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  • Return to Charlottesville

    Counter Currents - Aug 12th 2025 7:54am EDT

    2,211 words Deborah Baker Charlottesville: An American Story Graywolf Press (Minneapolis), 2025 I’d like to report that this hefty book (480pp but feels more like 840) offers some new findings and insights about the events leading up to the Charlottesville ruckus of August 12, 2017. [1] Which it does. But alas, the author is easily […]

  • Immigration and the LA Riots

    Counter Currents - Aug 11th 2025 10:51am EDT

    2,857 words In response to this summer’s migrant riots in Los Angeles and elsewhere we launched a poll on immigration. Some of these questions are from previous polls to track how public opinion is evolving while others are new questions. The Homeland Institute polled 946 respondents who are politically and demographically representative of white, non-Hispanic […]

  • The Geopolitical Ghost of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

    Counter Currents - Aug 11th 2025 8:25am EDT

    3,891 words The greatest ongoing tragedy of the 21st century is the Ukraine War. The war was and is utterly unnecessary. Its violence could have been avoided with a vote to divide or not divide Ukraine along ethnolinguistic lines using the Schleswig-Holstein Plebiscite of 1920 as a model. This, however, didn’t happen. Russia’s leader and […]

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  • Gunnar Goes to the Big City

    Counter Currents - Aug 11th 2025 7:08am EDT

    1,462 words I found myself in a picturesque tourist trap during my mini-holiday at the end of July. I was traveling with some compatriots who were keen on visiting all of the antique shops and pseudo-artisanal stores in Niagara-on-the-Lake. There were dozens and dozens of shops that stocked various wares and knick-knacks, glass trinkets, gewgaws, […]

  • Editor’s Update

    Counter Currents - Aug 8th 2025 2:06pm EDT

    You can order Johnson’s Novel Takes: Essays on Literature, available for order here 197 words 1. The Counter-Currents 2025 Fundraiser I am pleased to announce that, thanks to a generous donor, we have a new $10,000 matching grant to get our fundraiser out of the summer slump. We are very grateful, as we are to […]

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  • Overcoming the Will to Live: An Introduction to Schopenhauer Part 1

    Counter Currents - Aug 8th 2025 4:51am EDT

    3,606 words Schopenhauer as Lebensphilosoph This introduction to the thought of Arthur Schopenhauer is not, strictly speaking, a part of the series on “Heidegger’s history of metaphysics” that I have been writing now for almost five years. The reason is that Heidegger had little use for Schopenhauer, and not a lot to say about him. […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Craze Part 3

    Counter Currents - Aug 7th 2025 12:03pm EDT

    You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Reactionary Modernism here. 4,559 words Part 3 of 5 Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi In 1995, Jonathan Bowden self-published his Collected Works in 6 volumes (London: Avant-Garde, 1995), edited by Jürgen Schwartz, one of Bowden’s pen names. The six volumes comprise 27 distinct books, 12 of which had […]

  • KM Breakey’s Britain on the Brink

    Counter Currents - Aug 7th 2025 9:20am EDT

    1,818 words K.M. Breakey Britain on the Brink Independently published “They say I’m radicalized,” said Ozzie, as if reading Jack’s mind. “Bollocks. I’m de-programmed, that’s all. I see the world as it is. I’m no bloody criminal. I’m a patriot who’s had enough.” *** Serial fiction has always been a great way to preserve not […]

  • Who Needs Law School Anyway?

    Counter Currents - Aug 7th 2025 7:22am EDT

    1,730 words The Left has many centers of gravity but few have been as singularly pernicious as the legal profession. The subject of judicial hostility could fill several books, but suffice it to say that the legal system is completely out of control, and has been for some time, although in the past they were […]

  • The Great White Noticing

    Counter Currents - Aug 6th 2025 8:09am EDT

    1,510 words A confluence of catastrophes has led to a repudiation of the existing order by many who would otherwise have been silent, apathetic, or unaware. More people have started to pick up on things as the Great Noticing is at hand. Everything that the system has taught us is a lie. The only thing […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 648 Kevin MacDonald

    Counter Currents - Aug 6th 2025 8:00am EDT

    166 words / 1:44:44 Kevin MacDonald makes another appearance on Counter-Currents Radio to talk about the controversial influence of the Israel lobby as well as listener questions. The episode is now available to download or listen to here. Topics include: 1:15 – The pattern of Jewish power rising followed by a reaction against it. 8:58 […]

  • The Occult Roots of Wokeism The Lost History of the Frankfurt School

    Counter Currents - Aug 5th 2025 1:21pm EDT

    2,129 words Introduction Wokeism In right-wing circles, the term “wokeism” has acquired a pejorative meaning. It roughly stands for everything we see as undermining the social fabric of our white nations, from aggressive feminism to genitals chopping gender ideology, from imposing eternal white guilt to opening the floodgates of mass immigration. However, anyone who ventures […]

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  • Slavery and Native Americans

    Counter Currents - Aug 5th 2025 11:29am EDT

    1,164 words Americans today express a deep fascination with the history of slavery, particularly the enslavement of Africans by white Americans. This is a critical chapter of national memory, debated in schools, portrayed in films, and analyzed in countless academic and political arenas. However, this attention is uneven. While the plantation slavery of the American […]

  • The Union Jackal Summer 2025

    Counter Currents - Aug 5th 2025 6:49am EDT

    3,415 words Sign from the protests in Epping. A Very Civil War With Britain inching closer to mass civil unrest, it is worth dusting off the only sensible thing 1990s Conservative Prime Minister John Major ever said. Major was placed in Downing Street to placate a Tory Party – and a seething public – after […]

  • Knut Hamsun’s Segelfoss Town

    Counter Currents - Aug 4th 2025 10:13am EDT

    1,221 words If there is a main theme running through Knut Hamsun’s most well-known stories, it’s that corruption is sweet, and it can strip away a person’s innocence if that person is not careful. Writing his major works from the 1890s through to the 1920s, Hamsun places his readers on the cusp of modernity as […]

  • Blue Movies, Brown Actors

    Counter Currents - Aug 4th 2025 9:34am EDT

    3,614 words As a child, I used to enjoy being taken each year to visit the north-west English seaside town of Blackpool, where the annual Blackpool Illuminations event brought in visitors from all across the country to peer in wonder at displays of large novelty colored light-bulbs hanging like magic fairy-lanterns in the glistening night […]

  • Iron & Soil: Journey Through the Battle for Ukraine 10

    Counter Currents - Aug 4th 2025 6:49am EDT

    1,117 words All parts here. After witnessing the depths of hell, Kyiv rises like a heavenly fortress on the banks of the Dnipro, majestic and unwavering. Grand colonnades stand proudly, new white high-rises shine with clean lines and balanced elegance, their tasteful cornices catching the light. Golden domes gleam in the sun, recalling the splendor […]

  • Editor’s Update

    Counter Currents - Aug 1st 2025 6:35pm EDT

    262 words 1. This Saturday on Counter-Currents Radio: Greg Johnson welcomes Kevin MacDonald back to Counter-Currents Radio to get some historical perspective on the ongoing crackup of Jewish power. Have Jews passed an inflection point since October 7, 2023, and is their power on its way down? We will also take your questions.Join us at […]

  • Why Men Love Dogs

    Counter Currents - Aug 1st 2025 7:55am EDT

    2,483 words There is a unique bond between men and dogs. Men will lavish affection on their dogs that they will not display toward their own children. Talking baby talk to dogs is easy for men, but talking baby talk to babies is often a bridge too far. Men will mourn the death of a dog […]

  • Raw Egg Autopilot: No Eggs? No Problem!

    Counter Currents - Aug 1st 2025 7:23am EDT

    1,760 words Editor’s Note: This article is apropos of Greg Johnson’s recent comment that Raw Egg Nationalist’s essay “Stick to Being a Hobbit” would have been better if written by AI.  The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by […]

  • Purifying American History 2

    Counter Currents - Jul 31st 2025 9:14am EDT

    3,361 words Part 1 Roosevelt on Reconstruction Roosevelt takes aim at the idea, present in the standard story of American history, that the Union victory and subsequent Reconstruction was “a process of better realizing founding ideals, through the process of change set out in the Founders’ Constitution.” He instead argues that “We would do better […]

  • We and Film

    Counter Currents - Jul 31st 2025 8:56am EDT

    “Cinematography is the most powerful weapon” Translated by Ondrej Mann. Films have played a significant role in shaping the 20th century man and continue to do so today. We have therefore decided to identify some trends, titles, and names in cinema that a “man of a certain type” should be familiar with. “We” and Film […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 647 Josh Neal Returns

    Counter Currents - Jul 31st 2025 7:56am EDT

    88 words / 2:02:29 Josh Neal returned to Counter-Currents Radio to discuss the first six months of Trump’s second term, current things, and listener questions. Topics include: 3:07 – Josh Neal’s views on Trump in general and on his second term. 14:00 – The online consent manufacturing machine (Alt ZOG). 40:53 – Reclaiming classic books […]

  • Purifying American History

    Counter Currents - Jul 30th 2025 9:38am EDT

    3,123 words Kermit Roosevelt III The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story University of Chicago Press, 2022 On the first night of September of 2022, President Joe Biden delivered a speech in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, outside of Independence Hall, the building where the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776 and where the Constitutional Convention […]

  • On the Essence of Europeanism: Excellence or Evil?

    Counter Currents - Jul 30th 2025 6:52am EDT

    1,669 words Ricardo Duchesne Greatness and Ruin: Self-Reflection and Universalism Within European Civilization Antelope Hill Publishing, 2025 Everyone agrees that we Europeans are distinct from (and therefore stand out amongst) the other members of our species. Where the disagreement begins is when we attempt to apprehend the precise nature and substance of this difference. Those […]