Greg Johnson and Counter-Currents

This chapter discusses the life and work of Greg Johnson, the editor in chief of Counter-Currents, an esoteric and metapolitical publisher of “Books against Time” which was created in 2010. Johnson was originally active in the white nationalist political milieu. Since founding the Counter-Currents website and writing key texts like Confessions of a Reluctant Hater, he has become a prominent critic of liberal modernity in the United States, for which he proposes the racial panacea of a “White Republic.” Johnson’s political and cultural thinking also includes an engagement with, and rearticulation of, “low culture” though his numerous disquisitions on popular film and television under the pen name “Trevor Lynch.” The Counter-Currents website serves as a window into the broader reception of his ideas and a platform for his own reaction to, and critique of, the Alt Right, including Richard B. Spencer and the Trump presidency, and his thoughts on the future of white nationalism.