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  • The Union Jackal, May 2024

    Counter Currents - May 28th 2024 12:09pm EDT

    Photo courtesy of Number 10 on Flickr. 2,658 words Dependence Day Rishi Sunak, Britain’s diminutive Hindu Prime Minister, has named the date of the British General Election, and it will fall on American Independence Day. In Britain, of course, this would have to be re-christened Dependence Day as, in line with all European states and […]

  • Rebel Yell

    Counter Currents - May 28th 2024 9:07am EDT

    2,055 words The hit song for summer 2024 is here, and who could have guessed that it would come not from the contemporary assortment of scantily-clad bimbos and dress-wearing soyboys whom the music industry promotes as the ‘‘artists’’ of our time, but from a goofy Italian DJ circa 1999? The future really is the past. […]

  • Including audio version by Jim Goad! The Worst Week Yet: May 19-25, 2024

    Counter Currents - May 27th 2024 12:16pm EDT

    Source: Wikipedia. 2,185 words / 15:04 Steve Sailer: A Satanic Jewish Agent of the Deep State? I used to edit Steve Sailer’s articles at Taki’s Mag from around 2010 to 2014. His points were always impeccably argued and perfectly sourced. I can’t ever recall running across a typo or even a wisp of illogic. This […]

  • Charlotte York and Globalism’s Orgasm Machine

    Counter Currents - May 27th 2024 8:46am EDT

    Trey MacDougal (Kyle MacLachlan) and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) — no longer the ideal American couple. 811 words I gave the Sex and the City revival series And Just Like That . . . a fair chance, but after three hours of diversity, wokeness, and “body positivity,” I found myself returning to binge on the […]

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  • Remembering Louis-Ferdinand Céline (May 27, 1894–July 1, 1961)

    Counter Currents - May 27th 2024 7:59am EDT

    238 words Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French novelist, essayist, and physician Louis-Ferdinand-Auguste Destouches, who was born on this day in 1894. Céline is one of the giants of twentieth-century literature. And, like Ezra Pound and so many other great writers of the last century, he was an open and unapologetic racial nationalist. […]

  • The Aspiring-Rapper-to-Expired-Rapper Pipeline

    Counter Currents - May 26th 2024 8:15am EDT

    35 words / 8:50 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “The Aspiring-Rapper-to-Expired-Rapper Pipeline,” on Rylo Huncho, the aspiring rapper who accidentally killed himself while showing off a gun on a livestream. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/Goad-TheAspiringRapperToExpiredRapperPipeline.mp4

  • Editor’s Update

    Counter Currents - May 24th 2024 5:32pm EDT

    310 words Dear Friends of Counter-Currents, Again, there’s a lot going on at Counter-Currents, so I thought I would combine several announcements into a single post. The 2024 Fundraiser We started the 2024 Fundraiser at the end of March. Our goal is $300,000. We have now raised $20,929.32. That’s a major step forward from last […]

  • Is America Doomed?

    Counter Currents - May 24th 2024 12:21pm EDT

    Image courtesy of NARA & DVIDS Public Domain Archive. 2,486 words On May 9, 2024, Jared Taylor released a video entitled “What Is Our Goal?” that, quite frankly, surprised me. After a litany of well-chosen illustrations of America’s decline, he declares: It doesn’t matter who is elected President this year or four years from now […]

  • Eternal City Blues

    Counter Currents - May 24th 2024 12:25am EDT

    “Which multiculti- fakeugee-dumping-ground should we go to for our next holiday, darling?” 1,581 words Last week, for the first time in too long a time, I found myself again in Rome. Europe is changing so rapidly that returning to once-familiar places no longer feels like a homecoming. It feels like entering an alien terrain for […]

  • The Aspiring-Rapper-to-Expired-Rapper Pipeline

    Counter Currents - May 23rd 2024 10:38am EDT

    Source: Crocker Funeral Home 1,143 words / 8:44 The news reports agree: Last Wednesday’s self-inflicted accidental gunshot death of a 17-year-old Virginia rapper was a tragic event. MSN reprints an article from something called Hip Hop Vibe: Virginia’s drill rap scene was shaken by the tragic news of 17-year-old rapper Rylo Huncho. He wound up […]

  • Tom Wolfe’s The Painted Word

    Counter Currents - May 22nd 2024 7:50am EDT

    words Tom Wolfe The Painted Word New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux. 1975 (many editions since) Long before he died, Tom Wolfe deeded his archives to the New York Public Library (NYPL). When he passed on in 2018, the NYPL put up a little “pop-up” exhibition in commemoration. It would have been bigger, but the Library […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 588: The Future of the Movement, Part 2

    Counter Currents - May 22nd 2024 6:15am EDT

    158 words / 1:15:29 In the second half of our latest broadcast, Greg Johnson and David Zsutty (Counter-Currents, Telegram, Twitter) of the Homeland Institute (website, Telegram) turned to  a more general discussion of politics, current events, and Counter-Currents’ recent movement poll. The recording is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:00:59 Question […]

  • Statistics Show Racial Disparities in Social Outcomes

    Counter Currents - May 21st 2024 8:56am EDT

    Source: The Bakken Museum on Flickr. 1,325 words Statistics communicating racial gaps in earnings convey nothing about the depth of racial discrimination in society. Invariably, inequalities in socioeconomic outcomes are an ineluctable consequence of group differences in ability and aptitude. For example, the observation that white Americans out-earn blacks is an indication that one group […]

  • Why I Read

    Counter Currents - May 21st 2024 6:39am EDT

    Image courtesy of Theen Moy on Flickr. 2,475 words If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company. — Lord Byron There’s more to life than books, you know, But not much more. — Morrissey Writing has a lot in common with sex and driving in that those who take part […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: May 12-18, 2024

    Counter Currents - May 20th 2024 3:02pm EDT

    Oleksandr Usyk (photo courtesy of Wikimedia) 1,860 words The World’s Greatest Boxer Is a White Man Apologies, oh trusted and cherished readers, because this article is a trifle late. I also beg you to forgive me for the fact that I’m straying from my usual path of chronicling all the week’s bad news. The reason […]

  • Trump’s Deportations: Bluster or Promise?

    Counter Currents - May 20th 2024 11:20am EDT

    1,000 words Donald Trump, always interesting if not obsessively cogent, says that he will deport perhaps 20 million illegal aliens if again elected. Can he? Legally, of course, Trump is in the right. The illegals are in the country illegally and the law clearly says that they may be deported. Polls show that a great […]

  • Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I Part 4

    Counter Currents - May 20th 2024 10:39am EDT

    Xerxes I of Persia and his wife, queen Amestris 2,741 words Part 4 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here) In our previous installment, Socrates has convinced Alcibiades that he is ignorant of justice. Therefore, he should not go into politics until he is educated. But Socrates undermines his argument by […]

  • Fear of Calling a Spade a Spade

    Counter Currents - May 19th 2024 7:01am EDT

    50 words / 9:41 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Fear of Calling a Spade a Spade,” on the recent arrest of Joshua Cobb, a black US Marine who was planning a mass shooting of white people — and which is being largely ignored by the media. See below. […]

  • Remembering Julius Evola (May 19, 1898–June 11, 1974)

    Counter Currents - May 19th 2024 6:46am EDT

    1,230 words Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola was born on May 19, 1898 in Rome. Along with René Guénon, Evola is one of the writers who has most influenced the metapolitical outlook and project of Counter-Currents, which is reflected in the fact that Evola is one of the most-tagged writers on this website. In commemoration […]

  • Editor’s Update

    Counter Currents - May 17th 2024 6:21pm EDT

    Franz von Stuck, The Spirit of Victory 516 words Dear Friends of Counter-Currents, There’s a lot going on at Counter-Currents, so I thought I would combine several announcements into a single post. The 2024 Fundraiser We started the 2024 Fundraiser at the end of March. Our goal is $300,000. We got off to a good […]

  • Donald Trump’s Time Interview: The Return of the 2016 Trump

    Counter Currents - May 17th 2024 2:12pm EDT

    3,046 words Donald Trump sat down for an extended interview with Time magazine reporter Eric Cortellessa on April 12 to discuss what a second Trump administration would look like. Two weeks later the pair talked again over the phone, and Time published the story soon after. An example of classic Leftist spin, Cortellessa’s story, with […]

  • Notes on Getting Through to Fundamentalists

    Counter Currents - May 17th 2024 9:00am EDT

    Jean Cousin, The Last Judgement (ca. 1585) (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) 2,844 words Christian evangelicals — or fundamentalists, to be a little less precise — are in the unenviable position of catching flak from both the Left and the Right. There are some points which have already been discussed quite a bit already on […]

  • Fear of Calling a Spade a Spade

    Counter Currents - May 16th 2024 3:07pm EDT

    Joshua Cobb (photo from his TikTok profile) 1,370 words / 9:35 One would think that news the FBI has arrested an active US Marine for threatening to go on a shooting rampage against US citizens would be a major news story. But one would think wrong. As is so often the case, we have ourselves […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 586: British Pop Culture in the 1990s, Part 2

    Counter Currents - May 16th 2024 9:00am EDT

    216 words / 1:12:00 The second half of the most recent broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio continued with the discussion of 1990s British pop culture before moving on to more general topics about politics, current events, and the movement today. Host Greg Johnson was joined by Millennial Woes (official website here), Morgoth (Substack, Odysee), and Travis LeBlanc, and it is […]

  • Final Reminder to Take the Counter-Currents Movement Poll!

    Counter Currents - May 14th 2024 2:40pm EDT

    914 words As of this writing, 464 people have taken the Counter-Currents reader poll. Thank you! We have already learned a lot, as David Zsutty reported last week. We have sent a total of 4985 invitations out. We would like to get at least 500 responses — around 10% of the total. That’s an excellent […]