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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 held in place of our most recent Counter-Currents Radio broadcast, where Greg was joined by Margot Metroland, James J. O’Meara, and Kathryn S. to discuss our latest publication by Jonathan Bowden, The Cultured Thug. It is now available for download and online listening.

Topics discussed include:

00:02:23 How The Cultured Thug came about
00:05:54 Margot on the history of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
00:17:31 Was Orwell a Rightist or Leftist?
00:22:47 The chapter on plays
00:29:54 Bowden saw Counter-Currents as a university
00:32:37 Should we rewrite Nineteen Eighty-Four?
00:35:46 Franz Kafka thought he was a comedy writer
00:38:45 The all-white rendition of Porgy and Bess
00:41:27 James’ favorite parts of the book
00:54:29 On the Robinson Jeffers chapter
00:58:06 Were there any parts of the book that weren’t good?
01:02:29 On George Steiner
01:07:47 How Bowden would compose his essays
01:15:30 James’ criticisms of the book
01:17:53 On Left-wing companies that publish Right-wing books
01:27:04 When will Jonathan Bowden’s biography be published?
01:32:11 Bowden lied about his own life
01:33:23 On Bowden’s psychotic episode
01:46:39 Was there a Bowden connection to Stuart Holroyd?
01:49:15 Comment on Leon Trotsky

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