Wawel Castle in Kraków, Poland 3,012 words Part 1 here This part of the interview was published in the XXXIV issue of the magazine Reconquista. In this part, Jaroslaw will discuss metapolitics, Polish culture, music, art, his travels, and writing. Ondrej Mann: Have you organized any metapolitical conferences in the past? Do you plan to organize any again? […]
4,721 words Here we have a continuation of the narrative presented in past installments, describing Brasillach’s auto-tour through wartime Spain in July 1938, accompanied by his brother-in-law Maurice Bardèche and their friend Pierre Cousteau. As before, I have translated it directly from Brasillach’s memoir Notre avant-guerre (1938-41). In the last section, Robert Brasillach gave a quick summary of […]
3,785 words There’s that old saying that politics is showbiz for ugly people. If that’s true, I think it is fair to say that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has “gone Hollywood.” I’ve mused on the concept of “going Hollywood” in a previous article. Many people move to Los Angeles to make it big. Every day, starry-eyed kids from […]
2,785 words One of the great unexpected pleasures of the Covid lockdown last spring was discovering oddball television series you otherwise wouldn’t have approached with a barge pole. Producers and programming executives detected a nice angle here, so they moved up launch dates by a few months. This is what happened with Mrs. America, a nine-part […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets convicted spy Johnathan Pollard upon his arrival to Israel 2,154 words Charlottesville Mayor Writes Weird Poem About How Charlottesville Rapes You Unless things turn around right quick and proper, the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, will be seen as the Waterloo of white identity politics for the foreseeable future. Even […]
45 words On Sunday, March 28 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 The panelists will discuss current events and take your questions for two hours. Donations, comments, questions: https://entropystream.live/countercurrents
Persian archers, glazed bricks from the palace of Darius I at Susa. 1,376 words Counter-Currents is trying to raise $200,000 this year to sustain and improve our work. Since last week’s update, we have received 46 donations totaling $8,290.45 for a total of 66 donations and a total of $14,827.45 since we started our fundraiser […]
2,180 words Dalrymple: Then why am I watching it?Costanza: Because it’s on TV! Let’s start with three statements that are in no way, shape or form, related to each other. 1. Narcocorrido artists are sometimes used by Mexican cartels to launder money. Cartel allies in the media and music business will catapult artists to fame to […]
2,272 words Nature is a temple, where the livingColumns sometimes breathe of confusing speech;Man walks within these groves of symbols, eachOf which regards him as a kindred thing. — Charles Baudelaire, “Correspondence” Si Dieu n’existait pas, il faudrait l’inventer. “If God did not exist, then it would be necessary to invent him” is, perhaps, one […]
Joseph Campbell & his wife, Jean Erdman Campbell, c. 1939. 2,319 words Joseph Campbell, the famed teacher of comparative mythology, was born on this day in 1904. For many people, including yours truly, he has served as a “gateway drug” into not only a new way of looking at myths, but into a non-materialistic way […]
Phil Eiger Newmann, Rules of the Game 2021. 1,345 words In the immediate wake of 2013’s Boston Marathon bombing, writer David Sirota — a skinny dork with delusions of being a tough guy — wrote an article for Salon.com called “I Hope the Bomber is a White American.” I hope that Sirota was disappointed to the point […]
1,842 words Like her near-contemporary Gore Vidal (both were born in 1925), the fiction writer Mary Flannery O’Connor had her first brush with fame via a Pathé movie newsreel. She had a pet chicken whom she’d taught to walk backward. Gore’s fame came a few years later when he piloted an airplane, age ten. O’Connor […]
Edmund Dulac, “The Buried Moon” from The Red Cross Fairy Book, 1916. 4,430 words He had me at: “It was still the South, he knew it for a certainty when they passed an aged negro in overalls hobbling down along the highway toward no conceivable destination. The land was cursed. God, he loved it.” [1] Tito Perdue, author […]
John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, ca. 1778. 1,858 words Lipton Matthews over at Taki’s Magazine is giving White Nationalists some advice, and I think we’d better sit up and listen. In his essay “Cultural Whiteness,” he tells us we should stop being White Nationalists and instead view whiteness as a “philosophy of progress.” In other […]
Edgar Samuel Paxson, Battle of Little Bighorn, 1911. 1,622 words American history was always taught to me in a way that shamed and vilified white people. Despite all the efforts and propaganda to make me feel sorry for the Native Americans, I always resented them for their attacks on the European colonists and settlers. Even […]
Phil Eiger Newmann, Dysgenic, 2021. 2,211 words The Ritual Denazification of Teen Vogue Teen Vogue was founded in 2003 and has earned international respect as the go-to source for confused girl teens who want to learn how to have anal sex and worship Karl Marx. But now the venerable online publication has been rocked by accusations of racism that, amusingly, […]
72 words On Sunday, March 21 at noon PST, 3 PM EST, 7 PM UK time, 8 PM CET, I will be hosting the Counter-Currents Radio weekly livestream on our DLive channel: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents The panelists will discuss current events and take your questions for two hours. In the second hour, we will be joined by […]
Kim Selig, Keeneland, 2014. 1,347 words This year, Counter-Currents is trying to raise $200,000 to sustain and expand our work. We started our fundraiser last Wednesday, March 10th, which was the one-year anniversary of Counter-Currents being completely deplatformed and blacklisted from the credit card industry. It was also the debut of our new website. Since […]
Norman Rockwell, Doctor and Doll, 1942. 1,692 words I’m a blond bimbo girl, in a fantasy worldDress me up, make it tight, I’m your dolly! We live in an era of apparently rampant transsexualism. The media insist upon spotlighting various gender-benders and forcing them down the throat of a captive audience, at which point vinegar-drinking […]
3,162 words Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here Much of the tremendous value of Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together rests in how it was written completely without rancor. Only a highly cynical or unreasonable person could call it anti-Semitic — that is, a work that professes animosity or […]
Phil Eiger Newmann, Rubbed the Wrong Way, 2021. 1,638 words If there’s anything to be learned from the shooting sprees at three Atlanta-area massage parlors on Tuesday afternoon that left eight people dead, it’s that the massage-parlor industry is disproportionately Asian to a degree that would be comical if, you know, it hadn’t led to […]
1,988 words Anyone familiar with 19th-century American history will recognize John C. Calhoun as the man who, more than anyone else, represented the antebellum South. He, along with John Randolph of Roanoke, Virginia, provided much of the intellectual heft behind the character and institutions of the South and defined its position as a distinct economic […]
Frederic Remington, The Bronco Buster, 1895. 6,316 words Gen. Turgidson: Now, wouldn’t that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned? Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. “Is ‘Short Time Preference’ Really Such […]
Frederic Remington, The Bronco Buster, 1895. 6,316 words Gen. Turgidson: Now, wouldn’t that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned? Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. “Is ‘Short Time Preference’ Really Such […]
4,019 words Erwin S. StraussHow to Start Your Own CountryPort Townsend, Washington: Loompanics, 1984 Have you ever wanted to be the leader of your own micro-nation? Erwin S. Strauss might have the answer in How to Start Your Own Country. The author is a colorful character: a minor libertarian notable, a major organizer of science fiction […]
