• What I Learned Running For Office

    Counter Currents - Mar 12th 2020 9:19am EDT

    3,603 words For the last two weeks, my time has been primarily occupied by an unsuccessful bid to become a member of Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia. Together with my fellow members of the national populist Boycott Movement, we endeavored to get on the ballot for the upcoming election in April as an independent […]

  • White Advocate Stands His Ground in Nebraska

    Counter Currents - Mar 12th 2020 9:18am EDT

    David Pringle 3,035 words Americans like to think that theirs is the greatest country in the world. And there was indeed a time when one could have made a fairly good case for that. But in looking at America today, it’s difficult to discern ways in which it could be called better than other developed […]

  • Remembering Gabriele D’Annunzio (March 12, 1863 — March 1, 1938)

    Counter Currents - Mar 12th 2020 7:36am EDT

    1,284 words Reviewing a story collection in 1925, an American critic compared Gabriele d’Annunzio’s influence on the Italian mindset to that of Rudyard Kipling in England. “[T]o understand him is to understand pre-war and immediately post-war Italy.” [1] That sort of remark is almost inaccessible to us today; when we think of the Great War, […]

  • A White Nationalist Take on St. Patrick’s Day

    Counter Currents - Mar 12th 2020 5:49am EDT

    1,202 words Richard Spencer says he hates St. Patrick’s Day. He seems to view it as a negation of white American identity, which he says is WASP identity. We’ll address that in a bit, but let’s first look at just who WASPs are and whether they are an elite or not. Among those earning over […]

  • Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young’s Déjà Vu

    Counter Currents - Mar 11th 2020 1:23pm EDT

    1,344 words Déjà Vu, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young’s first recording as a quartet, was released on this day, March 11th, in 1970. It was greeted with a mixed reception by critics at the time of its release, but has since come to be included in innumerable “best of” lists and is frequently cited as […]

  • The Ugly Truth Behind Beauty

    Counter Currents - Mar 11th 2020 10:43am EDT

    1,629 words It was tempting for me to write off this opinion piece from Elle as lightweight, semi-feminist pap. That, of course, was my first thought, judging from its precious and angst-ridden title: “There’s Nothing Effortless About Being A Woman — And I’m Done Pretending Otherwise.” Not surprisingly, reading the article did reinforce this impression. […]

  • The Korean Burden: Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings

    Counter Currents - Mar 11th 2020 10:06am EDT

    1,510 words Cathy Park Hong Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning New York: One World, 2020 Is it really wise to allow the immigration of people who find it so difficult and painful to assimilate into the American majority? — Peter Brimelow It would take a heart of stone to read the self-absorbed, neurotic words […]

  • Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition Part 3: The Origins of the Weird Whites

    Counter Currents - Mar 11th 2020 9:05am EDT

    2,069 words The essence of liberalism is individualism, and the primordial evolutionary fact of individualism is the “the cutting-off from the wider kinship group,” and the origins of this cutting-off can be traced back to Northern hunter-gatherers in Europe during the last glacial age in the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods. This argument becomes transparent […]

  • Counter-Currents Under Attack

    Counter Currents - Mar 10th 2020 12:11pm EDT

    1,100 words Once again, Counter-Currents is without a credit card processor. But it’s worse than ever, folks. We have not been dropped by our credit card processor. In fact, when the usual suspects pressured them to drop their dissident clients, they stood by us. So instead, our enemies managed to put our credit card processor […]

  • Queen of the AWFLs

    Counter Currents - Mar 10th 2020 11:27am EDT

    1,165 words Affluent white female liberals (AWFLs) suffered their own personal 9/11 last week. Their queen Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the presidential race. The news was greeted with much wailing and gnashing of teeth. There is now not a single viable female candidate in the race for president. (Tulsi Gabbard is still in the […]

  • La Dolce Vita

    Counter Currents - Mar 10th 2020 10:54am EDT

    966 words “What is in store for my children tomorrow?” — Steiner, from the movie La Dolce Vita (1961) I was staying in Neive, a tiny red-roofed Piedmont village caught in a time-warp, where the traditions and ingrained habits of centuries, like the rolling vine-clad hills, remain unchanged. True, there was the internet, mobile phones, […]

  • A Tear For Argos & Ivar

    Counter Currents - Mar 10th 2020 4:39am EDT

    Emil Doepler, Heimdall an der Himmelsbrücke, 1905. 1,641 words As I have gotten older, certain events always seem to bring up specific memories and thoughts. This last week, I have struggled to fall asleep as I kept thinking about Homer’s Odyssey. The scene in question is when Odysseus returns home in disguise, only to see […]

  • Democracy Dies in Darkness

    Counter Currents - Mar 9th 2020 12:19pm EDT

    1,183 words The Democratic Party is profoundly stupid. The unholy alliance of neoliberal oligarchs and neoconservative Jews that constitute the American ruling class, armed with the cudgel of POC puppets (or as Tucker Carlson referred to them, “a constellation of aggrieved interest groups animated by their hostility to traditional Americans. . . united in their […]

  • Treason Uncloaked: Jordan & Stokes’ From Major Jordan’s Diaries

    Counter Currents - Mar 9th 2020 11:57am EDT

    2,886 words George Racey Jordan & Richard L. Stokes From Major Jordan’s Diaries New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1952 Increasing numbers of the public realize the government doesn’t always work the way their civics classes taught. A government is only as good as the politicians and bureaucrats running it. There’s been much discussion about […]

  • It’s the Population, Stupid: Gunnar Heinsohn’s Söhne & Weltmacht

    Counter Currents - Mar 9th 2020 11:05am EDT

    4,564 words Gunnar Heinsohn Söhne und Weltmacht: Terror im Aufstieg und Fall der Nationen Zürich, Switzerland: Orell Füssli Verlag, 2020 (2003) Robert Malthus’s essay on population growth is widely known and widely refuted, mostly by commentators who have not read it. In his Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus argued that population growth undermined […]

  • A Few More Spankings Needed: Edward Dutton’s Churchill’s Headmaster

    Counter Currents - Mar 9th 2020 9:31am EDT

    2,580 words Edward Dutton Churchill’s Headmaster: The “Sadist” Who Nearly Saved the British Empire Melbourne, Australia: Manticore Press, 2019 I recently discovered Edward Dutton when I listened to a series of Scandza Forum talks on an internet video service. Needless to say, I was intrigued by what he had to say, so I picked up […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 264 Unapologetic Nationalism:Fróði Midjord on the Baltic States

    Counter Currents - Mar 6th 2020 3:24pm EST

    71 words / 56:35 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 Fróði Midjord about his travels in the Baltic states, where he spoke at two nationalist youth conferences and took part in two torchlight independence marches. […]

  • 50 Years of “Cat Food”

    Counter Currents - Mar 6th 2020 11:43am EST

    705 words King Crimson’s “Cat Food” was originally released in 1970. It’s a chaotic, piano-centric slice of pop fun that helped cement King Crimson’s image in the eyes of the public as being capable of more than dreary ruminations on dying or losing your mind, as their highly-acclaimed 1969 album In the Court of the […]

  • The Talented Mr. Ripley & Purple Noon

    Counter Currents - Mar 6th 2020 9:35am EST

    1,901 words Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) has been one of my favorite films since I saw it on the big screen while living in darkest Atlanta. A few years later, post-red pill, I bought the DVD and was struck anew at the brilliance of the script, performances, and direction. But I was […]

  • The 2020 US Presidential Race So Far

    Counter Currents - Mar 5th 2020 5:58pm EST

    1,617 words For decades how, White Nationalists have been telling Republicans that unless they halt the demographic decline of white America, their party is doomed, and the Democrats will create a one-party state. There will come a time when all the Republican conventional wisdom — which, after all, is based on elections in a predominantly […]

  • Sorry, Bernie Bros; Joe Biden Is Your Nominee

    Counter Currents - Mar 5th 2020 9:47am EST

    1,541 words Former Vice President Joe Biden is now all but assured the Democratic nomination. His campaign appeared dead just a few days ago, and Bernie Sanders was thought unstoppable. Now only an unexpected disaster can stop Uncle Joe. Biden won ten of the contests Tuesday night, exceeding even the most optimistic predictions. The only […]

  • Fróði Midjord and Gemma Kits: Rekindling Native Spirituality

    Counter Currents - Mar 5th 2020 9:22am EST

    207 words After his speech at this year’s Etnofutur Conference in Tallinn, Estonia, Fróði Midjord sat down with Gemma Kits, a young Estonian nationalist and fellow speaker at the conference to discuss native Estonian spirituality, traditions, and what it means to be an Estonian. If you liked this interview, be sure to subscribe to the […]

  • The Three Faces of the Joker

    Counter Currents - Mar 5th 2020 8:09am EST

    2,872 words One of my earliest memories of the theatre is a Christmas play about Santa Claus teaming up with Batman and Robin to protect Christmas from the Joker. I am near certain that none of the ticket proceeds went to DC, as it was staged in the early 90s in the former Yugoslavia. Even […]

  • Death in June’s The Rule of Thirds

    Counter Currents - Mar 4th 2020 12:31pm EST

    1,784 words Released 12 years ago yesterday, March 3rd, 2008, Death in June’s The Rule of Thirds is a somber and introspective record that tussles with the concepts of aging and death, love lost, and the decay of the surrounding world. It’s recorded in the characteristic stripped-back, solemn, guitar-centric style of Douglas Pearce, Death in […]

  • Richard Weaver’s The Ethics of Rhetoric

    Counter Currents - Mar 4th 2020 7:17am EST

    2,309 words Richard Weaver The Ethics of Rhetoric Muriwai Books, 2017 (1953). The great task that lies ahead of us is to persuade our people of the rightness of our ideas. It behooves us, then, to study the art of rhetoric, or persuasion. Richard Weaver’s The Ethics of Rhetoric is a rigorous and intelligent introduction […]