John Morgan's "Thoughts on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day" is now being featured in Counter-Currents' Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2019/01/martin-luther-king-jr-day/
Beau Albrecht's summary of a recently declassified contemporary FBI report on Martin Luther King, which shows that he was little more than an incompetent fool and sexual deviant who was funded and led by Communist handlers from the earliest days of his career, is now being featured in Counter-Currents' Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/the-fbi-sheds-light-on-who-martin-luther-king-really-was/
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The FBI Sheds Light on Who Martin Luther King Really Was
3,903 words Of all the towering luminaries of the civil rights movement, Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) stands out as the most notable. In fact, it’s hardly too much to say that his name was practically synonymous with the movement itself during the…
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The two parts of Spencer J. Quinn's "The Truth About Martin Luther King, Jr." are now being featured in Counter-Currents' Classics Corner.
https://counter-currents.com/2017/11/the-truth-about-martin-luther-king-jr/
https://counter-currents.com/2018/01/the-truth-about-martin-luther-king-jr-2/
https://counter-currents.com/2017/11/the-truth-about-martin-luther-king-jr/
https://counter-currents.com/2018/01/the-truth-about-martin-luther-king-jr-2/
Jim Goad on whites becoming a minority among those joining the US military, Laura Loomer speculating that Nikki Haley is working with the Deep State to change the weather and manipulate the Iowa Republican caucus, Jews in Hollywood accusing the Jews who run Hollywood of excluding Jews, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/the-worst-week-yet-159/
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The Worst Week Yet: January 7-13, 2024
2,057 words An Army of Color: Whites Became a Minority of US Recruits in 2023 Henry Kissinger said in 1973 that “military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used” as the sacrificial lambs of American foreign policy. It’s a wonder that no one killed him for…
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Greg Johnson on Ayn Rand's struggle to reconcile the achievements of the space program, a collective effort, with her absolute commitment to individualism. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/ayn-rand-and-the-conquest-of-space/
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Ayn Rand and the Conquest of Space
3,644 words This is the second part of the notes for a lecture entitled “The Conquest of Nature: Ayn Rand,” from October 1999. This was the seventh lecture of an eight-lecture course called “The Pursuit of Happiness,” delivered to my adult education group…
Travis LeBlanc reflects on the life and death of Gonzalo Lira, a one-time Internet presence whose death in a Ukrainian prison was announced on Friday. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/gonzalo-liras-15-minutes-of-fame-are-over/
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Gonzalo Lira’s 15 Minutes of Fame are Over
1,553 words There is a meme showing a girl who loves to say “I’m not like other girls” when they are in fact cookie-cutter copies of the infinite other girls who bill themselves as “not like other girls.” You encounter a similar type of person on the Internet…
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Jason Kessler on why white advocates need to be willing to embrace religious skeptics as well as believers — and why White Nationalism is a benefit to white skeptics as well. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/the-religious-skeptics-case-for-white-solidarity/
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The Religious Skeptic’s Case for White Solidarity
959 words Atheism and agnosticism are associated with Leftist, anti-white politics, but there is no reason why this must be so. As discussed in my previous Counter-Currents article, “Christian Nationalism Has Made Me Agnostic,” much of the white Western world…
Spencer J. Quinn on ex-mobster Michael Franzese's defense of hyphenated American nationalism against UFC President Dana White's civic nationalism. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/responding-to-michael-franzese-and-dana-white/
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Responding to Michael Franzese (and Dana White)
1,851 words Ex-mobster-turned-YouTuber Michael Franzese recently responded to a comment made by Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White. There’s no beef here as far as I can see — no scandal or anything particularly newsworthy. Just a mild…
James J. O'Meara reviews The Golden One's latest book, Demigod Mentality, which offers advice to those of a traditional disposition on how they can become demigods in both body and mind. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/how-i-became-a-demigod-and-you-can-too-part-1/
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How I Became a Demigod — and You Can Too! Rise to Greatness with The Golden One, Part 1
3,795 words Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here) Marcus Follin (The Golden One) Demigod Mentality Legio Gloria, 2023 If someone truly believes himself to be blessed by the Gods, it eventually becomes true — this is the power of faith. — The Golden One Experience has…
Pox Populi on why you shouldn't believe the doomsayers about demographic replacement — and what the real solutions to it are, as opposed to some of the common wisdom on the Right about it. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/population-doom/
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Population Doom
5,856 words The 2023 nationalist activist MVP of the year, Keith Woods, recently wrote an article on society and its ideal size and scale. It’s a very good article. Drawing from thinkers such as Aristotle, Rousseau, and Leopold Kohr, Woods — in a studious…
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Gunnar Alfredsson reviews Jonathan Bowden's novel Heat, in which the famed orator poses a series of questions to himself and then answers them, shedding further light on his political views. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/jonathan-bowdens-heat/
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Jonathan Bowden’s Heat
2,102 words Jonathan Bowden ed. Alex Kurtagić Heat London: The Palingenesis Project, 2017 Jonathan Bowden was Britain’s greatest orator. An autodidact who delved deeply into abstruse subjects, Bowden had a great affinity for those aspects of popular culture…
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The latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio was the first meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club. Greg Johnson was joined by Margot Metroland, James J. O'Meara, and Kathryn S. to discuss our latest publication by Jonathan Bowden, The Cultured Thug. It is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-567-the-first-meeting-of-the-counter-currents-book-club/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 567: The First Meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club
236 words / 1:57:46 Every month in 2024, Greg Johnson will invite some of our authors and friends to read and discuss some of the best material from our catalog and more in what we are calling The Counter-Currents Book Club. The first meeting was held in…
James J. O'Meara's review of Demigod Mentality continues with a look at The Golden One's views on Christianity, master vs. slave morality, sexuality, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/how-i-became-a-demigod-and-you-can-too-part-2/
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How I Became a Demigod — and You Can Too! Rise to Greatness with The Golden One, Part 2
3,449 words Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here) We’ve already mentioned Nietzsche’s concept of ressentiment,[1] and The Golden One unpacks this as someone who “blames the misfortunes of himself on someone else.” I think this is a slightly different concept…
Travis LeBlanc on The Aryan, a forgotten silent film from 1916 which carried an explicit call for white racial solidarity. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/the-aryan-a-mysterious-white-nationalist-silent-film/
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The Aryan: A Mysterious White Nationalist Silent Film
2,994 words I think the most disagreeable part I ever had was in The Aryan. It was hard for me to really feel it, being that of a white man, forswearing his race, makes outlaw Mexicans his comrades and allows white women to be attacked by them. It is difficult…
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Paroled from the Paywall: Clarissa Schnabel reviews The Strong City, a long-lost novel about German immigrants in America by Taylor Caldwell, a female novelist who was sympathetic to the Right. https://counter-currents.com/2023/12/the-rich-mans-wealth-is-his-strong-city/
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“The Rich Man’s Wealth Is His Strong City”
3,268 words Taylor Caldwell The Strong City Originally published in 1942; republished by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (New York: 2018) This has taken me much longer to write than originally planned. I blame annoying love stories for the delay. The way…
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Fred Reed presents a dialogue between a white man from Tennessee and an advisor to Al Sharpton about slavery reparations and cultural appropriation. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/communing-with-rastus/
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Communing with Rastus
1,520 words What happened was, I came to the Yankee Capital from where I growed up in East Needle, Tennessee that’s so far back in the mountains that the Sun don’t hardly shine and we don’t get too much news about what they do in the flatlands. Mostly people…
Jim Goad on the recent rise in potentially dangerous airline mishaps, which just so happens to coincide with the airline industry's increasing dedication to ever more "diversity." https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/diversity-equity-and-midair-collisions/
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Diversity, Equity, and Midair Collisions
1,245 words / 9:47 I remember what air travel was like in the dark and moldy days before social progress. Back then, you could board your plane without being forced to arrive at the airport two hours before flight time and to wade glumly through labyrinthine…
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James J. O'Meara concludes his review of The Golden One's latest book, Demigod Mentality, by looking at the author's attitude toward the Roman and Byzantine empires, the Cathars, his similarities to New Thought teacher Neville Goddard, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/how-i-became-a-demigod-and-you-can-too-part-3/
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How I Became a Demigod — and You Can Too! Rise to Greatness with The Golden One, Part 3
3,523 words Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) Chapter Nine, “Europe and the Indo-Europeans,” addresses another required subject: the origins and development of the white race and its civilizations. These discussions, mixing science (genomes), soft science…
Greg Johnson's "The Hatred Born on Sinai," a look at the German Egyptologist Jan Assmann's book Moses the Egyptian, which sheds light on the origins of monotheism, Judaism, and paganism, is now being featured in Counter-Currents' Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2014/06/moses-the-egyptian/
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The Hatred Born on Sinai: Jan Assmann’s Moses the Egyptian
2,520 words Translations: French, Slovak, Spanish Jan Assmann Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997 When I first read Jan Assmann’s Moses the Egyptian in June of 1997, it was a life-changing…
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Michael Walker reviews P. Craig Russell's graphic-novel adaptation of Richard Wagner's famed opera cycle, The Ring of the Nibelung. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/a-pocket-full-of-posies-part-1/
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A Pocket Full of Posies: Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, the Comic, Part 1
2,546 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) P. Craig Russell, illustrator Richard Wagners Der Ring der Nibelungen Vienna: Cross Cult, 2023 (originally published in English by Dark Horse) Opera and comic book art have in common that they attract large and dedicated…
Paroled from the Paywall: Greg Johnson and David Zsutty were joined by James Karlsson and Cyan Quinn of the White-Policy Papers Institute on Counter-Currents Radio. The Institute is a small, professional team of pro-white advocates centered on a single mission: bringing a pro-white perspective to the analysis of both foreign and domestic policy. The recording is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2023/12/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-563-introducing-the-white-policy-papers-institute/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 563: Introducing the White-Papers Policy Institute
181 words / 1:58:05 Greg Johnson and David Zsutty were joined by James Karlsson and Cyan Quinn of the White-Papers Policy Institute (Telegram, Substack). The Institute is a small, professional team of pro-white advocates centered on a single mission: bringing…