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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Gerald L. K. Smith 2,198 words To say that Disciples of Christ minister Gerald L. K. Smith had a controversial career would be an understatement. He was aware of the Jewish Question and published an influential Rightist newsletter called The Flag and the Cross for many years. He was “deplatformed” throughout his life, was met with hostile […]
Joseph Feely, Forgotten Warrior, 2020. 1,524 words We live in indisputably dark times. Everywhere we look, the foreboding shadows of authoritarianism, globalism, and the imprisonment of the human spirit seem abundantly evident. 2020 demonstrated more than ever the naked and brazen power of the elites that misrule us, whether they were banning a sitting US […]
Time correspondent Molly Ball 1,593 words The 2020 election was the freest and fairest in human history. That’s an article of faith you must repeat to avoid the dreaded label of “domestic terrorist.” Doubts about the election threaten our democracy and cannot be allowed. Most readers have been barraged with this message since November. But now a […]
Phil Eiger Newmann, The George Floyd Diet, 2021. 1,608 words If I had known George Floyd, I don’t think I would have liked him. There’s a good chance he wouldn’t have liked me, either, and if you dislike me merely for saying I would have disliked him, I’ll take an immediate dislike to you, too. […]
1,789 words Tony Vermont, ed.Folk: A Collection on What it Means to be a PeopleThe White People’s Press: 2020 It’s one thing to be part of a folk — a society connected by blood, history, myth, language, and territory. It’s something more to possess items — functional or not — that strengthen these connections. Beautiful […]
1,037 words I took to Charles Krafft right away. Our introduction came the week before I was due to set off for the second Counter-Currents retreat. The phone rang and I was asked if on my way down through Seattle I could pick up a stranded attendee. While I readily agreed — anything to help […]
words Andy NgoUnmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy DemocracyNew York: Center Street, 2021 See also: Know Your Enemy: Antifa If you follow Antifa as a subject on social media, you’ve probably seen the Right-wing meme that portrays them as weak and effeminate . . . This is wrong . . . It is a […]
1,425 words Does anyone believe that Covid-19 vaccination will not soon be compulsory for all citizens of Joe Biden’s “systemically racist” America? Going to work, sending your children to school, flying on a plane, going to a gym, being eligible for health insurance, voting, shopping — to do any of these things, and some I […]
6,279 words Editor’s Note: After a hiatus when it was only accessible via the Internet Archive, the Black Invention Myths website is now hosted by Counter-Currents. Black Invention Myths Perhaps you’ve heard the claims: Were it not for the genius and energy of African-American inventors, we might find ourselves in a world without traffic lights, […]
Phil Eiger Newmann, Stumpy G, 2021. 1,375 words After the Atlanta-based one-hit hip-hop wunderkind who goes by the silly name of “Silento” was arrested and charged last week with murdering his cousin, his publicist referred to him as a “beautiful soul.” To clarify, she wasn’t talking about the murdered cousin. She was talking about his accused killer, 23-year-old […]
