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  • 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 […]

  • America’s Health Fix: Case & Deaton’s Deaths of Despair, Part II

    Counter Currents - Jun 25th 2020 9:10am EDT

    Anne Case and Angus Deaton. 3,201 words Part I When Purdue Pharmaceutical introduced OxyContin, their marketing for the drug was aggressive, efficient, unscrupulous, and amoral. Resources were poured into advertising; the company spent $200 million on marketing in 2001. Sales grew from $48 million in 1996 to $1.1 billion in 2000, according to information revealed […]

  • America’s Health Fix: Case & Deaton’s Deaths of Despair, Part II

    Counter Currents - Jun 25th 2020 9:10am EDT

    Anne Case and Angus Deaton. 3,201 words Part I When Purdue Pharmaceutical introduced OxyContin, their marketing for the drug was aggressive, efficient, unscrupulous, and amoral. Resources were poured into advertising; the company spent $200 million on marketing in 2001. Sales grew from $48 million in 1996 to $1.1 billion in 2000, according to information revealed […]

  • The War On Whites In Advertising

    Counter Currents - May 16th 2020 12:08pm EDT

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  • How Coronavirus Will Change the World

    Counter Currents - Mar 18th 2020 2:45pm EDT

    1,664 words Coronavirus is going to change the world. I just hope that I live to see it, along with the people I care about. I call the Coronavirus the “Globalvirus,” because globalism is the underlying condition that made it all possible. Liberals are gloating about the possibility that Donald Trump and members of his […]

  • Jim Acosta’s News Flash

    Counter Currents - Mar 18th 2020 11:10am EDT

    1,309 words After President Trump’s speech on Friday, Jim Acosta, the “poisonous moron” as Tucker Carlson calls him, announced it xenophobic for President Trump to state that COVID-19 came from China. Acosta was on Chris (don’t call me Frodo, you cracker) Cuomo’s show at CNN’s anti-Trump headquarters when he made the statement. Cuomo, not to […]

  • The Last Words of Yukio Mishima to his Followers

    Counter Currents - Mar 18th 2020 8:35am EDT

    Translated by Riki Rei. 580 words To the members of Tatenokai, Among you there are both those who have stayed with us consistently since the founding of our organization and those of the fifth class who have been with us for only nine months. Yet as far as I’m concerned, regardless of the degrees of […]

  • Reaction is Best Served Cold

    Counter Currents - Mar 18th 2020 7:26am EDT

    1,108 words As the old Sicilian saying goes: don’t get angry — get even. I believe that everyone reading is familiar with the idea that revenge is a dish best served cold. Rage makes us stupid; anger drives us to make mistakes, waltz into traps set by our enemies, and go on embarrassing rants about […]

  • Don’t Learn This From the Germans

    Counter Currents - Mar 17th 2020 8:11am EDT

    2,022 words Susan Neiman Learning From the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil Farrar, Straus, and Giroux: New York, 2019 Germans are notorious for their ethno-masochism. Their official identity is built on guilt and the need for atonement. Germans can only look back at their past with shame; pride is impossible. More Germans are […]

  • Reflecting on Anita Bryant

    Counter Currents - Mar 17th 2020 7:43am EDT

    2,476 words Anita Bryant The Anita Bryant Story: The Survival of our Nation’s Families and the Threat of Militant Homosexuality Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1977 The culture wars of the 1970s deserve considerable study. One of the cultural warriors was Anita Bryant. When I saw a used copy of her book […]

  • The Lion, the Elf, & the Quarantine

    Counter Currents - Mar 17th 2020 7:40am EDT

    Turku Castle, Finland 1,449 words When King Gustav Adolf II of Sweden visited Turku Castle in 1614, a fire broke out around the complex, destroying one of the area’s oldest medieval sites. Left in ruins, the abandoned castle would become the setting of Zachris Topelius’s novel The Tomten of Åbo Castle (Åbo being the Swedish […]

  • Elle King’s Love Stuff & Shake the Spirit

    Counter Currents - Mar 17th 2020 7:37am EDT

    2,243 words Tanner Elle Schneider, better known by her stage name Elle King, is an up-and-coming musician in the genre of American roots music. Her specific style has several influences, the confluence of which arrives at a triple point between rock, country, and blues. The overall effect often is a bit hypnotic. Her singing voice […]

  • The WASP in the Wilderness

    Counter Currents - Mar 16th 2020 11:38am EDT

    3,121 words Despite their many social ills, one might judge the decades prior to World War I to be the last period of sanity in the West. It was truly the last epoch in American history in which the values of old Europe still held any sway, when criticism of modernity by men of the […]

  • Fróði Midjord & Ruuben Kaalep: Defending a Modern Ethnostate

    Counter Currents - Mar 16th 2020 10:04am EDT

    211 words Fróði Midjord sits down with Ruuben Kaalep, a member of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu) for EKRE, the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia (Eesti Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond) for an interview inside of the chambers of Estonia’s Parliament building in Tallinn. Kaalep is also the leader of EKRE’s youth wing, known as Sinine Ӓratus, or Blue […]

  • Is Coronavirus the Wrath of God?

    Counter Currents - Mar 16th 2020 7:49am EDT

    John Martin, The Great Day of His Wrath, 1853. 2,901 words The epidemic began in Australia and spread from there to other countries. I am referring to the panic buying of toilet paper. Aussies were even brawling over it. Don’t bother to ask why, at least not if you are looking for a rational explanation. […]

  • Burzum’s Thulêan Mysteries

    Counter Currents - Mar 13th 2020 1:06pm EDT

    2,232 words Thulêan Mysteries is the 13th album released by infamous Varg Vikernes under his working name Burzum. Mysteries comes after Vikernes previously stated that he was finished recording under the Burzum name. To that effect, Mysteries is a collection of tracks that Vikernes has been working on since his last album that were not […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 264 Four French Collaborationists:Châteaubriant, Céline, Drieu, Brasillach

    Counter Currents - Mar 13th 2020 9:56am EDT

    Alphonse de Châteaubriant 369 words / 58:30 To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” This is a lost London Forum talk by Michael Walker on four French artists of the Right: Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, […]

  • 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 […]