• Editors Update

    Counter Currents - Sep 12th 2025 4:23pm EDT

    You can buy Alain de Benoist’s Ernst Jünger between the Gods and the Titans here. 363 words 1. This Weekend’s Counter-Currents Radio This weekend’s Counter-Currents Radio will be at a special time: 1 PM Pacific/4 PM Eastern/10 PM Central European Time on: Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/never-relax DLive:  https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents Send questions & donations to Entropy:  entropystream.live/countercurrents 2. The Counter-Currents 2025 Fundraiser […]

  • Nationalism This Week

    Counter Currents - Sep 12th 2025 1:01pm EDT

    You can buy Greg Johnson’s Is America Doomed? here. 2,135 words This was another radicalizing week. The Murder of Iryna Zarutska On Tuesday, September 9th, full video of the murder of Iryna Zarutska was released. We watched in horror as she cringed, terrified of the hulking black orc who loomed over her and stabbed her. […]

  • The Assassination of Charlie Kirk Could This Be a Turning Point for the USA?

    Counter Currents - Sep 12th 2025 9:02am EDT

    1,515 words Charlie Kirk’s life was ended at 31 years by a still unknown assassin during an outdoor speaking event at Utah Valley University. Kirk was a political commentator well known for his Turning Point USA organization and his college campus visits, where he would debate students on virtually any political or cultural issue. Kirk […]

  • We Have Our Martin Luther King

    Counter Currents - Sep 12th 2025 8:18am EDT

    1,022 words By now we have all heard about the shocking and tragic assassination of conservative pundit Charlie Kirk. For me it was a devastating turn of events simply because Charlie Kirk was part of the American Right—if not a brother, then a close cousin. I really felt the loss. Yes, he was mainstream. Yes, […]

  • Victims of Two Invasions

    Counter Currents - Sep 11th 2025 10:08am EDT

    2,545 words Their names were Liana and Iryna. They were 16- and 23-year-old Ukrainian girls. They were refugees who escaped the barbaric Russian invasion and sought refuge in wonderful, civilized Western countries; Liana in Germany and Iryna in the U.S. Liana managed to escape Mariupol, her hometown that Russians razed to the ground, plundering, raping, […]

  • On the Murder of Iryna Zarutska

    Counter Currents - Sep 11th 2025 7:46am EDT

    1,180 words It’s always challenge for me to keep an even keel when discussing the topic of black people. I usually find myself torn between two temptations. I long either to indulge in mordant sarcasm over their preposterous presumption of equality or to express contempt for their violent and criminal behavior. In either case, I […]

  • Buckley Part 2

    Counter Currents - Sep 10th 2025 12:57pm EDT

    2,025 words Part 1 And so now we move on to the index, that dark, revelatory underbelly where we find who’s been put in and who’s been left out of the story Tanenhaus and company want to tell us. After 15 years of research, writing, interviewing, and re-fact-checking, the book must have first emerged as […]

  • Super Mario World-Revolution: Trying to Ruin Nintendo’s “Racist” and “Sexist” Cartoon Plumber in the Name of Diversity

    Counter Currents - Sep 10th 2025 8:14am EDT

    1,981 words This week marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console in Japan on 13 September 1985, the first true game in the all-conquering series which would go on to become perhaps the most popular in video game history. Playing the games as a […]

  • Race War in America

    Counter Currents - Sep 10th 2025 6:14am EDT

    1,330 words On Saturday September 6, 2025, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social, channelled his inner Lieutenant Colonel William “Bill” Kilgore from Apocalypse Now, and wrote “I love the smell of deportations in the morning.” This post along with an accompanying meme where Trump is rendered in the movie’s image, was in reference to […]

  • Buckley The Revolution Betrayed?

    Counter Currents - Sep 9th 2025 10:31am EDT

    1,582 words Sam Tanenhaus Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America New York: Random House, 2025 This month the Postal Service issues a new “Forever” stamp honoring William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008). Its portrait is distinguished by a) being black-and-white, like a photograph, and b) not looking an awful lot like the gentleman […]

  • Isaiah Berlin’s The Roots Of Romanticism

    Counter Currents - Sep 9th 2025 8:49am EDT

    3,417 words Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct – Théodore Géricault, 1818 The case has been made to the point of exhaustion that the neo-liberal, progressivist, “woke” ideology that has clawed its way to cultural and political hegemony across the West displays all the attributes of religion. It has its scriptures, its martyrs, its own separate […]

  • Looking Right to the Left Part 3

    Counter Currents - Sep 9th 2025 8:12am EDT

    2,185 words Part 1, Part 2 Weißmann does not express an opinion as to whether the polarity of democratic center versus hate resonates in the same way across the world. In Mexico for example, the polarity of “democracy versus enemies of democracy” is also used by politicians, but it may resonate very differently there, given […]

  • Is Wisdom Alone Sufficient For Happiness?

    Counter Currents - Sep 8th 2025 9:36am EDT

    Socrates accepting his fate. The Death of Socrates – Jacques-Louis David, 1787 2,083 words In Plato’s Euthydemus, Socrates argues for the paramount importance of philosophy because philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom, and wisdom is the most reliable way to attain happiness, which all men are pursing. Happiness requires many goods, but they won’t be […]

  • Left-Wing Scientific Anti-racism

    Counter Currents - Sep 8th 2025 7:25am EDT

    3,973 words A recent debate on X brought back intense memories from my days in academia. The discussion surrounded race, racism, averages, and outcomes. One of the few genuinely open-minded liberals in the debate implored me to read a lengthy article in The New Yorker about a woman named Kathryn Paige Harden, who researches behavioral […]

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  • Editors Update

    Counter Currents - Sep 6th 2025 10:12am EDT

    You can order Alain de Benoist’s The Populist Moment here 381 words 1. The Counter-Currents 2025 Fundraiser Our fundraiser took a big step forward thanks primarily to a single very generous donor: our total now stands at $81,177.91. Once again, my sincere thanks to all who have helped. But we are still a long way […]

  • Nationalism This Week

    Counter Currents - Sep 5th 2025 2:22pm EDT

    2,352 words 1. Chain Reactions & Control Rods If the elites who rule us were truly far-sighted, they would have strangled the Internet in its crib. Their control was never greater than when there were only three major television networks and all newspapers followed the Associated Press. The old media were one-way conduits delivering standardized […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 652

    Counter Currents - Sep 5th 2025 8:58am EDT

    166 words / 1:57:53 Greg Johnson, Keith Woods, and Millennial Woes discussed another summer of boiling tensions in the United Kingdom. The episode is now available to download or listen to here. Topics include: 1:51 – Keith Woods’ op-ed on dissolving the United Kingdom. 17:20 – Is Unionist sentiment on the rise with Reform UK? […]

  • 10 Ways to Support the Cause Without Getting Up From Your Desk

    Counter Currents - Sep 5th 2025 7:05am EDT

    4,413 words Would you like to do more for the cause but don’t know where to begin? Maybe participating in demonstrations seems too risky. Granted, there are reasons for caution. Perhaps you’re not a joiner in the first place. You may be among the millions who’ve been intimidated into silence with the threat of cancellation. […]

  • Vanikin in the Underworld

    Counter Currents - Sep 4th 2025 11:52am EDT

    1,525 words Is it possible that one can be a dissident and still not be a dissident? That is, can one have dissidence thrust upon him for what he thinks rather than for what he feels? Academia is rife with people like this— those who naively believed in their own freedom of inquiry until they […]

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  • A Technological Call for Action

    Counter Currents - Sep 4th 2025 9:35am EDT

    1,175 words   Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West New York: Crown Currency, 2025 Appeals to virtue and character, having been excluded for the most part from the civic and political realms, have migrated, or rather, been co-opted and appropriated, by […]

  • A Letter to a Normie Friend

    Counter Currents - Sep 4th 2025 6:55am EDT

    3,956 words You can buy Greg Johnson’s It’s Okay to Be White here. “Despite my disgust at the idea, I find myself strangely drawn to white supremacy. Why can that be?” That question (slightly edited) was posed to me by a close friend. He is extremely accomplished, a retired scientist and professor, author of many […]

  • The World In Flames Regular Hardcovers

    Counter Currents - Sep 3rd 2025 2:00pm EDT

    You can buy The World in Flames: The Shorter Writings of Francis Parker Yockey here. 120 words The limited edition of Francis Parker Yockey’s The World in Flames sold out long ago. But if you missed out, I have good news for you. The World in Flames is available again in hardcover. Like the limited […]

  • March for Australia

    Counter Currents - Sep 3rd 2025 10:31am EDT

    1,177 words Thomas Sewell addressing the crowd in Melbourne during March for Australia. On Sunday, August 31, March for Australia anti-immigration protests took place in approximately 20 cities across Australia, including all state and territory capitals and several regional cities: Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, etc. Notable attendees included One Nation party leader […]

  • Madhouse

    Counter Currents - Sep 3rd 2025 9:00am EDT

    3,142 words Ed Brandon A History of London County Lunatic Asylums & Mental Hospitals Pen and Sword History, 2022 Some of the news aggregators I watch online show clips from TikTok, and the fascination of watching this menagerie of psychological dysfunction reminded me of something I read or heard long ago. It seems that the […]

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  • Ozarks Calling

    Counter Currents - Sep 3rd 2025 7:01am EDT

    1,134 words Throughout modern discourse, a striking double standard exists regarding racial self-segregation or the creation of racially homogeneous communities. When black Americans, motivated by perceived or actual experiences of discrimination, establish all-black settlements or spaces, these actions are rarely framed as problematic. They are often presented as expressions of cultural solidarity, attempts to build […]