• Solzhenitsyn from Under the Rubble

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

    3,648 words Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn et al.From Under the RubbleBoston: Little, Brown & Company (1975) Shortly before being deported from the Soviet Union in 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn contributed three essays to a volume that was later published in the West as From Under the Rubble. The title was a clear metaphor for dissident voices speaking out […]

  • Fundraiser Total & Sunday Livestream: Hour One: Paul WaggenerHour Two: Horus the Avenger

    Counter Currents - Jan 16th 2021 2:27pm EST

    463 words Dear Friends of Counter-Currents, 2020 was the most challenging and exciting year so far in the history of Counter-Currents. In March, we lost our credit card processor for the nth time, which severely hurt our ability to sell books and receive donations; on the other hand, March was our best month ever in […]

  • Inheritors of the Earth: Port, Plain, & Mountain in Western Culture

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

    Caspar David Friedrich, Greifswald in Moonlight, 1817. 9,130 words As men and women of the Right, we are searchers for Truth. We believe that by finding Truth and living by Truth, we might know Beauty, and we might know ourselves. Essence is our mission and with it, survival. And so this essay will try to […]

  • A Time for Intermarium

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

    Map demarcating the terms of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty 1,628 words To understand Central and Eastern Europe as they are today, we must go back an entire century to the immediate aftermath of the First World War. As old empires collapsed, newly independent nations fought numerous conflicts for territory culminating in the Polish-Soviet War. As soon […]

  • When Your Child Dies for a Cause

    Counter Currents - Jan 14th 2021 12:03pm EST

    Mark Baumer 1,534 words So much of what passes for journalism these days is reductionist. What is worse is that there is an ideological underpinning that once would have been considered unacceptable in filing news stories. The tragic death of Ashli Babbitt and the way it’s been covered in the days following her being shot […]

  • The Melanincompoop Theory

    Counter Currents - Jan 14th 2021 6:45am EST

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Melanin’s Deficiency, 2021. 1,266 words Last week, doddering President-Elect Joe Biden nominated a black female lawyer named Kirsten Clarke to head the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. Referring to the Brooklyn-born daughter of Jamaican immigrants as “one of the most distinguished civil rights attorneys in America,” the CIA robots who control […]

  • Remembering Yukio Mishima (January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970)

    Counter Currents - Jan 14th 2021 6:00am EST

    948 words Spanish translation here Yukio Mishima was one of the giants of 20th-century Japanese literature. He has exercised an enduring influence on the post-World War II European and North American New Right. In commemoration of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website: By Mishima: “A Call […]

  • We Won

    Counter Currents - Jan 13th 2021 6:02pm EST

    1,611 words A line was crossed on January 6, 2021: a large group of what seemed to be almost entirely white Americans marched to the Capitol building in Washington DC in an effort to both express a general displeasure at election fraud and to protest the confirmation of the deeply, hopelessly corrupt and soulless neoliberal […]

  • Remembering Mr. Gurdjieff (January 13, 1866/1872/1877–October 24, 1949)

    Counter Currents - Jan 13th 2021 6:45am EST

    Mr. Gurdjieff 7,589 words George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born on this day in 1866, 1872, or 1877 — depending on who you ask. [1] Much else about his biography is equally uncertain. We do know that his father was Greek, his mother Armenian, and that he was born in Alexandropol which was then part of […]

  • A. E. van Vogt’s Slan: An Analogy for Zionism?

    Counter Currents - Jan 13th 2021 6:15am EST

    1,918 words A. E. van VogtSlan Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946 Science fiction writer A. E. van Vogt’s first novel-length work, Slan, became a classic, notable for being a pioneer in the mutant protagonist genre that gave us the X-Men comic book series and its cinematic spinoffs. In such literature, conflict with normal humans […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 313 Jeff Winston of the White Art Collective

    Counter Currents - Jan 13th 2021 6:00am EST

    146 words / 0:55:01 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 Jeff Winston of the White Art Collective (WAC) to discuss Jeff’s work, art, and your questions. Topics discussed […]

  • Despair is a Sin

    Counter Currents - Jan 12th 2021 6:45am EST

    2,164 words Okay, so the worst possible outcome has come to pass. We can all, however, take solace in the fact that it wasn’t our fault. It wasn’t Donald Trump’s fault either. He was our fighter — flawed but spirited — who had taken our nemesis Joe Biden into the later rounds and was thoroughly […]

  • Remembering Jack London (January 12, 1876–November 22, 1916)

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

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Jack London, 2021 467 words Spanish version here Jack London was born John Griffith Chaney in San Francisco on January 12, 1876. An adventurer and Jack of all trades in his youth, London achieved fame and fortune as a fiction writer and journalist. But he never forgot his working-class roots and remained […]

  • Truth Doesn’t Win Wars

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

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Walk of Shame, 2020. 1,836 words I fell asleep early on Election Eve because I lost faith in the federal government — and the very idea that the United States was a sustainable nation — years ago. Ever since November 3, I’ve been disinterested in the issue of election fraud because I […]

  • The Fear of Radicalization 

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

    1,394 words We are living in remarkable times in which historic events have become so commonplace that they are forgotten within weeks. That won’t be the case for January 6th, 2021. There is no going back to more peaceful times, and the hysterical mainstream media is correct in that January 6th is going to prove […]

  • Nancy Pelosi: Worst Speaker Ever

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

    1,199 words After the mostly peaceful pro-Trump protests on January 6, 2021, domestic politics moved further along the road to instability and blood in the United States. When and if the United States gets through this rough patch, future generations will look back and compare Nancy Pelosi to John C. Calhoun. Calhoun was a stubborn […]

  • This Weekend’s Livestreams: Saturday: The Writers’ Bloc Sunday: Counter-Currents Radio with White Art Collective & Imperium Press

    Counter Currents - Jan 9th 2021 2:30pm EST

    132 words Saturday, January 9, at at noon PST, 3 PM EST, 8 PM UK time, 9 PM CET, Greg Johnson will be on The Writers’ Bloc on Fullmoon Ancestry’s DLive channel: https://dlive.tv/Fullmoon-ancestry On Sunday, January 10, at noon PST, 3 PM EST, 8 PM UK time, 9 PM CET, I will be hosting a […]

  • Whitepills from the Capitol

    Counter Currents - Jan 8th 2021 11:39am EST

    1,300 words The worst event since 9/11 happened this week. No it wasn’t another terror attack, nor was it a natural catastrophe. Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and . . . just kinda wandered around. Sure, they had to fight their way in and break through doors and windows to obtain their objective. But […]

  • The Congress Has No Clothes: The Capitol Occupation & Post-Trumpian Populism

    Counter Currents - Jan 8th 2021 7:21am EST

    2,874 words The Boston Tea Party, when costumed LARPers began a revolution As an American observing Wednesday’s “mostly peaceful” protest at the Capitol from abroad, I admit I was taken by surprise. Foreign acquaintances had been asking me for months if anything dramatic would happen in relation to the election. While I was sure that […]

  • The Night the Whites Lost Clout in Georgia

    Counter Currents - Jan 7th 2021 3:14pm EST

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Awed by Fraud, 2021 1,840 words It’s Wednesday afternoon as I type this, and alleged Trump supporters—at least one of whom was toting a Confederate flag—have invaded the US Capitol building while Congress was certifying the electoral vote from 2020’s presidential election. It’s a bittersweet image, seeing as how last night, the […]

  • Your Browsing History Might Impact Your Credit Score

    Counter Currents - Jan 6th 2021 2:00pm EST

    2,190 words New World Order proposals tend to appear feel-good or sensible on the outside, then reveal themselves to be rotten upon closer inspection. The International Monetary Fund’s new big idea about personal credit scores is no exception. The IMF, of course, is one of those big international institutions that the public didn’t elect yet […]

  • 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 […]