Counter-Currents
  • Private Events
  • T&C
  • Rss
  • DLive
  • Telegram
  • Gab
  • Entropy
  • Rss
  • DLive
  • Telegram
  • Gab
  • Entropy
  • Webzine
  • Books
  • Podcasts
  • Donate
  • Paywall
  • Crypto
  • Mailing List
  • About
  • Contact
  • RSS
    • Main feed
    • Comments feed
    • Podcast feed
  • Advertise

LEVEL2

  • Webzine
  • Books
  • Podcasts
  • Donate
  • Paywall
  • Crypto
  • Mailing List
  • About
  • Contact
  • RSS
    • Main feed
    • Comments feed
    • Podcast feed
  • Advertise
  • Private Events
  • T&C
  • Rss
  • DLive
  • Telegram
  • Gab
  • Entropy
Print July 4, 2018 5 comments

Thomas Jefferson & the Declaration of Independence

Alex Graham

2,258 words

Thomas Jefferson

The first sentence of Preamble to the Declaration of Independence reads: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” The Declaration of Independence is not a legal document or even a formal declaration of independence. By the time of its adoption, twelve of the thirteen colonies had already declared independence with the passage of the Lee Resolution. 

Nonetheless, the Declaration is invoked as if it were holy writ. It is seen as a sacred monument of egalitarian idealism to which all politics ought to aspire, endowing America with a messianic destiny to bring the light of freedom and equality to the world. An entire cultural myth has arisen around the Declaration: that America was, as Lincoln famously intoned in his Gettysburg Address, founded upon “the proposition that all men are created equal.” Pseudo-patriotic neoconservatives are the most enthusiastic champions of this narrative, but center-Left politicians routinely regurgitate it as well. Obama opened his 2013 inaugural address by quoting the Declaration and reiterating the view that America was founded upon the principle of “equality.”[1] This view is so ingrained in mainstream American political discourse that even some white nationalists believe it. But it was taken for granted at the time of the founding that America was, in the words of Stephen Douglas (echoing the Preamble to the Constitution), “made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever.”[2]

“All Men Are Created Equal”

Jefferson was an egalitarian only insofar as he believed that all men possess an innate moral sense and are thus capable of self-rule. He saw conscience as a general attribute of man, akin to legs or arms (i.e., that a small minority are born without a conscience, as some are without limbs, does not alter this fact).[3] He writes in a letter dated 1787: “State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.”[4]

The pronouncement that “all men are created equal” was also a reaction to the social hierarchies of the Old World. Jefferson strongly opposed hereditary aristocracy and monarchy. But he was was far from a modern liberal democrat. He speaks of a “natural aristocracy” in a letter to John Adams:

The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature, for the instruction, the trusts and government of society. And indeed, it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed men for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?[5]

Of course, this natural elite would be expected to act in the interests of the people and would ultimately be answerable to the people at large.

Modern Leftists often downplay (or outright deny) the legitimacy of IQ tests, but it is worth noting that among the greatest proponents of intelligence testing in the 1920s and 30s were progressives who saw it as a means of identifying gifted youth from poorer backgrounds. Jefferson sought to do the same with his proposed plan for Virginia’s public school system, which was designed with the express purpose of sifting out the brightest children from the general population. Education would be divided into three stages: primary school, grammar school, and university. All children would be entitled to three years of free primary education. Virginia would be divided into small districts, each of which would house a primary school. An official would visit Virginia’s primary schools annually and select the brightest student from each to advance to grammar school. Poor but bright students would have their education paid for by the state. After one or two years, one student from each of the twenty grammar schools would be selected to advance further: “By this means twenty of the best geniuses will be raked from the rubbish annually, and be instructed, at the public expense, so far as the grammar schools go.”[6] After six years, half of these students were selected to attend university. This plan was never implemented, but it attests to the difference between Jefferson’s understanding of egalitarianism and modern liberal egalitarianism. The latter is best exemplified by the recent push for New York’s specialized high schools to abandon their strictly meritocratic admissions process in the name of “diversity.”

“All men are created equal” has often been cited in defense of racial egalitarianism, but it is clear that this was not Jefferson’s intention. He remarks in Notes on the State of Virginia:

I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind. It is not against experience to suppose that different species of the same genus, or varieties of the same species, may possess different qualifications. Will not a lover of natural history then, one who views the gradations in all the races of animals with the eye of philosophy, excuse an effort to keep those in the department of man as distinct as Nature has formed them?[7]

Because of these differences, Jefferson believed that the races could not cohabitate harmoniously and that racial separation was necessary, in the same manner that the conflict between America and Britain could only be resolved through separation. His autobiography contains the following quote, the first sentence of which is inscribed upon the interior of the Jefferson Memorial, with the rest curiously omitted:

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. It is still in our power to direct the process of emancipation and deportation peaceably and in such slow degree as that the evil will wear off insensibly, and their place be pari passu filled up by free white laborers.[8]

Ironically, it was precisely Jefferson’s belief that “all men are created equal” that undergirded his argument for racial separation. Jefferson believed that moral sense lay at the foundation of politics; if all men possess moral sense, then all are capable of self-rule. He maintained that blacks were equal to others in moral sense, claiming that their propensity for thievery was an adaptation to their circumstance rather than something innate (popular opinion at the time was that blacks were inherently morally defective). It was for this reason that Jefferson argued that blacks were capable of–even entitled to–self-governance. If anything, his estimation of them may have been too charitable. But perhaps this argument for separation is one to which some racial egalitarians would be amenable (“racial integrationists are the real racists!”).

Many wonder how Jefferson was able to reconcile his anti-slavery stance and his claim that “all men are created equal” with his personal ownership of slaves. The main reason why Jefferson did not free his slaves, in spite of his steadfast opposition to slavery, was that he believed that slaves should not be freed until mass deportation became foreseeable, ensuring that slaves would be rounded up and deported immediately following their emancipation. He was aware of the long-term consequences of letting blacks loose upon white society. In drafting slave laws for Virginia, he proposed that freed slaves must leave the Virginian Commonwealth within a year of being freed or else be regarded as an outlaw, that a white woman bearing a child to a black man must also leave within the same period, and that freedmen entering the Commonwealth could be killed at whim.[9] (These measures were deemed excessively harsh and were never passed.)

“Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”

The scholarly consensus regarding the Declaration is that, philosophically, it is purely Lockean. Jefferson was indeed influenced by Locke, and there are a handful of textual parallels between the Declaration and Locke’s writings. But often overlooked is the fact that Jefferson was also strongly influenced by Scottish Enlightenment philosophers, including Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, and Lord Kames. This is the argument put forth by Garry Wills in Inventing America. Wills may overstate his case, but his book poses a worthy challenge to the prevailing interpretation of the Declaration.

Little is known about Jefferson’s formative intellectual influences. All of his papers and books were tragically destroyed in a fire in 1770. In recreating his library, however, Jefferson drafted a list indicating the names of some of the books that were lost, and a number of works by Scottish thinkers are mentioned.[10] Jefferson’s professor at the College of William and Mary was a Scotsman, William Small, who had a great influence on Jefferson and would have introduced him to Scottish Enlightenment thought in his lectures on ethics. The influence of Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, Hutcheson in particular, also extended to colonial America at large. The students of Francis Alison, a former student of Hutcheson and a professor at the College of Philadelphia, included five future signers of the Declaration, for example.[11]

Scottish Enlightenment philosophers held much in common with Locke, but where Locke emphasized individual rights, they tended to emphasize the communal nature of man and the importance of common-sense morality. It was from Scottish Enlightenment thought that Jefferson drew his understanding of moral sense.

The parallel between “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and Locke’s “life, liberty, and estate” has often been remarked on. Despite the similarity, Jefferson’s omission of any mention of property is significant; property was central to Locke’s political philosophy, and “life, liberty and estate” are all categorized by him as such. Wills writes:

Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, despite their various differences, all assume an original “sovereignty” over oneself. But this approach made no sense to the Scottish school or politics and economics . . . As we have seen, Jefferson rejected the idea of contract with oneself as nonsense: “To ourselves, in strict language, we can owe no duties, obligation requiring also two parties.”[12]

The phrase “pursuit of happiness” is often offered as a defence of the “American dream” and is equated with the pursuit of financial success, or even with libertine individualism. But this strays far from Jefferson’s conception of it. The notion of “happiness” here could be compared to the ancient Greek concept of eudaimonia, “the good,” which Aristotle defines as the continual exercise of virtue and reason. Jefferson similarly describes virtue as “the foundation of happiness” in a letter in which he discusses Epicureanism (Aristotle went further, emphasizing the necessity of active self-actualization, but the principle here is similar).[13] For both Jefferson and the Greeks, the pursuit of virtue is inherently political, communal life being a necessary condition for self-actualization and growth in virtue.

“Happiness” was also conceived as general national well-being, as in François-Jean de Chastellux’s “Essay on Public Happiness [félicité].” Jefferson read this book and was influenced by it, particularly by the author’s view that high population density would increase national happiness. Jefferson drew up charts forecasting Virginia’s population growth in order to determine when desirable population levels would be reached and calculated that desirable numbers would be achieved either in about 82 years or, through admitting immigrants and thus speeding up the process, about 55 years.[14] Faced with the question of which option would most contribute to public happiness, Jefferson decided against admitting immigrants, fearing that excessive immigration would render the state a “heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass.”[15] Like Aristotle, he identified homogeneity as a prerequisite for public happiness: “It is for the happiness of those united in society to harmonize as much as possible in matters which they must of necessity transact together.”[16] (It should be noted that Jefferson did not oppose European immigration in itself, insofar as immigrants assimilated to American life and were not admitted in large quantities at once. Non-white immigration was far rarer and not often discussed, but he seems to have opposed it categorically.)[17]

* * *

Public opinion of Jefferson has shifted over the past few decades. More recent assessments of Jefferson have generally castigated him as a racist bigot. The state of American politics is such that the militant Leftists who want to tear down statues of Jefferson are less deluded than Jefferson’s more moderate admirers. The far-Left’s hostility toward the Founding Fathers and American heritage in general is a boon to white nationalists in this regard and is already having the inadvertent effect of steering patriotic white Americans in the direction of overt racial identity politics. It would be foolish not to seize upon this historical moment by invoking American patriotism in defence of white nationalism and debunking the myth that America was founded upon the principles of racial egalitarianism and hyper-individualism.

Notes

  1. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/21/inaugural-address-president-barack-obama
  2. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, ed. Edwin Erle Sparks (Dansville, N.Y.: F. A. Owen Publishing Co., 1918), 26.
  3. Garry Wills, Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978), 246.
  4. Ibid., 246.
  5. Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, October 28, 1813.
  6. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (Richmond: J. W. Randolph, 1853), 157.
  7. Ibid., 155.
  8. An Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1914), 77.
  9. Wills, 367.
  10. Ibid., 214.
  11. Ibid., 216.
  12. Ibid., 263.
  13. Thomas Jefferson to William Short, October 31, 1819. (full letter: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-0850)
  14. Wills, 201-202.
  15. Notes on the State of Virginia, 93.
  16. Ibid., 93.
  17. See Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, June 20, 1791.

Related

  • Rozhovor s Alainom de Benoistom o kresťanstve

  • What Is the Ideology of Sameness? Part 4
    The Renaissance of Identities

  • The Worst Week Yet:
    July 10-16, 2022

  • What Is the Ideology of Sameness?
    Part 2

  • Why White Americans Care about Abortion

  • The Worst Week Yet:
    June 26-July 2, 2022

  • What Is the Ideology of Sameness?
    Part 1

  • Democrats Are the Real Racists
    (& Why Blacks Don’t Care)

Tags

A. GrahamBlacks in AmericaDeclaration of IndependenceequalityhappinessJohn Lockeliving wellThomas Jefferson

Previous

« Video of the Day
Against Pot

Next

» Looking for the Alt-Master

5 comments

  1. Tito Perdue says:
    July 4, 2018 at 3:31 am

    The preposterous doctrine of the universal existential equality of all Homo sapiens is surely the most ruinous dogma ever to colonize Aryan minds. One may suppose that Neanderthals or cockroaches might also have chosen to believe in the equality of all members of their categories, though I can’t feature why any above-average Neanderthal or roach with just the least self-respect would consent to that. Only Westerners soaked in Judeo-Christian perversity could be so susceptible.
    Nothing is equal, not automobiles nor race horses nor symphonies nor least of all human beings.
    Equality is the equation that has facilitated the rise in America of the most awful aristocracy since Neolithic times, a congeries of basketball players, pornographic actresses and talk show hosts.
    America will never create a high culture. That requires the prioritization of better things over worse things, an exercise no longer within reach of post-modernity.

  2. DrExCathedra says:
    July 4, 2018 at 10:03 am

    Speaking of omissions, there is a final sentence to this paragraph:

    “Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. It is still in our power to direct the process of emancipation and deportation peaceably and in such slow degree as that the evil will wear off insensibly, and their place be pari passu filled up by free white laborers.”

    He continues: “If on the contrary it is left to force itself on us, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.”

    And shudder we do.

  3. Ambrose Kane says:
    July 4, 2018 at 10:07 am

    “He was aware of the long-term consequences of letting blacks loose upon white society” – Isn’t that the truth! After all, look at what allowing Blacks into our society has done to us. Many Whites naively assume that having crime-filled ghettos in every major U.S. city and having our entire culture consumed by a Black ghetto vibe is just the way things are when, in reality, this is only of recent date (beginning in the early 1960s). While there have always been poor Black neighborhoods in the U.S., these dysfunctional people were in large measure kept outside of White society – and who can blame Whites for doing so when one considers how our experiment in racial ‘diversity’ has turned out?

    Sometimes we forget that Whites already had a long history with Blacks, and they knew all too well what these people were really like. They viewed negroes, in some respects, as little children (albeit dangerous ones!) who must be monitored and continually kept in line because of their strong criminal proclivities and low levels of intelligence. The same sort of thing is being done today, and we see it in crime policies such as ‘Stop and Frisk’ in cities that have large Black populations. The point being that most Blacks cannot be trusted to behave responsibly in Whites societies; that discerning Whites, if they wish to survive, must not grant the same freedoms to a people who are inherently irresponsible and self-destructive in all they do.

    Thus, Thomas Jefferson was far wiser and more insightful than any ‘progressive’ of today. Too bad that Whites during the founding of our once great nation, and even after the civil war, did not take it upon themselves to once and for all rid ourselves of these misfits by returning them to the Dark Continent where they belong. We have been paying the price for that tragic mistake ever since. These are harsh words, no doubt, but it’s the truth.

  4. Jud Jackson says:
    July 4, 2018 at 11:33 pm

    A very interesting article, Mr. Graham.

    One Scottish philosopher you did not mention is my personal hero, David Hume. Do you know if Jefferson read Hume and if Hume influenced Jefferson’s views?

Comments are closed.

If you have Paywall access,
simply login first to see your comment auto-approved.

Note on comments privacy & moderation

Your email is never published nor shared.

Comments are moderated. If you don't see your comment, please be patient. If approved, it will appear here soon. Do not post your comment a second time.

  • Recent posts

    • Ian Smith’s Great Betrayal

      Spencer J. Quinn

      10

    • Ask Not What They’re Doing to Trump — Ask What Trump Did For You

      Jim Goad

      32

    • Stop LARPing & Start Preparing

      Aquilonius

      2

    • The German Colonial Empire:
      A Miracle of Progress

      Morris van de Camp

    • The Rise of the “Bubble People”

      Stephen Paul Foster

      9

    • Weimerican Horror Story

      Tom Zaja

      2

    • Hunter S. Thompson:
      The Father of Fake News, Part 7

      James J. O'Meara

      2

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 474
      Anthony Bavaria Brings the Best Month Ever on The Writers’ Bloc

      Counter-Currents Radio

    • Remembering Philip Larkin:
      August 9, 1922–December 2, 1985

      Greg Johnson

      8

    • The Selfie Poet

      Margot Metroland

      6

    • Philip Larkin on Jazz:
      Invigorating Disagreeableness

      Frank Allen

      8

    • Quidditch By Any Other Name

      Beau Albrecht

    • صحفي أسترالي وجحر الأرانب الفلسطينية

      Morris van de Camp

    • The Worst Week Yet:
      July 31-August 6, 2022

      Jim Goad

      28

    • Hunter S. Thompson:
      The Father of Fake News, Part 6

      James J. O'Meara

      2

    • The Journey:
      Russian Views, Part One

      Steven Clark

      4

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 473
      Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson

      Counter-Currents Radio

    • This Weekend’s Livestreams
      Ask Me Anything on Counter-Currents Radio & Anthony Bavaria on The Writers’ Bloc

      Greg Johnson

      1

    • The Counter-Currents 2022 Fundraiser
      Raising Our Spirits

      Howe Abbott-Hiss

      6

    • Hunter S. Thompson:
      The Father of Fake News, Part 5

      James J. O'Meara

      11

    • The Freedom Convoy & Its Enemies

      Gunnar Alfredsson

      3

    • The China Question

      Nicholas R. Jeelvy

      52

    • Rozhovor s Alainom de Benoistom o kresťanstve

      Greg Johnson

    • Your Donations at Work
      New Improvements at Counter-Currents

      Greg Johnson

      13

    • Mau-Mauing the Theme-Park Mascots

      Jim Goad

      19

    • The Overload

      Mark Gullick

      13

    • Knut Hamsun’s The Women at the Pump

      Spencer J. Quinn

      3

    • Remembering Knut Hamsun
      (August 4, 1859–February 19, 1952)

      Greg Johnson

      8

    • Tito Perdue’s Cynosura

      Anthony Bavaria

    • Hunter S. Thompson:
      The Father of Fake News, Part 4

      James J. O'Meara

      4

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 472
      Hwitgeard on The Writers’ Bloc

      Counter-Currents Radio

    • Ask A. Wyatt Nationalist
      Is it Rational for Blacks to Distrust Whites?

      Greg Johnson

      29

    • سكوت هوارد مجمع المتحولين جنسياً الصناعي لسكوت هوار

      Kenneth Vinther

    • Europa Esoterica

      Veiko Hessler

      21

    • Hunter S. Thompson:
      The Father of Fake News, Part 3

      James J. O'Meara

      4

    • Yarvin the (((Elf)))

      Aquilonius

      12

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 471
      Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson & Mark Collett

      Counter-Currents Radio

      1

    • The Worst Week Yet:
      July 23-30, 2022

      Jim Goad

      37

    • Hunter S. Thompson:
      The Father of Fake News, Part 2

      James J. O'Meara

      2

    • Real Team-Building

      Nicholas R. Jeelvy

      10

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 470
      Greg Johnson Interviews Bubba Kate Paris

      Counter-Currents Radio

    • This Weekend’s Livestreams
      Bubba Kate Paris followed by Mark Collett on Counter-Currents Radio & Hwitgeard on The Writers’ Bloc

      Greg Johnson

      2

    • Význam starej pravice

      Greg Johnson

    • The Counter-Currents 2022 Fundraiser
      Reasons to Give to Counter-Currents Now

      Karl Thorburn

      1

    • Hunter S. Thompson:
      The Father of Fake News, Part 1

      James J. O'Meara

      16

    • I Dream of Djinni:
      Orientalist Manias in Western Lands, Part Two

      Kathryn S.

      31

    • مأساة الأولاد المزيفين

      Morris van de Camp

    • Announcing Another Paywall Perk:
      The Counter-Currents Telegram Chat

      Cyan Quinn

    • I Dream of Djinni:
      Orientalist Manias in Western Lands, Part One

      Kathryn S.

      34

    • The Great White Bird

      Jim Goad

      43

  • Classics Corner

    • Pulp Fiction

      Trevor Lynch

      46

    • Now in Audio Version
      In Defense of Prejudice

      Greg Johnson

      31

    • Blaming Your Parents

      Greg Johnson

      29

    • No Time to Die:
      Bond’s Essential Whiteness Affirmed

      Buttercup Dew

      14

    • Lawrence of Arabia

      Trevor Lynch

      16

    • Notes on Schmitt’s Crisis & Ours

      Greg Johnson

      8

    • “Death My Bride”
      David Lynch’s Lost Highway

      Trevor Lynch

      9

    • Whiteness

      Greg Johnson

      30

    • What is American Nationalism?

      Greg Johnson

      39

    • Notes on the Ethnostate

      Greg Johnson

      16

    • Heidegger & Ethnic Nationalism

      Greg Johnson

      14

    • To a Reluctant Bridegroom

      Greg Johnson

      26

    • Lessing’s Ideal Conservative Freemasonry

      Greg Johnson

      16

    • Restoring White Homelands

      Greg Johnson

      34

    • Introduction to Plato’s Republic, Parts 1 & 2

      Greg Johnson

      2

    • White Nationalist Delusions About Russia

      Émile Durand

      116

    • Batman Begins

      Trevor Lynch

    • The Dark Knight

      Trevor Lynch

    • Leo Strauss, the Conservative Revolution, & National Socialism, Part 1

      Greg Johnson

      22

    • The Dark Knight Rises

      Trevor Lynch

      22

    • Introduction to Aristotle’s Politics

      Greg Johnson

      16

    • Hegemony

      Greg Johnson

      11

    • Reflections on Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political

      Greg Johnson

      14

  • Paroled from the Paywall

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 463
      Riley Waggaman on Russia Since the Sanctions

      Counter-Currents Radio

    • Contemplating Suicide

      Greg Johnson

      7

    • What Is the Ideology of Sameness?
      Part 2

      Alain de Benoist

    • On the Use & Abuse of Language in Debates

      Spencer J. Quinn

      26

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 462
      The Best Month Ever on The Writers’ Bloc with Cyan Quinn

      Counter-Currents Radio

    • A White Golden Age Descending into Exotic Dystopian Consumerism

      James Dunphy

      1

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 460
      American Krogan on Repatriation, Democracy, Populism, & America’s Finest Hour

      Counter-Currents Radio

      2

    • Cryptocurrency:
      A Faustian Solution to a Faustian Problem

      Thomas Steuben

      1

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 458
      Gregory Hood & Greg Johnson on Burnham & Machiavellianism

      Counter-Currents Radio

      3

    • Brokeback Mountain

      Beau Albrecht

      10

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 457
      Greg Johnson & Millennial Woes on Common Mistakes in English

      Counter-Currents Radio

      12

    • Deconstructing Our Own Religion to Own the Libs

      Aquilonius

      20

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 456
      A Special Juneteenth Episode of The Writers’ Bloc with Jim Goad

      Counter-Currents Radio

      2

    • “I Write About Communist Space Goths”:
      An Interview with Beau Albrecht

      Ondrej Mann

      6

    • Christianity is a Vast Reservoir of Potential White Allies

      Joshua Lawrence

      42

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 455
      The Counter-Currents 12th Birthday Celebration, Part 2

      Counter-Currents Radio

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 454
      Muhammad Aryan on The Writers’ Bloc

      Counter-Currents Radio

      8

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 453
      The Counter-Currents 12th Birthday Celebration, Part 1

      Counter-Currents Radio

      3

    • Look What You Made Me Do:
      Dead Man’s Shoes

      Mark Gullick

      4

    • Rome’s Le Ceneri di Heliodoro

      Ondrej Mann

      8

    • Anti-Semitic Zionism

      Nicholas R. Jeelvy

      11

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 452
      The Best Month Ever on The Writers’ Bloc with Stephen Paul Foster

      Counter-Currents Radio

    • No More Brother Wars?

      Veiko Hessler

    • After the Empire of Nothing

      Morris van de Camp

      2

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 451
      The Writers’ Bloc with Josh Neal on Political Ponerology

      Counter-Currents Radio

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 450
      The Latest Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson

      Counter-Currents Radio

      3

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 449
      Greg Johnson & Gregory Hood on The Northman

      Counter-Currents Radio

      2

    • Paying for Veils:
      1979 as a Watershed for Islamic Revivalists

      Morris van de Camp

      3

    • Céline vs. Houellebecq

      Margot Metroland

      2

    • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 448
      The Writers’ Bloc with Karl Thorburn on Mutually Assured Destruction

      Counter-Currents Radio

      1

  • Recent comments

    • Josephus Cato Ask Not What They’re Doing to Trump — Ask What Trump Did For You On the note of typos/mistakes.  I just submitted a 70 something page thesis.  Even when I was in the...
    • Traddles Ask Not What They’re Doing to Trump — Ask What Trump Did For You Cody22, like you I'll always be grateful to Trump for preventing Hillary from becoming president. ...
    • Jim Goad Ask Not What They’re Doing to Trump — Ask What Trump Did For You 10 Commandments For My Son
    • Jim Goad Ask Not What They’re Doing to Trump — Ask What Trump Did For You "What Trump did for us was prove that elections work." Does that mean the 2020 election wasn't...
    • Jeffrey A Freeman Ask Not What They’re Doing to Trump — Ask What Trump Did For You What Trump did for us was prove that elections work. It’s not already decided. Hillary was not...
    • Hamburger Today Stop LARPing & Start Preparing Take the Jews out of 'the Left' and there's not much left. But there is still something and it's...
    • speedoSanta Ask Not What They’re Doing to Trump — Ask What Trump Did For You I was more pleased with the political situation during the Trump years than I am now.  I especially...
    • Rockerman Ask Not What They’re Doing to Trump — Ask What Trump Did For You Jim Goad: "You act as if you know what animated everyone who ever supported Trump, and for some...
    • Djervo Ask Not What They’re Doing to Trump — Ask What Trump Did For You At least Trump takes a decent stance on the war in Ukraine, being in favor of de-escelation,...
    • Sinope Cynic Ask Not What They’re Doing to Trump — Ask What Trump Did For You Elitists are elitist, left or right.
    • Scott Hunter S. Thompson:
      The Father of Fake News, Part 7
      I really enjoyed this series of articles. Thanks. :-)
    • Jim Goad Ask Not What They’re Doing to Trump — Ask What Trump Did For You “We were never really excited about Trump.”Who is this "we" you claim to speak for?“a spark that...
    • Jim Goad Ask Not What They’re Doing to Trump — Ask What Trump Did For You "You’ll never be asked to pay a single cent of the national debt..." Good to know. Could you please...
    • Weave Ask Not What They’re Doing to Trump — Ask What Trump Did For You Dear Jim, you and I have sons about the same age and I am asking you this in all sincerity. What are...
    • Kevin Ask Not What They’re Doing to Trump — Ask What Trump Did For You This Donald Trump raid is bread and circus for conservatives.  It will get normies on conservative...
    • Beau Albrecht Ian Smith’s Great Betrayal What a snake!  Mugabe was better than Kissinger in one respect - you knew where he was coming from,...
    • Vauquelin Ask Not What They’re Doing to Trump — Ask What Trump Did For You We were never really excited about Trump. We were excited about meme magic, the overton shift, and...
    • Enoch Powell Ask Not What They’re Doing to Trump — Ask What Trump Did For You I didn't skip over anything in your article. You'll never be asked to pay a single cent of the...
    • eah Ask Not What They’re Doing to Trump — Ask What Trump Did For You I didn't say or imply that there's nothing to be done, or that we should give up (although I...
    • Ian Smith Ask Not What They’re Doing to Trump — Ask What Trump Did For You The strike on Soleimani and the inactivity during the BLM riots made me very unenthusiastic for him...
  • Book Authors

    • Anthony M. Ludovici
    • Beau Albrecht
    • Buttercup Dew
    • Christopher Pankhurst
    • Collin Cleary
    • F. Roger Devlin
    • Fenek Solère
    • Francis Parker Yockey
    • Greg Johnson
    • Gregory Hood
    • H. L. Mencken
    • Irmin Vinson
    • J. A. Nicholl
    • James J. O’Meara
    • Jef Costello
    • Jim Goad
    • Jonathan Bowden
    • Juleigh Howard-Hobson
    • Julius Evola
    • Kerry Bolton
    • Leo Yankevich
    • Michael Polignano
    • Multiple authors
    • Savitri Devi
    • Spencer Quinn
    • Tito Perdue
    • Trevor Lynch
  • Webzine Authors

    Contemporary authors

    • Howe Abbott-Hiss
    • Beau Albrecht
    • Aquilonius
    • Anthony Bavaria
    • Michael Bell
    • Alain de Benoist
    • Kerry Bolton
    • Jonathan Bowden
    • Buttercup Dew
    • Collin Cleary
    • Giles Corey
    • Jef Costello
    • Morris V. de Camp
    • F. Roger Devlin
    • Bain Dewitt
    • Jack Donovan
    • Ricardo Duchesne
    • Émile Durand
    • Guillaume Durocher
    • Mark Dyal
    • Guillaume Faye
    • Stephen Paul Foster
    • Fullmoon Ancestry
    • Jim Goad
    • Tom Goodrich
    • Alex Graham
    • Mark Gullick
    • Andrew Hamilton
    • Robert Hampton
    • Huntley Haverstock
    • Derek Hawthorne
    • Gregory Hood
    • Juleigh Howard-Hobson
    • Richard Houck
    • Alexander Jacob
    • Nicholas R. Jeelvy
    • Greg Johnson
    • Ruuben Kaalep
    • Tobias Langdon
    • Julian Langness
    • Travis LeBlanc
    • Patrick Le Brun
    • Trevor Lynch
    • Kevin MacDonald
    • G. A. Malvicini
    • John Michael McCloughlin
    • Margot Metroland
    • Millennial Woes
    • John Morgan
    • James J. O'Meara
    • Michael O'Meara
    • Christopher Pankhurst
    • Michael Polignano
    • J. J. Przybylski
    • Spencer J. Quinn
    • Quintilian
    • Edouard Rix
    • C. B. Robertson
    • C. F. Robinson
    • Hervé Ryssen
    • Kathryn S.
    • Alan Smithee
    • Fenek Solère
    • Ann Sterzinger
    • Thomas Steuben
    • Robert Steuckers
    • Tomislav Sunić
    • Donald Thoresen
    • Marian Van Court
    • Dominique Venner
    • Irmin Vinson
    • Michael Walker
    • Aylmer Wedgwood
    • Scott Weisswald
    • Leo Yankevich

    Classic Authors

    • Maurice Bardèche
    • Julius Evola
    • Ernst Jünger
    • D. H. Lawrence
    • Charles Lindbergh
    • Jack London
    • H. P. Lovecraft
    • Anthony M. Ludovici
    • Sir Oswald Mosley
    • National Vanguard
    • Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Revilo Oliver
    • William Pierce
    • Ezra Pound
    • Saint-Loup
    • Savitri Devi
    • Carl Schmitt
    • Miguel Serrano
    • Oswald Spengler
    • P. R. Stephensen
    • Jean Thiriart
    • John Tyndall
    • Francis Parker Yockey
  • Departments

    • Book Reviews
    • Movie Reviews
    • TV Reviews
    • Music Reviews
    • Art Criticism
    • Graphic Novels & Comics
    • Video Game Reviews
    • Fiction
    • Poems
    • Interviews
    • Videos
    • English Translations
    • Other Languages
      • Arabic
      • Bulgarian
      • Croatian
      • Czech
      • Danish
      • Dutch
      • Estonian
      • Finnish
      • French
      • German
      • Greek
      • Hungarian
      • Italian
      • Lithuanian
      • Norwegian
      • Polish
      • Portuguese
      • Romanian
      • Russian
      • Slovak
      • Spanish
      • Swedish
      • Ukrainian
    • Commemorations
    • Why We Write
  • Archives
  • Top 100 Commenters
Sponsored Links
Alaska Chaga Antelope Hill Publishing Paul Waggener Breakey Imperium Press American Renaissance A Dissident’s Guide to Blacks and Africa The Patrick Ryan Show Jim Goad The Occidental Observer
Editor-in-Chief
Greg Johnson
Books for sale
  • Trevor Lynch’s Classics of Right-Wing Cinema
  • The Enemy of Europe
  • Imperium
  • Reactionary Modernism
  • Manifesto del Nazionalismo Bianco
  • O Manifesto Nacionalista Branco
  • Vade Mecum
  • Whiteness: The Original Sin
  • Space Vixen Trek Episode 17: Tomorrow the Stars
  • The Year America Died
  • Passing the Buck
  • Mysticism After Modernism
  • Gold in the Furnace
  • Defiance
  • Forever & Ever
  • Wagner’s Ring & the Germanic Tradition
  • Resistance
  • Materials for All Future Historians
  • Love Song of the Australopiths
  • White Identity Politics
  • Here’s the Thing
  • Trevor Lynch: Part Four of the Trilogy
  • Graduate School with Heidegger
  • It’s Okay to Be White
  • The World in Flames
  • The White Nationalist Manifesto
  • From Plato to Postmodernism
  • The Gizmo
  • Return of the Son of Trevor Lynch’s CENSORED Guide to the Movies
  • Toward a New Nationalism
  • The Smut Book
  • The Alternative Right
  • My Nationalist Pony
  • Dark Right: Batman Viewed From the Right
  • The Philatelist
  • Confessions of an Anti-Feminist
  • East and West
  • Though We Be Dead, Yet Our Day Will Come
  • White Like You
  • Numinous Machines
  • Venus and Her Thugs
  • Cynosura
  • North American New Right, vol. 2
  • You Asked For It
  • More Artists of the Right
  • Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics
  • The Homo & the Negro
  • Rising
  • The Importance of James Bond
  • In Defense of Prejudice
  • Confessions of a Reluctant Hater (2nd ed.)
  • The Hypocrisies of Heaven
  • Waking Up from the American Dream
  • Green Nazis in Space!
  • Truth, Justice, and a Nice White Country
  • Heidegger in Chicago
  • End of an Era: Mad Men & the Ordeal of Civility
  • Sexual Utopia in Power
  • What is a Rune? & Other Essays
  • Son of Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies
  • The Lightning & the Sun
  • The Eldritch Evola
  • Western Civilization Bites Back
  • New Right vs. Old Right
  • Journey Late at Night: Poems and Translations
  • The Non-Hindu Indians & Indian Unity
  • I do not belong to the Baader-Meinhof Group
  • Pulp Fascism
  • The Lost Philosopher, Second Expanded Edition
  • Trevor Lynch’s A White Nationalist Guide to the Movies
  • And Time Rolls On
  • Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence
  • North American New Right, Vol. 1
  • Some Thoughts on Hitler
  • Tikkun Olam and Other Poems
  • Summoning the Gods
  • Taking Our Own Side
  • Reuben
  • The Node
  • The New Austerities
  • Morning Crafts
  • The Passing of a Profit & Other Forgotten Stories
Sponsored Links
Alaska Chaga Antelope Hill Publishing Paul Waggener Breakey Imperium Press American Renaissance A Dissident’s Guide to Blacks and Africa The Patrick Ryan Show Jim Goad The Occidental Observer
  • Rss
  • DLive
  • Telegram
  • Gab
  • Entropy
Copyright © 2022 Counter-Currents Publishing, Ltd.

Paywall Access





Please enter your email address. You will receive mail with link to set new password.

Edit your comment