Paul Krugman. Official WH Photo by Adam Schultz.
Paul Krugman. Official WH Photo by Adam Schultz.
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Several days ago, Jewish economist and former New York Times columnist Paul Krugman posted a six-minute video of himself in which he expounded upon his hatred of Donald Trump and everything MAGA. At first, he seemed most appalled by Trump’s response to various musical artists who recently pulled out of this summer’s Great American State Fair concert in Washington, DC. (more…)
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Ibram X. Kendi
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
New York: One World, 2026
Ibram X. Kendi’s Chain of Ideas is on the Great Replacement, which he describes as “the most dominant political theory of our time” (p. xxx).
Kendi is one of America’s most prominent skintellectuals. His 2017 book Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (New York: Bold Type Books, 2017) made him the youngest author ever to win the National Book Award for non-fiction. (more…)
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A persistent argument, often termed the gateway hypothesis, suggests that certain public figures act as entry points for individuals to engage with heterodox ideas. This perspective proposes that figures like Candace Owens, the Tate brothers, and Myron Gaines attract general audiences to unconventional thought, eventually leading them toward more substantial dissident ideologies. (more…)
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John Staddon
Inevitable Differences: An Inquiry into Human Variation
Washington, DC: Academia Press, 2026
One of the most promising trends that emerged in 2025 is the spread of “black fatigue,” in which increasing numbers of whites are expressing their weariness with violent or boorish behavior by blacks. Some people even make middle class livings primarily by commenting on videos of blacks “chimping out” in public. (more…)
Photo via Kanye West / X, 2020
Photo via Kanye West / X, 2020
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One of the most important aspects of modern American politics is the desire among a faction of conservatives to ally with African-Americans. This has motivated decades worth of terrible decisions. This includes Turning Point USA’s decision to promote Candace Owens, Donald Trump’s “Platinum Plan,” and repetitive attempts to rewrite history. (more…)
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Marc de Launay
Nietzsche and Race
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023
On August 1, 1950, Theodor Adorno wrote a letter to Thomas Mann. Adorno was a philosopher and critical theorist, Mann one of Germany’s most famous novelists, having won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, primarily for his novel, Buddenbrooks. Adorno wished to tell Mann of a planned book on Nietzsche, to be written with Max Horkheimer and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Horkheimer, along with Adorno, was one of the founders of critical theory, while Gadamer was the “father of hermeneutics,” a specific interpretative method applied to texts qua texts, and a development of Schleiermacher’s hermeneutics. The book was to have a very specific theme and purpose: (more…)
You can order Greg Johnson’s The Philosopher Is In here.
You can order Greg Johnson’s The Philosopher Is In here.
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This year, Counter-Currents is trying to raise $300,000 to sustain and expand our work (like paying our great new videographer). We are off to a strong start. So far we have raised $57,677.69. Thank you!
We used up our first $20,000 matching grant so quickly that another donor has offer a grant of the same size to keep the momentum going. Let’s try to use it up by the end of June. There are many ways to help:
On Saturday, June 6, Greg Johnson & David Zsutty will do an AMA.
On Saturday, June 13, Greg welcomes Rob Rundo of the Active Club movement back to Counter-Currents Radio. Join us at our regular time, Noon Pacific, 3 pm Eastern, 8 pm UK time, 9 pm Central Europe at:
You can buy Greg Johnson’s The White Nationalist Manifesto here.
You can buy Greg Johnson’s The White Nationalist Manifesto here.
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Counter-Currents is more relevant than ever: because we focus not just on the necessity and the inevitability of white identity politics, but on its moral legitimacy.
In support of our mission, we do not bog you down with advertising and our content is free in order to change as many minds as possible.
However, we offer special perks for those who support us by purchasing a membership (above and beyond the joy of doing the right thing)! (more…)
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In Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, palantirs are basically crystal balls, allowing people to see things at a distance. They are also like video phones. Two people with palantirs can communicate at a distance.
In Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring, Gandalf chides Saruman for using a palantir to collect information on Sauron, because the other seeing stones are not accounted for. So when you look into a palantir, someone might be looking back at you, someone evil. (more…)
Trump and Xi Jinping (Official WH Photo by Daniel Torok)
Trump and Xi Jinping (Official WH Photo by Daniel Torok)
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Beneath the surface of everyday American life, the pork on supermarket shelves, the seeds planted across Midwestern fields, and the agrochemicals sprayed on crops from Texas to Iowa, lies a quietly assembled architecture of Chinese influence. Through corporate acquisition, land accumulation, data harvesting, and regulatory manipulation, the Chinese Communist Party has embedded itself within the systems that feed and power America. The scale of this penetration is vast, its implications alarming, and the oversight mechanisms designed to prevent it have proven, repeatedly, inadequate. (more…)
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1. The Metaphysics of Presence
In the last installment, we introduced Heidegger’s claim that Western metaphysics ends with Nietzsche. For Heidegger, metaphysics is the expression of an anthropocentrism that culminates in the meaninglessness and inhumanity of modern technological civilization. With Nietzsche, metaphysics comes full circle and “reverses” Platonism. Nietzsche prepares the ground for the ultimate result of metaphysics, which is not actually a work of philosophy. It is modern technological civilization itself. (more…)
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“I can’t breathe.”
The last words of George Floyd.
“I can’t breathe.”
The last words of Henry Nowak.
Henry Nowak was an 18-year-old Englishman, a student of Polish descent, and was studying for a degree in Accounting and Finance at Southampton University, England. (more…)
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David R. Shedd & Andrew Badger
The Great Heist: China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets
New York: Harper, 2025
“Certainly no one has ever denied the Chinaman’s extraordinary economic efficiency. Winnowed by ages of grim elimination in a land populated to the uttermost limits of subsistence, the Chinese race is selected as no other for survival under the fiercest conditions of economic stress. At home the average Chinese lives his whole life literally within a hand’s breadth of starvation. Accordingly, when removed to the easier environment of other lands, the Chinaman brings with him a working capacity which simply appalls his competitors. That urbane Celestial, Doctor Wu-Ting-Fang, well says of his own people: ‘Experience proves that the Chinese as all-round laborers can easily outdistance all competitors. They are industrious, intelligent, and orderly. They can work under conditions that would kill a man of less hardy race; in heat that would kill a salamander, or in cold that would please a polar bear, sustaining their energies through long hours of unremitting toil with only a few bowls of rice.’”—Lothrop Stoddard (more…)