Ayn Rand offers a compelling case for studying philosophy, even if you don't end up accepting her own philosophy. Moreover, if your first reaction to Rand's case for philosophy is to offer *philosophical* objections . . . well, she's got you.

Greg Johnson on the strengths and shortcomings of Ayn Rand's case for philosophy.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/09/ayn-rands-philosophy-who-needs-it/

Never forget that Putin's Russia kills girls like her every single day.

Much like the Ottoman Turks utilised kidnapped Slavs and Greeks to great effect, the neo-imperialist Russian state seeks to do the same with Ukrainian children.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/09/the-janissaries-of-the-russian-world-how-russia-seeks-to-weaponize-ukraines-children/

An illicit drug trade targeting minors is operating in plain sight across the Internet. It is time to end it, along with the ideology behind it.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/09/do-it-yourself-hormones-the-illegal-drug-trade-youve-never-heard-of/

Steven Tucker’s latest is on Britain’s National Education Union and its overt anti-white agenda.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/09/decolonizing-the-uk-school-system-from-whiteness-by-colonizing-it-with-blackness-instead/

In America today, more people study the made up Klingon language from Star Trek than study Ancient Greek or Latin.

20 years ago, someone told me about an advertisement for a chaplain at a mental hospital in Oregon. The last line of the ad was: "Some knowledge of Klingon helpful."

[muffled cackling]

Drawing from the ideas of Voegelin, Schmitt, and others, Francisco Albanese argues that we should welcome political polarization.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/09/polarization-is-not-inherently-evil/

Mark Gullick on Trump's state visit to Britain and the hysterical leftist reaction.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/09/the-best-president-the-uk-ever-had/

Morris van de Camp on the desegregation of schools in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/09/when-evil-came-to-little-rock/

Leftist political violence is real and it is carried out by organized groups. Donald Trump, the Netherlands, and Hungary are right to confront them.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/09/leftist-political-violence-believes-in-you/

Trumpian populism not only failed in Canada, it backfired. Endeavour explains why, and suggests a strategy for the right that would actually work.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/09/why-trumpian-populism-wont-work-in-canada/

Greg Johnson's essay on wisdom as the unconditional good has been paroled from the paywall.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/08/is-wisdom-the-only-unconditional-good/

The replay of Saturday's Counter-Currents Radio is now up.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/09/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-655-we-got-what-we-voted-for/

In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death and the ghoulish celebration leftists displayed, many Democrat-voting liberals declared they were leaving the left. We should be prepared to welcome them to our side.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/09/the-counter-currents-2025-fundraiser-refugees-welcome/

Erika Kirk declared that she has already forgiven the killer of her husband. Donald Trump, however, stood up to say he hates his enemies and is not in a forgiving mood.

Greg Johnson on why Trump is right and forgiveness is bad politics.

https://counter-currents.com/2025/09/hate-now-forgive-later/

About Face!

The Latest Installment of Greg Johnson's Nationalism this Week covers:

1. Trump's about-faces on H-1Bs and Ukraine
2. Hopeful developments in Japan
3. Ominous developments in Brazil

https://counter-currents.com/2025/09/about-face/

Today marks the birthday of one of the Olympians of the Western philosophy: Martin Heidegger. A boogeyman to liberals everywhere, Counter-Currents has compiled and published numerous works by and about him. Read more here:
https://counter-currents.com/2025/09/remembering-martin-heidegger-14/