greg Johnson From Plato to Postmodernism San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2019 220 pages Hardcover: $35 Paperback: $20 Kindle: $4.99 Now in print and shipping! Greg Johnson’s From Plato to Postmodernism collects essays and lectures on philosophical, political, and cultural themes in Plato, Aristotle, Vico, Rousseau, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Yeats, Husserl, Heidegger, Jünger, Cassirer, Camus, […]
Remembering Francis Parker Yockey: September 18, 1917–June 16, 1960
Counter Currents - Sep 18th 2019 4:41am EDT406 words Francis Parker Yockey was born 102 years ago today, September 18, in Chicago. He died in San Francisco on June 16, 1960, an apparent suicide. Yockey is one of America’s greatest anti-liberal thinkers and an abiding influence on the North American New Right. In honor of his birthday, I wish to draw the […]