Edmund Blair Leighton, Duty (1883)Source: Wikimedia Commons 2,301 words This talk was delivered at the Counter-Currents Spring Retreat in Rome on April 11th, 2026, and again at the Finnish Awakening conference near Helsinki on April 19, 2026. I want to thank my hosts and my audience at both events. We are spending today in the […]
848 words I just got back from the Counter-Currents retreat in Rome. To culturally appropriate a phrase from the Civil Rights Movement, “My feets is tired, but my soul is rested” after a week of walking around the most historically significant city in the West. But we weren’t just exploring Rome’s past. We also encountered […]
Goethe at the Window by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1786-87), depicting Germany’s greatest writer during his life-altering sojourn in Rome. Source: Wikimedia Commons. 567 words Since the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the history, language, and literature of the Romans, and to a lesser extent their art and architecture, has provided a large part […]
Source: Wikimedia Commons 951 words Counter-Currents Editor-in-Chief Greg Johnson participated for the second time in Finland’s Awakening conference over the weekend. He was interviewed by the Finnish Kansalainen nationalist news site prior to the event. Hey Greg! How are you doing? Fine, thanks! Your work at Counter-Currents Publishing has had a significant impact in building […]
30 words This week, Millennial Woes will host Counter-Currents Radio. Noon Pacific, 3 pm Eastern, 8 pm UK time, 9 pm Central Europe at: Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/ccradio Send questions & donations to Entropy: entropystream.live/countercurrents
Péter Magyar 1,916 words Péter Magyar’s landslide victory over Viktor Orbán in the April 2026 Hungarian election presents both a problem and solution to the American Right. It indicates that the Republicans will be slaughtered in the 2026 midterms and quite possibly the 2028 presidential election — if things stay the same. But it also […]
Source: European Parliament 2,038 words Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is both the smartest politician in Europe and, from my point of view, the most ideologically sound. Thus it came as a big surprise that he was soundly trounced in last Sunday’s elections. Why did this happen, and what does it bode for Hungary and for the […]
Lithograph by W. Simpson from 1859 depicting British officers travelling in panniers on the backs of camels as well as in sedan chairs carried by Indian men. 2,554 words A statistic has been circulating widely online, and is invoked with great confidence in political speeches, social media debates, and nationalist discourse. It goes something like […]
The Roman Forum at night. Photo by Trey Ratcliff (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) 790 words As an American, I can relate better to Rome than to Greece, and that’s not necessarily a good thing. I have written two books on Plato. I love Greek philosophy, literature, and art. But they are not mine. I’ve just appropriated […]
4,019 words Part 1 of 2 Matt Goodwin Suicide of a Nation: Immigration, Islam, Identity Northstar Self-Publishing, 2026 Committing suicide is one of those things you’d never want to do twice. Yet today’s British state seems hell-bent upon forcing its captive subject-people to do so in a new and novel manner every single day anew, […]
You can buy Steven Tucker’s Nazi UFOs here. 3,380 words In Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, White Noise, the central character is a professor at the Department of Hitler Studies in an American university. DeLillo has a minor obsession with Der Führer. His 1997 novel, Underworld, is one of the great American novels of the twentieth […]
31 words There will be no Counter-Currents Radio stream this weekend, but next week we will have some prerecorded talks you will not want to miss. Stay Tuned! Greg Johnson
Edward Hopper, Soir Bleu (detail), 1914 1,584 words A lot of people are down in the dumps because of Trump’s shocking betrayals on immigration, the Epstein files, and especially the expanding debacle in Iran. Here are a few words of consolation. Things aren’t that bad. As a White Nationalist, my political goal is to restore […]
1,522 words Jonathan Bowden’s 64th birthday falls on this coming Sunday, April 12, 1962. He died on March 29, 2012, just short of his 50th birthday. We have added a great deal by and about Jonathan since his last birthday. (Click to see recent works tagged Jonathan Bowden.) Also, see our announcement of the upcoming […]
Aesop Tells his Fables by Johann Michael Wittmer. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. 1,617 words As discussed in Part 2, the primary issue in Plato’s Atlantis story is the cyclical nature of time. Questions of close secondary importance are what do stories, regardless of their veracity, tell about how people see themselves and others? What are […]
Departure of Japan’s Iwakura Mission to the West. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. 1,419 words Decolonization has become one of the most resonant and politically charged themes across the developing world. From the Caribbean to Africa, it is invoked as a moral imperative, a necessary process of reclaiming identity, sovereignty, and dignity after centuries of foreign […]
4,823 words Scott Anderson King of Kings—The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation New York: Doubleday, 2025 The Iran Hostage Crisis in which Iranian students imprisoned the Americans on the staff of the US Embassy for 444 days after its start date of November 4, 1979 was part of the Iranian […]
2,059 words The recent South by Southwest Film Festival saw the debut of a documentary which has left the world of cryptozoology in shambles. Capturing Bigfoot has shown that the world’s most famous footage of Sasquatch, the Patterson-Gimlin Film (PGF), was a hoax.1 The now debunked video was first presented to the world in 1967. […]
1,578 words Translated by Ondrej Mann Original in Czech: https://deliandiver.org/neofasismus-ve-filmu-cast-1/ “Decadence is a necessary condition for renaissance. That is why I am very happy to live in a society where everything is collapsing. I think this process of decay is completely natural. It is the end of a certain phase of humanity. However, this process […]
Herman Kahn, author of On Escalation. 1,672 words So often in geopolitical discussions commentators invoke the specter of escalation and the prospect of climbing the “escalation ladder,” rung by rung, towards ultimate nuclear cataclysm. Unfortunately, we are in the midst of one of the worst global crises in living memory where escalation is being recklessly […]
Cellphone footage of the recent Clapham mob. 3,019 words What is terrorism? There have been many attempts to provide a universally accepted definition. So many, in fact, that in the 1980s a Dutch academic named Alex P. Schmid reviewed over 100 such definitions and collated them into one: Terrorism is the use (or threat) of […]
1,944 words It is an open question as to precisely how many children Vladimir Putin actually has, but if it was up to him, no doubt he would impregnate every last comely young devotchka in the country. Back in 2014, one ultra-loyalist pro-Putin lawmaker proposed sending out free sperm samples of the Russian President’s “genetic […]
1,050 words The year is unknown. You wake up from a pleasant dream and tear off a virtual reality device which was attached to goggles seemingly built into your head. You find yourself sealed in a pod, although you are soon extracted by a strange machine. It is difficult to walk, because you have never […]
50 words Saturday, April 4th: Greg Johnson, David Zsutty, and some surprise guests take the microphone at Counter-Currents Radio to provide antidotes to the “black pill.” At our normal time: Noon Pacific, 1 pm Eastern, 8 pm UK time, 9 pm Central Europe at: Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/ccradio DLive: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents Send questions & donations to Entropy: entropystream.live/countercurrents
1,465 words Donald Trump addressed the nation on April Fools’ Day. It would have been too painful to listen to his adenoidal droning and borscht-belt insult comedian shtick, so I just read the transcript. He said nothing new. It was just a live version of his social media tweets: rambling, mendacious, self-contradictory, delusional, emotionally labile, […]
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