Author: Jonathan Bowden

A photo of Bowden from 1991.

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The following is the video of the last public lecture Jonathan Bowden ever gave in his life, and it has been difficult to find online. The topic was Charles Maurras and the Action Française, and it was given at The London Forum on March 24, 2012 — only five days before his death on March 29. The audio quality is not the best, particularly during the first couple of minutes, but it does improve. A transcript of the lecture can be found at The Jonathan Bowden Archive, here. (more…)

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The following is a documentary that was produced by Jonathan Bowden in 2008 on the history of British sculpture in a new version by Buttercup Dew that features much improved video and images, but with the same narration by Bowden himself. Below it is the original film as produced by Bowden, here complete for the first time in many years. A full transcript can be found at The Jonathan Bowden Archive. (more…)

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Poznámka Grega Johnsona:

Následuje přepis části rozhovoru Jonathana Bowdena v londýnském Union Jack klubu ze soboty 21. listopadu 2009, který následoval po jeho dnes už slavném vystoupení o fenoménu Punch and Judy. Titulek je redakční.

Otázka: Liberály velice znepokojuje islám, militantní islám.

Jonathan Bowden: Ano, to máte pravdu. (more…)

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Editor’s Note: The following is a transcript by John Morgan of a British National Party stump speech, once thought lost, that Jonathan Bowden gave in Liverpool on November 28, 2008. The title is editorial, and versions of the speech online have also been titled “An Anglosphere Call To Arms” and “Jonathan Bowden ‘We’re Not Ashamed’ Commemoration.” The video this transcript is based upon, which can be viewed at The Jonathan Bowden Archive here, is cut in many places. The cuts are indicated by asterisks in the transcript. If you have a complete audio or video recording of this speech that you are willing to contribute, please contact us. Some unintelligible passages are marked with question marks; please post a comment below if you have corrections or can fill in the gaps. (more…)

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Monument to George N. Hardinge (1781–1808), 1808

Here we have another Classical piece[1] from St. Paul’s. Very sort of neo-Classical in feel. Idealized. A strong element of narratives creeping into sculpture at this time. (more…)

Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, England

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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

The following is a transcript of a video documentary by Jonathan Bowden that can be viewed on The Jonathan Bowden Archive here. (more…)

Jonathan Bowden
Reactionary Modernism
Edited by Greg Johnson
San-Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2022
204 pages

Reactionary Modernism is Jonathan Bowden’s fourth collection of essays and speeches released by Counter-Currents Publishing. Reactionary Modernism comes in three formats: (more…)

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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 [email protected]. (more…)

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Editor’s Note: This March 27, 2008, British National Party “stump speech” given in Tameside 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 [email protected].

Every element that sustained prior forms of British English life is declining or has dipped down. Marriage and the family are in turmoil, and hardly anyone is marrying. (more…)

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Jonathan Bowden
Reactionary Modernism
Edited by Greg Johnson
San-Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2021
200 pages

Jonathan Bowden’s next collection of essays and speeches, Reactionary Modernism, will be released in September by Counter-Currents in hardcover, paperback, and ebook versions. We will begin taking orders once an official release date is set.

About Reactionary Modernism: 

“Let us return to tradition to go forwards with modernity in a different direction.”—Jonathan Bowden

Since the Second World War, “modernism” in the arts has been overwhelmingly associated with the cultural and political Left. But before the War, there was vigorous debate between modernists of the Right and the Left. (more…)

Jonathan Bowden
Pulp Fascism: Right-Wing Themes in Comics, Graphic Novels, and Popular Literature
Edited by Greg Johnson
San Francisco: Counter-Currents
210 pages

There are three formats for Pulp Fascism:

1. Hardcover: $30 (add $5 for postage, $12 for postage to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, & the Far East)
2. Paperback: $15 (add $5 for postage, $12 for postage to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, & the Far East)
3. E-book: $5

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Jonathan Bowden
Western Civilization Bites Back
Edited by Greg Johnson
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2014
228 pages

There are three formats for Western Civilization Bites Back:

1. Hardcover: $35 (add $5 for postage, $12 for postage to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, & the Far East)
2. Paperback: $20 (add $5 for postage, $12 for postage to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, & the Far East)
3. E-book: $5

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Jonathan Bowden
Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics
Edited by Greg Johnson
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2017
220 pages

There are three formats for Extremists:

1. Hardcover: $35 (add $5 for postage, $12 for postage to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, & the Far East)
2. Paperback: $15 (add $5 for postage, $12 for postage to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, & the Far East)
3. E-book: $5

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