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Unconvincingly Lies the Dickhead That Wears the Crown:

2,044 words King Charles III has won plaudits lately for his official trip to America, during which he gave a speech “subtly” condemning Donald Trump’s war in Iran, seemingly without Trump even realizing the fact, because that would have entailed Trump actually listening to someone properly for once. But was the true reason for the […]

Institutions Cannot Be Transplanted

2,477 words Modern development theory rests on a simple assumption: institutions can be transferred from one society to another. If a country adopts the right legal codes, builds courts, trains bureaucrats, and establishes regulatory agencies, it is expected to converge toward the stability and prosperity of developed nations. This assumption persists not because it is […]

The Union Jackal, May 2026

20/01/2026. Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds his weekly Cabinet meeting. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street 2,968 words Something is Rotten in the Fourth Estate What can I know? The question was famously posed by the 16th-century French essayist, Michel de Montaigne. But his was a metaphysical question, whereas if we bring […]

BRICS War One:

6,105 words On 2024’s April Fool’s Day, fighter-bombers from modern Israel’s American-funded and American-equipped air force bombed the Embassy of Iran in Damascus, Syria. A fortnight later, the Iranians responded with a drone and missile attack that was mostly thwarted. Then came the appearance of calm between the two hostile nations for several months. The […]

Jonathan Bowden’s Deliverance, Part 5

You can order Jonathan Bowden’s The Cultured Thug here. 1,982 words Part 5 of 7 (Full series here.) Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi In 1995, Jonathan Bowden self-published his Collected Works in six volumes (London: Avant-Garde, 1995), edited by Jürgen Schwartz, one of Bowden’s pen names. These volumes comprise 27 distinct books, 12 […]

How to Train Your Demon

7,303 words “I don’t want to be a product of my environment; I want my environment to be a product of me.” – Frank Costello, The Departed “You don’t ask for power. You design the system that obeys.” –David Thompson Constant Readers will recall that recently, in “Yockey vs the Dorks: AI, Ethnic Souls, & […]

Yes, We Can Replace Them

Why did anti-whites kick the Great Replacement into high gear with the migrant crisis of 2014 and again with the election of Joe Biden, even though backlashes were completely predictable? Were they simply overconfident? Or were they in a hurry because they feared other forces were at work that might stop them? One factor may […]

The Moral Revolution Comes First

Jean Delville, Prometheus, 1907 1,216 words What a difference a year makes! Last year at this time, Trump was off to a good start, our ideas were all over social media, and I was wondering if Counter-Currents was becoming irrelevant. First, Trump was doing things we would do if we were in power. Second, while […]

Editor’s Update

You can order Greg Johnson’s Loving Our Own here 284 words Greg Johnson on The Political Cesspool, Saturday, May 2 Instead of a Counter-Currents Radio stream, Greg Johnson will appear with James Edwards on The Political Cesspool. The Political Cesspool begins at 4 pm Pacific, 6 pm Central time, 7 pm Eastern. You can listen […]

An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part XXI:

Hail to the Day by Arthur Rackham 3,876 words 1. Introduction: Wisdom Speaking In our last installment, we discussed Sigurd’s meeting with the Valkyrie Brynhild, and how their encounter recapitulates, on a higher level, the dualities found in the story of the dragon slaying. When Sigurd rides through the fire to meet the Valkyrie he […]

Biden and Trump: Twin Towers of Senility

2,270 words The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” From January of 2021 to January of 2025, a disturbingly obvious fraud was foisted on the American people: the man occupying the Oval Office was several bricks shy of a load, a hollowed-out fragile […]

Politics, Metapolitics, and Hegemony

William Blake, “The Ancient of Days,” 1794 1,193 words As Kevin Deanna has observed, every election is now the most important election of our lifetimes, and we are always one electoral defeat away from total disaster. It didn’t used to be that way. Twenty years ago, it was easy for White Nationalists to be indifferent […]

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 686

63 words / 1:00:05 Greg Johnson answers questions on psychology and psychiatry, the dangers of leisure and Universal Basic Income in a liberal society, Ukraine and the EU, a nationalist Germany, the SPLC indictment, reading Plutarch and Gibbon, and more. Now for your  streaming or downloading pleasure. To listen in a player, click here or […]

Slaves from the North:

3,251 words Jukka Korpela Slaves from the North: Finns and Karelians in the East European Slave Trade, 900–1600 Brill, Studies in Global Slavery, Volume 5, 2019 There is a history of human bondage in Europe that the textbooks rarely teach. While the transatlantic slave trade—with its millions of African captives, its plantation economies, and its […]

Le Debacle: Historical Echoes of Zola’s France

3,010 words Emile Zola’s 1892 novel Le  Débâcle is almost familiar reading these days, for when I recall this book, while set in the supposedly serene and ordered nineteenth century, has a horror of déjà vu that shrouds America, Iran, and the Donald. The novel, part of a series Zola wrote to capture France in […]

Is the Anti-Defamation League a Hate Group?

1,269 words It’s nearly impossible to explain to anyone who doesn’t try to publish essays from the perspective of the Dissident Right just how difficult it is to get certain opinions published. Even a willing interlocutor has trouble comprehending just how impenetrable the wall is between the institutions curating public opinion and the public itself. […]

Counter-Currents in Rome

1,566 words Since 2011, Counter-Currents has organized private, invitation-only weekend retreats for our writers, donors, and friends. We have had many distinguished speakers and guests, including Jonathan Bowden, Kevin MacDonald, Mark Weber, Jared Taylor, Charles Krafft, Roger Devlin, and Edward Dutton. One purpose of these retreats is to foster real-world fellowship and collaborations. We keep […]

500 Years of British Art (Part 1 of 2)

1,998 words Editor’s Note: This is a transcript of a recently released video of Jonathan Bowden speaking about British art. Some passages are repeated because they are repeated in the video. You can watch the video here. All culture replicates ethnicity and race at another level of mental construction. The whole point of human culture, […]

Neo-fascism in film part 4

Mark’s Initiation Ritual (Skinheads) 3,958 words Part 4 of 7 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) Translated by Ondrej Mann Czech original If we study Caesar’s statements, we find that the ancient Romans used the same methods against the tribes they enslaved as the fascists did in our time. Over two millennium, the means have […]

Sir Taqiyya Starmer and Sadiq Cant:

Starmer attending an Iftar reception in 2025. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. 3,638 words Donald Trump is always on the lookout for insulting nicknames for his political enemies. Given his current falling out with Sir Keir Starmer over the Iran War, I would like to hereby suggest the President begin calling the dismal UK Prime Minister […]

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 685

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ecstasy of St. Teresa, 1647-52 (Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome) 75 words / 1:06:36 Jared Taylor and Greg Johnson discuss the Counter-Currents Retreat in Rome and their impressions of CasaPound, as well as their visit to the Finnish Awakening Conference and Jared’s other recent travels in France and Belgium. Now […]

An Interview with Glen Allen, Free Speech Advocate

2,278 words We are republishing this interview from August 2, 2021, due to the DOJ’s recent indictment against the SPLC. Glen Allen is a Baltimore attorney who lost his job working for the City in August 2016 thanks to actions taken by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Because Allen once allegedly supported William Pierce’s […]

Editor’s Update

55 words Saturday, April 25, Greg Johnson welcomes Jared Taylor to Counter-Currents Radio. They will discuss their experiences at the Counter-Currents Retreat in Rome and the Finnish Awakening Conference, Jared’s other recent travels, and of course your questions. Noon Pacific, 3 pm Eastern, 8 pm UK time, 9 pm Central Europe at: Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/ccradio Send questions […]

The Attributes of the Arts; by Anne Vallayer-Coster; 1769. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. 1,466 words In the United States, discussions surrounding gifted education seem to have progressed beyond mere reform and into a phase of reduction. For instance, during his time in office, Bill de Blasio instructed New York City’s public elementary schools to stop […]

Preparing for a Future After Trump

Hermann Knackfuß – Alanics and Suevians coming into Spain (Migration period). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. 2,245 words The Lost Opportunity for the Trump Administration Like many of you, I have been pleasantly surprised at the great strides that the Trump Administration has been making on the domestic policy front. It’s obvious to me that there […]