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  • Carl Schmitt and American Jurisprudence

    Counter Currents - Jul 13th 2023 2:40pm EDT

    1,856 words Carl Schmitt can illuminate American politics and jurisprudence by offering an outside perspective from continental Europe. First, his idea of the state of exception can help describe how the United States Constitution was rewritten in the Civil Rights era. And secondly, his description of the sovereign and of political theology explain in part […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 540 Millennial Woes and Pox Populi on the French Riots, Part 1

    Counter Currents - Jul 13th 2023 1:05pm EDT

    148 words / 1:32:47 Pox Populi (Telegram, YouTube)  and Millennial Woes were the guest hosts on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they offered trenchant analyses of the riots in France, the justifications and excuses of the chattering classes, other current things, and answered listener questions. Topics discussed include: 00:09:32 Summary of events 00:13:48 We might […]

  • The Difference Between a Man & a Douchebag

    Counter Currents - Jul 13th 2023 10:35am EDT

    1,276 words / 9:17 Audio version: To listen in a player, use the one below or click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” It’s a statistical fact that men die younger than women do, and not simply because we want to. The odds are so […]

  • Counter-Currents in the (Fake) News

    Counter Currents - Jul 12th 2023 3:56pm EDT

    600 words Recently, a fake news site (that I shall not name or link) published that Counter-Currents had a “data breach.” “Uh-oh,” I thought, because even I am apparently not cynical enough to dismiss everything in the mainstream media out of hand. When I read the story, my fears quickly turned to derisive laughter. The […]

  • Western Civilization is Dying

    Counter Currents - Jul 12th 2023 2:55pm EDT

    English philosopher John Gray is convinced we’re passing through a big historical moment, but he couldn’t tell you what it is. 1,398 words 1998: What struck me In 1998 it struck me that our civilization was dying. Moreover, it was dying by its own hand. Our institutions seemed to be bent on doing everything they […]

  • Süssical: Jud Süß, Part 2

    Counter Currents - Jul 12th 2023 1:46pm EDT

    1,473 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Harlan’s film, unlike Mendes’, was an enormous box office success,[1] and it is said that concentration camp guards and the SS were shown this film to remind them of their duties. It is fast-paced, and Harlan shows things: the oppression of Süß’s decrees, Theodora’s corpse, the […]

  • Choice Architectures & Controlled Spontaneity: Behavioral Science Goes to Westminster

    Counter Currents - Jul 11th 2023 5:16pm EDT

    Richard Thaler thinks you may need a little nudge from above to make the correct decisions. 1,890 words When the subject awoke from the state of somnambulism, he seemed to have lost all memory of what had happened while he was in that state. — Sigmund Freud, An Autobiographical Study  That’s like hypnotizing chickens. — […]

  • Remembering Carl Schmitt (July 11, 1888–April 7, 1985)

    Counter Currents - Jul 11th 2023 10:29am EDT

    Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985 1,075 words Carl Schmitt was born on July 11, 1888 in Plettenberg, Westphalia, Germany — where he died on April 7, 1985, at the age of 96. The son of a Roman Catholic small businessman, Carl Schmitt studied law in Berlin, Munich, and Strasbourg, graduating and taking his state exams in Strasbourg […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: June 25-July 1, 2023

    Counter Currents - Jul 10th 2023 10:39am EDT

    Ben and Jerry 2,748 words Ice-Cream Moguls Ben & Jerry Get Scalped By a Vermont Injun Who Claims They Stole His Land Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, like Bernie Sanders, are New York Jews who helped destroy the once-placid, once-beautiful, once almost entirely rural and homespun State of Vermont. I say this with a tad […]

  • Shooting and Killing Five People to Protest Gun Violence

    Counter Currents - Jul 9th 2023 10:37am EDT

    73 words / 11:37 Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “Shooting and Killing Five People to Protest Gun Violence,” on America’s first postmodern mass shooter: Kimbrady Carriker, who may or may not be black, may or may not be transgendered, and may either be a Black Nationalist or a […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2023 Fundraiser: Turning the World Around

    Counter Currents - Jul 7th 2023 1:45pm EDT

    724 words Like all journals of dissident ideas, Counter-Currents depends on the support of our readers. So far this year, we’ve raised $55,211.30 of our $300,000 goal. I want to thank everyone who has donated so far. (Please donate here!) Our friend Gaddius Maximus recently ran a series of revealing polls on his Telegram channel, […]

  • Has Affirmative Action Really Been Overturned?

    Counter Currents - Jul 7th 2023 9:06am EDT

    3,412 words Aside from forecasting the future in terms of how college admissions will work, the recent Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action — Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, which can be read here — provides us an opportunity to analyze the current state of United States law […]

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  • Upcoming Livestreams: Pox Populi & Millennial Woes on France; Greg Johnson on Plato’s Gorgias

    Counter Currents - Jul 6th 2023 11:35am EDT

    514 words On Saturday July 8th, Pox Populi (Telegram, YouTube)  and Millennial Woes will host Counter-Currents Radio. Tune in for their trenchant analyses of the riots in France, the justifications and excuses of the chattering classes, other current things, and of course YOUR QUESTIONS. The stream will start at noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern Standard Time, 8pm UK […]

  • Shooting and Killing Five People to Protest Gun Violence

    Counter Currents - Jul 6th 2023 9:49am EDT

    Kimbrady Carriker 1,498 / 11:12 Audio version: To listen in a player, use the one below or click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” I suppose it’s fitting that 247 years after our all-white and all-male Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 539 Greg Johnson on Plato’s Gorgias, Lecture 2

    Counter Currents - Jul 6th 2023 8:58am EDT

    351 words / 1:41:51 Greg Johnson is teaching a five-week course on Plato’s Gorgias on Counter-Currents Radio, which will continue for the next three Saturdays (July 8, 15, and 22). The second lecture, which dealt with Socrates’ discussion with Polus from 461b to 481b, can be heard below. The theme of the course is “Might […]

  • Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

    Counter Currents - Jul 5th 2023 5:58pm EDT

    638 words Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny isn’t good enough or bad enough to merit a review. Which I guess is a review in and of itself. I enjoyed the first three Indiana Jones movies a good deal. They aren’t serious movies. But they are well-made, entertaining piffle, with Harrison Ford as an […]

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  • Greg Johnson’s The Trial of Socrates

    Counter Currents - Jul 5th 2023 1:18pm EDT

    You can buy Greg Johnson’s The Trial of Socrates here. 2,181 words The trial and death of Socrates is one of the most compelling places to begin one’s philosophical education. — Greg Johnson, The Trial of Socrates Everyone strives to obtain the law. — Franz Kafka, The Trial Philosophy in the West has been withering […]

  • Everyone Liked the Baths: Alexander Bätz’s Nero: Madness & Truth, Part 2

    Counter Currents - Jul 5th 2023 10:22am EDT

    5,126 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Nero was only 16 when he became Emperor. His coming to power had nevertheless been enabled by several murders and/or suspiciously timely deaths. Claudius may or may not have died accidentally, but Narcissus, who favored Britannicus and the Senator Silanus, were poisoned almost certainly on the […]

  • July Fourth Ruminations

    Counter Currents - Jul 4th 2023 10:26am EDT

    1,190 words July Fourth always inspires a nostalgic feeling in me. When I was a kid, the holiday roughly marked the halfway point of summer break. Then, and now, it also means the beginning of the dog days of summer. The term “dog days” originated with the ancient Greeks, who coined it to describe the […]

  • Celebrate July Fourth with Counter-Currents!

    Counter Currents - Jul 4th 2023 9:47am EDT

    601 words Happy Independence Day to our American readers! It is easy for race-conscious Americans to become cynical about July 4th, which is now an occasion for celebrating an egalitarian civil religion fabricated from a misinterpreted line in the Declaration of Independence, “. . . all men are created equal . . . ,”  sometimes paired […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: June 25-July 1, 2023

    Counter Currents - Jul 3rd 2023 12:40pm EDT

    Photo taken by Nahel Besançon in Planoise, France on June 29. 2,210 words / 18:01 The French Mistake I’m only going to focus on one story this week because it seems compelling and significant enough to drown out everything else that happened. Since it bears the ominous potential to metastasize into something even more far-reaching, […]

  • Ted Talk: An Analysis of Ted Kaczynski’s Manifesto, Part 2

    Counter Currents - Jul 3rd 2023 9:07am EDT

    Ted Kaczynski outside his Montana cabin in 1972. 6,122 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Rich Houck: There’s also other parts I find a small problem with. Ted Kaczynski seems to think that without these modern technologies, people cannot be controlled or subverted or treated poorly, but it seems to me that throughout […]

  • LOLocaust Denial

    Counter Currents - Jul 2nd 2023 12:36pm EDT

    24 words / 9:33 Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “LOLocaust Denial,” on Roseanne Barr’s recent foray into Holocaust denial. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/LOLocaustDenial.mp4 *  *  * Counter-Currents has extended special privileges to those who donate $120 or more per year. First, donor comments will appear immediately instead of waiting […]

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  • Upcoming Livestreams Greg Johnson on Plato’s Gorgias

    Counter Currents - Jun 30th 2023 3:18pm EDT

    437 words Every educated person should be familiar with Plato, but higher education today is usually a barrier to understanding the great thinkers of the past. Hence the need for Counter-Currents, which Jonathan Bowden described as an online university of the Right. In the next five Saturday Counter-Currents Radio livestreams (June 24 and July 1, […]

  • Ted Talk: An Analysis of Ted Kaczynski’s Manifesto, Part 1

    Counter Currents - Jun 30th 2023 2:49pm EDT

    Ted Kaczynski teapot by Charles Krafft 6,103 words Part 1 of 2 The following is an edited transcript of the conversation between Greg Johnson and Richard Houck on the subject of Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future, that was broadcast on Counter-Currents Radio in April 2021. You can listen to the recording here. […]