1,556 words Rage Against the Machine is going on a reunion tour. How unexpected! The highlight of this roadshow, which they are calling the “Public Service Announcement” Tour, will be a series of dates played in or near infamous American border towns like San Antonio, Las Cruces, Phoenix, and the band’s hometown of Los Angeles. […]
1,063 words Although he was a supporter of President Obama, Henry Louis Gates Jr. did the President no favor when Gates made a scene and was arrested by a Massachusetts cop in 2009. Obama unwisely commented on the matter and had to hold a “beer summit” to smooth things over later. The cost of Gates’s […]
Janice Drew, Vandalized Plymouth Rock 1,310 words The Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock 400 years ago. Sadly for the occasion, unknown vandals defaced the actual Plymouth rock and other monuments dedicated to the Pilgrims’ arrival. It’s unclear who’s responsible for this week’s vandalism, but the act itself symbolizes the growing contempt for the settlers. The […]
3,217 words William A. Galston Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018 “It is time for an open and robust debate on issues of immigration, identity politics, and nationalism that liberals and progressives have long avoided.”—William Galston Galston is right. I will debate any liberal or progressive about these […]
1,400 words Richard Rudgley The Return of Odin: The Modern Renaissance of Pagan Imagination Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2018 Richard Rudgley is a British author who has published several books offering unconventional interpretations of the ancient and prehistorical eras of Northern European history, as well as works on psychedelics. In 2004 he presented two documentary […]
9,401 words Stanley Crouch Kansas City Lightning: The Rise & Times of Charlie Parker HarperCollins, 2013 “The double consciousness so fundamental to jazz: the burdens of the soul met by the optimism of the groove.” — Stanley Crouch “I can live a week without poetry, but not a day without jazz.” — Philip Larkin For […]
1,045 words Knives Out, Rian Johnson’s much-hyped addition to the mystery genre, is a forgettable, self-indulgent film whose flashes of competence are incapable of redeeming its trite plot, pathetically unfunny script, and aggressive commitment to political correctness. The film has all the trappings of a classic murder mystery in the style of Agatha Christie or […]
1,418 words Lithuania’s Independence Day is February 16. The country celebrated its 102nd birthday on Sunday, but the history of the Lithuanian land, language, and people goes back hundreds of years further. I was able to celebrate the weekend with friends at a nationalist conference and a torchlight march. Yet one of the most memorable […]
70 words / 59:29 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 and Fróði Midjord discuss #SASgate: Scandinavian Airlines System’s disgusting advertisement claiming that there is “absolutely nothing” typically Scandinavian and the angry backlash it generated toward SAS and […]
1,298 words The ideal 2020 election scenario is for Bernie Sanders to lose the Democratic primary race, and for it to be black people’s fault. Say it comes down to Bernie versus the establishment’s chosen Not Bernie candidate. Blacks rally around Not Bernie — just to be unpleasant — and tilt the nomination in Not […]
2,160 words Conservative blogger Kim du Toit had a revealing post earlier this month entitled “Blacktops.” In his words: Anyone who’s ever worked in the restaurant business will know exactly what the title of this post means. Basically, it’s a denigrating [sic] term that waiters (of all races, by the way) use as shorthand to […]
1,057 words “The legionary spirit is that fire of one who will choose the hardest road, who will fight to the death even when all is already lost.” — Julius Evola Despite the distractions of luxury shopping arcades like the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, or sipping Fu-Go at cafes like it’s 1930, I had come […]
2,696 words There are reasons why the neoliberal establishment hates Bernie Sanders so much, and it’s not just because he’s a threat to their donors’ stock portfolios. Class-based material Marxism — once a pillar of Leftist thought — is not only incompatible with but also heretical to the neoliberal worldview and agenda. We’ve all heard […]
1,422 words Sleeping area of a PodShare co-living space. Right-wing Twitter fumed earlier this week over the provocatively-titled essay “The Nuclear Family Was A Mistake.” The Atlantic essay, written by New York Times columnist David Brooks, wasn’t necessarily an attack on traditional families. But that didn’t stop the deluge of anger that Brooks would dare […]
1,867 words Show of hands, who here remembers the groypers? Who remembers the Groyper War? Who remembers the plague of frogs which descended upon Conservative Inc.? Who remembers Counter-Currents’ blow-by-blow coverage of the events? Who remembers the incisive analysis, the reports from the trenches, and even the humorous retrospective? Many of you, I suspect, have […]
846 words Talk about backfiring. Flag-carrying Scandinavian Airlines, commonly known by their initials SAS, released a short video advertisement on YouTube this Monday. It was entitled: “What is truly Scandinavian?” Well, if you ask SAS, nothing. In just under three minutes, we’re told that the culture of the North was simply pilfered from the rest […]
1,211 words Last week, Counter-Currents published an article by Robert Hampton called “The Bernie Temptation,” where he made the case as to why nationalists should not support Bernie Sanders for president. I can’t find much to disagree with in his assessment. Bernie has said some “based” things in the past about immigration, guns, and foreign […]
2,062 words Newell Convers Wyeth, or N. C. Wyeth, was one of America’s greatest artists and illustrators. Over the course of his lifetime, he created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated over 100 books, including several Scribner Classics. His son, Andrew Wyeth, and grandson, Jamie Wyeth, also became prominent artists. Wyeth was born in 1882 and […]
Horatio Greenough, George Washington 1,547 words Israeli scholar Yoram Hazony wants to define nationalism for the entire West. And that nationalism leaves no room for our classical heritage. Counter-Currents readers are probably familiar with Hazony, his book The Virtue of Nationalism, and his “National Conservatism” conferences. Greg Johnson’s recent series on Hazony’s book is recommended […]
1,643 words Christopher Caldwell The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020 In 2015, Kim Davis, a frumpy county clerk from a Nowheresville in Appalachia, refused to issue gay marriage licenses and was briefly jailed as a result. Additionally, Davis and her fellow office workers were subjected to the […]
1,488 words I’ve spent the last few days contacting friends in order to make plans for my upcoming birthday. I always try to make my birthday memorable, whether it be with a group of friends or by myself. Last year’s birthday was one that I would never forget, as I found myself singing a Polish […]
1,195 words “Sardines” rally in Bologna. (Andreas Solaro, for AFP.) “Ālea iacta est” — “The die has been cast” — Julius Caesar. My heart sank when I saw the flash mob, nicknamed the Sardines, crowding the 15th-century Piazza Maggiore in Bologna to oppose Matteo Salvini’s Lega campaign launch in the PalaDozza, waving their banners and […]
2,420 words I know, the fifty-fourth Super Bowl is old news. Who cares about something that occurred more than 24 hours ago? We might as well discuss a Babylonian sporting event. However, this Super Bowl averaged 102 million viewers, which makes it the eleventh most-watched event in US history — the top 10 are nine […]
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama 2,104 words Read more on Yoram Hazony’s The Virtue of Nationalism here, here, and here. The right of peoples to self-determination is one of the basic norms of contemporary international law. In the words of Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, “National aspirations must be respected; people may now be dominated […]
2,294 words Last week was deliciously bad for the Democrats. Utterly humiliated and reduced to impotent rage, they have been slammed with one major loss or crisis after another. Are we witnessing the self-destruction of a political party? Are the Democrats coming apart at the seams? Yes to both. The results of the Iowa caucus […]
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