Author: Thomas Steuben

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John Michael Greer
The King in Orange: The Magical and Occult Roots of Political Power
Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2021

In his book The King in Orange, John Michael Greer provides a magical perspective on the 2016 and 2020 elections which is highly pertinent with the 2024 election approaching.

It should be noted that contrary to modern misconceptions of magic (and the eldritch cover art), Greer’s definition of magic is very practical. (more…)

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Halloween is my favorite holiday. Who doesn’t love chocolate and pumpkin flavored everything? Halloween’s metaphysical tones always appealed to me even before I consciously identified as a blood-and-soil nationalist. It is a time of fiery foliage, fertile pumpkin patches, and intriguing mists, It is perfect for rereading a bit of Lovecraft or Poe. (more…)

The god Krishna prepares Prince Arjuna to fight before the Battle of Kurukhsetra.

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Like all journals of dissident ideas, Counter-Currents depends on the support of our readers. So far this year, we’ve raised $63,955.84 of our $300,000 goal. I want to thank everyone who has donated so far. (Please donate here!) But first, Thomas Steuben offers a few words on how to decide what level of involvement in our movement is right for you.

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The term “red pill” has become common parlance and has spawned numerous variations. While some lament that its meaning has become diluted, I prefer to see this as a testament to the dissident Right’s cultural dynamism. (more…)

Pedro L. Gonzalez

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On Tuesday, Breitbart ran an antifa style dox hit piece against Pedro Gonzalez. The article contained messages from Gonzalez candidly discussing race and Jewish power. But the unfiltered messages we’re supposed to clutch our pearls over are all quite level headed, such as “Yeah like not every Jew is problematic, but the sad fact is that most are” (more…)

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I usually adhere to the Roman custom of only speaking well of the dead, but I will make an exception for Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate and designer of the ill-fated Titan. As the Joker would say, “We live in a society.” OceanGate says a lot about that society, and I can’t help but see the funny side of the Titan’s catastrophic implosion. (more…)

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George Friedman
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
New York: Anchor Books, 2009

George Friedman’s The Next 100 Years is an intriguing forecast of how the twenty-first century will play out. Friedman gets a lot of things wrong, but there is nevertheless a method to his analysis, and we have much to learn from what the broader center-Left, of which Friedman is a part, gets right. It’s also interesting because glowing reviews in the mainstream media suggests that the book has been guiding the establishment’s thinking, and thus explains some of their odd decisions. (more…)

Theodore Roosevelt, a President who successfully used state power for positive ends.

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Recently, Martinez Politics, whose commentary I usually enjoy, assumed a strong stance against fascism. Here are a few snippets from his Telegram posts on this topic:

Same end goal: “everything in the State, nothing outside the State” aka Communism.

Fascism says the State is supreme and you cannot rebuke it. There’s no reason to believe that only means specific states that you selectively choose to be loyal to, but all States. . . . But the people touting this Supreme Statist ideology don’t apply any of these standards consistently, but selectively/tactically, because they don’t actually believe in these principles at all. (more…)

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Cryptids are an endless source of fascination, and explanations for the phenomenon abound. My personal theory is that they are for the most part real, albeit in strange extradimensional, metaphysical ways. Regardless, whether they are real or not, and if so and in what manner, is a question of fact. Right now I want to deal with the question of their meaning. (more…)

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We on the dissident Right hold that demographics is destiny in regards to race. If so, then it is natural that the same can be said for sub-racial genetic characteristics such as extremism, conscientiousness, and so on. Due to the fact that various waves of Europeans traveled across the Atlantic, the baseline for certain genetic traits among American whites is different from that which is found in our homeland of Europe. (more…)

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A blogger associated with the antifa bragged at the beginning of this week that arrests were imminent against demonstrators who had participated in the August 11, 2017 tiki torch march in Charlottesville, Virginia. Three people have been arrested so far, but this may be only the beginning. (more…)

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The United States federal government has been fixated for years on far-off conflicts while America’s backyard, especially Mexico, has slid into chaos. Nationalists for years have likewise demanded that our troops be stationed on the Rio Grande instead of the Euphrates. (more…)

Michel-Martin Drolling, The Wrath of Achilles (1810)

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Once upon a time, when we still had the illusion of having a country, I naïvely recommended that our guys enlist in the military. My advice to young white men is now the complete opposite, for two reasons. The first has to do with self-respect and self-preservation. I call it the Achilles Option. The second is to hasten the advent of an archeofuturist era of warfare, which is necessary if white nations are to defy the Eurasian powers. (more…)

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An Anonymous January 6th Prisoner
The American Regime
Quakertown, Pa.: Antelope Hill Publishing, 2022

With its striking cover and the mystique of having been written by an anonymous January 6 political prisoner, Antelope Hill’s latest book, The American Regime, was immediately intriguing. Books cannot always be judged by their covers, but I am happy to say that it exceeded my expectations. (more…)