Jef Costello reflects on rereading Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead after nearly 40 years, finding that it holds up while also offering new insights. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/the-fountainhead-80-years-later/
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The Fountainhead: 80 Years Later
4,270 words It’s been 80 years since Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead was published by Bobbs-Merrill, and almost exactly 37 years since I first read it. I was in college at the time and, although I did not realize it, searching for some source of meaning…
Greg Johnson on why collective politics is the solution to white decline, not chiding our fellow whites who complain about the symptoms of that decline for not "helping themselves." https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/politics-vs-self-help/
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Politics vs. Self-Help
1,921 words White people face enormous challenges today. Our living standards are declining due to globalization, immigration, and anti-white discrimination. Our societies are being destroyed by multiculturalism, anti-whiteness, and the debasement of all…
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Spencer J. Quinn on how to answer whites who tell you that they can't be race realists because there are non-whites who have been nice to them. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/its-not-all-about-you/
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It’s Not All About You | Counter-Currents
1,697 words Years ago, back when he was still relevant, documentary filmmaker Michael Moore had this to say about our favorite race of people: White people scare the crap out of me . . . I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by…
An update on the Counter-Currents fundraiser, plus a few words from Mark Gullick on why donating to us may be a much better contribution to your education than going to a college or university. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/a-question-of-degree/
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The Counter-Currents 2023 Fundraiser: A Question of Degree | Counter-Currents
1,586 words Like all journals of dissident ideas, Counter-Currents depends on the support of our readers. So far this year, we’ve raised $94,312, or 31.44% of our $300,000 goal. I want to thank everyone who has donated so far. (Please donate here!) And now…
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Savitri Devi, the philosopher, religious thinker, and tireless polemicist and activist for the causes of animal rights, European pagan revivalism, Hindu nationalism, and pan-European racial nationalism was born on this day in 1905. Find out more about her life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/remembering-savitri-devi-14/
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Today is the birthday of the French neo-fascist man of letters, Maurice Bardèche. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2021/10/remembering-maurice-bardeche-11/
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Remembering Maurice Bardèche (October 1, 1907–July 30, 1998)
648 words Today is the birthday of Maurice Bardèche (1907–1998), the French Neo-Fascist writer. Bardèche was a prolific and highly versatile author of literary, film, art criticism, history, journalism, and social and political theory. He published twenty…
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Paroled from the Paywall: The second half of the August 26 broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio was an Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson, Pox Populi, and David Zsutty on Current Things, and it is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-548-ask-me-anything-with-greg-johnson-pox-populi-david-zsutty/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 548 Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson, Pox Populi, & David Zsutty
105 words / 1:16:00 The second half of last weekend’s broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio was an Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson, guest co-host Pox Populi (Telegram, YouTube), and guest David Zsutty on Current Things, and it is now available for download…
Paroled from the Paywall: Stephen Paul Foster on how Stalin turned Leon Trotsky into the demon of Trotskyism, and why Stalinism's successors today remain so fixated on "-isms." https://counter-currents.com/2023/08/the-relentless-persistence-of-stalinism/
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The Relentless Persistence of Stalinism | Counter-Currents
3,149 words But there are in our country semi-Trotskyites, quarter-Trotskyites, one-eighth Trotskyites, people who help us, not knowing of the terrorist organization but sympathizing with us. -- Karl Radek at the Moscow show trials, 1937 Leon Trotsky was…
Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “Who Drinks More, the Rich or the Poor?“, on the age-old debate. https://counter-currents.com/2023/10/who-drinks-more-the-rich-or-the-poor-video/
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Who Drinks More, the Rich or the Poor? | Counter-Currents
27 words / 9:27 Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, "Who Drinks More, the Rich or the Poor?", on the age-old debate. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/Goad-WhoDrinksMore.mp4 * * * Counter-Currents…
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Today is the birthday of Roy Campbell, the South African Catholic-Nietzschean poet who fought on the Francoist side of the Spanish Civil War. We've posted an introduction to his life and work and some of his poems to Counter-Currents as a commemoration. https://counter-currents.com/2023/10/remembering-roy-campbell-12/
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Remembering Roy Campbell (October 2, 1901–April 22, 1957)
1,562 words Roy Campbell was a South African poet and essayist. T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Edith Sitwell praised Campbell as one of the best poets of the inter-war period. Unfortunately, his conservatism, Nietzscheanism, and Catholicism, as well as his…
Today is the French Counter-Revolutionary thinker Louis de Bonald's birthday. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2021/10/remembering-louis-de-bonald-9/https://counter-currents.com/2021/10/remembering-louis-de-bonald-9/
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Remembering Louis de Bonald:October 2, 1754–November 23, 1840 | Counter-Currents
137 words Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald, is one of the great French counter-Revolutionary conservative thinkers. For an overview of his life, see "Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald," here at Counter-Currents. F. Roger Devlin has written…
Paroled from the Paywall: Travis LeBlanc reviews Salon Kitty, a prime example of the sub-genre of film known as Nazisploitation — films that combine Nazi imagery with eroticism and which sometimes tread a thin line between grindhouse and arthouse cinema. https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/salon-kitty-the-ultimate-nazisploitation-movie/
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Salon Kitty: The Ultimate Nazisploitation Movie
5,476 words I have been watching 1970s Nazisploitation movies lately. This started when, on a whim, I thought it would be funny to write a review of Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS, which is one of those movies that everyone has heard of — because, credit where…
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Jim Goad on a black livestreamer known as "Meatball" who made herself the highlight of last week's rioting in Philadelphia, the BLM rioter who tried to shoot Kyle Rittenhouse being run over by a black driver, a black woman who stabbed her one-year-old niece while trying to stab a pit bull that had stolen her Burger King sandwich, and much more. https://counter-currents.com/2023/10/the-worst-week-yet-147/
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The Worst Week Yet: September 24-30, 2023
2,221 words Obese She-Boon Known as “Meatball” Livestreams Philly Looting Spree We begin our week in Philadelphia, which was America’s birthplace but is rapidly becoming its graveyard. Last Tuesday night saw a widely-publicized spate of looting that began…
New writer Fred Reed on Donald Trump as the wrecking ball of the Washington elite — an elite so out of touch with the country at large that he might just beat them at their own game a second time. https://counter-currents.com/2023/10/this-trump-thing-aspects-of-a-wrecking-ball/
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This Trump Thing: Aspects of a Wrecking Ball
1,176 words Holy Hannah. This next election is shaping up to be a zoo. We have Biden, a veritable zombie dependent on his ambient ventriloquists and more Adderall than Cornell in exam week. There is Kamala, so close to nonexistent that we could send her home…
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The great Fred Reed is now on Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2023/10/this-trump-thing-aspects-of-a-wrecking-ball/
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This Trump Thing: Aspects of a Wrecking Ball
1,176 words Holy Hannah. This next election is shaping up to be a zoo. We have Biden, a veritable zombie dependent on his ambient ventriloquists and more Adderall than Cornell in exam week. There is Kamala, so close to nonexistent that we could send her home…
The third part of the transcript of Marian Van Court's interview with Arthur Jensen, covering Jewish characteristics, media bias against hereditarianism, the difficulty of discussing serious ideas in popular media, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2023/10/race-iq-differences-an-interview-with-arthur-jensen-part-3/
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Race & IQ Differences: An Interview with Arthur Jensen, Part 3 | Counter-Currents
5,665 words / 39:15 Part 3 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 4 here) Transcript by Hyacinth Bouquet. The following is a transcript of the third part of Marian Van Court and Arthur Jensen's conversation, which can be heard here, or using the player below.…
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Pox Populi responds to Jeremy Kauffman, the CEO of LBRY Inc., a blockchain-based file-sharing and payment network that is the progenitor of Odysee, and who has not only affirmed Jews' disproportionate control over the world but claims it is justified due to their superior intelligence. He doesn't seem to believe that this power goes along with any responsibility, however. https://counter-currents.com/2023/10/keeping-up-with-the-kauffmans/
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Keeping Up with the Kauf(f)mans | Counter-Currents
2,224 words In 1941, Jewish-American businessman Theodore Kaufman wrote Germany Must Perish! This 96-page booklet advocated for "the extinction of the German nation and the total eradication from the earth of all her people’ via forced sterilization." Fun…
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New writer White Lion Movement responds to Travis LeBlanc's recent essay on adult cartoons, defending them as a valid artistic medium that could be useful for restoring Western Civilization. https://counter-currents.com/2023/10/why-cartoons-have-potential-part-1/
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Why Cartoons Have Potential: A Response to Travis LeBlanc, Part 1
1,658 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) Entertainment has a history of normalizing particular behaviors. This is nothing new. Cartoons are just one of many forms of entertainment media that are influential on the general public. Sometimes cartoons can in fact…
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Greater Idaho would be a rare win-win solution in a polarized America. Both sides would be able to enjoy their preferred policies. Political gridlock would be lowered. It wouldn’t even affect the number of seats Oregon has in congress until a decade later.
If red areas are not allowed to reorganize with their fellow patriots they might sooner or later decide they have no choice but to elect “kamikaze” candidates who will cause as much gridlock as possible until their constituents are freed from tyranny.
Our article explores this idea in greater detail: https://counter-currents.com/2023/10/greater-idaho-a-vision-for-a-red-super-state/
If red areas are not allowed to reorganize with their fellow patriots they might sooner or later decide they have no choice but to elect “kamikaze” candidates who will cause as much gridlock as possible until their constituents are freed from tyranny.
Our article explores this idea in greater detail: https://counter-currents.com/2023/10/greater-idaho-a-vision-for-a-red-super-state/
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Greater Idaho: A Vision for a Red Super-State | Counter-Currents
1,553 words The following is reprinted from the Homeland Institute (website, Telegram). The Greater Idaho movement promises many benefits, and particularly to white Americans. In this article we will explore what the State of Greater Idaho would bring to…
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Gunnar Alfredsson on why regular exercise is often intimidating for newcomers, but shouldn't be, including some tips on how to get started and keep going. https://counter-currents.com/2023/10/exercise-tips-for-the-anxious/
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Exercise Tips for the Anxious
1,086 words It’s the middle of the winter and you’ve decided to get out of bed, grab your water bottle, and head out into the frigid cold to scrape off your ice-encrusted car. You’ve had your morning coffee and maybe even a banana-topped bowl of fortifying…
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Beau Albrecht offers a selection of highlights from the recent mainstream media that illustrate how worthless journalism has become. https://counter-currents.com/2023/10/a-selection-of-gourmet-nothingburgers-from-the-media/
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A Selection of Gourmet Nothingburgers from the Media | Counter-Currents
3,871 words According to legend, an independent, truthful, and unbiased press is a vital pillar of democracy. There's a certain mystique about intrepid journalists facing the night and storm in their trench coats and fedoras, out to fight corruption and bring…
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