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Jonathan David Anthony Bowden was born 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 New Right metapolitics. He will be missed, but he will also be remembered and honored.

Jonathan wrote 35 original articles and reviews for Counter-Currents, both under his own name and under the pen name of John Michael McCloughlin. Since his death, we have also published a number of his lectures, lecture transcripts, interviews, and book excerpts. But the best place to begin reading Jonathan is his lecture “Credo: A Nietzschean Testament.”

Books

Articles and Reviews

As John Michael McCloughlin

Lectures and Lecture Transcripts

• “Against the Turner Prize“


• “Bill Hopkins and the Angry Young Men“


• “The Blackburn Speech“


• “The Blackpool Speech“


• “BNP Ideas Conferences, 2012“


• “Bowden on Islam: The Manchester Speech“


• “British Sculpture“


• “Charles Maurras and Action Franҫaise“


• “Colin Wilson and Bill Hopkins“


• “Credo: A Nietzschean Testament” (video) (Swedish translation)


• “The Economic Crisis Caused by Speculation” (video)


• “Edward Elgar“


• “Elitism, British Nationalism, and Wyndham Lewis“


• “The European Union, Globalization, and Immigration“


• “Ezra Pound” (transcript)


• “Gabriele D’Annunzio“


• “George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four“


• “The Greenwich Speech“


• “Hans-Jürgen Syberberg: Leni Riefenstahl’s Heir?“


• “H. P. Lovecraft“


• “H. P. Lovecraft: Aryan Mystic“


• “Julius Evola” (transcript)


• “Labour, Old and New: The Wigan and Lee Speech“


• “The Leicester Speech“


• “Lilith Before Eve“


• “The Manchester Speech“


• “Martin Heidegger“


• “Marxism and the Frankfurt School“


• “Maurice Cowling: Ultraconservative Extraordinaire“


• “The Newbury Speech“


• “The North Wales Speech“


• “Political Oratory“


• “Pulp Fascism“


• “The Real Meaning of Punch and Judy“


• “Revisionism: Left and Right, Hard and Soft“


• “Robert E. Howard and the Heroic“


• “Robinson Jeffers and the Other America” (transcript)


• “Savitri Devi“


• “Shakespeare“


• “The Soviet Gulag“


• “Stewart Home: Communism, Nihilism, Neoism, and Decadence“


• “T. S. Eliot,” Part 1, Part 2


• “The Tameside Speech“


• “The Tangmere Speech“


• “Thomas Carlyle: The Sage of Chelsea“


• “Tragedy, Horror, and the Transcendent“


• “Vanguardism: Hope for the Future“


• “W. B. Yeats“


• “Western Civilization Bites Back“


• “The Wigan Speech“


• “Wyndham Lewis“


• “Yukio Mishima“

Interviews and Q&As

• “Creative Destruction: Bowden on Libertarianism“


• “Democracy: The God that Failed“


• “The E-Word: Eugenics & Environmentalism, Madison Grant & Lothrop Stoddard“


• “The Essence of the Left“


• “The European New Right“


• “Everything is Still Possible“


• “The Feminist Mystique“


• “The Forgotten War“


• “Frankfurt School Revisionism“


• Interview with Jonathan Bowden


• “Iran, Israel, and the Bomb“


• “Jonathan Bowden on Modern Art“


• Jonathan Bowden’s Last Interview, Part 1 Audio, Part 1 Transcript, Part 2 Audio, Part 2 Transcript


• “Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals“


• “On Islam and Zionism“


• “Paganism and Christianity, Nietzsche and Evola“


• “Politics, Politics“


• Q&A About Heidegger


• Q&A to “Western Civilization Bites Back”


• “Renewing the Radical Right“


• “Speaking Freely“


• “Stand and Deliver“


• Tom Sunić Interviews Jonathan Bowden, Audio, Transcript


• “Understanding Spengler“


• “Uses and Abuses of Nietzsche“


• “Why I Am Not a Conservative“

Book Excerpts

Free E-Books

Videos Featuring Bowden

About Bowden

• Jef Costello, “Memories of Jonathan Bowden“


• Alex Graham, Review of Jonathan Bowden’s Extremists


• Juleigh Howard-Hobson, “After Bowden’s Credo“


• Greg Johnson, “In Praise of Extremists“


• Greg Johnson, “Jonathan Bowden’s Sade“


• Greg Johnson, “Remembering Jonathan Bowden” (my original obituary)


• Alex Kurtagić, “Jonathan Bowden: Man or Beast?“


• Alex Kurtagić, Review of The Art of Jonathan Bowden, Vol. 1, 1980–2007


• Alex Kurtagić, Review of The Art of Jonathan Bowden, Vol. 2: 1968–1974


• Alex Kurtagić, “Review of Iron Man: The Art of Jonathan Bowden, Vol. 3“


• James J. O’Meara, Review of Jonathan Bowden’s Demon


• James J. O’Meara, Review of Jonathan Bowden’s Axe


• Ted Sallis, Review of Jonathan Bowden’s Pulp Fascism


• F. C. Stoughton, “Home Remedies for Hitler Hysteria Prescribed by the New Right Avant-Garde“


• Fenek Solère, “Bowden and I. . .”