Author Archives: Jonathan Bowden

Jonathan Bowden’s Last Interview, Part 1

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Jonathan Bowden on British Sculpture

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Robinson Jeffers & the Other America

Robinson Jeffers, January 10, 1887–January 20, 1962

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This lecture, “Robinson Jeffers: Misanthrope Extraordinaire,” was recorded at the 9th New Right meeting in London, on January 13, 2007.

 

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Free eBooks by Jonathan Bowden

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Counter-Currents is making the following 12 eBooks by Jonathan Bowden available free of charge:

1. Apocalypse TV (2007)

A series of politically-incorrect philosophical dialogues between a Christian and a Pagan on philosophy, politics, art, and religion Read more …

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Interview with Jonathan Bowden

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Podcast no. 18
Tragedy, Horror, & the Transcendent

John Maler Collier, “Clytemnestra,” 1882

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The following text is Michael Polignano’s transcription of Jonathan Bowden’s lecture “Western Civilization: A Bullet Through Steel,” Read more …

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Credo: A Nietzschean Testament

Josef Thorak's portrait of Nietzsche

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The following text is a transcript by Michael Polignano of a lecture by Jonathan Bowden given at the 11th New Right meeting in London on September 8, 2007. The original title of the presentation was “The Art and Philosophy of Jonathan Bowden.”

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Revisionism:
Left & Right, Hard & Soft

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The following is a transcript by Davied E. Clarke of Jonathan Bowden’s speech at the 12th meeting of the New Right in London on November 3, 2007. The audio is available on YouTube here. If you have any corrections, please contact me at [email protected] or simply post them as comments below.

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Marxism & the Frankfurt School

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The following is a transcript by Davied E. Clarke of Jonathan Bowden’s highly informative and entertaining speech at the 13th meeting of the New Right in London on January 12, 2008. The audio is available on YouTube here

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Podcast no. 6
Jonathan Bowden’s “Western Civilization Bites Back”

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The Hour of the Dragon (Conan the Conqueror), Part 4

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In our final installment we will examine the end of this novel and its denouement. The Heart of Ahriman—the foundation to resist Xaltotun’s magick—has been obtained by Conan after numerous adventures. This means that the Aquilonians do not need to fear his necromancy as they begin their final rebellion against the Nemedians—prior to expelling them from the kingdom for good.  Read more …

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The Hour of the Dragon (Conan the Conqueror), Part 3

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In our synopsis and analysis, we left Conan and Hadrathus discussing how to regain the initiative by seizing the Heart of Ahriman. Conan then heads south in the funereal barge of a follower of Asura — to make sure that he and Albiona are unmolested — and he quickly makes up the leagues necessary to visit Count Trocero’s Poitain in the deep south of Aquilonia. Read more …

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The Hour of the Dragon (Conan the Conqueror), Part 2

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In my previous installment, I had brought Conan up from the pits underneath the Royal palace at Belverus in Nemedia.  Read more …

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Doc Savage & Criminology

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One of the more interesting things about the pulp star Doc Savage, the man of bronze, is that he carried out operations on the brains of criminals in order to correct them. These exercises in popular culture — the 181 pulp novels written by Lester Dent — are thus one of the most basic advocates for eugenics throughout the 1930s and ’40s. Read more …

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The Hour of the Dragon (Conan the Conqueror)

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Moving on from my recent review of Robert E. Howard’s “Rogues in the House,” I would like to have a look at the only full-length Conan novel, The Hour of the Dragon (sometimes known as Conan the Conqueror).

This piece again illustrates the subliminal racialism of the Howard mythos as well as providing a template for his mordant, pessimistic, and ultra-conservative views about civilization. Read more …

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Robert E. Howard’s “Rogues in the House”

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In this essay I shall seek to pick out a few themes from Robert E. Howard’s writing life, using one of his most emblematic stories, “Rogues in the House,” as a living illustration.

Howard certainly had (or imagined that he did) strong Irish roots which influenced much of his fiction in a Celtic direction. One only has to look at the nature of the Nemedian chronicles in the Conan mythos to see this. Read more …

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Wyndham Lewis’ Tarr:
An Exercise in Right-Wing Psychology

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Wyndham Lewis’ novel Tarr (an anagram of both “art” and “rat”) appeared first in 1915 as the Great War was raging, and it remains one of the great exercises in hard-boiled psychology. Most behaviorist prose tends to be shunted aside into genre fiction such as adventure and perhaps the noir detective novel.  Read more …

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Francis Pollini’s Night

"Wicked Man" -- North Korean Poster

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Francis Pollini’s Night was published by Olympia Press around fifty years ago and deals with the Korean War, but it is still relevant for all that. It concerns the Communist brain-washing techniques used by the Maoist Chinese forces on American prisoners of war during that conflict. These were based on various behaviorist ideas which were very much in the air at that time and were used extensively by the KGB, CIA , MI6, the French secret services, and other parallel or adjacent bodies. Read more …

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Aeschylus’ Agamemnon:
The Multiple Uses of Greek Tragedy

John Maler Collier (1850–1934), "Clytemnestra," 1882

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Greek tragedy is all but forgotten in mainstream culture, but there is a very good reason for looking at it again with fresh eyes. The reasons for this are manifold, but they basically have to do with anti-materialism and the culture of compression. To put it bluntly, reading Greek tragedy can give literally anyone a crash course in Western civilization which is short, pithy, and terribly apt.

Let’s take — for purposes of illustration — the first part of the Oresteia by Aeschylus, which concentrates on Agamemnon’s murder by his wife Clytemnestra. Read more …

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T. S. Eliot:
Ultra-Conservative Dandy

Wyndham Lewis, "T. S. Eliot"

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For a brief period in the late 1990s there was an attempt to demonize T. S. Eliot as an anti-Semite. This opinion was most ably canvassed by Anthony Julius’ T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form, but the attempt failed, and Eliot’s reputation as a poet now stands even higher than ever.

Thomas Stearns Eliot’s most controversial book was the collection of essays drawn from a series of lectures he gave in 1934 called After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy. Read more …

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