• 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 […]

  • Richard Weaver’s Ideas & Their Consequences

    Counter Currents - Mar 3rd 2020 12:09pm EST

    7,566 words Richard M. Weaver Ideas Have Consequences Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948 Expanded edition, with a Foreword by Roger Kimball and an Afterword by Ted J. Smith III, 2013. The defeat of logical realism in the great medieval debate was the crucial event in the history of Western culture …. There is no […]

  • Richard Weaver’s The Southern Tradition at Bay

    Counter Currents - Mar 3rd 2020 10:48am EST

    Richard Weaver The Southern Tradition at Bay: A History of Postbellum Thought New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1968 4,501 words Richard Weaver’s The Southern Tradition at Bay has grown in both poignancy and meaning since its posthumous publishing in 1968. Originally Weaver’s 1943 doctoral dissertation at Louisiana State University, this work offers a survey […]

  • Remembering Richard M. Weaver:March 3, 1910–April 1, 1963

    Counter Currents - Mar 3rd 2020 10:03am EST

    Richard M. Weaver 616 words America wasn’t always a liberal country. The founders drew more upon classical republicanism than liberalism. In the nineteenth century, the populist movement was decidedly anti-liberal. But the founders and the populists were never consistently anti-liberal, because consistency is the province of intellectuals, not statesmen. America never had a genuinely anti-liberal […]

  • Dixie Musings: The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver

    Counter Currents - Mar 3rd 2020 8:59am EST

    1,582 words Richard M. Weaver Edited by George M. Curtis, III and James J. Thompson, Jr. The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Fund, 1987 Richard Weaver is known for two notable ideas that need to be emphasized. First, he proposed that there is an objective truth, not many truths. Second, he […]

  • Searching for Transcendentals and True Knowledge: The Enduring Legacy of Richard M. Weaver’s Ideas Have Consequences

    Counter Currents - Mar 3rd 2020 7:55am EST

    1,937 words There are great thinkers, and then there are great thinkers whose prescience is so acute that they seem to operate on a precognitive, almost prophetic level. Included among the latter category is Richard M. Weaver (1910-1963). Weaver was a professor of English at the University of Chicago when the humanities were taken seriously, […]

  • Vision Quest

    Counter Currents - Mar 2nd 2020 6:51am EST

    905 words I recently went with a friend to deliver some groceries to a guy who had a medical problem and couldn’t get to the store. We went to this person’s house and found him on his couch, watching The Breakfast Club on video. He was in his late thirties. His overall style was “hipster.” […]

  • Why Mainstream Critics Love Parasite

    Counter Currents - Mar 2nd 2020 6:40am EST

    1,204 words Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite swept the Oscars ceremony this year, winning the awards for Best Picture (the first foreign-language film to earn the award), Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film. It has been hailed as the best film of 2019 and currently enjoys a 99% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 263 Nostalgia for a Lost Future:A Conversation with Xurious

    Counter Currents - Feb 28th 2020 10:46am EST

    215 words / 70:38 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 composer Xurious about his intellectual, political, and artistic journey and the censorship of his music by YouTube. 0:00: Introduction 1:46: With Open Gates: The Forced […]