Thomas Steuben looks at George Friedman's 2009 book The Next 100 Years and sees what the 14 years since have shown us about what he is getting right and wrong, and how it might explain some of the strange decisions that the Washington elite has been making. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/george-friedmans-the-next-100-years/

James J. O'Meara's essay on The Rebel Set, one of those so-bad-it's-good movies from the 1950s that's supposedly about Beatniks, and which was later mocked on Mystery Science Theater 3000, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/breaking-beat-reflections-on-the-rebel-set-a-masterpiece-that-never-was/

Tom Zaja offers a short poem on the value of vengeance, "Forward with a Vengeance." https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/forward-with-a-vengeance/

James J. O'Meara on the decline of the modern world as reflected in the horrid state of men's fashion. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/biden-and-bibi/

The Union Jackal reports on Mizzy, a black TikToker who has been making videos about harassing random white people in London in highly illegal ways and then crying “racism” when anyone tries to stop him; whites being asked not to attend a minstrel performance at Drury Lane; the BBC starting a new fact-checking initiative aimed at "Right-wing figures" called BBC Verify, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/the-union-jackal-may-2023

Greg Johnson on why Edmund Husserl was not only an influence on Leo Strauss, but was in fact crucial for the latter's development. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/notes-on-strauss-husserl/

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Greg Johnson welcomed Alexander Adams, author of the recently-published book from Imperium Press Blood, Soil, Paint, to the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed Romanticism and modern art. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-534-interview-with-alexander-adams/

Longtime Counter-Currents contributor Collin Cleary, author of Wagner’s Ring and the Germanic Tradition, was the guest on Nathan C. J. Hood‘s livestream for Wagner Day last weekend, where they discussed the use of Germanic mythology, as well as Faustian themes and the concept of fate, in Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelungen. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/collin-cleary-interviewed-on-richard-wagner/

Peter Brimelow reports on New York Attorney General Letita James' attempt to destroy the anti-immigration site VDARE through lawfare, in the biggest threat the institution has faced in its 24 years of operation. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/vdare-facing-mortal-threat/

Pox Populi on the latest battleground where wokeness is taking up the banner of "anti-racism": European football. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/footballs-race-war/

Clarissa Schnabel's essay on Carl Ludwig “Luz” Hermann Long, a German Olympian whose diaries describing his extensive travels for international sports competitions offer interesting insights into the attitudes toward Germans in other European countries in the years just prior to World War II, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/politicizing-luz-long-part-i/

The second part of last weekend’s Counter-Currents Radio was a solo Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson, and it is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-535-ask-me-anything/

Jim Goad on the signs that the Pride coalition is sparking a backlash by inundating America with ever-more ridiculous propaganda for the LGBTQ agenda in relation to Pride Month. Includes an audio version read by Jim Goad. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/june-is-the-gayest-month/

Beau Albrecht on the signs that corporate America may slowly be figuring out that shoving wokeness down their customer's throats is not always good for business. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/will-woke-capital-soon-go-the-way-of-the-dinosaur/

Mark your calendars. Greg Johnson and Gregory Hood will debate "Ethnonationalism vs. Imperialism" LIVE on Saturday, June 10th on DLive and Odysee at 10AM PST, 1PM EST, 7PM Central European Time.

https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/the-great-debate/

Rolf Peter Sieferle's "The New Official Religion," about the legacy of the Holocaust, is now in Czech. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/uryvky-z-finis-germania-rolfa-petera-sieferleho-cast-3/

Clarissa Schnabel's essay separating fact from myth in the famous story of black athlete Jesse Owens' encounter with one of his main German competitors, Luz Long, at the 1936 Olympic Games has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/politicizing-luz-long-part-ii/

Gunnar Alfredsson at the recent outbreaks of mass violence perpetrated by "youths" at Canada's Wonderland and other amusement parks across North America. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/alices-police-escort-in-wonderland/

Richard Knight on Black Lives Matter's various antecedents, going back to the Mau Mau rebellion in 1950s Kenya and proceeding through the emergence of Black Power movements in the US and Afrocentrism. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/three-episodes-from-the-history-of-racial-politics/

Morris van de Camp reviews Correlli Barnett's The Verdict of Peace, which is about the many systemic problems that led to Britain's decline in the 1950s — and are many of the same problems that the US is making today. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/prioritizing-prestige-over-accomplishment/