• Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 324 Interview with Spencer Quinn

    Counter Currents - Feb 24th 2021 6:44am EST

    You can buy Spencer J. Quinn’s novel Charity’s Blade here. 145 words To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” On this episode of Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson is joined by Spencer J. Quinn to discuss his recent and past books, […]

  • Cannibalism for White Nationalists

    Counter Currents - Feb 23rd 2021 6:45am EST

    Detail, Francisco Goya , Saturn Devouring his Son, 1819-1823. 1,090 words As usual, it starts with an anecdote — a “friend of a friend” kind of story. There was a guy who raised pigs. He wasn’t a professional pig farmer, but he raised some hogs on the side. He lived in a town with a […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: February 14-20, 2021

    Counter Currents - Feb 22nd 2021 6:45am EST

    Phil Eiger Newmann, One Way Ticket, 2021. 1,514 words It should be obvious to any sober observer that the main problem with black people is black people. Even though it has been mathematically established that black Americans drain more money from the public cookie jar than they contribute to it, a pesky myth persists that they are […]

  • Today’s Livestream: Hour One: Laura Towler & Karl ThorburnHour Two: Greg Johnson Ask Me Anything

    Counter Currents - Feb 21st 2021 11:31am EST

    46 words On Sunday, February 21, at noon PST, 3 PM EST, 8 PM UK time, 9 PM CET, I will be hosting the Counter-Currents Radio weekly livestream on our DLive channel: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents Hour One: Laura Towler and Karl Thorburn Hour Two: Greg Johnson, Ask Me Anything Donations, comments, questions: https://entropystream.live/countercurrents

  • Asians Under Attack

    Counter Currents - Feb 19th 2021 6:45am EST

    A man defends his store from the roof during the 1992 LA riots. 1,336 words Asians now fear walking the streets in San Francisco and Oakland. Locals continue to rob and assault them without warning. Assailants even target the elderly. The national media, which prefers to ignore crime waves, is horrified by this spate of […]

  • Killing Us With Kindness: You Betcha!

    Counter Currents - Feb 19th 2021 6:30am EST

    3,341 words To be sure, [Heidegger’s] empty formula of “thoughtful remembrance” can also be filled in with a different attitudinal syndrome, for ex­ample with the anarchist demand for a subversive stance of refusal, which corresponds more to present moods than does blind submission to something superior. But the arbitrariness with which the same thought-figure can […]

  • Rush Limbaugh Remembered from the Right (January 12, 1951–February 17, 2021)

    Counter Currents - Feb 18th 2021 2:31pm EST

    Rush Limbaugh receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2020. 1,694 words Rush Limbaugh passed away from lung cancer Wednesday at the age of 70. No one did more to shape modern conservatism than the talk radio giant. Republican politicians bowed before him and sought his favor. Rush had the power to shape the opinions of […]

  • Blazing Saddles Comes to Wyoming

    Counter Currents - Feb 18th 2021 6:45am EST

    Phil Eiger Newmann, The Nu Sheriff, 2021. 1,444 words As a bookish kid holed up in my bedroom, I used to pore over the family copy of the World Book Atlas of the World and found my interest especially piqued by desolate and depopulated areas. I was drawn to Canada’s Northwest Territories and Wyoming in the USA […]

  • Homer Gets Canceled

    Counter Currents - Feb 18th 2021 6:30am EST

    Detail, Arnold Böcklin, Odysseus boasting to Polyphemus, 1896. 1,772 words Anyone with a decent education knows that the Iliad and Odyssey concern the fall of Troy and the struggle of Odysseus against a series of eldritch terrors on his voyage homeward. The timeless appeal is clear; the style is quite gripping, which especially comes out if […]

  • Weaponizing History: Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together Part 1

    Counter Currents - Feb 17th 2021 6:45am EST

    3,076 words Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTwo Hundred Years TogetherMoscow: Vagrius, 2005 No sane person wants to lie. Aside from whatever harm lying might cause, lying also chips away at a person’s dignity. Knowing that your words will quickly mold to a model other than Truth somehow cheapens you — as if any model will do. Expediency, authority, […]

  • Allegheny Uprising: A Trump Movie

    Counter Currents - Feb 17th 2021 6:15am EST

    1,123 words Every movement needs a movie. Liberals have To Kill a Mockingbird, conservatives have Patton, but what about Trump and the deplorables? The movement has anger and followers, but no film — here’s one. Allegheny Uprising (1939) is a John Wayne and Claire Trevor film based on Jim Smith’s uprising in the Conococheague Valley after the French […]

  • All the Hitlers

    Counter Currents - Feb 16th 2021 3:16am EST

    Daniil Kharms 1,943 words All the, all the, all the treesAnd all the, all the, all the stonesAll of, all of nature — peef. All the, all the, all the ladsAnd all the, all the, all the virginsAnd all of, all of matrimony — puff. All the, all the, all the SlavsAnd all the, all […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: February 7-13, 2021

    Counter Currents - Feb 15th 2021 6:45am EST

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Today’s Pressing Issues, 2021. 1,595 words Not everyone hates the winter as much as I do — I’ve even argued that the primary impetus for European colonialism was the perfectly reasonable quest for warmer climes — but if you’re similar to me in this regard, with all due apologies to T. S. Eliot, April […]

  • Today’s Livestream: Hour One: Millennial WoesHour Two: Greg Johnson Ask Me Anything

    Counter Currents - Feb 14th 2021 9:49am EST

    52 words On Sunday, February 14, at noon PST, 3 PM EST, 8 PM UK time, 9 PM CET, I will be hosting the Counter-Currents Radio weekly livestream on our DLive channel: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents Hour One: Millennial Woes Hour Two: Greg Johnson, Ask Me Anything Donations, comments, questions: https://entropystream.live/countercurrents

  • Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part Three: The Emergence of Modernity

    Counter Currents - Feb 12th 2021 1:34pm EST

    5,963 words 1. Introduction For Heidegger, the history of Western metaphysics is characterized by understanding Being narrowly in terms of what satisfies human needs and desires – especially the desire for knowledge, prediction, and control. This “subjective turn” is usually associated with the modern period, but Heidegger locates its inception much earlier, with Plato and […]

  • Weaponizing Money, Part 2

    Counter Currents - Feb 12th 2021 6:30am EST

    J. R. R. Tolkien’s original illustration, “Conversation with Smaug,” from The Hobbit, 1938. 1,851 words Last May, I wrote an essay entitled “Weaponizing Money.” In it, I argue that racially conscious whites should act with urgency when it comes to money, and earn as much of it as possible. I dispel any notion that this is […]

  • A Cause for Hope

    Counter Currents - Feb 12th 2021 6:15am EST

    1,647 words My frustration continues to mount under the occupation government of Senile Joe. The evil executive orders continue to flow, and it’s back to Israel First. The hysteria and blatant lies, especially by the mainstream media and establishment, are especially jarring. Indeed, Time just published a boastful article about how the establishment rigged the election. Due to the return of aggressive Jews […]

  • Santa Fe Trail

    Counter Currents - Feb 12th 2021 6:00am EST

    1,335 words So they want to ban Gone With the Wind? Pity, because a movie they would really like to strangle is Santa Fe Trail. Made in 1940, Santa Fe Trail is an Errol Flynn/Olivia de Havilland Western with lots of action and romance that discusses slavery and the Southern point of view in rational terms. Errol Flynn plays […]

  • Sympathy for the Gorilla Glue Girl

    Counter Currents - Feb 11th 2021 6:45am EST

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Glue Do, 2021. 1,470 words It just had to be Gorilla Glue, didn’t it? It wasn’t bad enough that this 40-year-old black mother of five was named “Tessica” or that, like 99.9% of black women, she’d obviously spent far more of her life obsessing over her hair, nails, and eyelashes than she had, oh, reading […]

  • Instauration: Profound Insights for Troubled Times, Part I

    Counter Currents - Feb 11th 2021 6:30am EST

    January 1976 cover of Instauration. 5,002 words Instauration was a race realist newsletter published monthly from 1975 to 2000. I subscribed for the last two years and fondly remember receiving the publication in the mail. Edited by Wilmot Robertson, the author of The Dispossessed Majority, Instauration was a compendium of racial news, happenings, data, history, philosophy, analysis, and more. Instauration means […]

  • Them’s the Rules

    Counter Currents - Feb 11th 2021 6:15am EST

    Ludwig Wittgenstein 1,938 words Don’t use the rules.They’re not for you,They’re for the fools.And you’re a foolIf you don’t know that. So, here’s the rulesYou stupid fool. — The Clash, “Cheat” If the rule you followed led you to this, of what use was the rule? — Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men I […]

  • Black History Month Special Senator Jesse Helms’ Remarks on Martin Luther King Day, Part Two

    Counter Currents - Feb 10th 2021 3:02pm EST

    Sen. Jesse Helms on the cover of Time, September 14, 1981. 5,765 words Part 1 here Editor’s note from the foreword by Beau Albrecht: The following Jesse Helms speech was recorded in the Congressional Record, volume 129, number 130 (October 3, 1983): S13452-S13461. It’s available in hardcopy as a rare book, Martin Luther King Jr., Political Activities […]

  • Politicians, Guns, & Money: The Profane Memoirs of a Justified Con Man

    Counter Currents - Feb 10th 2021 6:30am EST

    You can buy Stephen Paul Foster’s novel Toward the Bad I Kept on Turning here. 3,142 words Stephen Paul FosterToward the Bad I Kept on Turning: A Confessional NovelIndependently published, 2020 “My cynicism I carefully dissembled.” “The sapience of a post-modern philosopher attached to the commentary of a Chicago mayor, I think, would bring a […]

  • The Dirty Harry Sequels: Deconstructing a Hero

    Counter Currents - Feb 10th 2021 6:00am EST

    2,207 words Dirty Harry (1971) is a compelling neo-noir thriller about San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), who is increasingly forced to choose between liberal legal norms and bringing a sadistic serial killer known as Scorpio to justice. Once Harry kills Scorpio, the movie ends with him throwing away his badge, symbolizing a momentous decision. […]

  • Praise to Apollo, Dance of Dionysus: Death & the Dawn in Russian Ballet

    Counter Currents - Feb 9th 2021 6:45am EST

    Danses de Jadis (Dances in Times Past), George Barbier, 1921 6,629 words This is an old and very cruel god . . . We will endure; We will try not to wince . . . If indeed it is for your sakes, If we perish or moan in torture, Or stagger under sordid burdens That you […]