Trolling as an Art: Travis LeBlanc Interviews Porsalin
Counter Currents - Oct 14th 2019 9:11am EDT3,862 words Porsalin is no mere drama channel, and if it, it’s Drama with a capital D. A documentarian and Internet cultural critic, his videos are not merely collections of random, boneheaded moments, but in-depth character studies which cut through to the essence of the of their target with white-hot, witty insults. After starting out […]
Columbus Day Special The Autochthony Argument
Counter Currents - Oct 14th 2019 5:54am EDTMichelangelo, Unfinished Slave 2,115 words Translations: French, Spanish One of the perennial accusations against white colonial societies around the globe—in the Americas, Africa, and the Antipodes—is that they are morally illegitimate because other people were there first. This is what I call the “autochthony argument,” from the Greek “αὐτόχθων,” meaning “springing from the land,” i.e., indigenous. […]
Columbus Day Special The Memory of Columbus in the Western Diaspora
Counter Currents - Oct 14th 2019 5:35am EDTChristopher Columbus vandalized in Detroit 2,766 words Commemoration of the 15th-century European discovery of the Americas has seen better days. From Seattle to Caracas to Buenos Aires, the Spanish-Italian explorer Christopher Columbus is increasingly considered a villainous embodiment of pure evil. While the American government still observes October 9th as Columbus Day, that hasn’t stopped […]
Columbus Day Special Indigenous Peoples Day
Counter Currents - Oct 14th 2019 5:24am EDT1,647 words Editor’s Note: This essay is from Michael Polignano’s book Taking Our Own Side, available in hardcover, paperback, and e-book here. Multiculturalism is not an attempt to “enrich” White cultures by adding sundry non-White cultures. It is an attempt to replace White cultures with non-White cultures—or, more precisely, with fantasies, lies, and sanitized half-truths […]
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 251 Uppity White Folks & How to Reach Them
Counter Currents - Oct 12th 2019 8:47am EDT76 words / 45:14 To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” This is the audio of Greg Johnson’s talk in Gothenburg, Sweden, on Sunday, September 22, on the occasion of the publication of the Swedish translation of The White Nationalist […]
Remembering Aleister Crowley: October 12, 1875–December 1, 1947
Counter Currents - Oct 12th 2019 4:41am EDTAleister Crowley by Charles Krafft 382 words Aleister Crowley was an English poet, novelist, painter, and mountaineer who is most famous as an occultist, ceremonial magician, and founder of the religion and philosophy of Thelema. But ironically Crowley’s supposed Satanism and Black Magic are far less frightening to most people than his politics. For Aleister […]
Warsaw Journal #1
Counter Currents - Oct 11th 2019 12:58pm EDT4,601 words 9.16.2108 – Krakow Walked around the cobbled streets of Krakow today with my iPod on. Krakow is a beautiful and slightly sad little city. A high recommend, for a day. It was Sunday, that was good luck, so there were priests running around, and nuns, and churches doing their masses and services . […]
The Counter-Currents 2019 Fundraiser The Excellence of the White Race & the Chinese Question
Counter Currents - Oct 11th 2019 12:37pm EDT1,537 words Our goal this year is to raise $100,000 in order to expand our efforts to build a metapolitical vanguard for White Nationalism. So far, we have received 300 donations totaling $62,448.79. We set our goals high because the task we have before us is formidable, but with your help, we will succeed. We want […]
Coyote Ugly
Counter Currents - Oct 11th 2019 10:28am EDT923 words I spend a good deal of my time pondering the many patterns and complexities of human behavior that have spawned our current state of affairs. Itʼs quite a mess to untangle – a daunting problem with no easy solutions. I do think, however, that it is useful to enumerate our peopleʼs strengths and […]
Video of the Day A Gavin McInnes Documentary
Counter Currents - Oct 11th 2019 5:01am EDT16 words Filmmaker Porsalin presents a hilarious exposé of the career of Gavin McInnes in this new documentary.
Understanding the Halle Synagogue and Kebab Shop Shootings
Counter Currents - Oct 10th 2019 8:45am EDTStephan Balliet 1,575 words It happens now with accelerating regularity: a white man who is alarmed at white ethnic displacement — “the Great replacement” — goes to a place frequented by non-whites, often a place of worship, and starts shooting. On Saturday, August 3, 2019, a 21-year-old white man, Patrick Crusius, walked into a Walmart […]
Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & the Western Liberal Tradition
Counter Currents - Oct 10th 2019 5:48am EDT3,107 words Kevin B. MacDonald Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future Self-published, 2019 Kevin B. MacDonald is famous – or notorious, depending on who you ask – for examining the Jewish ethnic group from a genetic, Darwinian, and cultural perspective. His three published books on the subject […]
Three weeks to go! The Scandza Forum on Human Biodiversity: Oslo, November 2
Counter Currents - Oct 9th 2019 11:02am EDT1,008 words Only three weeks to go! On November 2, 2019, the Scandza Forum returns to Oslo, Norway, with an impressive list of speakers: Kevin MacDonald, Professor Emeritus at California State University-Long Beach. He is the author of more than one hundred scholarly papers and reviews, and is the author of Social and Personality Development: […]
The Great Parody: Some Remarks on the Phenomenon of “Virtual Reality”
Counter Currents - Oct 9th 2019 8:39am EDT4,876 words Translated from the Hungarian by Zsolt Sáfián The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the phenomenon of “virtual reality” – its increasingly dominant social role and effects, and its symbolism will be surveyed. The presentation of the latter is necessary in order to demonstrate that the emergence and development […]
The Death of Anglo-Saxon England
Counter Currents - Oct 9th 2019 4:43am EDT1,820 words . . . and there was great slaughter on either side. There were killed King Harold, and Earl Leofwine his brother, and Earl Gyrth his brother, and many good men. And the French had possession of the place of slaughter . . . — The Worcester Manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Unlike the […]
Tragedy as Comedy: The Downfall of Jim Ignatowski
Counter Currents - Oct 8th 2019 10:05am EDT1,484 words I remember being fascinated by an episode of the TV series Taxi as a kid. It was the one which offers the origin story of the frazzled, drugged-addled cabbie Jim Ignatowski, who was memorably played by Christopher Lloyd. Even at such a young age, I was aware of hippies, drugs, and their prominence […]
Nineteen Eighty-Four Revisited, Part III: What Orwell Can Still Teach Us
Counter Currents - Oct 8th 2019 8:54am EDTSoviet propaganda poster from 1931 telling the workers that the 5-year plan can be completed in 4 years with enough enthusiasm. 3,175 words Part 1 here, Part 2 here 4. Doublethink Among the many useful concepts bequeathed to us by Orwell, “doublethink” tops the list. It is a priceless tool for understanding how “normies” function […]
Morse Peckham on Corporations & Cultural Incoherence
Counter Currents - Oct 8th 2019 4:40am EDTMorse Peckham 826 words Morse Peckham (1914-1993) was a literary critic and cultural historian who was very well-known during his lifetime but who has been largely forgotten today. He had all the qualities that make him anathema in today’s academia: Besides being white, brilliant, and a writer of enormous clarity and precision, Peckham was also […]
The Case for Trump in 2020
Counter Currents - Oct 7th 2019 8:02am EDT1,725 words Would identitarians be better off if Democrats take back the White House? Of course not. Many people on the Dissident Right voice the opinion that Donald Trump needs to lose in 2020. Trump didn’t build the Wall, he didn’t reduce immigration, he bows before Israel, he passed terrible criminal justice reform, he hasn’t […]
Budapest Journal, Part Two
Counter Currents - Oct 7th 2019 4:25am EDTTypical Budapest hostel 4,055 words Part 1 here September 4, 2018 I worked this morning at the English used bookstore/café, where I’m having a flirtation with the younger girl who works here. Her female boss, who owns the place, is older, and is cruel and cold with her predominantly tourist clientele, which is understandable. But […]
Joker
Counter Currents - Oct 6th 2019 5:14am EDT1,785 words Note: Contains Spoilers Audio Version: To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” One of the great things about Heath Ledger’s Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is that he does not have an origin story. Or, actually, […]
The Counter-Currents 2019 Fundraiser Voluntarily Donate Now or Involuntarily Pay Slavery Reparations Later
Counter Currents - Oct 4th 2019 9:33am EDT743 words Our goal this year is to raise $100,000 in order to expand our efforts to build a metapolitical vanguard for White Nationalism. So far, we have received 288 donations totaling $60,338.79. We set our goals high because the task we have before us is formidable, but with your help, we will succeed. We […]
A Flash of Dissident Genius in Estonia
Counter Currents - Oct 4th 2019 2:32am EDTThe Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), Tallin, Estonia 1,615 words When You Say We Belong to the Light We Belong to the Thunder July–October 2019 First of all, the actual building and location of the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia has a great, youthful, Do-It-Yourself aesthetic. It’s informally known as the EKKM (cool). Its […]
Eyes Wide Shut
Counter Currents - Oct 3rd 2019 1:08am EDT4,473 words The day Jeffrey Epstein turned up dead in a New York jail cell, I decided I needed to write something about Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Stanley Kubrick’s last and weakest movie. Epstein has quickly faded from the headlines, so let me remind you briefly of who he was. Epstein was an American Jew […]
Charlottesville’s Silver Lining: The Decline & Fall of the Alt Lite
Counter Currents - Oct 2nd 2019 6:48am EDT2,002 words Stefan Molyneux has not had a good year. In fact, he says it’s been a brutal year. The world’s most popular philosophy show is in dire straits. He’s losing subscribers, he’s losing views. He’s got a bone to pick with YouTube and its bosses, and he needs more money to make more unprofitable […]