• Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 311 Jason Kessler

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

    Jason Kessler 150 words / 1:00:45 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 once again joined by Jason Kessler to discuss Jason’s ongoing legal battles, current events, and your questions. Topics […]

  • The Mormons’ Minority Strategy

    Counter Currents - Jan 5th 2021 2:45pm EST

    Romney as a missionary to France in the 1960s 1,234 words Anti-whiteness is a fact of life in America. Many whites who want to go to a good college, get a good job, or just be considered a better person will attempt a flight from white. They will try to find some non-white identity they […]

  • “16 Tons” of Diversity & Racism

    Counter Currents - Jan 5th 2021 1:15pm EST

    Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 1,678 words “Racism.” “Diversity.” These two words control the way we talk about race in America. That is by design: they are metapolitical words, not words about politics or politicians, rather words that lay down the “no trespassing” moral boundaries of political […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 310 Karl Thorburn

    Counter Currents - Jan 5th 2021 12:00pm EST

    141 words / 1:00:37 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 Karl Thorburn to discuss the fundamentals of and some listener questions about Bitcoin. Topics discussed include: 00:00:00 Intro […]

  • The Counter-Currents Newsletter, December 2020

    Counter Currents - Jan 4th 2021 3:32pm EST

    1,347 words Dear Friends of Counter-Currents, 2020 was a terrible year for all of us. But when economic uncertainty, multicultural instability, and political polarization rise, so does traffic to dissident websites. Thus 2020 was Counter-Currents‘ best year ever in terms of readers. Beyond that, it was our best year ever in terms of fundraising — […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: December 27, 2020-January 2, 2021

    Counter Currents - Jan 4th 2021 7:45am EST

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Victim Hood, 1,544 words To be young and white in America right now is to walk through life with a black cloud hovering over your head with every word you utter and every step you take. One major cultural shift over the past generation is that except for a few isolated hills […]

  • Taxi Driver

    Counter Currents - Jan 4th 2021 7:20am EST

    2,241 words I am inaugurating a series on Classics of Right-Wing Cinema with Martin Scorsese’s 1976 masterpiece Taxi Driver. For the purposes of this series, what makes a film “Right-wing” is its subject matter, its message, or simply how it resonates with people on the Right, regardless of the filmmaker’s intent. Please feel free to […]

  • This Sunday’s Livestream: Hour 1: Karl Thorburn on Bitcoin Hour 2: Jason Kessler Fundraiser

    Counter Currents - Jan 3rd 2021 9:51am EST

    132 words On Sunday, January 3, at noon PST, 3 PM EST, 8 PM UK time, 9 PM CET, I will be hosting Counter-Currents Radio’s weekly livestream on our DLive channel: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents The first hour’s guest will be Bitcoin guru Karl Thorburn. The second hour’s guest will be Jason Kessler on his ongoing legal battles […]

  • Remembering J. R. R. Tolkien: January 3, 1892–September 2, 1973

    Counter Currents - Jan 3rd 2021 7:20am EST

    500 words “I am in fact a Hobbit.”—J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is a favorite author of New Left “hippies” and New Right nationalists, and for pretty much the same reasons. Tolkien deeply distrusted modernization and industrialization, which replace organic reciprocity between man and nature with technological dominion of man over nature, […]

  • Happy New World Order!

    Counter Currents - Jan 1st 2021 12:27pm EST

    1,229 words “There was but one thing remarkable in his appearance. Swathed about his forehead and hanging down over his face, so low as to be shaken by his breath, Mr. Hooper had on a black veil.”  — Hawthorne, “The Minister’s Black Veil” [1] “O brave new world, that has such people in it!” – […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2020 Fundraiser A Postmark Deadline, a Final Appeal, & a Way Any American Can Make a Tax-Deductible Donation This Year

    Counter Currents - Dec 31st 2020 7:00am EST

    797 words It is the last day of 2020, therefore, it is the last day of the Counter-Currents 2020 Fundraiser. This year Counter-Currents is trying to raise $150,000. We have now received 912 donations totaling $147,464.19, which puts us only about $2,500 from our goal. This means that Counter-Currents has already surpassed last year’s fundraiser by more than $20,000, […]

  • Healing Racial Trauma with Magic Mushrooms

    Counter Currents - Dec 31st 2020 6:45am EST

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Shroom with a View, 2020. 1,259 words Imagine repeatedly dosing yourself with the most potent psychedelics known to mankind and still seeing the world entirely in black and white. Were you aware that BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) have used natural psychedelic substances as psychological healing agents for thousands of […]

  • Michael Kellogg’s The Russian Roots of Nazism

    Counter Currents - Dec 30th 2020 6:45am EST

    2,922 words Michael KelloggThe Russian Roots of Nazism: White Émigrés and the Making of National Socialism, 1917–1945 Cambridge University Press, 2005 With the near-universal demonization of the Third Reich, historians have developed a blind spot for the genesis of German anti-Semitism. Michael Kellogg, in his 2005 work The Russian Roots of Nazism, sheds a sharp light […]

  • Remembering Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865-January 18, 1936)

    Counter Currents - Dec 30th 2020 6:00am EST

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Kipling, 2020. 3,244 words Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling was born on this day in 1865. For an introduction to his life and works, see the following articles on this site. William Pierce, “Rudyard Kipling: The White Man’s Poet” (French translation here) Andrew Hamilton, “Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Burden of Jerusalem’“ […]

  • The Diversity Industry: Guilt-Leveraging at America’s Universities

    Counter Currents - Dec 29th 2020 6:45am EST

    Rockwell speaks at Michigan State University 3,931 words At the invitation of a student group at Michigan State University, George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party, came to the campus in East Lansing to address the students in 1967. No reported incidents. It was just another typical day on a typical American university […]

  • Sepulveda vs. Las Casas: A Battle Over Race in the Spanish Empire

    Counter Currents - Dec 29th 2020 6:30am EST

    Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City 1,253 words The Spanish Empire stands as one of the great landmarks of white civilization. Thousands of men set forth from Iberia to find and conquer a new world, facing all manner of hardships and misery. Unfortunately, the lands the conquistadors settled are, for the most part, racial hellholes. The […]

  • The Masculine Sport of Last Stands

    Counter Currents - Dec 29th 2020 6:15am EST

    1,063 words Michael WalshLast Stands: Why Men Fight When All is LostNew York: Saint Martin’s Press, 2020 Last Stands is a good book. Its author, Michael Walsh, takes a look at the many examples of men fighting to the last and tries to understand their motivations. The book is full of insights that cut to […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: December 20-26, 2020

    Counter Currents - Dec 28th 2020 6:45am EST

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Year of Fear, 2020. 1,580 words In the early 1970s, English comedian Peter Cook referred to vapid Hungarian actress Zsa Zsa Gabor as “the biggest non-event of the century.” But that was the last century. This century’s biggest non-event, despite what they’ve been ceaselessly drilling into your brain with a trillion tiny […]

  • This Weekend’s Livestreams:Saturday: Greg Johnson on The Writers’ Bloc & Sunday: Paul Waggener on Counter-Currents Radio

    Counter Currents - Dec 26th 2020 1:23pm EST

    78 words On Saturday, December 26, at noon PST, 3 EST, 9 CET, Greg Johnson will be on The Writers’ Bloc with Fullmoon Ancestry and Nicholas Jeelvy to wrap up 2020 & (we hope) the Counter-Currents 2020 Fundraiser). Plus Your Questions. Join us at: https://dlive.tv/Fullmoon-ancestry Superchats: https://entropystream.live/countercurrents On Sunday, December 27, at noon PST, 3 […]

  • 600 Lumps of Coal

    Counter Currents - Dec 24th 2020 6:45am EST

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Final Notice, 2020. 1,090 words Apparently, Uncle Sam has decided to dress as Ebenezer Scrooge this Christmas. I don’t know much about economics — if I did, I’d be a millionaire rather than a writer — but I know enough to realize that the US economy is wrecked beyond belief. Make no […]

  • Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

    Counter Currents - Dec 24th 2020 6:00am EST

    Philippe de Champaigne, “Saint Augustin,” 1645-1650 2,637 words The key problem of our age is disconnection from truth. This takes several distinct forms. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of lies. As everyone knows, modern, Western civilization is founded upon lies about human nature, culture, and history. The most significant of these — […]

  • The Winter Solstice & Christmas Ruminations

    Counter Currents - Dec 23rd 2020 6:45am EST

    1,100 words The Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year, gave me the gift of time to reflect on much that has been on my mind. I hope you’ll use the dark days to do the same, remember old traditions, and find the beauty that still exists. When the nights are long and cold, […]

  • A Counter-Currents Writer Attends a Black Lives Matter Demonstration

    Counter Currents - Dec 23rd 2020 6:30am EST

    1,518 words Oh, cruel irony of fate! I attended a Black Lives Matter demonstration just as the nation started to move into the holiday slumber. How did I get to such a point, you ask? I was visiting with family and one of the young ladies in my extended brood — driver’s permit age — […]

  • Some Thoughts on Yule

    Counter Currents - Dec 23rd 2020 6:15am EST

    3,427 words Yule is the midwinter festival celebrated by my ancestors and by Germanic neo-pagans today. Midwinter is a time when much of nature seems to die or to depart. The trees are stripped of their leaves. The birds abandon us, flying off to warmer climes. Bears, badgers, chipmunks, and squirrels hibernate. Water freezes over. […]

  • Ethnic Threats & Anglo-American Civilization in Howard and Lovecraft

    Counter Currents - Dec 22nd 2020 6:45am EST

    Swamp in Sam Houston National Forest, Texas 4,025 words Both Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) and H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) were masters of the pulp horror story. While the former placed action at the heart of his masculine and violent tales, the latter focused more on psychology and the “cosmic” dread of an indifferent universe. One […]