684 words Today is Earth Day, which has been an occasion to call for conservationism and environmental protection since it was first celebrated in America with bipartisan support in 1970, in response to the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969. Although in recent decades environmentalism has come to be identified with the political Left, taking […]
Aristophanes 6,912 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Strepsiades Flunks Out It hasn’t gone well. First Socrates bursts out of the Thinkery swearing an oath: “By Respiration, by Chaos, by the Air.” The usual places of gods in his oath are occupied by three natural forces. Socrates then rants about a particularly bad […]
2,831 words Literature can shape the way we look at the world — even without our knowing it, or being beware of the specific literature in question. A Bible verse shared during a church service or a few lines of poetry offered in a classroom can have this effect. With novels, well-drawn characters can stick […]
37 words / 11: 59 Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “Black People of Walmart,” about black people in Chicago being deprived of their inalienable right to shop at — or steal from — Walmart. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/BPoW.mp4 * * * Counter-Currents has extended special privileges to those who […]
Thomas Mann: breakthrough Black [sic] author? 3,742 words Part 1 of 2 Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories Translated and with an introduction by Damion Searls New York: Liveright, 2023 “It is really curious that a life of playing games and dreaming can — if only you go on with it long enough — lead to your […]
1,731 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.” In the summer of 2009, a website called “People of Walmart” debuted and, like a fever blister sprouting under the hot August sun, it […]
1,535 words A blogger associated with the antifa bragged at the beginning of this week that arrests were imminent against demonstrators who had participated in the August 11, 2017 tiki torch march in Charlottesville, Virginia. Three people have been arrested so far, but this may be only the beginning. The law which is being abused […]
Epictetus, in an eighteenth-century English artist’s imagining. 1,834 words Socrates was not in prison since he was there of his own free will. — Epictetus I’m free. And freedom tastes of reality. — The Who We should talk about slavery. Goodness knows, it’s not a subject we hear talked about much these days. That’s my […]
147 words / 1:35:41 The second half of the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio was an Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson and Pox Populi (Telegram, YouTube), and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:00:30 Question about James Burnham and liberalism’s parallels to Marxism 00:07:25 Francis Parker Yockey and Kerry […]
2,305 words Ethiopian Lelisa Desisa Benti was the fastest runner in the 2013 Boston Marathon. The fastest woman was a Kenyan who finished 16 minutes behind him. Nobody, however, remembers the victors in Beantown’s 2013 race. What the public instead remembers is the catastrophic act of terror perpetrated by two Chechen Muslim refugees. The Boston […]
2,843 words When Black Politicians Wear Blackface Although it seems like a thousand years ago, it was only in late March when a female-to-male aspiring transsexual blasted her way into a Christian school in Nashville and shot a half-dozen people dead. Unfortunately for the Official News Cycle, all of those victims were white. On a […]
Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s new First Minister. 71 words / 9:12 Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “Despite All the Progress We’ve Made, There Is Still, for Some Strange Reason, a Ridiculous Amount of Work to Be Done” — on how progressives keep telling us “there’s much work to be […]
5,876 words Parts 1-4 In 1897, Robert Lewis Dabney prophesied the triumph of women’s suffrage based on his estimate of the history and character of the only force opposed to it, Northern conservatism: This is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, […]
Portrait of Schelling by Karl Joseph Stieler 5,320 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) In the first part of this essay I introduced readers to Schelling, who is one of the first philosophers to react against what Heideggereans have called “the metaphysics of presence”: the hidden will in Western metaphysics that gives primacy […]
1,346 words A lot has been said about Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho as well as Mary Harron’s screen adaptation. Many in our sphere love this story for a multitude of reasons, and many more dismiss it. Both sentiments have their merits, but I’d like to add yet another take: Patrick Bateman is what you […]
Dr. James D. Watson 2,361 words It’s the age-old story of crabs in a bucket: When one enlightened individual looks up, he sees the expanse of the universe and all its possibilities, but when all the other crabs look up, the ones who aren’t so enlightened only see one individual trying to escape. And they […]
Martin Luther King III 1,157 words Probably due to some traumatic event in the womb or early childhood, I have chosen an avocation which constantly forces me to expose myself to things that upset me. Thus, the other day I smacked myself in the face with a headline from The Guardian that read, “Britain ‘not […]
500 words At Counter-Currents, we don’t just celebrate our heritage, we also promote it for future generations. How can we thank all those who came before us — not just our great artists and statesmen, but our humble and nameless ancestors stretching back to prehistory? We don’t just owe them our language and culture. We […]
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 1,943 words Smoking cigarettes And writing something nasty on the wall. You nasty boy! — Stevie Wonder, “I Wish” [C]ontinual fear, and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. — Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan I recently celebrated my 62nd birthday, if you […]
You can buy Trevor Lynch’s Classics of Right-Wing Cinema here. 156 words / 1:52:54 Greg Johnson joined Mark Collett, Aunt Sally, Natty, and Bill Atheling on a recent broadcast of the Patriotic Alternative Book Club to discuss Trevor Lynch’s Classics of Right-Wing Cinema, a collection of film reviews that delve into cinematic features that are […]
1,179 words Jonathan Bowden was born 61 years today, on April 12, 1962. He died on March 29, 2012, just short of his 50th birthday. Jonathan was a painter, novelist, essayist, playwright, actor, and orator. He was also a friend. His ideas and personality have had a real and permanent impact on my approach to […]
1,555 words The United States federal government has been fixated for years on far-off conflicts while America’s backyard, especially Mexico, has slid into chaos. Nationalists for years have likewise demanded that our troops be stationed on the Rio Grande instead of the Euphrates. Shouldn’t we welcome the recent talk of waging war on the cartels, […]
1,211 words Seeing the fuss being made about the death of George Floyd in May 2020, and gathering that it was if anything being depicted as worse than it actually was on social media, I started keeping a “Black Lives Matter diary” to record subsequent events and my thoughts about them. Two years later, having […]
Production of Sophocles’ Antigone at the Classical Theatre of Harlem in 2018, starring Ty Jones and Alexandria King. 1,200 words After I graduated from college way back in the 1980s, I decided to return to my old high school to substitute teach for a while. Soon after beginning to sub, I asked the school’s theater […]
A daguerreotype of F. W. J. Schelling from 1848, the first known photograph of a philosopher. 4,839 words Part 1 of 2 1. Introduction: A Philosophical Rebel This essay is a continuation of my series on “Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics.” With Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854) we have reached a significant milestone, in a number […]
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