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From the Editor
Welcome to Counter-Currents. This article is about who we are and how to get the most out of this site.
Counter-Currents is a webzine and a publishing imprint. We went online June 11, 2010. We are called Counter-Currents because we go against the central dogma of the mainstream, namely that nothing is worse than white identity politics. On the contrary, I believe that white identity politics is inevitable, necessary, and moral. The central battles of our time are about race. Not all of our writers are White Nationalists like me. But they are all uppity white folks who are willing to take their own side in a fight. We also have some non-white “allies” who contribute from time to time.
I am often asked: “What is Counter-Currents about?” The answer is simple. Counter-Currents is about everything — politics, history, culture, religion, philosophy — viewed from a pro-white perspective. Thus in his speech “Western Civilization Bites Back,” Jonathan Bowden said, “Counter-Currents is, to my estimation, a sort of Right-wing university.” Race-conscious whites are the legitimate heirs of European civilization and the only people who will ensure its future. Please join us.
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Who Are We?
The Editor
- Greg Johnson, the Editor-in-Chief of Counter-Currents, has a doctorate in philosophy. He is the author of twenty books, including White Identity Politics, The White Nationalist Manifesto, From Plato to Postmodernism, Graduate School with Heidegger, New Right vs. Old Right, Truth, Justice, and a Nice White Country, In Defense of Prejudice, Toward a New Nationalism, The Year America Died, and Against Imperialism. (Representative articles)
Featured Writers
The Counter-Currents webzine has many writers, but our Featured Writers contribute most frequently.
- Beau Albrecht is a reformed red diaper baby and literal 1960s love child who specializes in tirades about current events as well as reviews of music, movies, and loony Leftist literature. He is the author of Deplorable Diatribes, Righteous Seduction, and several perfectly dreadful science fiction books. (Representative works)
- Gunnar Alfredsson hails from a suburban commuter colony in frozen, totalitarian Canada. He writes on history, race, crime, and the absurdities of the modern world. (Representative works)
- Collin Cleary, Ph.D., writes about philosophy, religion, and metapolitics. He is the author of Summoning the Gods, What Is a Rune?, and Wagner’s Ring and the Germanic Tradition.
- Jef Costello writes on politics, philosophy, literature, film, and television. He is the author of The Importance of James Bond and the satirical novel Heidegger in Chicago: A Comedy of Errors. (Representative works.)
- Morris V. de Camp writes on history, politics, and war. (Representative works)
- F. Roger Devlin has a doctorate in philosophy and writes on politics, philosophy, and human biodiversity. He is the author of Alexandre Kojève and the Outcome of Modern Thought and Sexual Utopia in Power. (Representative works)
- Stephen Paul Foster has a doctorate in philosophy. He writes on politics, history, and philosophy. He is the author of Desolation’s March: The Rise of Personalism and the Reign of Amusement in 21st Century America, Melancholy Duty: The Hume-Gibbon Attack on Christianity, and three novels: After Harry Met Sally, Toward the Bad I Kept on Turning, and Fatal Friendship. (Representative works)
- Jim Goad is the best “cutting and irreverent American journalist” since H. L. Mencken. He writes two weekly features, “The Worst Week Yet” on Mondays and another on Thursdays. His books include The Redneck Manifesto, Whiteness: The Original Sin, Gender Psychosis, The New Church Ladies, ANSWER Me!, and The Bomb Inside My Brain. The gateway to all things Goad is JimGoad.net. (Representative works)
- Alex Graham is one of our most versatile authors who writes on classical music, film, history, politics, art, architecture, literature, and the culture industry.
- Mark Gullick has a doctorate in philosophy. He writes on politics, history, culture, and philosophy, including The Union Jackal, a monthly roundup of news from the UK. He is the author of the novels Cherub Valley, Bestest Boys, and Vanikin in the Underworld. (Representative works)
- Travis LeBlanc describes himself as “Just a Trav trying to make his way in a Not Trav’s world.” He writes on politics, alternative media, and classic films — always with a humorous touch. He also does occasional duty as our gossip columnist. (Representative works.)
- Trevor Lynch writes on film and the occasional television series. He is the author of Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies, Son of Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies, Return of the Son of Trevor Lynch’s CENSORED Guide to the Movies, Trevor Lynch: Part Four of the Trilogy, and Trevor Lynch’s Classics of Right-Wing Cinema. (Representative works)
- Margot Metroland lives in New York City and has written for many periodicals, including The Spectator, The Oldie, and Punch. She writes about literature, politics, and interesting people. (Representative works)
- James J. O’Meara writes on philosophy, religion, literature, music, film, and television. He is the author of The Homo and the Negro, The Eldritch Evola, End of an Era: Mad Men and the Ordeal of Civility, Green Nazis in Space, Mysticism After Modernism: Crowley, Evola, Neville, Watts, Colin Wilson, & Other Populist Gurus, and Passing the Buck: Coleman Francis and Other Cinematic Metaphysicians. (Representative works)
- Angelo Plume (also known as Pox Populi) writes and podcasts on politics, culture, and sports. He is the host of the New Nationalism Podcast on Substack and Spotify. (Representative works)
- Spencer J. Quinn has been writing essays and reviews for Counter-Currents since March 2016. His books include the novels White Like You, Charity’s Blade, The No College Club, a children’s book called My Mirror Tells a Story, and Solzhenitsyn and the Right. You can find out more about him at his official website. (Representative works.)
- Fred Reed is Marine veteran who served in Vietnam. He was police reporter and tech writer for the Washington Times, staff writer for Soldier of Fortune, and Washington editor for Harper’s. He lives in Mexico with his wife Violeta and three useless but agreeable street dogs. His website is FredOnEverything.org. (Representative works: here, here, here, here, & here)
- Clarissa Schnabel is a German writer and blogger. She has published two biographies, Mehr als Anonyma (about Marta Hillers, the author of A Woman in Berlin) and Jolanthe Marès: Die Schriftstellerin von Berlin W, as well as several articles in Gralswelt and the Journal of the T. E. Lawrence Society. You can follow her at https://clarissaschnabel.wordpress.com. (Representative works)
- Michael Walker is the founder and editor of the New Right journal The Scorpion. He writes about politics, history, culture, and the European New Right. (Representative works)
- David M. Zsutty is a California lawyer and the Executive Director of the Homeland Institute. He writes on politics and law. (Representative works)
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12 comments
You asked us to comment, so here goes. I enjoyed the blurbs about the writers, from which I learned new tidbits, although many of the writers sound more similar than they are. For example, Mark Gullick is our resident reporter on the state of Britain, or at least England.
I found much of the text dry. In addition to the instructions on how to use the website at a mechanical level, I think Counter-Currents would be much enriched for the new reader – and the rest of us! – with a section listing the top articles in various categories (perhaps able to be sorted by page views, comments, or your subjective judgement of their quality or importance). The categories might be driven by the tags that are already applied to each article.
Counter-Currents has a rich archive full of fascinating and wonderful articles, but if you don’t know what you’re looking for you may never find them. A page that simply lists all the tags with their article counts (sortable by name or article count or most recent updates) could be a big help at finding rich seams of articles in people’s favorite categories.
Finally, Counter-Currents is great, but it seems a wee bit pretentious to say we’re the “only people who will ensure [Western civilization’s] future”!
These are all good points. I have asked the Featured Writers to give me short lists of Representative Works that I can link after their names. These will give new readers a place to start.
I was going to say that a sampling of the ten or so best and most important articles could give a new reader a jumping-off point and a good introduction to what the site has to offer. But representative works for each author sound even better, since each could choose their own favorites.
And no, it is not pretentious to claim that we are the legitimate heirs of white civilization and the only ones who will carry it forward, as the recent Paris Olympics opening ceremony demonstrated. The Left is completely committed to the destruction of our civilization and the replacement of our race. The center Right is only opposed to doing it too fast and “illegally.”
I guess it depends on whether “we” are Counter-Currents or the broader movement. I just think others on our side are doing important work too.
Edit: I see you’ve changed it to “race-conscious whites”. (I suspect that was always your intent.) Okay, I agree! 🙂
Firstly, great website.
I am interested in articles dealing with today’s religion – diversity, fore, diversity is the poison our race has to jettison. How can such articles be found? Is there a place to type for example ‘diversity’, & all articles dealing with it are displayed?
Thank you
XIV VERBA
There’s a “search” feature at the very top. DuckDuckGo is the engine. For search terms, I recommend something like “+tag diversity” to find topical tags regarding diversity.
New readers, very exciting news!
A warm welcome to the new readers. There is a wealth of knowledge, insight and information on this web site. May you read it in the spirit of becoming sufficiently edified to take wise, measured, constructive action for the salvation of Our race and Our civilization with the blessings of Our Strong Gods.
Welcome All.
Why do you think so many of the writers and readers, apparently, have doctorates in philosophy?
If I had to guess I’d say it’s because Greg does. If he had a doctorate in biology instead, I’d bet some of the other writers would too, because Greg would have many other biologists in his social circle, and their writings would attract biologically minded readers. Perhaps philosophy also attracts people who care about politics, and vice versa, and ours is a political movement.
I would recommend a White-pill box (of suggestions) for readers to offer their two cents on anything relatable of considerable value that would otherwise extraneously clog up comment space below. I forget who wrote the article or what its topic was about but years back someone wrote about ‘connecters,’ people who link A to B to wider Gen Z thru talented social skills or tech literacy, like a priority express of ‘arson meeming’ magnetic slogans and quips so those thought-seeds developed here can bear real-world fruit out there till hitting peak viral oversaturation. Every amerikan public figure not on board with us by now is ennui the person. The offer nothing but the typical tediously uncool of Walter Fussbudget. That name for example, is one suggestion for the box to meem into wider anti-cuckservative circulation. If sex sells and ‘if it bleeds it leads,’ then funny attracts. Newer sounds and colors the young have never seen before can jolt them into exploring pro-White terrain.
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