Category: Jonathan Bowden

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  • Jonathan Bowden’s Correspondence with Greg Johnson, November-December 2010

    Counter Currents - Nov 26th 2025 10:33am EST

    1,122 words Edited by Greg Johnson Editor’s Note: What follows is all my extant correspondence with Jonathan Bowden from 2010. Once he started sending me articles for Counter-Currents, Jonathan would typically send the entire article as an email. For brevity, I have included just the titles. The articles themselves are found on Counter-Currents. There is one exception: […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Correspondence with Greg Johnson, November-December 2010

    Counter Currents - Nov 26th 2025 10:33am EST

    1,122 words Edited by Greg Johnson Editor’s Note: What follows is all my extant correspondence with Jonathan Bowden from 2010. Once he started sending me articles for Counter-Currents, Jonathan would typically send the entire article as an email. For brevity, I have included just the titles. The articles themselves are found on Counter-Currents. There is one exception: […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Correspondence with Greg Johnson, September-October 2010

    Counter Currents - Nov 17th 2025 8:42am EST

    8,038 words Edited by Greg Johnson Editor’s Note: What follows is all my extant correspondence with Jonathan Bowden from 2010. Once he started sending me articles for Counter-Currents, Jonathan would typically send the entire article as an email. For brevity, I have included just the titles. The articles themselves are found on Counter-Currents. There is one exception: […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Correspondence with Greg Johnson, 2010

    Counter Currents - Nov 10th 2025 8:06am EST

    2,986 words Edited by Greg Johnson Editor’s Note: What follows is all my extant correspondence with Jonathan Bowden from 2010. Once he started sending me articles for Counter-Currents, Jonathan would typically send the entire article as an email. For brevity, I have included just the titles. The articles themselves are found on Counter-Currents. There is […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Correspondence with Greg Johnson, 2009

    Counter Currents - Oct 29th 2025 12:54pm EDT

    4,490 words Edited by Greg Johnson Editor’s Note: This is the first of four collections of my correspondence with and about Jonathan Bowden, from my first contact in 2009 to his death in 2012. I first corresponded with Jonathan in 2009, when I was the editor of The Occidental Quarterly. I was organizing a conference […]

  • A Toast and An Oath

    Counter Currents - Aug 28th 2025 2:42pm EDT

    203 words At the end of our Counter-Currents Retreats, we had a tradition of going around the room and sharing a toast and an oath. The toast was to praise something positive. The oat was to promise to one’s peers to accomplish one thing for the movement before our next gathering. Jonathan Bowden was the […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Craze Part 5

    Counter Currents - Aug 18th 2025 8:25am EDT

    You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Pulp Fascism here. 4,529 words Part 5 of 5 Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi In 1995, Jonathan Bowden self-published his Collected Works in 6 volumes (London: Avant-Garde, 1995), edited by Jürgen Schwartz, one of Bowden’s pen names. The six volumes comprise 27 distinct books, 12 of which had […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Craze Part 4

    Counter Currents - Aug 14th 2025 7:24am EDT

    You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Western Civilization Bites Back here. 4,649 words Part 4 of 5 Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi In 1995, Jonathan Bowden self-published his Collected Works in 6 volumes (London: Avant-Garde, 1995), edited by Jürgen Schwartz, one of Bowden’s pen names. The six volumes comprise 27 distinct books, 12 of […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Craze Part 3

    Counter Currents - Aug 7th 2025 12:03pm EDT

    You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Reactionary Modernism here. 4,559 words Part 3 of 5 Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi In 1995, Jonathan Bowden self-published his Collected Works in 6 volumes (London: Avant-Garde, 1995), edited by Jürgen Schwartz, one of Bowden’s pen names. The six volumes comprise 27 distinct books, 12 of which had […]

  • Making Sense of Jonathan Bowden’s Life and Mind from Projection in His Literature: His Mental State

    Counter Currents - Jul 4th 2025 7:37am EDT

    1,087 words Charisma and creativity tend to be associated with mental instability. A detailed examination of the lives of highly eminent men by the psychiatrist Felix Post entitled “Creativity and Psychopathology” found that this was very frequently the case, especially among artists and writers. Jonathan Bowden was most famous for his scintillating public speaking and, […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Craze Part 2

    Counter Currents - Jul 2nd 2025 3:05pm EDT

    You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s collection The Cultured Thug here. 3,091 words Part 2 of 5 Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi In 1995, Jonathan Bowden self-published his Collected Works in 6 volumes (London: Avant-Garde, 1995), edited by Jürgen Schwartz, one of Bowden’s pen names. The six volumes comprise 27 distinct books, 12 of […]

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  • Making Sense of Jonathan Bowden’s Life and Mind from Projection in His Literature

    Counter Currents - Jun 27th 2025 11:31am EDT

    1,320 words When I published Shaman of the Radical Right: The Life and Mind of Jonathan Bowden, I genuinely didn’t expect there to be quite so much interest in it. I was mainly fascinated by Bowden’s psychology: what is the nature of someone, especially when they are manifestly eccentric, who is able inspire such a […]

  • Nothing Here Now but the Recordings Notes on the Shamanism of Bowden, Burroughs & Neville – Part 8

    Counter Currents - Jun 25th 2025 2:27pm EDT

    1,408 words Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 While we’ve entered the realm of online immortality,[1] let me end with some speculation on how Bowden’s shamanic methods have been absorbed, perhaps unknowingly, by the online Dissident Right, and even in the unlikeliest of places. While I was […]

  • Nothing Here Now but the Recordings Notes on the Shamanism of Bowden, Burroughs & Neville – 7

    Counter Currents - Jun 23rd 2025 9:00am EDT

    1,283 words The most striking, and significant resemblance between all three is not the level of fame and influence they achieved in life, but their electronic or digital immortality: “Nothing Here Now But The Recordings.”[1] For Burroughs, Control is manifested by bits of word or image, which implant themselves in our consciousness like viruses. Cutting […]

  • Nothing Here Now but the Recordings Part 6

    Counter Currents - Jun 19th 2025 9:59am EDT

    1,239 words Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 What about film? Again, Bowden switches sides, and returns to align with Burroughs again, but not Neville. For some odd reason there’s no video of or by Neville; even the 26 episodes of his TV show went unrecorded. In Infinite Potential, Horowitz provides a […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Craze Part 1

    Counter Currents - Jun 18th 2025 9:33am EDT

    You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Reactionary Modernism here. 5,321 words Part 1 of 5 Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi In 1995, Jonathan Bowden self-published his Collected Works in 6 volumes (London: Avant-Garde, 1995), edited by Jürgen Schwartz, one of Bowden’s pen names. The six volumes comprise 27 distinct books, 12 of which had […]

  • Nothing Here Now but the Recordings Notes on the Shamanism of Bowden, Burroughs & Neville – Part 5

    Counter Currents - Jun 16th 2025 10:23am EDT

    1,333 words Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 Like Neville’s Method, I’ve discussed the cut-up method before, and the reader will perhaps be glad that in this case as well, I won’t be going into great detail about it here.[1] I don’t think there’s any evidence that Bowden used this technique in his […]

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  • Nothing Here Now but the Recordings Notes on the Shamanism of Bowden, Burroughs & Neville – Part 4

    Counter Currents - Jun 8th 2025 5:46pm EDT

    3,722 words Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Talk of accents reminds me of another Bowden doppelganger, William S. Burroughs. As an American from the upper-middle class strata of the Midwest, Burroughs escaped some of this kind of regional bigotry.[1] Burroughs eventually developed his own now-legendary voice, a flat, nasal sneer that really “sold” his […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Fury, Part 3

    Counter Currents - Jun 5th 2025 1:30pm EDT

    You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Western Civilization Bites Back here. 3,034 words Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here). Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi This final installment of Frenzy is a miscellany of letters, essays, and a diary entry. Everything could be fictional. But, as with other texts by Bowden, […]

  • Nothing Here Now but the Recordings Notes on the Shamanism of Bowden, Burroughs & Neville – Part 3

    Counter Currents - Jun 3rd 2025 1:26pm EDT

    1,604 words Part 1. Part 2. I want to pause a bit here, and look at some personal matters, which might be thought irrelevant or even somewhat demeaning (certainly Dutton’s critics think so), but they form a good part of Dutton’s case, so I want to address them before getting into a more substantial area. […]

  • Nothing Here Now but the Recordings Notes on the Shamanism of Bowden, Burroughs & Neville -pt 2

    Counter Currents - May 29th 2025 11:46am EDT

    2,852 words (Part 1) For a book with “shaman” in the title, Dutton spends remarkably little time on shamans or shamanism, words which occur less than 20 times in the 333 pages of text. Bowden is a shaman, or shamanistic, in the sense that he can, sort of like a shaman, travel to other spaces […]

  • Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Notes on the Shamanism of Bowden, Burroughs and Neville

    Counter Currents - May 26th 2025 9:47am EDT

    2,373 words “I’d heard his voice on the tape and it really put a hook in me. But I couldn’t connect up that voice with this man.” -Capt. Willard on Col. Kurtz [1] “Always superb, and getting better!” – Jonathan Bowden’s habitual greeting.[2] *** As a natural born cheapskate, I usually wait for a new […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Fury, Part 2

    Counter Currents - May 26th 2025 8:26am EDT

    You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics here. 10,194 words Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here). Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi This installment of Frenzy is a long letter to an “absent relative.” Everything in this letter could be fictional, including the addressee. But, as with other texts by Bowden, […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Fury, Part 1

    Counter Currents - May 21st 2025 7:01pm EDT

    6,061 words Part 1 of 3 Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi In 1995, Jonathan Bowden self-published his Collected Works in 6 volumes (London: Avant-Garde, 1995), edited by Jürgen Schwartz, one of Bowden’s pen names. The six volumes comprise 27 distinct books, 12 of which had been previously published. Altogether, the Collected Works contain […]

  • Statues of Fat Black Women Inspire Us All

    Counter Currents - May 19th 2025 6:43am EDT

    1,100 words I couldn’t be more inspired. After I saw the statue of a twelve-foot fat black woman glaring at everyone while her rolls of fat undulated permanently in bronze, I felt like I could go and kick a donkey’s head off its body. That’s how invigorated I was. I’d never felt such elation in […]