Month: December 2021

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The Counter-Currents 2021 fundraiser ends at midnight, Pacific Standard Time. We will reveal the final tally tomorrow on our New Year’s Day livestream.

If you give $200 or more on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day, we will send you the limited, numbered, signed hardcover edition of my book White Identity Politics. Here is how you can help out. (more…)

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Today, New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2021, Greg Johnson joins Frodi Midjord’s Kulchur Lodge Radio for a livestream at noon PST, 3 pm EST, 9 pm CET on:

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Sir Alan Burns at the height of his career.

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Bruce Gilley
The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns’ Epic Defense of the British Empire
Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 2021 (more…)

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V. S. Naipaul was a prolific Indian writer from the West Indies who remains of interest to dissidents today largely due to the respect he afforded Western Civilization, as well as his often insightful race realism. Both qualities appear starkly in his 1979 novel, A Bend in the River.

The story takes place in an unnamed town in an unnamed country in post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa, and focuses on the thoughtful yet unambitious Salim, an ethnically Indian Muslim shopkeeper. The town is located at a bend in the river (also unnamed), which makes it an ideal place for trading. (more…)

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As my mama always used to tell me, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, Jimmy, maybe that’s because there’s nothing nice to say.”

I’ve been sitting at the keyboard for hours trying to think of something nice to say about 2021, and the only good thing I can say is that it’s almost over. (more…)

J. G. Fichte

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1. Fichte’s Foundationalism

J. G. Fichte holds that the human self has no intrinsic identity, aside from that which we create for it. He completely rejects the notion that our identity is in any way determined by nature. This is the modern “blank slate” theory pushed to a radical extreme. It is to Fichte that we must look if we wish to find the philosophical origins of current intellectual fashions such as “gender fluidity,” “social construction” of race and gender, and radical egalitarian claims about human perfectibility. (more…)

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“You know, I wake up to everything I know either getting sold, or wrecked, or being taken over by people that I don’t like. And they don’t like me. And you know what’s left of all that? The Jets.” — Riff

I finally got around to seeing Steven Spielberg’s new remake of West Side Story, or as I like to call it, Race Traitors in Love.

I must say that despite it being explicitly anti-racist — and by extension implicitly anti-white and Jewish — to the core, I have always had something of a soft spot for West Side Story. (more…)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Kipling, 2020.

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Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling was born on this day in 1865. For an introduction to his life and works, see the following articles on this site. (more…)

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CashApp is a new way to send credit card payments to Counter-Currents. Just install the app on your smartphone. Our ID is $CounterCurrents. Just scan the code and follow directions. It is fast, easy, and has low processing fees. Give it a try and let us know how it works at [email protected]. As our annual fundraiser goes down to the wire, this is a great way to help out.

“Know thyself”

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Psychoanalysis is learned, first of all, from a study of one’s self, through the study of one’s own personality. — Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (more…)

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CNN recently touted a teenage girl on their rag show who was rewarded by the network for her stunning bravery in being pictured giving anti-mask protestors the finger. Her school bus was in the photo’s background. (more…)

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On yet another exciting episode of The Writers’ Bloc, host Nick Jeelvy was joined by special guest Endeavour to talk about the situation on the ground in Russia (pictured) and “The Moral Equivalent of War,” a 1906 speech by William James, and it is now available for download and online listening.

First impressions of Russia
Russian architecture (more…)

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English original here

Během letu z Istanbulu do Minsku dočítám klasiku Anthonyho Burgesse Mechanický pomeranč. Mnohé výrazy Burgessova umělého jazyka „nadsatu“ (v českém překladu „jazyk týnů“), který vychází z ruštiny, se mi v Bělorusku docela dobře osvědčí. (more…)