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Root of the Problem (2019)

May 7th 2025

The Boycott of Bud Light

3,275 words
Anson Frericks
Last Call for Bud Light: The Fall and Future of America’s Favorite Beer
Threshold Editions, 2025
In the 1980s, the top selling beer in America was Budweiser and the second best-selling beer was Bud Light, both brewed by Anheuser-Busch, a Saint Louis based company. Budweiser and Bud Light were boosted by a marketing campaign which grew out of the company’s cultural...

What to Do in Case of Fire (2001)

Counter Currents Staff #DissidentRight

May 1st 2025

The Fire at the Crowded Rhode Island Theater

5,520 words
John Barylick
Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America’s Deadliest Rock Concert
ForeEdge, 2012
I remember where I was and what I was doing when the news broke with a story about a horrible fire at rock concert in a roadhouse in West Warwick, Rhode Island on February 20, 2003. News of the fire was augmented with video shot by Brian Butler, a cameraman for the local station,...

Briar Patch (2002)

Counter Currents Staff #DissidentRight

Apr 29th 2025

What the Old South Can Teach Us Lessons from the Southern Agrarians

4,790 words
Henry Blue Kline, et al.
I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition
Harper Torchbook, 1962
One of the major themes of federal politics throughout the first seven decades (1789-1859) of the American Republic was the struggle to maintain the balance of power between the Northern and Southern states. Each section had its own economic structure, with the rapidly industrializing...

War and Remembrance (1988)

Counter Currents Staff #DissidentRight

Apr 28th 2025

The Tragedy of Realism in Ukraine

5,285 words
Alexander Vindman
The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine
PublicAffairs, 2025
The greatest tragedy of the twenty-first century so far is the Ukraine War which started in 2022. One of the people interested in this tragedy is Alexander Vindman, a foreign mercenary who served the US Army but is now retired.I’ve read he became an arms dealer...

Into the Weeds (2022)

Counter Currents Staff #DissidentRight

Apr 28th 2025

“Woke Right” is the New “Paranoid Style” in American Politics

3,942 words
Like Poetry, History Rhymes
One of the more startling aspects of this past election cycle has been the way in which it repeated the dominant themes and challenges from 2016. Trump as a beleaguered challenger; a demographic crisis continually spiralling out of control; America and its working people betrayed by an unaccountable and decadent elite; a world on the brink of war; and so...

Zero Day (2025)

Counter Currents Staff #DissidentRight

Apr 25th 2025

I watched zero day so you don’t have to

1,412 words
Part of every ideologically lonely dissident rightist’s life (or at least mine) is the consumption of horrible to mediocre pop culture minutiae for the purpose of critique, analysis, and simply keeping up with the enemy’s propaganda. There’s something to be said for good ole fashion hate-watching too. I guess that’s all a more fancy schmancy way of saying “I watched/read/listened...

National Parks (2022)

Counter Currents Staff #DissidentRight

Apr 23rd 2025

The First Hundred Days of Second Trump

2,490 words
April 30, 2025, will mark the passing of the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term. This benchmark refers to the 100 days between Napoleon Bonaparte’s return to France from Elba Island to his final defeat at Waterloo. It also refers to the flurry of legislation Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed just after he took office in 1934. If things go the usual way, now that we’ve...

Harrison Bergeron (1995)

Counter Currents Staff #DissidentRight

Apr 23rd 2025

Is Everyone Really Equal?

3,430 words
Part 1, Part 2
Oppression and Power
The introduction reads:
This chapter introduces the concept of power, which transforms group prejudice into oppression. We explain the difference between concepts such as “race prejudice” (which anyone can hold) and “racism,” which only the dominant racial group can impose. The chapter introduces the “ism” terms (e.g., racism, sexism,...

The Peripheral (2022)

Counter Currents Staff #DissidentRight

Apr 21st 2025

The Yookay Hellscape: From British Social Realism To The Realm Of Foreign, Grotesque Chaos Demons

2,160 words
It’s Grim Up North, So Let’s Make a Film About It
Britain is renowned for its social realism, whether it’s the likes of the world’s most disturbingly mundane soap operas, film classics likeThis Sporting Life, books like A Kestrel for a Knave, and plays like Look Back In Anger. Even Orwell’s seriously over referenced Nineteen Eighty-Four has a social realist tone despite its...

Marie Antoinette (2022)

Counter Currents Staff #DissidentRight

Apr 18th 2025

The Queen of Bohemia

2,021 words
The English rock band Queen needs no introduction. Unless you are so averse to rock and pop music that you have completely blocked it from your life, you will have heard the group, and their most famous song, the operatic “Bohemian Rhapsody”.
The latter was also the title of a 2018 biopic movie about the band, and while you may not recognize the name Farrokh Bulsara, you will...

Adolescence (2025)

Counter Currents Staff #DissidentRight

Apr 17th 2025

Night of the Wrong Knives: Using Adolescence To Deny Acts of Anti-White ‘Blancocide’ in France

3,947 words
Adolescence is the stubborn turd that just won’t flush. Here in its country of origin, the United Kingdom, the dismayingly popular Netflix series about so-called “toxic masculinity” is still dominating the mainstream news agenda, over a month after it was first released. The leader of the opposition Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has been repeatedly criticized by interviewers...

Theodore Roosevelt (2022)

Counter Currents Staff #DissidentRight

Apr 16th 2025

The Vietnam War’s Insider Threat

2,959 words
George Lepre
Fragging: Why US Soldiers Assaulted their Officers in Vietnam
Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2011
America’s first truly imperialist war, that against Spain in 1898, was waged by an army whose recruits were upper class, old-stock American men. The American soldier walking the point ahead of the rest of US Army towards the Spanish lines in Cuba was Sergeant...

Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)

Counter Currents Staff #DissidentRight

Apr 15th 2025

An “Evil” Farce

1,224 words
Aging well is one of the best signs of how inspired a movie is—especially for comedies. To make audiences laugh the filmmakers must share certain frames of reference with them—things against which other things can go splat, so to speak. Since frames of reference change over time, making lasting comedies often requires finding the right frames of reference. The well-dressed rich man...

The Gallery (2022)

Counter Currents Staff #DissidentRight

Apr 14th 2025

David Foster Wallace and the Christianity of Filling in Forms

3,429 words
The reason I believe that Infinite Jest is David Foster Wallace’s masterpiece is that it takes for granted that there is no real reason for him, or really anyone to embrace the mundane horrors of modern life— unless (and he isn’t), you’re willing to defend the transcendent ideal of your people, which if you’re me, or you’re someone like Wallace today, equals the white race....

Battle of the Sexes (2017)

Counter Currents Staff #DissidentRight

Apr 14th 2025

Sex and Sex-Talk in the 1970s

1,442 words
Part 1 here
1973 witnessed professional tennis’s heavily promoted “Battle of the Sexes” between 55-year-old former Wimbledon Champion Bobby Riggs and 29-year-old feminist Billie Jean King. The gallant Mr. Riggs, of course, let Miss King win. Three years later, the tennis world was rocked by a controversy surrounding a certain Renée Richards, the former Mr. Richard Raskind, who...

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

Counter Currents Staff #DissidentRight

Apr 12th 2025

Remembering Jonathan Bowden

1,362 words
Jonathan Bowden was born 63 years ago today, on April 12, 1962. He died on March 29, 2012, just short of his 50th birthday. Jonathan was a painter, novelist, essayist, playwright, actor, and orator. He was also a friend. His ideas and personality have had a real and permanent impact on my approach to New Right metapolitics. I wonder what Jonathan would have written in the last eleven...

The King of Comedy (1982)

Counter Currents Staff #DissidentRight

Apr 12th 2025

I Went to See Joker and Didn’t Get Shot

1,196 words
I saw a matinee of the feverishly hyped film Joker at a megaplex in rural Georgia on the first day of its official release. As we handed our tickets to the small, doughy, middle-aged female theater worker, she demanded to inspect my wife’s purse. She found no weapons, and I have no idea whether or not this disappointed her.
I don’t go to the movies much—Joker marks only the third...

Platonic (2023)

Counter Currents Staff #DissidentRight

Apr 11th 2025

The Geometry of Virtue: Plato’s Meno

2,243 words
Socrates: Tell me, boy, do you know that a figure like this is a square?
Boy: I do. — Plato, Meno
But geometric existence is not psychic existence.
— Jacques Derrida, Introduction to Edmund Husserl’s The Origin of Geometry
*** The dialogue known as Meno is generally placed in the early period of the Platonic corpus. It is an excellent introduction to Plato, and nothing...

Superman (2025)

Counter Currents Staff #DissidentRight

Apr 11th 2025

The Record of the Time

1,960 words
Laurie Anderson
Big Science
Warner Brothers, 1982
In the Seventies, Laurie Anderson made a modest name for herself in the “performance art” scene. Performance art is when talentless scammers do things like move dirt from one pile to another, or sit on blocks of ice and yodel, or have themselves crucified on the roof of a Volkswagen (which at least has the virtue of sincerity;...

London Fields (2018)

Counter Currents Staff #DissidentRight

Apr 10th 2025

Death And The Maiden: Martin Amis’ London Fields

2,020 words
This is London; and there are no fields. Only fields of operation and observation, only fields of electromagnetic attraction and repulsion, only fields of hatred and coercion.
-Martin Amis, London Fields
*** The late Martin Amis was an English novelist and the son of a novelist, Sir Kingsley Amis. Amis Junior dedicated one of his novels, London Fields, to his father. Something...

The Boycott of Bud Light

The Fire at the Crowded Rhode Island Theater

What the Old South Can Teach Us Lessons from the Southern Agrarians

The Tragedy of Realism in Ukraine

“Woke Right” is the New “Paranoid Style” in American Politics

I watched zero day so you don’t have to

The First Hundred Days of Second Trump

Is Everyone Really Equal?

The Yookay Hellscape: From British Social Realism To The Realm Of Foreign, Grotesque Chaos Demons

The Queen of Bohemia

Night of the Wrong Knives: Using Adolescence To Deny Acts of Anti-White ‘Blancocide’ in France

The Vietnam War’s Insider Threat

An “Evil” Farce

David Foster Wallace and the Christianity of Filling in Forms

Sex and Sex-Talk in the 1970s

Remembering Jonathan Bowden

I Went to See Joker and Didn’t Get Shot

The Geometry of Virtue: Plato’s Meno

The Record of the Time

Death And The Maiden: Martin Amis’ London Fields

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