Author: Keith Woods

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There are probably few political theorists who have been as systematically misread as Carl Schmitt. Perhaps this is the destiny of any thinker whose influence extends well beyond his academic field, but Schmitt’s revival among the online right in recent years has produced especially crude appropriations. (more…)

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Keith Wood’s speech from the Counter-Currents 2025 Spring Retreat symposium on America and Europe in the Age of Trump. (more…)

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There are a few interesting trends playing out right now with Trump’s second term. One is the more aggressive stance his administration has taken towards Europe. I think you’re seeing that reflected in the rhetoric of some of his supporters as well, which creates something of an unnecessary rift between Europeans and Americans on social media. (more…)

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I saw a series of Telegram posts by Australian nationalist Joel Davis recently that I feel the need to respond to. Joel argues that rehabilitating the image of German National Socialism and Adolf Hitler himself is essential for the success of a nationalist movement. For a time, Joel and I were very closely aligned ideologically and collaborated a lot together. Our paths diverged somewhat when Joel embraced, for want of a better word, Neo-Nazism. (more…)

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The left is entering a time of realignment. Donald Trump’s landslide victory over Kamala Harris is a major alarm call that something is wrong with the formula progressive elites have used to reliably sell their package to voters for decades. And it’s not just the US. Throughout the Western world, there is a rising tide of populism. (more…)

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The theory of an ancient Aryan invasion of the Indian subcontinent was first proposed by William Jones, a British philologist in the 18th Century. At the time a stunning and original theory, Jones proposed a common root language to European languages and Sanskrit, writing that: (more…)

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In a previous essay, I looked at the shaping of an Italian national identity within the early Roman Empire, and argued, contra modern scholars, that an ethnic Italian identity based on shared ancestry was well developed within the Roman Empire, and remained a source of pride throughout its existence.

The presence of this kind of primordial nationalism in pre-modern empires seriously undermines the claims made by the modernist school of thought in the sociology of nationalism, which is treated as orthodoxy in many sociological departments in the West. (more…)

Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha, the Irish writer who most explicitly linked Ireland’s struggle for independence to ethnonationalism.

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Micheál Martin, the Irish Tánaiste and leader of Fianna Fáil, recently uploaded a speech delivered to the Dáil on his conception of Irish nationalism. Martin wrote that:

The people who fought for and founded our state saw it as a place with multiple identities, open to the world and embodying the most important republican principle of all, to reflect the diversity of its people. (more…)