896 words Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island, and died there of cancer on March 15, 1937. An heir to Poe and Hawthorne, Lovecraft is one of the pioneers of modern science fiction, fantasy, and horror literature. Lovecraft is a literary favorite in New Rightist circles, for reasons […]
1,252 words For the past several years, fans of H. P. Lovecraft have agonized over the question of how to reconcile their love for the Cthulhu mythos with Lovecraft’s views on race. Lovecraft Country, a TV adaptation of Matt Ruff’s novel of the same name, proposes a solution to this dilemma: to apply Lovecraft’s characterization […]
1,646 words August 20 marks the birthday of H. P. Lovecraft. Although he was obscure during his lifetime, he emerged to become one of the most influential figures in the horror genre — the most notable between Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King. Each successor built on his predecessor. This added to the American tradition […]
162 words Ethan Ralph On the next Counter-Currents Radio livestream, I am going to interview a giant of the alternative media, Ethan Ralph of the Killstream. Ralph first came to prominence during Gamergate. During the peak of internet bloodsports on YouTube, Ralph’s Killstream had 15 to 20,000 live listeners on every show. But Ethan Ralph […]
1,531 words Tim MarshallPrisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global PoliticsLondon: Elliot and Thompson (2015) The physical realities that underpin national and international politics are too often disregarded in both writing about history and in contemporary reporting of world affairs. Geography is clearly a fundamental part of […]
1,531 words Tim MarshallPrisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global PoliticsLondon: Elliot and Thompson (2015) The physical realities that underpin national and international politics are too often disregarded in both writing about history and in contemporary reporting of world affairs. Geography is clearly a fundamental part of […]
You can order Greg Johnson’s Graduate School with Heidegger here. 622 words What a gift it is, to have this collection of Greg Johnson’s essays on Heidegger available together in a real book, on real paper! All sorts of readers will appreciate Johnson’s lively, unpretentious, and accessible presentations of Heidegger’s thought, both those who have […]
1,255 words On Sunday, August 9, 2020, five-year-old Cannon Hinnant, a white child set to start kindergarten later this month, was shot in the head outside his home in Wilson, North Carolina, while riding his bicycle in front of his sisters. Cannon was shot at close range by his black neighbor of several years, Darius […]
Franz Geffels, The Relief of Vienna, 1683-1694. 2,905 words How bad are things now? “Pretty bad” is a decent answer, though a brief one. We’re faced with daunting challenges, quite obviously, though it’s a mischaracterization to say that all is lost. This has some very practical considerations. The importance of realism When getting our message […]
2,155 words It happened on August 9th, a date that carries a lot of bad juju. It happened in Wilson County, North Carolina, which has a population of about seventy-five thousand. 55.83% white, 39.33% black. Median income $33,000. Of households with children, less than half are married couples. 16.5% have a female householder with no […]
Voyager 2, loading into a Centaur rocket. 2,806 words I suspect most people have particular topics that affect them profoundly and cause a welling up of emotion that most other people would find a bit strange. For me, the topic is space probes. When I watch documentaries or read articles about them, I tear up […]
2,085 words Ta-Nehisi CoatesWe Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy New York: One World Publishing, 2017 I expected to hate We Were Eight Years in Power. After all, the book is written by a guy with one of those, dare I say, unusual black names — Ta-Nehisi — and I’m a total white […]
Michael Anton. 1,022 words This year, Counter-Currents is trying to raise $150,000. Since our last update, we have received 48 donations totaling $2,188.33. Because of the remaining money in a matching grant, $615 of that amount has been doubled, for a total of $2,803.33. Thus we have so far received 456 donations totaling $70,126.65. I want to thank everyone, […]
2,057 words The aphorism “Never let a crisis go to waste” may soon have historic consequences beyond what most of us can imagine. Maybe as soon as November. The first part of this series, “Trump Should Wargame Secession, Too,” outlines the various ways President Trump should prepare for the slim possibility of mass Left-wing defection […]
514 words Greg Johnson is publishing yet another new book: Greg JohnsonGraduate School with Heidegger Chicago: Heidegger Graduate School, 2020 230 pages There are three formats for Graduate School with Heidegger: Hardcover: $40 (including postage; add $5 for postage to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, & the Far East) Paperback: $25 (including postage; add $5 for postage to […]
2,807 words One of the smartest moves I ever made was becoming a “cord cutter.” Aside from the financial benefit, it has served to liberate my mind from the clutter of contemporary pop culture and media propaganda. Nevertheless, I occasionally indulge in streaming old movies, classics, whenever I can find them. Vintage horror and monster […]
5,808 words Editor’s note: The following is the transcript of Charles Krafft’s speech at the Inaugural Meeting of the Northwest Forum in Seattle on November 12, 2016. Some of the audience questions have been removed as they were inaudible, but you can easily infer the gist of them through Charles’ answers. We would like to […]
3,927 words Part 1, Part 2 All this anti-Masonry and TradCath stuff; there was something familiar with all this, until at some point I exclaimed again, “You’ve seen these films before, haven’t you, my man!” It’s Baron Evola’s doppelganger! Although to be honest, it may have been Will herself who clued me in. She’s well-read […]
1,023 words Ross DouthatThe Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own SuccessNew York: Simon & Schuster (2020) Never-Trumper Ross Douthat is a faux-Christian, faux-conservative writer for leftist publications like The Atlantic and The New York Times. His presence at those publications is akin to that of the house Negro, that is, to […]
1,273 words The Dissident Right is no fan of the Republican Party. For years, we’ve seen the party as an obstacle rather than an asset for white identity politics. Many identitarians believe the GOP must die for white Americans to survive and the Dissident Right should focus on killing this obsolete beast. Now another faction […]
156 words / 56:04 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 Kievsky about leveraging our current crisis to benefit whites. Topics include: 00:00: Being prepared for the coronavirus lockdown; Bitcoin, gold, prepping 11:00: Raising kids who […]
4,241 words Part 1 Other than living near types like Faÿ, Toklas, and the guys, Stein had “indirect ties, notably through her close friendship with a French personalist philosopher named Henri Daniel-Rops.” Daniel-Rops was active during the 1930s in the French movement that sought to merge personalist philosophy with a political “third way” between Soviet-style […]
Giovanni Gasparro, The Martyrdom of St. Simon of Trento, 2020. 4,083 words Note: Giles Corey’s new book, The Sword of Christ, may be purchased here. Get it before it’s banned! Giles Corey has written a book that should be read by all Christians as well as white advocates of all theoretical perspectives, including especially those […]
4,280 words Theodore G. BilboTake Your Choice: Separation or MongrelizationPoplarville, Mississippi: Dream House (1947) The final political testament by Senator Bilbo of Mississippi, Take Your Choice, is a useful opportunity to see how well old documents stand in the light of the present day. Viewpoints condemned by The Narrative as outmoded, reactionary, “on the wrong […]
Gertrude Stein. 6,991 words Barbara WillUnlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma (Gender and Culture Series) Columbia University Press, 2011 The joy of the body, the most honorable and fecund joy of all, reign[s] in America. — Bernard Faÿ We do amuse ourselves with ourselves and each other and it is rather […]
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