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  • 40,000 Brown Sardines Packed Into One Prison

    Counter Currents - Mar 9th 2023 12:41pm EST

    1,502 words Last week, striking footage emerged of about 2,000 heavily tattooed Salvadoran inmates, their heads shaved and bowed, wearing nothing but white boxer shorts and packed together like sardines while being herded at gunpoint to a spanking-new prison that will become by far the world’s largest when it reaches full capacity. The law-and-order keyboard […]

  • The Quiet Man: John Foxx’s Ultravox!

    Counter Currents - Mar 8th 2023 5:44pm EST

    John Foxx 2,632 words Listening, they were listening. — John Foxx, The Quiet Men Ultravox! were a band out of time. — My brother Genres in music, like genders elsewhere, keep multiplying. But there is one which seems particular to England: art-rock. Founder members of bands often met at art college, if they weren’t getting […]

  • The British Brass Band

    Counter Currents - Mar 8th 2023 4:12pm EST

    2,006 words Trevor Herbert, ed. The British Brass Band: A Musical and Social History Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 The brass band was central to British musical life for over a century. The brass band movement arose in the 1840s thanks to the invention of the piston valve and technological advancements that enabled the mass […]

  • CPAC 2023: The Republican Party is Dying Out

    Counter Currents - Mar 7th 2023 6:26pm EST

    Ryan Sanchez, aka Culture War Criminal, poses with Greyson Arnold of Pure Politics at CPAC 2023. MAGA Inc.? Or America First? 2,583 words I asked over the Counter-Currents Telegram channel last Saturday if any of you had questions for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2023 attendees. You people really pulled through. I had so […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 525 On Capitalism, Socialism, & the Ethnostate

    Counter Currents - Mar 7th 2023 3:02pm EST

    194 words / 2:35:40 Pox Populi (Telegram, YouTube) returned to the show on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where he joined host Greg Johnson to discuss Current Things, including recent debates on capitalism, socialism, and the ethnostate — and of course answer listener questions. The broadcast is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: […]

  • Daylight Savings as Maladaptive Faustianism

    Counter Currents - Mar 7th 2023 10:58am EST

    2,311 words My grandmother used to walk me to school when I was in kindergarten. This was before mass shootings across the country provoked enhanced school security measures, and us kids would simply line up in front of the building before being let inside. One kid in particularly was always first. He was a blond […]

  • The Abolitionists as Virtue-Signalers: Nehemiah Adams & A South-side View of Slavery

    Counter Currents - Mar 6th 2023 11:22am EST

    Nehemiah Adams 2,933 words One of the most neurotic things about white people is the desperation so many of them have to be perceived as moral. Most will virtue-signal in a variety of cheap and easy ways. Those who take it seriously will often descend into activism. But there is one way to virtue signal […]

  • Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch

    Counter Currents - Mar 6th 2023 10:18am EST

    3,096 words After Donna Tartt’s prize-winning novel The Little Friend, she published The Goldfinch in 2013, a novel that won her a much-deserved Pulitzer. The novel has been described as a latter-day Dickensian work, hailed as “a soaring masterpiece” by the Washington Post and as “a triumph” by Stephen King. Does it soar? Is it […]

  • This Weekend’s Livestream Capitalism, Socialism, & the Ethnostate

    Counter Currents - Mar 3rd 2023 4:02pm EST

    266 words On Saturday, March 4th, Greg Johnson welcomes Pox Populi to Counter-Currents radio to discuss Current Things, including recent debates on capitalism, socialism, and the ethnostate, plus YOUR QUESTIONS. The stream will start at noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern Standard Time, 8pm UK time, and 9pm Central European time at: DLive: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/ccradio Send […]

  • Forgotten Roots of the Left: Fichte’s Moral & Political Philosophy, Part III

    Counter Currents - Mar 3rd 2023 3:46pm EST

    6,341 words Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) 1. Fichte on the Nature of the State We began to explore Fichte’s political philosophy in the last installment, as expounded primarily in his 1796 work Foundations of Natural Right. It is a basic principle of Fichte’s philosophy that subjectivity, what he calls […]

  • Remembering Richard M. Weaver (March 3, 1910–April 1, 1963)

    Counter Currents - Mar 3rd 2023 12:30pm EST

    Richard M. Weaver 681 words America wasn’t always a liberal country. The founders drew more upon classical republicanism than liberalism. In the nineteenth century, the populist movement was decidedly anti-liberal. But the founders and the populists were never consistently anti-liberal, because consistency is the province of intellectuals, not statesmen. America never had a genuinely anti-liberal […]

  • Chicago, Then & Now

    Counter Currents - Mar 2nd 2023 2:33pm EST

    Lori Lightfoot 1,677 words Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders… — Carl Sandburg, “Chicago” “City of Big Shoulders”, did you say, Carl? Chicago voters, understandably, opted for a bigger set of “big shoulders” to be […]

  • Body Cams Never Lie

    Counter Currents - Mar 2nd 2023 10:30am EST

    Lisa Edwards, shortly before her unnecessary death. 1,801 words In response to the absurdly overblown and preposterously misguided public outrage over Michael Brown’s shooting death in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, President Barack Obama asked the federal government to allocate $263 million to provide police departments nationwide with body cameras so they could finally film all […]

  • By the Twisted Word, Slain; By the Good Word, Saved . . . & Other Stories Part III

    Counter Currents - Mar 1st 2023 11:43am EST

    Kay Nielsen, Scheherazade before the Sultan, ca. 1920 4,469 words Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) VI. Famous Last Words: Oriental Crimes and Punishments I’ve warned against too much Orientalism, but at this point the Arabian Nights are as much Western as they are Eastern classics. Furthermore, like all tricky tellers-of-tales […]

  • By the Twisted Word, Slain; By the Good Word, Saved . . . & Other Stories Part II

    Counter Currents - Feb 28th 2023 4:21pm EST

    Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch, Faust and Mephisto Playing Chess, ca. 1825 5,747 words Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here) III. Eating His Words: Renaissance Tricksters Renaissance dramas were also a rich fount for stories/speech gone awry and ironic. In many of these plays, the character of the “jester,” “fool,” “familiar,” or “parasite” drove the […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: February 19-25, 2023

    Counter Currents - Feb 27th 2023 11:57am EST

    Civil rights heroine, and descendant of Mayflower pilgrims and Southern slave owners, Angela Y. Davis. 2,242 words “National Day of Hate” Turns Out to Be a Big Nothingbagel In what may be remembered as one of the oddest yet most wide-reaching racial hoaxes of all time, news agencies and police departments nationwide warned that white-supremacist […]

  • By the Twisted Word, Slain; By the Good Word, Saved . . . & Other Stories Part I

    Counter Currents - Feb 27th 2023 11:02am EST

    Unknown artist and date, The Pilgrimage to Canterbury 4,059 words Part 1 of 3 There’s an old story within a story told by a pilgrim knight about ancient Thebes and two Theban cousins named Arcite and Palamon.[1] According to everyone who knew them, no two warriors were more perfect. Arcite was “a stout man, by […]

  • The Truth About Irish Victimhood in American History

    Counter Currents - Feb 27th 2023 10:47am EST

    Thomas Nast cartoon asserting the equal worth of Irish and blacks 2,480 words Protestants from the British Isles and Irish Catholics have long held animosity towards each other. I’m not going to discuss the Plantation of Ulster, but I assume most readers already know that anti-Irish discrimination was once a very real phenomenon. And it […]

  • An Open Letter to Scott Adams

    Counter Currents - Feb 24th 2023 11:19am EST

    1,173 words Dear Mr. Adams, Thank you for your recent video in which you say some frank things about blacks and their prejudicial attitudes towards white people. Because of your statements, many more people are now aware that, according to a recent Rasmussen poll, 47% of black respondents were unwilling to say that it is […]

  • My Breakout from the Modern World: The Hungarian Day of Honour Tour 2023, Part 1

    Counter Currents - Feb 23rd 2023 8:07pm EST

    4,587 words Part 1 of 2 Last night I received an envelope containing two commemoration cards from the Hungarian “Hazajáró Egylet” (“Homecoming association”). I plan to keep these cards with me for the rest of my life. They recognize the fact that I successfully completed more than half of a 60-kilometer “breakout tour” that I […]

  • Zelensky’s Future as “Our Son of a Bitch”

    Counter Currents - Feb 23rd 2023 5:11pm EST

    2,449 words He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch. — Franklin D. Roosevelt “Takes one to know one,” as the old saw goes. FDR’s “our son of a bitch” reference, which some say is apocryphal, was to Anastasio Somoza García, the President of Nicaragua from 1937 to […]

  • Young, Male, Desperately Lonely, & Nobody Cares

    Counter Currents - Feb 23rd 2023 7:37am EST

    1,393 words Every so often a woman writes something online that makes me want to punch her until my fist comes out the other side of her head, but I can’t do that, because they’d send me back to prison. This time around, what got my Irish up is an article with the verb-free headline […]

  • Rachel Dolezal: A Case Study

    Counter Currents - Feb 22nd 2023 4:23pm EST

    1,574 words Ever since Rachel Dolezal became famous for pretending to be black in 2015, her story has fascinated me. On the one hand, she is a traitor to her people and an unstable basket case. On the other, she is a talented white person who has been failed by modern Western society. She has […]

  • The Kia Boys

    Counter Currents - Feb 21st 2023 3:37pm EST

    1,850 words Last month my car insurance went up by 30%. Nothing at all had changed regarding my policy or use of insurance, so I called my insurance company to ask about the abrupt change. “Our costs have gone up, and we had to make the decision to raise premiums across the company,” is the […]

  • Downtown White Police: A Beat Cop Tells It Like It Is

    Counter Currents - Feb 21st 2023 2:00pm EST

    1,835 words James Lancia “Downtown White Police”: Demonizing the Alpha Cop, Glorifying Thugs, and Militarizing Law Enforcement CreateSpace, 2015 182 pages, $15.95 paperback, $9.99 Kindle James Lancia is a retired police officer from the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut with indisputable credibility as an experienced “alpha cop.” With one of the highest per capita overall crime […]