Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I Part 2
Counter Currents - Apr 22nd 2024 10:56am EDT2,359 words Part 2 of 5 (Part 1 here) In the first part of this series, Socrates accuses Alcibiades of wanting to be a tyrant and argues that if he wishes to fulfill this ambition, he must study philosophy. Alcibiades won’t admit that he aspires to be a tyrant, but “if” he did, he wants […]
Earth Day Special
Counter Currents - Apr 22nd 2024 9:00am EDT710 words Today is Earth Day, which has been an occasion to call for conservationism and environmental protection since it was first celebrated in America with bipartisan support in 1970, in response to the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969. Although in recent decades environmentalism has come to be identified with the political Left, taking […]
Saturday’s Livestream: Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson
Counter Currents - Apr 20th 2024 2:32am EDTPhoto courtesy of Picryl. 70 words Saturday’s livestream will be a solo Ask Me Anything with our esteemed Editor-in-Chief, Greg Johnson. Take advantage of this opportunity to pick his brain on current events, the movement, philosophy, or whatever else is on your mind. The stream will start at noon Pacific, 3 PM Eastern Time, 8 […]
Update on the Counter-Currents Movement Poll
Counter Currents - Apr 20th 2024 12:00am EDTImage courtesy of GetArchive 653 words Last week, we sent out an invitation to everyone on our mailing list to take our movement poll. We are sending out a reminder e-mail today. Please check your inbox or spam folder and fill out the poll today! The purpose of this poll is to get a clear […]
Is There a Right Wing after Postmodernity? “Euronormativity” and Biopoliticized Resistances to the “Counterhegemonic” Left
Counter Currents - Apr 19th 2024 3:06pm EDTDiscobolus, a Roman copy of the Greek original from the fifth century BC. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons. 2,899 words From a liberal perspective, there exists a logical (and also emotional) resistance to the use of concepts, terminologies, and ideas that are foreign to modernity, since for liberalism, being born detached from the latter, such […]
Stalin’s Affirmative Action Policy
Counter Currents - Apr 19th 2024 9:00am EDT1,940 words Terry Martin The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in The Soviet Union, 1923-1939 Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001 Empires are based on a core ethnic group with a well-organized military, a robust economy, and a functional government whose history of fairmindedness and even judgement is such that those outside the core […]
The Big Implications of a Small-Town Election
Counter Currents - Apr 18th 2024 5:44pm EDTJudd Blevins 1,431 words Judd Blevins was recently recalled from his position as a City Councilman in Enid, Oklahoma. This was not because of any malfeasance on his part, but because he has views and past associations which are deemed as “problematic” in Our Democracy.™ Blevins received 40% of the vote to his opponent Cheryl […]
The Nigga They Are, The Hard “R” They Fall
Counter Currents - Apr 18th 2024 3:14pm EDT1,187 words / 8:25 Only one word in the English language can get you killed if you say it — or, in many cases, merely if your murderer claims you said it. In his essay “Why The N-Word Is Not Just Another Word,” black writer H. Lewis Smith attempts to explain why this word has […]
Introduction to Mihai Eminescu’s Old Icons, New Icons
Counter Currents - Apr 18th 2024 9:00am EDT745 words The following is editor and publisher Amory Stern‘s Introduction to his collection of previously untranslated essays by the Romanian writer Mihai Eminescu. The book is available in both Kindle and paperback editions. Of peasant ancestry on his father’s side and boasting aristocratic (boyar) maternal roots, the Romanian poet, prose writer, and editorialist Mihai […]
Już dostępne! Nowej Prawicy przeciw Starej Prawicy
Counter Currents - Apr 17th 2024 8:23pm EDT663 słowa Greg Johnson Nowej Prawicy przeciw Starej Prawicy Z przedmową Kevina MacDonalda Przekład: Jarosław Ostrogniew Greg Johnson’s New Right vs. Old Right is now in Polish. Dr Greg Johnson, bazując na ideach europejskiej Nowej Prawicy, proponuje nowe podejście do białego nacjonalizmu w Ameryce Północnej. Nowa Prawica przeciw Starej Prawicy jest zbiorem 32 esejów, w których dr […]
Pour Dieu et le Roi!
Counter Currents - Apr 17th 2024 4:20pm EDT1,809 words As you probably already know, the “Left wing” versus “Right wing” political chasm first appeared when it cracked through the French National Assembly during the Revolution of 1789, when defenders of France’s monarchy and the Catholic faith positioned themselves on the right side of the Assembly, and supporters of the republican revolutionaries aligned […]
Police, in the Real World
Counter Currents - Apr 17th 2024 9:00am EDTPhoto courtesy of SHYCITYNikon on Flickr. 1,010 words For years I worked as police reporter for the Washington Times, spending long hours in squad cars in various cities getting to know cops well. Now I listen to nice white people in the suburbs, and self-assured voices from National Public Radio (NPR), talking about the police. […]
Sperging the Second World War: A Response to Travis LeBlanc
Counter Currents - Apr 16th 2024 3:39pm EDTBolshevism Without a Mask, National Socialist propaganda poster (1937) 2,347 words Travis LeBlanc dropped a lot of wisdom and perspective on us regarding the Second World War and the Jewish Holocaust in two recent essays for Counter-Currents. Judging from the comments in response to them, it seems the Counter-Currents readership is well aware of this […]
Popcult Humor from Wilmot Robertson: Remembering Wilmot Robertson (April 16, 1915–July 8, 2005)
Counter Currents - Apr 16th 2024 9:15am EDT2,487 words In the early 1980s I was involved with the startup of a “humor magazine” that never went anywhere after its colorful-but-vague pilot issue. Apart from a couple of National Lampoon veterans, we were mostly post-collegiate types, full of quirky, off-the-wall ideas from our own days at colorful-but-vague college humor mags. It was around […]
Remembering Dominique Venner (April 16, 1935–May 21, 2013)
Counter Currents - Apr 16th 2024 9:00am EDT627 words Today is the eleventh anniversary of Dominique Venner’s dramatic suicide at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, which he carried out as a protest against the degradation of the traditional family’s central importance as well as the demographic replacement of European man, and to indicate what we must be prepared to give […]
The Worst Week Yet: April 7-13, 2024
Counter Currents - Apr 15th 2024 1:51pm EDTO. J.’s 1994 mug shot, courtesy of Wikipedia. 2,105 words O. J. Simpson: 1947-2024 Up until June 12, 1994, white America was convinced that O. J. Simpson was “one of the good ones.” When it turned out that he wasn’t — and that black America supported him, anyway — race relations took a permanent turn […]
Civil War
Counter Currents - Apr 15th 2024 9:00am EDT1,501 words Civil War: based or cringe? That is the million-dollar question. Your gut tells you that because it is a Hollywood film, it will be an evil MAGAs versus virtuous libtards cringefest with lots of woke anti-white messaging. Yet, part of you holds out hope that maybe it will be unintentionally based. Jews will […]
The Woman-Punching MAGAts of Manhattan
Counter Currents - Apr 14th 2024 11:35am EDT56 words / 8:43 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “The Woman-Punching MAGAts of Manhattan,” on a journalist who contends that the men who are punching random white women on the streets of New York City are MAGA supporters — without a shred of corroborating evidence and a great […]
Noticing
Counter Currents - Apr 13th 2024 1:09pm EDT251 words Today on the Counter-Currents Radio livestream, Angelo Plume talks to Greg Johnson, Endeavour, David Zsutty, and some surprise guests on formative experiences that got them to question whether multiculturalism can work. Plus, we will answer all of YOUR QUESTIONS. The stream will start at noon Pacific, 3 PM Eastern Time, 8 PM UK […]
It’s Back! The Jonathan Bowden Cultured Thug Mug
Counter Currents - Apr 12th 2024 3:01pm EDT339 words Jonathan Bowden would have been 62 years old today. He was a painter, novelist, essayist, playwright, actor, and orator. He was also a friend. His ideas and personality have had a real and permanent impact on my approach to New Right metapolitics. To celebrate, any gift of $120 or above will receive: At […]
The Holocaust Card Can No Longer Be Played
Counter Currents - Apr 12th 2024 2:11pm EDTPhoto courtesy of Ali Madad Sakhirani on Pexels. 1,433 words In my last essay, I discussed my distaste for spergery about the Second World War. As I was writing it, there’s one argument that I thought to address but then didn’t for reasons of narrative flow. But on second thought, I believe this argument deserves […]
Remembering Jonathan Bowden (April 12, 1962–March 29, 2012)
Counter Currents - Apr 12th 2024 9:00am EDT1,287 words Jonathan Bowden was born 62 years ago today, on April 12, 1962. He died on March 29, 2012, just short of his 50th birthday. Jonathan was a painter, novelist, essayist, playwright, actor, and orator. He was also a friend. His ideas and personality have had a real and permanent impact on my approach […]
The Woman-Punching MAGAts of Manhattan
Counter Currents - Apr 11th 2024 2:31pm EDT1,304 words / 8:37 It’s official: New York City is MAGA country. I state this without qualification and without having to check the facts because Amanda Marcotte, who has never been wrong about anything before, has decreed it to be true. Before a shred of corroborating evidence was in, Marcotte, who has the most masculine […]
New Nations: California
Counter Currents - Apr 11th 2024 9:00am EDTImage courtesy of Wikipedia. 1,284 words Talk of secession usually focuses on red states, but it can also apply to blue states, perhaps even more so. This is because Republican politicians have generally proven to have less political willpower than Democrats, so a Republican administration is less likely to be willing or able to stop […]
Available for Pre-Order! Derek Hawthorne’s Being and The Birds or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Heidegger (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)
Counter Currents - Apr 10th 2024 10:42pm EDT300 words Derek Hawthorne Being and The Birds or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Heidegger (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing, 2024 Release date: May 20, 2024. Currently for sale at a pre-order discount. Philosopher and film critic Derek Hawthorne draws on the thought of Martin Heidegger to illuminate […]