Hey Haitians, Stop Eating Our Pets!
Counter Currents - Sep 17th 2024 1:37pm EDT1,294 words Everything subversive or destructive has intensified this fall as the American federal election looms. We are two months out, and things are getting worse. Although we are lurching from crisis to calamity every few days, it is crucial that we continue to sound the alarm bells. Everywhere we live in the West, our […]
2Unmourned Funeral: Chapter 6
Counter Currents - Sep 17th 2024 1:15pm EDTCHAPTER 6 THE FERN AND THE LATHE The Technocratic Fallacy Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make […]
Darryl Cooper and the Bulwark Yenta
Counter Currents - Sep 17th 2024 9:38am EDT3,330 words In order for white Europeans to finally escape the hole they have dug for themselves, they must reevaluate the Second World War. This was the war in which Europe was conquered by the forces of liberal democracy coming from the west, and the forces of communism coming from east—two sides of the same […]
Woody Allen Without Woody Allen: Midnight in Paris & Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Counter Currents - Sep 17th 2024 5:30am EDT2,020 words When I was young, I saw most of Woody Allen’s early movies in bits and pieces on television: Sleeper, Bananas, Annie Hall, Love and Death, etc. There were funny bits, but mostly I found them vulgar and stupid. And Woody Allen himself was repulsive. “What a nerd,” I thought. “Won’t this guy shut […]
The Worst Week Yet September 8-14, 2024
Counter Currents - Sep 16th 2024 2:00pm EDT1,416 words Suspected would-be Trump assassin Ryan Wesley Routh (Image source: Facebook) This is a rush-job article regarding an alleged event that technically happened outside of last week’s temporal constraints. I’d been fixin’ to do a deep dive into the long processes of political, economic, and demographic changes that turned Springfield, OH—which during last week’s […]
Sympathy for the Devil Worshipper: “Ze Nazi” as the Fall Guy – Again
Counter Currents - Sep 16th 2024 11:20am EDT1,994 words Perspectives change in the weirdest ways. Who would have thought a mere week ago that I would find myself defending Klaus Schwab? Certainly not me. Well, it’s not “defending” so much as it’s being angry at the people behind him. The guy has probably done far worse things than anyone gives him credit […]
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 607: Catching Up with “Tollah”
Counter Currents - Sep 16th 2024 8:25am EDT131 words Angelo Plume chatted with long-time friend of C-C, The Ayatollah. Their conversation ranged from British musicians, to the old wounds and new camaraderie between Ireland and England, to dealing with thoughtless white liberals. It is now available for download and online listening. 1:43 – The new England football manager doesn’t want to sing […]
Harris’s Haitians
Counter Currents - Sep 16th 2024 6:11am EDT1,695 words “Oh if thou teach me to believe this sorrow, Teach then this sorrow how to make me die.” William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John As someone living a short drive from Springfield, Ohio, I am feeling a great deal of “sorrow.” Which brings me to the optics of that Hindu […]
Editor’s Update
Counter Currents - Sep 15th 2024 1:45pm EDTYou can order Derek Hawthorne’s book Being & The Birds or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Heidegger (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) here. 489 words 1. Our 2024 Fundraiser Update Our fundraiser this week added more that $700 in small donations to our total, which is now $101,916.04. Thank you for your […]
Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil – part 1
Counter Currents - Sep 13th 2024 1:45pm EDT3,032 words Part 1 of 15 Introduction: The Peak of the Metaphysics of German Idealism In 1936, Martin Heidegger delivered a lecture course on F. W. J. Schelling’s 1809 treatise Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom, which scholars often refer to simply as the Freiheitsschrift (Freedom Essay).[1] In this lecture course, one extremely […]
The Kennedy Conspiracy
Counter Currents - Sep 13th 2024 11:00am EDT2,335 words Nigel Kennedy. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons He had distinctly seen, while I was playing my variations, the devil at my elbow, directing my arm and guiding my bow. My resemblance to the devil was a proof of my origin. From the autobiography of Niccolò Paganini The Devil bowed his head because he […]
They Don’t Make ‘Em Like They Used To
Counter Currents - Sep 13th 2024 5:14am EDT5,069 words This is the first in a series of film reviews wherein I’ll be looking at works of cinema that were made when subversion—whether of expectations, morals, facts, or source material—was not the filmmakers’ objective. The objective was simply to tell a story on celluloid. These will not be “classic” films, however. No one […]
Laughing While the Nation Is on Life Support
Counter Currents - Sep 12th 2024 1:14pm EDT1,265 words During his debate against that cackling multiracial Medusa named Kamala Harris and her two emotional-support moderators in my sadly demolished hometown of Philadelphia on Tuesday, Donald Trump repeatedly referred to the United States as if it were a dying organism: Our country is being lost. We’re a failing nation. I’ve never seen a […]
American Degeneracy Laid Bare: Examining the Documentary “The Lost Children of Rockdale County” on its 25th Anniversary
Counter Currents - Sep 12th 2024 11:33am EDT3,670 words Next month will mark the 25th Anniversary of the airing of a PBS Frontline documentary called The Lost Children of Rockdale, which originally aired on October 19, 1999. The documentary concerns the outbreak of syphilis among teens and even preteens as young as twelve in Rockdale County, Georgia, a suburban area east of […]
How I Beat ADD, OCD, & Autism
Counter Currents - Sep 12th 2024 7:32am EDT3,288 words A little while back, I took part in the Dissident Right survey. One part of it had to do with personality. This includes various quirks. A brief section asked if I had ADD, OCD, or autism. How was I to answer? Although I never got any such diagnosis, earlier I might well have […]
Captain Codreanu’s Personality
Counter Currents - Sep 12th 2024 5:00am EDT1,326 words Emil Cioran in interwar Romania. Before Corneliu Z. Codreanu, Romania was like a populated desert. Those living between the sky and earth had nothing else to do other than wait. Someone had to come. We were all passing through the Romanian desert, incapable of everything. Even contempt seemed too big of an effort. […]
A Farewell
Counter Currents - Sep 11th 2024 2:49pm EDT361 words I have been writing this column, off and on, mostly on, for–dear God, can it be nearly thirty years? Yet nothing lasts forever, neither columns nor columnists, and Fred on Everything, for unexpected reasons with which I will not bore the reader, has reached its end. Columnizing is a curious trade. I suppose […]
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 606: Fictional Dystopias vs Real Dystopias
Counter Currents - Sep 11th 2024 1:16pm EDT149 words Angelo Plume and Endeavour had a very entertaining chat about the disconnect between the fictional dystopias and real dystopias created by liberals, and why so many people fail to see when they are living in one. It is now available for download and online listening. 1:43 – Enter Endeavour 3:04 – Endeavour’s essays […]
Sand Seed in the Works
Counter Currents - Sep 11th 2024 9:30am EDT1,813 words Pastor Dan Gayman Ishmael and Islam vs. Isaac and Christianity Schell City, Missouri: Watchman Outreach Ministries, 2002 There is nothing quite like the last few weeks of summer in North America. The stifling humidity of summer is gone, the leaves on the trees are a deep and happy shade of green, and the […]
Three Stars of the Genuine Far-Right During the Cold War
Counter Currents - Sep 10th 2024 1:30pm EDT5,345 words The northern Kingdom of Israel’s ethnonationalist prophet ends his career. “…behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” And the wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and some of the many righteous as the stars […]
Unmourned Funeral: Chapter 5
Counter Currents - Sep 10th 2024 11:00am EDT5,485 words CHAPTER 5 CRESCENT SINISTER Islam Contra Philosophy I call for an immediate ban on the movie “Gravity” as it shows Earth to be spherical, which is against the Quran, and thus insulting to Muslims. Dr. Zakir Naik Presumably, that’s why there hasn’t been an Islamic Copernicus. Dr. Naik is a thoroughly entertaining Muslim […]
It’s Election Virus Season
Counter Currents - Sep 10th 2024 6:31am EDT1,577 words Is it just me or is there an avalanche of news stories speeding down Bioweapon Mountain these days? Every time I open my Internet browser there’s a new ailment, disease, virus, bacteria or cluster of vaccine-induced injuries causing people to keel over. It’s a bit unnerving. The conspiratorial part of me thinks that […]
NAXALT as Anti-White Sophistry
Counter Currents - Sep 10th 2024 5:00am EDT1,089 words When given enough time to reflect, one can easily enough unravel most forms of sophistry. The very point of sophistry is to use false argumentation to deceive or manipulate the listener in real time, when they don’t have time to reflect and when they don’t have data at their fingertips. It’s usually easy […]
The Worst Week Yet: September 1-7, 2024
Counter Currents - Sep 9th 2024 3:10pm EDT2,155 words It’s often been alleged that ever since World War II ended, Holocaustianity emerged from its ashes as the West’s official state religion. To dare suggest that human history’s bloodiest war didn’t happen exactly the way we have been commanded to think that it happened is to face the sort of social death that […]
Game Theory and the Transactional Nature of Violence
Counter Currents - Sep 9th 2024 10:02am EDT1,565 words A revelation which I had in prison (in some ways a relatively high-strung, low-trust, violent environment) is that violence is transactional. This lesson from prison politics is especially relevant to real world politics. A transaction means two or more entities exchange items which the other side wants. When violence is in play, one […]