The replay of last Saturday's Counter-Currents Radio Book Club edition is now available.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/12/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-618/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/12/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-618/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 618
256 words Greg Johnson was joined by F. Roger Devlin in this edition of the Counter-Currents Radio Book Club. It is now available to download or listen to online. Topics Include: 0:57 – Intro and welcoming Roger Devlin 1:40 – Donations acknowledged 3:11 –…
Greg Johnson weighs in on the debate over H1B migrants that has been raging on X since Christmas Eve.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/12/the-counter-jeethad-on-x/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/12/the-counter-jeethad-on-x/
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The Counter-Jeethad on X
2,100 words This year, my best Christmas present was a war over legal, high-skilled immigration on X. On December 23, Laura Loomer tweeted: Deeply disturbing to see the appointment of Sriram Krishnan as Senior Policy Advisor for AI at the Office of Science…
Trevor Lynch's essay on David Lynch's classic Twin Peaks is now in Russian translation.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/12/%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%b8%d0%bd-%d0%bf%d0%b8%d0%ba%d1%81/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/12/%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%b8%d0%bd-%d0%bf%d0%b8%d0%ba%d1%81/
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Твин Пикс
2,051 words (English version here) Меня преследует чувство, будто я вырос в Твин Пикс, вымышленном городке лесозаготовителей в Вашингтоне. Одноимённый культовый сериал Дэвида Линча транслировался на канале ABC с весны 1990 года до весны 1991 года. «Твин Пикс»…
Christian Secor's essay on religion and the right has been paroled from the paywall.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/11/religion-and-the-right-pt-1-the-christian-question/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/11/religion-and-the-right-pt-1-the-christian-question/
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Religion and the Right Pt. 1: The Christian Question
1,805 words Part 1 Today on the Right, there is much discussion of religion in the West, and for good reason. Whether we are talking about reactionaries who wish to wind back the clock to Protestantism, Catholicism, Paganism, or esoteric Traditionalism—or…
Derek Stark analyzes the fallout from the debate over H1B immigration.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/12/dawn-of-the-lizard-people/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/12/dawn-of-the-lizard-people/
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Dawn of the Lizard People
2,917 words We knew it would eventually come to this. During the 2024 presidential campaign, we could see all the Tech Bros lurking around Trump, filling his head with sweet nothings—and talk of the need for cheap foreign tech labor. During the campaign and…
Collin Cleary reviews the book Holy Europe by Aki Cederberg.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/12/aki-cederbergs-holy-europe/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/12/aki-cederbergs-holy-europe/
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Aki Cederberg’s Holy Europe
2,655 words Aki Cederberg, photography by Justine Cederberg Holy Europe North Augusta, SC: Arcana Europa, 2024 Several years ago, a curious incident occurred at Rennes-le-Château, the mysterious church in Southern France that partially inspired the bestsellers…
Today is the birthday of English poet and novelist, Rudyard Kipling. Counter-Currents has published multiple articles on Kipling and his works. Read more here:
https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/remembering-rudyard-kipling-8/
https://counter-currents.com/2021/12/remembering-rudyard-kipling-8/
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Remembering Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865-January 18, 1936)
3,275 words Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling was born on this day in 1865. For an introduction to his life and works, see the following articles on this site. Anti-Empire, “The Ultimate Anti-War Work Would Require a Psychopath to Write…
Richard Chance reviews the new film Nosferatu.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/12/a-review-of-robert-eggers-nosferatu/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/12/a-review-of-robert-eggers-nosferatu/
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A Review of Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu
1,205 words While their films couldn’t possibly be more different, David Lynch and Robert Eggers seem to have one thing in common: making movies by, for, and about whites without being explicit white advocates themselves. From Eraserhead (1977) to Inland…
Spencer Quinn discusses his new young adult novel, Critical Daze.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/12/spencer-j-quinn-interviewed-about-critical-daze/
https://counter-currents.com/2024/12/spencer-j-quinn-interviewed-about-critical-daze/
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Spencer J. Quinn interviewed about Critical Daze
2,176 words Did you always intend on writing a No College Club sequel? Certainly. When I envisioned The No College Club back in 2021, I had in mind a potential vehicle that could support an indefinite number of sequels—perhaps in other formats, such as comics.…
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…