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An Offer You Can’t Refuse: Mosca Explains the Mob

8,678 words Gaetano Mosca What Is the Mafia? Men and Things of Sicily Translated by Thomas Nicholls; Introduction by Edward Maxwell III Imperium Press, 2025 “Why did you go to the police? Why didn’t you come to me first?” – Don Corleone, The Godfather “All they got from Paulie was protection from other guys looking […]

Fighting the Enemy Within

1,041 words The Trump administration has taken tangible steps to fight its internal enemies. The president and his officials have attacked the strongholds and redoubts of the entrenched Left both in the halls of power and in society more generally. They have realized that the radical Left has subsumed the entire Left and should be […]

Unter Soldaten und Agitatoren, Part 1

3,426 words Othmar Plöckinger Unter Soldaten und Agitatoren: Hitlers prägende Jahre im deutschen Militär 1918-1920 Schöningh, 2013 When I was asked if I’d be interested in reviewing Othmar Plöckinger’s book Unter Soldaten und Agitatoren: Hitlers prägende Jahre im deutschen Militär 1918-1920 (Among Soldiers and Agitators: Hitler’s formative years in the German military, 1918–1920), I wasn’t […]

The Union Jackal September-October 2025

3,459 words Identity Crisis It’s become something of an axiom in the UK that if former Prime Minister Tony Blair thinks something is a good idea, then it will certainly be a very bad idea for ordinary British people, particularly the ones unfortunate enough today to have white skin. Almost 30 years after Blair and […]

It’s Time to Retire “Dissident Right”

1,472 words It is said that Alexander the Great wept for there were no worlds left to conquer. I feel you, Alex. Sometimes it feels like there are no normies left to redpill and all the debates have been won. On X, the epicenter of right-wing internet culture, various factions and denominations of, essentially, White […]

You can buy Greg Johnson’s Toward a New Nationalism here. 152 words 1. The Counter-Currents 2025 Fundraiser Our fundraiser total now stands at $89,862.45. Once again, my sincerest thanks. Our goal this year is  $300,000, and we are now more than $70,000 behind where we were at the same time last year ($159,974.74). A generous […]

“If White People Had a Country of Our Own . . .”

1,447 words Years ago, a terrible person said a wonderful thing: White Nationalists need to sum up our position in a simple “mantra” that we can repeat whenever there is an atrocity against white people: “If white people had a country of our own, this would not have happened.” This needs to be our first […]

Hegseth Unleashes the War Department

1,226 words This week, Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth ordered every general to attend a meeting with himself and President Trump at Quantico on short notice. The purpose was to clearly emphasize that the era of the Department of Defense, which Hegseth characterized as the Department of Woke, is over. It is not just a […]

The Demon Headmasters, Part One: Outbreaks of Magical Mass Hysteria in African Schools

3,061 words Being a former high school English teacher, every autumn the beginning of the new academic year brings back memories of my former life in the classroom, and some of its odder incidents – none odder than the time I was accused of possessing magical powers. Teaching a play in which one character is […]

Left vs. Right, Post-Charlie Kirk: A Rebuttal to Greg Conte’s “Keith Woods and the Jews’ New Class War”

1,201 words I had major disagreements with Charlie Kirk on immigration and Israel, as I do with much of mainstream conservatism. In fact, my first article was about roasting Charlie at UCLA during the Groyper War. But we fought each other with words, not bullets. After the death of Charlie Kirk, many on the Right […]

Race As An Occam’s Razor

1,758 words Except for a few individuals with a “bad guy” complex (the same people who derive some sort of pleasure from being labeled intolerant, xenophobic, and homophobic), generally speaking, no one in Western societies likes to be accused of being discriminatory. Discrimination is regarded as something negative, and no one wants to be accused […]

The Based Jew

2,352 words Diaspora Jews—especially left-wing ones—have been a problematic ethnic minority for multiracial egalitarian societies in the West for many years. This is not merely because Jewish elites tend to feel that they are in a constant state of conflict with their host populations, but also because they often adhere to the following behavior pattern. […]

Cancelling Our Galileo pt. 2

2,769 words Nobel laureate Dr. James D. Watson, Chancellor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Many of the people who joined in the attacks on Watson in 2007 must have known that what he said about racial differences was accurate. After all, if he had simply been unaware of all the studies demonstrating that racial IQ gaps […]

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 656

163 words / 2:08:27 Endeavour dropped by for yet another appearance on Counter-Currents Radio. He and Greg Johnson discussed Endeavour’s essay on the failure of conservative populism in Canada, and listener questions. The episode is now available to download or listen to here. Topics include: 2:00 – The subtle but important differences between the US […]

Eating People Is Not Wrong: Taste-Testing the Anti-Racist, Anti-Homophobic, Cannibal Rights Movement

1,936 words Cannibals Contemplating Human Remains – Jean François Gigoux Asked to review a book about cannibalism for another outlet recently, [1] I was pleased to be reminded of a 1970 Monty Python sketch in which a group of sailors stranded in a lifeboat eagerly compete to see who should be served for dinner to […]

I Have Never Felt More Represented

1,581 words Marjorie Taylor Green. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia  Commons. There are plenty of minority constituencies that are relatively small in number but can still point to one or more elected officials who champion their interests and act as a public face for their cause. Libertarians, for instance, have Rand Paul in the Senate and […]

Cancelling Our Galileo

2,558 words Edward Dutton Genius Under House Arrest: The Cancelation of James Watson Washington: Academica Press, 2025 Ed Dutton’s latest offering is a continuation of two of his favorite themes: the nature of genius, and the personality profile of those who suffer from the woke mind virus. In October, 2007, the two clashed dramatically when […]

What White Liberals Need To Know

4,607 words Meaningful dialogue across an ideological divide can be quite difficult. It’s enough of a challenge with mainstream conservatives, who just need a helpful nudge out of the kiddie pool, but often are hung up on ineffectual positions such as civic nationalism, neocon military adventures, misplaced egalitarianism, and libertarian economism. Liberals are another matter […]

Oscar Wilde’s The Decay of Lying: What is Aestheticism?

3,244 words In the late 19th century, there was a debate raging in the salons across Europe over what is the proper aim of art. You had the modernists who believed that art should try to reflect reality and then you had the aesthetes who believed that the purest art was art that was entirely […]

Editor’s Update

You can buy Greg Johnson’s Graduate School with Heidegger here 453 words 1. The Counter-Currents 2025 Fundraiser: A New $7,000 Matching Grant Thanks to a generous donor, the next $7,000 donated to Counter-Currents will be matched dollar for dollar. Our fundraiser total now stands at $85,154.97. Thank you for your help! Our goal this year […]

About Face!

1,789 words Trump’s H-1B About-Face Last Christmas, “The Counter-Jeethad on X” revealed s a massive fissure in the MAGA coalition between tech oligarchs and American national populists. Tech oligarchs favor H-1B visas that allow them to bring in cheaper foreign workers for tech jobs. A now common abuse in the tech industry is to lay […]

The Counter-Currents 2025 Fundraiser Refugees Welcome

705 words If anything positive can come from the political assassination of Charlie Kirk, then it might be movement. Not a movement, perhaps we have enough of those already. I mean movement itself, movement of people who have been uneasy about their political affiliation for a long time and for whom September 10 was the […]

Hate Now, Forgive Later

1,158 words On Sunday, September 21, 200,000 people showed up at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, for a memorial service for Charlie Kirk. More than 100 million people watched all over the world. The speakers included President Trump, Vice President Vance, Erika Kirk, Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, Jr., Tucker Carlson, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., […]

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 655: We Got What We Voted For

145 words / 1:52:30 Matt Parrott joined Greg Johnson on this episode of Counter-Currents Radio. It is now available to download or listen to here. Topics include: 2:04 – The new policy on H1B visas. 14:24 – Who in the Trump administration talks sense to the President? 19:58 – A history of Indian migrants in […]

Why Trumpian Populism Won’t Work in Canada

3,196 words In late 2024, the Conservative Party of Canada appeared poised to claim a landslide electoral victory in the upcoming 2025 Canadian Federal Election. With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s approval rating hitting rock bottom, the Liberal Party seemed dead in the water. Pierre Poilievre, the populist leader of the Conservative Party, becoming the country’s […]