Category: Jonathan Bowden

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  • High Culture & Patriotic Purpose

    Counter Currents - Mar 5th 2025 3:18pm EST

    964 words Jonathan Bowden This brief, privately circulated essay by Jonathan Bowden is from early 2001. I wish to thank Adrian Davies for providing it. -Greg Johnson, Editor-in-Chief *** Any patriotic renewal for the English and British as a whole needs to concentrate on the cultural reinvigoration of national life. All of which will involve […]

  • “Jonathan, I Hardly Knew Ye”

    Counter Currents - Mar 4th 2025 9:54am EST

    768 words This is my Foreword to Edward Dutton’s biography of Jonathan Bowden, Shaman of the Radical Right: The Life and Mind of Jonathan Bowden (Imperium Press, 2025). *** Edward Dutton’s biography of Jonathan Bowden is a revelation. I thought I knew Jonathan Bowden. I even thought we were becoming friends. But the truth was, […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 628 Dutton on Bowden

    Counter Currents - Mar 4th 2025 5:59am EST

    92 words / 1:05:59 Edward Dutton joined Greg Johnson to discuss his new biography of Jonathan Bowden, Shaman of the Radical Right. It is now available to download or listen to online. Topics include: 1:00 – How did the book come about? 4:56 – Who were Bowden’s heroes and influences? 12:00 – Bowden was an unstable genius […]

  • Everyone I Don’t Like Is Hitler

    Counter Currents - Nov 18th 2024 6:30am EST

    1,790 words It was apparent that the tide was turning for the Democrats when Donald Trump was being compared to Adolf Hitler. As election day loomed, the Democrats were in panic mode and the mainstream media (MSM) was desperate. Although voter fraud did occur, cheating on the scale of 2020 was off the table. At […]

  • Remembering Jonathan Bowden (April 12, 1962–March 29, 2012)

    Counter Currents - Apr 12th 2024 9:00am EDT

    1,287 words Jonathan Bowden was born 62 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 […]

  • Bill Hopkins’ The Leap!

    Counter Currents - Jan 31st 2024 1:26pm EST

    3,098 words Bill Hopkins (1928–2011) was a British Right-wing writer and intellectual who was associated in the 1950s with the so-called Angry Young Men, which was less a movement than a loose journalistic appellation for writers from mostly working- and middle-class backgrounds who were dubbed “angry” because of their disillusionment with post-Second World War British […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 567: The First Meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club

    Counter Currents - Jan 17th 2024 1:57pm EST

    You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s collection The Cultured Thug here. 236 words / 1:57:46 Every month in 2024, Greg Johnson will invite some of our authors and friends to read and discuss some of the best material from our catalog and more in what we are calling The Counter-Currents Book Club. The first meeting was […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Heat

    Counter Currents - Jan 17th 2024 9:00am EST

    2,102 words Jonathan Bowden ed. Alex Kurtagić Heat London: The Palingenesis Project, 2017 Jonathan Bowden was Britain’s greatest orator. An autodidact who delved deeply into abstruse subjects, Bowden had a great affinity for those aspects of popular culture, religion, history, and philosophy that “impinge[d] on real matters” such as meaning and purpose.[1] He was uniquely […]

  • Counter-Currents Book Club Sale

    Counter Currents - Jan 4th 2024 7:15pm EST

    173 words The Librarian by André Martins De Barros Every month in 2024, join Counter-Currents Editor-in-Chief Greg Johnson, our authors, and friends to read and discuss some of the best material from our catalogue and more. We’ll host group discussions, discover new material, and #readbannedbooks! (Banned from Amazon to be precise.) The first meeting will […]

  • The Counter-Currents Book Club

    Counter Currents - Jan 2nd 2024 10:29am EST

    You can order Jonathan Bowden’s collection The Cultured Thug here. 285 words Beginning this year, one episode per month of the Counter-Currents Radio livestream will be devoted to the Counter-Currents Book Club. Each stream will be devoted to a particular book from Counter-Currents or allied publishers. Each stream will be hosted by Greg Johnson. We […]

  • Nueva Derecha vs. Vieja Derecha, Capítulo 11: Lidiando con el Holocausto

    Counter Currents - Dec 26th 2023 12:56pm EST

    You can buy Greg Johnson’s New Right vs. Old Right here 5.634 palabras English original here, Polish translation here Capítulo 1 aquí, Capítulo 10 aquí, Capítulo 12 aquí INTRODUCCIÓN Los Nacionalistas Blancos necesitamos abordar el Holocausto, como también necesitamos abordar la Cuestión Judía en general. Es inútil enfocarse únicamente en la defensa de los Blancos […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2023 Fundraiser: A Question of Degree

    Counter Currents - Sep 29th 2023 9:20pm EDT

    1,586 words Like all journals of dissident ideas, Counter-Currents depends on the support of our readers. So far this year, we’ve raised $94,312, or 31.44% of our $300,000 goal. I want to thank everyone who has donated so far. (Please donate here!) And now, Mark Gullick offers a few words on why donating to Counter-Currents […]

  • Jonathan Bowden Biography Project

    Counter Currents - Aug 22nd 2023 2:44pm EDT

    220 words In June, Counter-Currents committed to publishing a biography of Jonathan Bowden. (Author to be revealed at a later date.) This biography will take some years to research and write.  But it is never too soon to begin collecting materials for such a project, for with each passing year, people die, memories dim, and […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 534 Interview with Alexander Adams

    Counter Currents - May 31st 2023 11:54am EDT

    109 words / 57:22 Greg Johnson welcomed Alexander Adams (WordPress, Substack), 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. Topics discussed include: 00:00 Introduction 04:16 On Counter-Currents” “reactionary modernism” 08:00 On Salvador Dalí 10:52 On Blood, Soil, Paint […]

  • Visions of a New Right: Jonathan Bowden’s Right

    Counter Currents - May 10th 2023 2:48pm EDT

    1,963 words Jonathan Bowden ed. by Alex Kurtagić Right London: The Palingenesis Project, 2016 To commemorate the late Jonathan Bowden on what would have been his 61st birthday, Greg Johnson provided a thoughtful tribute essay, accompanied by a comprehensive aggregation of links to articles, speech transcripts, reviews, and more. Although so many of us never […]

  • Remembering Jonathan Bowden

    Counter Currents - Apr 12th 2023 7:57am EDT

    1,179 words Jonathan Bowden was born 61 years 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 […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2022 Fundraiser A Call to All You Daydream Believers

    Counter Currents - Oct 21st 2022 12:42pm EDT

    Neville Goddard 705 words This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000. Thus far our grand total is $179,160.94. That puts us at 59% of our goal. Thanks so much to all our donors for their support. Complete information on how you can help appears below. But first, a few inspirational words from James J. O’Meara. Greg […]

  • A Tale of Two Jonathans

    Counter Currents - May 31st 2022 9:23am EDT

    Jonathan Meades 1,065 words “Everything builds on something that existed before you, and without the concrete that is beneath your feet, you’re lost, aimless, and atomized.” — Jonathan Bowden A decade after his untimely demise, Jonathan Bowden continues to be a cult figure on the Dissident Right famous both for his political oratory and the […]

  • Jonathan Bowden on the Merging of the Left & Right

    Counter Currents - Apr 21st 2022 11:38am EDT

    1,590 words Editor’s Note: This March 22, 2009 British National Party “stump speech” given in Manchester was transcribed by Hyacinth Bouquet. Sadly, the video is incomplete. If anyone has a complete version, or information about where it was filmed, please contact us at editor@counter-currents.com. Well, thanks very much! We got a bit lost earlier, but it was […]

  • Jonathan Bowden’s Reactionary Modernism

    Counter Currents - Apr 15th 2022 6:50am EDT

    You can pre-order Jonathan Bowden’s Reactionary Modernism here. 1,049 words In my writing for Counter-Currents, I’ve called for the formation of a dissident high culture. At the time of writing, there is only a smattering of cultural institutions which are explicitly Dissident Right, which means that the future of dissident high culture is whatever we […]

  • Remembering Jonathan Bowden (April 12, 1962–March 29, 2012)

    Counter Currents - Apr 12th 2022 7:02pm EDT

    1,000 words Jonathan Bowden was born 60 years 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 […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 432 Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson

    Counter Currents - Apr 11th 2022 7:19am EDT

    127 words / 57:17 Host Greg Johnson was joined by novelist and essayist Fenek Solère on the last broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio to talk about his novels, current events, and your questions, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 03:23 Introduction to Fenek 05:23 Main themes of The Partisan […]

  • The Search for a Usable Past

    Counter Currents - Apr 2nd 2022 12:53pm EDT

    1,659 words Standardbearers: British Roots of the New Right Edited by Jonathan Bowden, Eddy Butler, and Adrian Davies. With a Foreword by Professor Antony Flew Beckenham, Kent: The Bloomsbury Forum, 1999 Somewhere between the “hug-a-hoodie” Toryism of David Cameron’s Conservatives, and those far-right parties considered beyond the pale, is believed to lie a broad “respectable” middle ground […]

  • Jonathan Bowden Memorial Special: Donate Now Through April 12th to Receive a Copy of Reactionary Modernism!

    Counter Currents - Mar 30th 2022 11:08am EDT

    173 words Yesterday, March 29th, 2022, was the tenth anniversary of Jonathan Bowden’s untimely death. To commemorate this brilliant orator, artist, and man of the right, we hosted a memorial livestream (replay available here). To honor his contributions to White Nationalism, we are offering these incentives to give in Bowden’s memory. Any gift of $120 […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 429 The Jonathan Bowden Memorial Livestream

    Counter Currents - Mar 30th 2022 9:20am EDT

    104 words / 2:09:58 Jonathan Bowden died on March 29, 2012. Greg Johnson spoke to some of Jonathan’s friends and comrades — Adrian Davies, Eddy Butler, and Matt Tait — to talk about his life and legacy, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:02:00 When Adrian Davies got […]