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  • Small Is Beautiful: The Napoleon of Notting Hill

    Counter Currents - Jun 17th 2026 12:27pm EDT

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874–1936 9,193 words NOTE: This 14 June marks the 90th anniversary of the death of the great Anglo-Catholic conservative writer G. K. Chesterton in 1936. The following essay has been written for planned inclusion in a future as-yet untitled academic anthology of pieces on the subject of Chesterton and war, and deals […]

  • The Psychology Behind MrBeast’s Moronic Thought Experiment

    Counter Currents - Jun 17th 2026 5:44am EDT

    2,005 words MrBeast (real name James Stephen Donaldson) is the most successful YouTuber of all time. As of June 2026, he has amassed a subscriber base of 500 million and accumulated over 129 billion views. While MrBeast has declared himself apolitical, he is undeniably influential on today’s youth. Among younger generations, the fame of traditional […]

  • On the Roots of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in Contemporary Britain

    Counter Currents - Jun 17th 2026 4:50am EDT

    1,389 words During the past week, there have been a series of disturbances across the United Kingdom that constitute one of the more serious episodes of civil unrest the country has experienced in recent years. In Belfast, nights of rioting followed a brutal knife attack carried out by Hadi Alodid, a Sudanese national, against Stephen […]

  • Remembering Enoch Powell

    Counter Currents - Jun 16th 2026 5:27pm EDT

    750 words Enoch Powell is most famous for his “Rivers of Blood” speech on April 20, 1968, in which he warned, prophetically, of the dangers of massive non-white immigration into the United Kingdom. Powell called for cutting off legal as well as illegal immigration and for repatriating non-white immigrants whose high birthrates would eventually lead […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 691

    Counter Currents - Jun 16th 2026 6:57am EDT

    Greg Johnson and Rob Rundo on his 60 Minutes interview, activism, organizing, current events, RESUM26, women in the movement, lying journalists, and more. Now for your streaming or downloading pleasure. To listen in a player, click here or below. To download, right-click the link and click “save as.”   https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/EDIT-Rob-Rundo1.mp3

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  • The Fragile Polity that is Syria

    Counter Currents - Jun 16th 2026 6:05am EDT

    3,588 words Daniel Neep Syria: A Modern History New York: Basic Books, 2026 Syria has had a significant impact on current events. The harsh domestic politics that land has attracted international intrigue during its civil war, allowed for the temporary creation of a Salafi Jihadist ruled religious dystopia, and caused a migrant crisis in Europe. […]

  • Letter to J. D. Vance

    Counter Currents - Jun 15th 2026 9:01am EDT

    VP Vance at a WH press briefing. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. 1,960 words Dear Vice President Vance, Since this is an open letter, please indulge me as I spell out some things that you surely know but which some readers may not. Donald Trump has done the impossible. He has created a global humanitarian and […]

  • Lost In Trans-Mission

    Counter Currents - Jun 15th 2026 5:57am EDT

    1,665 words Darren “Eleanor” Rigby, who keeps not only his face, but also his breasts and his labia in a jar by the door, was in the news in Britain this June after threatening to shoot up several all-girls’ schools in The Beatles’ old stamping grounds of Liverpool and the surrounding district of Merseyside. Well, […]

  • Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!

    Counter Currents - Jun 15th 2026 5:04am EDT

    Sandro Botticelli, “St. Augustine in his Cell,” circa 1490 to 1494, Uffizi, Florence 2,384 words Confessional literature is nothing new. Saint Augustine wrote one of the groundbreaking works in the genre, describing the long process of his conversion from Manicheism to Catholicism. When he’s not denouncing the odd doctrines of his former belief system, he’s […]

  • Editor’s Update

    Counter Currents - Jun 13th 2026 10:32am EDT

    127 words This year, Counter-Currents is trying to raise $300,000 to sustain and expand our work (like paying our great new videographer). We are off to a strong start. So far we have raised $58,722.69. Thank you! We used up our first $20,000 matching grant so quickly that another donor has offer a grant of […]

  • Heidegger on Nietzsche Part Three

    Counter Currents - Jun 12th 2026 6:17am EDT

    Nietzsche blind to the clearing. 5,104 words (Part 2 available here) 1. Nihilism and the Death of God The preceding installment gave the reader a sketch of Heidegger’s interpretation of Nietzsche. It is now time to go into more detail. Heidegger argues that there are “three axes” of Nietzsche’s philosophy: the eternal return, the will […]

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  • Uncivil War

    Counter Currents - Jun 12th 2026 4:55am EDT

    2,247 words Professor David Betz is an academic whose area of expertise includes civil war. His title is Professor of War in the Modern World, and he teaches at King’s College, London, a highly respected university. He has been doing the rounds on alternative media for the last year or so predicting that civil war, […]

  • Exclusive Interview with Karel Veliky Part 2

    Counter Currents - Jun 12th 2026 2:39am EDT

    Dresden by Marti Teixidor 2,450 words Part 1 available here. OM: Have you thought about writing a series on films set in Francoist Spain, Chile, Argentina, and, more generally, the dictatorial regimes of South America? Would you recommend any films in this genre? KV: I was just thinking about lifting the veil woven by egalitarian […]

  • Happy Birthday to Us! 16

    Counter Currents - Jun 11th 2026 12:50pm EDT

    1,167 words It was 16 years ago, on June 11, 2010, that Counter-Currents went online. Counter-Currents was founded on the conviction that, as Jonathan Bowden put it, “One man alone in a room with a computer . . . can change the world. A few people alone in a room, if they cleave to an […]

  • Zsutty’s Maximum

    Counter Currents - Jun 11th 2026 6:41am EDT

    Why would they treat you any better? 1,237 words The social sciences do not have as many laws as the hard sciences, but they do exist. If I may be so bold, I would like to add one: Ingroup behavior sets the maximum for outgroup behavior. In other words: Groups simply don’t treat outsiders better […]

  • Exclusive Interview with Karel Veliky Part 1

    Counter Currents - Jun 11th 2026 5:36am EDT

    2,430 words Karel Veliky is the doyen of the Czech New Right, the creator of the vast majority of publications from Delian Diver, and one of the masterminds behind the entire project. Although Karel Veliky specializes primarily in writing books and comprehensive essays on topics such as Knut Hamsun, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Yukio Mishima, neo-fascism, […]

  • The Union Jackal, June 2026

    Counter Currents - Jun 10th 2026 5:47am EDT

    3,117 words Post-Henry Nowak Policing It is highly unlikely that anyone reading this does not by now know the name of Henry Nowak. Henry was an 18-year-old English student who died in police custody in December of last year after a false allegation of racism was made by his Sikh murderer, which meant that the […]

  • The Inferiority Behind Immigrant Superiority

    Counter Currents - Jun 10th 2026 5:12am EDT

    2,985 words Muslims blocking streets in London or Paris, Sikhs staging martial pageantry, Hindus building oversized temples and statues abroad, Indians boasting about the number of Indian CEOs in American corporations, Africans amplifying dance, ornament, and sexuality—Westerners often mistake such displays for confidence or cultural pride. It is the opposite. Every gesture is exaggerated, caricatured, […]

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  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 690

    Counter Currents - Jun 10th 2026 3:36am EDT

    You can buy Greg Johnson’s The Philosopher Is In here. 89 words / 1:54:20 Greg Johnson and David Zsutty on the AI Economic Apocalypse, Palantir suppressing the far Right, the Remigration Summit, Jared Taylor’s harassment in France, the slip and fall fraudulent lawsuit against Return to the Land, how White Nationalists should talk about Trump, […]

  • Collin Cleary: What Rome Means to Me

    Counter Currents - Jun 9th 2026 12:13pm EDT

    20 words Collin Cleary discusses what Rome means to him. From the 2026 Counter-Currents Spring Retreat in Rome.  Also available on X. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Collin-Rome.mp4

  • Paul Krugman: Closet Bolshevik

    Counter Currents - Jun 9th 2026 9:16am EDT

    Paul Krugman. Official WH Photo by Adam Schultz. 1,519 words Several days ago, Jewish economist and former New York Times columnist Paul Krugman posted a six-minute video of himself in which he expounded upon his hatred of Donald Trump and everything MAGA. At first, he seemed most appalled by Trump’s response to various musical artists […]

  • Fugue of Ideas: Ibram X. Kendi’s Chain of Ideas

    Counter Currents - Jun 9th 2026 5:59am EDT

    5,785 words Ibram X. Kendi Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age New York: One World, 2026 Ibram X. Kendi’s Chain of Ideas is on the Great Replacement, which he describes as “the most dominant political theory of our time” (p. xxx). Kendi is one of America’s most prominent skintellectuals. His 2017 book […]

  • Based Blacks

    Counter Currents - Jun 9th 2026 4:47am EDT

    898 words A persistent argument, often termed the gateway hypothesis, suggests that certain public figures act as entry points for individuals to engage with heterodox ideas. This perspective proposes that figures like Candace Owens, the Tate brothers, and Myron Gaines attract general audiences to unconventional thought, eventually leading them toward more substantial dissident ideologies. The […]

  • Black Intellectual Fatigue

    Counter Currents - Jun 8th 2026 9:27am EDT

    1,938 words John Staddon Inevitable Differences: An Inquiry into Human Variation Washington, DC: Academia Press, 2026 One of the most promising trends that emerged in 2025 is the spread of “black fatigue,” in which increasing numbers of whites are expressing their weariness with violent or boorish behavior by blacks. Some people even make middle class […]

  • Why White Advocates Should Avoid “Based Blacks”

    Counter Currents - Jun 8th 2026 5:25am EDT

    Photo via Kanye West / X, 2020 1,359 words One of the most important aspects of modern American politics is the desire among a faction of conservatives to ally with African-Americans. This has motivated decades worth of terrible decisions. This includes Turning Point USA’s decision to promote Candace Owens, Donald Trump’s “Platinum Plan,” and repetitive […]