Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 1: Setting the Scene
Counter Currents - Jun 11th 2024 3:40pm EDTGorgias of Leontini 3,869 words Part 1 of 10 An ancient commentator on Aristotle tells a story about a farmer who got ahold of Plato’s Gorgias and was so stunned that he gave up the life of farming, trudged to Athens, looked up Plato, and put his soul in Plato’s care.[1] Like the Alcibiades I, […]
Happy Birthday to Us!
Counter Currents - Jun 11th 2024 9:14am EDTPhoto credit 803 words It was fourteen years ago, on June 11, 2010, that Counter-Currents went online. Since then, Counter-Currents has published more than 12,000 articles, reviews, and other items. We have also published 92 books. From the start, Counter-Currents aimed at creating an Anglophone version of the European New Right, but since English is […]
The Counter-Currents 14th Birthday Telethon
Counter Currents - Jun 10th 2024 4:58pm EDTImage Credit 84 words Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 11th is the 14th anniversary of Counter-Currents going online. Please join me and Cyan Quinn. We will be hosting an all-star lineup of guests, including James Edwards, Sam Dickson, Jim Goad, Millennial Woes, Endeavour, Karl Thorburn, David Zsutty, and Frodi Midjord. We also have a special $5,000 matching […]
The Worst Week Yet: June 2-8, 2024 — Killer Dogs & the Women Who Love Them
Counter Currents - Jun 10th 2024 12:09pm EDTSource: Wikipedia. 1,230 words / 8:18 The American Bully is a loosely-defined dog breed most easily identified by its massive head and cartoonish muscularity. It is said to have originated by cross-breeding the fearsome and notorious American Pit Bull Terrier with the larger but similar-looking American Bulldog and Olde English Bulldogge. American breeders classify it […]
Trump’s Conviction, Washington, and the Appeal of a High-Throughput Guillotine
Counter Currents - Jun 10th 2024 9:44am EDTImage source: Wikimedia Commons 1,190 words Everybody and his dog is writing about the Trump conviction, so I guess I’ll add my few grains to the sand pile. Otherwise I’d kill something, preferably a New York judge. Or several of them. On the observable principle that each succeeding President is worse than his predecessor, Biden […]
Just Another Random Murder of a Three-Year-Old Child
Counter Currents - Jun 9th 2024 8:10am EDT49 words / 7:59 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Just Another Random Murder of a Three-Year-Old Child,” on how the mainstream media refuses to admit the obvious in the many cases of black adults committing acts of violence and murder against three-year-old white children. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/Goad-JustAnotherRandomMurder.mp4
Editor’s Update
Counter Currents - Jun 7th 2024 3:02pm EDTEar trumpet used during WWI to detect the sound of incoming airplanes. 326 words Dear Friends of Counter-Currents, We have a feast for your ears–and minds–lined up in the coming days. 1. Saturday, June 8th: Counter-Currents Radio On this Saturday’s Counter-Currents Radio livestream, Angelo Plume will be joined by Gearoid Murphy to discuss the Irish and European […]
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Counter Currents - Jun 7th 2024 11:04am EDT643 words Counter-Currents is currently raising $300,000 to support our projects this year. We have presently received $24,284.32 toward that goal. Despite a cyberattack aimed at disrupting our online payment system and the bank deplatforming that occupied most of our administrative resources for nearly three months, we’ve still been able to make progress on all […]
1Just Another Random Murder of a Three-Year-Old Child
Counter Currents - Jun 6th 2024 11:44am EDTMug shot of Bionca Ellis from the North Olmsted Police Department. 1,104 words / It all happened in less than five seconds. If reporters and police officials are to be trusted, the fatal attack was random. Last Monday afternoon outside a Giant Eagle supermarket in North Olmsted, Ohio that had been the scene of a […]
Videogame Livestreaming and the Search for Identity
Counter Currents - Jun 5th 2024 9:06am EDTWorld of Warcraft (Source: Wikimedia Commons) 1,349 words Videogame livestreaming platforms are strange places. If you frequent websites such as Twitch or Kick, you will know that they are equal parts autism, attention deficit disorder, and exhibitionism. They are toxic places full of profanity and performative video-game violence as automatic weapons are used to shred […]
The Specifics of Reconquest: Martin Sellner’s Remigration
Counter Currents - Jun 4th 2024 9:42am EDTA 500-strong pro-remigration demonstration that was held by Martin Sellner’s group in Vienna in July 2023. (Source: Martin Sellner’s Telegram channel.) 1,677 words Martin Sellner Remigration: Ein Vorschlag [Repatriation: A Proposal] Steigra: Antaios Verlag, 2024 Vienna native Martin Sellner founded the Identitarian Movement of Austria in 2012, maintained a highly successful YouTube channel before it […]
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 590: Two Lawyers on the Trump Verdict
Counter Currents - Jun 4th 2024 8:59am EDT262 words / 1:59:32 Attorneys Jason Lee Van Dyke (Twitter) and David Zsutty were Greg Johnson‘s guests on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed the Trump verdict and answered listener questions. It is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:02:50 The background of the case 00:05:02 Was the case […]
Good and Bad Magic in Politics: John Michael Greer’s The King in Orange
Counter Currents - Jun 3rd 2024 3:10pm EDT2,210 words John Michael Greer The King in Orange: The Magical and Occult Roots of Political Power Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2021 In his book The King in Orange, John Michael Greer provides a magical perspective on the 2016 and 2020 elections which is highly pertinent with the 2024 election approaching. It should be noted […]
The Worst Week Yet: May 26-June 1, 2024 — The Unbreakable Don
Counter Currents - Jun 3rd 2024 11:43am EDT1,768 words / 12:04 When Ted Cruz was running for the Republican presidential nomination against Donald Trump in 2016, what Wikipedia describes as a “right wing street artist” and who calls himself Sabo created a poster of Cruz as a tattoo-covered gangster ready to take on the establishment by hook or by crook. But it […]
On Poking Dragons
Counter Currents - Jun 3rd 2024 8:21am EDTSource: Wikimedia Commons. 1,054 words I wonder how many Americans quite understand what the United States is facing in its aggressive confrontation with China. Washington clearly prepares the public for another unnecessary war. Given America’s routine defeat in war and catastrophic miscalculations in fighting small powers, picking a fight with what, increasingly, is again becoming […]
Counter Currents - May 31st 2024 5:57pm EDT
437 words Dear Friends of Counter-Currents, There’s always a lot going on at Counter-Currents. The 2024 Fundraiser We started the 2024 Fundraiser at the end of March. Our goal is $300,000. We have now raised $23,208.23. That’s about $1,800 since last week. I want to thank everyone who helped out. But frankly, I am starting […]
Editor’s Update
Counter Currents - May 31st 2024 5:57pm EDT437 words Dear Friends of Counter-Currents, There’s always a lot going on at Counter-Currents. The 2024 Fundraiser We started the 2024 Fundraiser at the end of March. Our goal is $300,000. We have now raised $23,208.23. That’s about $1,800 since last week. I want to thank everyone who helped out. But frankly, I am starting […]
Red-State Secession Gaining Steam in Oregon
Counter Currents - May 31st 2024 9:58am EDTThe proposed state of Greater Idaho (in red). Source: Greater Idaho. 1,367 words Residents of Crook County, Oregon recently voted on joining the latest secessionist effort gaining steam within the rapidly-polarizing United States. The Greater Idaho movement seeks to incorporate up to 14 counties of eastern Oregon into the state of Idaho, which would extend […]
Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I, Part 6
Counter Currents - May 30th 2024 12:03pm EDTJohn William Waterhouse, Psyche Opening The Golden Box, 1903 2,055 words Part 5 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here) The final part of the Alcibiades I deals with the self and self-knowledge. Most ancient commentators held that this discussion is the core of the […]
Chaos at the Jersey Shore
Counter Currents - May 30th 2024 12:00pm EDTScreenshot 1,250 words / 8:22 The beach resort town of Wildwood, New Jersey was home to some of my sunniest childhood memories. Located about 100 miles south of our suburban Philly brick row home, Wildwood was our go-to summer vacation spot. Wildwood’s boardwalk was like the Yellow Brick Road to me, a nearly two-mile stretch […]
Abigail Shrier’s Bad Therapy
Counter Currents - May 30th 2024 11:02am EDT2,559 words Abigail Shrier Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up New York: Sentinel, 2024 Abigail Shrier is a journalist associated with the “Intellectual Dark Web” (IDW) who is known for her writing on adolescent girls who identify as transgender. Her previous book, Irreversible Damage, was previously reviewed at Counter-Currents. Her most recent book, […]
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 589: Greg Johnson and Angelo Plume on Current Things
Counter Currents - May 30th 2024 9:29am EDTAusländer Raus! 245 words / 2:04:32 Many dramatic events are ongoing in the world today. Greg Johnson was joined by Angelo Plume (Telegram, YouTube) on the most recent broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio to analyze them and figure out what they mean from the perspective of pro-white identity politics, and also answered listener questions. It is now […]
Jason Kessler’s Charlottesville and the Death of Free Speech
Counter Currents - May 29th 2024 10:40am EDT1,018 words Jason Kessler Charlottesville and the Death of Free Speech Dissident Press, 2024 To constrain a man’s innermost expression is subjugation of his soul. — Jason Kessler It’s been almost seven years since the Unite the Right rally was held in Charlottesville, Virginia, and its importance as part of our daily political discourse has […]
Charlottesville: The Day the Mask Came Off
Counter Currents - May 29th 2024 8:59am EDT4,814 words Jason Kessler Charlottesville and the Death of Free Speech Dissident Press, 2024 A number of books have already been written about the suppressed “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. I have already reviewed the excellent Charlottesville Untold by Anne Wilson Smith. Padraig Martin’s A Walk in the Park also enjoys a good […]
Remembering Oswald Spengler (May 29, 1880-May 8, 1936)
Counter Currents - May 29th 2024 7:14am EDT660 words Oswald Spengler was born on this day in 1880. For his contributions to the philosophy of history and culture, Spengler is one of the most important philosophical influences on the North American New Right, largely by way of his disciple Francis Parker Yockey. Spengler is often wrong, but even when he errs, he […]