Dave Chambers on what Elon Musk, and the United States, really stand for.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/elon-musk-wilmot-robertson-and-the-question-of-white-immigration/
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/elon-musk-wilmot-robertson-and-the-question-of-white-immigration/
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Elon Musk, Wilmot Robertson, and the Question of White Immigration
1,464 words In what has to rank among the least surprising discoveries of 2024, it has been revealed that Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, is not a populist crusader, but is instead a self-interested globalist in search of cheap labor. Since Christmas…
The replay of our final Counter-Currents Radio episode for 2024 is available now.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-619/
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-619/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 619
321 words / 2:14:37 In this final livestream of 2024, Greg Johnson was joined by several special guests who reflected on the biggest events of 2024, discussed their predictions for 2025, and shared their resolutions and plans for the New Year. It is now…
Morris van de Camp reviews Black Shame, a book about the comportment of black soldiers during World War I.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/african-troops-in-europe/
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/african-troops-in-europe/
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African Troops in Europe
3,545 words Dick van Galen Last with Ralf Futselaar Translated by Marjolijn de Jager Black Shame: African Soldiers in Europe, 1914 – 1922 New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015 Dick van Galen Last (1952 – 2010) was a librarian and senior researcher for the NIOD…
Endeavour traces the revolutionary movements of 18th century France, to the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, to the revolution occurring in present-day United States.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/americas-thermidorian-reaction/
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/americas-thermidorian-reaction/
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America’s Thermidorian Reaction
4,113 words In summer 1789, King Louis XVI of France summoned the Estates General to Versailles in order to solve France’s deepening financial crisis. The Estates General consisted of the First Estate representing the clergy, the Second Estate representing…
Spencer Quinn on the contradiction of giving protectionism to American businesses but not to American tech workers, who are being replaced and undercut by foreign H-1B visa holders. He also gives an insider account of dealing with Indian coders.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/on-tariffs-visas-and-the-indian-programming-scam/
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/on-tariffs-visas-and-the-indian-programming-scam/
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On Tariffs, Visas, and the Indian Programming Scam
1,804 words One of the things I like about Donald Trump’s promise to impose tariffs is how it places the needs of American producers over the needs of American consumers. With strong tariffs in place, consumers might be forced to pay more for superior goods…
Stephen Foster wonders if Barack Obama enjoyed more of a cult of personality than Trump, and if Trump really has it in him to be the "dictator" leftists say he is.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/obamas-transformation-and-the-coming-trump-dictatorship/
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/obamas-transformation-and-the-coming-trump-dictatorship/
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Obama’s “Transformation” and the Coming Trump Dictatorship
2,751 words Stalin’s dictatorship, too would be expected to foster ‘a permanent condition of stress by creating enemies at home and abroad and/or by imposing upon the population gigantic tasks that would be unlikely to be carried out in the absence of the…
Today is the birthday of French writer and advocate for French fascism, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. Read the several pieces Counter-Currents has published about him and his work here:
https://counter-currents.com/2020/01/remembering-pierre-drieu-la-rochelle-7/
https://counter-currents.com/2020/01/remembering-pierre-drieu-la-rochelle-7/
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Remembering Pierre Drieu La Rochelle: January 3, 1893–March 15, 1945
112 words Pierre Drieu La Rochelle was born on this day in 1893. In commemoration, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this site: Maurice Bardèche, “Bardèche’s Six Postulates of Fascist Socialism” (Ukrainian translation here) Alain de…
J.R.R. Tolkien was born on this day. Counter-Currents has published many pieces on the beloved author. Read more here:
https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/remembering-j-r-r-tolkien-12/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/remembering-j-r-r-tolkien-12/
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Remembering J. R. R. Tolkien: January 3, 1892–September 2, 1973
594 words “I am in fact a Hobbit.” — J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is a favorite author of New Left “hippies” and New Right nationalists, and for pretty much the same reasons. Tolkien deeply distrusted modernization and industrialization, which…
Part 2 of Endeavour’s essay on America’s “revolution”.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/americas-thermidorian-reaction-part-2/
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/americas-thermidorian-reaction-part-2/
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America’s Thermidorian Reaction Part 2
3,729 words To understand the arch of Donald Trump’s political career so far, he should be seen as a Machiavellian and monarchical figure without any concrete political ideology or ideals beyond his own self-aggrandizement. Trump has switched party loyalty…
Endeavour finishes his 3 part series on the restrained reaction to liberal excess taking place in the United States.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/americas-thermidorian-reaction-part-3/
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/americas-thermidorian-reaction-part-3/
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America’s Thermidorian Reaction – Part 3
2,258 words As I am a critic of the reigning universalist egalitarian liberal consensus, I will attempt to answer the question as to whether or not America’s Thermidorian Reaction, if successful, would be a good thing or not. Before I do that, I need to make…
Mark Gullick on the British government's pandering to and protection of Muslim communities, which seem to contribute nothing but terror and crime.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/protecting-brand-islam/
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/protecting-brand-islam/
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Protecting Brand Islam
3,272 words An entire generation of non-Muslim schoolgirls has been sacrificed to multiculturalism. Peter McLoughlin, Easy Meat The report uncovers a concerning obsession with Islam, portraying Muslims through a lens of suspicion and hostility. The Muslim…
Today marks Alan Watts’ birthday. Read more about this influential thinker and his work here:
https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/remembering-alan-watts-9/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/remembering-alan-watts-9/
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Remembering Alan Watts (January 6, 1915–November 16, 1973)
198 words Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. A prolific scholar and dazzling stylist, Watts is best known as the chief popularizer of Asian philosophy for the Beat and Hippy movements, but he was also an original thinker in his own right and a quiet…
Jim Goad on the New Year's Eve violence that took place in New Orleans and Las Vegas.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/the-worst-week-yet-december-29-january-4-2024/
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/the-worst-week-yet-december-29-january-4-2024/
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The Worst Week Yet December 29-January 4, 2024
1,453 words The New Year’s Terror-Truck Attacks At 3:16 AM on January 1, as revelers in New Orleans were still soaking in the joy and marinating in the alcoholic vapors of the freshly birthed year of 2025, a black man driving a recently rented white Ford…
Clarissa Schnabel reviews the book, A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/an-inventory-of-the-past/
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/an-inventory-of-the-past/
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An Inventory of the Past
812 words Sally Coulthard A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects Manchester: HarperNorth, 2024 This was the November 2024 pick for Time Team’s Book of the Month. Time Team had been a beloved archaeology series, running for twenty seasons from 1994…
Stephen Foster on the out-of-control and immensely powerful teachers unions.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/the-spectacular-virulence-of-teacher-unions/
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/the-spectacular-virulence-of-teacher-unions/
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The Spectacular Virulence of Teacher Unions
2,766 words One school principal has said that Randi Weingarten, of the [AFT] teachers union, would protect a dead body in the classroom. From a New Yorker cartoon, illustrated by Richard Thompson In recent posts, here, here, and here, I have argued that…
David Zsutty continues his series on the demands White Nationalists should make of Trump's incoming administration.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/what-white-nationalists-want-from-the-trump-administration-part-3/
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/what-white-nationalists-want-from-the-trump-administration-part-3/
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What White Nationalists Want from the Trump Administration Part 3
2,077 words (Part 1. Part 2.) Policy 6: Nationwide Election Reform There was a strong correlation with Republicans doing better in states that enacted election reforms in the wake of 2020. Many asked why the left didn’t steal the 2024 election. The answer…