• Civil War II?

    Counter Currents - Jul 20th 2020 9:05am EDT

    Charleston, 1865. 2,528 words Counter-Currents has some excellent authors. One of my favorites is Spencer Quinn. He can take the complexities of current events and type out an excellent summation of them and what they mean. In one article, Quinn states: And now that we are in Year 1 AFE (After-Floyd Era), we must all […]

  • Not So Funny Anymore: Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities

    Counter Currents - Jul 20th 2020 7:01am EDT

    2,401 words Tom WolfeThe Bonfire of the Vanities New York: Bantam, 1987 When the Left finally gets around to banning (or burning) classic novels, Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities will likely be on the top of the list. Unlike Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Bonfire’s great sin is not merely being linguistically taboo […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2020 Fundraiser: This Weekend’s Livestreams

    Counter Currents - Jul 17th 2020 7:54am EDT

    664 words Saturday, July 18, at noon PST, 3 pm EST, 21:00 CET, Greg Johnson and Nicholas Jeelvy will join Fullmoon Ancestry on his Writers Bloc livestream on Dlive: https://dlive.tv/Fullmoon-ancestry. Sunday, July 19, at noon PST, 3 pm EST, 21:00 CET, Greg Johnson will do a Counter-Currents Radio livestream with special guest Sam Dickson on […]

  • The Birds Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Nine

    Counter Currents - Jul 17th 2020 7:27am EDT

    5,409 words Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8 Mitch gathers Melanie’s still unconscious body into his arms and carries her down the stairs. Lydia walks ahead of him, carrying an oil lamp. “Oh, poor thing! Poor thing!” she says. Her resentment toward Melanie now completely […]

  • When You’re Black, They Let You Name ‘Em

    Counter Currents - Jul 16th 2020 6:12pm EDT

    1,611 words Rapper Nick Cannon is the most unlikely person to be embroiled in an “anti-Semitism” controversy. Cannon gained popularity as a clean, family-friendly rapper. No one has ever mistaken him for hardcore or gangsta — he’s the nice rapper white families can listen to on their drive to church. His inoffensiveness and bourgeois image […]

  • The Book Sidebar is Active Again

    Counter Currents - Jul 16th 2020 11:04am EDT

    116 words In recent days, we have been made aware that the list of our titles on the sidebar has pointed towards dead links, leading to some confusion among our readers. We have restored all of these links back to working order, so you can browse our titles as usual again. A lot of work […]

  • Video of the Day: Greg Johnson & Fróði Midjord on The Concept of the Political

    Counter Currents - Jul 16th 2020 6:35am EDT

    101 words Greg Johnson joined Fróði Midjord on Guide to Kulchur for the first installment of a new series, First Principles, to discuss Carl Schmitt’s classic work The Concept of the Political. This episode streamed on both the official Guide to Kulchur YouTube and DLive channels, and you can watch the archived episode on BitChute. […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 281 Kevin MacDonald & Ricardo Duchesne

    Counter Currents - Jul 15th 2020 5:54pm EDT

    209 words / 1:44:42 To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” On the Counter-Currents Radio fundraiser livestream for July 12th, Greg Johnson is joined by special guests Kevin MacDonald and Ricardo Duchesne to discuss Kevin’s book Individualism and the Western […]

  • We Need a White Underground Railroad

    Counter Currents - Jul 15th 2020 11:48am EDT

    1,504 words On July 1st, 2020, what should have been a minor dust-up in a suburb of Detroit has become international news. As a result, it’s becoming clear that more and more whites are having their lives trampled upon by the self-destructive madness that’s been engulfing America in the After-Floyd Era. Eric and Jillian Wuestenberg, […]

  • Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition Part 8: Why Are Whites Canceling Each Other?

    Counter Currents - Jul 15th 2020 7:21am EDT

    Whites cleaning up the mess blacks made of Minneapolis. 1,582 words Do you know why Europeans across the political spectrum — liberals, conservatives, socialists — are morally committed to a politics that is leading to the dissolution of their millennial racial identities while promoting the racial identities of non-white immigrants within their own nations? There […]

  • You Know You’re Right

    Counter Currents - Jul 15th 2020 6:46am EDT

    Mars, ca. 2nd century AD. 2,096 words You are here because you are convinced of the rightness of your ideas. This is not meant in a specific, epistemological sense; as in, your ideas have been verified by some kind of universal truth or that they are backed by data drawn from rigor, though these things […]

  • Tucker Carlson & Blake Neff

    Counter Currents - Jul 14th 2020 5:05pm EDT

    1,236 words Over the weekend, there was a bit of a buzz around the announced “resignation” of Blake Neff, who worked for Tucker Carlson on Fox News as his head writer. A statement put out by Fox’s management suggested that Carlson would address the issue on Monday. Evidently, Carlson’s writer, Neff, had committed the Orwellian […]

  • A Case for Optimism

    Counter Currents - Jul 14th 2020 8:40am EDT

    Eli Lotar, Hôpital des Quinze-Vingts, 1928. 1,129 words Editor’s Note: The following is a subchapter from Wilmot Robertson’s book, The Ethnostate. It may provide some encouragement in these trying times. Pessimism is a vital ingredient of tragedy, which is the highest form of drama and the dominant theme in great literature, art, and music. No […]

  • Missing the Point

    Counter Currents - Jul 14th 2020 8:16am EDT

    969 words Jane JacobsDark Age Ahead New York: Random House (2004) Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) is best known as the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) and as the chief adversary of the soul-destroying activities of Robert Moses, the architect of New York City’s infamous “urban renewal” projects of the mid-twentieth […]

  • Kennedy’s Suppression of Right-Wing Speech

    Counter Currents - Jul 14th 2020 7:41am EDT

    1,837 words Paul Matzko [1]The Radio Right: How a Band of Broadcasters took on the Federal Government and Built the Modern Conservative Movement New York: Oxford University Press, 2020 The decade of the 1960s is laden with irony and contradictions. On the one hand, especially in the early days of the decade, there was the […]

  • Is Xenophilia a Mental Illness?

    Counter Currents - Jul 13th 2020 9:40am EDT

    1,583 words A Vice article published on Tuesday has reignited the debate over whether racism (or “pathological bias,” to use the clinical term proposed by psychiatrists) should be considered a mental illness and included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. In turn, I would like to raise the question of whether pathological […]

  • The Birds Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Eight

    Counter Currents - Jul 13th 2020 9:05am EDT

    5,468 words Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 At first, we hear the sound of birds singing. The sound is pretty and harmless. Is it the lovebirds in the kitchen? Then we hear fluttering and flapping. This grows louder and louder and the pretty singing of a […]

  • Welcome to Year 1 of the After-Floyd Era

    Counter Currents - Jul 13th 2020 7:08am EDT

    Detail, Pietr Bruegel the Elder, The Triumph of Death, 1562-1563. 1,683 words It feels like a slap in the face when you think you are living in interesting times, but then you realize, no. No, you were not. Those times, or really, our memories of those times which slowly evaporate even as they cling more […]

  • This Weekend’s Livestreams

    Counter Currents - Jul 11th 2020 11:15am EDT

    Kevin MacDonald speaks at the Scandza Forum Stockholm, May 20, 2017 130 words Saturday, July 11, at noon PST, 3 pm EST, 21:00 CET, Greg Johnson and Nicholas Jeelvy will join Fullmoon Ancestry on his Writers Bloc livestream on Dlive: https://dlive.tv/Fullmoon-ancestry. Sunday, July 12, at noon PST, 3 pm EST, 21:00 CET, Greg Johnson will […]

  • Remembering Carl Schmitt (July 11, 1888–April 7, 1985)

    Counter Currents - Jul 11th 2020 10:35am EDT

    Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985 1,036 words Carl Schmitt was born on July 11, 1888 in Plettenberg, Westphalia, Germany — where he died on April 7, 1985, at the age of 96. The son of a Roman Catholic small businessman, Carl Schmitt studied law in Berlin, Munich, and Strasbourg, graduating and taking his state exams in Strasbourg […]

  • Notes on Schmitt’s Crisis & Ours

    Counter Currents - Jul 10th 2020 4:11pm EDT

    Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985 3,994 words Like many of his books, Carl Schmitt’s The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (1923) is a slender volume packed with explosive ideas.[1] The title of the English translation is somewhat misleading. The German title, Die geistesgeschichtliche Lage des heutigen Parlamentarismus, is more literally rendered The Intellectual-Historical Position of Contemporary Parliamentarism. But […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2020 Fundraiser: The Summer of 2020

    Counter Currents - Jul 10th 2020 7:27am EDT

    1,447 words Are you having a good year? I am. This has been great fun for me. Our enemies are consolidating power in the open, unabashedly admitting their goals, lying and engaging in hypocrisy with abandon, displaying their trashy aesthetics, and frothing at the mouth with a hysterical rage that average whites are not going […]

  • Schmitt, the Man

    Counter Currents - Jul 10th 2020 6:34am EDT

    877 words If you search for Carl Schmitt on Counter-Currents, you’ll get a veritable deluge of articles written or inspired by this most eminent of German jurists. From my own humble attempts at applying his friend-enemy distinctions to American race relations, much grander thinkers’ treatments on the deeper aspects of Schmittean thought, and his own […]

  • The Politics of Meat: An Ecofascist Perspective

    Counter Currents - Jul 9th 2020 7:21pm EDT

    4,436 words Jef Costello’s recent articles concerning the “Carnivore Diet” inspired me to ponder a subject that I had neglected for some time: the ethics and politics of diet. As a student of ecological thought, particularly from a Rightist or traditionalist perspective, I am well-acquainted with the arguments concerning veganism, hunting, factory farming, and so […]

  • The Brief Life & Spectacular Death of Propertarianism

    Counter Currents - Jul 9th 2020 11:52am EDT

    971 words Online personalities Curt Doolittle and John Mark caused a stir in the nascent Propertarian community in early June 2020 by announcing a Founding Father’s Convention 2.0 in Richmond, Virginia, on July 4, 2020. Propertarianism is a phrase coined by Curt Doolittle, who saw his system of thought as an improvement upon the utopian […]