SJQ at 500

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So, 500.

It’s hard for me to believe that this is my 500th essay for Counter-Currents. I began writing for Counter-Currents in March 2016 (almost nine years ago) as a complete unknown, and since then I have managed to scrape together a decent-sized body of work of over one million words. Yes, I keep track of all of it—every topic I write about, every link I include, every person I mention. For example, since I am mentioning him at this moment, Donald Trump has now appeared in his 150th Spencer J. Quinn essay (quite the honor, I know). To pick two other names at random, Sam Francis now appears in 12, and Charles Dickens 10.

Since it’s so easy for essays to be forgotten over time, I thought that it would be a good idea to offer a kind of index for my readers, new and old, so they can acquaint or re-acquaint themselves with my work, whatever the case may be. Below, I organize 100 of what I consider to be my best essays into 13 major thematic categories. Within each I offer links and brief descriptions, so that if anyone feels like rescuing something of mine from the memory hole, they can do so.

Enjoy.

Race Realism

This one is a big one for me since the confirmation of irreparable racial differences is what got me started in my evolution away from the Left as a young man. I’ve always thought that if race realism can do that for me, it can do that for anyone—and should. I estimate that around 90 of my essays deal primarily with this topic. Below we have essays that either delve into science or statistics,  or directly refute racial egalitarianism:

The Color of Crime by Edwin Rubenstein, book review (April 2016). I link this one a lot because it gives clear evidence for the racial gap in crime statistics. You can do no better than this.

The Perils of Diversity by Byron Roth, book review (December 2016). A comprehensive work of scholarship that challenges the soundness and efficacy of racial diversity. A great work that gets unfairly overlooked these days.

The Affirmative Action Hoax by Steven Farron, book review (September 2017). A first-rate study not only on how psychometrics demonstrates racial differences but also on the dangers associated with ignoring psychometrics.

The Limits of Democratization by Tatu Vanhanen, book review (October 2017). A social science study on the rock-solid links between the average IQ of nations and the rate of corruption in democracies. Vanhanen’s statistical approach is so sound that one of the predictions he made actually came true since the book’s publication in 2006.

“On Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality,” (January 2018). Wherein I take on Rousseau’s racial egalitarianism and his insidious doctrine of the noble savage. I conclude that it is all “well-argued nonsense.”

“On The Importance of IQ,” Part 1 and Part 2 (February 2022). A pair of essays I link to quite often, in part for how they use Nicholas Wade’s A Troublesome Inheritance to demonstrate the genetic basis for race realism and Richard Haier’s The Neuroscience of Intelligence to establish the neuroscientific argument for the biology of IQ.

Race and Evolution by Stephen Sanderson, book review (August 2022). An indispensable compendium of statistical analysis of racial differences. If you want only one book on the topic, this is it.

On Genetic Interests by Frank Salter, book review (December 2022). The definitive biological argument for ethnocentrism. Salter’s fitness portfolios offer an extremely useful way of viewing politics—almost to the point where On Genetic Interests represents a philosophy of ethnocentrism. Salter himself emailed me to say that this was the best review he had read since Kevin MacDonald’s and Jared Taylor’s nearly 20 years earlier.

“Race Realism Vindicated: Archaic Human DNA Found in Black Africans,” (January 2025). This one goes over recent studies showing that up to 19 percent of sub-Saharan black DNA is the result of interbreeding with archaic hominid populations which pre-date the Neanderthal split with humanity hundreds of thousands of years ago. Perhaps the most elegant explanation for why racial differences exist in the first place.

The Jewish Question

The JQ is such a tricky and perilous topic that I always strive for balance. It’s tempting to give in to bitterness or to throw partisan barbs when clearheaded analysis is what’s needed the most to get one’s point across. I believe that there are honest people of all races and ethnic groups, and when presented with evidence in an evenhanded, responsible manner, they can be persuaded. Below are what I think are my best attempts in this regard.

“The Many Faces of the Jewish Elite,” Part 1 (December 2017), Part 2 (July 2019), and Part 3 (January 2020). These essays use current events to pull the curtain on the double standards and sneaky rhetorical practices that many Jewish pundits and influencers use against white people.

“On Selective Subjectivity and the Hijacking of White History” (July 2018). Just as the title reads, this essay shows how Jewish scholars have separated whites from their own history and have, in effect, educated young whites to think like Jews—that is, to be subjectively supportive of Jewish history, while being objectively critical of their own.

“On the Kevin MacDonald-Nathan Cofnas Debate,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 (May 2018). It took them 20 years, but mainstream academia finally got around to assessing Kevin MacDonald’s 1990s work on Jewish influence. This was spearheaded by Nathan Cofnas, whose attack on MacDonald turned out to be petty and lame. I analyzed the debate and the ensuing bruhaha, and produced some of my best work. In the comments section of Part 3, Cofnas himself tried to out-snark me, and came in second.

“Demoskrieg and Diaskrieg” (January 2019). One of my major theoretical contributions to the Jewish Question wherein I establish two opposing worldviews that encapsulate the white response to Jewish hegemony in the West. Do we view the Jewish diaspora and Israel as different heads on the same beast in a long-term evolutionary struggle between peoples or races? Or, should we view them separately and engage more with the diaspora since it poses a more immediate threat to white interests?

How the Jews Defeated Hitler by Benjamin Ginsburg, book review (September 2020). Jewish warmongering was the single most influential contributor to the onset of the Second World War. Ginsburg proves this, whether he realizes it or not.

The Russian Roots of Nazism by Michael Kellogg, book review (December 2020). Kellogg demonstrates how White Russian émigrés into Germany had a profound impact on the incipient Nazi Party in the early 1920s. As a result, the Nazis were well aware of the atrocities committed by Jewish Bolshevism in the Soviet Union many years before Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933.

“The Anti-Semitism Con” (June 2021). This essay dissects the notion of “anti-Semitism” and how Jews use it hypocritically to promote their interests at the expense of whites’.

“The Great Shekel Shakedown” (August 2021). This essay explains how Israel uses guilt over the Jewish Holocaust to bilk a fortune from white-majority countries. All this and a poem by Spencer J. Kipling entitled “The Jew Shekel.”

“To Punch a Nazi” (August 2022). A piece on how Jewish politicians conspired with the Jewish Mafia in the 1930s to crush the law-abiding German Bund in America. Several readers contacted me about how they particularly enjoyed this essay.

“A Beginner’s Guide to the Jewish Question” (September 2022). The extent of my knowledge of the JQ at the time. It’s long, but it leaves few stones unturned and gives beginners all they would need to dive headfirst into the deepest waters of the Dissident Right.

“The Banned FOX News Report on Israel’s Role in 9-11” (January 2023). What you see is what you get on this one. And what we get are a lot coincidences and a lot of questions which are either unanswered, unanswerable, or unconvincingly answered by the mainstream narrative. All this, and the Dancing Israelis. What more could anyone want?

Russians, Jews, and the Pogroms of 1881-1882, by John Doyle Klier, book review, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 (November 2024). This crucial work of history not only exonerates the Tsarist government regarding the pogroms, but it airs the legitimate gentile perspective on these disturbances as well as demonstrates how Jews in Europe greatly exaggerated the pogroms in their reporting. This perpetuated the false myth of universal gentile culpability, which still exists to this day.

Blacks

I always find myself gravitating towards the topic of black people. Not sure why. Maybe someone can read all of these and fill me in.

“A Scene at the Beach” (July 2016). Wherein I reflect on the ugliness of black-white miscegenation after witnessing a young black man attempting to score points with a couple of pretty white girls, and thankfully failing.

The Negro: The Southerner’s Problem by Thomas Nelson Page, book review (April 2017). Thomas Nelson Page’s classic 1904 dissertation on all the problems a black diaspora inflicts upon a host nation, in this case, his beloved, postbellum American South. He employs both historical and statistical evidence to support his conclusions, all while promoting white ethnocentrism and race realism.

“They Will Devour You” (August 2019). An essay highlighting the sheer ruthlessness with which blacks will replace whites within the infrastructure of the Democratic Party. A cautionary tale for any organization that wishes to cater to the demands of black people.

“The Woody Allen Fallacy” (August 2019). How a Woody Allen joke from the beginning of his film Annie Hall perfectly encapsulates the contradictory attitudes many blacks have towards whites. I am proud to say that American Renaissance ran this one as well.

“If I Were Black I’d Vote Democrat” (April 2021). A theoretical contribution in which I posit that blacks vote Democrat because Democrats allow them as an ethnos to control the most space in an ecological sense. This is in spite of how the indulgent attitude of the Democratic Party invariably leads to greater crime, poverty, and misery among American blacks.

“Lethal Altruism” (January 2022). In this essay I reflect on a recent case of a black murdering a white good Samaritan and then dovetail into how self-defeating and suicidal it is to be altruistic towards blacks.

“Let Them Drink Kool-Aid” (September 2022). An essay in which I use the water crisis in Memphis, Tennessee to expound on what both conservative and liberals get wrong about black people. I describe this as the Great Racial Impasse, and provide a graphic illustration for all you visual learners out there.

“Paul Theroux’s African Safari,” Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 (December 2024). A 3-part review of Theroux’s African travelogues Dark Star Safari and The Last Train to Zona Verde, which unsparingly reveal the horrors of modern Africa, despite how the author clings to his leftist beliefs.

The Summer of Floyd

I really was on fire during the summer of 2020 when blacks were having their tantrums and burning cities. I did my level best to put it all in proper perspective, and produced what I feel is some of my best writing. These five, I think, are pretty representative and need no further introduction.

“They Do This Because They Can” (June 2020)

“An Open Letter to White Police Officers” (June 2020)

“Black Lives Matter is Black Supremacy” (June 2020)

“Welcome to Year One of the After-Floyd Era” (July 2020)

“We Need a White Underground Railroad” (July 2020)

White Identity

This is kind of the point of Counter-Currents, so I would be remiss if I did not include my most memorable offerings on this topic.

“The Other N-Word” (January 2019). A discussion on how white people can turn the tables on the speech police by declaring what non-whites are allowed to call us and what they aren’t. In this case, ‘Nazi’ should be considered an anti-white slur and made verboten.

“Advice for Young White People,” Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 (March 2019). Wherein I discuss the challenges faced by young whites regarding marriage and careers, and advise them on racial activism, understanding our enemies, and weaponizing money.

“Red-Pilling our Children” (January 2020). I offer eight points of advice for how white parents can best prepare their children for living as a minority in a multiracial world.

The Ethnostate, by Wilmot Robertson, book review (April 2020). A great book, well ahead of its time. It outlines the possibilities of a white ethnostate (or ethnostates) in North America. Robertson was certainly a great theoretician of ethnocentrism.

“White First, American Second” (May 2021). An essay that uses college football rivalries to explore why normies gravitate towards local, scholastic, or national identities before the all-important racial one.

“White Fragility vs The White Nationalist Manifesto: a Comparative Analysis” (February 2023). In this one, I compare Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility to Greg Johnson’s White Nationalist Manifesto and demonstrate how they parallel each other in instructive ways. Ironically, both authors want whites to be less individualistic and less color-blind. Unironically, the latter is much better argued than the former.

“On White Victimhood” (November 2023). An essay which uses appalling interracial crime statistics to show that whites adopting a sense of victimhood like all other diasporas in the West is not only crucial for our survival but borne out by the data.

“White Advocacy vs. White Nationalism” (January 2024). Wherein I compare and contrast the two main strains of Dissident Right thought and postulate how this divide can rectified.

“Preserving the White Majority in the United States: My 10-Point Plan” (January 2025). Just what the title says it is. If whites wish to maintain their majorities in the nations their ancestors founded, they need to start demanding to keep these majorities—especially now since the Trump administration has reopened the window of free speech. Either our demands will be met, or we’ll have grounds for secession and the ultimate formation of a white ethnostate.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

As many are aware, Antelope Hill published a collection of my essays on Solzhenitsyn in 2022 entitled Solzhenitsyn and the Right. Nearly all of these essays appeared first at Counter-Currents between 2019 and 2021. While I am loath to play favorites with my children, I do want every single person reading this to buy a copy of my book. This is why I offer two essays below to serve as teasers.

Lenin in Zurich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, book review (May 2020). Told entirely from the feverish perspective of Vladimir Lenin during his time in Switzerland before the First World War. It’s both fiction and not, and, as with the entire Red Wheel saga, demonstrates how Solzhenitsyn used the narrative arts to reconstruct and decipher historical events.

“Stolypin vs Bogrov: Themes of Ethnonationalism in Solzhenitsyn’s August 1914” (September 2020). In his chapters on Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin and his Jewish nemesis Mordko Bogrov, Solzhenitsyn shows us how the assassination of this great man, several years before the First World War, had a devastating impact upon the 20th century.

Red State Secession

Red State Secession is the only starting point, in my opinion, to reach a white ethnostate in North America. This is why I harp on it so much. And so should you.

“Trump Should Wargame Secession Too” (August 2020). Prior to the stolen election in 2020, some high-ranking Democrats were worried about losing and were doing more than just contemplating secession. So I figured, if they can do it, so can we.

“Wargaming Secession Part 2: Introducing the ISEE Model of White Survival” (August 2020). Wherein I expound on my secession ideas and introduce my ISEE Model of White Survival, which shows how a White Ethnostate could possibly come into being.

“On Red State Secession” (October 2021). Here I report on an organization called Red State Secession and share some their links, stories, memes, and research. I’ve done two sequels so far, and will try to do at least one of these per year.

“Always be Seceding” (January 2025). Here I use Trump’s aims on acquiring Greenland to segue into a discussion on how anything that challenges the notion of existing borders is a good thing metapolitically. Whether it’s neighborhoods wanting to split off from a city, or counties or entire regions campaigning to switch state allegiances, or countries using the art of the deal to annex previously unattainable territories, if people can get used to borders changing, they can get used to Red State Secession.

History

Here is an eclectic selection of my best works dealing with history or historical figures that don’t fit neatly in any of the above categories.

“The Great Forgetting” (October 2016). A brief treatise on how white people have forgotten their centuries-long brutal treatment at the hands of Muslims from the Middle East and Africa.

“Who Was Georg Franz Kolschitzky?” (December 2016). I love this story about a mysterious polyglot spy, the Siege of Vienna, and the introduction of coffee into Europe.

“Remembering Thomas Nelson Page” (April 2017). A brief bio of one of the best American writers on the topic of race. Thomas Nelson Page has given us a great body of work dealing with the relationship of black and white in the post-bellum South.

Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne, book review (May 2020). You cannot find a better story than that of Cynthia Ann Parker, her warrior-chief son Quanah, and the decades-long, 19th-century war between the United States and the Comanche nation. Gwynne blasts this one out of the park.

“Remembering Hinton Rowan Helper” (May 2022). The story of the outspoken Southerner and race realist who supported the abolition of slavery on white nationalist grounds. A fascinating man way ahead of his time, who was, in the end, too extreme for his own good—and ours.

“Remembering Herman Husband” (September 2022). A brief bio of the proto-white advocate who inspired the Regulators in their fight against the astounding corruption of the North Carolina colonial government. Amazingly, he predicted many of the race problems we have today.

“A Reading List on White Slavery” (October 2022). Recaps of five crucial books on this crucial topic. They Were White and They Were Slaves by Michael Hoffman, The Forgotten Slave Trade by Simon Webb, White Cargo by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters by Robert Davis, and Colonists in Bondage by Abbott Emerson Smith.

A South-Side View of Slavery by Nehemiah Adams, book review (March 2023). A prominent Northern abolitionist travels the antebellum South in the 1850s to see what all the fuss regarding slavery is about. He comes back with the knowledge that, as far as slaves go, the blacks were treated quite well. A crucial work for all white identitarians.

Saints of the American Wilderness by John A. O’Brien, book review (August 2023). A fascinating account of the 17th-century French Jesuit priests who lived among the Algonquin Indians in today’s Canada with the expressed purpose of becoming saints. You know what they do to saints, right?

Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians by Fanny Kelly, book review (September 2023). Probably the most famous of the “captivity narratives” which were bestsellers among the American public 150 years ago. A real eye opener. I discuss other captivity narratives as well.

Jack Hinson’s One-Man War by Tom McKenney (October 2023). The ripping story of the lone-wolf Confederate sniper who took revenge on the Yankees for murdering his son.

Music

Here are some of my favorite essays about music.

“A White Nationalist Take on Rock n’ Roll” (December 2016). So it’s only rock n’ roll, but is it good for white people or not? And it really doesn’t matter if you like it.

“Mozart Won’t Make You Smart (But Rap Will Make You Dumb)” (October 2017). Wherein I discuss how parents can use classical music to instill a strong sense of taste in their children.

“A Dissident Remembers Jim Croce” (February 2019). I love the music of Jim Croce. Hopefully that will come through when you read this.

“Four Classic Rock Songs for the Dissident Right” (December 2019). This one has “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim” from the aforementioned Mr. Croce, as well as a song from the Kinks, the Clash, and Neil Young.

“Now Let Us Praise Great Jewish Violinists” (April 2020). This one made a splash with a lot of people. I discuss the undeniable Jewish genius in music while impressing upon philo-Semitic goys that there is a tremendous negative side to the Jewish diaspora as well.

“Was Punk Rock for Sale?” (October 2022). An essay which riffs on the Clash’s brilliant final performance at the US Festival in 1983 and expounds on the demise of punk music in the 1980s.

Arthur by the Kinks, record review (November 2023). One of my all-time favorite records. I hope I did this one justice.

“On Lola, Dick, and Jane” (May 2024). My thesis on gender bending in pop music, starting with “Lola” by the Kinks and “Androgynous” by the Replacements.

Good Old Boys by Randy Newman, record review (October 2024). Wherein I show that Newman doesn’t so much satirize the American South, he gives it a mean-spirited, sardonic beat down, despite two or three brilliant songs on this record.

Literature

I love reading literature. I love reviewing it almost as much.

The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux, book review (March 2018). A genius takes his family to build a civilization in the elemental conditions of South America, where he reaches the edge of madness.

Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner, book review (April 2019). I hate the literature of William Faulkner. His Go Down, Moses is especially egregious because it is not only bad, it is anti-white.

The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, book review (March 2020). The most anti-white classic novel I have ever read. Nathanael Weinstein really gives it to us good and hard in this one. We should know about this, and remember.

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, book review (July 2020). Wolfe’s perspicacious masterpiece from the late 1980s is a smorgasbord of race realism, and perhaps also the source of the term “fuggedaboudit.”

Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun, book review (July 2021). Hamsun’s best book. Oh, my, is it.

“Every Day is Thursday” (October 2021). Wherein I use the FBI’s entrapment of disaffected whites into joining a fake assassination plot of Michigan Governor Gretchen Witmer as an excuse to revisit G. K. Chesterton’s classic novel The Man Who Was Thursday. Parallels abound.

Uhuru by Robert Ruark, book review (September 2021). One of my all-time favorites and perhaps the greatest English-language novel in which race is the primary theme.

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (November 2021). In the persecution of Hester Prynne, we can draw parallels between the superstitious minds of 18th-century Salem and today’s Left—the mediocre overtaking the excellent and the ugly overtaking the beautiful.

A Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, book review (April 2023). I tried to Culture-of-Critique this one thanks to its Jewish author—and failed. A Catcher in the Rye is three-fourths a great novel largely because it paints the world to be darker than it really is and makes it cool to hate your fellow man.

Movies

This wouldn’t be a Greg Johnson joint without a slew of movie reviews. So here you go:

American History X, movie review (January 2017). Classic skinhead drama. Powerful, unforgettable. All but mandatory for dissidents. And still unintentionally great.

Only the Brave, movie review (November 2017). The true story of firefighter action on the west coast which contains some of the most powerful cinematic moments I have ever experienced.

Richard Jewell, movie review (December 2019). Tubby guy saves lives at the Atlanta Olympics and then gets railroaded by the FBI because he is white and lives with his mother. An infuriating, uplifting movie.

Ikiru, movie review (October 2020). My thoughts on one of Kurosawa’s best.

The Believer, movie review (June 2023). Another skinhead drama, also extremely well made. But it suffers the more one is familiar with Jews.

Oblivion, movie review (October 2023). Slick sci fi which has a lot to say about the JQ, whether the filmmakers meant it to or not.

The Witness, movie review (June 2024). An unforgettable documentary on the 1962 murder of Kitty Genovese made decades later by her brother.

Comedy

Outside of memes, you don’t get a whole of comedy or discussion about comedy on the Dissident Right. So tragedy tomorrow, guys. Comedy tonight.

“The Auction Block” (June 2018). Key and Peele’s rather based take on slavery. One of their best skits.

“Tragedy as Comedy: The Downfall of Jim Ignatowski” (October 2019). An episode of the TV show Taxi from 1983 has me contemplating the fall of Western civilization.

“The Greatest Jewish Joke Ever Told” (November 2020). Many funnier, none greater.

“On Racial Humor” (May 2022). A run through of some of the biggest names who ever cracked wise about our favorite topic.

“David Duke Reverses Opinion on Jews After Mel Brooks Binge” (March 2023). My stab at Babylon Bee-styled satire. Judging from the comments, it worked. I just hope Mr. Duke himself appreciated the humor.

The Rest

Here are a handful of other essays that don’t quite fit in any of the above categories that I am quite partial to. I hope you will be as well:

“The Nebbish and the Knockout: Thoughts on Arranged Marriages” (March 2019). Wherein I discuss game, the Manosphere, and why arranged marriages when done correctly are superior to the sexual free-for-all we have in the West today.

“Against Porn” (October 2021). Just say no, guys. It’s bad for you.

“A Bit More of the Good Book: The Ethnonationalist’s Revenge” (April 2022). My take on the Bible and just how darn racist it is.

“Transgenderism as Gnostic Heresy” (August 2022). This theoretical leap came to me while reading Igor Shafarevich’s great book The Socialist Phenomenon.

“On Right Wing Primal Urges” (September 2022). Are you a republican or a monarchist? If you’re on the Right, you are probably one or the other.

“Critical Race Theory Translated” (November 2022). In case its overall anti-whiteness wasn’t clear enough.

“Do You Have What it Takes to be a Dissident?” (March 2023). A questionnaire to be filled out by all would-be dissidents.

“Eugenics and Cancel Culture” (September 2023). All my thoughts on eugenics coalesced into one essay about re-naming a chapel at a small liberal arts college.

Free to Choose, by Milton Friedman, book review (December 2023). My take on libertarianism: more than an intellectually stimulating grift, less than a complete political philosophy.

“Against Circumcision” (February 2024). Did you hear the one about the rabbi who performed circumcisions for free? He only took tips.

Thanks for reading, everyone!