NAXALT is a Meaningless Tautology
Counter Currents - Sep 30th 2024 6:34am EDT758 words A statement like the ball is green or not green is always true, but it is meaningless. One cannot play basketball with a bowling ball. One the stumbling blocks keeping ordinary whites from becoming white advocates is the idea that not all of “X” are like that – NAXALT. This usually refers to […]
Editors Update
Counter Currents - Sep 27th 2024 3:13pm EDTYou can buy Greg Johnson’s Against Imperialism here. 580 words 1. Our 2024 Fundraiser Update Last week our fundraiser total was $105,232.86. A generous patron offered us a $10,000 matching grant to move things forward. It worked, bigly. I am pleased to announce that our total is now $140,554.92. Our goal this year is $300,000, […]
Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil
Counter Currents - Sep 27th 2024 1:18pm EDT3,695 words A young Martin Heidegger. Part 3 of 15 (Part 1 here. Part 2 here.) Self-Affirmation as Being We have seen that Schelling claims “there is no being other than will. Will is primal being [Ursein] to which alone all predicates of being apply: groundlessness, eternality, independence from time, self-affirmation.” We must now look more […]
Rediscovering a Politics of Limits
Counter Currents - Sep 27th 2024 9:03am EDT5,816 words Patrick J. Deneen Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future Sentinel, 2023 Patrick J. Deneen, a professor of Political Science at Notre Dame, came to prominence as the author of Why Liberalism Failed (2018), a book that contrasted our present circumstances with the rosy promises of previous generations of liberals. I published a favorable […]
Will American Survive to 2040?
Counter Currents - Sep 27th 2024 6:30am EDT41 words On September 14th, 2024, Greg Johnson spoke to the Institute for Historical Review on the question, “Will America Survive to 2040?” This is his talk. To listen in a player, click here or below. To download, right-click the link and click “save as.” https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/gregjohnsonhistoricalreview.mp3
The City Formerly Known As “America’s Whitest City”
Counter Currents - Sep 26th 2024 11:37am EDT1,225 words Photograph of KKK meeting with Portland Leaders, 1921. Image source: Wikimedia Commons For years, Portland, OR had an unshakable reputation as America’s whitest city: “How the whitest city in America appears through the eyes of its black residents” (Washington Post, 2015) “Portland is the Whitest U.S. City – Why Demographics are Rapidly Shifting” […]
Russian Culture as Pseudomorphosis
Counter Currents - Sep 25th 2024 2:55pm EDT6,331 words Western historians and analysts have always failed to comprehend Russia. Among many other things, its imperial nature has been puzzling to Westerners. For obvious reasons, there has been a tendency to compare it to Western colonial empires. As a prominent historian of Russia, Richard Pipes, once noted, unlike Western colonial empires which first […]
George H.W. Bush and His Tangle with the Genuine Far-Right
Counter Currents - Sep 25th 2024 10:53am EDT5,536 words George H.W. Bush. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The common narrative regarding the career of George Herbert Walker Bush, is that the 41st US President was a good man who put a steady hand upon the tiller of the ship of state. In international affairs, this was unquestionably true. He successfully managed the […]
Single-Issue Immigration Voter
Counter Currents - Sep 25th 2024 9:14am EDT849 words The Homeland Institute recently published the results and analysis of a poll they conducted in late August. The results of which suggest fertile ground for the cultivation of a voting bloc that could wield tremendous influence over American politics. A key takeaway from the poll was: On a scale of 1 to 5 with 1 […]
The Union Jackal: September 2024
Counter Currents - Sep 25th 2024 6:30am EDT2,441 words Huw Edwards, former BBC news presenter and a convicted paedophile. Image courtesy of Crown Prosecution Service Hello, and welcome to Celebrity Paedophiles! The phrase “two-tier policing”, coined by then-Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman in 2023, has widened out in semantic scope to become, first, the “two-tier justice system”, and now, the “two-tier society”. […]
There’s no “X” in “Team”
Counter Currents - Sep 24th 2024 3:07pm EDT467 words “Look, Mom! They have 10 pound bags of rotten apples on sale for 75% off. I bet there are a few good ones in there. We should buy a bag.” “Not all ‘X’ are like that,” is the equivalent to buying a bag of rotten apples because there are a few good ones […]
Unmourned Funeral: Chapter 7
Counter Currents - Sep 24th 2024 12:40pm EDT5,103 words Chapter 7 SHADOWPLAY Escaping Plato’s Cave In the shadowplay, Acting out your own death, Knowing no more. Joy Division, Shadowplay We have seen the death of philosophy, or at the very least her mysterious disappearance, and thus the demise of the philosopher, who is now at best a BBC guest, a collector of […]
Washing Away the NAXALT Fallacy
Counter Currents - Sep 24th 2024 12:03pm EDT577 words Do you wash your hands before eating? We all wash our hands before we eat so that bacteria and physical impurities don’t get into our food, and so that we don’t have to eat our food with sand and dirt, for example. That would be unpleasant and would cause tooth abrasion. No one […]
Conservatism Cannot Save Springfield, or White America
Counter Currents - Sep 24th 2024 11:50am EDT1,898 words The ongoing crisis taking place in the small Ohio city of Springfield has quickly turned into one of the leading stories in the American news cycle. In a predictable turn of events, flooding a community with thousands of Haitians has resulted in chaos, destruction and even death. The good news is that the […]
The Worst Week Yet September 15-21, 2024
Counter Currents - Sep 24th 2024 1:15am EDT2,023 words Donald Trump addresses the Israeli-American Council in Washington, DC on Thursday, September 19 (screen capture). Five days after this electoral campaign’s second bungled attempt on his life, Donald Trump—who to my knowledge has yet to address white Americans by name as a voting bloc—spoke before the Israeli-American Council in Washington, DC. After being […]
Interview with Ruuben Kaalep
Counter Currents - Sep 23rd 2024 9:16am EDT2,214 words Ruuben Kaalep Ruuben Kaalep recently gave an interview to a Portuguese researcher sympathetic to the cause of nationalism. Presented here is their conversation. Question: How do you distinguish between Faye’s “Archeofuturism” and “Ethnofuturism”? I get this question a lot, but it’s important to recognize that Archeofuturism and Ethnofuturism are two independently conceived ideas, […]
Editor’s Update
Counter Currents - Sep 20th 2024 4:31pm EDTYou can order the Centennial Edition of Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium here. 545 words 1. Our 2024 Fundraiser Update Summer is coming to an end, which means fundraising season will be kicking into high gear. A generous donor has offered a matching grant of $10,000 to help get us off to a good start. Every […]
1Darryl Cooper in Conversation with Greg Johnson
Counter Currents - Sep 20th 2024 4:15pm EDTDarryl Cooper on The Tucker Carlson Show. 17,828 words Darryl Cooper has been in the news a lot after his interview with Tucker Carlson. In 2016, Cooper invited Greg Johnson on as a guest for his podcast Decline of the West. Presented here is the complete text transcript of their conversation. The audio version can be listened […]
Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil
Counter Currents - Sep 20th 2024 9:13am EDT3,049 words Part 2 of 15 (Read Part 1 here) Freedom, System, and Pantheism Schelling begins the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (henceforth referred to as the Freiheitsschrift) by challenging the widespread idea that the existence of human freedom is incompatible with “system.” Schelling writes, “According to an old but in no […]
King Arthur: Knights, Action, and Colonization
Counter Currents - Sep 19th 2024 12:34pm EDTwords In “They Don’t Make Them Like They Used To,” Angelo Plume’s paean to the film First Knight, he gives us a blow-by-blow account of the film, lamenting that such films don’t get made anymore. Sad but true for the West. After reading the review, I had my Saturday night pizza, popped open a beer […]
Let’s Hope That Everyone Who Kills Our Children Is White
Counter Currents - Sep 19th 2024 11:11am EDTHermanio Joseph, a Haitian migrant convicted of vehicular homicide in the 2023 death of 11-year-old Aiden Clark in Springfield, OH (Clark County Sheriff’s Office) 1,209 words “I wish that my son, Aiden Clark, was killed by a 60-year-old white man.” Those rancid words slithered out of Nathan Clark’s lips last Tuesday evening as he spoke […]
The Rise of the Single-Issue Immigration Voter
Counter Currents - Sep 19th 2024 5:30am EDT4,175 words On August 15, Donald Trump made the following statement about immigration and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at a press conference: “. . . [W]e’re going to close the border and get the crooked ones out, the bad ones out. And we’re gonna let a lot of people come in. Because we need more people. […]
Renaissance and Reformation: The Verge by Patrick Wyman
Counter Currents - Sep 18th 2024 12:25pm EDT2,684 words Patrick Wyman The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World Grand Central Publishing, 2021 A phrase which originates with the alchemical writers of the late Middle Ages is a prediction which has probably come true at least once for any reader; One book opens another. A book which has an […]
The Moral Compass Needs Adjusting: Germans and Dutch Still Fail to Get the Message
Counter Currents - Sep 18th 2024 8:49am EDT1,568 words Ysselsteyn War Cemetery. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons I have contemplated writing about this for a while now. “What’s the point?” I thought to myself. “We all know the drill.” But it continues to rankle. Which, I guess, was exactly the purpose. Last year, I visited the German war cemetery at Ysselsteyn, Netherlands, […]
A Selection of Recent Findings in the Mainstream Conservative Press
Counter Currents - Sep 18th 2024 5:33am EDT3,224 words It’s quite obvious that the leftist mainstream media is a big clown show. As for the mainstream conservative media, which generally includes subsidiaries of the News Corp conglomerate, it’s a mixed bag. There are two ways to look at them. One could view them as positive for having a healthy outlook on certain […]