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Steam is the leading digital storefront platform used for buying and downloading PC games. I’m more of a Nintendo man myself, so I’ve never used it personally, though its extremely lax moderation policies may make it worth a look. Back in May, Steam cleared for release (possibly automatically) a new management-sim game along the lines of previous genre hits like Theme Park and Sim City, called Plantation Simulator. (more…)
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Attention all tax-payers! Are you aware you are being forced to fund your own replacement with millions of random financial deadweights from abroad? Of course you are, you read Counter-Currents. But what about readers of other, more mainstream, old-news outlets, like the dead-tree press? How well informed are they about such indisputable facts? (more…)
20/01/2026. Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds his weekly Cabinet meeting. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street
20/01/2026. Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds his weekly Cabinet meeting. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street
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Something is Rotten in the Fourth Estate
What can I know? The question was famously posed by the 16th-century French essayist, Michel de Montaigne. But his was a metaphysical question, whereas if we bring the question into our own age, it has become more straightforwardly ontological. In fact, we can even say that it has become informational. In terms of the expanded info-world in which we now live, what we can know is what we are told, and the media is often the curator of that knowledge. (more…)
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It’s nearly impossible to explain to anyone who doesn’t try to publish essays from the perspective of the Dissident Right just how difficult it is to get certain opinions published. Even a willing interlocutor has trouble comprehending just how impenetrable the wall is between the institutions curating public opinion and the public itself.
Until very recently those opinions deemed verboten would have included fairly anodyne conservative sentiments. (more…)
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An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom. — Charles Baudelaire, epigraph to 2666
The British Prime Minister was asked during an interview to name his favorite novel, and the answer he gave was revealing. Sir Keir Starmer said he didn’t have a favorite novel. He didn’t have a favorite poem, either. This is a man who was the Director of Public Prosecutions, one of the highest appointments in the United Kingdom. I know that he had a good education because I was at school with him, although he evidently spent more time studying than I did. (more…)
Image by Phil Eiger Newman
Image by Phil Eiger Newman
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Although I have a bit of a following from my articles here and elsewhere, I also write literature, mostly irreverent pastiches of science fiction and fantasy. I’m far less known for that; much like HP Lovecraft, I’ll probably be dead before becoming famous for my books. (Perhaps I should’ve written about sparkly vampires instead? Or maybe wish fulfillment chick lit featuring a billionaire with washboard abdominals hell-bent for BDSM?) Anyway, it is what it is. Here I’ll present a timely timeline of alternative history dunked in political satire, ripped from the headlines—well, kinda sorta. (more…)
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“The directors, when they meet, hold private discussions. In the case of such a powerful body there is also a central body which lays down basic policy. The influence of that central body, to say the least, must be great in our economic life. Nobody knows, however, what they discuss there. In the course of his speeches, Mr. Oppenheimer, the leader, makes political statements; (more…)
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Trouble has come to the South Pacific while America has been focused to the North on Trump’s Greenland debacle and ICE battling Kamikaze Karens in Minneapolis.
In early January, Australia passed the Combating Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026. The Bondi Beach Massacre was used as a pretext to pass it, but everyone knows that it won’t be used against jihadi migrants but rather against those who oppose the Great Replacement and fearlessly point out that Jews are overrepresented among the people who push it. (more…)
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The culture wars are very real, and the best proof of their existence is that the Left-wing mainstream media regularly claim that they are not. That there is some level of cultural conflict between the establishment Left and their useful idiots, and the dissenters, is ridiculed as a far-Right fever-dream. What does the current Left-wing government make of these supposed culture wars? (more…)
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In chess, we all know that the aim is to checkmate your opponent’s king. But this does not mean that in the normal course of play it’s wise to aim all your firepower directly at him. After all, he’s often pretty well protected, and directing your pieces in such an obvious way might leave you vulnerable to counterattack. Thus, it’s usually best to first meet fire with fire in the middle of the board before you go king hunting. (more…)
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On Friday, December 5, 2025, the European Commission issued its first-ever fine under the Digital Services Act (DSA), penalizing X with €120 million (approximately $140 million) for multiple breaches of obligations to protect users against deceptive practices and harmful content, including “disinformation” as defined by the Left. (more…)
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Not All Doom and Gloom
There were silver linings in the dark clouds here and there. Social media censorship and digital book burning were the worst they’d ever been in contemporary times. (more…)
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Leo Strauss is influential among certain circles, such as the Claremont Institute and the BAPsphere. For example, a few days ago, Costin Alamariu (a.k.a. Bronze Age Pervert), posted a supporter’s photo of his dissertation, Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy, by Strauss’s grave.
I decided to give Strauss’s ideas a fair hearing. (more…)