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  • Editor’s Update

    Counter Currents - Jul 5th 2024 4:23pm EDT

    370 words There’s some very exciting news this week. 1. Our 2024 Fundraiser This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000 to sustain and expand our work. Thus far we have received $75,506.68, so we are now more than one quarter of the way to our goal! Our deepest thanks to everyone who helped out.  Since Summer […]

  • The Rose from Pennsylvania: An Interview with Margot Metroland

    Counter Currents - Jul 5th 2024 2:11pm EDT

    Robert N. Taylor, Moon Mistress 3,299 words I love reading Margot Metroland’s essays and I love when she helps me to remember the various writers and forgotten figures of the American underground of the past. Margot has undoubtedly led a very interesting life and has known many personalities, artists, and interesting people. Judging by her […]

  • Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 7: Crime and Punishment

    Counter Currents - Jul 5th 2024 10:35am EDT

    A contemporary coin depicting Archelaus, King of Macedonia. (Image source: Wikipedia) 2,056 words Part 6 of 14 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here) Doing Injustice vs. Suffering It Polus grudgingly accepts Socrates’ argument, yet he doesn’t really believe it. Nor does he think […]

  • Remembering Jean Raspail: July 5, 1925–June 13, 2020

    Counter Currents - Jul 5th 2024 10:15am EDT

    Jean Raspail in 2015. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons) 597 words The French writer and explorer Jean Raspail was born on July 5, 1925 and passed away in 2020, less than a month shy of what would have been his 95th birthday. He is best-known to the world for his prophetic anti-immigration novel from 1973, The […]

  • Reggie Jackson’s Tortured Negro Soul

    Counter Currents - Jul 4th 2024 11:58am EDT

    Reggie Jackson (Image source: Wikimedia Commons) 1,368 words / 8:35 On Thursday, June 20, Major League Baseball sponsored an event called “A Tribute to the Negro Leagues” at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, where Negro players used to vie against other Negro players back before the brave and holy Negro Jackie Robinson famously broke baseball’s […]

  • Celebrate July Fourth with Counter-Currents!

    Counter Currents - Jul 4th 2024 9:31am EDT

    788 words Happy Independence Day to our American readers! It is easy for race-conscious Americans to become cynical about July 4th, which is now an occasion for celebrating an egalitarian civil religion fabricated from a misinterpreted line in the Declaration of Independence, “. . . all men are created equal . . . ,”  sometimes paired […]

  • The Bikeriders

    Counter Currents - Jul 3rd 2024 3:50pm EDT

    words There aren’t a lot of good movies these days. Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders is the best new film since Todd Field’s Tár, which came out in 2022. The Bikeriders is set in the Chicago area in the mid-to- late sixties. It tells the story of the Vandals Motorcycle Club (actually called the Outlaws). The […]

  • A Million Questions Why: Sacrificing Liberty

    Counter Currents - Jul 3rd 2024 11:18am EDT

    4,455 words Something that I see being referenced a lot on the dissident Right is the attack on the USS Liberty during the Six-Day War in June 1967 as an ironic statement on the “greatest ally” myth. It’s usually merely a mention: the Liberty. Everybody is simply expected to know what it is all about. […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 596: The Upcoming UK National Election with Millennial Woes and Morgoth

    Counter Currents - Jul 3rd 2024 8:58am EDT

    147 words / 1:21:51 Millennial Woes (official website here) and Morgoth (Substack, Odysee) were Greg Johnson‘s guests on the second half of Counter-Currents Radio‘s most recent broadcast, where they discussed the upcoming national election in the United Kingdom as well as other current events, and answered questions from the audience. The broadcast is now available for […]

  • My Little Valentine

    Counter Currents - Jul 2nd 2024 11:38am EDT

    820 words In November of last year, I commented on a fundraising article by David Zsutty titled “Counter-Currents at the Crossroads.” I mentioned that I had just donated for the first time and that my wife was pregnant. I received several congratulatory messages from writers and commenters. I was elated by their response. This support […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: June 23-29, 2024

    Counter Currents - Jul 1st 2024 12:40pm EDT

    1,948 words / 14:11 Joe Biden’s Cognitive Decline: A Symbol of America’s Deterioration In case you’re one of the three or four people left on the planet without an Internet connection, you’re aware that Joe Biden’s handlers didn’t pump him full of enough speedballs and smart pills last week to save him, and the Democratic […]

  • What Happened to the Irish Anti-Migration Vote? A Report on the Irish Local and European Elections

    Counter Currents - Jul 1st 2024 7:49am EDT

    A scene during the November 2023 anti-immigration riots in Dublin, which were apparently forgotten by the time of the elections. (Image source: Wikipedia) 2,021 words Three things tell us there is widespread enthusiasm in Ireland for mass remigration of our foreign guests: 1. Opinion polls before — and after — the elections showing that 80% […]

  • Buttocks-‘n’-Basketball Bash Banned in Blacktown

    Counter Currents - Jun 30th 2024 1:43pm EDT

    67 words / 8:50 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Buttocks-‘n’-Basketball Bash Banned in Blacktown,” on the cancellation of and fallout that followed from a high school event featuring a group of lard-assed black women in bikinis dribbling and twerking in the school gym for cash prizes in a […]

  • editors update

    Counter Currents - Jun 28th 2024 5:08pm EDT

    You can pre-order the Centennial Edition of Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium here. 358 words There’s always a lot going on at Counter-Currents, and this week is no exception. 1. Our 2024 Fundraiser This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000 to sustain and expand our work. We had a slow start to the campaign because of debanking, […]

  • Talking to the Police: A Very, Very Bad Idea

    Counter Currents - Jun 28th 2024 3:30pm EDT

    Prof. James Duane (Image source: Regent University website) 1,993 words James Duane You Have the Right to Remain Innocent: What Police Officers Tell Their Children about the Fifth Amendment New York: Little A, 2016. Most Americans know very little about police interrogations. If a police officer wants to ask you some questions, and you know […]

  • When Neither a Marketplace nor Ideas are Proffered: On the Promises and Platitudes of the So-Called Marketplace of Ideas

    Counter Currents - Jun 28th 2024 2:03pm EDT

    4,170 words None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A vast majority in American society remain confident in so-called First-Amendment values. A foundational premise to this belief in free speech — not knowledge, but belief — is the concept of the “free marketplace of ideas.” This construct postulates that conflicting ideas or positions compete in an […]

  • Buttocks and Basketball Bash Banned in Blacktown

    Counter Currents - Jun 27th 2024 1:45pm EDT

    1,153 / 8:42 When you hear “NBA,” do you think “National Basketball Association” or “Nuttin’ But Azz”? Newark, New Jersey, that bleak post-industrial mega-ghetto posing as a city, doesn’t have a professional basketball team, so all signs point to “Nuttin’ But Azz.” As of the 2020 Census, Newark was 47% black, 36% Hispanic, and a […]

  • The Witness: How Lies about Kitty Genovese’s Murder Were Used to Undermine White America

    Counter Currents - Jun 27th 2024 9:42am EDT

    2,387 words Urban myths are insidious enough when they are false. But when they assume universality in the broader culture — while reflecting negatively on that culture — then they can cause people to lose faith in themselves. This is one way in which civilizations begin to decline. For the last 60 years, one such […]

  • Whatever Happened to the Dirtbag Left?

    Counter Currents - Jun 26th 2024 1:15pm EDT

    The hosts of Chapo Trap House in November 2017. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons) 1,927 words The year was 2016. Donald Trump had just stunned the world by getting elected despite the entire media establishment being against him. The only support Trump had during his campaign was on the Internet, particularly the Alt Right, which was […]

  • Colin Wilson’s The Angry Years

    Counter Currents - Jun 26th 2024 8:50am EDT

    1,839 words Colin Wilson The Angry Years: The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men London: Anova Books, 2007 When Colin Wilson sat down in 2006 to write his own history of the “Angry Young Men,” it was mainly a matter of settling accounts. There had been at least two other similarly-named books on […]

  • Remembering Colin Wilson

    Counter Currents - Jun 26th 2024 7:59am EDT

    603 words Colin Henry Wilson (June 26, 1931–December 5, 2013) was an extraordinarily prolific English author of well over 100 books, both fiction and non-fiction, including volumes on philosophy, literature, psychology, religion, crime, sex, music, mysticism, and the paranormal, as well as a number of biographies and memoirs. From a working-class home and largely self-educated, […]

  • A Final Solution to the Palestinian Question

    Counter Currents - Jun 25th 2024 1:57pm EDT

    Image source: Wikimedia Commons 1,105 words The Israeli solution to the perennial Palestinian problem has emerged: The only way to be rid of them once and for all is to purge them from Gaza altogether. It has been difficult to achieve this aim, however, as fighting in the war-torn region is ongoing. It is unethical […]

  • Are We On the Brink of War?

    Counter Currents - Jun 25th 2024 1:10pm EDT

    Chrissy Houlahan, a US Congresswoman whose parents were Jewish refugees from Ukraine who is very eager to have young Americans registered for the draft. (Image source: Wikipedia) 1,659 words The House of Representatives passed a bill earlier this month that will require all men aged 18-26 to be automatically registered for conscription into the military. […]

  • Orwell and the Angries: A Listicle

    Counter Currents - Jun 25th 2024 11:29am EDT

    1,352 words The following is being published in commemoration of George Orwell’s 121st birthday today. I’ve been trying to figure out how George Orwell fits into that 1950s literary phenomenon, or cult, called the Angry Young Men. The Angries, as a movement, were partly an invention of the British popular press of 1956-58. Some writers […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: June 16-22, 2024

    Counter Currents - Jun 24th 2024 10:31am EDT

    Mug shot of Lexi Jade Brown from the Gulfport Police Department. 2,022 words / 14:42 15-Year-Old Mississippi Girl Who Stabbed Her Sleeping Mother: Mom Was a “Weird Bitch” Who Was “Suppressing the Black in Me” I think that we can all agree that, regardless of your race, creed, religion, or where you live, it’s incredibly […]

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