Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Roberts 1,202 words I had occasion to visit Fort Collins, Colorado this summer. In doing so I was able to discover information on an important Rightist of the 1960s, Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Roberts. LTC Roberts was a longtime resident of the area and active on the local AM radio community. He is […]
The Outsider becomes an inside man. 3,486 words The Hater (2020) is a slow and gritty tale of an outsider working at a troll farm in Warsaw as the city’s political factions are in an upheaval. Liberal politicians are confronted in the streets and on social media as nationalist Poland pushes back against anything akin […]
5,389 words The demographics problem is a growing threat, perhaps the greatest one facing Western civilization. Minorities have been bloc voting for ages, of course. The problem is that when whites finally muster the political will to stand together and take our own side, we might be less than half the population by then. In […]
1,108 words This is an attempt to understand the psychology of male wallflowers. A “wallflower” refers to a girl who waits . . . and waits . . . and waits off the side for a fellow to ask her out on the dancefloor. Some girls are wallflowers because they are unattractive. But others are […]
1,119 words Counter-Currents is now taking preorders for the new Centennial Edition of Francis Parker Yockey’s The Enemy of Europe and Imperium. Francis Parker YockeyThe Enemy of Europe Edited by Thomas Francis Introduction by Kerry Bolton Centennial Edition Publishing, 2020 150 pages There are three formats for The World in Flames: Hardcover, limited edition of 200 […]
2,924 words A crime scene. The aesthetics of a horror movie. Sinister music. This is the latest Trump attack ad exposing Joe Biden’s “racism problem,” released a day after rioting in Chicago. The Trump campaign is engaging in offense archaeology, digging up a Biden statement from all the way back in 1973. Other Trump ads […]
1,421 words Dear Friends of Counter-Currents, Future historians may look back at 2020 and declare it a pivotal year in history, like 1989, when Communism began its collapse in Europe; or 1914, when Europe threw itself into the abyss; or 410, when Rome was sacked; or even the birth of Christ, somewhere around the year […]
Mark Collett 156 words / 1:59:14 To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” Greg Johnson talks to Mark Collett of Patriotic Alternative about current events, Patriotic Alternative’s work, and your questions. Topics include: 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:00 The “Migrants Not Welcome” […]
2,527 words Massad AyoobDeadly Force: Understanding Your Right to Self Defense Iola, WI: Gun Digest Books, 2014 In the wake of Charlottesville and other street battles between pro-whites and the Antifa, it is a good idea to take a look at the legal aspects of self-defense. For unlike movies and TV shows where the villain […]
2,072 words “I believe in the certainty of chance,” sang Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy in 1998, a wonderful songwriter musing on one of philosophy’s oldest conundrums. Are events pre-ordained or as yet unwritten? Do we live in a world of free will or determinism? All of us will look back on our lives […]
2,727 words Children of Earth, or more accurately “Children of Britain,” was the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood’s third outing. Torchwood dropped the Doctor and asked what happens when he’s not around to save the day, a not-unreasonable question given the astonishing frequency the Earth is attacked by aliens. Being a BBC show, it’s always Britain […]
Haverbeck in her youth. 1,073 words Lubert steeled himself. The war had been over for more than a year, but his daughter had still not surrendered. He needed to suppress this little putsch now. . . At Frieda’s bedroom door, he knocked and called her name. He waited for an answer that he knew wouldn’t […]
Juliusz Kossak, Kmita’s Companions on a Ride, 1885. 1,763 words When I first moved to Eastern Europe, I did not have any friends in the region. Thus, I spent the winter of 2017 in solitude. To avoid any feelings of loneliness, I set a goal to finally read Henryk Sienkiewicz’s trilogy of historical novels. I […]
1,584 words More shots have been fired in the trial run of the second American Civil War. On August 25th, Kyle Rittenhouse, a seventeen-year-old citizen-militia member, was attacked at least twice by a Black Lives Matter and Antifa mob during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was armed with a rifle, and with it killed […]
1,173 words Christopher Nolan is one of my favorite living filmmakers. Tenet is Nolan’s new sci-fi espionage thriller. Tenet is highly imaginative and visually striking. Tenet was filmed on locations in Denmark, Estonia, India, Italy, Norway, and the UK, and its cast includes Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh. But Tenet is […]
1,132 words Believe it or not, there was once a time in the now-enviable 2000s in which Midwestern indie bands were considered the epitome of cool. If you wore plaid shirts (sometimes, with a t-shirt over said shirt), could play passable guitar, and had a just-so-slightly off-kilter voice with which you could sing about outsiderdom […]
Norman Rockwell, Study for “Freedom of Speech” 3,380 words Populism seeks to rescue popular government from corrupt elites. (.) Naturally, the elites strike back. The most common accusation from elite commentators is that populism is “anti-democratic.” As Yascha Mounk frames it, populism is “the people vs. democracy.” I argue that populism is not anti-democratic, but […]
Promotional image from the UK’s Almeida Theatre production of The Duchess of Malfi (performed from November 30, 2019 through January 25, 2020) 5,736 words I. Classical Western Thought on Justice and Revenge One of the most fascinating discussions to emerge from our collective Western inheritance concerns the definition of justice and the double-sided nature of […]
2,131 words The 2011 documentary Empire of Dust provides a one-of-a-kind portrayal of the difficulties facing a construction crew attempting to redo a badly dilapidated Congolese highway. Early on we meet Eddy, playing a key role as a translator. Clearly, he is exceptional: he knows Swahili, Chinese, French, and English, and this takes some doing. […]
204 words In the latest episode of Guide to Kulchur, Mark Weber joins Fróði Midjord to discuss Pat Buchanan’s book Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World. The conversation sets the record straight about misunderstood aspects of the Second World War and reveals how the […]
1,366 words Andrew Roberts is a renowned conservative, Visiting Fellow at Stanford University, and Visiting Professor at King’s College London, who believes that everyone in the world can be educated to love the democratic values of Western civilization. If only blacks and immigrants were taught to appreciate the immense value of Greek philosophy, Roman law, […]
658 words Greg JohnsonIt’s Okay to Be White: The Best of Greg Johnson Hollywood: Ministry of Truth, 2020 226 pages There are three formats for It’s Okay to Be White: Hardcover: $30 (including postage, $12 for postage to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, & the Far East) Paperback: $20 (including postage, add $12 for postage to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, […]
8,516 words Thomas R. PegramOne Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2011 The Ku Klux Klan suffers from a positively radioactive reputation, even among fellow Rightists. During the infamous family dinner scene in American History X, at which Edward Norton’s Derek Vinyard […]
John Singer Sargent, Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, 1889. 1,766 words Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my […]
Robert Plant (left) and Jimmy Page (right), Chicago, 1977. 2,100 words Someone told me there’s a girl out there With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair — “Going to California” Led Zeppelin’s back catalog already includes songs like “Ramble On” from the rocky Led Zeppelin II and the melancholic classic “Tangerine” from […]
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