- Counter Currents - Oct 9th 2019 11:02am EDT
1,008 words Only three weeks to go! On November 2, 2019, the Scandza Forum returns to Oslo, Norway, with an impressive list of speakers: Kevin MacDonald, Professor Emeritus at California State University-Long Beach. He is the author of more than one hundred scholarly papers and reviews, and is the author of Social and Personality Development: […]
- Counter Currents - Oct 9th 2019 8:39am EDT
4,876 words Translated from the Hungarian by Zsolt Sáfián The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the phenomenon of “virtual reality” – its increasingly dominant social role and effects, and its symbolism will be surveyed. The presentation of the latter is necessary in order to demonstrate that the emergence and development […]
- Counter Currents - Oct 9th 2019 4:43am EDT
1,820 words . . . and there was great slaughter on either side. There were killed King Harold, and Earl Leofwine his brother, and Earl Gyrth his brother, and many good men. And the French had possession of the place of slaughter . . . — The Worcester Manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Unlike the […]
- Counter Currents - Oct 8th 2019 10:05am EDT
1,484 words I remember being fascinated by an episode of the TV series Taxi as a kid. It was the one which offers the origin story of the frazzled, drugged-addled cabbie Jim Ignatowski, who was memorably played by Christopher Lloyd. Even at such a young age, I was aware of hippies, drugs, and their prominence […]
- Counter Currents - Oct 8th 2019 8:54am EDT
Soviet propaganda poster from 1931 telling the workers that the 5-year plan can be completed in 4 years with enough enthusiasm. 3,175 words Part 1 here, Part 2 here 4. Doublethink Among the many useful concepts bequeathed to us by Orwell, “doublethink” tops the list. It is a priceless tool for understanding how “normies” function […]
- Counter Currents - Oct 8th 2019 4:40am EDT
Morse Peckham 826 words Morse Peckham (1914-1993) was a literary critic and cultural historian who was very well-known during his lifetime but who has been largely forgotten today. He had all the qualities that make him anathema in today’s academia: Besides being white, brilliant, and a writer of enormous clarity and precision, Peckham was also […]
- Counter Currents - Oct 7th 2019 8:02am EDT
1,725 words Would identitarians be better off if Democrats take back the White House? Of course not. Many people on the Dissident Right voice the opinion that Donald Trump needs to lose in 2020. Trump didn’t build the Wall, he didn’t reduce immigration, he bows before Israel, he passed terrible criminal justice reform, he hasn’t […]
- Counter Currents - Oct 7th 2019 4:25am EDT
Typical Budapest hostel 4,055 words Part 1 here September 4, 2018 I worked this morning at the English used bookstore/café, where I’m having a flirtation with the younger girl who works here. Her female boss, who owns the place, is older, and is cruel and cold with her predominantly tourist clientele, which is understandable. But […]
- Counter Currents - Oct 6th 2019 5:14am EDT
1,785 words Note: Contains Spoilers Audio Version: To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” One of the great things about Heath Ledger’s Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is that he does not have an origin story. Or, actually, […]
- Counter Currents - Oct 4th 2019 9:33am EDT
743 words Our goal this year is to raise $100,000 in order to expand our efforts to build a metapolitical vanguard for White Nationalism. So far, we have received 288 donations totaling $60,338.79. We set our goals high because the task we have before us is formidable, but with your help, we will succeed. We […]
- Counter Currents - Oct 4th 2019 2:32am EDT
The Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), Tallin, Estonia 1,615 words When You Say We Belong to the Light We Belong to the Thunder July–October 2019 First of all, the actual building and location of the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia has a great, youthful, Do-It-Yourself aesthetic. It’s informally known as the EKKM (cool). Its […]
- Counter Currents - Oct 3rd 2019 1:08am EDT
4,473 words The day Jeffrey Epstein turned up dead in a New York jail cell, I decided I needed to write something about Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Stanley Kubrick’s last and weakest movie. Epstein has quickly faded from the headlines, so let me remind you briefly of who he was. Epstein was an American Jew […]
- Counter Currents - Oct 2nd 2019 6:48am EDT
2,002 words Stefan Molyneux has not had a good year. In fact, he says it’s been a brutal year. The world’s most popular philosophy show is in dire straits. He’s losing subscribers, he’s losing views. He’s got a bone to pick with YouTube and its bosses, and he needs more money to make more unprofitable […]
- Counter Currents - Oct 2nd 2019 4:45am EDT
2,654 words Patrick J. Deneen Why Liberalism Failed New Haven, Ct./New York: Yale University Press, 2018 Patrick Deneen, a Professor of Political Science at Notre Dame University, wrote the present study in 2016, completing it shorty before Donald Trump’s election. In February 2019, a paperbound edition with a few revisions and a new Preface was […]
- Counter Currents - Oct 2nd 2019 4:12am EDT
Roy Campbell 1,561 words Roy Campbell was a South African poet and essayist. T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Edith Sitwell praised Campbell as one of the best poets of the inter-war period. Unfortunately, his conservatism, Nietzscheanism, and Catholicism, as well as his open contempt for the Bloomsbury set and his participation in the Spanish […]
- Counter Currents - Oct 2nd 2019 3:56am EDT
Louis de Bonald 137 words Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald, is one of the great French counter-Revolutionary conservative thinkers. For an overview of his life, see “Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald,” here at Counter-Currents. F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right: “Louis de Bonald’s […]
- Counter Currents - Oct 1st 2019 8:49am EDT
925 words Dear Friends of Counter-Currents, September was our best month ever in terms of traffic: 234,278 unique visitors, almost 100,000 over what we had in June! There has been a steep and steady rise in traffic since June. This is not merely due to a few viral articles, although those helped. There are also […]
- Counter Currents - Oct 1st 2019 8:06am EDT
3,940 words Melissa D. Burrage The Karl Muck Scandal: Classical Music & Xenophobia in World War I Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2019 This year saw the publication of a curious little history about a curious little event from the First World War. Karl Muck is a name that might not be on the […]
- Counter Currents - Oct 1st 2019 4:17am EDT
1,568 words Why do so many whites accept political correctness? Because their lives are too good and they’re too afraid to fight back. If it doesn’t directly affect them, why should they care? These American cattle are grazing the strip mall pastures, mooing at their favorite sports teams. The epitome of these complacent bovines is […]
- Counter Currents - Oct 1st 2019 3:25am EDT
643 words Today is the birthday of Maurice Bardèche (1907–1998), the French Neo-Fascist writer. Bardèche was a prolific and highly versatile author of literary, film, and art criticism, history, journalism, and social and political theory. He published twenty-odd books and countless essays, articles, and reviews. Born in modest circumstances in provincial Dun-sur-Auron near the geographical […]
- Counter Currents - Sep 30th 2019 5:06am EDT
Henry Holiday, Dante and Beatrice (1883) 4,395 words Google threw up no results and that surprised him. She had been ambitious, determined to become a famous actress, but he had not heard anything about her since she disappeared. Disappeared? That seemed a hard word . . . The Internet told him nothing, or rather by […]
- Counter Currents - Sep 30th 2019 4:19am EDT
2,258 words Every year is getting shorter; we never seem to find the time. The world-famous British psychedelic outfit Pink Floyd released the seminal work The Dark Side of the Moon on March 1, 1973, inspiring endless musicians around the world and ultimately leading to the rise of loose women wearing T-shirts with a prism […]
- Counter Currents - Sep 30th 2019 3:27am EDT
792 words Savitri Devi was a philosopher, a religious thinker, and a tireless polemicist and activist for the causes of animal rights, European pagan revivalism, Hindu nationalism, German National Socialism, and — after the Second World War — pan-European racial nationalism.She also sought to found a religion, Esoteric Hitlerism, fusing National Socialism with the Traditionalism […]
- Counter Currents - Sep 28th 2019 5:01am EDT
1,011 words On Saturday, October 12, 2019, the Scandza Forum is returning to the Danish capital after our successful event there in September 2018. Only two weeks remain until it happens! As usual, we give you an all-star line-up of speakers: Dr. Tomislav (Tom) Sunic (official Website), a former professor at UC Santa Barbara and […]
- Counter Currents - Sep 28th 2019 2:01am EDT
183 words / 60:18 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, John Morgan, and Frodi reconvene our roundtable to discuss more “normie” questions and objections regarding white identity politics shared by our readers. 0:00: Introduction 0:08: Donations The […]
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