1,275 words No matter what happens with AI, it’s going to be an economic catastrophe. If AI is just a giant bubble, obviously that bubble is going to burst, and it will bring down the whole economy. Indeed, the American economy is mostly stagnant. All the growth right now is in AI. If AI actually […]
2,904 words José Pedro Zúquete The Identitarians: The Movement against Globalism and Islam in Europe South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018 José Pedro Zúquete is a Portuguese political scientist. He is the author of Missionary Politics in Europe (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2007) which focuses on Umberto Bossi’s Northern League in Italy […]
2,102 words Part 3 of 3 (whole series here) Break Big Problems Down into Small Ones The numbers of people who need to be remigrated are immense and growing. Thus, at first glance, the problem seems overwhelming. But just as the biggest meal is consumed bite by bite, the best way to solve intimidatingly large […]
200 words Greg Johnson The Philosopher Is In San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2026 Release Date: June 20, 2026. Special pre-order price until then. What is philosophy? Why should you study it? How can simple arguments shatter and remake your life? Greg Johnson’s The Philosopher Is In a lucid and engaging introduction to philosophy. It explores the […]
2,036 words Part 2 of 3 (whole series here) The Idea of a Homeland One way to reduce resistance to remigration is to base it on the idea of a universal right to a homeland.[1] Every individual and every family should have the right to its own home, a refuge from the world where they […]
1,818 words China’s “Century of Humiliation” began in 1839 with the First Opium War. The Qing Dynasty was in decline, and foreign powers began stealing territories and extorting trade concessions through wars and military expeditions. It was a long century that only really ended in 1949 with the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. […]
2,012 words Part 1 of 3 I like the term “remigration” because it builds the argument that migration can be reversed into the word itself. If migration can happen, then of course remigration can happen too. To make the case for remigration, we must defend three theses: Remigration is possible. Remigration is desirable. Remigration is […]
60 words / 1:56:32 Greg Johnson welcomes Portuguese identitarian Luís Graça to discuss his book Ukraine: An Identitarian Perspective, Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as Azov, CasaPound, national populism in Portugal, and how Antonio Salazar’s legacy is remembered in Portugal today. Now for your streaming or downloading pleasure. To listen in a player, click here or […]
4,010 words Curtis Dozier The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate New Haven: Yale University Press, 2026 Curtis Dozier is one of my long-time academic stalkers. An associate professor of Greek and Roman Studies at Vassar College in New York, he is the director of Pharos: Doing Justice […]
Elon Musk at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. 1,184 words On April 24, 2026, the Washington Post published an article that was critical of Elon Musk’s articulations about race. The taboo topic of our age is for whites to be self-aware. The fact that the richest man on the planet, who is […]
William Blake, “The Ancient of Days,” 1794 1,193 words As Kevin Deanna has observed, every election is now the most important election of our lifetimes, and we are always one electoral defeat away from total disaster. It didn’t used to be that way. Twenty years ago, it was easy for White Nationalists to be indifferent […]
63 words / 1:00:05 Greg Johnson answers questions on psychology and psychiatry, the dangers of leisure and Universal Basic Income in a liberal society, Ukraine and the EU, a nationalist Germany, the SPLC indictment, reading Plutarch and Gibbon, and more. Now for your streaming or downloading pleasure. To listen in a player, click here or […]
1,566 words Since 2011, Counter-Currents has organized private, invitation-only weekend retreats for our writers, donors, and friends. We have had many distinguished speakers and guests, including Jonathan Bowden, Kevin MacDonald, Mark Weber, Jared Taylor, Charles Krafft, Roger Devlin, and Edward Dutton. One purpose of these retreats is to foster real-world fellowship and collaborations. We keep…
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ecstasy of St. Teresa, 1647-52 (Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome) 75 words / 1:06:36 Jared Taylor and Greg Johnson discuss the Counter-Currents Retreat in Rome and their impressions of CasaPound, as well as their visit to the Finnish Awakening Conference and Jared’s other recent travels in France and Belgium. Now […]
1,108 words On Tuesday, April 21st, a Grand Jury in Montgomery, Alabama indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering based on FBI and IRS investigations. (See press release here.) According to the indictment, between 2014 and […]
Edmund Blair Leighton, Duty (1883)Source: Wikimedia Commons 2,301 words This talk was delivered at the Counter-Currents Spring Retreat in Rome on April 11th, 2026, and again at the Finnish Awakening conference near Helsinki on April 19, 2026. I want to thank my hosts and my audience at both events. We are spending today in the […]
Source: Wikimedia Commons 951 words Counter-Currents Editor-in-Chief Greg Johnson participated for the second time in Finland’s Awakening conference over the weekend. He was interviewed by the Finnish Kansalainen nationalist news site prior to the event. Hey Greg! How are you doing? Fine, thanks! Your work at Counter-Currents Publishing has had a significant impact in building […]
Source: European Parliament 2,038 words Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is both the smartest politician in Europe and, from my point of view, the most ideologically sound. Thus it came as a big surprise that he was soundly trounced in last Sunday’s elections. Why did this happen, and what does it bode for Hungary and for the […]
Edward Hopper, Soir Bleu (detail), 1914 1,584 words A lot of people are down in the dumps because of Trump’s shocking betrayals on immigration, the Epstein files, and especially the expanding debacle in Iran. Here are a few words of consolation. Things aren’t that bad. As a White Nationalist, my political goal is to restore […]
1,465 words Donald Trump addressed the nation on April Fools’ Day. It would have been too painful to listen to his adenoidal droning and borscht-belt insult comedian shtick, so I just read the transcript. He said nothing new. It was just a live version of his social media tweets: rambling, mendacious, self-contradictory, delusional, emotionally labile, […]
1,477 words Late last year, my big prediction for 2026 was that Donald Trump would be forced to step down as US President because he was destroying the coalition that elected him, thus making it increasingly likely that the Left would return to power with a vengeance. That, frankly, is a terrifying prospect, especially to […]
Mark Weber, on the right, at a meeting in the presidential center in Tehran, Sept. 5, 2012. At the left is President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. 89 words / 1:58:00 Greg Johnson and David Zsutty interview Mark Weber of the Institute for Historical Review on the current Iran War. Mark Weber has visited Iran three times. He […]
1,212 words Years ago, during my brief academic career, one of my students explained to me how the Canadians were taking over Hollywood. At first, I thought that “Canadians” was just a euphemism for Jews. But no, as he continued, it became clear that he earnestly believed that the Canadians were taking over Hollywood, because […]
Enrico Marchiani, Portrait of Gabriele d’Annunzio in Arditi Uniform 151 words Today is the birthday of Gabriele D’Annunzio, novelist, poet, playwright, aesthete, dandy, playboy, war hero, and the first fascist dictator, who from 1919 to 1920 ruled over the Adriatic city-state of Fiume, establishing many of the political and aesthetic forms followed by Mussolini a […]
35 words / 1:58:43 Greg Johnson and David Zsutty on the Iran Crisis. Now for your streaming or downloading pleasure. To listen in a player, click here or below. To download, right-click the link and click “save as.” https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/TheIranCrisis.mp3
1,492 words Editor’s Note: Below is an an excerpt from an essay I published last June in the run-up to the Twelve Day War. I was planning to republish it today, in the hope that it might encourage people to protest and stop a new war. Obviously, I was too late. The Twelve Day War […]
You can order Greg Johnson’s Loving Our Own here 1,382 words A bandit hides a sack of gold by burying it in an orchard. Centuries pass. A farmer planting a tree discovers the bandit’s gold. Was this meant to happen? It seems not. The bandit’s purpose was to hide the gold. The farmer’s purpose was […]
52 words / 1:57:03 Greg Johnson and Millennial Woes discuss Rupert Lowe and his new Restore Britain party, plus Marco Rubio’s Munich speech (in the last half hour). Now for your streaming or downloading pleasure. To listen in a player, click here or below. To download, right-click the link and click “save as.” https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/RupertLowe.mp3
Aristotle, line engraving by P. Fidanza after Raphael Sanzio 3,040 words Part 1 of 2 Plato and Aristotle are the twin peaks of Ancient Greek philosophy. Aristotle was Plato’s student. But in one way, Aristotle seems to backslide from Plato. Plato was interested in theoretical topics like mathematics and the philosophy of nature. But following […]
Concordia Augusta, marble, from the Eumachia House in Pompeii, 1st century AD, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli 1,355 words Based on various polls, around 90% of Americans have observed a decline in “civility.” Similar numbers believe that civility is necessary for the functioning of American society. Thus the decline in civility can only be harmful […]