• Crossing Blades

    Counter Currents - Oct 22nd 2025 7:26am EDT

    3,142 words In the late 1980s I lived in Brixton, South London. The London in England, that is, not the one in Kentucky or the dozen or so other Londons that are dotted across North America. Occasionally, on a Saturday night after the pubs closed, my friends and I would pile over to the all-night […]

  • Ideological Foundations of the Nouvelle Droite Part 3

    Counter Currents - Oct 21st 2025 11:16am EDT

    Part 1, Part 2 Alain de Benoist 4,170 words Political Conception of the Nouvelle Droite For the Nouvelle Droite, one of the fundamental criteria defining political activity is its polarization around a relationship of hostility—the friend–enemy polarity formulated by Carl Schmitt. The political act par excellence is that which mobilizes a population by designating an […]

  • It’s The Will Stancil Show

    Counter Currents - Oct 21st 2025 8:13am EDT

    Fan art of Will Stancil as Alex from A Clockwork Orange. 1,755 words Renowned racist vocalist and animator Emily Youcis has begun a new series lampooning fanatical housing policy lawyer Will Stancil. The Will Stancil Show, the first two episodes of which are now available on the platform formerly known as Twitter, follows the adventures […]

  • On Respect Between the Sexes

    Counter Currents - Oct 20th 2025 12:20pm EDT

    3,100 words We live in an age when ordinary standards of civility have collapsed yet somehow there is universal agreement that even morons and criminals deserve to be treated with “respect.” We are urged to extend respect even to other species and the planet as a whole. Sometimes self-respect is enjoined upon us. Within my […]

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  • Ideological Foundations of the Nouvelle Droite, Part 2

    Counter Currents - Oct 20th 2025 11:56am EDT

    4,606 words You can buy Greg Johnson’s New Right vs. Old Right here The European Heritage: The Question of Paganism On this particular point, I refer to the article “The Religion of Europe”, which appears in the selection of ND texts and summarizes the fundamental lines of Alain de Benoist’s book Comment peut-on être païen? […]

  • Anarcho-Tyranny Strikes Again in Scandinavia

    Counter Currents - Oct 20th 2025 7:06am EDT

    1,745 words For many decades following World War Two, Sweden was presented to an impressed but gullible world as the very model of a safe, tolerant, liberal, progressive, welfare-state paradise. Now, it seems to many outsiders like myself to have become much more of an unsafe, unfree, intolerant, intolerable, failed-state dystopia instead. Granny, Get Your […]

  • Editor’s Update

    Counter Currents - Oct 17th 2025 7:44pm EDT

    Andrea Ballarati 178 words 1. Fundraiser Update Thanks to our generous donors, this year’s fundraiser is now at $115,607.87. That’s a huge leap of more than $20,000, which now ends our current matching grant. Thank you all. At this time last year, we were at $160,174.74. So we are closing the gap, but we are […]

  • Nationalism This Week: Victory First

    Counter Currents - Oct 17th 2025 12:14pm EDT

    1,772 words The Young Republicans Chats Earlier this year, I met some Young Republicans, and they made me feel like a Boomer cuckservative. It was a dramatic illustration of just how much progress our ideas have made in penetrating the political mainstream. David Zsutty calls it the “racist group chat to Whitehouse policy pipeline,” and […]

  • A Tale of Two Narratives

    Counter Currents - Oct 17th 2025 9:46am EDT

    756 words You can buy Greg Johnson’s Toward a New Nationalism here. In much of the commentary surrounding today’s politics in the United States, we have a struggle between two narratives. After cutting through all the nuance and boiling everything down to the essentials, the conflicting sides can be described in the following way. One […]

  • Ideological Foundations Of The Nouvelle Droite

    Counter Currents - Oct 16th 2025 11:33am EDT

    3,824 words You can buy Greg Johnson’s New Right vs. Old Right here Translator’s Note: In 1986, a compilation of texts by Alain de Benoist and Guillaume Faye entitled Las Ideas de la Nueva Derecha: Una respuesta al colonialismo cultural (The Ideas of the Nouvelle Droite: A Response to Cultural Colonialism) was published in Spain […]

  • The Enduring Power of Western Civilization

    Counter Currents - Oct 16th 2025 8:11am EDT

    812 words You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Western Civilization Bites Back here. Despite endless talk about the “decline of the West,” Western civilization remains the cultural, legal, and intellectual nucleus of the modern world. Its institutions, values, and aesthetic standards still define what progress and modernity mean. Though power has diffused economically—China manufactures, India grows, […]

  • Victor Davis Hanson’s “Neo-Confederates”

    Counter Currents - Oct 15th 2025 11:27am EDT

    1,286 words In biology, convergent evolution explains how different species can develop genetic traits with similar form or function, yet be evolutionarily quite distinct. Such analogous structures are acquired independently rather than inherited from a common ancestor. One classic example is the sugar glider and the flying squirrel. These two small mammalian species developed the […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 658

    Counter Currents - Oct 15th 2025 11:04am EDT

    157 words  / 1:53:26 Angelo Plume hosted this episode of Counter-Currents Radio and welcomed special guest Wilhem Ivorsson to the show. Their chat is now available to download or listen to here. Topics include: 2:10 – Introducing Wilhem Ivorsson, formerly known as American Krogan. 6:05 – Wilhem on the transient nature of modern life in […]

  • Shifting Attorney’s Fees

    Counter Currents - Oct 15th 2025 7:56am EDT

    1,277 words America is notorious for litigation. Much of this is cultural, but it is also driven by the general, default rule that parties pay for their own attorney’s fees. The general rule in Europe and most countries is that the losing party pays the prevailing party’s attorney’s fees, or at least reasonable attorney’s fees. […]

  • The Communist Manifesto Revisited

    Counter Currents - Oct 14th 2025 1:47pm EDT

    3,368 words Some texts are not as daunting as their reputation makes them seem. Many years ago, an English talk-radio host named Nick Ferrari was in conversation with an American lady caller about some political scandal in her home country. The subject of the American Constitution came up, and the lady said that she presumed […]

  • The Demon Headmasters, Part Two: In African Schools, the Term “Witch-Hunt” Is Still Meant Literally

    Counter Currents - Oct 14th 2025 11:41am EDT

    3,003 words In the previous article in this series, we examined an illustrative selection of 21st century cases of alleged demonic persecution of staff and students alike throughout black African schools, many of which were blamed on witchcraft and sorcery. But witchcraft and sorcery are mere secondary phenomena. For them to exist in the first […]

  • Free Country: A Tale of The Children’s Crusade

    Counter Currents - Oct 14th 2025 8:24am EDT

    1,128 words The Free Country: A Tale of The Children’s Crusade (DC/Vertigo, 1993–1994 (original date)) is a dark and haunting crossover event published under DC’s Vertigo imprint. Structured as a seven-issue limited series, it is framed by two bookend volumes written by Neil Gaiman and Alisa Kwitney, and features a central narrative that unfolds through […]

  • Life After Trump

    Counter Currents - Oct 13th 2025 2:08pm EDT

    1,833 words I’ve been asked to share my thoughts on our movement’s “life after Trump.” The topic is ambiguous, however, because it could mean “after” the beginning or the end of Trump’s current term. Life after Trump’s re-election has been great for White Nationalists, because he’s doing things that we want: closing the border, deporting […]

  • Alt-Right Nostalgia

    Counter Currents - Oct 13th 2025 7:06am EDT

    1,681 words There’s a guy on X who goes by the name European Revolution. He’s an oldhead who has been around since the Alt Right days and won’t let you forget about it. A recurring theme of his posts is how much better things were back in the good old days of 2016-2019 or thereabouts. […]

  • Editor’s Update

    Counter Currents - Oct 10th 2025 11:15pm EDT

    You can buy Greg Johnson’s Is America Doomed? here. 178  words 1. Fundraiser & Matching Grant Update Thanks to our generous donors, this year’s fundraiser is now at $92,167.85. At this time last year, however, we were at $160,074.74. We are still a long way from our goal of $300,000. But the longest journey begins […]

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  • Nationalism This Week

    Counter Currents - Oct 10th 2025 12:15pm EDT

    1,833 words Keith Woods’ The Migrants Are Coming On October 5th, Keith Woods’ new documentary The Migrants are Coming premiered on YouTube and other platforms. On the 7th, the video was removed from YouTube, and the Europa channel that hosted it was banned. Fortunately, you can still watch and share this documentary on X, and […]

  • Who Needs White Nationalism?

    Counter Currents - Oct 10th 2025 8:15am EDT

    1,364 words In the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, leftist influencers began either blaming the Right for most of the political violence in America or calling for both sides to turn down the heat. It was a profoundly ironic moment, one that, thankfully, most conservatives and right-wingers saw through fairly easily. Starting with all […]

  • Mazes & Monsters: A Cautionary Tale About the Dangers of LARPing

    Counter Currents - Oct 9th 2025 1:38pm EDT

    2,021 Longtime Trav readers know that I am a big fan of what I like to call “time capsule movies”, that is to say movies that only could have been made at a specific time and place. Movies about a short-lived fad while the fad was still ongoing are particularly a favorite of mine. Along […]

  • The Critical Curriculum

    Counter Currents - Oct 9th 2025 11:57am EDT

    4,659 words Wayne Au Critical Curriculum Studies: Education, Consciousness, and the Politics of Knowing New York: Routledge, 2012 I fear that I have ignored Schopenhauer’s maxim: “A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones, for life is short.” However, the challenge with his guidance is determining whether a book, especially a more […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 657

    Counter Currents - Oct 9th 2025 7:00am EDT

    62 words / 2:10:48 This was a special episode of Counter-Currents Radio, in which David Zsutty debated Greg Conte on the legitimacy of terms like “left” and “right” in today’s politics and whether or not this paradigm just keeps us divided in the face of our real enemies. To listen in a player, click here […]