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12 Sex Differences Due to Nature
Counter Currents - Jun 15th 2023 10:09am EDT
2,644 words Introduction Some people think that the sexes only differ because of discrimination, “society,” or “the environment.” Were it not for the way they are treated, their upbringing, or the advertisements they see, women would be just like men. In case you ever meet someone such as this who is teetering on the brink […]
Pap Finn Tonight!
Counter Currents - Jun 14th 2023 4:34pm EDT
2,204 words Huckleberry Finn’s father is such a towering, terrifying figure of American literature, it’s a wonder no one’s ever built a drama around him. Maybe we should put together a one-man show: Pap Finn Tonight! Like that Mark Twain Tonight! entertainment that Hal Holbrook wrote when he was at Denison University in the 1940s […]
Anti-Reality Regimes
Counter Currents - Jun 14th 2023 10:57am EDT
1,949 words “Reality”: the world or the state of things as they actually exist. One succinct way to characterize the Western “democracies” is that they are, in all their various manifestations, anti-reality regimes. For starters, they are not really what they piously call themselves — “democracies” — in any accepted definition of the term. The […]
A Great Passing: Reflections on 20 Years with the Unabomber
Counter Currents - Jun 13th 2023 1:02pm EDT
Ted Kaczynski 1,916 words Theodore J. Kaczynski died at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina on June 10, 2023. He had been serving multiple life sentences, without parole, in a “Super-Max” facility in Colorado for his role in the Unabomber crimes between the late 1970s and 1995, in which he killed three people […]
Information Warfare: Curating the Covid Narrative
Counter Currents - Jun 13th 2023 9:15am EDT
The World Council for Health is a global organization of medical professionals that is critical of and proposes alternatives to the World Health Organization’s policies — and chances are that you’ve never heard of it. 2,118 words The World Council for Health [is] a faux-medical body dedicated to promoting vaccine hesitancy and Ivermectin as a […]
Happy Birthday to Us!
Counter Currents - Jun 12th 2023 5:00pm EDT
662 words It was Thirteen Years ago yesterday that Counter-Currents went online. Since 2010, Counter-Currents has published more than 11,000 articles, reviews, and other items. We have also published more than 90 books. From the start, Counter-Currents aimed at creating an Anglophone version of the European New Right, but since English is now the lingua […]
The Worst Week Yet: June 4-10, 2023
Counter Currents - Jun 12th 2023 3:21am EDT
2,820 words Ted Kaczynski: 1942-2023 Theodore John Kaczynski, the Bedraggled Genius Prophet of Techno-Doom, was found dead in his North Carolina prison cell in the early morning hours this past Saturday. He was 81 years old. The cause of death is currently unknown, and I wouldn’t trust the federal prison officials to be honest about […]
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When Life Imitates Rap
Counter Currents - Jun 11th 2023 1:45pm EDT
49 words / 11:07 Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “When Life Imitates Rap,” on YNW Melly, a rapper who may soon become the first major rap star to be sentenced to death, as he stands convicted of murdering two of his closest childhood friends. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/WHENLIFEIMITATESRAP540.mp4 * […]
TODAY: The Great Debate Greg Johnson & Gregory Hood on Ethnonationalism vs. Imperialism
Counter Currents - Jun 10th 2023 5:40am EDT
Plato and Aristotle from Raphael’s The School of Athen 261 words JOIN US TODAY! Counter-Currents is celebrating its 13th birthday and launch our annual fundraiser this weekend. This weekend, a select group of Counter-Currents writers, donors, and friends will be gathering for a celebration. Anyone in the world can join us this evening to participate in […]
Bonfire of the Tranities
Counter Currents - Jun 9th 2023 9:44pm EDT
1,597 words We might be at a critical point in history. It is possible that the Left’s vilification of all things they dislike has reached its zenith, and will soon begin its downward arc towards a more realistic understanding of history. What’s driving it is the rise of transgenderism and its odious step-sibling, transgender identity […]
The Left’s Ghost Dancers
Counter Currents - Jun 9th 2023 7:55pm EDT
1,257 words The recent overwhelmingly hostile public response to this year’s Pride Month is encouraging. Pushback against the LGBTQ agenda should not be entirely surprising, as it’s been a long time in coming. Two years ago, governors from socially conservative states were vetoing anti-trans legislation, but nowadays, they’ve changed their outlook. The LGBTQ movement is inherently […]
The Gentleman Rogue: George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman
Counter Currents - Jun 9th 2023 5:59pm EDT
1,750 words I had different ideas about soldiering. — Flashman In 1965, in the English town of Ashby in Leicestershire, a great literary find was made at a simple household furniture sale. Several oilskin packages containing the memoirs of an old soldier were found in a tea chest. A South African gentleman, nearest in kin […]
When Life Imitates Rap
Counter Currents - Jun 8th 2023 8:21am EDT
Jamell Demons, aka YNW Melly 1,404 words 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.” On February 11, 2019, a 19-year-old rapper who calls himself YNW Melly — the “YNW” stands for “Young Nigga […]
Anti-Racism Comes for the Church: The Case of Thomas Achord
Counter Currents - Jun 7th 2023 6:27pm EDT
Thomas Achord 1,918 words A year or two ago, I received a large, unsolicited, and apparently self-published book in the mail: Who Is My Neighbor? An Anthology in Natural Relations, edited by Thomas Achord and Darrell Dow. Neither name was familiar to me. Since my available reading time is somewhat constrained, I did no more […]
The Fall of the House of Biden
Counter Currents - Jun 6th 2023 9:52am EDT
1,406 words Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. — Proverbs 16:18 (King James) The video of Joe Biden’s “I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!” moment has gone viral. That swath of the populace whose recurring nightmare is a rerun of the Orangeman’s jackbooted feet resting on the Oval Office […]
The Worst Week Yet: May 28-June 3, 2023
Counter Currents - Jun 5th 2023 10:45am EDT
Kevin Alfred Strom 2,416 words Who Said It: Elon Musk, Voltaire, or Kevin Alfred Strom? To learn that Nazis don’t rule over you, all you have to do is say bad things about Nazis. Nothing bad will happen to you. Last weekend, Twitter CEO Elon Musk found himself swirling in another maelstrom of online fart-rage […]
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June Is the Gayest Month
Counter Currents - Jun 4th 2023 11:18am EDT
47 words / 09:42 Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “June Is the Gayest Month,” on the signs that the Pride coalition is sparking a backlash by inundating America with ever-more ridiculous propaganda for the LGBTQ agenda in relation to Pride Month. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/JUNEISTHEGAYESTMONTH540.mp4 * * * Counter-Currents […]
Three Episodes from the History of Racial Politics
Counter Currents - Jun 2nd 2023 12:44pm EDT
Mau Mau leaders. 3,128 words Introduction It can be instructive to look at the racial politics of 50 or 60 years ago, so here are three illustrative episodes. The first section below paraphrases six pages of Tom Wolfe’s essay “Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers” (1970). The second summarizes Wikipedia’s article about the Black Power movement (1965-c. […]
Alice’s Police Escort in Wonderland
Counter Currents - Jun 2nd 2023 11:43am EDT
1,242 words Canada’s Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario is a premier amusement park for those who enjoy the thrill of roller coasters, water parks, family fun, unhealthy but delicious snacks, robberies, swarmings, and even the odd bird explosion. For some mysterious reason, this year’s opening of the park was fraught with “teen” violence, unruly behavior, and […]
The Great Debate
Counter Currents - Jun 1st 2023 3:52pm EDT
Plato and Aristotle from Raphael’s The School of Athens 318 words Mark your calendars! On Sunday, June 11th, Counter-Currents will celebrate its 13th birthday and launch our annual fundraiser. A select group of Counter-Currents writers, donors, and friends will be gathering on the 10th and 11th for a celebration. One of the highlights of the […]
Will Woke Capital Soon Go the Way of the Dinosaur?
Counter Currents - Jun 1st 2023 11:09am EDT
Taking a tremendously daring stand for the silenced and marginalized. 4,149 words In recent times, Woke Capital has become increasingly aggressive. The results included strange virtue-signaling the likes of which would have been unimaginable until not long ago. How much can the Limousine Leftists rub our noses in their bizarre values before customers refuse to […]
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June is the Gayest Month
Counter Currents - Jun 1st 2023 9:31am EDT
1,251 words 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.” “April is the cruellest month,” wrote T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) in his 1922 poem “The Waste Land.” As we all now know — whether […]
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 535 Ask Me Anything
Counter Currents - Jun 1st 2023 9:08am EDT
141 words / 59:09 The second part of last weekend’s Counter-Currents Radio was a solo Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 01:23 What do nationalists in Eastern Europe think of Germany today? 06:14 How do you morally strike a balance between work […]
Football’s Race War
Counter Currents - May 31st 2023 8:51pm EDT
Vinicius Junior 6,359 words You might not have heard, but Spain is currently undergoing its own version of a George Floyd moment. Scaled down, of course — nothing can really match American production value — but nonetheless, there is a storm brewing, one resembling what much of American sociopolitics has been reduced to: racism and […]
Collin Cleary on Richard Wagner
Counter Currents - May 31st 2023 5:59pm EDT
You can buy Collin Cleary’s Wagner’s Ring & the Germanic Tradition here. 52 words / 1:07:40 Collin Cleary was the guest on Nathan C. J. Hood’s livestream for Wagner Day last weekend, where they discussed the use of Germanic mythology, as well as Faustian themes and the concept of fate, in Richard Wagner’s The Ring […]