• Today’s Livestream: Carl Schmitt’s The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy & Our Crisis Today

    Counter Currents - Jul 5th 2020 10:23am EDT

    Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985 109 words Sunday, July 5, at noon PST, 3 pm EST, 20:00 GMT, 21:00 CET, Greg Johnson will do a livestream with special guest Nicholas Jeelvy on the Counter-Currents DLive channel: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents The subject will be Carl Schmitt’s The Criss of Parliamentary Democracy — and our crisis today. These livestreams are not just to […]

  • Charles Ives, American Composer

    Counter Currents - Jul 4th 2020 9:05am EDT

    3,095 words Today is a fitting occasion to celebrate the works of Charles Ives (October 20, 1874–May 19, 1954), one of America’s greatest composers. In true American fashion, Ives was an iconoclast who combined old-world influences with adventurous musical experimentation and the sounds of his small-town New England childhood. He could justly be called the […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2020 Fundraiser July Fourth Streamathon with Jim Goad

    Counter Currents - Jul 3rd 2020 1:42pm EDT

    777 words Saturday, July 4, at noon PST, 3 pm EST, 20:00 GMT, 21:00 CET, Greg Johnson will celebrate Black Trans Independence Day with an Ask Me Anything livestream with special guest Jim Goad on the Counter-Currents DLive channel: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents Topics include: Jim’s books Whiteness: The Original Sin & The Bomb Inside My Brain Jim […]

  • Awakening the Saxon

    Counter Currents - Jul 3rd 2020 9:09am EDT

    1,046 words The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon Rudyard Kipling It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Saxon began to hate. They were not easily moved, They were icy — willing to wait Till every count should be proved, Ere the […]

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

    Counter Currents - Jul 3rd 2020 8:30am EDT

    5,283 words Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 With the gulls now retreating, Mitch and Melanie leave the Tides restaurant and make their way up the hill to Annie’s house to retrieve Cathy. All is deathly quiet. As they approach the schoolhouse, they see that the crows are back […]

  • Everyone Hates Woodrow Wilson

    Counter Currents - Jul 2nd 2020 10:24am EDT

    1,363 words Woodrow Wilson once stood as a hero to modern progressives. The 28th president’s moral idealism, disregard for constitutional fealty, and belief in the goodness of “big government” endeared him to liberals of the Barack Obama era. Commentators positively noted the similarities between Wilson and Obama — both were professors, both were self-professed intellectuals, […]

  • The End of the Frontier

    Counter Currents - Jul 2nd 2020 8:54am EDT

    1,963 words Greg GrandinThe End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2019 In this excellent and quick-to-read book about the border wall and its place in history, Greg Grandin builds upon the work of historian Frederic Jackson Turner (1861–1932). At […]

  • Self-Deception

    Counter Currents - Jul 2nd 2020 7:49am EDT

    2,248 words No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Ever since I was a young buck, observing American politics from afar, watching with great intensity this greatest theatrical show on the […]

  • Sign Up for Our Newsletter

    Counter Currents - Jul 2nd 2020 6:15am EDT

    85 words In addition to our monthly newsletter which is published on our front page, Counter-Currents is creating an email-only newsletter that will go out every two weeks. This newsletter will highlight recent online publications, announce new books, advertise sales, and also offer some exclusive content. If you want to receive this newsletter, please join […]

  • The Counter-Currents Newsletter, June 2020

    Counter Currents - Jul 1st 2020 8:45am EDT

    1,600 words Dear Friends of Counter-Currents, In June, Counter-Currents celebrated its tenth anniversary of going online. Since our planned birthday party in New York City was canceled due to the pandemic, we had a three-hour birthday livestream instead, with an amazing list of guests: Kevin MacDonald, Jim Goad, Sam Dickson, Mark Weber, Mark Collett, Ricardo Duchesne, […]

  • High and Low

    Counter Currents - Jul 1st 2020 7:02am EDT

    1,719 words Like most Westerners, I got to know Akira Kurosawa through his classic samurai films: Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Kagemusha, and Ran. Thus I was surprised to discover that fully half of his thirty films are actually set in contemporary Japan over the stretch of Kurosawa’s long lifetime […]

  • Poslední slova Jukia Mišimy k příslušníkům Společenství štítu

    Counter Currents - Jun 30th 2020 11:53am EDT

    473 words Original English translation here. Příslušníkům Tatenokai (Společenství štítu): Mezi vámi vidím jak mnohé z těch, kdo s námi neochvějně jsou už od založení organizace, tak členy páté třídy, kteří jsou s námi teprve devět měsíců. Přesto jsme, alespoň co se mne týče, bez ohledu na míru vašich zkušeností či zapojení, všichni druhy, spojenými identitou přesahující […]

  • The Handshake

    Counter Currents - Jun 30th 2020 8:16am EDT

    832 words Editor’s Note: Charles Krafft sent this piece to me in the Spring of 2014 for Counter-Currents, but I was in the process of a trans-continental move, so it slipped through the cracks. My thanks to PB for sending me his copy.   Young artists, covered in tattoos sporting half a haircut, come up to […]

  • Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition Part 7: White Maladaptive Altruism

    Counter Currents - Jun 30th 2020 7:29am EDT

    Benjamin Haydon, The Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840, 1841. 5,142 words The white race is uniquely altruistic. Why? This is a very difficult question to answer. It is easy to understand altruistic behavior for the benefit of one’s family members. This is common among animals. Mother bears will put their lives in danger to protect their cubs […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 278 What Would We Do With a Billion Dollars & Other Reader Questions

    Counter Currents - Jun 30th 2020 6:09am EDT

    Laura Towler 140 words / 1:57:06 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 Sunday, June 28, Greg Johnson and special guest Laura Towler discuss your questions and other topics, including: What would we […]

  • Does Bolton Speak the Truth About Trump?

    Counter Currents - Jun 29th 2020 8:02am EDT

    2,496 words A couple of years ago I had a disturbing dream about Donald Trump. In the dream, I was working in the White House as some kind of staffer and had occasion to enter the Oval Office to inform President Trump about something. As I stood before the President’s desk, I noticed that he […]

  • Try, Try, Try Again

    Counter Currents - Jun 29th 2020 7:16am EDT

    1,482 words On the 15th of September, 1938, UK Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain famously flew across the English Channel (overcoming his fear of flying) for the monumental purpose of meeting Adolf Hitler at the Berghof in order to avert the Sudetenland crisis, and hopefully (yet futilely) avoid plunging Europe into a Second World War. Upon […]

  • Today’s Counter-Currents Radio Livestrean with Special Guest Laura Towler

    Counter Currents - Jun 28th 2020 12:13pm EDT

    Laura Towler 97 words Sunday, June 28, at noon PST, 3 pm EST, 20:00 GMT, 21:00 CET, Greg Johnson will do an Ask Me Anything livestream with special guest Laura Towler on the Counter-Currents DLive channel: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents These livestreams are not just to inform and entertain. They are also fundraisers. If you wish to send […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2020 Fundraiser The Counter-Currents Fundraiser Streamathon

    Counter Currents - Jun 26th 2020 1:02pm EDT

    Changes are afoot. 804 words Changes are afoot with Counter-Currents Radio. Instead of our pre-recorded podcasts airing on Fridays, Greg Johnson is now doing weekend livesstreams on Saturday and Sunday. The Saturday livestreams will be with Fullmoon Ancestry and Nicholas Jeelvy on The Writers’ Bloc. The Sunday livestreams will be Counter-Currents Radio programs with featured […]

  • In Defense of Racist Liberalism

    Counter Currents - Jun 26th 2020 12:57pm EDT

    1,876 words Give me racist liberalism, or give me death! — Patrick Henry, probably. To be in the Dissident Right is to be part of an informal initiatic society. There are various levels of being with it — there’s always another redpill to take. Kids on the internet keep talking about the “ultimate redpill.” I […]

  • March 1917 in June 2020

    Counter Currents - Jun 26th 2020 10:07am EDT

    3,515 words A recurring theme in Book 1 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s March 1917 — or Node III of his vast Red Wheel opus — is “this could have been prevented.” Of course, this refers to the first successful communist revolution in Russia, which took place in March 1917 (or in February, according to the Julian […]

  • Now in Print & Shipping!The World in Flames:The Shorter Writings of Francis Parker Yockey

    Counter Currents - Jun 26th 2020 9:00am EDT

    1,370 words We are pleased to announce that the limited hardcover edition of Francis Parker Yockey’s The World in Flames: The Shorter Writings of Francis Parker Yockey is now in print and it is being shipped from the factory. We will start mailing copies to purchasers this week. Note: If your address has changed since […]

  • Strange & Bitter Fruit

    Counter Currents - Jun 25th 2020 4:40pm EDT

    1,215 words Six black people have been found dead, hanging from trees, during the month of June so far. They were all ruled as suicides by local police. Black people refuse to believe that’s true, of course. The circumstances of these deaths too closely resemble the lynchings of yesteryear, right down to the surrounding social […]

  • Abrajano & Hajnal’s White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics

    Counter Currents - Jun 25th 2020 10:02am EDT

    2,222 words Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan HajnalWhite Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015 In the act of reading race-related studies by Leftist social scientists, it can be hard to stomach their dégagé anti-whiteness. Jared Taylor, for example, in his review of a 2015 book, White Backlash, by Marisa Abrajano and […]

  • Abrajano & Hajnal’s White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics

    Counter Currents - Jun 25th 2020 10:02am EDT

    2,222 words Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan HajnalWhite Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015 In the act of reading race-related studies by Leftist social scientists, it can be hard to stomach their dégagé anti-whiteness. Jared Taylor, for example, in his review of a 2015 book, White Backlash, by Marisa Abrajano and […]